Kelly Kawashima is a native Californian who grew up in Torrance so it is no surprise to hear that she was a competitive volleyball player. She started her career in corporate health and wellness and, after 10 years in the field, made the jump into tech and engineering recruiting and consulting. She is also a …
Part of Black history is that throughout the US African American women die from breast cancer at a rate 40 percent higher than other women. But in Los Angeles County, the statistics are 56 percent higher, and, in Long Beach, the mortality rate is 70 percent higher. That’s why the Susan G. Komen® Circle of …
“Creating Understanding, One Community After Another” is the theme for Susan G. Komen’s Los Angeles County 7th Annual Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference. Late Night Health’s Mark Alyn discussed the January 4 event with the keynote speaker, Dr. Robert Nagourney, Founder and Medical Director of the Nagourney Cancer Institute and Clinical Associate Professor at the University …
Dr. Nic Gay and Dr. Kerisimasi Reynolds of their recently launched cutting edge practice, Silicon Valley Orthopaedics (SVO) http://www.siliconvalleyortho.com point out that serious falls are very common during the holiday season. A Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that about 250 injuries a day occur during November and December. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …
Dr. Sutera has a strong value for advanced multidisciplinary dentistry. He has completed post-graduate education programs in the fields of dental anesthesiology, smile aesthetics, dental implantology, TMJ and oral surgery. He believes multidisciplinary expertise and knowledge allows for the highest level of dental treatment, reconstruction, and maintenance. Dr. Sutera is board certified in moderate parenteral sedation by the Massachusetts …
Americans 40 and over are increasingly active. In fact, one-third of gym members are Gen X-ers (ages 39-54) and the average age of amateur Iron Man competitors is 43, while the average age of competitors in the NY marathon is now 41.2. Over 40, people can begin to lose up to 8 percent of muscle …
Join us on LATE NIGHT HEALTH as award-winning medical correspondent Dr. Max Gomez discusses his book, CELLS ARE THE NEW CURE, about the use of living cells and genetic modifications as revolutionary agents of healing. The very first treatments received FDA approval two years ago, and it’s set to transform how a patient’s immune cells target a specific …
LASIK SURGERY – VISION CORRECTION AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW When it comes to the conversation about vision correction, LASIK has been a household name since it was approved by the FDA nearly 20 years ago. An acronym for laser in situ keratomileusis, LASIK is a two-step procedure. The first step makes a micron-thin, circular flap …
Celularity is a commercial-stage cell therapeutics company delivering transformative allogeneic cellular therapies, engineered from the postpartum human placenta, in cancer immunotherapy and functional regeneration. Some of our placenta-derived allogeneic cell therapy products aim to augment immunity by harnessing a patient’s own immune system to combat disease. Our other products seek to augment longevity by targeting …
SpineMark recently hosted an educational forum at the MAC, the world’s largest social and athletic club in Portland, OR, to announce the launch of PreVPRO. It’s a Prevacus, LLC, product that will potentially mitigate the symptoms and duration after a concussion occurs, a new, holistic, breakthrough, non-opioid treatment for pain and traumatic brain injuries, including …