Physical Health
Healthy Living
6 Reasons to Upgrade Your Thinking About Hearing Aids! Hearing loss is a part of modern life for baby boomers and the over 70 crowd. Many people have antiquated ideas about what hearing aids will and won’t do, and about who needs hearing aids. Below are six compelling reasons to schedule an appointment for a comprehensive …
Legal Matters
What Are Your Rights If You Are Injured at a Business As a familiar saying goes, “The law does not favor those who sleep on their rights.” This legal maxim emphasizes that knowing your rights under Alabama law is indeed essential and even life changing. Alabama law dictates that the owners, managers or lessors of …
5 Steps to Protect Children in the Digital Age
Let’s be honest. It isn’t easy raising children in a day and age where hundreds of thousands of dangerous images and messages are not only just a click away, but the clicks are happening on devices that our children are often carrying in their pockets. Consider these stats from CovenantEyes.com and CommonSenseMedia.com: 1 in 4 …
Healthy Living
Presented by: Henderson & Walton Women’s Center P.C. The Journey to a Better Body At Henderson and Walton Women’s Center, P.C., we think of our patients as family. So when one of our family members does something extraordinary, we can’t help but brag. We hope Sheree Reeves journey of overcoming her struggle with her weight …
Healthy Living
Don’t Miss Out on the Important Sounds of Life An estimated 28 million Americans have hearing loss. If you, a friend or loved one is among them, help is available. Every May since 1927, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association has used the month of May as a time to encourage Americans to get their hearing tested …
Legal Matters
Wrongful Prescription Most people at some point in their lives take a prescribed medication. Millions of times every year, doctors prescribe pills that treat pain, high cholesterol, thyroid problems, high blood pressure, acid reflux, infections and many other medical conditions. We trust pharmacies to dispense the proper medications and the exact dosages. Unfortunately, more than …
Healthy Living
Effort to Educate Alabama Youth on the Dangers of Tobacco & Electronic Cigarettes Children’s of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Pediatrics recently received a grant from the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) with the goal of protecting Alabama youth from secondhand smoke exposure, tobacco use and initiation, with …
Healthy Living
New Technology Helps Teach Your Brain to Hear Again Almost 30% of people between the ages 50 and 59 suffer from some degree of hearing loss in one or both ears; 45% of those between 60 and 69 have impaired hearing; and three-quarters of those over 70 do.While all those high school and college rock …
Healthy Living
Advancements at St. Vincent’s 119 & St. Vincent’s East St. Vincent’s One Nineteen recently completed the first surgery, a Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) implant, in its new outpatient surgery center. Otologist Grayson Rodgers, MD, performed the surgery, one of the first BAHA implants in Shelby County. The BAHA device helps patients with hearing loss …
Healthy Living
“I Can’t Tell if it’s My Jaw or My Head!” Many otherwise healthy people have discovered that it does not take long to feel totally run down when they are suffering from a headache for any period of time. Most of us have experienced this and find ourselves avoiding activities and even becoming depressed and …
