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          I did not vote for Obama, but that is not to say that I don't cheer for his success in leading our nation on the right path.  The actions taken in this article would be what I consider a move in the right direction.  So Bravo President Obama on this move.   - Tim, R.N.

A dentist asked three dental nurses if they shaved their pubic hair and he had sex with a fourth at his surgery, a disciplinary tribunal has heard. He groped two of the women and on one occasion pulled down his trousers in front of a nurse to reveal a leopard-print thong saying: "Get a load of that." Anthony Barton is accused ...

Heather Sharp, a registered nurse in the Emergency Center at Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital in Humble, always had an interest in emergency medicine and loves the dynamics of the ER...

School nurses are expected to have their hands full in the coming months with the onset of the regular flu season and the threat of a widespread outbreak of the H1N1 virus. That's on top of caring for the everyday bumps and fevers and other critical needs of students. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there already ...

A bizarre new medical technique may help some victims of impaired vision. While synthetic eyeballs -- either of electronic or organic nature -- advance towards one day replacing vision, scientists are also developing new near-term procedures to save or restore patients' vision. Among these is the osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, or MOOKP, a bizarre technique that uses a tooth to implant a synthetic lens ...

Nurse Ronnie Callahan's life is careening from one crisis to another in NBC's new medical drama "Mercy." Callahan -- well played by TV newcomer Taylor Schilling -- is just back from two bloody tours of duty in a military hospital in Iraq. She's separated from the husband who cheated on her but wants her back. And, like Britney Spears, she's not ...

The American Hospital Association wants to ban doctors from referring patients to hospitals they own, because "the effect on health delivery and costs in communities can be devastating."

This is just too funny for words.  Ya gotta just read it. But it makes a great point.

I agree with the Ars Technica assessment that a ban probably won't work in countries with free speech rights like the UK and the US. But it does reflect on a difficult problem to address.

All I can link to is the abstract, but apparently a new pilot study (needs confirmation with a larger sample size) showed that frequent bedside testing of eye movements was more effective than MRI in diagnosisng AVS type strokes.

Up to one-third of Dallas-area residents don't have health insurance, and the number is rising. Everybody in North Texas pays the cost, through taxes and higher insurance costs – as much as an estimated $1,800 per family. Illegal immigrants pump up the numbers. But even if there weren't any here, Texas still would virtually lead the nation in percentage of ...

Medical care in Dallas is delivered in a broken market where doctors, hospitals and other providers shower patients with services of diminishing value but staggering cost. The spending is rooted in the city's proud entrepreneurial culture. Dallas is home to many competing hospital systems and physician practices. But this competition raises costs rather than lowering them, because it rewards those ...

The newest rash of television medical dramas have many of the same elements we've become used to: dramatic traumas, personal baggage and plenty of tawdry affairs. The difference between this batch and its predecessors, like "ER" and "Grey's Anatomy," is that this time around, the nurses are taking center stage instead of the doctors. For some in the nursing profession, it's ...

GPs are being kept in the dark on the qualifications of their local specialists Not being a doctor is no longer a barrier to practising medicine. Or at least, a large number of tasks that would once have been the preserve of a clinician are now routinely done by nurses, pharmacists or allied health professionals. And it is regarded as unfashionable, ...

The article comes at a time when about 18% of newly licensed registered nurses are leaving their first nursing employer within a year of starting work, and about 26% leave within two years. High turnover is an expense that can strain hospital budgets, exacerbate the nursing shortage, and negatively impact patient care...

New York City hospitals lost a lobbying battle with nurses Wednesday when Gov. David Paterson signed into law a bill that will force them to disclose their nurse staffing ratios. The bill had been bitterly opposed by the state's hospital trade groups, which feared it would put the state one step closer to legislation that could mandate their ratio of nurses ...

There's no telling how many souls Shari Hope Kelly escorted into the world during her decades as a labor and delivery nurse. Nor can one quantify the innumerable psyches she soothed as a rape crisis counselor and an instructor in social science at Pima Community College. And Kelly treated herself as compassionately as she did all others. She spent years thoughtfully ...

A former hospice nurse in Greeley was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for stealing six patients' identities to get their pain medications. Marguerite Furgerson's sobs echoed through the Weld Courthouse hallway as she was led away in handcuffs to immediately begin serving her prison sentence. "You're a nurse. You're supposed to be helping people," Weld District Court Judge Tom ...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2009) — After two decades of improvement, the percentage of Americans without major heart disease risk factors is dropping, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. “From a preventive health point of view, it’s important that individuals achieve as many of these goals as possible, and it’s disappointing that less than 10 percent ...

As the White House and Congress continue debating how best to provide coverage to tens of millions of Americans currently without health insurance, a new study (PDF) is meant to offer a stark reminder of why lawmakers should continue to try. Researchers from Harvard Medical School say the lack of coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year ...