Tag: Baptist Health Breast Center

3D Mammography: Clear and Accurate

Mammography plays a major role in detecting breast cancer when it’s still small enough to be easily treated. And advances...

May 14, 2015

Watch Now: Komen Race For the Cure

It was a sea of pink, more than 30,000 people descending on Bayfront Park for the 19th annual Komen Race...

October 20, 2014

Breast Cancer: Know Your Family History

For some patients, the risk of developing breast cancer is in their genes. About 5 percent to 10 percent of...

October 15, 2014

Radiation Therapy in Minutes

A breast cancer diagnosis is daunting enough, and many women face weeks of time-consuming radiation therapy after surgery. But that...

October 1, 2014

Diabetes Rate Levels Off, Waist Size and...

Following troubling increases in diabetes among adults between 1990 and 2008, the overall number of people living with the disease...

September 26, 2014

Don’t Put Off Regular Screenings

Regularly scheduled checkups, complete with different screening exams tailored toward your age, keep you on the wellness track.

September 22, 2014

Breast Cancer Can Strike Men, Too

Breast cancer in men is rare – but it does occur. Each year in the United States approximately 2,000 cases...

August 11, 2014

When to Get a Mammogram

With the release earlier this year of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study that suggested women start annual mammograms at...

June 27, 2014

Cancer Rates Going Down

Although a diagnosis of cancer is still the last thing people want to hear, today this news often is met...

May 30, 2014

What is a Patient Family Advisory Council?

As healthcare continues to move towards patient- and family-centered care, it is important for healthcare providers to listen and act...

May 7, 2014

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Coronavirus concerns are dominating our daily lives. You have questions. Our physicians have answers. Host, Dr. Jonathan Fialkow and his guest, Dr. Kamaljit Kaur address the most frequently asked...

FIU Using 3D Printing to Make...

Florida International University and Baptist Health South Florida are partnering on an initiative to manufacture face shields for healthcare workers on the front lines of...

Pregnant Women and Coronavirus: Don’t Stress,...

Do pregnant women have more to fear from the coronavirus (COVID-19) than the average, healthy adult? Public health officials and doctors say that there are...