Each year, 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with PD. It is estimated that by 2020, nearly 1 million people in the US will be living with Parkinson’s. Parkinson’s Diseases (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, which…
Westmed Medical Group honored a fellow colleague on National Brain Injury Awareness Day, March 13, 2019. On August 25, 2017, Laura Naranjo, a Patient Experience Associate at Westmed, had a sudden onset of what…
One of the best things you can do for heart health is to be physically active. Physical activity helps reduce many risk factors for heart disease by lowering blood pressure, controlling weight, strengthening muscles, decreasing…
Contributed by Dr. Amanda Ganem, cardiologist, Westmed Medical Group Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in both men and women in the United States. For both men and women, understanding risk is…
According to the American Diabetes Association, 30.3 million Americans (9.4%) were diagnosed with diabetes by the year 2015. To put that in perspective, this amount is nearly representative of the entire Canadian population. Diabetes has…
From Dr. Alan Schliftman, Westmed Dermatologist Psoriasis is a skin ailment that affects two to four percent of the population and may occur at any age. It’s an immune disease in which the skin grows…
Doctor-prescribed opioids are appropriate in some cases for pain management, but they just mask the pain. The CDC recommends safer alternatives like physical therapy. No one wants to live in pain, but no one should…
From Dr. Lori Tindel-Kahn, Westmed Ophthalmologist: The sudden onset of seeing “spots or cobwebs” in the eyes or “lightning flashes” out of the corner of the eye--lasting a split second--is one of the most common concerns…
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is not a disease, but a disorder that can interfere with the normal functions of the GI tract, stomach or colon. Westmed wants to bring continued awareness for this functional disorder…
February is American Heart Month, and we draw attention to heart disease, America’s No. 1 killer. In a nutshell, here’s what’s new: High blood pressure is redefined for first time in 14 years: 130 is…
The following article was contributed by Dr. Steven Zabin, Westmed Eye Care Specialist: Glaucoma is a very misunderstood disease, and Glaucoma Awareness Month in January is an important time to spread the word about it. Some…
The American Cancer Society’s “Great American Smokeout," which always takes place the 3rd Thursday of November, is meant to be a motivator. The idea is if you can quit smoking for a day, then hopefully it will…
Bariatric (weight loss) surgery has been shown to be very effective to improve and sometimes relieve many medical conditions (adult-onset diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol/triglycerides, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, abnormal menses/ infertility, stroke, heart disease,…
One-third of adults have prediabetes, and most of them don’t know it. And 29.1 million people (or 9.3% of the population) actually have diabetes. Before people develop Type 2 diabetes, they almost always have “prediabetes,”…
September is National Cholesterol Education Month Cholesterol, a type of fat in the blood, is not totally bad for the bad for the body. Some is needed for building hormones and nerve cells for good…
