Today is the first annual celebration of National Girl Scout Cookie Day, which the scouts are instating to celebrate the "world's largest girl-led business," and of course, "to make it easy for you to buy or order cookies." But alongside the impending crush of Thin Mints, Samoas, and Do-Si-Dos...
A closer look at personalized or point-of-care healthcare was the focus of a recent international conference in India organized and chaired by NJIT Distinguished Professor Atam Dhawan. The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) International Special Topic Conference in...
Feeding human breast milk to very-low-birth-weight infants greatly reduces risk for sepsis and significantly lowers associated neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) costs, according to a study by Rush University Medical Center researchers. The study, published in the advance online version of the...
Patients who received Guided Care, a comprehensive form of primary care for older adults with chronic health problems, rated the quality of their care much higher than patients in regular primary care, and used less home care, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University...
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Dental care is a necessary aspect of life and everyone dental supplies should visit the dentist regularly. Today, several type of teeth diseases occurred due to several reasons that's why orthodontic treatment has become necessary for all. There are...
bq: what do you think about this.. one of my lifetime goals is to make black the super race, and Nigeria the mother land / one of the best countries in the world?
The health care system in the U.S. is a $2.5 trillion industry and depends heavily on communication and the transfer of information via the Internet. This puts it at ever-increasing risk of a cyberterrorism attack, which could jeopardize lives and threaten patient care and privacy. Cyber threats...
John A. Hartford Foundation calls for better mental health care for older adults, supports team-based collaborative approach Large majorities of older Americans with depression, anxiety, or other mental health disorders are receiving treatment that does not meet evidence-based standards, and...
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act - now assured by the re-election of President Obama - is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at...
I'd love to get any insight from people within the Child and Youth Care or Therapeutic Recreation industries.
Child and Youth Care careers could be in schools, recreation centres, family centres, camps, etc. This would be a career working closely with children and adolescents helping them with...
There are 'insufficient specialists' to serve the UK's multidisciplinary lung cancer teams (LCMDTs) - and some healthcare professionals still hold a 'pessimistic and outdated' view of what can be achieved for patients - says a new, national report published today (20 November) by leading lung...
Why do people care if someone is doing PDA? So many people make a big deal of it and I really don't understand.
My thought process is;
How does it effect me: Doesn't
Can I easily ignore it: Yes, just like I ignore people talking loudly during movies
Does it pose physical danger to me: No
So in...
In Canada alone, almost 2 million people are known to be living with diabetes. Around a million more have the disease but are not aware of that fact, and have not been given the tools they need to control their blood sugar and safeguard their health. The Heart Institute will be presenting the...
A major three-year trial led by researchers at UCL, in partnership with the Health Protection Agency, has shown that giving one-to-one feedback to healthcare workers makes them twice as likely to clean their hands or use soap. The Feedback Intervention Trial (FIT) is the first such trial to be...
So I am a "Survivor" of the Foster Care system, I spent nearly 8 straight years in it, and I was thinking about writing a book mostly highlighting the illegal activities, conducted by social workers, as well as how a child is impacted by it
such as:
The warehousing of children
Abusive Home...
Sometimes half of what we love about getting a facial is the chance to ask an expert what to do about our skin when things aren't looking pretty–which is a pretty common experience for most women we know this time of year. But if you don't have the time or budget, we're here to help: We're...