Whenever there is a crisis, Medicare fraudsters come out of the woodwork to seek new ways to steal your personal information and to make money. The current health crisis is no exception. Many of the federal agencies, from the Federal Trade Commission to the Department of Justice, have issued alerts and warnings for Medicare beneficiaries,

(Courtesy of SMGH) St. Mary’s General Hospital will conduct a webinar on gastrointestinal (GI) oncology outreach and an introduction of St. Mary’s general oncologists (cancer specialists) and gastroenterologists (doctors who specialize in digestive disorders) to the community.

The GI oncology

As a frontline healthcare worker and clinician, I was slated to get my vaccine now, but life threw a curveball at me and I contracted COVID-19 instead. It has been nine months of going to work, sending my kids to school, forgoing family gatherings, weighing all the risks associated with doing anything or going anywhere we wanted to go.

I’m a marriage and family therapist based in Philadelphia. Over the past six years, I’ve worked with an array of individuals spanning from adolescent through teen, all the way past age 80. My parents have had a huge impact in the way I’ve come to administer care. Their careers as pharmacists have taught me much of what I know about

(Courtesy of SMGH) “I was diagnosed with a serious medical issue, so where should I go for treatment—Minnesota… California… Maryland… Ohio?” Sadly, that’s what happens too often with people, rather than investigate what is closer to home—like St. Mary’s General Hospital, the successor hospital to

Pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs) have been used to treat almost every conceivable human illness or malady, including many inflammatory diseases such as arthritis or psoriasis. PEMF therapy has been associated with pain reduction and accelerated healing. PEMFs exert these effects by regulating processes involving inflammation and

A groundbreaking study led by Senior GI Oncologist Dr. Ben Boursi with senior oncologist Professor Gal Markel and MD PhD student Erez Baruch of the Sheba Medical Center in Israel proved that it is possible to reprogram a recalcitrant immune system, compelling it to fight cancer by changing the patient’s gut microbiome.