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CANCER CONNECTION IN OUR COMMUNITY

Jean Schoen

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

WHEN I CREATED CANCER CONNECTION NWO, INC. IN 2008 as a result of my own family’s cancer experience, it never even crossed my mind that children are also diagnosed with cancer. It was not until the mother of young Tylee reached out to us in 2010 that I really began learning about pediatric cancer.

Why we celebrate National Physical Therapy Month

News Staff

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

OCTOBER HAS BEEN DESIGNATED NATIONAL PHYSICAL THERAPY MONTH to raise awareness of the benefits of physical therapy as well as to recognize the vital role professionals in this discipline play in improving patients’ health, function, and overall quality of life.

Rashmi Goyal, MD

UTMC physician advises repeat of prevention efforts to limit upcoming flu season

Tyrel Linkhorn

Monday, August 30, 2021

THE CONCERN THAT INFLUENZA PATIENTS might overwhelm hospitals already strained from COVID-19 admissions last fall and winter proved unfounded. Across the United States, flu season was barely a blip on the radar.

Gardens of St. Francis implements immersive training that simulates dementia

News Staff

Monday, August 30, 2021

TO UNDERSTAND AND MEET THE SPECIAL CARE NEEDS of people living with dementia, it’s helpful to walk the proverbial mile in their shoes—or, more accurately, to step inside their sensory world and experience firsthand how they perceive and interpret different stimuli.

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No Greater Gift

Kara Steele

Monday, August 30, 2021

ELENA YAKUMITHIS DID MORE in her six years of life than many people do in a lifetime. The Wayne Trail Elementary School kindergartner loved hippos, cupcakes, sprinkles, and anything pink. When she learned the lyrics to a song, she would dance around the house and sing it on repeat.

Achievements and challenges in long-term care

Megan Benner Senecal

Monday, August 30, 2021

FALL IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER—it seems impossible! It feels like only yesterday that we first received notice of nursing facilities needing to shut their doors to visitors to keep long-term-care consumers safe from COVID-19. A lot has changed—and a lot has stayed the same.

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Cancer Connection in our Community - Living with cancer as a chronic condition, Part 4

Jean Schoen

Monday, August 30, 2021

SO MANY PEOPLE ARE LIVING LONGER, productive lives in spite of their cancer diagnosis. I am sharing these stories to inspire all of us to live each and every day to the fullest. Metastasized breast cancer is the diagnosis that FA received in the beginning of 2019.

Mohammad Al-Nsour, MD

Mercy Health expands lung program to include lung cancer clinic

News Staff

Monday, July 26, 2021

WHEN IT COMES TO LUNG CANCER, an ounce of prevention is worth the proverbial pound of cure. Mercy Health has been a leader in the prevention and screening of those at high risk for lung cancer since 2015.

Douglas Federman, MD

Transitioning adolescent healthcare from pediatrics to internal medicine

News Staff

Monday, July 26, 2021

FOR MANY ADOLESCENTS, PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE is not a high priority and the doctor is someone you see only when you get sick or hurt.

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Time to cheer: Solheim Cup swings into Toledo

Dennis Bova

Monday, July 26, 2021

SOME MAY SAY THE SPORT OF GOLF is staid and stuffy, played mostly by men on courses where spectators are hushed into silence. If that’s what you think, meet the event called the Solheim Cup. And meet it you can, because it tees off for the first time in Toledo since, well, forever.

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