Sarasota Edition

By James W. Mallonee In today’s economic environment, the need to protect your current assets as well as future assets (e.g. inheritance) is becoming more critical than ever.  This article discusses those situations where a family patriarch who is financially stable has children who are under financial distress, insolvent or in bankruptcy and lose their parents’ bequests because the parent’s …

By Physicians Rehabilitation – A person with knee pain knows how often it gets in the way of doing the things they want and need to do in daily life. Because the knee is a weight bearing joint, knee pain affects almost everything we do that requires mobility, including those things most of us have usually taken for granted. For …

At HarborChase, we know that residents who can no longer live independently still want to feel independent. As a result, our residences offer the warm feel of a cozy bed and breakfast inn, but with important additions: rooms are thoughtfully customized for safety and special needs and expert care is always on call. But as good as it is to …

By Alyssa Parker – Pneumatic compression devices are one of the most highly recommended treatments for limb swelling and are a Medicare approved treatment option. Dating back to the 1960’s pneumatic compression pumps have been used for the treatment of limb swelling due to acute and chronic conditions. In most cases compression pumps are used for swelling associated with lymphedema …

By Lam Nguyen, MD, Orthopedic Spine Surgeon Clinically significant osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCF) accounted for 52,000 hospitalizations per year in the US. In the US in 2005, there were over 2 million fractures at a total cost of 17 billion USD. Of that total, vertebral osteoporotic fractures accounted for 6% or 1 billion dollars. By 2025, the annual number …

By Virginia “Ginya” Carnahan, APR.CPRC, Director of Marketing & Development, Dattoli Cancer Center & Brachytherapy Research Institute With apologies to Tina Turner, Love has a lot to do with it when “it” is your health and well-being.  In fact, scientists have investigated and researched the impact of human love for centuries.  Recall that the early Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse and …

There are many causes of the disease known as anxiety. One cause responsible for anxiety in women and men over 40,which is not as widely known as others, is testosterone loss. Additionally ,after age 50, estradiol depletion can play a major role in anxiety as well. Before using bioidentical hormones to treat the other symptoms of hormone loss, many women have …

Photo courtesy of St. Jude Medical Miniaturized Wireless Monitoring Sensor — This miniaturized wireless monitoring sensor is about the size of a dime, and remotely provides updates each day to the physician on pressure levels affecting the heart. While many heart conditions can be managed or overcome with lifestyle changes and medication, others require surgical intervention to restore an individual’s …

You may have seen recent television ads by law firms fishing for patients that received testosterone replacement therapy, who then developed heart disease or heart problems and even death. The trigger for these television ads is two recent trials, which suggest that testosterone replacement therapy may increase the risk of heart disease and/or stroke. These were poorly designed studies, which conflict …

Heart failure is a chronic condition resulting from the heart’s inability to pump enough blood throughout the body. It can develop slowly over time or occur suddenly. Either way the heart is unable to work and pump blood efficiently, resulting in a lack of oxygen-rich blood and nutrients being delivered to the body. There are two basic types of heart failure: …