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  • Closing the Care Gap

    Closing the Care Gap

    AdventHealth University’s Midwifery Degree Program Aims to Fill Growing Need for Prenatal, Postpartum Care by RYAN MILEJCZAK Pregnancy is an incredible time, but for many women, it can also present a variety of challenges. And one of the biggest supporters of pregnant women who face those challenges are the health professionals who provide care through…

  • Good Nutrition Isn’t Hard When You Have a Team Supporting You

    Good Nutrition Isn’t Hard When You Have a Team Supporting You

    by RYAN MILEJCZAK Sponsored by Central Florida Health Care As the adage goes, you are what you eat. In other words, eating a healthy, balanced diet that provides adequate nutrition is essential for good health.  “Nutrition has a lot of impacts on your overall health, both mental and physical,” explains Ronald Lund, a registered dietician…

  • Pop Quiz! Do You Know What Is — and Isn’t — a Service Animal?

    Pop Quiz! Do You Know What Is — and Isn’t — a Service Animal?

    Writer Thom Jones said, “Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them,” so it’s no surprise that dogs can also be trained to help people with disabilities. Service dogs helping the blind have been around for hundreds of years, but did you know there are also service dogs that help owners with…

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  • Signs & Symptoms: Practicing safety & preventing the little known CMV Virus

      The Varicella-Zoster Virus causes chicken pox and the painful rash, shingles. The Epstein-Barr Virus is associated with mononucleosis, an infection known as the kissing disease. Then there’s CMV, the lesser-known cytomegalovirus, which joins them as a herpes viruses. Most people who catch CMV don’t know they have anything, at least nothing more than a…

  • Common ground found regarding the 1099 rule

    Common ground found regarding the 1099 rule

      It is very seldom that the two political parties of our country join together in a bipartisan fashion. The former 1099 rule of the new health care bill, however, did just that. Many of the leaders from both parties rallied behind the cause to remove this particular rule from being mandated as part of…

  • Take these two pills of commentary and call me in the morning

    Take these two pills of commentary and call me in the morning

      You Spoke, We Listened In our last online poll at www.CentralFloridaHealthNews.com, we asked what you wanted to read about most for your health. The top answer was no surprise to me: Disease Prevention. As a person who cares about your health and that of your children’s, you don’t just want to know how to…

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