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Many people believe they only need a doctor when they are sick.  However, having a primary care physician may be your key to staying healthy.  An important responsibility of a primary care physician is providing preventative care.  “A primary care physician is like a wellness coach,” said Holly Dagney, D.O., a board certified family medicine physician with Physicians Regional Medical …

By Jeff Spector, Lead Designer – Curtis Allen Designs If someone were to ask what your dream home would be like — where you could live comfortably and enjoy this home until the end of your days — what would your answer be? Would you have large, ornate rooms with a beautiful view, a modern kitchen with a large island? …

By Toni Eatros, MS, Dipl Ac, AP – It’s back to school time again and for many that means recurrent colds, flus and earaches. Acupuncture and herbal medicine can strengthen your child’s immune system and help to decrease frequency and severity of illness. Chinese Medicine has been effectively treating children for centuries. Addressing the Root Cause to Treat Illness Oriental …

By Joseph Gauta, MD, FACOG When you have Overactive Bladder, you learn to settle. To settle not only for the constant bathroom trips, but also for treatments that haven’t worked as well as you’d like or left you with unpleasant side effects. There’s another approach. BOTOX® is approved to treat Overactive Bladder symptoms, such as a strong need to urinate …

There are 24 million people in the U.S. who are morbidly obese; 72.5 million people meet the criteria for obesity. With bariatric surgery, a single intervention can change the lives of many of these people. Cape Coral resident Bill Reese was one of them. He had high blood pressure, took 16 pills a day and was about to need daily …

By Dr. Alexander Gaukhman The average American consumes 150-170 pounds of sugar per year. That’s over 300,000 calories that can negatively impact your overall health in several ways: • Expanding waistline • Coronary heart disease • Type II diabetes • Metabolic syndrome • High blood pressure • Cancer • Cavities The severity of sugar’s impact on your teeth can vary …

Lung cancer is the #1 cancer killer in the United States. 222,520 people are expected to die from lung cancer this year alone and there is no reliable way to detect it in its earliest stage when it is most treatable. New research suggests that screening a high risk population for lung cancer can drastically reduce the number of mortalities …

By Mary Kay Peterson, M.D., Director of Women’s Imaging – Radiology Regional Center As I recently attended the American College of Radiology’s Society of Breast Imaging conference in Austin, Texas, one of my main objectives was to gather information regarding the debate surrounding screening mammography. When to begin screening, what interval of screening, and how to sort out the various …

By Toni Eatros, MS, Dipl Ac, AP Earlier this year, police in Italy seized 7000 tons of fake olive oil, much of it bound for our American stores.  Some are saying that MOST of the olive oil in your pantry might be fake.  These fake oils contains less actual olive oil than what you would ever imagine.  Many have been …

By James J. O’Mailia, M.D., Gastroenterologist Recently, as most of you are aware, Flu Season was in full bloom here in Lee County. This included the dreaded Norovirus, which generally had its effect on many of the sea-faring cruise liners. Over the past several months, the common symptomatic presentation was that of diarrhea. Doctors’ offices, walk-in clinics and hospital emergency …