“The innovation of KPF’s
design is clear,” said Christopher Dawes,
President and CEO at Packard Children’s. “Not
only have they addressed our very critical capacity issues, but they’ve
also taken our reputation for child and family-friendly care to the next
level. It’s an environment that embraces
safety, comfort and privacy, all components in the extraordinary healing
journey we have built our Read the rest of this entry »
Maybe it’s providence or God’s way of saying thank you, and maybe it’s the relaxed ambience at houses of prayer, but mosques, churches, synagogues and shrines apparently keep the angel of death away.
At least those are the findings of a study published recently by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
In one of the most comprehensive studies ever of the connection between religious Read the rest of this entry »
It Runs In My Family is a tool for disease prevention that takes the family history of any individual as the starting point. This tool enables anybody to create what the site terms a “family pedigree” and enter the diseases that run in his family. A report is then produced, and it can be presented to any specific healthcare professionals for him to weigh it up.
In addition to this family health history tool, the site includes a full section Read the rest of this entry »
MINNEAPOLIS — The numbers sound frightening. If a flu pandemic like the one of 1918 strikes, up to a third of Minnesota’s population could become sick. Over 32,000 Minnesotans might die. Normal health care and emergency services and the distribution of essential goods could be crippled.
So say officials at the Minnesota Department of Health, the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics.
And because of that potential Read the rest of this entry »
“There is a great need for a center of this nature in the region. People in South Central Massachusetts will no longer have to travel great distances to receive world-class cancer care. By building this center, we will enable our patients to receive Harrington’s trademark TLC — total local care,” said Harrington Hospital Chief Executive Officer Edward Moore, who presided at the groundbreaking with Alan Peppel, the chairman of the board of Harrington Read the rest of this entry »
– Gaza’s main hospital, already full of Palestinians wounded in the week-long Israeli air assault, reached critical mass on Sunday, according to a Norwegian doctor volunteering at Shifa Hospital.
“We’ve had a steady stream [of patients] every day, but the last 24 hours has [brought] about triple the number of cases,” Dr. Erik Fosse told CNN. “So this day has been extremely busy.”
Fosse said he estimated that about 30 percent of the casualties Read the rest of this entry »
When it comes to your heart, small is big. Small dietary changes can make a really big difference in reducing your risk for heart disease. The leading cause of death in this country has been closely linked to unhealthy eating habits, based on a large body of research conducted over the past several decades.
What can you do to eat more nutritiously? Adding more heart-healthy foods is a good place to start.
Along with preventive-medicine expert, Read the rest of this entry »
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Over the past decade, there has been significant cross-border consolidation, involving major pharmaceutical companies and promising biotech firms.
Whatever operating efficiencies that consolidation may have generated, none of it was passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices.
During the same period, there has been a steady decline in the number of important new drugs flowing from company research labs.
All of which ought to raise serious Read the rest of this entry »
Doctors should be given a “driver’s licence” to ensure they are well trained and kept up to date in the appropriate prescribing of drugs, two senior medical specialists said yesterday,
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Prof David Webb, from the University of Edinburgh, and Jeff Aronson, from the University of Oxford and the British Pharmacological Society, warned there was strong potential for mis-prescribing. This could cause deaths and side effects in patients because of inadequate Read the rest of this entry »