Perilous Position

Stem cell therapy regenerates dentist’s neck and fingers.

Tampa native Vivian Medina, DDS, has been interested in health care since she was a teenager. So when she got the chance, she attended Creighton University School of Dentistry in Omaha, Nebraska, then turned her education into a lengthy career. “The fact that dentistry allows more flexibility for home and children made it more appealing to me than medicine,” she […]

AFib: Hurried Heartbeats

Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is the most common type of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia. With AFib, your heart beats much faster than the normal 60 to 100 beats per minute. To create a normal heart rhythm, or sinus rhythm, your heart’s upper and lower chambers must work in concert. But with AFib, the activity of those chambers is out of […]