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Navigating the vast sea of private home healthcare

Gathering in an interior office cubicle during a recent tornado warning, Steve Smith, Donna Sorge and Meg Cunningham ...

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Routine screenings can be key to reducing cancer deaths

There might not be a more passionate – yet practical – advocate for cancer screening anywhere than Florida ...

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Vitrectomy: Vacuuming up ‘floaters’ for better eyesight

Floaters, in everyday parlance, are those hard-to-define shapes (often called specks, strings, amoeba-like illusions or cobwebs) that sometimes ...

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Always on go? Treatments can fix overactive bladder

Here’s the bad news: Overactive bladder – or OAB – is incredibly common. Some 33 million Americans will ...

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Hair’s some very cool news for breast-cancer patients

Adding insult to injury, some of the very chemotherapy drugs used to eradicate breast cancer cells also cause ...

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Buzz building for deep brain stimulation to treat anorexia

New research from Canada suggests that “deep brain stimulation” – a relatively simple surgical technique – may be ...

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Ace of hearts gives Welsh Center a winning hand

The Welsh Heart Center at the Indian River Medical Center just dealt itself another ace of hearts. Cardio-thoracic ...

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Fracture fallout: Medications need to be reviewed

Fractured bones due to falls and other incidents are common in the older population: About a third of ...

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Vitrectomy: Vacuuming up ‘floaters’ for better eyesight

Floaters, in everyday parlance, are those hard-to-define shapes (often called specks, strings, amoeba-like illusions or cobwebs), that sometimes ...

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Behind-the-scenes docs essential to hospital operation

Dr. Kali (pronounced Kay-lee) Freeman, hematopathologist and medical director at the Indian River Medical Center’s pathology department, doesn’t ...

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Parkinson’s patients have co-pilot in IRMC neurologist

Over a million people in the U.S. are now living with Parkinson’s disease and every year another 60,000 ...

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Trauma Drama: No shortage at Lawnwood trauma center

Early on a recent Tuesday morning in March, five trauma cases arrived at the Lawnwood Trauma Center in ...