When you visit your doctor for a routine yearly check-up, often times they will order a blood test and do a blood draw on you while you are at the office. While we all pretty much just accept that as normal procedure, do we really understand what it is that they are looking for and what our blood levels can tell us about our underlying health? Let’s take a look A CBC...
Allergic reactions can be a life-interrupting and difficult to deal with. When they initially present it becomes a guessing game and process of elimination in order to figure out the cause and eliminate it from your life if possible. Breaking out in hives is uncomfortable, annoying, inconvenient and can in extreme cases lead to scarring over time if the urge to scratch...
Doctors must complete a four-year undergraduate degree program, spend another four years in medical school and then complete residency training which, depending on specialty, can extend from three to seven years. That is a total of up to fifteen total years of study. Is it any wonder they speak in a relatively foreign tongue to the rest of us? Many professions have...
Nova Oculus Partners is a leader in the ophthalmologic field. They have revolutionized how age-related macular degeneration is treated in millions of Americans. This devastating disease that affects the eyes in older Americans, normally age 50 and older, can make even the most mundane, easy tasks seem unachievable. How you ask? Well, age-related macular degeneration clouds the...
Even though it is the fall season, the sun’s rays in southwest Florida are still very strong and can cause a great deal of damage to your skin. Many tourists and “snowbirds” come down here thinking that the sun’s intensity is the same as the region that they came from. It is actually more intense than the sunlight in the northern states and you need to take...
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