– A couple hundred people wore red and flocked to the Macy’s parking lot at Oakland Mall Saturday afternoon in hopes of forming the biggest red dress in the world and spreading awareness about heart disease.
While the group fell short of the 1,000 organizers said was needed to set a record, participants shared personal stories about their encounters with the disease.
Barbara Bucaro suffered a heart attack in October. It scared her and prompted Read the rest of this entry »
Published September 17, 2008
GALVESTON Down a darkened hallway at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, administrators huddled around a conference table planning the return to normalcy.
It will take months before the medical branch can perform what were once routine procedures and weeks before the emergency room is functioning normally.
There was no water, sewer, gas or electricity Wednesday morning. No one was sure when those Read the rest of this entry »
Blood pressure gap leads to deaths of 8,000 blacks
ATLANTA (AP) — The lives of nearly 8,000 black Americans could be saved each year if doctors could figure out a way to bring their average blood pressure down to the average level of whites, a surprising new study found. The gap between the races in controlling blood pressure is well-known, but the resulting number of lives lost startled some scientists.
“We expected it to be big, but it Read the rest of this entry »
— The City of Dallas has opened an employee medical clinic at City Hall to provide preventive, urgent, and acute medical services to city staff, their dependents, and retirees.
“The City of Dallas is committed to improving the health and well-being of its employees by providing convenient access to medical services,” said City Manager Mary K. Suhm. “We believe that providing basic medical services on-site will help improve the overall Read the rest of this entry »
Spanish golf great Seve Ballesteros developed a complication following brain tumor surgery, requiring doctors to remove a piece of his skull to relieve pressure.
Ballesteros, 51, was stable but in intensive care Thursday at La Paz Hospital in Madrid.
After part of the tumor was taken out Tuesday, the hospital said, Ballesteros’ brain began to swell. Part of the skull was removed — a procedure known as decompressive craniotomy — to allow room Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Bruce Rubin, has seen a lot of puzzling cases of respiratory problems. But Rubin, the vice chair of pediatric pulmonology at Wake Forest University Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., said he had never encountered anything quite like the case he saw about three years ago.
An emergency room physician consulted Rubin when an 18-month-old girl who had a common upper respiratory infection suddenly developed severe breathing problems.
“The patient Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, February 23, 2009
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, a small firm out of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, won FDA approval to market the firm’s innovative safety syringe. The unit develops a vacuum inside the chamber as the plunger is depressed. When it reaches the end, the needle breaks through the plunger’s membrane and gets sucked into the chamber. Watch the video at the product link below to see it in action.
No splatter or aerosol.
Actuation requires Read the rest of this entry »
Registered dietitian Betty Boscarino wants to help reduce cancer risks bite by bite.
“Diet-related factors may account for up to 30 percent of all diagnosed cancer in the United States,” says Boscarino, who’s on staff at Beaumont Hospital, Troy. “And obesity may replace smoking as the number one preventable cause of many cancers.”
Diet and obesity are linked to breast and colon cancers and may be linked to aggressive forms of prostate cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
By DENNIS J. WRIGHT
PHOENIXVILLE — Employees at Phoenixville Hospital were “seeing red,” as they participated in National Wear Red Day this past Friday.
By wearing red clothing and making a donation, the hospital employees helped the American Heart Association (AHA) raise much-needed dollars for heart research and educational programs.
Steve Tullman, CEO, Phoenixville Hospital, said he was glad to see so many employees wearing red on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
Women: Got an hour? Get 3 important health tests, free
ROCKPORT
(Oct 14):
A Women’s Health Screening Day will be held on the Penobscot Bay Medical Center campus on Friday, Oct. 24. The screenings will take place at the Women’s Health Building—located at 3 Glen Cove Drive in Rockport—and at the Read the rest of this entry »