NorthShore Health Centers is excited to welcome three new members to their growing team of compassionate medical professionals. The three experts, a dentist and two family nurse practitioners, are excited to join a mission-driven team dedicated to...
Last year, Cavanaugh & Nondorf Orthodontics welcomed the iTero digital scanner to its facility. iTero makes determining the structure of patients’ mouths easier and more effective. For many, impressions, the previous method of obtaining this...
Two physicians specializing in internal medicine are the most recent additions to Northwest Medical Group, the multi-specialty physician group affiliated with Northwest Health. Husband and wife team, Dr. Shaun Mehdi and Dr. Shazia Shivji are joining...
The importance of getting a flu shot is emphasized every winter across the world. Influenza is a sickness that affects millions of Americans every year. Dr. Erik Johnson, medical director at UnitedHealthcare,...
Methodist Hospitals recently announced it was the first Northwest Indiana hospital system to use two new devices for removing life-threatening clots. The FlowTriever for Pulmonary Embolism and the ClotTriever for Deep Vein Thrombosis systems are...
Excitement was in the air as needles went into arms, marking the first of the COVID-19 vaccines delivered at Franciscan Health hospitals in Crown Point, Hammond and Michigan City on Friday morning. Physicians, nurses and support staff who have been...
Today the first doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine were administered to six frontline workers. The first doses were administered at 10 A.M. “Today is a historic day,” Dr. Dafer Al-Haddadin, infectious disease doctor at Franciscan Health in...
First doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine have arrived at Community Hospital in Munster. Some 975 vials of the initial allocation are ready for inoculation. An additional 975 doses are expected to be delivered on Thursday. Distribution of the...
Residents with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms and are at higher risk for related complications have another treatment available at the hospitals of Community Healthcare System to help aid in their recovery. Bamlanivimab is a monoclonal antibody...
If you suffer from neck, back, leg or arm pain from stenosis, disc herniation, spondylosis or a number of other degenerative spine conditions, a non-surgical alternative option may be beneficial. A safe, gentle evidence-based solution is now...