National Immunization Awareness Month
August is National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) The goal of NIAM is to increase awareness about immunizations across the lifespan, from infants to the elderly. August is an ideal time…
Women’s Wellness: IBS
BATON ROUGE, LA (WGMB) – “Irritable Bowel falls into the category called Functional GI Disorder, which means, and see anything on scope or a blood work or on a CAT…
Women’s Wellness: Peripheral Vascular Disease
BATON ROUGE, LA (WGMB) – Millions of Americans have it. It can be painful, and even fatal. “If you look at the statistics, there’s about a 40% cardiac mortality rate…
Women’s Wellness: Alzheimer’s
By Lauren McCoy BATON ROUGE, LA (WGMB) – Those are just some of the warning signs. It affects a person’s brain. It can be debilitating, frustrating and even deadly. “It’s…
Psoriasis Awareness Month
Psoriasis is a serious medical condition. Although it can be confused with being “just a rash”, it is actually a chronic (long-standing) disease that causes inflammation of the immune system….
Women’s Wellness: Lupus
BATON ROUGE, LA – “It can be activated by sunlight. This time of year, we do see more cases of sunburn, and it triggers the inflammatory process,” said Dr. Stephen…
Women’s Wellness: Depression
BATON ROUGE, LA – It is defined as “a serious medical condition in which a person feels very sad, hopeless and unimportant, and often is unable to live in a…