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Treating Tremors Begins With Discovering the Cause

Treating Tremors

Movement disorders, including essential tremor, ataxia, Parkinson’s disease and others can often be successfully treated, but each requires specific protocols in order to ease symptoms and help improve function. Because not all motion disorders respond to the same medication, knowing the specific cause is necessary to stage the appropriate therapy. …

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Medical Marijuana – Edible Dosing, Certified Physicians and Dispensary Information from Certified Marijuana Doctors

There are various forms of medical marijuana such as smoking, tinctures, vapors and edibles, but many people are still uncertain of which form is best for them personally. And that’s a critical question and more importantly, it’s why a certified medical marijuana doctor with extensive research and experience is your …

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Be Mindful of the Connection Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s

Diabetes and Alzheimer

By Denise A. Pancyrz – Diabetes Reversal & Holistic Lifestyle Coach, Speaker, Author Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease have been at the forefront of many health discussions. It is a fear that many of our aging population believe there is no answer. While much research is still needed, there is a …

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COVID-19 Testing: Rising to Meet the Challenge

COVID-19 Testing

By Brenda Superko, RN The COVID-19 pandemic, to date, has claimed more than 450,000 lives globally with 118,000 lives lost in the United States. It has triggered a 21st Century quarantine order aka ‘shelter in place’, which was followed by our nation’s highest unemployment since the Great Depression. Early in …

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DETECTING MELANOMA

By Michael J. Freeman, M.D., PA Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Fortunately, it rarely develops without warning, and the number of fatalities caused by melanoma could be greatly reduced if people were aware of the early signs and took time to examine their skin. With early diagnosis …

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Reopening the State: How to Stay Healthy!

Reopening the State: How to Stay Healthy!

Quick Care Med Urgent Care We’re starting to see a lot more interaction and activity, such as crowded beaches and businesses reopening. This is great for our economy, but we need to remember that the coronavirus is still lingering out there, and the experts expect it to have a second …

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Know the ABCs of Skin Cancer

Know the ABCs of Skin Cancer

More than 3.3 million people are treated annually for non-melanoma skin cancer and over 76,000 new cases of invasive melanoma will be diagnosed this year. In the last 30 years, more people have had skin cancers than all other types of cancer combined. In fact, one in five Americans is …

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The Truth About Esketamine (nasal S-ketamine spray)

The Truth About Esketamine

By Eric Milbrandt, MD, MPH Much has been made in the news lately about the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of esketamine (Spravato), the nasal S-ketamine spray by Janssen Pharmaceutical, a company owned by Johnson & Johnson. Ketamine is a medicine developed more than 50 years ago for anesthesia …

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Is it a senior moment… or something more serious?

senior moment

Mery J. Lossada, MD – Chief Medical Officer, Hospice of Marion County We’ve all had a ‘senior moment.’ We forget something and then laugh about it with friends and family, but the thought runs through the back of our mind: was it really temporary forgetfulness or could it be something more …

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MRI: Helping You Get Back to the Activities You Love

MRI: Helping You Get Back to the Activities You Love

When people think of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, they may assume it is used strictly to diagnose serious diseases. But one of the main uses of MRI is to locate and examine the presence of osteoarthritis, which affects roughly 27 million Americans and is the most common form of …

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