Regular eye exams can catch serious issues early on, helping you avoid permanent vision damage.
Regular eye exams can catch serious issues early on, helping you avoid permanent vision damage.
Endoscopic brain surgery is a quick procedure with less risk and a quicker recovery, and it’s finally available here in Lafayette.
Women’s & Children’s Hospital welcomes back Acadiana’s only board-certified pediatric surgeons and neurologist.
With a massive shortage around the corner, LGMC’s Nurse Residency Program aims to keep first-year nurses from fleeing.
There is a big difference between a food allergy and food sensitivity, but there is an easy way to tell what’s ailing you.
There is a lot of newness on the local workout horizon, so much so that what’s old is new again.
Drug-eluting stents are tiny mesh tubes that physicians use to prop open clogged arteries in order for blood to flow freely to the heart. The stents are usually composed of three parts: a metal structure, a drug coating that helps the body accept the stent after it has been implanted and a polymer that helps deliver the drug to the body.
‘Telehealth for Tots’ Tackles Truancy
The St. Martin Parish School Board has just launched its first telemedicine clinic, called Telehealth for Tots, to provide easier medical access for students at rural locations via telecommunications.
"There can be no bad pictures” just may be the mantra of a social-media influenced generation that’s perfected the selfie. The results: an increase in plastic surgery across the board from bigger booties to bigger lips. Doctors like local ENT/ plastic surgeon Jeffrey Joseph see a direct connection between some patients and social media pressures.
You can prevent Type 2 — and you can also manage the disease if it’s already creeped up on you.
New screening recommendations could hamper early detection efforts, one local doc says.
The alliance is composed of hospitals nationwide that are committed to advancing women's heart health via a partnership that seeks to ensure that women with heart disease in every community have access to information, education and patient support services.
A new membership program gives patients and doctors a more personalized approach to treatment.
A new Pilates studio in the Oil Center has given this writer a new lease on life.
HEALTHY EATING ON THE GROW AT LOURDES
With new initiatives encouraging wholesome, farm-raised eating, Lourdes is cultivating a healthy attitude toward the well-being of its staff.
At Women’s & Children’s Hospital, getting newborns into their mothers’ arms quickly is priority No. 1.
A new clear drape option better connects C-section moms to their newborns.
Program for Allinclusive Care for the Elderly, or PACE, caters to low-income seniors living in the community to provide a central location for delivery of their health care in a more social, adult day-care atmosphere.
There is new hope for traumatic brain injury sufferers, thanks in part to a local man who refused to give up.
Doctors have long been nipping and tucking patients toward the fountain of youth. And often missing is the one big factor that keeps us all looking young — volume.
A new minimally invasive hair transplant system called NeoGraft allows patients to regrow hair with very little downtime.
In the battle to immunize children, experts are noting that the very adults preaching vaccinations may not be getting them at all.
There's no doubt the life of Grace Turner, 14, of Lafayette is not what she or her parents envisioned. In August of 2014 she was in a go kart accident that should have killed her. Today, she's alive
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON ED NAGEM RETURNS TO LAFAYETTE
Respected surgeon’s arrangement with Lourdes/Heart Hospital comes on heels of similar deal between Drs. Victor Tedesco and Mohamad Allam with Lafayette General’s physicians group.
From new cancer centers to clinical trials, 2014 was a year of medical advancement throughout Acadiana. We’ve rounded up some of the year’s biggest moments in health care that run the gamut from the tiniest patient to those in congestive heart failure.
A new surgical procedure allows docs to do an operation virtually — on the computer of a robot — before the patient even comes into the OR.
A new device — much like a “cardiac fitbit chip”— transmits critical health info to your doc while you sleep.
Bonin finding a way through the issue wasn’t a question. She knew there had to be a balance to keep her art and protect her health. She called on fellow artist and friend Joshua Murrell. The Grammy winner (for his work on Terrance Simien’s award-winning album) himself makes instruments that often use dangerous materials to coat the finished product.
Stage 4 vet takes on cancer and reminds us all what it really means to get involved. Rachel Wickman isn‘t the woman who would get breast cancer, but she did. And once she did, she was told she would...
Race for local woman rocks the ‘80s. Allison Walters doesn‘t look like the face of ovarian cancer. In April the 37-year-old headed to the emergency room after feeling off for a month and having...
Dental implants that stay put Dental implants aren‘t what they used to be. What some in the industry consider the single largest development in dentistry since first arriving in the 1970s at an office...
The new tool for breast cancer detection Early detection is more than half the battle in breast cancer cases. Finding cancer in the earliest stages makes a difference, for most women, in whether they...
A new tool to beat runner‘s pain A sock can actually change your life. Plantar fasciitis can be brutal for a runner - severe pain some compare with a broken foot that sends many to the doctor for...
Healing the whole person Dr. Elizabeth McLain has some revolutionary ideas about health. The family and internal medicine doc with Lafayette General‘s physician group - Lafayette General...
State pushes to improve outcomes for premature babies Louisiana is making a renewed effort to help our smallest citizens - babies born between 34 and 36 weeks - after garnering an "F" from...
More Americans than ever are trying to stop the aging clock. In 2013, Americans spent more than $12 billion on cosmetic procedures, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery....
The young face of skin cancer Lindsey Rue is only 24 years old, but she knows the difference a week can make. The difference a month can make. She knows the power of one simple choice. Of listening to...
Could shapewear be hazardous to your circulation and digestive health? We all want the perfect body but also like to eat - a lot. Because of the latter, many of us often find ourselves reaching for...
CVS stops tobacco sales In February CVS announced that within months it will no longer sell tobacco products. And smokers everywhere likely headed down the road to another drug store. And yet, the...
New standards curb elective induction We are a culture of planners. We have apps to plan every second of our vacation and we have calendars on every device. Childbirth doesn‘t fit into the carefully...
Could carbs - read sugar - be among the biggest culprits in heart disease? The inflammatory response is a life-saving feature our bodies are equipped with to help fight intruders, like bacteria, by...
Amid new concerns, more measures are in place to protect student athletes from the devastating effects of concussions. Josh Williford won‘t play football again. Concussions, this LSU guard knows, can...
Holistic health services in Acadiana offer natural alternatives to relieve countless ailments with little to no side effects. Holistic health services in Acadiana offer natural alternatives to relieve...
These are more than just accessories for Carmen Miranda; these foods help recharge for health. These are more than just accessories for Carmen Miranda; these foods help recharge for health. By Kari...