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  • Pop Quiz: With COVID-19 Vaccines Now Widely Available, Don’t Let Myths Deter You

    Pop Quiz: With COVID-19 Vaccines Now Widely Available, Don’t Let Myths Deter You

    COVID vaccines are being administered all over the country and the world as quickly as possible in an effort to halt the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks. While vaccinations are our best bet to allow us to “get back to normal” as soon as possible, there are many myths and a lot of misinformation about…

  • Sharing Is Caring

    Sharing Is Caring

    Central Florida Health Care Explains the Importance of the Health Information Exchange  by TERESA SCHIFFER We are living in an age of miracles when it comes to medical science. Modern healthcare professionals have a wealth of tools at their disposal to help patients recover from diseases that were once almost always fatal and improve the…

  • No Regrets

    No Regrets

    Gessler Clinic’s Dr. Alan Gasner Approaches 50 Years of Medical Service by PAUL CATALA From his first internship in May 1972 to his most recent patient visit in his clinic office in 2021, Dr. Alan Gasner has literally had a pulse on his patients and his career. Now in his 46th year of professional practice,…

Columns

  • Editor’s Dose: Simple reminders from great women

    Editor’s Dose: Simple reminders from great women

    As I read Chris Hazelwood’s Q&A for the first time (article on page 14), I was inspired by her bravery and strength during a very challenging time in her life. She would be the first to say that she did not make it through her fight against breast cancer alone, but it also reminded me…

  • PCMA Letter: Looking at breast cancer in a different light

    PCMA Letter: Looking at breast cancer in a different light

                It is unavoidable that illness effects many peoples’ lives, not just that of the afflicted.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and, while this disease is serious and at times life threatening, it should not be looked at with fear.              As with diabetes and heart disease, cancer is another…

  • Healthy Cook: Cooking ideas for the cancer patient

    Healthy Cook: Cooking ideas for the cancer patient

     Cooking ideas for the cancer patient and her family Drugs can do miracles these days, but the body has a wonderful aptitude for helping itself get better. Like using the proper octane in a car, we have to fuel the body with nutrients that help it do its job. This is just as important, if…

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