Florida Health Care News

12/01/2025

FDA-approved nonsurgical VAX-D® vacuum therapy alleviates pressure on injured spinal discs, relieves pain

Ada Miller grew up on a farm in Indiana. In the early 1970s, she relocated to Florida to be closer to her brother, and her parents followed several years later. Shortly after arriving in the Sunshine State, Ada joined a year-long voluntary service mission through a local church. “Half of the time,...

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!

11/26/2025

Memory care resident finds her ‘happy’ place at The Meridian at Punta Gorda Isles

For generations, couples have typically dated for months or years before marrying. That wasn’t the case with Tom Thompson and his girlfriend, Teresa. Tom and Teresa married just seven days after meeting while both were serving in the US Army. “Hey, when you know, you know,” Scott Baker says of...

11/20/2025

Eye injections are mainstay of treatment for vision issues related to diabetes

After they married, Mary Ann Roth and her husband relocated from St. Louis to Antioch, Illinois, which is located on the Wisconsin border. It was there that Mary Ann found a job with Abbott Laboratories, a global company that makes various medical devices and consumer health care products. “I star...

11/19/2025

Treating diseased veins alleviates discomfort, improves blood flow

Massachusetts native Keith Chenaille came to Florida via a work transfer in 1995. The move was part of a long career in transportation management that ended in the early 2000s when Keith’s company downsized and laid off most of its middle managers. But rather than move back to the Northeast, Keith...

11/18/2025

Regenerative therapy uses the body’s own healing cells and growth factors to eliminate pain, improve posture

For more than a decade, Carol Werder worked as a registered occupational therapist (OTR) in a Minnesota hospital’s mental health unit. However, she eventually became disillusioned with her job and uncomfortable with her changing role. “Health care changed, and the hospital brought in occupationa...

11/17/2025

Heavy lifting made faster, easier through advanced dental techniques, technology

  The cranes that were used to mount the Space Shuttle’s orbiter onto the rocket boosters that propelled it into space represent a magnificent feat of engineering, and Judith Fogelquist is proud to say she was part of the team that designed and built those cranes. “I also worked on the project ...

11/13/2025

New approach to knee replacement surgery results in faster recovery, less use of pain medication

After graduating from college, David Busack entered the accounting field and became a CPA. Before long, however, he took his talents to a daily newspaper in Michigan as its controller. “I was with the Ann Arbor News,” David elaborates. “In its heyday, it was 60,000 circulation daily, 80,000 Su...

11/12/2025

Compression pump eliminates excess fluid in arm with lymphedema

For years, doctors told Anita Baird that the lump in her left breast was not malignant. But those reports failed to reassure her, so she ultimately returned to her primary care physician, who ordered a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound of Anita’s breast. “I was diagnosed with stage III inflamm...

11/11/2025

Thank you to the veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our home. 🇺🇸

11/10/2025

Support Community helps patients and caregivers connect, find strength together

The American Cancer Society estimates there will be more than 2 million new cancer cases, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer cases, diagnosed in the US in 2025. The society also estimates there will be more than 170,000 new cancer cases in Florida this year. Thankfully, Cancer patients in Southwest....

11/06/2025

Optimal hearing gained through collaborative effort, blend of technologies

Tucked away inside a drawer or in a block on the kitchen counter of more than 15 million American homes is a Cutco knife. Michael Lancellot didn’t sell all those knives, but he played a significant role in getting a lot of them into those kitchens. “I spent my entire career with Cutco,” Michae...