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MRSA Transmitted By Direct Skin-to-Skin Contact
Q&A with Jennie Williams, RN INFECTIONS CAUSED by a bacteria called Methicillin-Resistant Stahylococcus Aureus (MRSA) have recently commanded considerable attention in the media, and you’ve more...
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Lap-Band® Procedure Offers New Option for the Obese
Q&A with Dr. Mark Fusco If you’ve ever been on a diet you know the challenges in controlling your weight. Government research indicates that about two-thirds of adults in the United States are...
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Brevard Healthcare Systems Go Smoke Free
Q&A with Jim Kendig IN THE UNITED STATES, an estimated 25.9 million men (23.9 percent) and 20.7 million women (18.1 percent) are smokers. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in...
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STROKE: New Medicines Offer Victims Hope
Q&A With Dr. Bo Dandapani EVERY 53 SECONDS, someone in the United States suffers a stroke and 70 percent of these occur in people over the age of 65. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in...
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New Stroke Drugs are Life Saving for Stern, Soucy
Clot-busting ‘Thrombolytic’ Drug Reverses Stroke Symptoms JOHN STERN was in his Satellite Beach, Florida home getting ready to go out. While brushing his teeth at about 10 a.m. that Monday morning, his...
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Frequently Asked Questions Related to Diabetes
Q&A With DR. VINCE MARINO THE NUMBER of people diagnosed with diabetes in North America has increased substantially over the past two decades. In 2008 there were about 24 million people with...
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Misconceptions About Autism
Q&A With Dr. Ivy M. Chong, Florida Tech School Of Psychology DR. IVY M. CHONG has worked in the area of developmental disabilities and autism for the past 12 years. Her research interests focus on...
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‘Boomers’ Driven By Higher Expectations For Healthy Living
Q&A With Dr. Michelle Henderson DR. MICHELLE HENDERSON, MD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon at Cape Canaveral Hospital in Cocoa Beach, Florida. She specializes in hip and knee surgery. A...
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Nurses In High Demand, Experts Predict Shortages
NURSING ROUNDTABLE A DAY AT THE BEACH: SpaceCoastMedicine.com Editor-In-Chief Dr. Jim Palermo, far left above, was joined by nursing executives from Brevard and Indian River Counties at the Cocoa Beach...
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Hospital Medicine and the Hospitialist
Q&A With Dr. Anita Dhople If you have recently been admitted to a hospital, chances are that you were not seen by your primary care physician in the hospital, but admitted by and cared for by a...
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Antibiotic Resistance Threatens Return To Pre-Antibiotic Era
Q&A: With Paul Yates, BS, DLM(ASCP), CIC(CBIC) A hundred years ago there were no antibiotics. Infections were treated with folk remedies, tender loving care or not at all. Many people died from...
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Q&A: COMMOTIO CORDIS
Q&A WITH DR. BRUCE THOMAS Pathophysiology of Commotio Cordis LAST JUNE, tragedy struck the baseball field in Arizona when a 13-year-old Little Leaguer was trying to bunt and was hit on the chest by...
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Chronic Fatigue Affects Millions
Q&A WITH DR. THOMAS HARRELL Dr. Thomas Harrell, director of the Fatigue Management Institute at Florida Tech, has developed community-based programs for chronic fatigue management . CENTRAL...
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