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New Trend in Healthcare: Shared Medical Appointments

As health care providers, our goal is to give people the best care possible. While this has traditionally only happened during a 1-on-1 visit, there’s a new method many doctors are using to enhance the patient experience—shared medical appointments.

New NIH-Funded Initiative Will Help ORMC Advance Emergency Medicine Research

Trauma is the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 1 to 46, and on average there are about 141 million visits to the emergency room, 40 million of which are injury-related.

New Blood Cancer Drug May Benefit Patients Who Don’t Respond to Chemotherapy

From immunotherapy and surgery to chemotherapy, we’ve made several advancements in cancer treatment.

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.

Hospital Ratings: Behind the Numbers

With their wealth of statistics and unfamiliar terms, hospital ratings can be a complicated web for healthcare consumers to untangle. So, when it’s time to decide where you want to have a non-emergency surgery or treatment performed, you might be inclined to simply go wherever your doctor recommends. However, depending on your health insurance, you may have multiple hospitals to choose from.

Understanding Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

American Cancer Society Issues New Guidelines for Breast Cancer Survivors

  About 12 percent of women will develop invasive cancer in their lifetime, and thanks to advancements in treatment, many of them will survive

TAVR Procedure Brings New Hope to Heart Patients

In years past, people with severe aortic valve stenosis had few choices for treatment—but the TAVR procedure offers a new option that can literally bring new life to heart patients.

New Minimally Invasive Procedure Gives Heart Patients More Options

Previously, patients with mitral valve regurgitation (MR) had very few options if they weren’t candidates for surgery. The condition, in which one of the heart valves does not close tightly, allowing blood to flow backward into the heart’s left chamber, can lead palpitations, difficulty breathing and fluid build-up in the lungs in patients who have a severe form of this heart disorder.

New Treatments for Lung Cancer

Harnessing the body’s immune system to help destroy lung cancer cells is the goal of new therapies being developed at UF Health Cancer Center — Orlando Health. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among both men and women, causing more deaths every year than breast, prostate, and colon cancers combined, according to the Cancer Research Institute. Cigarette smoking is responsible for nearly 80 percent of lung cancers.