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Proper Footwear & Why Diabetics Should Never Wear Sandals or Flip Flops

By Heidi Neyra, Owner – Certified Personal Trainer and CCHT People with diabetes have an extremely high storage of glucose; Glucose damages many organs in the body but also has a severely adverse effect on nerves. This nerve damage happens because the small blood vessels, which supply blood and nutrients to the nerves, becomes impaired. When the nerves are no …

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Stomach Cancer: Can Medical Cannabis Help Shrink Tumors?

Stomach cancers are typically diagnosed in older adults, but depending on a person’s dietary choices, weight, overall health, parasites and infections, stomach cancer can affect the young as well. About Stomach Cancer According to the American Cancer society, Stomach cancers tend to develop slowly over many years. Before a true cancer develops, pre-cancerous changes often occur in the inner lining …

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Diabetes Can Affect Our Pets: Why it’s Critical to Seek Medical Intervention

Diabetes is a major epidemic in humans, but it also affects our pets. Usually, cats or dogs that are older or overweight need to be assessed for diabetes, because it can cause the same health issues in animals than it does in people. These include reduced quality of life, stroke, heart failure, and death if left untreated. Many pets that …

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Changing (Amending) a Trust in Florida

By Steven J. Gibbs, Esq. Adaptability is an often-overlooked priority in estate planning. After all, financial and family situations change. The economy changes. “The only thing that is constant is change,” as Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously put it. So, when changes in your life inevitably occur, you want to be able to adapt your estate plan in Florida (or elsewhere) …

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Diabetic Neuropathy: Treating Your Pain

Nicolas Perez, M.D. – Korunda Pain Management Center November is Diabetic Awareness Month. Roughly, 29 million Americans have diabetes. Many of these cases are undiagnosed, but for those individuals that struggle with the disease, symptoms of diabetic neuropathy can be debilitating. Diabetic neuropathy is a progressive disease that affects nearly 200,000 new patients per year. Understanding the disease state is …

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What You Need to Know About the Flu Vaccine

Prevention is easier than treatment. It’s that time of year again. Flu season begins in the fall and often ends in the spring. Getting a flu vaccine every year is the single best thing you can do to protect yourself and your family. We make it easy to get your flu vaccine. Who Should Get the Flu Vaccine? Everyone 6 months …

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Lung Cancer Update

According to the American Cancer Society, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. More people die of lung cancer in a year than from breast, prostate, colon, and pancreatic cancer combined. Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in both men and women – it ranks just behind prostate and breast cancer, respectively. …

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NOVEMBER SEMINAR SERIES: HEARING AIDS THAT MONITOR YOUR HEALTH!

By Hoglund Family Hearing and Audiology Services Imagine that key factors that affect your health and wellness, including heart rate measurements and healthy activities for your body and your brain, are being recorded and saved for you through sensors in your HEARING AIDS! Now called a “Hearable,” the Livio AI actually tracks brain and body health, monitoring daily functions like …

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Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Low Dose CT Screenings Save Lives

The second leading cancer in both men and women is LUNG CANCER. According to the American Cancer Society’s Statistics, there will be 228,150 new cases of lung cancer diagnosed and 142,670 deaths from lung cancer this year alone. Despite these grim statistics, nearly 430,000 people have at some point in their lives been diagnosed with lung cancer, and yet they …

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Can a High-Tech Chair Cure Incontinence

By Joseph Gauta, MD, FACOG Do you wear urinary pads or diapers? Do you leak when you exercise or sneeze? Aging, childbirth, and menopause can all lead to incontinence. There are many treatments such as surgical procedures, pessary devices, and medications to help cure or reduce incontinence. There is a new device by BTL called Emsella that makes incontinence treatment …

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