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Surgeons favoring tourniquet-free knee replacements
Everybody has heard of tourniquets. In cases of traumatic bleeding a tourniquet can save your life. In a ...
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Venous insufficiency: Straight talk about ‘silent disease’
Venous insufficiency, says vascular and endovascular surgeon Dr. Hadi Shalhoub, is “the silent disease.” That is probably one ...
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Scully-Welsh expands cancer-fighting team, techniques
Scully-Welsh Cancer Center medical oncologist Dr. Stephen Patterson says “there are a lot of exciting things going on” ...
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Tip-top health record system helps boost patient care
One of the newest and most advanced electronic health record (EHR) systems is now up and running at ...
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New doc helps bariatric team tackle obesity plague
When Dr. Natalee Stone joined the Riverside Surgical & Weight Loss Center and Steward Medical Group at the ...
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Beware! Flesh-eating ‘Vibrio’ lurks in our waters
As a nation we’ve grown blasé when it comes to bacteria. Maybe that’s because we’ve spent years going ...
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Cancer patients can count on Scully-Welsh support groups
While there is little evidence-based data showing that “cancer support groups” prolong the lives of cancer patients, the ...
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The kids are all right: Pediatric doc works to make it so
For someone who spends the bulk of her days working with a very small cadre of colleagues – ...
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App-y days are here in fighting coronary artery disease
Worried about a heart attack brought on by coronary artery disease (CAD)? Dr. Lilian Ahiable, a fresh face ...
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CRISPR gene editing has potential to write off cancer
When Scully Welsh Cancer Center director Dr. James Grichnik talks about something that sounds a lot like “crisper,” ...
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Partners in Women’s Health adds 5-doctor Sebastian office
Vero Beach’s Partners in Women’s Health, a joint cooperative between the Indian River Hospital District and Indian River ...
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For bariatric surgery, it’s Dr. Domkowski ‘hands’ down
When Diane Muller went looking for a bariatric surgeon to help her overcome her serious obesity problems – ...