Strength Training to Help Fight Osteoporosis Prevention
Strength Training: Helping to Fight Osteoporosis Prevention As we age, one of the more serious health concerns is osteoporosis. Osteoporosis can lead to bones becoming weak and brittle, and overtime these bones become much more susceptible to fracture. For the most...
Urgent Care Medicare Roseville CA
Med Care Medical Center is now accepting Medicare! Medicare is a health insurance program for: people age 65 or older, people under age 65 with certain disabilities, and people of all ages with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring...
Ishihara Color Test
The Ishihara Color Test is a color perception test for red-green color deficiencies. Our Roseville Urgent Care center offers the test. We offer merchant marine physicals! The test consists of a number of colored plates, called Ishihara plates, each of which contains...
Run4Roseville
We are proud to help sponsor the 2015 Run4Roseville. More about the event in Roseville, CA: Since 2005, Run4Roseville has welcomed more than 6,000 runners and has raised $250,000 to benefit students in Roseville. Run4Roseville was born from a collective dream to give...
Millions of Americans Suffer from Allergy Symptoms, But, what is allergy?
More than 67 Million Americans Suffer from Allergy Symptoms, including Hay Fever. But, what is an allergy? An allergy is a heightened sensitivity to a foreign substance (called an allergen) that causes the body's defense system (the immune system) to overreact when...
Why the 4 Strain Flu Shot is a Big Improvement
This year Med Care Medical Center is offering the Quadrivalent (4 Strain) flu shot. The four strain vaccine, which protects against four types of influenza–two viruses from the A class and two from the B class–does as good a job of protecting against flu. However, the...
Learn about the 2014-2015 Flu Season From the CDC
What sort of flu season is expected this year? It’s not possible to predict what this flu season will be like. Flu seasons are unpredictable in a number of ways. While flu spreads every year, the timing, severity, and length of the season usually varies from one...
The Alphabet Soup Of Health Insurance
Do you know your insurance inside and out? There is a lot of differences in plans these days and it can get to be a little confusing. Below are some of the most common plans. In general: Health maintenance organizations cover only care provided by doctors and...
Recognizing the Heart Attack Signs in Women
Heart disease is the #1 killer of women. Its easy to recognize movie scenes where a man gasps, grabs his chest and collapses s to the ground. In reality, a heart attack victim could easily be a woman, and the scene may not be that dramatic. Uncomfortable pressure,...
2014 Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak
The 2014 Ebola outbreak has become one of the largest Ebola outbreaks in history and the first outbreak in West Africa. Currently, it is affecting four countries in West Africa: Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. So far the outbreak does not pose a...