Tip Sheets

Edition 2 -2003 2/1/2003

 New all-digital x-ray equipment provides Florida Hospital cardiologists with more information than ever before.
The new equipment allows doctors to see tiny blood vessels with exceptional clarity. Find out how this new technology is faster and requires less radiation exposure to the patient.

Heel pain is being "shocked" away without surgery. Florida Hospital Altamonte offers a new way to treat those painful heal spurs.
Learn more about this new 20-minute non-invasive procedure and hear from those who are benefiting from it.

An experimental new drug is giving colorectal patients new hope.
Meet an Orlando woman being treated at Florida Hospital Cancer Institute who says the trial has given her a new lease on life.

Gym memberships for youngsters?
Addressing the national epidemic of childhood obesity, Florida Hospital Celebration Health is now providing group and individual personal training for children ages 6-12. Find out more about this new program and how it’s impacting local children’s lives.

New protocols are saving the lives of open-heart surgery patients.
New research from the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute has uncovered why some of the 12 million surgery patients a year who receive the anti-clotting drug heparin, develop an allergy to the drug - which can result in loss of limb or life. Find out how nurses are being trained to follow new protocols as a result of this research.