Nursing

Florence Wald, leader in US hospice, dies at 91

By STEPHANIE REITZ , Associated Press Writer, Medicine & Health / Other (AP) -- Florence Wald, a former Yale nursing dean whose interest in compassionate care led her to launch the first U.S. hospice program, has died. Wald was...

TYRX to Sponsor Webcast Symposia Featuring Leading Physicians Discussing Cardiac Rythm Device...

The Web Symposia is designed to educate physicians, nurses and technologists to: (1) address the pathogenesis of infections associated with pacemakers; and cardioverter defibrillators; (2) assess the anti-infective efficacy of...

Marois comment on health care propels Charest into better mood

Looking exhausted after a string of flight delays caused by bad weather, Premier Jean Charest suddenly regained his humour and fighting spirit yesterday after hearing that PQ leader Pauline Marois told The Gazette she had no...

'Pregnant Man's' Labor of Love

Read an Excerpt of Thomas Beatie's New Book For the second time in a year, transgender man . Our midwife puts a cold washcloth on my forehead; my wife Nancy kisses me tenderly on my cheek. You have to will the baby out of your...

Employment bright spot: Hospitals hiring nurses

Anika Myers Palm and Robyn Shelton | Sentinel Staff Writers You've heard about layoffs in many industries in recent months. But Central Florida Health Alliance is bucking that trend, hiring 71 nurses in the past eight weeks....

Briefly: School of Nursing receives largest grant in its history

The Yale School of Nursing has received a $3.9 million grant — the largest in the school’s history — from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a study assessing nurses’ electrocardiogram monitoring skills. Nursing...

Medical Nonprofit Takes Orthopedic Marvels To Peru

According to Dr. Harpal Khanuja, Operation Walk Maryland's medical director, it's the look in recipients' eyes and their joy of renewed motion that makes his marathon mission to Peru's medically underserved so worthwhile.

MRSA's toll climbs, but hospital is slow to change

In Seattle, Harborview Medical Center's struggles tell the story of MRSA: the history of outbreaks, the mounting casualties, the resistance to change. Four decades after its patients began dying of MRSA, Harborview continues to...

Is HB 4580 The Solution to Philippines’ Brain Drain?

The government is finally taking some steps in trying to put a stop to the brain drain afflicting the country. But are these the right steps to take? Rep. Ignacio Arroyo of 5th District, Negros Occidental proposes a measure...

What's Really Propping Up The Economy

Since 2001, the health-care industry has added 1.7 million jobs. Since 2001, 1.7 million new jobs have been added in the health-care sector, which includes related industries such as pharmaceuticals and health insurance....

               

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