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Many Caregivers with Critically Ill Loved Ones Face Depression
Caregiving is a 24/7 responsibility, and one that often causes caregivers to place their own needs secondary to those of their loved ones.
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How This 60-Year-Old Trauma Procedure Could Save More Lives
As a Level One Trauma Center, we help people with severe injuries every day.
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What You Should Know About the New Dietary Guidelines
If you want to live a long, healthy life, say goodbye to added sugars and excess salt in your diet and hello to more seafood, whole grains and vegetables.
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How Orlando Health Prepares for Hurricanes
Because we live in Florida, hurricanes are a part of the landscape here. That’s why we actively monitor all of these situations whenever the National Weather Service issues an advisory or alert.
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Why Doctors are Using a Surgical Treatment for Rib Fractures
Rib fractures usually occur after traumatic injury. Ten percent of all patients with blunt chest trauma have at least one rib fracture.
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Pulling Together: Orlando Health Copes with Pulse Tragedy
Just after 2:00 am on June 12, the Orlando Regional Medical Center Level One Trauma Center and Emergency Room began receiving dozens of seriously injured patients who were victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. ER doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists and respiratory therapists were quickly joined by off-duty surgeons and other team members to respond to the largest mass casualty they had ever faced.
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Things You Should Know About the Flu Vaccine
Influenza virus causes sudden high fever, body aches, stuffy nose and nasty cough. Every year in the U.S., up to 20 percent of people get the flu. It can become a serious illness, especially in the very young, the elderly, pregnant women and those with chronic conditions such as asthma, obesity and diabetes. Most years about 200,000 Americans are hospitalized and more than 35,000 die due to influenza.
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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.
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New Survey Finds that Chronic Pain Sufferers Overuse Over-the-Counter Medications
According to the National Health Institute (NIH), more than 25 million Americans experience chronic pain.
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The Dangers of Obesity & Pregnancy
More than 50 percent of women between the ages of 20 to 44 are overweight, and one-third of them are considered obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
