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  • Lifestyle Choices & Lifelong Rewards: The Road to Better Heart Health

    Lifestyle Choices & Lifelong Rewards: The Road to Better Heart Health

    by RYAN MILEJCZAK Sponsored by Central Florida Health Care Heart disease is one of the biggest medical issues we face in the modern age. It affects millions of Americans and is a leading cause of death in the US. Because of this, it’s a major concern for healthcare providers, who frequently treat patients suffering from…

  • Pop Quiz! Don’t Fall for These Exercise Myths 

    Pop Quiz! Don’t Fall for These Exercise Myths 

    When it comes to heart health, exercise is one of the best steps you can take. However, you are likely to encounter a glut of myths concerning exercise. Unfortunately, many of these myths can stall your progress, lead to injury, or even be damaging to your health. Take our quiz so you don’t take these…

  • Prevention, Screening the Two Biggest Weapons in Fight Against Cervical Cancer

    Prevention, Screening the Two Biggest Weapons in Fight Against Cervical Cancer

    by K. MICHELE TRICE Sponsored by Central Florida Health Care January is Cervical Health Awareness Month, making cervical cancer education especially important this month. Typically, the cells of the cervix go through changes before cancer appears in the cervical tissue. That’s why prevention and early screening are key components of women’s health care. Ruthie Almonte…

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  • Ask a Nurse: The evolution of modern medicine

    Ask a Nurse: The evolution of modern medicine

    Did you know that an anesthesiologist (the doctor that puts you to sleep and keeps you alive during surgery) wasn’t even considered a field or specialty in medicine until 1941!1 Could you imagine undergoing surgery without anesthesia? Barbaric! Thoracic surgery (chest surgery) wasn’t approved until 1970, and bariatric (obesity) medicine has yet to become an official…

  • Medical Advice: Avoiding mosquitoes and chikungunya virus

    Medical Advice: Avoiding mosquitoes and chikungunya virus

    I was first introduced to a disease known as chikungunya during my medical training.  Initially, I dismissed this foreign illness as something I would probably not see in my career.  Chikungunya was originally found in Asia, Africa, and the islands of the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific.  This changed on December 2013, when there was…

  • Editor’s Dose: Adventures with school physicals!

    Editor’s Dose: Adventures with school physicals!

    It’s school physical time already! Am I the only one who feels like summer went by way too fast? Maybe it’s because “time flies when you’re having fun.” Or, maybe it’s because time flies when you have four kids . . . maybe it’s a combination of both. Either way, our house is in full…

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