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A hospital in a garden
Nemours Opening its Child-Friendly Doors This Fall Nemours Children’s Hospital will soon swing open its child-friendly doors in Orlando, providing a facility for Central Florida with a mission to “bring best-in-class children’s health care, prevention and research.” The new location is the second Nemours Children’s Hospital funded under the terms of American industrialist, financier and…
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Fun and fit vacation ideas for the whole family
Try these recreation suggestions for staying active while getting respite The many health benefits of regular physical activity include the reduced risk of coronary heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and other diseases. This helps to prevent high healthcare costs and improves the quality of life for all ages. Combining physical fitness and vacationing is actually very…
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Pancreatic cancer: The next frontier
Developing treatments and therapies to fight this disease Pancreatic cancer research has proven the advantage of combination therapies, including chemotherapy and radiation therapy when given after surgical resection. Unfortunately, there have been limited advances for more than 20 years. Even though pancreatic cancer is an uncommon cancer, it has one of the highest mortality rates.…
Columns
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Publisher’s Note: Don’t let yourself or someone you know become a stroke victim
MAY IS NOT ONLY a time we honor our nurses, it’s also National Stroke Awareness Month. Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. That means in the time it takes you to read this column, at least two people will suffer from this life-threatening “brain attack.”
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Editor’s Dose: Top docs — a call for nominations!
DO YOU KNOW an area doctor who provides exceptional care and service, and has gone above and beyond when it comes to their patients? Tell us more! Top doctors who receive the most nominations will be recognized in the July edition of Central Florida Health News magazine.
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PCMA Letter: ‘Thank you’ can make all the difference
AS WE ENTER the month of May, our thoughts often turn to Mother’s Day, the end of the school year for our children, prom night for our youth, Memorial Day, and the fast-approaching summer break. Perhaps lesser known than these staples of the month, however, is National Nurses Week, which is happening May 6-12. During…
