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In light of a recent announcement that an international business providing credit and debit card processing capabilities suffered a breach of data that may have exposed card numbers, Investigators caution members to be wary of any email, text message, phone call or other correspondence that requests your personal information.
 
Each time there is a new event affecting a large population, scammers use the subject to attempt to perpetuate fraud.
 

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Stone Oak Vision Source is announcing new technology that they are implementing to allow better care for your eyes.  There is a new genetic test, Macula Risk, now available for predicting the likelihood of a patient with macular changes developing macular degeneration.

This year marks the 20th anniver­sary of the National Stress Aware­ness Month, a thirty-day period (April 1–30) ded­i­cated to increas­ing the public’s aware­ness about both the causes and the cures for our mod­ern stress epidemic.
Even though we have learned a lot about stress, there’s still a lot of mis­con­cep­tion and mis­in­for­ma­tion about the dan­gers of stress and suc­cess­ful cop­ing strategies.

This week we cel­e­brated Amer­i­can Dia­betes Asso­ci­a­tion Alert Day, a one-day call to action – held the fourth Tues­day of every March – ask­ing peo­ple to take the Dia­betes Risk Test to find out if they are at risk for devel­op­ing type 2 diabetes.
 

If you receive unsolicited e-mail that claims to be from the IRS, please follow these suggestions:

• Eat break­fast every­day, and enjoy smaller-portioned snacks sev­eral times through­out the day.
• Avoid food that con­tains exces­sive fat and sim­ple sugars.
• Eat fam­ily meals. Com­mu­nal eat­ing encour­ages health­ier eat­ing habits.
• Feed your kids only when they are hun­gry and avoid snack­ing in front of the TV or while play­ing video games.

March is the official Brain Injury Awareness Month. More often than not a brain injury is a life-changing event. Sometimes, a “simple” blow to the head can be the beginning of a misdiagnosed and misunderstood neurological disease. In order to prevent future complications and potentially save lives, individuals who sustain brain injuries must have timely access to expert trauma care.

According to the San Antonio-Express News business section on February 1st, a child’s stolen identity may go undetected for many years and when the theft is finally discovered, the trail is completely cold and untraceable; which, of course, is what these thieves want. However, a problem can occur in the short term. For example, if the thief has some medical treatment their records can get mixed in with the victim’s with serious and potentially life threating consequences.