A recent special U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled that there was no link between autism and vaccines. Since the Supreme Court has just announced today that it will decide if vaccine manufactures can be …
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ER nurses (and docs and staff) have seen it all and their crusty humor is sharpened by some of the patients that they see who try their patience.
This informal survey by Reader’s Digest asked ER …
The New England Journal of Medicine published a study 2/11/10 that showed that childhood obesity doubled the risk of early death, defined as death before age 55. Childhood obesity is defined as having a body mass …
A simple test that measures reaction time in athletes may help diagnose concussion on the field. Although this test is not meant to replace computerized testing and medical treatment, delayed reaction time is one indicator of mild …
The Urban Institute (UI), an independent non-partisan policy institute, created in the 1960s to examine the problems facing American cities, released a paper in October 2009, entitled, “The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform: …
Limiting TV/computer time to less than 2 hours a night, family dinners (5 or more times a week) and getting a good night’s sleep (at least 10.5 hrs of sleep) lessen a child’s risk for obesity a new …
As hard as this is to believe, a nurse who worked as the corportate compliance officer and quality improvement officer at WinklerCounty Memorial Hospital in Texas, has been arrested and charged with “misuse of official …
In the novel, “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein, Enzo the main character in the story who just happens to be a dog, detects cancer on the breath of his mistress, well …
A large national clinical trial testing doses of Vitamin D and fish oil supplements is currently recruiting 20,000 older adults to examine the impact of Vit D and omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil supplements.
The study …
Go figure. . . Some state legislatures are now gearing up to ban governmental mandatory health insurance mandates. This will do nothing to curb the costs to hospitals for treating the uninsured. Case in point: …
A “proof of principle” study using 3 simple and quick eye tests, correctly identified 69 out of 69 patients with stroke. All 69 of the patients had at least one risk factor for stroke (high …
My father has lost his balance and fallen serveral times and when I watch him get up and try to navigate a narrow space his balance seems worse. So I asked him the other day, …
Yesterday, I had surgery to remove a neuroma in my foot. It was my second operation because, well, my first surgeon mistakenly believed it to be between my 2nd and 3rd toes and so removed …
This is the latest information (week ending 6/20/09) on the H1N1 (Swine) Flu Pandemic in the U.S. For further information go to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the U.S. government.
