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Department of Health gives tips for pool safety

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The weather is heating up and for many Floridians this means it’s time to cool ...

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Gluten-free diet a must for kids with Celiac Disease

This one in an occasional series about children’s health issues. We know that many of our readers are ...

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Treatment advances benefit men with enlarged prostates

Benign prostatic hyperplasia, (BPH), aside from being a phrase no one would want to draw in a spelling ...

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Ambitious plans for clinical trials at Scully-Welsh

Some months before the new $48 million Scully-Welch Cancer Center officially opens, Wanda Kay North is already taking ...

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Lasers provide better treatment for painful kidney stones

Kidney stones are the most common urinary tract problem in the world. According to the Urology Care Foundation, ...

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Suncoast Mental Health Center holds open house for new location May 14

VERO BEACH — After outgrowing their old space on 27th Avenue, Suncoast Mental Health Center moved into their new, ...

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New angioplasty procedure a better fix for blocked arteries

Approximately 17 million Americans, mostly over the age of 65, suffer from peripheral artery disease. Here on the ...

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Hospital pharmacist role expands to protect patients

One of the fastest-changing facets of healthcare today has nothing to do with new surgical techniques, advanced robotics ...

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Vero veterans better served than vets elsewhere

In the aftermath of the three longest wars in U.S. history (Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan), veterans’ health services ...

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Fire Girls of Indian River County hosts women’s wellness day May 2

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Getting women’s wellness check-ups is an important part of keeping healthy and helping to prevent, ...

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Study shows loneliness contributes to early mortality

If someone asked you if loneliness and social isolation reduce the quality of a person’s life, you’d probably ...

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Mideast wars yield new lifesaving tools and techniques

If anything good at all has come out of more than a decade of war in Iraq and ...