By Jan Lehmann, Changing Season Home Health & Heavensent Caregivers Mom has become very difficult lately. She lives in a wonderful assisted living residence that has a keypad code to permit entry and exit at […]
By Jay S. Bender, MD Shoulder problems are one of the most common reasons patients come to our offices. Just about everyone has had some episode of shoulder pain at some point. Patients can have […]
Glaucoma is a group of diseases that can lead to damage of the eye’s optic nerve and result in blindness. With early treatment, you can often protect your eyes against serious vision loss. To detect glaucoma, your therapeutic optometrist will do several tests. One is a visual field test that measures your side (peripheral) vision.
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People are buying herbal remedies for everything from migraines to memory preservation to depression. Where once you had to see an herbalist or naturopath to get the daily dose of herbs for what ails you, herbal products are now widely available in drugstores and health food stores, making the ability to self-medicate greater than ever. But with opportunity comes a warning: mixing herbal remedies and prescription drugs could be harmful to your health. Just like drug-drug and drug-food interactions, herb-drug interactions are very common. Some herbal medicines may cancel the effect of a prescription drug, while others may reduce or exaggerate it.
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By Dr. Tyler Cooper Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese and a shocking one-third of our children are. The sad fact: this leads directly to diseases like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and many […]
For residents of Denton County living with diabetes, support is now close to home. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton is the first healthcare provider in Denton County to be accredited by the American Diabetes Association […]
Courtesy Provost Bariatrics Americans are living longer. We are also growing larger. The reality is that more than one-third of adults 65 and older were found to be obese in 2010, according to the Centers […]
By Julie Alvira, MD, MBA Free radicals Our bodies are machines that work all the time converting food into energy. From these natural processes and the chemical reactions involved, free radicals are generated. But free […]
By Virginia Langston-McDaniel Those are the words on a plaque I received in a random door prize drawing. I was at an employee party the last Christmas I was working full time. “Yes, exactly” I […]
By Tucker Thompson, CSA More and more seniors on Medicare, with or without supplement insurance coverage or Advantage Plans, are getting stung with higher out-of-pocket expenses and fewer Medicare benefits in the ever-widening Medicare net […]
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