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Ken Pearce from the Alameda Hospital Foundation and his daughter Helen Pearce, left, and Joan Jessen, right, representing Alameda Relay for Life, accept a check from Alameda Theatre and Cineplex owner Kyle Connor, center

Medicare covers a variety of heath care services that you can receive in the comfort and privacy of your home. These include intermittent skilled nursing care, physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, and occupational therapy.

On Friday, Jan. 28, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., doctors at Alameda Hospital will be conducting free stroke risk assessments. As a part of the assessments, patients will be given blood pressure tests, body mass indexes, total cholesterol checks and blood glucose level exams.

Stress is the physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another. There are healthy stressors, like exercise, and there are unhealthy stressors, like that long to-do list that just seems to grow. Holistic medicines, like traditional Chinese medicine...

Looking at today's standard of heath you would never know that we came from a species of what we would now call "bodybuilders." But it is true. We started out as thick beings, even the women, because the state of our bodies depended on our survival.