South Palm Beach Edition

You’ve got aches and pains, swollen joints, impingements, and limited range of motion. What will a surgeon tell you? Surgeons will say that you need surgery, you need a joint replacement, bunion surgery, back surgery, and list goes on and on. The problem is that many times, these surgeries are completely unnecessary, and they often fail to work. There is …

Blink Fitness Blink Fitness is hosting Facebook Live sessions weekdays at 8 a.m. ET. The fitness chain will host virtual workouts, give tips to stay motivated and answer fitness questions from the comments. Orangetheory Orangetheory is sharing a new 30-minute workout video each day, featuring some of its most popular coaches from around the world. According to the fitness center, …

Florida Department of Health has opened a 24-hour COVID-19 call center to answer questions you may have. Call 866-779-6121 or email covid-19@flhealth.gov. For more information on COVID-19, please visit  The Florida Department of Health Website at www.floridahealth.gov. COVID-19 TESTING IN PALM BEACH COUNTY Palm Beach County Testing Line: (561) 642-1000 Telephone registration and appointment scheduling for COVID-19 testing will begin …

Myths and misconceptions continue to make it harder for the more than 80 million U.S. men and women with hair loss to get the right kind of help. So in honor of April Fools’ Day, here‘s “the bald truth” on some of the most persistent myths about hair loss and hair loss treatments. True or False? Baldness is passed down …

Along with the seasonal flu, this year, we are also all concerned with the newest Coronavirus, COVID-19. Taking precautions is essential. Young children, individuals with weakened immune systems, and adults 65 and over are more susceptible to the dangers of the flu and COVID-19, as their symptoms can quickly exacerbate into pneumonia or other disease states due to the intense …

By Renee Chillcott, LMHC It’s human nature to seek out the reasons why we feel anxious. Very often we look at external factors for the root cause; being unhappy in a job, living situation, with family or significant others tend to be our “go to”. We may also look at our past experiences, upbringing, past trauma, to explain this unrelenting …

Brent Myers You’re reading a health and wellness magazine and you’re thinking: that guy can’t spell. But the truth is that you read it correctly: I have a wait problem: I don’t like to wait. But who does? Think about it… do you like to wait? Do you love sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office? Do you …

As we age we thrive to maintain a healthy lifestyle and improve our quality of life. “Healthy aging” is a very accurate term for what we are aiming for. So how can we achieve “healthy longevity”? It is exciting to report that now there actually is a cutting-edge treatment that has become a very promising tool in our fight against …

By Lauren R. Rosecan, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. The retina is the light-sensitive tissue lining the back of our eye. Light rays are focused onto the retina through our cornea, pupil and lens. The retina converts the light rays into impulses that travel through the optic nerve to our brain, where they are interpreted as the images we see. A healthy, …

Written By Thomas Gregory – U.S. Navy Veteran Established in 1952 under Title 38 of the United States Code, Congress created two types of benefits for war Veterans and their survivors within the Department of Veteran Affairs. The first is “compensation for service-related disability or death” and second, “a pension for non-service connected disability or death”. A little-known VA pension, …

By Aaron Rosenblatt, MD Neck (cervical), mid back (thoracic) and low back (lumbar) pain are common ailments which can be acute or chronic.  This may be debilitating and stop people from their usual activities of daily living. As many do not know, this pain from the spine can easily be treated by a qualified Interventional Pain Management Specialists, like Dr. …

By Lee R. Cohen, D.D.S., M.S., M.S. – Dental implants can help patients regain their ability to chew and smile with confidence.  The implant itself supports the crown or crowns (the chewing part of the tooth) allowing the new “teeth” to be anchored.  New technologies are now available that aid your surgeon in performing these procedures in an extremely conservative …

By David A. Goldman MD – Throughout my career I have seen patients come to me for second opinions, and I have also had patients ask me if I would ‘mind’ if they saw another specialist for a second opinion. For the patient, seeking a second opinion is a difficult thing to do. To begin, he or she may not …

Clear Vue Eye All of us should be getting our regular eye examinations to make sure our eyes are healthy, but the importance of people with diabetes getting their recommended exams is critical. In both type 1 and type 2 diabetics, high blood sugar damages the delicate blood vessels in the retina. This damage is called diabetic retinopathy. In diabetic …

Try a Scalp Makeover Pamper yourself and your follicles with new science-based trichology treatments By Alan J. Bauman, MD, ABHRS Let’s start by getting right to the point. Healthy hair begins with a healthy scalp. Period. But, unfortunately, because it hides out of sight, we often forget to take care of our scalp – until concerns become noticeable – and …

Have you heard of HALO and Forever Young BBL treatments? These are two new technologies that are game changers for skin resurfacing and pigmentation. Having been in the non-surgical aesthetic space for 19 years, I am very pleased to have finally discovered 2 technologies that deliver results for very common skin problems we have tried to correct for years; fine …

The number of deaths from colorectal cancer has been dropping steadily in both men and women for several decades, according to the American Cancer Society. The reasons for this decline include early detection and improvements in screening methods; yet, many choose to either postpone or totally skip these potentially life-saving screening tests, thus keeping colorectal cancer as the third leading …

Have you recently lost weight, but still have areas that you want to tighten? Perhaps you’d like to tone up your abs, thighs or derrière, well, advances in body sculpting procedures are helping countless people do just that. Lean down and buff up, with precision technology that reaches far beyond what most people can accomplish at the gym alone. CoolTone: …

A New Generation of Super Nutraceuticals For decades, the medical community has been focusing on a natural compound in our bodies called “hyaluronic acid”, or HA, and collagen, both of which are chief components of healthy connective tissue throughout the body. HA and collagen are especially important to knees, elbows, wrist, and the spine…where they are present and responsible for …

As we age skin can become dull, lose elasticity and droop. There are of course surgical options and hyaluronic acid fillers, but the procedures that are topping everyone’s wish list are the Vampire facelift and the vampire facial. Naturally found in your blood, platelets are a rich source of proteins called growth factors, which promote healing and regeneration. Platelet-rich plasma …