Get Ready: Here Come the Holidays!
Let’s face it: Those Thanksgiving recipes tasted so delicious because they are usually high in salt, butter and sugar. And, it’s hard not to overindulge. … “Second helping, please?” Medical…
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Taking Care with Antibiotic Usage
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has designated Nov. 18 to 24 U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week in an effort to raise awareness about the importance using antibiotics appropriately.…
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New Staff Physician is a Familiar Face
The Medical Center is very pleased to announce the addition of board-certified primary care physician Manuel Torres, M.D., to its staff of excellent health care providers. Longtime Ocean Reef residents…
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Excellence in Vision Care at the Medical Center
This season marks Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s second year providing vision care at the Medical Center. The institute serves as the Department of Ophthalmology for the University of Miami’s Miller…
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Mark Your Calendar: 2023 Events
Along with excellence in health care, the Medical Center also provides health education to the Ocean Reef community, along with several popular community events during each season. Here’s a sampling…
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April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month
The Discovery of Parkinson’s According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), in 1817, a 62-year-old British physician, Dr. James Parkinson, wrote a case series about six individuals who had…
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Dry Eye Syndrome
The Medical Center’s Visiting Specialists Program offers ophthalmology and optometry services with several excellent providers such as Bascom Palmer Eye Institute; Retinal specialist Zachery Segal, M.D., of MedEye Associates; and…
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Lecture Series: Optimizing Your Health Without Medications
Please join us at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, at the Cultural Center with Yuliya Linhares, M.D., for her fascinating lecture, “Optimizing Your Health Without Medications: Gain Control of Your…
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Medicare Coverage for Vaccines
The Medical Center administers most vaccines including Influenza vaccines, Pneumonia vaccines, Comirnaty (COVID vaccine), Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis vaccine), Td (tetanus, diphtheria vaccine), Hepatitis A, B, and A+B, Shingrix (shingles…
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A Grand Turnout for the 42nd-Annual Fun-Raiser
The 42nd-Annual Fun-Raiser truly had something for everyone this year: golf, tennis, pickleball, croquet, and a 5k run/walk event held on Sunday, March 10. And the Winners Are: 18-Hole Golf…
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