By Terri Brown, RN, BSN, MEd What if 2018 was the year that you actually stuck to your new year’s resolutions? ‘Tis the season to make health and wellness goals for the next year. While most of us have no trouble making goals, keeping them can be [...]
Breathe in. Breathe out. We don’t think too much about the breathing process, but your breath can tell you a lot about your body. A simple breathing test called a metabolic rate analysis can provide a wealth of information about how efficiently your body converts what you eat into [...]
By Maged Ghattas, MD Sometimes you have to play it cool to find pain relief. For those suffering from chronic pain, finding relief often means invasive spinal fusion surgeries or potentially addictive opioid medications. A new treatment – water-cooled radiofrequency (RF) ablation – is a [...]
By Peter Hynes, MD, FSCAI, FACC, RPVI For people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), walking can be a painful experience, so it may seem counterintuitive to prescribe an exercise program to alleviate pain. However, a simple treatment approach can help patients overcome PAD and get [...]
Achoo! We can’t control the person sneezing next to you on the bus or plane, but we can offer these health tips to help you avoid illness while traveling during the holidays: Wash your hands with hot water for at least 30 seconds before and after eating as well as [...]
The excitement and festivities of the holiday season are just around the corner. Soon, we’ll be thrown out of our regular routines and tempting foods and beverages will be all around us. The demands of the holidays also mean more stress, less time to exercise and definitely less sleep. [...]
By Caryn Alter, MS, RD Many of the top 10 most commonly broken New Year’s Resolutions, according to a survey by Time.com, involve lifestyle changes: #1 – Lose weight and get fit #2 – Quit smoking #4 – Eat healthier and diet #8 – Be less stressed #10 – [...]
By Alfred DeLuca, MD It sounds like the plot of a latest science fiction novel: Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, creating a concerning combination of potent “superbugs” and a lack of new antibiotics to treat them. Unfortunately, this is not a work of fiction. Adequately treating [...]
By Sabine Paul-Yee, MD A person far wiser than me once said that “you are what you eat.” So true when you consider that the body’s physical well-being is greatly impacted by one’s day-to-day diet regimen – of course, balanced with regular activity and disciplined rest. While [...]
By Amy Tilara, MD, and Kunal Gupta, MD, MBA As the medical field advances, our goal is to provide care that is more effective at diagnosing and treating problems, yet less invasive for patients. The growing field of interventional gastroenterology (GI) is one of the areas in which we’ve made major [...]
