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Take these steps to treat problematic diabetic foot wounds

Photo by: Denise Ritchie         More than 65,000 lower limbs are amputated annually due to complications from diabetes ...

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Stowe: Dedication at heart of cardio surgery team’s success

Certainly, $350-million health mergers and acquisitions are almost never launched, debated or decided upon because of one individual. ...

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Secret to a healthier, longer life can be in the bag

Looking for something quick and easy you can do to live longer, healthier and happier? Dr. Brenda Field ...

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Wound care team tackles trooper’s rare foot condition

Until July of last year, Florida state trooper Steven Barr spent much of his time patrolling the Florida ...

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TAVR heart procedure may not be best option for all patients

About the same time the Welsh Heart Center at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital completed its 100th trans-catheter ...

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There’s help for cancer patients facing financial strain

Gigi Garcia of Vero Beach has been battling colon cancer for four long years, but she remembers the ...

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Having problems in the bedroom? There’s an app for that

When the topic of erectile dysfunction is broached, Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital urologist Dr. Carrington Mason smiles. ...

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Got gout? Don’t pout. It’s very common and curable

Gout is probably one of the most over-romanticized human ailments. Literary giants of the Victorian and Edwardian age, ...

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Rheumatologist ruminates on his 50 years in medicine

One of the newest doctors at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital is also one of its longest practicing ...

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Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery seen as big success

PHOTO: Denise Ritchie  — New Vision Eye Center’s Dr. Stephen Tate is excited about the success of minimally ...

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Speech pathologists’ expertise extends far and wide

PHOTO: Denise Richie  — Speech pathologists, including Jessica Fitzgerald and Mike Gaughran at the Steward Medical Group’s Sebastian ...

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Add ‘glue’ to treatment options for faulty leg veins

According to the Cleveland Clinic, an estimated 40 percent of people in the United States have a condition ...