Finding and deciding who to trust with your healthcare can be challenging, and hearing issues are no exception. Since a hearing aid cannot be prescribed like eyeglasses, proper hearing aid recommendations and fitting are highly dependent on the judgement and skill of the professional selecting the instrument. At All...
By Dr. Richard Chern, MD
We’ve had occasional calls over the years from husbands who feel their wives are slipping away. They call saying they are desperate to get their wives back. After years of marriage when a relationship should be getting easier, it seems like things are only getting...
Community members are preventing type 2 diabetes together with help from the yearlong PreventT2 Lifestyle Change Program offered by Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast.
PreventT2 is part of the National Diabetes Prevention Program which is led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The local program starts on...
By Michael Roth,
Retirement is a time of “transition” and “new beginnings” – which in “Medicare-speak” is a time for confusion, aggravation and frustration. Well, maybe it’s not that bad, but it can be trying.
Today we will try to unravel the mystery of the “OEP”, which is the Medicare Advantage...
By Johns Hopkins Medicine
According to several major studies, older adults with hearing loss are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, compared to those with normal hearing.
Further, the risk escalates as a person’s hearing loss grows worse. Those with mild hearing impairment are nearly twice as likely to...
By Dr. Richard Chern, MD
Dr Richard Chern has been writing prescriptions for hormones for over 25 years. During that time many changes in hormone therapy have occurred. But some things just can’t be improved no matter how hard we try.
Synthetic hormones were designed to replicate the body’s own hormones. ...
By Stephenie Craig, LCSW
What comes to mind when you hear the word grief? 2020 is inviting you to see grief as the emotional experience surrounding the loss of anything or anyone important to you. Maybe you’ve lost a person, a pet, a relationship, or a home. We are experiencing...
Sick and injured children in Walton County and Destin will soon have improved access to pediatric care, thanks to an expansion of pediatric emergency room services at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast, with close support from the Studer Family Children's Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart, the region's only children's...
By Michael Roth,
For those folks new to the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period (AEP), the overwhelming volume of mailing pieces, emails and phone calls are dizzying. For those folks more experienced in this time, the sigh of despair and calls of “Oh no, not again!” can be heard from every...
