NursingLink

The Kansas City Metropolitan Healthcare Council will continue efforts to bolster the area’s nursing work force this year. “There’s always a shortage of nurses,” said Steven Wilkinson, CEO of Menorah Medical Center and 2008 council president. “Nurses who are retiring from the work force need to be replaced.” One of the biggest contributors to the nationwide nursing shortage is a dwindling ...

Biomedicine scientists identified and sequenced the genes of a bacteria called Salinispora tropica. It produces anti-cancer compounds and can be found in ocean sediments off the Bahamas. A product called salinosporamide A has shown promise treating a bone

Human embryos that are discarded every day as medical waste from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics could be an important source of stem cells for research, according to a team of researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. Some of the embryos created du

Substantial basic science and clinical evidence suggests that excess tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is centrally involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. In addition to its pro-inflammatory functions, TNF-alpha has recently been recog

An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.

In a move that has been fiercely debated by legislators and the hospital industry, Mount Sinai Medical Center opened a stand-alone emergency room Monday less than a mile from Aventura Hospital. The money-losing hospital is gambling $5 million that it can attract Aventura residents to a 'round-the-clock ER and, if needed, rush them by ambulance to their half-empty facility in Miami ...

It's hip to be a vegan: Best-selling books tout the no-meat, no-eggs, no-dairy eating style. Celebrities such as actress Natalie Portman and former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich reportedly eat the vegan way, for reasons ranging from ethics to weight control. So veganism is in. But is it healthy? Short answer: Yes, it can be. But there are a few catches. The ...

h4. The worthy nurses... Kunkel is an emergency room nurse in Indianapolis, Indiana. In July 2007, Nurse Kunkel admitted a woman in her 70s into the hospital who was complaining of a heart attack. The woman told Nurse Kunkel she went to the nearest hospital because she had just read an interview with Mrs. Bush in which Mrs. Bush described the ...

Ten Sexiest Jobs Want to get asked out more often? Consider nursing school. Nursing is one of the ten sexiest professions, according to a 2007 survey from CareerBuilder.com. The seemingly universal male fantasy about the nurse in the short white dress notwithstanding, I can see why nursing, which comes in at number six, made the list. There is something sexy about ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Doctors and nurses on the go often skip soap and water in favor of an alcohol-based hand gel, thinking the quick-acting goo will kill bacteria on their hands and curb the spread of infection. It turns out that's not enough. In a Nebraska hospital, medical workers nearly doubled their use of the alcohol-based gel, but their generally ...

BRISTOL - Our Lady of Mercy Hospital was doing fine until about 8 o'clock, when a couple of nurses went home sick, a flood of patients showed up at the emergency room and the medical-surgical floor ran out of rooms. A little while later, ER chief Tracy Marenna moved pieces around the game board, flipped over a card and groaned at ...

Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem. About two-thirds of the cases were children who took the medicines unsupervised. H

the hospital floor, curled into a fetal position, languishing in a soiled diaper. The 15-year-old, an ambulance technician later wrote, was covered with open wounds from "severe body mutilation." [ Submit your comments below. ] (ENLARGE) Vince A

Indiana is failing to provide a national database with the names of people its state courts have deemed unfit to own guns because of mental health issues, a gun control advocacy group says. Former Fort Wayne mayor Paul Helmke, president of the nonprofi

Driven by solid sales of its antidepressant Cymbalta, Indianapolis drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. today said fourth-quarter profits grew to $854.4 million and 78 cents per share, beating many analysts' estimates. Earnings jumped six-fold from the same per

Students at Charlestown Middle School were given time Monday to write their memories of classmate Marquis Popp, who died four days after undergoing a heart transplant last week.

SILVER SPRING, Md., -- The American Nurses Association (ANA) announces its annual National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI(R)) conference "Workforce Engagement in Using Data to Improve Outcomes" January 30-February 1, 2008. Staff nurses, nurse executives, NDNQI site coordinators, hospital chief executive officers and quality improvement professionals are encouraged to attend to identify how over 1200 hospitals use NDNQI reports to ...

Six Indianapolis-area nurses filed a whistleblowing and racial discrimination lawsuit today against Corrections Corporation of America, which operates Marion County Jail #2 in Indianapolis. The plaintiffs allege they were retaliated against because they complained to CCA supervisors about inmates who were not provided their medication, inmates who were given the wrong medication, and inmates who were given other patients’ medication to ...

Fox News January 28 2008 - Cutting down on caffeine could help people with Type 2 Diabetes control their blood sugar levels, according to a new study by scientist at Duke University Medical Center. The researchers studied a small group of people with established Type 2 Diabetes who drank at least 2 cups of coffee per day and who were trying ...

The Virginian Pilot January 28 2008 - If you're looking for a doctor or want to check one out, there's a new website just for that. A coalition of state medical board directors called Administrators In Medicine provides online information about doctors and links to state medical boards at www.docfinder.org Included in these physician profiles, which vary in the amount of ...