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  • Executive Health

    Blood Pressure 101

    What it is? On average, your heart pumps over 90,000 times a day. With each contraction, the heart pumps blood into the arteries that carry the blood to rest of the body. Blood pressure is defined as the force blood exerts against the artery walls. Systolic pressure is the force exerted as the heart is … Read More

  • Executive Health

    Natural, Safe, Effective: 5 Proven Ways to Lower Blood Pressure

    ​Starting as low as 115/75 mmHg the risk of death due to heart disease doubles for every increase by 20 mmHg SBP (the top number) or 10 mmHg DBP (the bottom number). Achieving and maintaining a healthy blood pressure can have a significant impact on your health and longevity. Physicians typically encourage lifestyle modifications to … Read More

  • Featured News

    Advice for hospital visitors with the flu: Please stay home

    To prevent a bad flu season from becoming worse, some Orange County health providers have put in place several restrictions in recent weeks, most of them common-sense requests of visitors who might unknowingly spread the virus. “If you’re ill, please come to the hospital,” said Dr. Philip Robinson, medical director of infection prevention and hospital … Read More

  • Women's Health

    Where and how to have a baby in Orange County

    On Jan. 12 at 8:04 a.m. Erin and Shane Stevens welcomed Piper into the world. The Lake Forest couple had chosen Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo to have their first child, as it was right next door to Erin’s doctor who would be delivering the baby. Shane Stevens said he was glad he was able … Read More

  • Featured News

    Spark of Innovation: Dan Nadeau

    What project/research are you working on? My book, “The Color Code, A Revolutionary Eating Plan for Optimum Health,” is about the health benefits of brightly colored fruits and vegetables. The book has helped spark a well-deserved interest in how foods like blueberries, carrots, kale and avocados reverse aging and the fight chronic conditions such as … Read More

  • Neurosciences

    Hoag treats minds as well as bodies

    For nearly 16 years, Hoag Mental Health Center has helped several thousand low-income and underserved people cope with stress, depression, anxiety and loss – often for free. But it’s likely you had no idea. You might also not be aware that you don’t have to be struggling with a mental illness to benefit from psychological … Read More

  • Executive Health

    Choose Health in 2014: How to use Task- Oriented Goal Setting for a Healthier Year

    Happy New Year! Take a lap around your office and you will hear your colleagues discussing their 2014 health goals. Take another lap in February and you will probably hear excuses, disappointment, and few success stories. There is one main reason these resolutions don’t stick: they are outcome-oriented. Outcome-oriented goals do not require a plan … Read More

  • Executive Health

    Work, Family, Self: Prioritizing Preventative Health for Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

    In 2010 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed the following as the leading causes of death for women: heart disease stroke cancer chronic lower respiratory disease Prevention for these diseases can be possible with lifestyle management, and since January is Cervical Cancer Awareness month the spirit of the month is to encourage women … Read More

  • Cancer

    Hoag, USC partner for cancer care

    Years ago, cancer treatment consisted of a few doctors’ visits with recommendations for a limited number of treatment options. Today, our knowledge of cancer has grown more sophisticated, and our treatments more targeted and safe. Now when oncologists discuss cancer management, they bring a whole compendium of treatment options. Here at Hoag, our oncology experts … Read More