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MedWatch: Vaccines for Children
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Munson says a lot of people are canceling or postponing their children’...
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MedWatch: Stroke Awareness
Having a stroke can be life altering. But there are things you can do to identify one if you or a fa...
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MedWatch: National Cancer Survivors Month
June is National Cancer Survivors Month, and more than 570,000 individuals can celebrate as part of ...
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MedWatch: Alcohol Awareness Month
It’s Alcohol Awareness Month. Alcohol sales have risen in the past few weeks. Alcohol and other subs...
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MedWatch: Women’s Heart Health
Women often pride themselves in being able to “get it all done.” From work to home, kids to husbands...
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MedWatch: When Losses Are Gains
The new year has come and gone and so many people choose this as the time to make big health changes...
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MedWatch: TAVR Procedure
As we age, keeping up with your health care becomes even more important. That way, doctors can catch...
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MedWatch: Breast Cancer Awareness
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month; a time to increase awareness of the disease and, in turn, ...
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MedWatch: NICU Saving Lives
The people who are the best at what they do get there because they know when to ask for help. Teamwo...
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MedWatch: Munson Hearing Clinic
The Munson Medical Center Hearing Clinic serves patients from birth to centenarians, helping to make...
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MedWatch: New Manistee Health & Fitness Center
Wellness starts with being proactive. People are responsible for the care and keeping of themselves....
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MedWatch: Urology Care Close to Home
When looking for medical care, patients would always prefer to be close to home. But when you live i...
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MedWatch: NICU Changes
Munson Medical Center is in the midst of its largest expansion in the hospital’s history. They’re ra...
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MedWatch: Heart Month
As we age, we tend to experience more general aches and pains. But are those just run of the mill, o...
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MedWatch: Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital Celebrating 100 Years
A 100th birthday is a big deal. This year, Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital is celebrating a ce...
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MedWatch: Maternal Fetal Medicine
Pregnancy can be a time of joy and wonder for expectant moms and dads, but it can also be frightenin...
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MedWatch: Lung Cancer Screening
Thursday is the Great American Smokeout A holiday of sorts, organized by the American Cancer Society...
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MedWatch: New Heart Technology
Gone are the days where every heart surgery involves open heart surgery. More and more often, doctor...
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MedWatch: Sepsis Awareness Month
It’s not cancer, not a heart attack or stroke, but sepsis that is the leading killer of patients in ...
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MedWatch: Family Practice Residency
It can often be hard for rural hospitals and offices to recruit doctors, putting added stress on the...
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MedWatch: Cardiac Care Close to Home
We live in a rural area – that’s no secret. While most choose this life for the slower pace, access ...
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MedWatch: Patient Diagnostic Center
No one wants to spend more time at the doctor or hospital than they need to. Now plenty of patients ...
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Medwatch: Stroke Video Competition
May is Stroke Awareness Month, and every year Munson Medical Center encourages students around North...
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MedWatch: Charlevoix Volunteers
This week is volunteer week, a time when charities, hospitals and communities recognize the people w...
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MedWatch: Remote Patient Monitoring
Munson Healthcare’s Home Health Program offers seven different services to patients in 24 different ...
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MedWatch: The da Vinci Robot
Certain heart surgeries are changing at Munson Medical Center with the help of a robot. The two hand...
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MedWatch: MitraClip
Technology in medicine changes so quickly. As doctors put those new techniques to use, some stand ou...
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MedWatch: New Cataract Surgery
Being able to see is a gift, and for many it’s fleeting. So many rely on glasses or contacts to be a...
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MedWatch: Hip Replacement
People are living longer lives, and that’s the good news. The bad news? Our bodies can’t always kee...
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MedWatch: Diabetes and the Holidays
The holiday season — a time to eat, drink and be merry.But that can be a little harder for those suf...
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MedWatch: Bleeding Disorders
Blood disorders are rare and can be very serious and are usually congenital.
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MedWatch: Protecting Your Head
Accidents can and do happen, but you can do things to protect you and your family. That means wearin...
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MedWatch: Hip Replacements
When a person considers surgery, recovery time is often what holds them back. But technology is chan...
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MedWatch: Stroke Awareness Video Contest
When it comes to a stroke, time means brain. The faster a victim gets medical care, the better their...
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MedWatch: Munson Medical Center Foreign Travel Clinic
“There’s so many things that a person’s missing if you don’t take a chance.” And Mark Gabrick is do...
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MedWatch: Aqua Therapy
Learn the benefits of aqua therapy from Kalkaska Memorial Health Center in today’s MedWatch report.
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MedWatch: Advance Care Planning
“In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin’s famou...
