7 Bathroom Safety Modifications Caregivers Can Make Today
According to the National Safety Council, one person dies everyday from a bathroom-related injury. Nearly 200,000 bathroom accidents occur in the US each year, accounting for 70% of all home…
Sinai Center for Geriatric Surgery Marks New Era in Specialized Treatment of Elderly Patients
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, a LifeBridge Health center, is proud to announce the opening of the Sinai Center for Geriatric Surgery, the nation’s first surgical center dedicated exclusively to providing…
The Need for Physician to Physician Communication
Physician-to-physician communication has become an increasingly difficult problem and its lack has worsened the fragmentation of healthcare today. The challenge is complicated by many things: Physician-to-physician communication has become an…
Leon Rodriguez, Director, HHS OCR, discusses HIPAA / HITECH Enforcement Last Week
[View the story "Leon Rodriguez, Director, HHS OCR, discusses HIPAA / HITECH Enforcement Last Week" on Storify]Leon Rodriguez, Director, HHS OCR, discusses HIPAA / HITECH Enforcement Last WeekThis interview was…
Mobile Health Around the Globe – mHealth Fighting Malnutrition in India
Melghat: a synonym for malnutrition Malnutrition is a byword in the forested hills of the Melghat region inhabited mostly by Korku Adivasis. Every year 400-500 children between the ages of…
Kristof Asks the Right Question: Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?
I am watching CNN reporters interview various folks about the horrific events in Newtown, Connecticut. Everyone is tip-toeing around the gun issue. People are saying “we need to come together”…
W H Y ? A New Public Health Issue?
Sandy Hook Elementary School Columbine High SchoolWHY ?A new and dangerous public health threat has emerged in North America. As yet it is not known how the disease…
New ePatient Interview from Doctors 2.0 & You : Kathi Apostolidis (Gr) #doctors20
To date, most medical conferences do not have patient speakers and attendees, but Doctors 2.0 & You WELCOMES patients. Hence, we proudly display the “patients included” logo that was created…
Waking Up? GOP Governors Want to Talk to Obama About Health Reform
Republican Governors had been busy talking at –rather than with– the Administration about the Affordable Care Act. Now that President Obama has won re-election their tune is changing at least…
New Oral Blood Cancer Treatments Bring True Excitement in CLL and CML
Is chemo dead? Maybe not yet, but in some diseases it is fading fast. In 2000 I was one of the early patients to receive FCR for chronic lymphocytic leukemia…
