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IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR SHORE PHYSICIANS GROUP PATIENTS

Your provider is now accepting Telehealth visits. Call your SPG providers office for an appointment. Shore Physicians Group has consolidated its offices to best serve our patients during this time. For an appointment time and nearby location call your provider’s office. Shore Urgent Care in Northfield is open Monday through Friday, 8am to 8pm and Read More

Shore Physicians Group Coronavirus Update

Shore Physicians Group is consolidating its offices to best serve our patients during this time. For an appointment time and nearby location call your provider’s office. Shore Urgent Care is here for you seven days a week, both in-person and now via telehealth! For a telehealth urgent care visit, call 609-365-5333 and a patient service Read More

Should You Trust Food Labels?

We are reminded constantly to check food labels and calorie counts of what we eat. Reading labels is a good thing, but should you take food labels for gospel? Tiffany Rios, Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator with Shore Physicians Group, said that while there can be an incremental increase or decrease from what is Read More

Pharmacist David Totton, PharmD, Providing Medication Management and Annual Wellness Visit Appointments to Shore Physicians Group Medicare Patients

When it comes to medications, the best trained healthcare professionals on the subject are pharmacists, who can be a valuable asset in primary care, especially with patients who are on Medicare. That’s why Shore Physicians Group recently added pharmacist David Totton, PharmD, to its staff to support primary care providers in completing Medicare patients’ Annual Read More

What Does Your Bad Breath Say About Your Health?

Close talkers beware – your breath may be telling people something about your overall health. Bad breath is an occasional fact of life for most people. It might stem from too many onions on that salad at lunch or too much garlic in the spaghetti sauce, but when it is a consistent problem unrelated to Read More

Free Vascular Screenings: February 18 & March 20

Shore Physicians Group will host vascular screening clinics on Tuesday, February 18 and Friday, March 20 at the Shore Physicians Group Vascular Lab at 649 Shore Road in Somers Point. Good screening candidates are adults over age 45 with other risk factors for vascular disease, including diabetes, smoking, hypertension, abnormal cholesterol profiles, and/or family history.  Read More

Does Coloring Your Hair Increase Your Breast Cancer Risk?

Maintaining that youthful look and getting rid of those telltale gray hairs may come with a hidden cost. In December, the International Journal of Cancer published a study undertaken by the National Institute of Environmental Health that followed 46,709 women who had a sister previously diagnosed with breast cancer. (A family history of cancer indicates Read More

How Dangerous is Plastic to Our Food?

It is nearly impossible to avoid plastic, it is everywhere. The food we eat is packaged in it, the water we drink is frequently in a plastic bottle and even the toothbrush we use twice a day has plastic. There are many different kinds of plastic products that we come in contact with constantly. Although Read More

Vascular Surgeon Dr. Matthew Lawrence, DO, FACOS, to Join Shore Physicians Group in January

Shore Physicians Group announced today that board certified vascular and general surgeon Dr. Matthew Lawrence has joined its surgical division in Somers Point and will begin seeing patients in January. Dr. Lawrence comes to Shore Physicians Group with more than 20 years’ experience in vascular and general surgery, serving most recently as a surgeon and Read More

Supplements Do You Really Need Them?

Have you ever stood in the vitamin and supplement aisle and felt totally overwhelmed by the rows upon rows of bottles claiming to help with every malady? These supplements are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration as food and therefore the labels may claim some health benefits. However, if you’re getting what your body Read More

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