March 27, 2020 by John Fernandez
Coronavirus Roundup: Loss of Taste, Smell...
ENT Doctors: Sudden Loss of Smell or Taste may be a Symptom...
Air Quality and Your Health
Air quality not only affects our breathing, but also our overall health, especially for people with chronic health conditions like asthma, COPD and congestive heart...
May 3, 2016 / 3 min read
Melanoma: Start Your Monthly Skin Checkup
More than 10,000 people are projected to die from melanoma in the United States in 2016, but the two most common forms of skin cancer,...
May 2, 2016 / 2 min read
Roundup: ‘Severe Obesity’ Rate Among U.S. Children...
From infancy through age 18, rates of obesity have increased steadily from 1999 to 2014, and the number of children with the severest forms of...
April 29, 2016 / 2 min read
Early-Age Breast Cancer: What Young Women Need...
(VIDEO: Starr Mautner, M.D., a breast surgeon at Miami Cancer Institute, discusses treatments for breast cancer in young women.) Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer...
April 27, 2016 / 3 min read
Advances in Treating Head and Neck Cancers
Advances in surgical techniques, specifically minimally invasive surgical techniques, allow surgeons to remove many more tumors.
April 25, 2016 / 3 min read
Roundup: Aggressive Treatment of ‘Mini-Strokes’ Cuts Risk...
Patients who received medical attention with 24 hours of having a mini-stroke performed better on health assessments.
April 22, 2016 / 3 min read
Infant Immunizations: Get the Facts
Since 1994, U.S. public health officials and medical organizations have come together in April to spotlight the critical role vaccinations play in protecting our children.
April 20, 2016 / 3 min read
Community Health: Taking On the Obesity Epidemic
Community Health is promoting healthy eating and physical activity across South Florida -- and hopefully make a dent in the nation’s obesity epidemic.
April 19, 2016 / 3 min read
New Technique Spares Cardiac Patients of Radiation...
This means the patient was spared radiation exposure that could equal the effect of several hundred standard X-rays.
April 18, 2016 / 2 min read
Roundup: CDC Confirms Zika Link to Birth...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that there is a link between birth defects and the Zika virus — a mosquito-carried illness.
April 15, 2016 / 3 min read
