Whether your child is a football player or a cheerleader, there’s always the chance they could suffer from a concussion. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), concussions account for nearly 15 percent of all high school sports injuries. If your child suffers a concussion during a sporting activity, they must be evaluated and treated as soon as possible.
Living with or caring for someone with severe allergies can be nerve-wracking. You always need to be prepared for the possibility of an allergic reaction. The treatment for a life-threatening allergic reaction triggered by certain foods, medication or insect bites, is epinephrine, which is traditionally administered via an auto injector like the EpiPen.
As a teaching hospital, Doylestown Health is proud to educate the next generation of physicians. We recently welcomed eight new Family Medicine residents who will see patients at our Doylestown Health Family Medicine Residency Practice, conveniently located in the Health and Wellness Center in Warrington.
During the summer months, you may expect to be hot, but when heatwaves occur, spending prolonged time outdoors in the can lead to severe heat-related illnesses.
Doylestown Health Urgent Care, located at 4259 West Swamp Road in Doylestown, Pa., has received the Urgent Care Association (UCA) Accreditation designation, the highest level of distinction for an urgent care center. UCA Accreditation illustrates an organization’s overriding commitment to safety, quality and scope of services.
It was a normal Thursday afternoon in January of 2020, and Darryl Kepler was coaching wrestling practice at Central Bucks High School West (CB West). “That’s why I knew he couldn’t be the one knocking on the door,” said Marianne Kepler.
The smoke that traveled south from the Canadian wildfires in the summer of 2023 made the outside air difficult to breathe and exacerbated symptoms for asthma sufferers like Joan Klein. With imminent plans to travel cross-country to California to visit her daughter, Joan recalled thinking “I should probably go see my pulmonologist, Dr. Acharya, to make sure it is okay to fly,” she said. “I was being proactive about one thing, and it turns out they found another!”