Introducing Care4Dystonia and Beka Serdans, RN, MS, NP
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Beka Serdans, RN, MS, NP carries multiple hats - that of being a patient diagnosed with dystonia and that of being an active healthcare professional and strong patient advocate. She has developed the innate ability to see all sides of dystonia - creating Care4Dystonia, Inc. in 2000 as an avenue to help publicize dystonia to the media. Beka appeared on the ...
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Twins Joined at Head Successfully Separated
MELBOURNE, Australia — A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain tissue. It is too early to know whether the two-year-old girls, Trishna and Krishna, suffered any brain damage during the marathon operation — an outcome doctors ...Published about 1 hour ago | Rate This -
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Why Staying Clean Could Be Bad for Your Health
They say cleanliness is next to godliness. But it seems being too clean could actually be bad for your health. Scientists warn that our obsession with hygiene could be impairing our skin's ability to stay healthy. They say bacteria on the skin's surface play an active role in preventing rashes and damping down cuts and bruises. It is further evidence the ...Published about 2 hours ago | Rate This -
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Defense Attorney: Hasan Is Paralyzed From the Chest Down
Major Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 in the Fort Hood shooting spree, is paralyzed from the chest down and is not a flight risk, said his defense attorney after a hearing before a military magistrate in Hasan's hospital room Saturday. The accused Fort Hood shooter had his first court hearing in the intensive care unit of a San Antonio hospital ...Submitted by MrBrown | Published about 5 hours ago | Rated: +1 -
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Cope with Working the Holidays in Healthcare
Are you a healthcare professional who's feeling anything but merry about working yet another holiday shift? Healthcare veterans offer tips on how to banish your inner grinch and make the most of another holiday on the job. h4. Plan Ahead Healthcare professionals say one of the worst aspects of working a holiday is missing family events. Diane Speranza, RN, a certified ...Published about 8 hours ago | Rate This -
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Patients' Last Two Months of Life Cost Medicare $50 Billion Last Year; Is There a Better Way?
(CBS) Every medical study ever conducted has concluded that 100 percent of all Americans will eventually die. This comes as no great surprise, but the amount of money being spent at the very end of people's lives probably will. Last year, Medicare paid $50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients' lives - that's ...Submitted by MrBrown | Published about 10 hours ago | Rated: +1 -
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Experts say radical measures won't stop swine flu
LONDON (AP) — Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease. Despite initially declaring success, Beijing now acknowledges its swine flu outbreak is much larger than official numbers show.Submitted by Shan4691 | Published 4 days ago | Rated: +1 -
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Vaccines in Sight for AIDS, Alzheimer's, TB, Herpes
MARIETTA, Pa. — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it. Many could be on the market in five years or less. Contrast that with five years ago, when so many companies had abandoned the vaccine business that half the ...Submitted by Shan4691 | Published 5 days ago | Rated: +3 -
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New Advice: Skip Mammograms in 40s, Start at 50
NEW YORK - Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position. Also, the task force said breast self-exams do no good and women shouldn't be taught to do them. For most ...Published 6 days ago | Rate This
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