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• Treating Brain Tumors at the Cancer Center

  Brain tumors, a growth of abnormal cells in the brain, can be either benign or malignant.

• Glioblastoma: How This Malignant Brain Cancer Develops

  Senator John McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five years, has had to rely on courage, strength and bravery throughout many events in his life. 

• Heart Valve Replacement—Then and Now with TAVR

  Less than a decade ago, if you had severe narrowing of the aortic valve opening in your heart (aortic valve stenosis) or a severe leak in the aortic valve (aortic regurgitation) standard treatment would be open heart surgery to replace the malfunctioning valve. Fortunately, in 2011, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved TAVR as a minimally invasive way to replace the aortic valve. This became a game changer, particularly for those who were not good candidates for traditional open heart surgery.

• Getting Mental Health Care at Orlando Health

  If you or someone you love is struggling with mental illness, know that you’re not alone. Mental illnesses, including addiction are common but very treatable. Orlando Health Behavioral Healthcare is an excellent resource to find comprehensive services to anyone suffering from mental and addictive disorders.

• Cardiac Ablation Treatment for Heart Arrhythmias

  If you’ve ever felt that your heart skipped a beat or that your heart was thumping in your chest, you may have felt a heart arrhythmia, or an abnormal heart rhythm. While everyone can experience an abnormal heart rhythm once in a while, an irregular heart beat that occurs periodically could signal trouble.

• No Matter Your Age, Here's Why You Should Begin Balance Exercises

  Integrating balance exercises into your fitness routine is important at any age. Although we tend to focus a lot on aerobic exercise and strength training, practicing your balance will help align your muscular system. This is great for stability and will help prevent future injuries. Whether you need to work on going up and down the stairs or want to improve your balance for all that mountain climbing you do, there’s no better time to start than now.

• Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Placenta

  If you’re pregnant and are considering eating your placenta after delivery, you may want to rethink it.

• Playing Contact Sports? Why You Need a Mouthguard

  This blog was written in conjunction with Daryl Osbahr, MD. 

• First patient at Orlando Health undergoes transcatheter aortic valve replacement

  Catheter used during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure. The transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure is designed for high-risk patients living with severe chest pain, congestive heart failure or symptoms of aortic stenosis — an age-related heart disease that develops when calcium deposits cause the aortic valve to narrow, forcing the heart to work harder to pump enough blood through a smaller opening.

• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) at Orlando Health

  Doctors at the Orlando Health Heart & Vascular Institute are taking a new route to a patient’s heart valve and giving new hope to patients once considered "too sick" for surgery. Our cardiologists recently began using the first artificial heart valve approved by the FDA, to replace a narrowed heart valve by going through an artery in the patient’s leg instead of a traditional open heart surgery.