During a presentation to the Regents’ health subcommittee Wednesday, Bailey said the change helps the medical center address needs of its patients. Its pediatric beds operated at about 40% of capacity, averaging fewer than 10 patients a day. Children’s Hospital averages 162 patients daily, running about 71% of its 232-bed capacity.
Sharon Speck, a pediatric care nurse at UCI Medical Center, said there are benefits to the transfer, including strengthened Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — Drug and alcohol tests were negative on the
apprentice steersman operating the tugboat Mel Oliver
involved in the July 23 accident that caused a large oil
spill on the Mississippi River. Tests on one of the
tugboat’s deckhands were positive for illegal drugs.
The information was obtained from the Coast Guard by the
House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime
Transportation in advance of a hearing today on the oil
spill, which is Read the rest of this entry »

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. For more than 35 years the Foundation has brought experience, commitment, Read the rest of this entry »

Celiac.com 11/10/2008 – Dietary shifts in recent years towards more organic food choices and low carb diets have forever-altered the food pyramid—the grocery world is changing in response to our health concerns.
Now there is a new trend in the food world: the gluten-free diet.
According to Nielson reports, the gluten free sector of the grocery world grew 20% between June of 2007 and 2008.
With unarguable growth in this new direction, the Read the rest of this entry »

The man arrived at Lee Memorial Hospital bloodied from a gunshot wound.
He was rushed into surgery with Dr. H. Quillian Jones Jr., a young surgeon straight from medical school, and spent hours in surgery to remove the bullet.
What happened next could have cost Jones his job; instead, it became a defining moment in his career.
It was the mid-1960s, and segregation prohibited black patients from staying at Lee Memorial, where white patients were Read the rest of this entry »

Is the American obsession with diets and calorie-counting giving way to an emphasis on “positive” eating? That’s what an article in today’s
suggests. The idea is that instead of focusing on what you don’t eat, look for ways of adding healthier, home-cooked foods with an emphasis on seasonal vegetables, nuts, berries.
About 26 percent of women and 16 percent of men still report they are dieting, according to the market research firm NPD Group. Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK (Associated Press) – Two HIV drugs approved last year for patients who have developed resistance to older drugs also work well in new patients, and with fewer troubling side effects than a widely used regimen, according to the drugs’ makers.
Late-stage, company-funded studies on the drugs, aimed at winning approval to also market them for previously untreated patients, were presented Sunday at a conference of infectious disease specialists Read the rest of this entry »

iambic is a leading provider of innovative productivity-enhancing
software applications that help individuals and business organizations
everywhere save time, manage their activities more effectively and get
the most out of their handheld computers (smartphones and PDAs). The
company’s product line includes the award-winning, fully-integrated,
personal information manager Agendus Professional (Palm OS and
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Will Joe the plumber get health care? We did not hear enough discussion on health care from Senators McCain and Obama in their debates for us to tell. So we have just had our own debate entirely on health care between advisers to their campaigns at a place where we try not to perpetuate myths: the University of Virginia. When they were asked what would happen in health care next year if their candidate was elected, the difference was stark: McCain’s Read the rest of this entry »