Amy Oshier

WINK News looks at the rise in dog food designed to keep our fur babies happy and healthy.

A Florida Gulf Coast University professor studied a method for weaning babies off opioids now recommended by the National Institutes of Health and a local foster mom has detoxed more than one addicted baby using the method.

Shoulder rotator cuff injuries are extremely painful for the patient and challenging for surgeons. But one new surgical technique involving balloons is giving surgeons an additional way to repair the tear.

A government task force recommends a guideline change that will start breast cancer screening ten years earlier than current practices.

A South Fort Myers research center has helped study new drugs approved by the FDA to treat Alzheimer’s disease.

Physical therapy and invasive foot surgery have long been the standards of care for repairing people’s Achilles tendons.

A neurosurgeon at NCH was recently able to relieve a man of the sciatica pain he suffered in his back for 50 years.

There’s now a shift away from opioid painkillers after a procedure, as doctors and patients work out how else to prepare for pain relief before, during and after surgery.

Dementia currently affects more than 55,000,000 people in the world, with the number of cases expected to grow in the coming decades.

More than 36 million people are admitted into hospitals in the U.S. annually—an average of almost 100,000 people daily as the country faces a nursing shortage. That’s where smart rooms come in.