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Transitional care critical to patients’ lasting well-being

“Transitional care,” says registered nurse Virginia (Ginny) Currier, director of nursing at Sebastian River Medical Center’s transitional care ...

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Root-ing interest: Beet pigment may slow Alzheimer’s

Researchers from the University of South Florida in Tampa say changes in the brain that are characteristic of ...

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Shoulder surgery may not mean joint replacement

The human shoulder is something of a paradox. It provides a far greater range of motion than any ...

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‘Tick’ tock: Lyme disease grows as threat here

You can’t hide from Lyme disease in Florida anymore. While most people think of the disease in connection ...

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Clinical trial yields positive result on bladder cancer

Depending on which source you look to, bladder cancer ranks as the fifth, seventh or eighth most commonly ...

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Study raises alarm over antibiotic use by older women

A study out of Tulane University in New Orleans concludes that women 60 and older who take antibiotics ...

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New ‘Cobra’ stent trial is underway at SRMC

Interventional cardiologist Dr. Charles Croft of Melbourne and nurse practitioner Jennifer Konowitz of the Sebastian River Medical Center’s ...

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‘Well-done’ food may be recipe for higher blood pressure

Now there is another thing to worry about, apparently. While almost everyone knows that what we eat can ...

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Polypharmacy poses peril for millions of seniors

America has a drug problem and it’s not the one you see on the nightly news. This problem ...

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Doc: Spine surgery much improved in recent years

While most people think neurosurgeons like Dr. Jacob Januszewski mainly, or even exclusively, operate on patients’ brains, it ...

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SRMC’s ‘JointCoach’ is winning surgery patients over

Hospitals and outside surgery centers nationwide have been scrambling recently to get joint replacement patients out the door ...

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Outpatient knee replacement surgery has arrived

In January of this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services removed total knee arthroplasty (knee replacements) ...