by Medwatch 7 | Nov 30, 2020 | Medwatch 7, Diabetes
November is Diabetes Awareness Month. It’s something 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with every year. “Diabetes continues to be on the rise in our community, and all of the statistics nationwide and worldwide,” Jan Miller, Diabetes Dietitian Specialist at Lawton...
by Medwatch 7 | Nov 24, 2020 | Medwatch 7, Palliative
When many people think about hospice, they think about death, but hospice doesn’t just focus on death. Dr. Richard Brittingham, a local medical director for hospice, said they try to make their patient’s last days and months on earth the best that they can be. Dr....
by Medwatch 7 | Nov 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Great American Smokeout takes place every year on the third Thursday of November. Sandy Foster, the program director for the TSET Healthy Living program at CCMH, said it encourages people to quit smoking for just one day. “It’s for the day, but it’s in the hopes...
by Medwatch 7 | Nov 16, 2020 | Medwatch 7, Cancer, Smoking
The American Lung Association says someone in the United States will die from lung cancer every three and a half minutes. It accounts for one in four cancer deaths. Smoking and being around second-hand smoke can cause lung cancer. But how do you know if you have it?...
by Medwatch 7 | Nov 2, 2020 | Medwatch 7, Baby, NICU
The NICU at Comanche County Memorial Hospital is now named the Terry K. Bell Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It was unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony following a donation from the Terry K. Bell Trust to the hospital’s foundation. The funds will go towards purchasing...
