Volusia-Brevard Local News

Oxygen Is Becoming the Latest COVID Bottleneck

Jan 07, 2021 at 05:15 pm by pj

  By Rae Ellen Bichell and Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News As Los Angeles hospitals give record numbers of covid patients oxygen, the systems and equipm.... Read More

Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Wave of Mental Illness

Jan 07, 2021 at 05:09 pm by pj

  By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News    Krissy Williams, 15, had attempted suicide before, but never with pills. The teen was diagnos.... Read More

Eureka! Two Vaccines Work

Jan 07, 2021 at 04:58 pm by pj

How two effective vaccines on the market make it so much harder to quickly test any competing vaccines.     By Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News As I prepare.... Read More

Hospital Prices Just Got a Lot More Transparent. What Does This Mean for You?

Jan 07, 2021 at 04:52 pm by pj

  By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Hospitals face the new year with new requirements to post price information they have long sought to obscure: the actual pri.... Read More

Titusville Fire Department Raises Awareness and Funds in Support of  Parrish Medical Center’s Cancer Care Program

Jan 07, 2021 at 03:00 pm by pj

    TITUSVILLE —Titusville Fire Department (TFD) presented Jess Parrish Medical Foundation (JPMF) with $1,500 in support of cancer care programs at Parr.... Read More

New Officers Named to Parrish Medical Center’s Board of Directors

Jan 07, 2021 at 10:10 am by pj

            TITUSVILLE — Parrish Medical Center’s board of directors, in accordance with its bylaws, held a.... Read More

Daryl Tol Abruptly Resigns CEO Position at AdventHealth

Jan 06, 2021 at 05:38 pm by pj

    ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 6, 2021 — In a surprise announcement, Daryl Tol, president and CEO of AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division, has sh.... Read More

Heading Off the Next Pandemic

Jan 05, 2021 at 11:54 am by pj

  By Jim Robbins, Kaiser Health News As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging.... Read More

Children’s Hospitals Are Partly to Blame as Superbugs Increasingly Attack Kids

Jan 05, 2021 at 11:48 am by pj

  By Laura Ungar, Kaiser Health News A memory haunts Christina Fuhrman: the image of her toddler Pearl lying pale and listless in a hospital bed, tethered to an IV.... Read More

AdventHealth Fish Memorial Opening Infusion Clinic for COVID-19 Patients

Jan 05, 2021 at 10:29 am by pj

On Wednesday, Jan. 6, an infusion clinic offering monoclonal-antibody treatments will open on the campus of AdventHealth Fish Memorial in Orange City. The 6-seat clinic will.... Read More

Lorenzo Brown, David Weis Assume New Roles at AdventHealth in Volusia County

Dec 30, 2020 at 09:33 pm by pj

Brown will serve as CEO of AdventHealth Fish Memorial and Weis will serve as CEO of AdventHealth DeLand.     DELAND & ORANGE CITY — Lorenzo Brown h.... Read More

AdventHealth COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Update for Central Florida

Dec 30, 2020 at 06:56 pm by pj

  Dec. 30, 2020 UPDATE:   AdventHealth Central Florida continues to prioritize COVID vaccinations for team members.    Community vaccination, includin.... Read More

Home Office Productivity

Dec 28, 2020 at 10:12 pm by pj

 Keep working from home fresh and exhilarating   By DOUG MINTZ   With so many employees now working from home indefinitely, many are finding it harder to co.... Read More

Diagnosis and Management of Typical and Atypical GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease

Dec 28, 2020 at 10:05 pm by pj

  By BASHER ATIQUZZAMAN, MD   Twenty percent of the United States population has a medical illness called GERD, short for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. Though.... Read More

How to Help Healthcare Heroes Deal with Emotional Stress

Dec 28, 2020 at 09:56 pm by pj

  By GIGI ACEVEDO-PARKER AND WENDY KING   As the coronavirus pandemic continued its spread over the summer, a University of Central Florida health clinic expanded.... Read More

Solo vs. Group Practice: What are the Pros and Cons?

Dec 28, 2020 at 09:53 pm by pj

  By JEFF RAMOS   After spending years working hard to build your practice, a physicians group tells you that you can earn more with less stress if you join their.... Read More

Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a ‘Nightmare.’ They Were Right.

Dec 28, 2020 at 09:31 pm by pj

    By Elisabeth Rosenthal, Kaiser Health News WASHINGTON — Even before there was a vaccine, some seasoned doctors and public health experts warned, Ca.... Read More

COVID Vaccines Appear Safe and Effective, but Key Questions Remain

Dec 28, 2020 at 09:03 pm by pj

    By Bernard J. Wolfson, Kaiser Health News The recent rollout of two newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines is a bright ray of hope at the pandemic’s da.... Read More

AIM ImmunoTech's Drug Ampligen Awarded Orphan Drug Designation for the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

Dec 28, 2020 at 07:10 pm by pj

OCALA — AIM ImmunoTech Inc. (NYSE American: AIM), an immuno-pharma company focused on the research and development of therapeutics to treat immune disorders, viral.... Read More

AIM ImmunoTech Announces Availability of the ME/CFS Clinical Trial of its Drug Ampligen for  COVID-19 ‘Long Haulers’

Dec 24, 2020 at 01:39 pm by pj

  “A hypothesis-based re-analysis of CFS patients treated with Ampligen in a randomized-controlled study showed that CFS patients with shorter.... Read More