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  • Types, Causes and Risk Factors of Peripheral Artery Disease

    Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a progressive circulation disorder that results in the narrowing of arteries in any blood vessel outside of the heart. Because of this narrowing, the vessels can’t deliver enough oxygen and nutrients to the body. PAD, also known as peripheral vascular disease (PVD), can occur in the stomach, arms and head, but most commonly occurs in arteries in the pelvis and legs. 

  • 8 Reasons to Breastfeed

    Breastfeeding offers tremendous benefits, but new moms (and babies) sometimes have a hard time figuring out how to make this feeding system work and need support from their family and healthcare professionals. Fortunately, skilled nurses, pediatricians, obstetricians and certified lactation consultants can provide advice, support and encouragement so you gain confidence in your ability to provide for your baby’s needs.

  • What Is the Best Type of Breast Implant After a Mastectomy?

    After a mastectomy as part of your breast cancer treatment, you might choose to have breast reconstruction surgery. You’ll want a breast that looks realistic and won’t need to be replaced after a short time. Which is the better choice: saline or silicone breast implants?

  • 6 Signs You May Have Heart Disease

    Heart disease doesn’t happen suddenly. It tends to creep into your life slowly, with symptoms that are often easy to ignore in the early going.

  • Reconstruction Advances Help Restore Sensation in Breast Cancer Patients

    Breast cancer is unlike other cancers: Successful treatment isn’t the end of the story. For most patients, some sort of breast reconstruction will follow, and the outcome of that often plays a big role in how a woman sees herself going forward. The good news for patients is that breast reconstruction techniques and alternatives have changed a great deal in the last 15 years. Before that, plastic surgeons often were just trying to fashion something that would “look right” in clothing and more or less fit into a bra.

  • Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy: Advantages of the DIEP Flap Procedure

    The past decade has ushered in major technical advancements in autologous breast reconstruction, which is done using a patient’s own tissue. The most common techniques include the use of skin, muscle, fat, or artificial implants to reconstruct the breast. The use of abdominal skin and fat has gained in popularity, offering patients a more natural look and feel, similar to that of the natural breast. Other advantages of using a patient’s own tissue in reconstruction includes: the avoidance of artificial breast implants, the body contouring that comes with removal of excess abdominal fat, and the possibility of restoring sensation to the new breasts.

  • Success Story: Follow-up to the first vascularized lymph node transfer surgery in Florida

    When Jean Hutchinson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, she took it in stride and moved forward with the necessary treatment to beat the disease. After undergoing surgery and radiation, she breathed a sigh of relief and was ready to put cancer behind her. Then one day she looked in the mirror and noticed her right arm looked a little puffy.

  • What's So Great About Breast Milk?

    Throughout your pregnancy, your body adapts to provide for your growing baby, and this remarkable process doesn’t end at birth. Through the production of breast milk, you can continue to protect and nurture your baby long after birth. It delivers a lifetime of health benefits to both baby and mother. 

  • Why Working Long Hours Isn’t Good for Your Heart Health

    Americans work more than anyone, research has shown.

  • Do Adults Need Booster Shots?

    We all have that childhood memory of going to a doctor or clinic and getting pricked. At the time, we may have been too young to realize it was for our own good.