Lyle Hurd: Hello again, Dr. Cass.Hyla Cass: Hi.Lyle Hurd: You, in a previous segment that we did, told us that its never to early to either begin or to help someone begin to understand the concept of wellness. Is it ever too late?Hyla Cass: Never too late. Ive had women in the eighties whove started to do weight training and they reversed their osteoporosis. Now, in addition to doing weight traini...read more

Three Tips To Prevent Medical ErrorsLadies, Id like to give you three important tips for being part of your healthcare team and helping to prevent medical errors in the hospital. The first most important thing is that you become knowledgeable about your disease or your condition. If you are going in for a certain type of procedure, read about that procedure, but go to knowledgeable sources. Know a...read more

The lymphatic system is part of our internal garbage disposal system and is also part of our immune system. The lymph system transports nutrients to cells and removes waste from cells. Unlike blood, lymph fluid can dig deep into tissue to remove toxic wastes such as acids and mucus. Lymph glands then collect the waste material and dump it to the blood stream for delivery to the colon, kidneys, lun...read more

Travis: How can you bite your own toe nails?Lisa: Well I do it all the time. I used to do it all the time. Travis: You could take a yoga class first or something. Can you do it?Lisa: Well I have a skirt on but yeah!Travis: Have you ever?Lisa: Yeah! I used to.Travis: I want to see that! Why? Lisa: Its a habit! Just like biting your nails.Travis: Yeah! But how you get it a habit on biting ...read more

HI, Im Jennifer McEntire with the Institute of Food technologist. And weve been talking about how to handle your food safely. Weve gone through hand washing, keeping food separate, chilling them, cooking them, now were all pretty much all finished and were ready to pack up and put this food away.What you want to do is store food in containers that are two inches deep or less. So when you have bigg...read more

What is rheumatoid arthritis?Dr. W. Hayes Wilson: Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease that effects about two to two-and-a-half million Americans. It's the second most common type of arthritis. It is the first though that we think of, when we think of inflammatory arthritis. An inflammation of course, has several characteristics. If it's red, it's hot, it's swollen and painful. Then it's probably inf...read more

The Role of a PathologistHi, I am Dr. Jaime Shamonki. I am a pathologist here at Saint Johns Health Center, which is affiliated with the John Wayne Cancer Institute.I am a pathologist with an expertise in breast surgical pathology. Here at Saint Johns we serve the west Los Angeles and Santa Monica area, and we also have patients with a wide referral basis.A pathologist is a doctor who actually ser...read more