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Advances in cardiac care improve heart valve disease and reduce stroke risk for patients at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center
ORLANDO, Fla. (February 18, 2020) --- Two advances in cardiac care are improving heart valve disease and reducing the risk of stroke for patients at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC).
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Alkaline Water: Is the Hype True?
These days, consumers have more choices than ever when it comes to water — spring, filtered, flavored, carbonated, mineralized and more. Proponents of “alkalized” water say it offers possible health benefits ranging from cancer resistance and diabetes prevention to helping with weight loss, lowering cholesterol and improving energy. But before you spend your hard-earned cash on water, Orlando Health nutritionist Lisa Cooper, RD, says it’s important to know the facts.
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Could My Picky Eater Have a Feeding Disorder?
If you have a picky eater, you’ve probably experienced some stressful mealtimes.
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Testing Your Testes
If you have testes, you’re at risk for testicular cancer, says Dr. Andrew Davidiuk, a urologist with Orlando Health Medical Group Urology.
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Helping Diseased Lungs Breathe Easier
Unless we have a cold, most of us don’t think about breathing — we just do it.
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Orlando Health acquires prime I-4 frontage in Osceola County
To meet the needs of Florida’s growing Northwest Osceola county and surrounding areas, Orlando Health is building a standalone emergency room on a 28-acre campus located in Northwest Osceola County at 8011 Osceola Polk Line Road, Davenport, FL 33896.
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Restoring Hope for an Active Life
For Will Whitlock, life in Central Florida always had meant enjoying the outdoors and his favorite pastimes of hunting and fishing. But over the past three years, he spent more and more of his spare time sidelined on the sofa with chronic back pain. Some days it was an ache, other days it felt like somebody was “putting a screwdriver in my back,” he says. And then there were the multiple back spasms each day.
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‘I Felt Like My Heart Could Quit at Any Minute’
Two years ago, Don Schaus was moping around the house, wishing he could attend his grandson’s graduation. But he had heart problems, and that kept holding him back.
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On the Edge of Crisis
It seemed like an ordinary workday morning. Except that Cristina Settanni was running late. The registered nurse at Orlando Health UF Health Cancer Center needed a faster route to work so she took a toll road she typically avoids. As she crossed an overpass toward her exit, something caught her eye.
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From Seeing Stars to Running Marathons
Rachel Robbins was attending nursing school in Alabama when some strange things started happening to her last fall. First, the 27-year-old avid runner began seeing “stars” and developing migraines. Then, her vision got worse — people’s faces were fuzzy and letters on the left side of signs were missing.
