Sarasota Edition

By Lakewood Ranch Chiropractic – Headaches affect just about everyone at some point and they can present themselves in many different ways. Some people only experience pain in one part of their head or behind their eyes, some people experience a pounding sensation inside their whole head, and some people even experience nausea, while others do not. The pain itself …

By Gary M. Bunch, M.D., F.A.C.S. – Heartburn, acid reflux, and GERD—these terms are inter-related, but are not similar. Heartburn is the symptom which you will feel when the acid in the stomach moves up to your esophagus. This movement is known as acid reflux which happens when there is an over-secretion of gastric juices in the stomach and the …

By Dr. Robert J. Ycaza – The Center for Disease Control and Prevention labels obesity as public enemy number one. Obesity is a serious health issue that affects nearly 30% of the population in North America. Obese/overweight individuals have a higher-than-normal rate of hypertension, type II diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, gallbladder diseases, osteoarthritis, strokes, respiratory diseases and even some types of …

By Senior Home Care – Bradenton, Sarasota Recently, Senior Home Care joined Florida’s Health Information Exchange (HIE). The benefit to patients is that all their participating providers can access their complete medical record, including up-to-date documents, medications and test results that may have been ordered by another physician or facility. Providers who are part of the HIE access patient records …

By Alex Anderson – Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church My son had a friend over one night, and they were discussing something about their college literature class. He remembered a book we had that might help. I was in my study in the middle of an online training when he knocked on the door. Stopping the training, I …

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By Alex Anderson Senior Associate Pastor at Bayside Community Church Self Sufficient Sukie was born in Japan to Buddhist parents. She was taught in her culture that she could achieve anything she wanted in her life if she only worked hard enough. “Be self sufficient and strong,” her parents told her. She began to have a desire to join a …

By Dr. Garrett Harte – We have all heard the expression “When your feet hurt you hurt all over!”  So, it only makes sense to take proper care of your feet and keep them as healthy and strong as you can. Most of us would agree that to achieve a healthy lifestyle, one of the first things we should do …

By Stephen J. Patrice, M.D., M.P.H. – As a radiation oncologist, I see patients who have already been diagnosed with cervical cancer that require active treatment of the disease. Advances in operative techniques such as robotic-assisted surgery, new chemotherapeutic agents, and novel radiotherapy technologies including image-guided intensity modulated radiotherapy have led to improved outcomes with less treatment-related toxicity. However, as …

By Timothy Blend, M.D. – Do you ever wake feeling like you don’t want to get out of bed. You wonder if you could just get one more hour of sleep would it make a difference? Yet even with that extra hour of rest your brief burst of energy quickly deteriorates. You only have energy to do what is absolutely …