Santa Rosa looking for groups to 'step up'
      The Santa Rosa County Health Department (SRCHD) along with the Florida Department of Health will be involved in the statewide healthy living event, "Step Up, Florida!™", which will begin its fourth year this February. Each county in Florida will promote healthy living by encouraging citizens to "step up" and get moving.
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Proactively manage your asthma
BY CAROLINE PACE Executive Director, 'Breathing Easy: Women and Asthma'
      Many women with asthma become overwhelmed by it and let it control the way they live their lives. Dr. Monica Kraft, Director of Duke University's Allergy, Asthma and Airway Center, who will be featured in an upcoming television special entitled "Breathing Easy: Women and Asthma" talks about effective ways in which women with asthma can accomplish goals and live the life they want.
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Baptist Hospital seeking hypertension study participants
      Baptist Clinical Research is seeking participants for a study of hypertension and medications to lower blood pressure. The research team at Baptist Hospital will observe the effectiveness of combinations of medications currently on the market and approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Wells to lead hypertension research study
      Kelli Wells, M.D., a family practice physician, is a clinical research investigator and a hyperbaric physician at Baptist Hospital. She is a native of Pensacola, Fla., and an E s c a m b i a High School graduate. Dr.
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Fair skin can receive successful peels
      Dear Dr. McCollough: You did a phenol peel on my friend which was very successful. She does not have the ghostly pallor one often sees with a deep peel. She has very fair skin, as do I, so I think I could expect a similar result.
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