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  • Executive Health

    Workplace Depression

    How happy are your employees and what can be done to improve the work environment Stress, certain environments and repetitive tasks can all lead to depression among employees. Although many outside factors, such as family trauma, financial issues and medical conditions can also contribute to an employee’s depression, it is important for employers to recognize … Read More

  • Heart & Vascular

    How technology is transforming healthcare

    As seen in The Orange County Register Imagine a future in which every surgery requires a very small to non-existent incision. A future in which nano-robots are injected into your body to fight heart disease. Where your pacemaker will text your doctor if it senses there is something wrong. Some of this technology is already … Read More

  • Cancer

    Preferred Treatment for Patients with Metastatic Melanoma

    For more than 20 years, Interleukin-2 (IL2) was the preferred treatment for medically fit metastatic melanoma patients, but recently two new agents were approved for stage IV disease. Click here to read the journal article.

  • Neurosciences

    Hoag Health – Brain Matters: When the Joker is Wild

    ?Obsessed with a comic book character? You may be courting tragedy. When voices compel you to act like a villain, your tragedy may visit others. With each new mass murder, grief grips yet another large group: We rightfully think first of the lives lost needlessly. The media vilifies the killer: His photo shows what could … Read More

  • Executive Health

    Effects of a Stressful Lifestyle

    Stress can contribute to a number of health conditions, including the common cold and obesity. Recent studies linked frequent stress to accelerating the aging process, even enhancing the onset of Alzheimer’s and dementia, according to researchers. American stress levels have increased within the past 30 years. Women reported an 18 percent increase in stress levels … Read More

  • Executive Health

    Wellness in Action: Smoking Cessation

    We are all well-aware of the risks of regular smoking over a lifetime – stroke, lung cancer and disease, heart disease, cancer of the mouth, kidney, pancreas, cervix, esophagus, bladder and many other health conditions that can result in death. According to the Centers for Disease Control, smoking harms nearly every organ in the human … Read More

  • Executive Health

    A Visit to Hoag Executive Health

    What is an executive physical? Our business is your health. Whether your company has invested in its executives, or you are interested in finding out more about your overall wellness, a visit to Hoag Executive Health takes a comprehensive look at the state of your body. Describing an executive physical as a comprehensive, full-day medical, … Read More

  • Neurosciences

    Brain Matters: When brain surgery is nothing more than a bad hair day

    July 3, 2012 Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD, FACR   You may have seen an “infotainment” TV piece of some third world psychic surgeon removing tumors with his bare hands and not leaving a scar, often accompanied by a gory picture of some bloody handful of stuff.   Ask Kathy H., a now 50- something mother of … Read More

  • Executive Health

    Corporate Health Care

    An Examination of Solutions Available for Companies to Combat the Rising Cost of Health Care Medical expenses are the fastest growing expense in a company’s budget and corporations are struggling to cope with the rapidly rising cost of medical care for employees. The United States spent $2.85 trillion dollars – nearly 22 percent of gross … Read More