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Posted June 2013
Each spring, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, releases the County (Parish) Health Rankings & Roadmaps. These statistics are intended to stimulate local health and state health departments to focus on those problem areas within their states. These statistics are separated into “Health Outcomes”, based on [...]
Continue ReadingPosted June 2013
How distracted is your driving? Rapides Regional Trauma Center, along with the American Trauma Society and the Society of Trauma Nurses, wants you to know: “If you’re distracted, we’re impacted.” “The issue of distracted driving and other activities where individuals are distracted is a critical issue for public safety and demands action,” said Trooper [...]
Continue ReadingPosted June 2013
The area of the eye called the macula is the very center portion of the retina. The retina is the inner back surface of the eye. It is responsible for converting light into the images we see. A macular hole occurs when the center portion of the retina separates, creating a hole or is pulled [...]
Continue ReadingPosted May 2013
Leprosy evokes Biblical images of nose-less, limbless, deformed outcasts living in squalor. The fact is that leprosy—or Hansen’s disease as it is officially called—has never really gone away, but has morphed into something often mild and very treatable right here in Louisiana. Hansen’s disease is caused by Mycobacterium leprae, a slow-growing bacteria this is [...]
Continue ReadingPosted May 2013
Contacts are available in a wide variety of bifocal/multifocal prescriptions. For people over 40 and some under this age, a bifocal or multi-focal lens is needed to help the person see both far and near at the same time. Changes in the focusing system of the eyes requires a different prescription for varying distances as [...]
Continue ReadingPosted April 2013
The Rapides Regional Trauma Center is looking to make an impact. The Center, which is one of two trauma centers in Louisiana verified by the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma, already makes an impact in treating patients. Now, it is looking to make an impact by preventing area high school students from becoming [...]
Continue ReadingPosted April 2013
Every parent dreads the call from a neighbor, friend, school official or police officer telling them their child has committed some outrageous, high-risk act. Whether it be substance abuse, driving while distracted or drunk, truancy, or pregnancy, all such behaviors seems incomprehensible to the adult mind. Yet, they occur every day by the thousands. In [...]
Continue ReadingPosted April 2013
Many individuals suffer from seasonal allergies that can cause the sinus cavity to be inflamed and congested. The surface of the eye can also be affected by allergic conjunctivitis. The conjunctiva is the lining of the inside of the eye lids as well as the covering of the sclera (white portion of the eye). If [...]
Continue ReadingPosted March 2013
United Health Foundation recently published its 2012 America’s Health Rankings. All of the states are ranked according to a collection of “health determinants” (or factors) and “health outcomes.” Determinants include many aspects of behavior, community characteristics, policy and clinical care that determine health outcomes (such as diabetes, infant mortality, cardiovascular deaths, cancer deaths and premature [...]
Continue ReadingPosted March 2013
Colon cancer affects more than 140,000 Americans each year and is the second most common cause of cancer death in the United States. Improvements in screening and treatment are helping to lower this number, but there are still far too many patients that put off screening and needlessly delay their treatment. If everyone 50 or [...]
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