Heart failure is most common in people over 65, but it can occur at any age due to smoking, high blood pressure or other factors.
It’s also often misunderstood: the diagnosis doesn’t mean your heart stops, but that it isn’t pumping enough blood and oxygen to meet your body’s needs.
It can make day-to-day activities like climbing stairs, or even walking, difficult.
What are the signs of heart failure? There are five:
The more we learn about opioid addiction, the more new questions arise.
Two facts are undeniable: Opioid addiction is a complex problem our entire community faces, and it will take our entire community to solve it.
We do know more, but myths, misinformation and stigma make those facts harder to share. Take a few moments to separate fact from fiction, and help start the conversation.
MYTH 1: There’s no place to dispose of medicine safely, so it’s okay to keep it as long as it’s out of my kids’ reach.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the U.S. behind skin cancer, and the second most deadly, behind lung cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, nearly one in nine American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime.
While those sound like grim statistics, when prostate cancer is diagnosed early enough that it has not spread far outside the prostate, if at all, the five-year survival rate is nearly 100 percent.
Urgent care centers see an increase in visits this time of year—do you know why?
That is right! You guessed it. It is cold and flu season!
However, throughout the year, our urgent care physicians see a wide range of illnesses and injuries. The top five reasons for urgent care visits overall are:
Have you thought about end-of-life care or put your wishes for care down on paper? If not, you are not alone.
According to a recent study, only about a third of U.S. adults have documentation, and people with chronic illnesses were only slightly more likely than healthy individuals to put their wishes down on paper.
Influenza (flu) is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. Different types and subtypes of the flu virus circulate and cause illness over the course of each flu season, which can last from October through May.
A breast cancer diagnosis introduces immediate, profound changes to a woman’s life. Everything from focusing at work, to choosing what to eat, to engaging in intimacy is overshadowed by uncertainty and fear, right at the time that she needs to make important decisions about her treatment.
