We take our role in your health very seriously. Come in today to see how we can help.
Staying informed is also a great way to stay healthy. Keep up-to-date with all the latest health news here.
16 Mar
Loneliness in Perimenopause Linked to Changes in Brain Health
A new study shows loneliness and social isolation together may sharply increase the risk of memory and thinking problems during perimenopause.
13 Mar
Ultra-Processed Foods May Be Bad for Your Bones, Study Finds
Eating too many ultra-processed foods lowers bone mineral density and raises the risk of hip fracture, researchers warn.
12 Mar
Young Mom With Stage 4 Colon Cancer Finds Hope Through a New Transplant Option
Doctors at Northwestern Medicine give a young mother with advanced colon cancer that had spread to her liver a new chance at life with an innovative treatment option – a living-donor liver transplant that significantly raises odds of survival.
New Moms Need Weeks Of Monitoring To Catch Post-Pregnancy Complications, Study Argues
New mothers need to be monitored weeks after delivery for pregnancy complications, a new study suggests.
About 40% of pregnancy complications would have been missed had doctors not kept tabs on new moms for six weeks following delivery, researchers reported March 16 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Typically, hea...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- |
- March 17, 2026
- |
- Full Page
VR Effective In Educating Patients About Upcoming Procedures
Imagine a doctor offering you a virtual reality headset to help explain an upcoming procedure.
It turns out such an explanation might go farther to easing your worries than the usual handout leaflet, researchers reported Friday at a meeting in London of the European Association of Urology (EAU).
Patients said they felt less anxious a...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- |
- March 17, 2026
- |
- Full Page
Prebiotic Eases Arthritis Pain, Trial Finds
Making your gut happy might help angry arthritis-affected joints, a new study says.
A prebiotic fiber supplement helped ease pain in people with knee arthritis, researchers recently reported in the journal Nutrients.
The results suggest that improving gut health could be a new way to treat arthritis, researchers said.
...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- |
- March 17, 2026
- |
- Full Page
Drug Protects Against Chemo-Caused Bleeding, Trial Shows
An already approved drug can help protect cancer patients against excessive bleeding caused by chemotherapy, a new study says.
Chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia occurs when chemo destroys platelet-producing bone marrow cells, increasing a person’s risk of dangerous bleeding.
But the injectable drug romiplostim (Nplate) can ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- |
- March 17, 2026
- |
- Full Page
Cholesterol Needs Lifelong Management, New Heart Guidelines Say
Heart experts are calling for a full-court press against cholesterol, including lifelong screening and treatment, a set of new guidelines says.
Blood testing for cholesterol should start in childhood, and take place at least every five years to track each person’s heart health risk, the American College of Cardiology and the American...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- |
- March 17, 2026
- |
- Full Page
Officials Examine Deaths After Plasma Donations in Winnipeg
Canadian health officials are investigating the deaths of two people who donated plasma at private clinics in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The deaths happened about three months apart, one in October 2025 and the other in January 2026, according to Health Canada, the federal agency that regulates plasma donation clinics.
One of the donors who...
- HealthDay Staff HealthDay Reporter
- |
- March 16, 2026
- |
- Full Page
