Dr. Deepa Sharma, Family Medicine Physician with Baptist Health Primary Care, discusses the three types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Basal and squamous cell carcinoma are two types of non-melanoma cancers. In contrast, melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer.  “Seeing a dermatologist is really important to…...

Some cancer treatments affect fertility: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy, and targeted therapy, explains Dr. Victor Guardiola, Medical Oncologist with Miami Cancer Institute.  In general, types of cancer treatment that can affect infertility are surgery and chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is a medication given usually through the vein into the whole system. Intense treatment for radiation is…...

Menopause causes certain hormones in women to decrease and that can lead to an increased risk for heart disease...

Diabetes can make controlling heart disease among African Americans more difficult but it’s the social and economic inequities that form the biggest barriers to decreasing deaths from the disease...

Cardiac arrest can happen to someone with no heart problems but there are some other risk factors you should be aware of...

The American Heart Association is working to combat health inequities in several ways...

Shocking someone with a defibrillator can sound scary but all of them come with step-by-step directions that will guide you through the procedure...

Do you really know about heart disease? Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, causing about 1 in 4 deaths. The term “heart disease” refers to several types of heart conditions. In the United States, the most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease (CAD), which can lead…...