Tick season in North Carolina arrived earlier this year due to the mild winter.
WakeMed Physician Michele Casey, MD, spoke to WTVD this week about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of tick bites and related illnesses.
Preventing tick-borne illnesses can be as simple as using insect repellent before you venture into wooded areas.
Check your body and your [...]

WakeMed Health & Hospitals dedicated this week its Raleigh Campus Level I Trauma Center and Emergency Departments as the Raymond L. Champ Centers for Emergency Medicine.  A special dedication ceremony was held in Champ’s honor on Thursday.
Champ served as WakeMed’s president and chief executive officer from 1983 to 2003. The county’s only trauma service and [...]

Thanks and high paws to everyone who voted to help Scully advance in the 2012 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards.
Scully is currently in eighth place and needs your help to become a finalist.
Log on to www.herodogawards.org and click here to vote for him in the service dog category. Voting ends on June 30. If [...]

Dr. Brandon Roy, a weight loss surgeon with Wake Specialty Physicians’ Bariatric Program, and Lucy Merritt, a patient of Dr. Roy, talk with Maggie Alexander of NBC about the role that bariatric surgery can play in reversing diabetes. A pair of studies released last week found that weight-loss surgery worked better than traditional therapies for [...]

Scully, the star of the WakeMed Pet Assisted Program, has been nominated for the 2012 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards. Finalists get a trip to Hollywood.
Created two years ago, the awards celebrate the contributions of our four-legged friends who offer a comforting paw during times of need, protect our communities, and serve as first [...]

The Triangle Business Journal (TBJ) honored 25 local professionals this year with Health Care Hero Awards, including four from WakeMed.
All four WakeMed finalists – Susan Evans, Rosemary Kenny, Dr. Duncan Phillips and Tiffany Young – won in their respective categories. The winners were announced on Thursday, March 22 at a special dinner at the Raleigh [...]

WakeMed is on track to open a health care complex on U.S. 70 in Garner, scheduled to open in April 2013.
The Garner Town Council approved this week a special use permit for the facility and agreed to rezone the 20-acre site across from the Agri-Supply store, according to the Raleigh News & Observer.
The 50,000-square-foot facility [...]

For many toddlers and young children, home is a place of discovery.
The adventure of learning to stand, walk, and reach that shiny object way on the top shelf can prove irresistible. But these adventures can be dangerous and even downright deadly if the proper precautions are not taken.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates [...]

WakeMed’s Mother’s Milk Bank was recently featured in a news story by Fox Wilmington about the increasing demand for “human milk for human babies”. The milk bank is one of the most established on the East Coast and one of only 10 in the country. Thousands of babies have benefited from the program. WakeMed collects [...]

Both WRAL and NBC 17 did stories this week featuring WakeMed Physician Dr. Michele Casey about the importance of getting the whooping cough vaccine.
Eighty-two cases of the contagious disease were recently confirmed in Alamance County.
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a bacterial disease which leads to severe coughing that can cause people to make [...]