Life


Life With Irregular Heartbeats

Do you know the truth about AFib? Those four letters form a catchy abbreviation for atrial fibrillation, the most common type of irregular heartbeat. Every...

September 19, 2013 / 3 min read


Resolving Infertility

Once you are ready to start a family, waiting is the last thing you want to do. But, having a baby does not come easily...

September 18, 2013 / 3 min read


Talk to Your Kids about Drugs

Many children and teens are faced with the decision to try tobacco drugs or alcohol. Is your child equipped to handle this pressure? Kids say...

September 13, 2013 / 3 min read


Kids Beating Cancer

Childhood cancer survivorship is rising and that’s good news. “In 1965, if a child was diagnosed with cancer, there wasn’t anything a parent could do...

September 9, 2013 / 2 min read


Ways to Help Obese Kids and Teens

Seventy percent of obese kids have at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease and nearly 40 percent of have two or more risk factors,...

September 5, 2013 / 3 min read


Advisory: Mosquitoes & Dengue Fever

A local division of the Florida Department of Health has issued a mosquito-borne illness advisory for Miami-Dade County. The advisory follows a report about Miami-Dade County’s first confirmed case of locally transmitted dengue fever this year.  Additionally, there...

August 30, 2013 / 2 min read


Cool Treatment Helps Babies Survive

When Anthony Iglesias was born on Thanksgiving Day 2011, neither his delivery nor the next 72 hours were what his parents expected. During his birth...

August 26, 2013 / 2 min read


Tailgating this Weekend?

When football season starts, everyone is so excited. There’s always the hope that this will be THE year – the year the Miami Dolphins have...

August 23, 2013 / 2 min read


Facts Behind Backpack Safety

Habitually carrying backpacks over one shoulder will make muscles strain, stressing the middle back, ribs and lower back -- more on one side than the...

August 23, 2013 / 2 min read


Five-a-Day, the Baptist Health Way

img class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-3345″ alt=”Five-A-Day, the Baptist Way” src=”http://showcase.republicahavas.com/websites/baptist-health-news/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Five-A-Day-the-Baptist-Way-300×300.jpg” width=”300″ height=”300″ align=”left” />Now that the first week of school has passed, how did you do...

August 22, 2013 / 2 min read