Logan Wirebaugh’s first pregnancy was difficult. She became seriously ill and had to stop working.. However, her second pregnancy had an even more devastating, life-altering impact: her daughter was stillborn. Overwhelmed by grief, Logan went into a deep depression. “It was pretty rough, and it put me, my fiancé, and our home into a really dark place,” Logan said. That darkness seemed insurmountable at first, but then a visit to the McLaren Flint Family Medicine Residency Center gave Logan the glimmer o...
Type 2 diabetes cases continue to rise, and heart disease is still the number one killer of both men and women. But what do they have to do with each other? “Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease,” said Dr. Hameem Changezi , an interventional cardiologist at McLaren Flint. “Amongst the alterations that occur within the body, there are cholesterol abnormalities that develop resulting in high "bad" cholesterol as well as triglycerides, which cause cholesterol deposition in arteries and block...
According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, “irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a group of symptoms that occur together, including repeated pain in your abdomen and changes in your bowel movements, which may be diarrhea, constipation, or both. With IBS, you have these symptoms without any visible signs of damage or disease in your digestive tract.” “IBS-C is primarily constipation and IBS-D is primarily diarrhea,” said Athar Ghannam, MD, Family Medicine resident at ...