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Team Chavez consumed with chronic care management

According to the New York Times, a mere 5 percent of this country’s population accounts for nearly half ...

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Mind-body therapies may be prescription for pain relief

Research conducted at the University of Utah Hospital concluded that mind-body therapies can be as effective in alleviating ...

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Sebastian hospital ‘desperately’ short of volunteers

Tennessee, not Florida, is known as “the Volunteer State,” but at the Sebastian River Medical Center, Anthony Gabriel, ...

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Need a hand surgery specialist? Elementary … it’s Dr. Watson

When orthopedic surgeon Dr. Michael Watson was recruited by the Steward Medical Group to move his practice here ...

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Dentists become first line of defense against sleep apnea

Everybody knows – or thinks they know – what to expect from a trip to the dentist. But ...

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Doc sounds the alarm on risk of over-medication for seniors

Dr. Raman Ashta is hardly the first person to move south to Vero Beach in order to spend ...

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In treating heart failure, hard to beat ‘team’ approach

If you had taken a snapshot of heart failure in America just a couple of years ago, it ...

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Just think: Study eyes mental method to lower anxiety

New research from Duke University suggests that improving activity in the brain’s “executive control center” may protect against ...

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TrueBeam surgery still on ‘cutting edge’ as cancer-killer

Newly arrived radiation oncologist Dr. Paul Pagnini of the Scully-Welsh cancer center is up for a knife fight. ...

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Better roadmap emerges for treating prostate cancer

Medicine is such a fast-changing field, with so many important advances happening all the time, that it is ...

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Versatile surgeon has appetite for weight-loss surgery

As a general surgeon with Indian River Medical Center, Dr. Theodore (Ted) Perry’s catalogue raisonné includes appendectomies, bladder ...

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Home healthcare firm Trilogy planning Vero office

Kim Weir may be a self-professed “small-town girl from Michigan,” but as the executive vice president for Trilogy ...