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  • Everything You Need to Know About Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

    Blogs: Everything You Need to Know About Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team
    Along with acronyms for preferred provider organizations (PPOs) and health maintenance organizations (HMOs), add two more to your list. Both can help you pay doctor's bills and save money. Health savings accounts (HSAs) and flexible spending accounts...
    • October 4, 2024
  • ¿Qué es el asma exactamente?

    Tu Salud: ¿Qué es el asma exactamente?

    EquipoConnect
    EquipoConnect
    En los Estados Unidos, más de 27 millones de personas padecen de asma.  Casi 4.5 millones de ellas son niños menores de 18 años. ¿Por qué los niños son tan vulnerables? Al padecer asma, los pulmones y l...
    • October 3, 2024
  • Maximize Your Medicare

    Blogs: Maximize Your Medicare

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team
    Are you getting the most from your Medicare plan? It’s a good idea to spend time reviewing your coverage each year. Knowledge is power, right? Empower yourself by becoming familiar with need-to-know information that can help guide your Medicare...
    • October 3, 2024
  • Ghoulishly Good Tips for a Healthy and Safe Halloween

    Blogs: Ghoulishly Good Tips for a Healthy and Safe Halloween

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team
    The words healthy and Halloween don’t usually go together — for obvious reasons. Halloween is the one time of year when kids let loose and eat as much candy as they can get their hands on. Still, it's possible to give your kids a fun...
    • October 2, 2024
  • What Is 3D Mammography?

    Blogs: What Is 3D Mammography?

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team
    Women have choices when it comes to breast cancer screenings. A standard mammogram every one or two years is the recommended best practice for early detection. It can detect breast cancer up to three years before it can be felt. Since their introduc...
    • October 1, 2024
  • I’m a Survivor

    Blogs: I’m a Survivor

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team
    Leigh is a breast cancer survivor. She's fought long and hard to claim that mantle. Unfortunately, she’s had to go toe-to-toe with the Big C more than once. “My first scare with breast cancer happened when I was 27,” she reveals. &l...
    • October 1, 2024
  • Cómo obtener los nutrientes adecuados a cualquier edad

    Tu Salud: Cómo obtener los nutrientes adecuados a cualquier edad

    EquipoConnect
    EquipoConnect
    Tu cuerpo necesita diferentes cosas en diferentes edades, especialmente cuando se trata de la nutrición. Lo que comemos afecta la manera en que envejecemos, y el envejecimiento cambia nuestras necesidades nutricionales. Según la univers...
    • September 30, 2024
  • One Easy Way to Stay with Blue for Medicare

    Blogs: One Easy Way to Stay with Blue for Medicare

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team
    It’s a major milestone you’ve been moving toward for a long time — all your working life, in fact. Now you’re on the cusp of 65. That means the hard-earned benefits you’ve worked for your whole life are close at hand &md...
    • September 30, 2024
  • Consejos para un buen regreso a clases para estudiantes con trastorno por TDAH

    Tu Salud: Consejos para un buen regreso a clases para estudiantes con trastorno por TDAH

    EquipoConnect
    EquipoConnect
    El nuevo año escolar ofrece un nuevo comienzo y la oportunidad de aprender y crecer. Pero para muchos niños, los primeros días o semanas de clase traen cambios que causan preocupación y estrés. El cambio es dif&iacu...
    • September 27, 2024
  • Getting Started With Medicare

    Blogs: Getting Started With Medicare

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team
    Many people find the idea of signing up for Medicare confusing — and that's understandable. You’re used to getting your insurance from your employer or the marketplace. After so many years of doing something one way, it can be i...
    • September 27, 2024
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    Is Your Child Struggling with Mental Health Issues?

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 30, 2024
    Children have a lot on their minds. They’re always learning new things and facing challenges they’ve never handled before. You know your child best. You can support them now and in the future by showing them ways to build good ment...
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    ¿Sabes cómo mantenerte a salvo de los estafadores?

    EquipoConnect
    EquipoConnect August 30, 2024
    Los estafadores siempre buscan nuevas maneras de robar tu información personal y tu dinero. Por eso, es una buena idea desconfiar de los extraños para protegerte de las estafas. Probablemente, ya sabes que no debes abrir mensajes de tex...
    • 1199 Views
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    Have You Had Your Health Screenings This Year?

