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Personalize Your Plate with Global Foods & Healthy Recipes
March 22, 2021

Personalize Your Plate with Global Foods & Healthy Recipes

By Janette Bedoyan, Registered Dietitian

This year’s theme for National Nutrition Month is ‘Personalize Your Plate’. It is important to eat a variety of nutritious foods, plan out meals, and learn to create tasty and healthy dishes. You can make your daily cooking exciting and interesting by incorporating food from other cultures.

Supermarkets are expanding the type of food products they offer to meet the needs of customers, who are looking for

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CHA HPMC Orthopedic Surgeon uses Minimally Invasive and Robotic-Assisted Surgical Technologies to Improve Patient Lives
March 1, 2021

CHA HPMC Orthopedic Surgeon uses Minimally Invasive and Robotic-Assisted Surgical Technologies to Improve Patient Lives

CHA HPMC has recently introduced the world’s most advanced Robotic-Assisted surgical system to optimize clinic outcomes, decrease surgical invasiveness, and improve patient lives. Dr. William T. Long, board-certified Orthopedic Surgery Specialist at CHA HPMC, was the first surgeon to perform a robotic-assisted knee replacement in Los Angeles in 2008 and is an innovator in minimally invasive surgical techniques. We interviewed Dr. Long to learn more about minimally invasive joint replacement and robotic-assisted surgery at CHA

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Why Flu Vaccine is More Important during COVID-19 Pandemic
October 28, 2020

Why Flu Vaccine is More Important during COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted by Dr. Thomas Horowitz

Flu is very common during winter, and if you have suffered from the flu before, you know how sick you can be. With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic still in our community, getting a flu vaccine this year is more important than ever to protect yourself and your family from flu illness and reduce the burden on our healthcare systems.

Here are some reasons to help you understand

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National Pharmacy Week: Meet our Outpatient Pharmacy Director Roberta Reynolds to Learn how Pharmacists Influence Patient Care
October 20, 2020

National Pharmacy Week: Meet our Outpatient Pharmacy Director Roberta Reynolds to Learn how Pharmacists Influence Patient Care

In honor of National Pharmacy Week, we turn the spotlight on our very own director of outpatient pharmacy, Roberta Reynolds, to understand what motivated her decision to join this field and what major accomplishments she is most proud of throughout her career at CHA HPMC.

Q: How did you discover your passion for the field of pharmacy?

I was fortunate to have a mentor and advisor while I was studying chemistry at the California

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Emergency Preparedness is Even More Important during COVID-19
October 6, 2020

Emergency Preparedness is Even More Important during COVID-19

Posted by Dr. Thomas Horowitz

With the nation in the midst of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, natural disasters are presenting additional challenges in our daily lives. Active wildfires and hurricanes are impacting different parts of the country, making the need for disaster preparation more important now than ever before. Even the most well laid emergency plans become obsolete during a pandemic. It is important to review and adjust your emergency plan to incorporate

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