Tag: Hospital

It’s probably the deadliest disease known to man; it can literally eat you alive, reducing you to a vegetable during the last few months of your life. Cancer is dangerous, and unfortunately, we have no cure for this disease. But the good news is that researchers and scientists are continuously working on discovering new and [...]

Have you noticed that the media chatter regarding the expected flu pandemic has been ramping up lately?  Could it be because pharmaceutical giants like Baxter and Novartis are moving full speed ahead to prepare for mass inoculations around the globe of H1N1 (swine) flu vaccines by this fall?
I hope the name Baxter [...]

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It is an admirable goal that the President and Congress are debating various proposals known as “Health Care Reform.” Every American citizen should have insurance but something is missing.
Lost in the debate and headlines is the fact that having health insurance does not increase your chances [...]

Have you heard all the fuss over the way Oprah presented hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on her show? You may have even read about it in Newsweek.
Oprah’s guest on the show, Suzanne Somers, touted the benefits of using bioidentical hormones for HRT over synthetic drugs. She said bioidenticals changed her life. [...]

Are food manufacturers and government officials so callous that they are actually using children as guinea pigs when it comes to food labeling?
Apparently so, according to the Chicago Tribune’s 2008 investigative report on hidden allergens found in popular food products.1 Hidden food allergens are part of the reason that an estimated [...]

Imagine being a child with a fast-growing form of leukemia.  You have endured chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, IV medications and 23 different pills per day.  Due to the side effects of the powerful drug cocktails you take, you have heart problems, a compromised immune system, steroid-induced diabetes, and short-term [...]

At one point in time, Canada thought that asbestos was their ticket to prosperity. They even called it the “magic mineral”, and began mining it extensively throughout the country, particularly in Quebec. Unfortunately, in the 1960s when asbestos miners began to show physical signs of asbestos disease, the excitement died down. Canada, like many other [...]

Last week there was a health scare in the Segala family.  My husband’s grandmother, 102-year-old Minnie, known to all as Gram, fainted at her assisted living facility.  When the staff had difficulty reviving her, they called an ambulance and had her taken to a nearby hospital.
The problem had to do [...]

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Colorectal surgery has undergone rapid advancement in recent years and leading the way has been Dr. Conor Delaney, Chief of Colorectal Surgery at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. A pioneer in the use of minimally invasive techniques for colorectal surgery, Dr. Delaney and his team are able to reduce surgical trauma by using [...]

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ProHealth Care will present a panel discussion at Waukesha Memorial Hospital on CyberKnife®, one of the world’s most sophisticated cancer treatment technologies. The panel will include Bobby Koneru, MD, radiation oncologist; Hendrikus Krouwer, MD, PhD, neuro-oncologist; and Kenneth Reichert, MD, neurosurgeon, and will be moderated by Michael McCrea, PhD, executive director of ProHealth [...]