First, a Happy and Healthy New Year to all! Did you make New Year’s resolutions this year to help ensure it is indeed a healthy year? Here are a few suggestions to keep your health oriented resolutions.

It’s the time of year when many of us take stock in the passing year’s accomplishments and set our intentions for the coming year. In 2015, the Department of Surgery’s researchers and physicians made significant strides in some of the most challenging areas of medicine.

Surgeons at the Division of Colorectal Surgery are able to perform procedures that maintain continence, reverse ostomies, and provide other treatment options not available elsewhere.

Research in the Division of Colorectal Surgery

Non-surgical and minimally invasive therapies resolve symptoms, restore quality of life for the majority of patients.

The innovative LYMPHA procedure prevented lymphedema in 90% of patients undergoing breast surgery, according to a study published by Dr. Feldman and colleagues October 15, 2015, in the Annals of Surgical Oncology.

Going gluten free can be a very drastic change, especially if you are currently eating a significant amount of bread and pasta. While whole grains are healthy, refined grains such as white rice, white bread, and white pasta, certainly are not. Unfortunately many gluten free processed foods contain significant amounts of white potato and white rice, which can have a larger impact on your blood sugar than whole grain varieties.