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Health First Turns Citizens Into Superheroes at CPR Day

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With the theme of “Be a Superhero, Learn to Save a Life,” Health First CPR Day turned 5,000 regular citizens into rescuers to aid a victim until professional help arrives. Held on June 4 at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Health First made learning CPR easy with a guided class led by the trained Health First staff and volunteers, emergency medical professionals and physicians and mannequins lined on the baseball field. Participants of all ages Read More …

Health First Uses Minimally Invasive Equipment to Detect Lung Cancer

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Health First has a new weapon in the fight against lung cancer. In December, Health First Medical Group’s Dr. Theodore Amgott completed the first two procedures in Brevard County using state-of-the-art Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy (ENB) at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center. ENB is used to reach parts of the lung that previously were unreachable and unseeable with traditional bronchoscopy. According to Amgott, not only does it allow access to distant areas of the lung, Read More …