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Beating Heart Surgery
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Last Updated: 11:16 AM 04/21/11 -
Panama City -- By-pass surgery has come a long way. A few years ago, Bay Medical heart surgeons added one more option for patients: It's called beating-heart surgery.
During most by-pass surgeries doctors stop the heart. A heart and lung machine is used to temporarily divert the blood. Beating heart surgery is a way to perform the same type of surgery without stopping the heart.
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New Proceedure Takes Clear Picture of Baby In Womb
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Last Updated: 3:04 PM 04/05/11 -
Panama City -- Most parents can't get enough pictures of their baby. But what about a photo shoot before he or she is born? That's now an option that some local parents are taking advantage of. While it's not a required test, the parents say it is a lot of fun.
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New Surgery for Acid Reflux
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Last Updated: 3:44 PM 03/15/11 -
Panama City -- Acid reflux can cause a lot more than heartburn. If left untreated, it can lead to esophageal cancer. But there's good news for local patients. A local hospital is offering a new surgery that not only cures acid reflux, but lets patients get back to eating and sleeping normally.
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Healing The Heart Part 2
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Last Updated: 9:22 AM 02/25/11 -
Fried food, no exercise, smoking, are all precursors to heart disease. Those are the factors you can control, but as one local woman learned, you can't control genetics. She believed everything was fine, until she caught what she thought was the flu.
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Healing The Heart
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Last Updated: 2:22 PM 02/24/11 -
February is heart month and folks in the Panhandle are all too familiar with heart disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, released last year, shows Florida leads the nation in the number of people suffering from heart disease and the panhandle has the highest rate in the state.
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Bay Medical Center Faces Tough Times
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Last Updated: 8:07 AM 12/09/10 -
Financial struggles effect one local hospital.
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New Radiation Therapy Machine in Panama City
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Last Updated: 9:07 AM 09/17/10 -
Gulf Coast Cancer Treatment Center revealed a new device that will help doctors perform more accurate radiation therapy.
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Move into New Bay Medical Building Goes Seamlessly
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Last Updated: 8:14 AM 09/14/10 -
As patients move into the Bay Medical Center's new patient tower, the transition is said to be going smoothly, so far.
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