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 30, 2024
    Your annual wellness visit and health screenings play an important role in catching small health problems before they become big ones. Add your annual exam and health screenings to your to-do list to make sure they get done. If you still need so...
    • 2166 Views
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    Take Care of Yourself When You Take Care of Others

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 29, 2024
    Look around and you’re bound to see a lot of caregivers. In the U.S., one in three adults care for others. They may be caring for elderly parents, a sick spouse or disabled child. Being a caregiver can be stressful and demanding. It often lead.....
    • 1528 Views
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    Cómo un medicamento se convierte en genérico: mitos y verdades

    EquipoConnect
    EquipoConnect August 28, 2024
    Tomar un medicamento genérico no es como comprar un jabón de una marca genérica de una tienda específica. Con el jabón, es posible que notes algunas diferencias. Por ejemplo, puede oler diferente y es posible que te...
    • 4002 Views
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    Soap vs. Sanitizer: Is There a Hands-Down Winner for Getting Clean?

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 27, 2024
    Germs. They’re everywhere you don’t want them to be. You can’t see them, but they’re waiting. Germs are lurking on the handrail of every stairway you use. The same handrail a woman gripped right after coughing into her hand. N...
    • 2530 Views
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    Reaching Out Can Make You Feel Better

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 26, 2024
    Loneliness hurts. People often feel isolated or wish they had more friends. Those feelings happen to people of all ages, even if they are busy and spend time around people. Studies show relationships are key for overall wellbeing. People ...
    • 1971 Views
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    ¿Vapear es tan malo para tu salud como fumar?

    EquipoConnect
    EquipoConnect August 23, 2024
    Una de las peores cosas que puedes hacer por tus pulmones y tu salud en general es fumar. Pero muchos aún no saben que vapear también es peligroso. Aunque los expertos expresaron su preocupación desde el principio, no todos recib...
    • 1005 Views
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    ¿Es un resfriado, alergia o COVID-19?

    EquipoConnect
    EquipoConnect August 22, 2024
    Si estás resfriado, estornudando, tosiendo o con dolor de garganta, puede ser difícil saber si son los síntomas de alergia, resfriado, gripe, COVID-19 o virus respiratorio sincitial (RSV, en inglés). Hasta que no sepas con...
    • 571 Views
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    COPD: When Lungs Break, the Heart Often Follows

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 22, 2024
    “To breathe is to live, and without breath there is no life.” The mantra is a basic tenet of yoga. Nothing is clearer for those who struggle to breathe. If you suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), every breath can be ...
    • 5773 Views
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    Your Doctor Helps Make Sure Your Services Are Covered

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 22, 2024
    Your doctors work closely with your health plan to ensure it covers the care they prescribe. As a smart health care consumer, it’s good to know about all the steps your care provider takes so you can get the most out of your health plan when yo....
    • 4805 Views
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    Ways to Fit In Fitness

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 21, 2024
    It isn’t hard to think up a reason to skip a workout. Many of us do it. If we find ourselves in a time crunch, exercise often gets the boot. Who has an extra hour to spend walking several miles, sweating in a gym or taking a yoga cl...
    • 4774 Views
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    Cuatro hispanos pioneros en la medicina que mejoraron nuestras vidas

    EquipoConnect
    EquipoConnect August 20, 2024
    Fueron pioneros, tomadores de riesgos y médicos dedicados decididos a aportar algo mejor al mundo, algo que transcendía más allá de sus atributos personales. Durante el Mes de la Herencia Hispana (del 15 de septiembre al 1...
    • 2568 Views
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    Why Meningitis Travels Fast and How You Can Prevent It

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 19, 2024
    If you lived on campus during your college years, chances are your school required a meningitis vaccine. With good reason. The disease is common among children and young adults. Close contact in school classrooms, daycare centers and dorms are perfec...
    • 4252 Views
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    Compassionate Management: Nice Guys Finish First

    BCBSNM Connect Team
    BCBSNM Connect Team August 16, 2024
    They are questions parents and managers often ask. Is it better to be nice so people like you? Or does tough-love get more results? Are people more responsive when you demand respect and hard work? Most people think it’s better to be tough. Aft....
    • 1878 Views
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