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MedWatch: Munson Manor Hospitality House
Sometimes, finding the best healthcare means having to travel. For patients at Munson Medical Center...
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MedWatch: Nursing School
This is Nurses Week, a time to honor those tireless workers who are always there, keeping us and our...
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MedWatch: New Simulator
Practice makes perfect. We’ve all heard that before. But for those who work in the medical field, pr...
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MedWatch: Cardio Oncology
For people with cancer, fighting the disease is priority number one. But sometimes the treatments co...
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MedWatch: More Help For Patients With HIV
Between 300 and 800 people are living with HIV or AIDS from Mount Pleasant to the bridge.
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MedWatch: Food Prescription
Prevention is the best medicine, it’s not a secret. That’s why Munson Medical Center jumped at the c...
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MedWatch: Back To School Vaccines
Back to school means pencils, backpacks, getting back on a schedule and for many students, vaccines....
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MedWatch: Cardiac Rehab Support Group
“I have always run or swam but and have lived a family healthy life.” That’s one reason Trish Fiebin...
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MedWatch: Cowell Family Cancer Center Advisory Council
When Munson Medical Center started planning its Cowell Family Cancer Center they needed help.
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MedWatch: Makenzie Method
No one wants to live in pain, but finding the cause and taking care of the problem isn’t always easy...
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MedWatch: New Pacemaker
A pacemaker essentially prevents a slow heartbeat. They are not uncommon, but that doesn’t mean it’s...
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MedWatch: Lifesaving Heart Pump
Many heart problems can stem from lifestyle, but plenty of children are born with bad hearts or can ...
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MedWatch: Outreach Care
When you’re in pain or recovering from surgery, the last thing you want to do is take long trips in ...
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MedWatch Report: TAVR Procedure
Open heart surgery sounds scary, because it is. But thanks to technology, doctors have a lot more op...
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MedWatch: Living Healthy
Weight struggles are real for so many, and the decadence of holiday meals and parties doesn’t make t...
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MedWatch: ReadyLink
“Being the first in the state of Michigan to be fully implemented with a utilization tool like this ...
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MedWatch: Joint Replacement Program
No one wants to live with pain, but plenty of people do, or rely on medications that have side effec...
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MedWatch: Otsego Memorial Hospital
Mike Andrews got the news no one wants to hear a year ago.His doctor told him he had stage three col...
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MedWatch: Lung Cancer Screening
Cancer is about the scariest thing a doctor can say to someone.
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MedWatch: Grand Traverse Bay Area Stroke Club
Stroke is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. It doesn’t just affect patients, but their fam...
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MedWatch: Level 2 Trauma Center
“It was raining really hard that day and he looked at me and he said, ‘Amanda are you sure you’re go...
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MedWatch: Vaccination Requirements
“Doing everything we possibly can to make sure all the children are healthy and safe,”The Children’s...
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MedWatch: Staying Safe In The Water
With summer weather finally here, people are looking for relief and for many that means the beach.
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MedWatch: Journey Program
A cancer diagnosis is bad enough by itself. Then the treatment begins. Radiation and chemotherapy ca...
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MedWatch: Shoulder Replacement
Just cleaning up the yard used to be a very painful experience for Dave Allen.
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MedWatch: Physical Therapy Help
“The majority of our patients are individuals who are in pain. Ninety-five percent of the patients t...
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MedWatch: Colonoscopy
It’s a cancer that affects both men and women — and while 50,000 people die of colorectal cancer eve...
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MedWatch: Understanding Concussions
“What year is it?”This is no ordinary quiz for Mikenna Ray. Athletic trainer John McDougall is givin...
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MedWatch: ACL Tear
Skiing and snowboarding are passions for Darryn Shulte. But after landing a jump wrong in Oregon, hi...
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MedWatch: Radiofrequency Ablation
Having chronic acid reflux not only is uncomfortable, it can be dangerous. People who’ve been dealin...
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MedWatch: New Cancer Center
A cancer diagnosis is terrifying. But what comes after that can be just as confusing and scary for p...
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MedWatch: New G.I. Technology
It’s no secret that technology has make monumental changes in the medical industry. But living in a ...
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MedWatch: MSU Medical School
“We teach medical students, that’s sort of the down and the dirty.”Lyn Conlon is a psychiatrist with...
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MedWatch: New Smart Pumps For Infants
People make mistakes every day, but a slip-up at a hospital can have dire consequences. That’s why t...
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MedWatch: Weight Loss Program Has Key Factors
Losing weight tops many New Year’s Resolution lists. For plenty of people, it maintains a top spot, ...
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