Archive:

July 2015

Weight-loss surgery to control incontinence

If pounds stayed off, bladder control improvement was seen years later.

Patient Story

Gardening is therapy

'We're providing an opportunity for our patients to do therapy in a natural setting without them knowing they're in therapy.'

Are heartburn meds and heart attack risk linked?

Our experts weigh in on this latest study

Could brain scans help guide treatment for OCD?

Neural activity can point to patients who'll benefit most from psychotherapy.

Teen girls susceptible to overuse sports-related injuries

Track, field hockey and lacrosse linked to repetitive-use problems in young athletes.

Patient Story

Don’t stop Bree-lieving

A young girl’s journey through acute myeloid leukemia: diagnosis, chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant and finally—remission.

Fat no longer the focus of dietary guidelines

'We really need to sing it from the rooftops that the low-fat diet concept is dead.'

Patient Story

Heart patient delivers on promise

Gino shares the secret sauce of life and recovery after open heart surgery.

Celiac disease and nerve damage

The two are linked, but our experts say glucose poses a larger threat than gluten.

Breath-holding games are dangerous

CDC warns that even seasoned athletes can drown.

‘A huge leap for individualized medicine’

Spectrum Health researchers combine imaging scans to produce first 3-D heart model of its kind.

Patient Story

‘I feel like I’ve been covered in love’

Compassionate cancer care is all part of the plan