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Hyperbaric oxygen chambers speed up healing process
What is designed to put you under more than twice the pressure you’re used to, deprives you of ...
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Epilepsy: Most patients respond well to medication
Most people have a picture in their heads of what an epileptic seizure looks like – a person ...
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Diet changes said to reduce chronic inflammation
Inflammation has a bad rap, and rightly so, but there is such a thing as good inflammation. Let’s ...
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Hospital’s ‘Navigator’ program good for heart patients
This week, Vero Beach’s Indian River Medical Center will officially become one of only 35 hospitals in the ...
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County health officials concerned about measles outbreak
In 2014, in the midst of a highly-publicized and often acrimonious “debate” about the relative benefits and harms ...
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Food and drug interactions common and dangerous
Most adults who take medication know that certain foods can interact – in a bad way – with ...
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‘Robotic’ surgery improves lung cancer outcomes
Lung cancer is the most deadly cancer in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates some 221,200 ...
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Most thyroid disease can now be treated easily and safely
There is good news for people with hypothyroidism, the most common thyroid disorder: While the disease often went ...
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Sorry. ‘Colorectal cancer screening’ still recommended
Just saying the words “colorectal cancer screening” can provoke a kind of instinctive reaction in some people. Sphincter ...
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Hospital partners with top pediatric care facility
Take one of Vero’s most popular and established pediatricians, add the skills and resources of a nearly brand-new ...
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Palliative care program likely coming to IRMC
Palliative care is coming to Indian River Medical Center. At least, Dr. Arif Kamal, an assistant professor of ...
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Compassionate approach helps those with dementia
Isolation is not good for any mammal, humans included. All of our biological needs could be met, but ...