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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over 1 million Americans suffer a heart attack each year and an individual dies nearly every minute from one. Women make up nearly half of all the cardiovascular deaths. Regardless of a woman’s racial or ethnic background, she is at …

By Village Dental – Sleep apnea is the condition in which a person stops (“apnea”) breathing for more than 10 seconds, many times in a night. People with untreated sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, sometimes hundreds of times during the night and often for a minute or …

By Darla Miller, BS, MBA – Your body is an amazing complex of nerve cells, electrical impulses and chemical messengers. The nervous system “wires” us together! Your brain houses 98% of your body’s neurons. While it makes up only 2% of your body weight it consumes 25% of your oxygen …

By Richard S. Benjamin, DPM – The heel bone is the largest of the 26 bones in the human foot, which also has 33 joints and a network of more than 100 tendons, muscles, and ligaments. Like all bones, it is subject to outside influences that can affect its integrity …

InterStim® Sacral Neuromodulation is a clinically proven, FDA approved (since 1997) therapy for management of Refractory OAB (Overactive Bladder), Incomplete Bladder Emptying (not due to outflow obstruction), and Fecal Incontinence (the latest since March 2011). This particular therapy targets the communication problem between the brain/body and the nerves that control …

Q: My husband likes the option of treating erectile dysfunction with a pill because of the simplicity, but would that be dangerous after a coronary stent placement several months ago? A: Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra are PDE5 inhibitors that work by dilating blood vessels to increase penile blood flow. They …

With so much of senior care and income planning tied to government programs, a needed perspective is understanding how budgets are measured. The federal government measures the impact of each program change made at the decade level, meaning what the effect on the budget is over the next ten years. …

By the ImageLift Team – Would you like a PERMANENT solution for looking and feeling your best?  Facial fillers are one of the simplest ways we have to freshen our appearance up with little or no downtime. Traditionally, temporary fillers have done very well in this role, though they are …

Oral cancer is not a rare disease. Approximately 37,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer every year in the US. It kills one person every hour of every day, and over 100 new individuals will be diagnosed with it each day. The good news is that it can be caught …

Surgical and Non-Surgical Cosmetic Procedures Improve Vision and Quality of Life – Under the guidance of Dr. Stacia Goldey, Mid Florida Eye Center has earned national recognition for its expertise in rejuvenating facial features, diminishing signs of aging, and reconstructing facial defects. Although these types of procedures may be categorized …