BayCare Health System, West Central Florida’s largest provider of behavioral health services, recently announced plans to significantly increase its capacity and commitment to both inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services in response to the community’s needs. By mid-2022, BayCare will provide 24 more behavioral health inpatient beds at its hospitals. …

By Parveen Vahora, M.D. Sexual disorders can happen to both men and women. For women, it’s often due to vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA). Intimacy issues can affect a partner’s psychological wellbeing, just as much as it does with the one with the condition. Dr. Parveen Vahora sheds light on vulvovaginal atrophy …

Discussing hospice can be a beneficial option at any stage of a life-limiting illness. Patients as well as their families benefit the most when they are supported by the hospice team with physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual support from their hospice team as early as possible. You or your loved …

By DR. ROBERT LUPO, D.C. Chronic Pain affects hundreds of millions of Americans. Of those individuals, a staggering 20 million are suffering with peripheral neuropathy. Neuropathy is typically associated with diabetes, as it’s common for nerve damage to have occurred in individuals with high glucose storage, but neuropathy can also …

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by a blow to the head that damages the brain’s function and signaling. TBI’s can be mild to severe, and they can cause immediate and long-term damage. Depending on the severity. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability …

Back in the day convenient foods, such as TV dinners, chicken potpie and frozen lasagna were stocked in freezers of households near and far, but in today’s world, we’re smarter than that. We know that what we put into our bodies matters, and we definitely understand that the quality and …

Athlete care and today’s Sports Medicine staff have evolved and are much different in their look and approach when compared to the old school traditional sports medicine staffs consisting of just the athletic trainer and the strength coach. We no longer call it the sports medicine; it is now the …

Fear of Medical Tests Can Cause Dangerous Delays in Care People in need of routine cancer screenings and important diagnostic tests often find reasons to postpone or avoid getting them done. Reasons range from fear and anxiety to inconvenience or lack of time. People often decide to wait until they …

If you suffer from hearing or balance disorders, it’s time that you get the appropriate treatment to live your life free from lack of communication, ringing in the ears, pain, dizziness, and other adverse effects that are damaging to your overall health. Tinnitus is a common condition that many people …

Submitted by Hospice of Marion County Think of the many things we put off every day, tasks we’d rather not do. Procrastination is all too easy, especially when it comes to talking about something as unpleasant as the end of life. It’s one of those topics most people would rather …