Measuring patient engagement: What would Ken Schwartz think?
Source: Kevin M.D. Medical Blog
Nashua :: NH :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:52:39 -0700 | health-news
May 17, 2013 Don't get me wrong, it's huge to see patient safety evolving to be a front-burner issue. After beating the drum for years, the National Patient Safety Foundation and other groups are seeing progress, with meaningful use, electronic...
Art therapy has positive effects on cancer
Posted by: Debbie Nicholson
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 11:33:59 -0700 | health-news
Art therapy shows improvements in pain, quality of life, depression and anxiety Art therapy is a healing art intended to integrate physical, emotional and spiritual care by facilitating creative ways for patients to respond to their cancer experience. View slideshow:...
Ontario nurses call for moratorium on registered nursing cuts
Source: The Globe and Mail
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-17 10:43:56 -0700 | health-news
The Ontario Nurses Association is calling for a moratorium on cuts to registered nursing positions in the province. The union says Ontario has the second-lowest RN-to-population ratio in the country: 668 RNs per 100,000 residents, compared to an average of...
How the Sequester is Killing Healthcare Jobs
Source: Money Morning
Bethesda :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:42:07 -0700 | health-news
In short, the sequester is delivering precisely the kind of broad, damaging and indiscriminate cuts that politicians warned would happen...How the Sequester Is Costing Jobs To bickering pundits in Washington, the sequester seems like an abstract economic concept that may...
Marin General Hospital nurses warn that new computer system is causing errors, call for time out
Source: Health Care Renewal
Providence :: RI :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:39:22 -0700 | health-news
Nearly a dozen nurses attended the regularly scheduled meeting of the Marin Healthcare District board Tuesday night at Marin General to voice their concerns. The district board oversees Marin General, but it does not involve itself in the hospital's day-to-day...
Bed Bug Bites Often Mistaken for Mosquito Bites
Posted by: bt4ever
Dayton :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:52:18 -0700 | health-news
The bed bug epidemic is not as sensational as it was two years ago, but it is still a problem across the world. When people mistake bed bug bites for mosquito bites it can delay finding bed bug infestations. Both...
5 Favorites: Dramatic Marble Accessories
Source: Remodelista
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:36:58 -0700 | health-news
When New York's Fort Standard adds dark marble to their mix of offerings, you know it's time to pay attention. Here are our current five favorites in the dark marble department: Above: Currently coveting: the wall-mountable Marble Box from Belgian...
Andy Harris to deliver Republican weekly address on Obamacare
Source: Baltimore Sun
Baltimore :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:34:12 -0700 | health-news
Days after voting again to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, congressional Republicans have tapped Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland to deliver their weekly address. As a physician for nearly thirty years who helped mothers and their new babies...
Cellphone Use May Reveal Your 'Dominant Brain'
Source: WebMD
West Bloomfield Township :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:33:40 -0700 | health-news
New research suggests the dominant side of your brain may make the call on which ear you choose to use while talking on your cellphone. The dominant side of your brain is where your speech and language center resides. Ninety-five...
Understanding Calcium: Supplements, Calcium Carbonate, Calcium Citrate, and More
Source: WebMD
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:33:37 -0700 | health-news
Experts share their advice about what to consider when choosing a calcium supplement...Although Americans have improved at this in recent years, we're still not getting enough calcium to maintain our bone health...According to the Institute of Medicine, the recommended daily...
4 Ways to Supercharge Your Working Memory for Free
Source: World of Psychology & Mental Health
Graz :: Austria | updated 2013-05-17 10:30:27 -0700 | health-news
Working memory is the ultimate evolutionary tool that has helped us create everything from Google to the Eiffel Tower, according to authors and researchers Tracy Packiam Alloway , Ph.D, and Ross Alloway, Ph.D, in their new book The Working Memory...
Infighting, boycotts, resignations: Psychiatry faces another crisis of confidence
Source: Leader Post Online
Paris :: Canada | updated 2013-05-17 16:03:27 -0700 | health-news
In the early 1970s, psychologist David Rosenhan set out to answer a simple question: Can psychiatrists tell the sane from the insane? Rosenhan and seven other perfectly rational pseudopatients went to a dozen U.S. hospitals complaining that they were hearing...
Yuck! What's in your pool water
Source: CNN
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 22:53:45 -0700 | health-news
Chlorine is supposed to take care of most of the microbes floating around in pools, but human waste, it seems, is stubbornly resistant to being sanitized. That's the conclusion of a group of researchers from the Centers for Disease Control...
Foxconn audit shows long work weeks
Source: Big News Network
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:26:01 -0700 | health-news
An audit supervised by the Fair Labor Association said that Foxconn still needed work to get down to the 49-hour a week work limit that is Chinese law, according to the New York Times...The audit was done independently of Apple...
What you need to know about new PSA screening guidelines
Source: Fox News
Aua :: American Samoa | updated 2013-05-17 10:14:40 -0700 | health-news
Published May 17, 2013 FoxNews.com Recently, the American Urological Association (AUA) announced new guidelines for prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing. These guidelines were designed to help urologists, and ultimately patients, reduce prostate cancer mortality by making informed screening...
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