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  • Study: Ovarian Cancer May Not Originate in the Ovaries

    This year, an estimated 22,440 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The disease is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among women, making it critical to raise public awareness about this form of cancer.

  • How to Get Rid of Pain from Varicose Veins

    If you’ve noticed protruding blue or green veins behind your knees, calves or thighs, or had pain or heaviness in your legs or swelling in your feet and ankles, varicose veins may be the culprit. Varicose veins are a common vein problem, and treatment options are simple.

  • 5 Things to Know Before Getting a Vasectomy

    Even hearing the word “vasectomy” can inspire anxiety or even fear in many men. As any urologist will tell you, this simple surgical procedure is performed on over 500,000 American men each year, and with few complications. Still, it’s vital for potential patients to understand the basic facts about this form of contraception. If you’re considering getting a vasectomy but are worried about what it entails, here are five things you should know,

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 5 Reasons You Should Get the Flu Vaccine This Year

    Cold and flu season is underway, which means if you haven’t gotten vaccinated yet, it’s time to head to your local pharmacy or doctor. Getting the flu vaccine can help you avoid getting ill, and potentially losing days away from work, school — or even worse, ending up in the hospital.

  • Why Every Woman Shouldn’t be Screened for Ovarian Cancer

    Women who don’t have any signs or symptoms of ovarian cancer and don’t have a high risk for the disease should not undergo screening, according to a government panel of health experts.

  • Yellow Fever Vaccine Shortage Update – What You Need To Know

    Yellow fever is a serious, potentially deadly viral infection transmitted by mosquitos. This disease is most prevalent in certain parts of Africa and South America.

  • 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.