By Starkey Hearing Aids Diagnose your dizziness While most people simply say, “I feel dizzy” when describing their symptoms, it’s important for your doctor to know which type of dizziness you feel. Take balance issues seriously. Often taken for granted, good balance is necessary to perform daily activities. But our balance...
The Panama City Beach Chamber of Commerce is proud to host the 11th Annual Women’s Work-Life Symposium presented by Emerald Coast Hospice. The date is set for Friday, September 24, at FSU Panama City’s Holley Academic Center and will take place from 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., with a...
By Maggie Little If we thought we had control over our lives, the pandemic of 2020 has taught us to think again. The question is no longer, “Am I in control or not?” Rather it is, “How do I respond in a situation beyond my control?” Reinhold Niebuhr’s Serenity Prayer...
By Jamie C. Williamson, PhD This new school year is the perfect time to refresh your parenting style and renew your approach to family communication. Back-to-school means back-to-routines for children and their parents or caregivers. In anticipation of this annual change, insightful parents adjust their family routines based on their children’s...
Eye Center South is accepting applications for its annual Gift of Sight program, where physicians offer free cataracts surgeries for those who qualify. The Gift of Sight program is offered to patients living in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia who are financially in need and meet the qualifications for cataract lens...
By Dr. Richard Chern, M.D. Hormone therapy can be traced back over 2000 years when the Chinese isolated pituitary and sex hormones for medicinal purposes. The hormones had not been identified, but the benefits were already known. Of course, many discoveries have occurred since then and today we are not...
By Dr. Richard Chern, M.D. Testosterone shots for men have been used to treat testosterone deficiency for many years. There has also been a lot of bad press about using “testosterone” in men, because previously, many men abused testosterone and later faced consequences such as heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms,...
We do not believe in coincidences. So, when the home we’ve been courting is featured on multiple platforms, going viral, we figure God’s hand is at work. Since March of this year, we have been praying over a home in Panama City, Florida that could be our recovery program’s forever...
Mild sensory loss also strongly linked to dementia risk. By Beth Howard, AARP Declines in hearing or vision have been linked to dementia in the past, but combined losses in these two senses are associated with a greater risk of both dementia and Alzheimer’s — even if the impairment to both...
As a longtime supporter of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida (BBBSNWFL), the Gulf Power Foundation has donated to the agency $25,000 to support local mentoring programs that serve over 550 children from Panama City to Pensacola. Summer is around the corner, and this gift will help ensure all...