Archive for 'Well Being'
Tips for making healthier restaurant choices
By Jana Soeldner Danger City & Shore Magazine How can we make smarter, healthier choices when dining out? Start by planning ahead, says Lillian Craggs-Dino, a registered dietician and nutritionist with Cleveland Clinic Florida. Many restaurants [...]
Alternative treatment to skin cancer surgery
By Jana Soeldner Danger City & Shore Magazine Sometimes searching for alternatives can make a big difference. When a skin cancer that started as a dry patch below her nose spread and made a hole above [...]
Concierge medicine: The doctor is (always) in
By Jana Soeldner Danger Tired of waiting for an appointment with your doctor and then waiting some more on the day you arrive at the office? Wish that when you do see the doctor, he [...]
Proton therapy takes careful aim at cancer
By Jana Soeldner Danger City & Shore Magazine Proton therapy, an advanced form of radiation treatment now offered at the Miami Cancer Institute, a part of Baptist Health South Florida, promises to minimize exposure to healthy [...]
New, more accurate test for prostate cancer
By Jana Soeldner Danger City & Shore PRIME Magazine One in seven men in the United States is diagnosed with prostate cancer annually, and 30,000 die of it. Now, a new test that combines MRIs of [...]
Therapy offers hope for leukemia, lymphoma
By Jana Soeldner Danger City & Shore Magazine A recently approved type of immunotherapy is offering new hope and help for some leukemia and lymphoma patients for whom other treatments have failed. The new CAR T [...]
Program helps addicts get high with music
By Jana Soeldner Danger City & Shore Magazine Shakespeare may have said that music is the food of love, but Paul Pellinger, a founder of an innovative substance abuse treatment center in Fort Lauderdale, says it [...]
New treatments emerge for chronic pain
By Jana Soeldner Danger City & Shore Magazine Chronic pain is a debilitating and discouraging problem that can drastically reduce quality of life. It’s also surprisingly common. “It’s endemic,” says Dr. Joseph Alshon, DO, an interventional [...]
What Foodie Physician Brings to the Table
By Jana Soeldner Danger City & Shore Magazine During her residency in New York City, Dr. Sonali Ruder, a DO in emergency room medicine, worked long, irregular hours. When she finally arrived at home exhausted, she often flopped [...]
In the moments with Dr. William Leone
By Jana Soeldner Danger City & Shore PRIME Editor’s note: Patients see Dr. William Leone, head of the Leone Center for Orthopedic Care at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, as someone they hope will eliminate [...]
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- Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood will be open Saturday after agreement reverses shutdownThe popular Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood will be open Saturday after reaching an agreement to reverse a city shutdown over safety and parking issues.
- Who needs food halls? This Davie strip mall is a fantasyland for Asian-food fansThe Foodtown shopping center has three Vietnamese eateries, a Hong Kong-style barbecue restaurant, a Thai restaurant, a Taiwanese shaved ice shop and a global market with halal meat and exotic seafood.
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- Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood will be open Saturday after agreement reverses shutdownThe popular Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood will be open Saturday after reaching an agreement to reverse a city shutdown over safety and parking issues.
- Who needs food halls? This Davie strip mall is a fantasyland for Asian-food fansThe Foodtown shopping center has three Vietnamese eateries, a Hong Kong-style barbecue restaurant, a Thai restaurant, a Taiwanese shaved ice shop and a global market with halal meat and exotic seafood.
Shopping & Beauty
- Broward County's 954 area code ranks near top for most robocalls in the nationIf you have a 954 area code, you're getting more robocalls than most people in the nation. That Broward County area code ranked near the top of YouMail's September Robocall List. A staggering 4.4 billion robocalls were made in September, according to the visual voicemail company. That's 147 million...
- Getting unsolicited political text messages? Here's how to stop themRobocalls drive us crazy, and now there’s a new nuisance to deal with on our cellphones: text messages from political candidates. With early voting beginning Monday and running through Nov. 4, many voters will be inundated with unsolicited text messages from candidates. Some people on the receiving...
Sun Sentinel Breaking News
- Mom angry after cop is filmed punching daughter, 14. Cops say video doesn't tell whole story.Two Coral Springs cops hold a 14-year-old girl face down, her arms pinned beneath her. One of the officers puts a knee into her back and pummels her twice in the ribs with a closed fist. A bystander shrieks: “Why are you hitting her?” And that’s all the blurred nine-second video clip captured of...
- School shooter tormented his mother yet she escorted him to buy an AK-47Nikolas’ Cruz’s mom thought he was too disturbed to ever live on his own, but she took him to buy an AK-47 anyway, according to documents released Friday by prosecutors in the Parkland school shootings. An employee from Gun World of South Florida told detectives that an older woman who he thought...
- Amendment 1 property tax break: Why some love it, others fear itif you’re a Florida homeowner, there’s a good chance the amount of money you pay in property taxes will be lower next year. That’s because voters in November will decide if an extra homestead exemption should be given to homes assessed at more than $100,000. Many city and county leaders fear passage...
