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  • Concerned About Birth Defects? Here’s What You Need To Know

    An anatomic change present when your baby is born is known as a birth defect. Thanks to modern-day testing, you might know to expect this diagnosis before your child is born. Other birth defects come as a surprise.

  • Bodyweight Training: The No-Excuse Workout Everyone Can Do

    Even if we are familiar with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation of at least 30 minutes of daily cardio/weight training, we can be tempted to spend that time making excuses instead. Maybe It's that we’re too busy or the gym is too far away. The ideal solution, we tell ourselves, would be a private fitness center that’s open all the time. The good news is that you already have what you need for a convenient, quick workout.  

  • Robotic Heart Surgery at the Orlando Health Heart & Vascular Institute

    We live in an exciting new era where medical treatment is rapidly changing and improving. With incredible advancements in technology over the last decade, we are treating illnesses that were fatal less than a century ago. A heart attack, for example, was nearly insurmountable thirty years ago—but today, the outcomes are far better for thousands of patients.

  • 5 Ways To Avoid Hip Fractures as You Get Older

    As you get older, your eyesight worsens, your bones weaken, and you can develop balance problems or arthritis, which all put you at greater risk for hip fractures from falls. 

  • Tylenol Isn’t an Effective Treatment for Arthritis Pain

    If you have arthritis pain and reach for a Tylenol for relief, you may be doing yourself a disservice.

  • Advances in Cancer Treatment: Proton Therapy at Orlando Health

    Radiation therapy is one of the many ways we treat cancer. As it’s developed over the years, we’ve been able to target the areas we want to treat while minimizing radiation to other areas in the body.

  • Why Cardiac Problems Spike During the Holidays

    If you’re making a list and checking it twice this holiday season, don’t forget to add a point about maintaining your heart health to that holiday checklist.

  • Spring Allergy Alert

    Springtime is here — and so is allergy season.  Allergic rhinitis, also known as hay fever, is marked by a sensitive reaction to things in the environment, such as pollen, dust mites or pet dander. If you suffer from a runny or stuffy nose and watery, itchy eyes around this time of year, it’s likely that you have seasonal allergic rhinitis. And in spring, pollen is the main culprit.

  • Vegetarian Spicy Chili

    Looking for a new way to incorporate protein in your diet? Try this hearty, vegetarian-friendly chili from Siri Khalsa, a registered dietitian at Orlando Health.

  • 100 Years of Orlando Health: Inspiring a New Century

    What does it mean to turn 100 years old? For an organization like Orlando Health, it means celebrating a history of being a pioneer in medicine, growing to meet community needs and adopting new technologies. But it means more than just remembering the past—it means thinking ahead to the next 100 years.