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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) ...
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Speak up: Erectile dysfunction is very treatable
Despite a TV advertising binge that started around 2004 and still continues today for prescription pharmaceuticals such as ...
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Mediterranean diet cuts older adults’ risk of ‘frailty’
A new study from the University College London in the United Kingdom suggests that older adults can reduce ...
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Vero surgeon fixes sight for sore eyes in Mexico
If luxury travel is your thing, don’t even think about taking your next “vacation” with Vero Beach’s Dr. ...
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Ear, nose and throat doc hails new ETD procedure
Eustachian tube dysfunction, or ETD, is a common and annoying condition that some people may have had for ...