More studies show that the timing of health emergencies has a lot to do with how likely you are to survive them
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Hospitals As Health Nannies: Prescriptions for Fruits and Other Unusual Ways to Keep the Doctor Away
How Keeping Psych Records Too Private Can Hurt Patient Care
The latest research suggests that preventing psychiatrists from sharing their patients’ records with their other doctors may actually do more harm than good.
Least Healthy Employees? Hospital Workers
When it comes to healthy behaviors, don’t look to hospital workers as role models
Colorado Shooting Victims to Get Free Health Care. Why Not Everyone?
Three of the five hospitals treating the 58 surviving victims of the Colorado movie-theater massacre will waive some or all of the medical fees involved in their care, the AP reported yesterday. The other two hospitals, which are …
Debt Collectors in the E.R. and Delivery Room: Is Profit-Driven Medicine at a Breakpoint?
Imagine that you’ve brought your child to the emergency room and you’re revealing your most private health information to the hospital staff member at the desk, desperate because you fear your child’s very life is at risk. …
Checking In to the Hospital? We’ll Need to Scan Your Palm, Please
Instead of letting precious time tick away as patients fill out forms and scramble around for health insurance cards, a New York City hospital is speeding up patient identification through palm reading – not the fortune-telling kind, but the type that uses a scanner to trace the unique web of veins in individual palms.
The July Effect: Why Summer is the Most Dangerous Time to Go to the Hospital
You can’t control when health emergencies occur, but if you had to go to the hospital, you’d probably be better off avoiding the summer months.
New Use for Duct Tape: Fighting Infection
Duct tape seems to have infinite uses, from the silly to the sinister. It’s an essential tool in any handyperson’s arsenal. But a Midwest hospital system seems to have found a genuinely unique way to utilize the ubiquitous sticky …
Happy Clean Your Hands Day!
You should listen to your mother: always wash your hands. That’s especially true if you work in health care, where poor hand hygiene can be matter of life and death.
Gender Gap in Doctors’ Starting Salaries: $17,000!
A review of starting salaries for new physicians leaving residency programs in New York State in 2008 found that men made $16,819 more per year than women. In 1999, that salary difference was only $3,600. In other words, the …
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Too Many Babies Are Delivered Too Early: Hospitals Should Just Say No
Pregnancy lasts 40 weeks for a reason. At 35 weeks, a baby’s brain tips the scales at just two-thirds of what it will weigh by weeks 39 to 40. Going full-term gives a baby’s lungs time to mature and improves a baby’s …