A recent study suggests that many people who have heart disease still don’t know the symptoms of a heart attack. Lives can be saved if someone who is having a heart attack can get help within the first hour of having the symptoms. However it was found that most people don’t seek help until…
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Hospital Compare, A New Website
Hospital Compare is a new website by the department of Health and Human Services. It lets consumers compare 26 quality of care measures in about 4,000 hospitals nation wide. Patients rated hospital services such as how quickly they were given care and how well the communication was between them and the medical staff. In all…
Immigrants, Sick and Uninsured Being Sent Home
Immigrants who are ill and are uninsured are being sent back to their home countries, whether they are here legally or illegally. Hospitals in Arizona are routinely sending ill patients back to their countries of origin for treatment because of a law that says they are not eligible for medicaid. They say that after…
Pregnancy, Stress, and Asthma
Four studies that were presented for discussion in Canada, conclude that other factors beside genetics can affect the baby’s immune system and determine whether it will develop asthma and/or allergies later on. Stress levels were studied as were dust mites in the home. They found that higher stress levels increased the risk of asthma…
Dennis Quaid Goes To Congress
Dennis Quaid spoke to Congress about the incident which almost cost him his baby twins lives. Quaid is suing Baxter because the labels on the drug Heparin for low and high dosages looked very much the same which led to the overdose given his babies. Baxter was aware of the problem and was fixing…
Nurses
We just finished National Nurse’s week and I didn’t want to let it go by without a mention. Nurses truly are the heart and soul of medicine. They are special people who are there for their patients and who care about those they take care of. A nurse is expected to do so many…
The Point of Studies
Maybe I’m the last one to figure this out but it finally came to me what the point of studies are. For instance, I read that the Norwegians did a study about tumors in breast cancer patients. One of the conclusions was that tumors grow faster in younger women than in older women. This…
Patient Dumping
A hospital in Costa Mesa discharged a 42 year old homeless man, put him in a taxi that drove him 42 miles away to a Mission in skid row. Even though there were many other missions along the way the hospital decided skid row was where he belonged. This is not the first time hospitals…
Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s
The French have concluded a study on men and women who had mild cognitive impairment and them examined them two years later and then again four years later. Those that suffered from depression, or taking anticholinergic drugs were more likely to go on to develop dementia. It was also discovered that men and…