Watch: Cleveland Clinic Robot Improves Bypass Surgery for Local Woman

Cleveland Clinic blogger Erica Foreman shares this video of a Broadview Heights woman whose doctors used robots on her heart bypass surgery.

5 Tips to Eat Without Guilt this Holiday

“Fitness, nutrition, mind, body and spirit are all connected,” said Hillcrest Employee Wellness Coordinator and RN, Rose Hosler. This week she provides tips for overall well-being during the holidays to help keep your weight steady while indulging.

Don't Diet: Because food temptations abound during the holidays, it is not the time to deprive yourself. It's difficult to say I'm not going to have that or I'm not going to have this, especially when you're at a party, explained RN Rose Hosler. She suggests changing your mind set from “deprivation” to “moderation.” “Just watch your portions and let go of it,” she said. Be Mindful: Take note of what you're eating. This is the time of year when people put out trays of food at parties and work. People pass by these foods and take one. Then they pass by again and take another. Then they go off to work and do the same thing. These empty-calorie foods add up, warned Hosler. If you have one or two holiday parties throughout a month and have a …

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Feeling Some Holiday Stress?

Relax with these simple, holistic tips from the Cleveland Clinic's wellness coordinator.

Men Can Get Breast Cancer Too, Say Cleveland Clinic, UH Specialists

Men are particularly at risk if the breast cancer gene (BRCA2) runs in their family.

The focus of Breast Cancer Awareness efforts are focused on women -- the ribbons are pink, after all. But men can get breast cancer too. Patch sat down with a few local experts about male breast cancer:    Patch: Why is it important to talk about male breast cancer? Dr. Lee: It's important because men don't think they can get breast cancer. They don't think they can receive a mammogram screening. The discussion should be focused on breaking the myths and informing people on what is fact versus fiction. Men will say to me “men can't get breast cancer.” So they tend to show up late, when the lump has been there for several months, which is usually stage 2 or later. And that means that it has already spread to the lymph nodes because they …

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City Gets Prepared for Katherine, Riverview Projects

Steps taken to issue bonds for access road, sewage construction as part of upcoming improvements

The city of Brecksville approved the rolling over of short-term notes on Tuesday in preparation for issuing bonds for improvements on Katherine Blvd. and for the Riverview Road Sanitary Sewer. The Katherine Blvd. project is slated for $1.2 million for an access road and various sewage and electrical projects, while Riverview Rd. is listed at $900,000. The bonds will be issued in September and assessments will be collected in 2013, Council President Greg Skaljac said in an e-mail. The Katherine Blvd. project began five years ago with the Cleveland Clinic data center, Applied Medical Technologies and Stautzenberger College residing in the corridor. Both projects are in the early stages of the assessment process, Skaljac said. Skaljac stated …

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Cleveland Clinic Hopes New iPad App Helps Diagnose Concussions

Brecksville-Broadview Heights athletes took part in a pilot of the app this fall.

This fall, Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School had another tool to help students on the sidelines. That tool came in the form of an iPad app created by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic to help doctors and athletic trainers spot a concussion. Brecksville-Broadview Heights was one of the districts in the pilot, which also included Solon and John Carroll University. A concussion is a complicated, “multi-symptom” event, said lead developer Jay Alberts, of the department of biomedical engineering and the Center for Neurological Restoration at the clinic. But often, people just check for memory loss after a possible concussion, asking the individual if they know what day it is. The app, called the Cleveland Clinic Concussion Assessment …

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Dr. Bernadine Healy Loop, Who Led National Institutes of Health, American Red Cross and More, Died Saturday at 67

The Gates Mills resident and wife of former Cleveland Clinic CEO Floyd D. Loop wrote a book about her journey with brain cancer.

Dr. Bernadine Healy Loop, the first woman to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health and past president of the American Red Cross, died Saturday, Aug. 6, at age 67. The Gates Mills resident wrote a memoir about her experience with brain cancer titled The Living Time: Faith and Facts to Transform Your Cancer Journey in 2007. She was named Cleveland Clinic head of research in 1985, NIH director in 1991, Ohio State University college of medicine dean in 1995, American Heart Association president in 1998 and Red Cross CEO in 1999. In 1994, she ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, losing in the primary to Mike DeWine. Healy, who had been a science and technology adviser to President Ronald Reagan…

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