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Penn State Health News •

The Medical Minute: I’m cold, bald, flat and bloated. What’s wrong? Blame menopause

You’ve heard about the symptoms so often they feel like clichés — hot flashes, 2 a.m. wake-ups, night sweats, a lower-than-low libido and a surging hatred for your spouse. Welcome to perimenopause and menopause. While these symptoms are certainly accurate, they’re also individualistic. Menopause affects every woman differently, and some women experience symptoms that are outside of the usual norms.Dr. Cynthia Chuang, a women’s health and internal medicine physician at Penn State Health Cocoa Out...
Penn State Health News •

The Medical Minute: The ABCs of diabetes

More than 38 million Americans are part of a club they never wanted to join – they are among the 11.6% of the population living with diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. On the waiting list? The 97.6 million Americans with prediabetes. Blood sugars are surging nationwide, but health care providers like Mandel Johnson Smith, lead diabetes program coordinator at Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, have good news – it’s not too late to fight.
While Type 1 di...
Penn State Health News •

The Medical Minute: Stroke: The women’s condition no one talks about

The juice glass clattered to the ground, but Carolina Rosario, from Harrisburg, didn’t know how. One moment, she was holding the cup in her hand, and the next, the spill spread across the floor. She felt disoriented, like her voice wasn’t her own, but the feeling subsided, and she went to work as usual.Three months later, the feeling struck again – her tongue felt heavy, one side of her mouth drooped, and her voice echoed in her ears. One arm felt like it had disappeared. Rosario tried to hold o...
Health •

DeMar DeRozan Drives Mental Health Forward for Athletes

As a child growing up in Compton, California, in the 1990s and 2000s, DeMar DeRozan was in a pressure cooker. Gangs, violence, and death surrounded him. He quickly learned to keep his head down and suppress his emotions, pouring everything he had into his life on the basketball court instead.

After entering the NBA in 2009, he broke records and won championships. Although he excelled athletically, he struggled mentally. And in 2018, he made a splash with a single tweet.

“In February 2018, I...
Health •

Al Roker at 70: Sharing Health, Family, and Wellness Wisdom

For some, the day doesn’t start without coffee and the friendly faces of The Today Show. As a regular on the show since 1996, weather presenter, journalist, and host Al Roker has brought more than a little sunshine to American audiences.

In addition to the daily forecast, the jovial morning show institution has shown audiences the importance of health and wellness. After undergoing gastric bypass surgery in 2002, Roker lost 150 pounds and has kept it off through sustainable lifestyle changes t...
Health •

The 2025 Health Advocacy Awards: Honoring the Voices Making a Difference

Every person has a story—but only a few tell theirs to the world. Health is excited to introduce the Health Advocacy Awards, honoring the people, patients, and healthcare professionals who are willing to speak their truth so that others might feel seen. 

In our inaugural year, we're excited to highlight people who are using their platforms to advocate for patient communities or contribute to health research. They know what it's like to advocate for themselves and their loved ones and how diffi...
Children's Health •

Amelia thrives thanks to the Rees-Jones Center for Foster Care Excellence - Children's Health

To know Amelia is to love her. She's bright, articulate and has never met a stranger. Looking at this bubbly 4-year-old, one would never guess her complex medical history. Amelia's adoptive mother, Robin, says this alone is a testament to the care that Amelia has received at Children's Health℠. In fact, Robin says that if not for the quick actions of the Children's Health foster care clinic years ago, Amelia would most likely not be alive.

Before Robin married her husband, Henk, she shared a dr...
Children's Health •

Innovative lymphatic intervention approach – Children’s Health

Plastic bronchitis is a rare but serious diagnosis for congenital heart disease patients. The condition, which is usually a complication after Fontan surgery, occurs when lymph fluid builds up and leaks into the lungs, hardening into rubbery casts that can cause difficulty breathing.  Only a small handful of U.S. hospitals regularly treat plastic bronchitis, which usually involves accessing the lymphatic system (thoracic duct and its tributaries) transabdominally. Interventional cardiologists an...
Solvhealth.com •

5 Ways Telemedicine Services Streamline Urgent Care Operations

The pandemic revolutionized the face of modern medical care. New vaccine technology was utilized, contact tracing expanded, and—perhaps most impactful to patients and providers—widespread telehealth became a reality. In fact, providers saw a 78% spike in the use of telehealth services in just two months in early 2020.

