By John Torsiello We like to think that we take the best care we can of our feline or canine pets. Sometimes, we even treat them as if they were […]
Charleston Health & Wellness
Tour the Grocery Store
Everyone goes shopping for groceries, most of us at least once a week. We cruise through the aisles past an abundance of appealing food items, loading our carts with everything […]
Advocating for Your Health
Navigating the health care system as a patient is overwhelming, so much so that many people avoid appointments altogether due to uncertainty about getting bogged down in the details of […]
Getting Patients to Buy in to Alternative Health
Hocus pocus? Ineffective? Too expensive? Not backed by scientific research? A waste of time, energy and money? The reasons Dr. Jeffrey Farricielli, who practices at the Center for Regenerative Medicine […]
Greenwood Genetic Center Partners with MUSC
Since 1974, the not-for-profit Greenwood Genetic Center has quietly gone about its business of providing help and hope to countless families and individuals near and far. However, unless you have […]
Walking for MS
One million Americans are currently living with a multiple sclerosis diagnosis, according to a recent study funded by the National MS Society. This neurological disease affects the central nervous system […]
How Medicine Has Changed
As Dr. Richard Gross, a retired pediatric orthopedist who graduated from medical school in 1965 and recently won a Humanitarian Award from the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, said, […]
Exercise Works for Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s disease is a debilitating malady, cursing its victims with a variety of issues ranging from involuntary movement to difficulty walking to troubling changes in speaking and handwriting. And though […]
An Elite Runner’s Advice on Health
Ultramarathon runner Catherine Rubinstein said that of the 52 marathons and ultramarathons she has under her belt, one of her favorite races remains the Cooper River Bridge Run. She has […]
Images Make Surgery a Success
From those first blurry photographs of the mid-1800s, cameras and photography have improved to become indispensable tools for today’s health diagnoses and patient treatment. Modern technology has spawned medical imaging […]
State of Health Care in South Carolina
In South Carolina, the past decade in health care has been one of mergers and expansions, job growth, expanding coverage under Obamacare and moves to more accountable care organizations. In […]
It’s Allergy Season
Ahh, spring. So beautiful as the weather warms and the world awakes from a winter slumber. Animals frolic among the budding flowers and the trees’ bare branches transition to green […]