Total Joint Replacement Surgery at Main Street Hospital. Remember the 1970s TV show The Six Million Dollar Man? Steve Austin, an astronaut who was almost killed in an accident, has his body literally rebuilt using technology, becoming the first bionic man. Today, “going bionic” is a commonplace event for the hundreds of thousands of Americans …
Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in men. One out of every six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and more than 35,000 die from the disease every year. In fact, a man is 33 percent more likely to have prostate cancer than a woman is to have breast …
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About 2.9 million American men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. It’s THE most common form of cancer in men, and the second most deadly (next to lung cancer). Yet too many men have never talked to their personal physician about prostate cancer. Some men just don’t want to know if they have the disease. …
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One in four If you’re over the age of 60, those are the odds that you have diabetes, which can cause serious medical problems for your eyes, ears, kidneys, nerves and feet. For example, hearing loss is twice as common for seniors with diabetes. There’s also an increased risk for high blood pressure, heart disease …
The Cardiac Catheterization (Cath) Lab at Main Street Hospital offers advanced practices and technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. Cardiac Catheterization is a highly specialized technique used to check the health of the heart and the arteries. Nearly one million cardiac catheterizations are performed each year in the United States. The procedure …
Meet Your Cardiac Care Team, Taking the Fight to Heart Disease in Our Community Every minute of every day, someone in America dies from heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. At Main Street Hospital, we’re not taking that news lying down. We’ve assembled a team of medical experts who provide …
Focus On Technology: X-Ray This Proven Technology Can Sometimes Be A Child’s Best Friend Children love to climb, jump, run and explore. Unfortunately, that also means that they’re much more likely than adults to tumble, fall and crash. The result can be anything from a scraped knee to a broken bone. Having an X-ray taken …
Focus On Technology: X-Ray This Proven Technology Can Sometimes Be A Child’s Best Friend Here’s good news for men and women over age 50 in the fight against osteoporosis. A state-of- the-art technology called Dexascan is now available to diagnosis this all-too common disease. Osteoporosis is a disease that thins and weakens the bones. If …
Focus on Technology: CT Scan First developed in the 1970s, a CT Scan was once only available at large hospitals. Today, with more than 6,000 CT Scanners in the United States, almost every local community hospital, no matter how small, is equipped with these highly sophisticated medical imaging machines. CT stands for computerized tomography. A …
Focus on Technology: Cardiac MRI Science Fiction in Today’s Medicine? Imagine being able to watch a live moving image of your heart beating. Sound like science fiction? It’s not. Today, more and more hospitals are using a technology called cardiac MRI that produces some of the most amazingly detailed and sharp images of the heart …
