Health

The next time you or a loved one is a patient at Porter, you should notice a subtle difference. Not loud or boisterous, the change has to do with what you won’t hear.  Believing that quiet promotes healing; Porter has quietly instituted a...

Antioxidants are a certain type of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. They help protect your body from some health problems, such as: cancer artery and heart disease arthritis cataracts Beta-carotene, vitamins C and E, and selenium are the antioxidants...

For two weeks, Porter physicians Vikram D. Appannagari, M.D., and Nicholas Retson, M.D., along with seven local nurses took their humanitarian efforts to the northern reaches of India, performing nearly 40 surgeries over five days. In doing so, the...

Picture this: your 17 year old is at the plate, bases are loaded, the count is full. If he hits it out of the park, his team wins and he may get a college scholarship. Yes, there is a lot of pressure on these young student athletes to perform. In...

In the past, arthritis of the hip has been accepted as a painful disability. Many people were resigned to living in a wheelchair. Over the past thirty years, advances in the treatment of hip arthritis, as well as hip replacement surgery, have allowed...

An apparent life-threatening event (ALTE), is the term sometimes given to a prolonged infant apnea spell. It is an episode in which an infant has apnea, or stops breathing for long enough to cause: choking and gagging color change in the skin and...

Nutrition, also called healthy eating, plays a key role in athletic performance (also known as sports nutrition). A healthy diet follows the basic Food Guide Pyramid. Athletes may need to increase their amounts of certain nutrients for peak...

Nutrition needs and developmental skills change as a child grows. An age-appropriate diet is one that provides the nutrients a child needs to grow and to develop. It also includes foods that a child likes and can eat easily. The Food Guide Pyramid...

Porter health system recently hosted “An Afternoon with daVinci” – a two-part event featuring an appreciation program for recent Porter daVinci robotic surgery patients, then a community educational open house highlighting the dramatic and...

In little less than a year, Porter's da Vinci surgery program has become one of the fastest growing programs in Indiana and now has seven physicians who have undergone detailed, advanced level training where they learned to perform procedures with...