Celebrate Hollywood at upcoming Honor Flight fundraiser
A charity Valentine’s lunch event for Honor Flight Chicago will take on a Hollywood theme in Northwest Indiana next weekend.
Month: February 2019
Gary’s tax rates highest in state again
The city of Gary remains the property tax rate capital of Indiana.
Teaching tech, safety and other out-of-the-box senior citizen services
With any luck, we all get to be senior citizens, and LaPorte Hospital has a program to help make these golden years some of the best of life.
Straightening smiles through innovative problem-solving
At In Harmony Orthodontics, we specialize in caring for children who need treatment for irregularities with their teeth. However, we offer more than traditional orthodontic care. In my practice, I help children achieve harmony with the jaws, tongue, po…
Robotic arm replacing knees in Community operating rooms
St. Mary Medical Center, in Hobart, is the first hospital in Northwest Indiana to offer robot-assisted partial and total knee replacements using the Mako Robotic Arm Assisted Surgery System. This latest advancement in knee replacement surgery benefits …
Medical, surgical advances aid women’s urological health
There have been significant improvements in urologic care for problems specific to women over the last two decades. Problems such as incontinence and prolapse were considered an inevitable part of aging, and women learned to live with these problems or…
Cutting-edge tools detect prostate cancer early
Many men experience anxiety when they think about getting their prostate checked. In men between the ages of 50 to 70, a prostate exam and a blood test (called a PSA) should be discussed in hopes of detecting cancer in…
Design innovations favor patient safety, care
We’re a long way from the horse-and-buggy days of November 1904, when two Sisters of St. Francis opened a 25-bed hospital in a growing lakefront community.
Robot-assisted surgery reduces patient risk, healing time
“I sure wish I could spend longer in the hospital and recover more slowly,” said no patient ever!
Reading the story in your child’s teeth
In Harmony Orthodontics specializes in caring for children who need treatment for irregularities with their teeth, but we offer more than traditional orthodontics. I help children achieve harmony with the jaws, tongue posture and overall well being thr…