- Health
Wise
- Adolescent
love
By
GREGORY K. MOFFATT, PH. D
Child's Play
Love
is an emotion interwoven with a web of confounding components that is
very difficult to unravel. Infatuation is shallow love that is based
on appearance, sexual arousal, or selfish desire. True love is based
on commitment, empathy, and compassion - components that give rise to
physical arousal rather than following it.
Auxiliary
members lend a helping hand
With more than 250
active members and still growing, Fayette Community Hospital's Auxiliary
is one of the largest active auxiliary organizations in Georgia. The
Auxiliary brings immeasurable benefit to the hospital, its patients
and the community by providing assistance in areas such as the Emergency
Room, Diagnostics, the Information Desk, the Fitness Center, Surgical
Services and the Gift Shop.
Vision
loss is not a normal part of aging
Do you know the
differences between normal changes in vision with age and abnormal changes
in vision due to age-related eye disease? Open your eyes to the facts.
Despite what most people think, vision loss is not a normal part of
aging. Everyone experiences some vision changes due to normal aging;
these include difficulty focusing on near tasks like reading, difficulty
distinguishing colors and contrast, and the need for more light. However,
some vision problems are more serious and are not correctable with medicine,
surgery or conventional eyeglasses.
Providing
accessibility, convenience
Fayette Community
Hospital, one of the leading healthcare providers in Atlanta's southern
crescent, opened the doors of its Minor Emergency Care Center in July
of 2001. Since that time, over 20,000 area residents have utilized
the services of the facility, which is located 1.7 miles east of the
Hospital in the Fayette Medical Clinic Building at 105 Yorktown Drive
in Fayetteville.
SRMC
helping chaplain interns, cancer survivors
The Rev. Amy Greene,
supervisor of pastoral care for Southern Regional Health System, recently
completed a four-year certification process and became a full supervisor
in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc.
SFMC
to invest $8 million in south metro Atlanta
Certificate of need
approved for emergency department expansion
Newnan
Hospital obtains Lightspeed
Newnan Hospital
is staying ahead of fast-changing medical technology.The hospital recently
acquired a state of the art GE Lightspeed Plus computer tomography (CT)
scanner. Used by doctors to help in overall patient diagnosis, CT scanners
provide computer-generated photos of the body.
Red
Cross announces February schedule
Registration is
now open for American Red Cross training in February at the South Metro
Service Center, 1115 Mount Zion Rd., Suite H, Morrow.
Healthwise
Calendar
South Fulton Medical
Center will host several free and discounted screenings and health education
seminars during February. To register or for more information, call
1-888-888-1872. Space is limited, and pre-registration is required.
All seminars and screenings will be held at South Fulton Medical Center,
1170 Cleveland Avenue, East Point, Georgia, 30344.
Better
cancer diagnosis, treatment options
Patients at Emory
University Hospital now have access to the latest development in medical
imaging technology with the installation of a PET/CT. The state-of-the-art
scanner helps doctors see and treat cancer and deliver better cancer
care from diagnosis to follow-up.
Monitor
hearing closely in early years
The auditory system
of infants is shaped dramatically during the first year of life, by
experience with sound and most importantly by exposure to speech. Although
infants can not produce recognizable words until 1 year of age, they
have remarkable ability to distinguish among speech sounds, to recognize
names of familiar objects, to interpret voice tone, and perform sophisticated
auditory functions long before they produce speech.
An
alternative approach to cancer treatment
Hearing those words,
"You have cancer," can be shocking, devastating, and overwhelming.
However, with all the advances in medical treatment as well as encouraging
research and results in the alternative health care industry, those
words need not be as frightening.
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