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  • Aspirin and Pancreatic Cancer: Is There a Magic Pill?

    It’s known as “the silent disease.” The symptoms are hard to recognize, and they often go unnoticed for months or even years. This year alone, 46,000 people will be diagnosed with it—and nearly 40,000 will die because of it.

  • 10 Common Breast Cancer Myths—and the Real Facts

    It is an unfortunate reality that 1 in 8 women will eventually develop breast cancer. While this statistic may be alarming, advances in awareness, detection and treatment have led to significantly better survival rates.

  • Healthcare Gets “Smart” with Sensors, Apps, and Wearable Technology

    “Smart” technologies and wearable devices that monitor everything from blood sugar to medication adherence are beginning to peak consumers’ interests.

  • What is Comprehensive Stroke Care—and Why is it Critical?

    Although stroke rates have declined over the past two decades due to improved medical care and better control of risk factors, stroke remains the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and a leading cause of long-term disability.

  • Learn the Difference Between Painful Periods, Endometriosis and IBS

    If you have pain in your pelvic area, it may be difficult to know what’s causing your discomfort. Maybe you feel nauseous or constipated, or have diarrhea. You may have mild to severe cramping during your period. Or perhaps you have pain during intercourse or during a bowel movement. These symptoms can range from inconvenient to incapacitating, and the causes can vary as well.

  • Drowning Prevention: Keeping Kids Safe in and Around Water

    The long days of summer are ending, but that doesn’t mean we can be less diligent about keeping kids safe around water. From going to siblings’ swim practices and lessons to fishing and walking near a lake or just taking a bath, kids can face the danger of drowning.

  • Awareness and Prevention of a Silent Disease: Pancreatic Cancer

    When Aretha Franklin, known as the “Queen of Soul” died earlier this year, musicians, politicians and fans alike mourned. OHBlog_Aretha_BoseWhile many had noticed her weight loss in her increasingly rare public appearances, it wasn’t until her death that we learned the cause of her illness: advanced pancreatic cancer.

  • What Birth Control Can be Fixed and Forgotten? The IUD

    IUDs, or intrauterine devices, have become more popular in recent years and it’s easy to see why. It’s a low-cost, long-acting and reversible contraceptive (LARC) that is more than 99 percent effective at preventing pregnancy.

  • A Day in the Life of an Athletic Trainer

    As an athletic trainer for the Orlando Health sports medicine team, I feel very fortunate to have one of the most exciting jobs in healthcare. It’s a fast-paced world because we work with teams and individual athletes, mostly youth players, who are focused on performance. In my role, I’m able to impact the performance of the players I work with in a couple of ways. First, I provide training and education that helps them avoid injuries that could keep them sidelined. And second, when someone is injured, my job is to assess the severity of the injury and determine what kind of medical care the athlete needs, including whether they need care as quickly as possible or if they can wait to see a specialist the next morning.

  • 5 Reasons You Should See an Athletic Trainer

    One of the first athletic trainers was hired by Harvard University to care for its football team — back in the 1880s. Fast forward more than a century to 1991, when athletic training was recognized as an allied health care profession by the American Medical Association. Since then, the science behind athletic training has advanced substantially.