Music helps improve your thinking
      Music can have a powerful emotional impact on the psyche, but music can also help a person think. According to experts, adults and teens alike can actually improve certain thinking skills by listening to classical music or learning to play an instrument.
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Group brainstorms on nursing shortage
Summit held at CSUCI
By Michelle Knight knight@theacorn.com
      Ventura County needs nurses. So says a group of experts who met at the Nursing Summit held at California State University at Channel Islands on April 20.
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A nap a day might keep heart attacks away
      It should come as no surprise to learn that midday naps might be good for one's health- just ask anyone who has ever taken a siesta when he or she should have been working. For centuries we've known that a midday nap might be just the thing to refresh and make one more alert to take on ch...
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Los Robles offers skin screenings
      The Comprehensive Cancer Center at Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center will feature its annual free skin cancer seminar and screening at 6 p.m. Wed., May 23 in the classrooms at 215 W. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks. The seminar, "The Dangers of Skin Cancer," will begin at 6 p.m., followe...
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