North Palm Beach Edition

By Donna Holm, CPA, MST, Associate of Harless & Associates – With 2014 well underway and tax season just around the corner, here are some important tax dates to keep in mind. For Small Businesses January 31 – Furnish Forms 1098, 1099 and W-2G to recipients for certain payments during 2013. Furnish Form W-2 to employees who worked for you …

A powerful, drug-free method and  technology can help – often dramatically. By Tina Landeen, LCSW and Michael Cohen, Founder, CBT – Do you or someone you know experience chronic anxiety? Are you excessively nervous or fearful? Do you have panic attacks?  If so, you’ve probably already tried or considered medications. Unfortunately, medications don’t always eliminate all the symptoms, and they …

This year, we decided to highlight Dr. Meng’s Weight Loss Program at Meng’s Acupuncture Medical Center as another way to demonstrate how acupuncture can be a method to wellness. Would weight loss cure an illness? Not completely, no, but with the relieved pressure the body experiences that comes with the reduction of the amount of weight it’s supporting, many symptoms …

By David A. Goldman MD – Cataract surgery has come a long way over the past few decades. Hospital admissions with sandbags placed on either side of the head have become outpatient procedures with patients going out for lunch or dinner that same day. Intraocular lens technology has improved as well; with some patients no longer requiring glasses anymore. Some …

By Brent Myers, Pastor of Community Life – In 1967 the Beatles released a song titled “All We Need Is Love” which sat atop Billboard’s charts for eleven consecutive weeks. Their manager at the time stated, “… they really wanted to give the world a message… it is a clear message saying that love is everything.” In fact, the simple …

By Dana Luzon, Au.D. Most hearing aid repairs are due to moisture and earwax accumulating in the hearing aid. The vast majority of these repairs are preventable. Hearing aids are simple to care for. It’s important to clean your instruments every day, either before you put them in your ears every morning or when you removed them at night. Your …

By Dr. James McErlain, D.C. – What is Cold Laser Therapy? Cold laser therapy, otherwise known as low level laser therapy or low light laser therapy (LLLT), has been scientifically proven to increase healing in a targeted area by over 400%. LLLT (Low Level Laser therapy) is a painless, sterile, non-invasive, drug-free treatment used to heal a variety of pain …

By Alan J. Bauman, M.D. – New Year’s is a time when many of us focus on self-improvement. We resolve to lose weight, drink less, quit smoking, find a better way to manage our stress, etc. But for some, the quest for self-improvement may also be the result of seeing more hair in our brush, looking into the mirror to …

By Lauren R. Rosecan, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. – Cellulitis is a bacterial infection of tissue that can affect both the eyes and skin. Cellulitis affecting the eyes occurs in two forms: orbital and pre-septum. Orbital cellulitis affects the structures within the space containing the eyeball and can affect eye movement (due to swelling of the lids or eye). This form …

By Dana Luzon, Au.D., CCC-A, FAAA – Permanent hearing loss is also known as Sensorineural hearing loss and it occurs in 90% of patients who are diagnosed with hearing loss. Meaning it cannot be surgically or medically corrected.  It is the most common type of hearing loss found today.  Sensorineural hearing loss occurs when the hair cells in the inner …