BHealthy Blog

Every year, millions of Americans commit to New Year’s resolutions. You might consider dropping habits such as smoking or overspending. Of course, the number one resolution is to eat healthier and lose weight. For most people, a combination of diet and exercise is the best way to achieve that goal. However, if you’ve tried everything and still can’t shed those excess pounds or have difficulty keeping them off, you may want to consider weight loss surgery.

Misconceptions about medications are more common than we may realize. Pharmacists at Cleveland Clinic and KeepRXSafe.com have compiled a list of common pharmacy related myths that may help to clear up some of these misconceptions. After all, we could all use a healthy dose of the truth.

Fever can result from factors such as an infectious process, a response to the use of certain medications (also known as a drug fever), or it can be unknown in origin. Fever can also occur after the administration of common childhood immunizations. However, most fevers are caused by microbial infections such as bacterial, viral, fungal, and yeast infections.

According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. There are about 5.1 million people in the U.S. with heart failure, and one in every nine deaths include heart failure as a contributing cause. Those numbers are frightening and very overwhelming. That is why education on heart failure is so important. So let’s get started.

Too often when people think of someone being in a hospital, they focus solely on the physical issues: mending bones, fighting diseases, rebuilding muscle. Of course we all know that being a patient or having a loved one in the hospital can be a very difficult time. However we believe the key to health is to care for the whole person – spiritually and emotionally – offering comfort and assistance to patients and family members during their stay in our facilities. This holistic approach is vital to ensuring that patients and their families that come to Baptist Health not only find physical healing, but spiritual and emotional peace as well.