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The Hidden Dangers of PAD often Start with Smoking

Perhaps you’ve been walking all day at a theme park or sight-seeing on a family trip when you experience muscle fatigue and cramping in your calves. The pain forces you to stop and rest, then it subsides. But when you hurry to catch up with your group, the searing muscle cramps return, forcing you to stop once again after just a few minutes. What’s going on? 

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.

What is Your Headache Telling You (and How You Can Make It Go Away)

We’ve all heard the old saying, “A bad headache can ruin a good day.” Enter any pharmacy and you’ll find aisle after aisle lined with over-the-counter pain medications designed to ease headaches of every kind. But what happens when these medications don’t work the way you want them to or when the level of headache pain you are feeling becomes too much to bear? 

What You Need to Know About End of Life Care and Advance Directives

No one likes to talk about death, but it’s an important conversation to have with your loved ones.

Madiha S. Noor, MD

Muhammad A. Jawad, MD

Musaddeque Ahmad, MD, FACP

Tadeusz A Nowicki, MD

SADI-S: Newest Weight Loss Surgery Explained

If you are morbidly obese and have health problems like Type 2 diabetes or heart disease, there is a type of bariatric surgery that might be worth exploring.

Headaches, Heartburn, Hip Pain? It Could Be Your Posture

Are you standing up straight? Are you sitting correctly? We’ve all heard about the importance of good posture, but most of us eventually forget or dismiss the advice. Poor posture can affect our wellbeing in a variety of ways — from pronated feet and collapsed knees to depressed or elevated shoulders and muscle imbalances. A clinical evaluation of your posture can detect problems and help determine ways to make corrections.