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  • Giving Up Caffeine Doesn’t Have To Be a Headache

    Millions of us begin each day with a welcome jolt from our morning coffee, tea or soda.

  • 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.

  • OCSC Player Alex De John: How to Recover So You Can Stay In the Game

    Whether you’re a professional soccer player or a neighborhood kickball enthusiast, injuries are inevitable. Athletes of all kinds can feel defeated. As Orlando City Soccer Club defender Alex De John notes, there are reasons to stay positive about recovery. After seven years as a pro soccer player, he suffered his first injury this season. Here is his advice for getting back in the game.

  • Improving the Survival Odds for ALS

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neuron disease of the brain and spinal cord. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS causes motor nerve cells that control muscle movements to die. These movements include the use of hands as well as walking, talking, swallowing and breathing. As the disease progresses, the muscles become paralyzed.

  • Data Shows Procedure for Severe Asthma Sufferers Provides Long-Term Relief

    One in 12 people has asthma, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but recent data shows a 7-year-old procedure called bronchial thermoplasty is giving people with severe asthma long-term relief from future flare-ups.

  • 5 Tips for Proper Food and Water Safety During Power Outages and Floods

    Hurricane season is now underway in Florida. While we hope this season won’t be accompanied by serious storms that make landfall, there’s always the possibility of power outages and flooding this time of year. As I recently told Click Orlando, we can’t get comfortable because past hurricane seasons have been relatively easy for us.

  • Sprain, Strain or Tear — What’s the Difference?

    If you exercise regularly or if your job includes lots of physical activity, you may have had an ache or injury that could be a sprain, strain or tear.

  • American Institute for Cancer Research: Coffee may be protective against some cancers

    Thanks to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, coffee is the patriotic drink in America. Coffee breaks became part of the routine in workplaces, homes and churches after an ad campaign in 1952 promoted the idea. Today, you can find a Starbucks on almost every corner. So, is that daily Cup of Joe really as bad for you as they say?

  • Dr. Anna Priebe explains HPV and how it causes cervical cancer

    Cervical cancer screening is one of the most successful cancer screening programs ever devised. Since the adoption of the Papanicolau (Pap) test in the 1960s, hpv-and-cervical-cancer-orlando-healthrates of cervical cancer in the United States have decreased by 75 percent. Currently, the American Cancer Society estimates that approximately 12,000 women in the U.S. were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2012. Compare that to the mind-boggling 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed worldwide each year. Pap smears work. But more on that later.

  • What Tiger Woods’ Injuries Mean for His Golf Career

    Legendary golfer Tiger Woods’ golfing future is in question after he suffered serious leg and ankle injuries in a single-car crash in Los Angeles. The former Central Florida resident who now lives in Jupiter, Florida, had to be removed from his vehicle by first responders after the February 23 accident and then had emergency surgery.