When Veneita Dempster began experiencing weeks of shortness of breath and a persistent cough, her family knew something wasn’t right. They brought the 102-year-old Tamarac resident to Broward Health Coral Springs, where caregivers discovered she had outlived her pacemaker.
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Affordable diet and simple lifestyle changes can replace the need for medication, surgeries and expensive healthcare that you do not have. This is part 2 of an info series on using a plant-based diet to prevent, reverse and avoid many diseases and conditions like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, etc. This is Preventative Medicine you can practice on your own.
Sickle cell disease is more than a diagnosis. It is a lifelong battle. It does not recognize birthdays, holidays, careers, or family plans. A normal day can become a medical emergency within hours. Yet one of the hardest parts of this journey has not always been the disease itself. It has been watching my children fight to have their pain believed and treated with the urgency, dignity, and compassion they deserve.
The book, “Undo It”, by Dean Ornish, is about taking control of your healthcare through affordable, sustainable means. Your diet and lifestyle. It’s called “Lifestyle Medicine”. Lifestyle medicine results from the Preventive Medicine Research Institute’s decades of research showing that specific lifestyle changes can reverse conditions such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and emotional distress. Often fatal conditions.
Federal one-year ban on Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood has expired, restoring coverage for routine care at some clinics, but state limits still apply.
The next generation of physicians and healthcare professionals took the next step in their medical careers during Broward Health’s annual Graduate Medical Education (GME) White Coat Ceremony, and that included Coral Springs native Dr. Krista Gaie Grant.
Rapper Jim Jones has been making headlines not just for his music, but for his increasingly impressive physique. Through consistent weight training, disciplined eating, and regular workout videos shared on social media, the Harlem rapper has shown fans that getting older doesn’t mean slowing down—it means becoming stronger.
The persistent U.S. maternal healthcare crisis is increasingly putting midwives in the spotlight as being part of the all-hands-on-deck approach to reducing the number of women having pregnancy related complications that too often include death.
Monthly emergency department visits for tick bites in April spiked to their highest level since 2017 and continued to remain high throughout May and June, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s tick bite tracker.
Federal health officials are trying to identify the source of a foodborne parasite illness that has sickened people in 17 states, including Florida, with symptoms that can include weeks of diarrhea.