Harvard Heart Letter: Simple Changes Can Have a Major Effect on Heart Health
Health professionals attempting to encourage patients to eat more healthfully have help from a recent Harvard Medical School article which suggests that small changes made over time can have a big impact on overall...
Soft Skills Important for Seniors Choosing Healthcare Providers
With more and more medical facilities catering to the needs of the aging population, seniors have become savvy about shopping around. Peruse any consumer rating of a private practice or other healthcare facility and...
Light it up Blue for World Autism Awareness Day
World Autism Awareness Day shines a light on the growing global health crisis that is autism. The disorder affects 1 in 68 children and is the fastest growing developmental disorder in the United States. For...
Kids with Pets Have Fewer Allergies While Adults with Pets Live Longer, Study Shows
New findings reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirm the old adage that a dog really is “man’s best friend.” There are many healthy benefits of pet ownership for people of...
Personalized Medicine Gives New Hope to Lung Cancer Patients
Innovative genetic research is changing the way doctors are treating their patients, especially in the fight against cancer. It is now possible for doctors to look at cancer cases individually by looking at the...
Teamwork Proves Fruitful in Fight Against Parkinson’s Disease
Interdisciplinary teamwork and innovative problem-solving are important parts of tackling today’s medical challenges. With the merging of fields such as medicine and technology, professionals training for a career in healthcare need to be able...
Marvel’s Claire Temple and Real-Life Nurses: Super. Heroes.
Are nurses superheroes? Possibly. After all, once upon a time, nurses and superheroes were two of the few groups of professionals whose uniforms included capes. Capes, which were only worn outdoors (and rarely since the...
Increasing Numbers of Women in Medical Professions
While the field of nursing has been dominated by women for decades, current research indicates that female participation in other medical roles is also increasing. In 1970, less than 10% of all jobs in...
CDC Reports Skin Test Shortages for TB: What Traveling Nurses Need to Know
Twice in the last six months, the national supply of skin scratch tests used to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) has fallen to critically low levels. The tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) are the preferred method of...
Employers Want Humans Not Robots: Automation and Current Job Trends
Despite what some pundits are staying, robots and automated technologies will not replace huge sectors of the labor market. Technology may contribute to a shift in needs, but as technology rapidly unfolds, new jobs...