Health Today

If you are a woman with diabetes, your risk of developing (and dying from) heart disease may be greater than you think. Diabetes seems to erase – or even reverse – the protective effect women have against heart disease and heart attack, making women with diabetes significantly more susceptible than men with diabetes. 

Maybe your neighbor. Maybe your co-worker. Maybe a family member.  Knowing no socioeconomic boundaries, some form of mental illness affects one in five adults who suffer from various mental health disorders.

Spectrum Healthcare’s main objective for the past 65 years has been to assist individuals with their overall health. From physical ailments to mental struggles, Spectrum Healthcare has helped thousands of Yavapai County residents with their complete well-being. 

When Nisha Tung, MD, was a young girl she wanted to be a surgeon when she grew up. After all, she came from a family of physicians. Medicine was in her blood. Plus, her family had a history of heart problems. So, as an adult, she decided to enter the field of cardiology.

Trauma often calls to mind soldiers overcoming the consequences of war, but what if our very own homes were battlefields, too?

According to the increasing research prompted by a CDC-Kaiser-Permanente study of 17,421 participants from 1995 – 1997, what we experience in childhood can have continuous effects on our physical, mental, and social health as adults.

Are you ready to make 2020 your best year ever? Yavapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) recommends the following five healthy habits to inspire you to make the New Year the best year.

Every year, more than one out of four adults age 65 or older fall, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those who fall, more than 800,000 are hospitalized because of injuries, usually to the head or hip.

Arizona Provider Training (APT) has made its mark throughout the state by providing affordable classes and certifications in both English and Spanish that help students land a fulfilling job or further understand and prepare themselves for a current life situation. From school teachers, nurses, daycare center employees, babysitters, human resource employees, and Direct Support Professionals, graduates receive quality training by leaders who connect with the students by preparing them for real-life situations through authentic training and life experiences.

As a surgeon-in-training in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1980s, Michael G. Macon, MD, FACS, participated in a research study comparing two potential breast cancer screening methods: mammography and thermography.

“The hope was that thermography would measure heat throughout the breast and that this would be an indication of abnormalities in the breast, allowing breast surveillance without the need for radiation,” said Dr. Macon. “However, it was clear early on that thermography only measured the heat on the skin’s surface, which does not provide information on possible cancers within the breast. That’s why thermography was abandoned as a breast screening method.”

You’re dedicated to your monthly self-exams and you follow your healthcare provider’s recommendations for breast cancer screenings, given your age and family risk factors. But are you aware that it’s also important to know your breast density?

When Debbie Krupnick, Nurse Practitioner, opened the doors to SIRIUS Health & Wellness, LLC in 2014, her vision was to offer primary healthcare alongside fitness and nutritional counseling all at one facility.

“My husband and I chose the name SIRIUS after the brightest star in the sky, with the premise that at SIRIUS Health & Wellness, your health shines above the rest,” says Debbie.

The use of herbal remedies has become tremendously popular. While it may seem like the latest trend, people have been using plant medicine for thousands of years. The earliest herbal texts are more than 2,000 years old. But what accounts for this seemingly modern trend? And even though your friends and family are using herbal remedies, are they right for you and your family?