Advice for Healthy Living

The human heart is the most important and incredible muscle in the body, beating about 100,000 times each day to send 3,600 gallons of blood through 75,000 miles of blood vessels.

The holidays are upon us. It’s the season of over indulgence in food and drink. We see our waistline expand and the numbers on the scale creep higher. What we don’t see is far more troubling – our blood sugar creeping higher.

It’s flu season and it’s going to be a tough one warns Dr. Medha Chunduru with WellMed at Parkdale in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a group of diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing-related problems.

Breast cancer is personal for Dr. Louella Pritchette, family medicine practitioner at WellMed at Lawnwood in Ft. Pierce, Florida.

Now is the perfect time to celebrate and appreciate pharmacists and pharmacy technicians for the important role they play every day in our society.

For 18 years, Moses Blancas, lead therapist at the Lee Trevino office of WellMed Specialists for Health in El Paso, Texas, has witnessed the healthy transformations of patients through physical therapy (PT).

The CDC reports that Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death for all adults and fifth leading cause for adults 65 and older.

October is Physical Therapy Month, a good time to consider just how physical therapy, or PT, can help our patients.

You have likely heard the term “AFib” tossed about by those who experience it or by people who play doctors on TV. But did you know it stands for Atrial fibrillation, and it is the most common type of arrythmia?

August is National Immunization Awareness Month, a great time to review what vaccinations may be needed for every member of the family.

The heat has been brutal this summer across the nation. Temperatures this high are set to take their place in the record books.