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  • How Your Resting Heart Rate Offers a Health Snapshot

    There’s an easy way to catch a glimpse of your overall health. Just see how your heart is behaving when you aren’t asking it to do anything.

  • Weight-Loss Drugs Could Also Boost Heart Health

    As our nation grapples with rising health problems and obesity rates, weight-loss medications have soared in popularity, offering an effective way to shed pounds. These drugs could also end up playing a key role in managing cardiovascular disease.

  • Understanding Erectile Dysfunction: A Guide to Men’s Sexual Health

    If you have trouble getting or keeping an erection, you might feel embarrassment and avoid intimacy with your partner. It’s important to understand that erectile dysfunction is a medical issue that can affect men at any age – although it’s more common in older men. And there are treatments that can help.

  • What Foot Health Tells Us About Other Illnesses

    Your feet are a vital part of your anatomy — and not just for helping you get from the couch to the kitchen. They’re composed  of more than 50 bones, 60 joints and 200 muscles, tendons and ligaments that can offer important clues about what’s happening throughout the rest of your body. By paying attention to subtle shifts in the shape, flexibility and even temperature of your feet, you can get an early jump on larger health issues.

  • 5 Ways Women Can Improve Their Mental Health

    Housecleaner. Caregiver. Chef. Many women are faced with fulfilling multiple roles while still meeting the expectations of their jobs and careers. The situation is particularly significant when you consider that more than 20 percent of American women struggle with a mental health condition like depression or anxiety.

  • Orlando Health and Magic Gaming Partner to Prevent Esport Ailments

    Like other athletes, those who play esports must take care of their physical and mental health. Recognizing this need, Orlando Health has partnered with Magic Gaming, a collaboration between Orlando Magic and the NBA 2K league, to help players on the gaming team stay in peak condition.

  • A Complete Guide to Nailing Your Orlando Health Job Interview

    This is an exciting time to pursue a healthcare career both for experienced workers who want to change careers, as well as younger Americans just entering the workforce. According to projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare jobs are expected to increase by 18 percent during the 10-year period from 2016 to 2026. That translates to roughly 2.4 million new healthcare jobs, a growth rate that’s higher than any other occupation in coming years.

  • Take Charge of Your Heart Health with Exercise

    Physical activity benefits your heart in a variety of ways. Exercise improves circulation, which can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. It improves blood cholesterol levels by increasing HDL (good cholesterol) and decreasing the amount of triglycerides in the bloodstream. It can help lower blood pressure, aid in quitting smoking and help control weight to eliminate obesity. If you have diabetes, exercise can help regulate blood glucose levels by improving the body’s insulin sensitivity.

  • Orlando Health Careers: Government Affairs and Public Policy

    Because the healthcare field is growing and evolving at a fast pace, it’s drawing a lot of interest as a career. However, while the expanding need for services, driven mainly by an aging baby-boomer population, is a key contributor to that growth, a wide range of non-clinical careers also are growing. One of the areas creating many new career opportunities is government affairs and public policy.

  • How Access to the Internet May Impact Women’s Health

    Women who lack access to the internet may be missing an opportunity to improve their health, according to one recent study.