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Your liv­er sup­ports many of your essen­tial bod­i­ly func­tions, includ­ing pro­duc­ing both the essen­tial pro­teins that help with blood clot­ting and the diges­tive enzymes that help your body absorb vit­a­mins and min­er­als. Your liv­er also works to remove waste and oth­er tox­ins from your body. Main­tain­ing your liv­er func­tion is impor­tant to your over­all health and there are many ways you can keep your liv­er healthy, includ­ing sim­ple diet and lifestyle modifications.

Frac­tures of the toe and metatarsal bones are com­mon and require eval­u­a­tion by a spe­cial­ist. A podi­atric foot and ankle sur­geon should be seen for prop­er diag­no­sis and treat­ment, even if ini­tial treat­ment has been received in an emer­gency room.

When hav­ing radi­a­tion ther­a­py, pre­ci­sion is key. Since tar­get­ing cer­tain cells, and leav­ing oth­ers alone, is of upmost impor­tance; sur­face guid­ed radi­a­tion ther­a­py is often used. Sur­face Guid­ed Radi­a­tion Ther­a­py (SGRT) is a rapid­ly grow­ing tech­nique which uses stereo vision tech­nol­o­gy to track patients’ sur­face in 3D, for both set­up and motion man­age­ment dur­ing radi­a­tion ther­a­py. This tech­nique is also some­times referred to Opti­cal Sur­face Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tem (OSMS), Align RT, or Vision RT.

The eye is the organ of sight and is best com­pared to a cam­era. Like a cam­era, the eye has many intri­cate parts which must work togeth­er to pro­duce clear vision. The reti­na, a lay­er of neur­al tis­sue that lines the back sur­face of the eye, func­tions like the film in a cam­era. To pro­duce a clear pic­ture, the film must be defect-free. Sim­i­lar­ly, for you to see clear­ly, your reti­na must be free of any prob­lems. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, many of us do not know we have reti­nal prob­lems until they impair our vision. The good news is that a dilat­ed eye exam per­formed by a reti­nal spe­cial­ist can iden­ti­fy these prob­lems ear­ly, treat if nec­es­sary and pre­vent irre­versible blindness.

Feel like you’re spin­ning when you’re stand­ing? Or do you hear ring­ing or a roar­ing sound when it’s qui­et? You have have an inner ear issue called Ménière’s dis­ease. Learn more below!

Grow­ing pains are noth­ing to wor­ry about and will come and go through­out child­hood, but have you ever won­dered what it means or why it hap­pens? Pedi­a­tri­cian, Dr. Mali­ni Kumar, explains what is actu­al­ly hap­pen­ing to a child’s body and how you can help.

Noth­ing is more pre­cious than the gift of health. Our physi­cians and staff rec­om­mend their health-focused favorites that can be gift­ed to your friends, fam­i­ly and col­leagues this hol­i­day season.

What is Sleep Apnea?

Did you know that sleep apnea affects more than 18 mil­lion Amer­i­cans? It is just as com­mon as type 2 dia­betes. Apnea is the med­ical term for ​“to stop breath­ing.” Sleep apnea is an invol­un­tary stop­ping of breath­ing while you are asleep. Untreat­ed sleep apnea can cause you to stop breath­ing mul­ti­ple times through­out the night. You are unlike­ly to be aware that this hap­pen­ing but may expe­ri­ence headaches, tired­ness dur­ing the day and dry mouth when wak­ing up. In addi­tion, untreat­ed sleep apnea can increase the risk of stroke, heart arrhyth­mias and heart attack.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

This intro­duc­tion to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dick­ens, writ­ten in 1859, could just as eas­i­ly been writ­ten to intro­duce col­orec­tal can­cer. In the best of times, greater under­stand­ing and tools to man­age col­orec­tal can­cer have been devel­oped. In the worst of times, these tools are not being used to their fullest poten­tial. Accord­ing to the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, col­orec­tal can­cer is the third most com­mon­ly diag­nosed can­cer in the US. It is believed that a major­i­ty of these can­cers and deaths could be pre­vent­ed by a stronger adher­ence to screen­ing rec­om­men­da­tions and ensur­ing time­ly, stan­dard treat­ment. Progress has been made in screen­ing rates; how­ev­er in 2010 only 59 per­cent of peo­ple eli­gi­ble for screen­ing report­ed hav­ing received col­orec­tal can­cer testing.

Breast can­cer is one of the most com­mon can­cers in women in the Unit­ed States today. As with many oth­er forms of can­cer, pre­ven­tive screen­ing is the most effec­tive tool for ear­ly detec­tion and mor­tal­i­ty reduc­tion. The Amer­i­can Col­lege of Radi­ol­o­gy and the Soci­ety of Breast Imag­ing rec­om­mend women begin annu­al mam­mo­graph­ic screen­ings at age 40.