October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month which provides a great opportunity to review, refresh, and expand your knowledge on breast cancer. Breast cancer largely affects women and if diagnosed in the early stages, it can be treatable. It is important to be aware of the risk factors and symptoms of breast cancer to be able
Heart disease struck home for me when my father had a heart attack while I was in college. After that, my brother went for emergency bypass surgery at just age 40 after some complaints of chest pain as well. It all happened so suddenly but he was blessed to have good doctors who listened to
When it comes to choosing a family doctor, it is important to make a decision you feel comfortable and confident in. Oftentimes, a patient’s primary doctor will provide ongoing care for their entire family, including their children, over the course of many years. The expert team of board-certified physicians at Health Services of North Texas
Nobody is ever ready for a cancer diagnosis, and nobody ever wants to hear one, so when Talia Thornton did a usual check of her body and found some strange lumps on her breast, she immediately started to worry. It couldn’t be a tumor, right? But how would she know? How will she pay for
Healthcare providers are in the business of changing lives. That’s why PAs like HSNT’s Beverly Johnson do what they do, and why she feels that her job is so rewarding. “I performed a colposcopy after a patient had an abnormal Pap smear and precancerous cells history, [before I joined HSNT],” Beverly says. “The biopsy revealed
Melissa Winans For a while, Melissa Winans had her sights set on the south primarily because of the weather. After growing up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and spending most of her adulthood raising her family in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Melissa was ready for warmer pastures. She was tired of the cold northern winters and ¬wanted to