Friday, August 12, 2011
Lakewood Regional Medical Center
Sophisticated Heart Care, Close To Home
Mending broken hearts of every kind is the specialty of The Heart & Vascular Center at Lakewood Regional Medical Center (LRMC). Over the last three years, LRMC has e...
Friday, June 24, 2011 What is blood pressure?
Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls. The force is generated with each heartbeat as blood is pumped from the heart into the blood vessels. The size and elasticity of the artery walls also...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Sports injuries can be either acute traumatic, which require immediate medical care, or chronic overuse injuries. When should you treat a sports injury yourself, and when should you stop playing until you see a physician? Here are a few sports i...
Friday, June 17, 2011 What is it?
Mammography is a low dose X-ray that is used to take images of the breasts. Doctors use it to help detect and diagnose breast disease in women. Mammography can find changes in the breast up to two years before you or your physician ca...
Monday, June 13, 2011
June 13, 2011
The digestive system is like a finely tuned machine when all the parts of the body work together in unison. After food leaves the stomach and enters the small intestine, the liver produces bile to help digest food. Bile, some of w...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011 Regular exercise and good nutrition can help you live a long, healthy life. But if you’re not paying attention to your bones, life could be very uncomfortable. Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration o...
To help improve local access to highly specialized heart care services, Lakewood Regional Medical Center has broken ground on a $10 million expansion of its cardiac catheterization laboratory. Due to the increasing number of cardiac patients bei...
Understanding Congestive Heart Failure
Friday June 24, 2011
Nearly five million Americans live with heart failure and each year more than 550,000 people are told by their physicians that they have the condition. Congestive heart failure (CHF)...
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