Fear may have motivated the initial increase in telehealth services, but many patients found that the convenience of receiving care from the comfort of their own home was somethin...
Solvhealth.com •

Are Your Claim Rejections Soaring? Accurate Registration Tools Can Help

You’ve streamlined everything in your urgent care business–optimized your marketing, integrated your EMR, and adopted telemedicine to ease staff burdens. But one thing can still bring your profits to a screaming halt–claim rejections.

Those claim rejections typically stem from small mistakes that have a significant impact–transposing two numbers in an address can lead to bills being sent to the wrong address, more work for staff as they try to reach out to patients, and delays in insurance paym...
Solvhealth.com •

How Live Urgent Care Uses Solv to Acquire Patients & Streamline Their Experience | Solv

Using Solv keeps a constant flow of new patients coming through the door. The intuitive interface from a staff standpoint helps decrease stress and allows for better patient satisfaction.
Higgins says that the front desk team loves Solv for its simplicity, pleasing aesthetic, and many functional capabilities.
According to Higgins, “It’s very helpful for people that we’re training because a huge portion of what they need to do on any given day can be done within one system. We don’t have to tra...
Verywell Health •

Healthy at Every Size? Here's What Doctors Look for Beyond BMI

A growing number of patients and healthcare providers are embracing the idea that a higher number on the scale doesn’t automatically equal poor health. Movements like Health at Every Size promote a holistic definition of health, focusing on individual wellness rather than standardized metrics, according to the Association for Size Diversity and Health.

However, this concept raises the question: If body mass index (BMI) and other weight-related metrics don’t define health, what does? What do ph...
Quest Analytics •

Quest Analytics® Launches Provider Network Benchmarking

Las Vegas, NV (June 11, 2024) Quest Analytics, LLC, the leader in provider network management solutions and services, will attend AHIP 2024 this week and introduce its provider Network Benchmarking solution as part of their suite of Network Performance analytics tools integrated into their Quest Enterprise ServicesTM (QESTM) platform. This new product allows health plans to compare their network to the competition to identify areas of strength and opportunity. In an increasingly competitive mark...
Quest Analytics •

Quest Analytics® Announces Integration Partnership with Motive Practicing Wisely

OVERLAND PARK, KS, April 9, 2024 – Quest Analytics, LLC, the leader in provider network compliance and performance solutions, announced today a new integration partnership with Motive Practicing Wisely, the leading provider of evidence-based measures for the evaluation of physician performance, to provide Quest Analytics clients deeper physician-specific information available within a singular platform to build high-quality, high-performing provider networks.Quest Enterprise Services™ (QES™) is...
Verywell Health •

Why All Your Friends Are Playing Pickleball

What do LeBron James and adults over 50 have in common? Apparently, their common ground is pickleball. The NBA legend recently purchased a Major League Pickleball team, joining the legions of sports fans that have taken country clubs, community centers, and senior living centers by storm.

While James’ wingspan covers nearly half the standard 20 feet of a pickleball court, a basketball player’s stature isn’t required for the sport. In fact, the ultra-accessible paddle game was created in 1965 b...
IN Kansas City Magazine •

Wellness Revolution: Medical Cannabis is Changing the Landscape of Treatment - IN Kansas City Magazine

Shannon Gaines Bowman is not a pothead. In fact, before her diagnosis of stage four appendiceal cancer in early 2021, she had only tried marijuana a few times for pain relief from abdominal pain. But with the legalization of medical marijuana in 2018, patients like Bowman could finally find relief from chronic pain, insomnia, and a host of other ailments, including detoxing from other more problematic drugs.
“I was diagnosed in January and had surgery,” says Bowman. “I was having a lot of post-s...