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Health Articles

Each quarter, the West Tennessee Physicians' Alliance prints a newsletter with health stories from interviews with its physicians.

  • Stories from Winter 2015

    • Changes looming for health insurance marketplace
    • Clinic memorializes Dr. James Barker
    • Board members retiring
    • Pelvic medicine subspecialty helps to keep patients active
    • Dr. Warren retires after 46 years in medicine
    • Four doctors join West Tennessee Physicians' Alliance
    • Clinical research improves kidney disease treatment
    • 3-D printing technology creates customized knee implants with better results
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  • Stories from Fall 2015

    • Fight diabetes with diet and exercise
    • The times, they are a-changin'
    • Experienced, certified providers needed for accurate nerve and muscle testing
    • Abnormal uterine bleeding shouldn't change your life
    • Physicians Quality Care expands OCCMed, physical therapy treatment areas
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  • Stories from Summer 2015

    • What's in the box?
    • Watch out for that plant!
    • Hydration helps prevent heat illness
    • Be kind to your skin this summer
    • Avoid common foot injuries
    • Eye injuries increase with summer activities
    • Food poisoning threatens family picnics
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  • Stories from Spring 2015

    • Proactive health care and downtown opportunities
    • Dr. Shyamal Sharkar joins West TN Physicians’ Alliance
    • Physicians’ Alliance adds new board member
    • Diabetes is rampant in Tennessee
    • Phototherapy effectively treats a variety of skin conditions
    • Dr. Nord invents devices to make surgery easier
    • Doctors correct myth of gluten allergy
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  • Stories from Winter 2014

    • Dr. Michael Cobb performs Jackson’s first outpatient partial knee replacement
    • Vitamins essential for proper body function
    • ‘We look at you as a whole picture’
    • WTPA welcomes Dr. G. Blake Chandler
    • WTPA welcomes Dr. Nicolas Arcuri
    • Popular pediatrician retires after 36 years
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  • Stories from Fall 2014

    • Take precautions for approaching flu season
    • Selfs balance pediatrician careers, family
    • Dr. Herron retires after 38 years
    • Dr. Melanie Hoppers participates in flu research
    • Hip mobility and hip arthroscopy
    • Back to School with the WTPA
    • Whooping cough on the rise, doctors recommend vaccine
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  • Stories from Summer 2014

    • Protect your skin from sun damage, cancer
    • Oncologists move practice to Kirkland Cancer Center
    • Realistic approach important to health care reform
    • Dr. Carraher runs Boston Marathon after knee surgery
    • WTPA: A leader in providing affordable, quality care
    • Dr. Alhaddad joins Apex Cardiology
    • Dr. Fakorede joins Mid-South Heart Center
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  • Stories from Spring 2014

    • Specialist in pain management joins Alliance
    • Aa-choo! Allergies blossom in spring
    • Addiction: an epidemic disease
    • Photodynamic therapy removes skin lesions
    • Youth baseball injuries on the rise
    • New executive director begins work with WTPA
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  • Stories from Winter 2013

    • New aortic valve replacement helps patients at risk for open heart surgery
    • Too many rich, spicy foods and beverages equal ... Holiday Heartburn
    • Jackson Surgical Associates joins Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network
    • Take care of your heart: eat healthy
    • Don’t ignore varicose vein problems
    • When a heart attack strikes ...
    • Physicians’ Alliance Executive Director to retire
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  • Stories from Fall 2013

    • Physician cycles 500 miles in five days in the fight against breast cancer
    • No such thing as a mild concussion
    • Addiction a threat with painkillers
    • Need special medical care? Most likely, you’ll find it here in Jackson
    • Athletes at risk for facial injuries
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  • Stories from Spring 2013

    • Physician assistant focuses on women’s urology
    • Small steps to change your lifestyle turn into big improvements in your health
    • The controversy surrounding screening for prostate cancer
    • Robot a great tool for certain surgeries
    • Slowed down by joint pain? Not all solutions lead to joint replacement surgery
    • Don’t wait too long to have the sexuality conversation with your young teenager
    • Physicians Surgery Center Awarded on Newsweek’s America’s Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2023 List
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  • Stories from Summer 2013

    • The perils of summer
    • Pregnancy not easy, especially in summer
    • Hand surgeon pioneers 'wide-awake' surgery
    • Healthy feet make the best dancing feet
    • Physicians Quality Care expands its unique approach to urgent care to Milan
    • Dermatology Clinic moves to north Jackson
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  • Stories from Winter 2012

    • 'It was great to be part of Team USA
    • Risk, prevention of heart disease
    • Tick. Tick. Tick. Every minute counts
    • Advancements in treatment save lives
    • Life after a heart attack
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  • Stories from Fall 2012

    • Z-LASIK — The gentle way to restore vision
    • Cataracts: We all get them if we live long enough
    • Running to new heights
    • Chronic kidney disease a growing problem
    • The interesting world of food allergies
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  • Stories from Summer 2012

    • Colon cancer does not need to be a killer
    • Electronic records may have benefits
    • Expansion = better patient service
    • ‘Things worth doing are worth doing right’
    • Interesting cases at Bingham Nerve & Muscle
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  • Stories from Spring 2012

    • Cardiologist involved in clinical trials
    • Diagnosing and treating glaucoma, retinal disease earlier
    • The opiate challenge: Powerful painkillers are highly addictive
    • Urologists use 'robots' for some surgeries
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