Asthma health management program on the cutting-edge of treatment
More than 22 million people in the United States suffer from asthma. Although asthma never goes away, it is totally treatable. Proper asthma management improves quality of life and lung function, which is why outpatient asthma management education programs are among the latest advancements in health care. Full Story
Hospital bills can make you really ill
The intravenous dye cost the hospital $14. The patient’s bill for it? Try $600.
“That’s more than a 4,000 percent markup. I think about that bill a lot,” said Holly Lang of Georgia Watch, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group. Full Story
Snook Bight Yacht Club event boosts breast cancer awareness
The owners and members of Snook Bight Yacht Club and Marina and Marine Max are teaming up to join the fight against breast cancer with an event benefiting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Southwest Florida Affiliate.
‘All Aboard Against Breast Cancer’ Waterside Festival
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I started a conversation about digestion and healing the GI tract a couple weeks ago, and promised to finish that conversation a later column. Today’s column may not directly go to that theme, but it does lightly touch on digestion because detoxification is one of the main issues affecting the GI tract. Full Story