Clinical

Nemours Children's Hospital Wins Florida Hospital Association Award for Innovation in Patient Care

Oct 05, 2018 at 10:08 am by Staff

. Trailblazing 3D Modeling Program Recognized with Esteemed Innovation of the Year Award . A 3D modeling program being used in preoperative interventional radiology, can.... Read More

Major Gift to Expand Cardiovascular Services

Oct 04, 2018 at 11:18 pm by Staff

. Florida Hospital Orlando plans to expand its Cardiovascular Institute with a new Center for Living, which will offer a comprehensive program to identify, prevent and tre.... Read More

VA Adding Opioid Antidote To Defibrillator Cabinets For Quicker Overdose Response

Oct 04, 2018 at 10:01 pm by Staff

.   Martha Bebinger, WBUR, Kaiser Health News It took more than 10 minutes for paramedics to arrive after a housekeeper found a man collapsed on the floor of a bathroo.... Read More

Orlando Area Physician Summits Mt. Kilimanjaro for Colon Cancer Awareness

Oct 01, 2018 at 10:30 pm by Staff

. Orlando area Gastroenterologist Dr. Sri Pothamsetty took his mission to raise colon cancer awareness to new heights when he summited Mt. Kilimanjaro on July 21. In conjunc.... Read More

White Coats As Superhero Capes: Med Students Swoop In To Save Health Care

Oct 01, 2018 at 09:19 pm by Staff

.   Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News NEW YORK -- Each wall of the library reading room at the New York Academy of Medicine is lined with tall wooden bookshelves holdin.... Read More

Eat, Toke Or Vape: Teens Not Too Picky When It Comes To Pot's Potpourri

Oct 01, 2018 at 07:36 pm by Staff

. Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News There is no doubt that some high school students will try to get high. However, the ways they're doing it might be changing. A survey of.... Read More

Fight the Flu: Get your Flu Shot

Sep 29, 2018 at 05:06 am by Staff

. The Florida Department of Health in Seminole County (DOH-Seminole) encourages all Floridians to Fight the Flu by getting a flu shot this 2018 flu season. Getting the.... Read More

When the Brain Goes Haywire!

Sep 23, 2018 at 08:42 pm by Staff

. By LEENA KAMAT, MD Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations, and sometim.... Read More

Day-Tripping To The Dispensary: Seniors In Pain Hop Aboard The Canna-Bus

Sep 20, 2018 at 09:37 pm by Staff

. Stephanie O'Neill, Kaiser Health News Shirley Avedon, 90,­­ had never been a cannabis user. But carpal tunnel syndrome that sends shooting pains into both of her h.... Read More

"Get a Mammogram, Give a Mammogram" Program Begins October 1

Sep 18, 2018 at 10:08 am by Staff

. Initiative provides free screenings to women in need . Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. Each year, more than 250,000 women in the U.S. will.... Read More

Much Touted For Cancer, 'Precision Medicine' Often Misses The Target

Sep 13, 2018 at 08:46 pm by Staff

  Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Facing incurable breast cancer at age 55, MaryAnne DiCanto put her faith in "precision medicine" -- in which doctors try to match patien.... Read More

Trying To Protect Seniors, The Most Vulnerable, From Formidable Foe Florence

Sep 13, 2018 at 08:32 pm by Staff

  Liz Szabo, JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News and Doug Pardue Perhaps no other population is as vulnerable during a hurricane as frail, older adults, especially those.... Read More

Doctor To The Stars Disciplined Over Use Of Controversial Menopause Therapy

Sep 13, 2018 at 08:16 pm by Staff

  Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News A Santa Monica doctor who touted a controversial menopause therapy on the Oprah Winfrey Network and received testimonials for.... Read More

Orlando VA Medical Center to Host Suicide Prevention Awareness Fair September 14

Sep 10, 2018 at 08:46 pm by Staff

. The Orlando VA Medical Center will host a Suicide Prevention Awareness Fair on Friday, September 14, 2018. The activity will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Orlan.... Read More

Shedding Light on Invisible Disorders

Sep 06, 2018 at 09:51 pm by Staff

. Judge not, that ye be not judged. While there are various interpretations of that biblical quote, the idea of those seven simple words should be engrained in our collective.... Read More

Avoidable Sepsis Infections Send Thousands Of Seniors To Gruesome Deaths

Sep 06, 2018 at 09:36 pm by Staff

  Fred Schulte, Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News and Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune Shana Dorsey first caught sight of the purplish wound on her father's lower back as he.... Read More

More than 400 Uninsured Children Receive Free Physicals and Follow-up Specialty Care from Shepherd's Hope

Sep 06, 2018 at 08:52 pm by Staff

.     The new school year is underway in Central Florida, and 402 children are in their classrooms thanks to free back-to-school physicals they received from Shep.... Read More

Hypnotherapy: Finding its Place in Today's Medicine

Sep 03, 2018 at 09:15 pm by Staff

.   By GLORIA DANVERS, CCHt   The elderly woman in the doctor's office had recently moved to a new city and was visiting her new primary care physician for the f.... Read More

Over Past 20 Years, The Percentage Of Children With ADHD Nearly Doubles

Sep 03, 2018 at 08:40 pm by Staff

  Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News The number of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has reached more than 10 percent, a significant.... Read More

Californians Living Longer With Cancer -- Some Longer Than Others

Aug 30, 2018 at 11:06 pm by Staff

  Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News As he grew older, Dale Kunitomi paid closer attention to his health -- and to his doctor's advice. When he noticed rectal bleeding in.... Read More