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Jim Blanchard

What your commute has to do with your cancer risk

How much time do you spend behind the wheel? If you’re like most Americans, quite a bit… Most of us spend more than 17,600 minutes driving each year. That’s equal to seven 40-hour workweeks. Yikes! And the amount of time we spend driving keeps going up… Between 2014 and 2019, the amount of time the […]

Jim Blanchard

Treatment sheds light on avoiding long-term consequences of concussion

A few weeks ago, a child in my daughter’s class stepped backward, tripped over his dog, and landed on the ground, directly on the back of his head. Within minutes he was vomiting, rushed to the emergency room and diagnosed with a concussion — a condition where your brain has suffered an injury. Though concussions […]

Jim Blanchard

What your commute has to do with your cancer risk

How much time do you spend behind the wheel? If you’re like most Americans, quite a bit… Most of us spend more than 17,600 minutes driving each year. That’s equal to seven 40-hour workweeks. Yikes! And the amount of time we spend driving keeps going up… Between 2014 and 2019, the amount of time the […]