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.

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.

...fighting over who would do the most to increase the number of Americans with health insurance and expand access to care. But their plans don’t ensure that there will be enough doctors and nurses will treat all those new patients....

April 22nd is Equal Pay Day, and new research by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation shows that just one year out of college, women working full-time earn only 80 percent of their male colleagues’ salaries, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens, with women earning 69 percent of what ...

WASHINGTON - Too few U.S doctors are telling pregnant women about steps they can take to avoid a virus that causes serious birth defects in thousands of babies each year, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.The CDC said such infection occurs in about 1

It’s a question no hospital patient should have to ask: “Hey, doc, did you wash your hands?” But in an era of rising rates of drug-resistant infections and overburdened medical staffs, hygiene experts say the best-protected patients are those wi

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer Mon Jan 21, 12:40 PM ET WASHINGTON - It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients

Nurses are discovering how to transform their frustrations into accomplishments by participating in a form of leadership known as shared governance. "Shared governance recognizes the professional status of the nurse," says Kevin Hannifan, vice president and chief operating officer at Hartford Hospital, where shared governance started to take form at the end of 1999. "Instead of having guys like me or ...

Adapted from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 Edition Significant Points Nature of the Work Working Conditions Employment Training, Other Qualifications and Advancement Job Outlook Earnings Related Occupations Significant Points • Registered nurses constitute the largest health care occupation, with 2.4 million jobs. • About three out of five jobs are in hospitals. • The three major educational ...

A young woman with multiple stab wounds arrives at a Beaumont hospital. As trauma surgeons begin to treat her injuries, a specialized nurse photographs the gashes. She slips between the busy doctors, scraping underneath the woman's fingernails, noting hand wounds typical in fighting off an attack with a knife. Until recently , Southeast Texas patients only got this kind of treatment ...

NursingLink features the postings of several active nurse bloggers. These bloggers vary in age and level of nursing experience in an attempt to cover all areas of the nursing profession. If you would like to share any of your own blog postings to be featured, please submit them here. h4. Tales from the ER: Drug Seeker Stories by _ERNursey_ I was ...

I was reading a post at Scalpel or Sword today that made me think of some examples of drug seekers that are pretty funny in a twisted sort of way. I don't know if these people are too stupid to know how stupid they are or how they thought they would possibly get away with these acts but they do try. ...

"Hey" the security guard was standing at the counter where I was charting. "There's a lady outside who needs some help getting her husband out of the car." I got a wheelchair and followed him out front to the ambulance bay where a woman was standing next to a minivan literally wringing her hands and crying. I went around to the ...

Recently, our ICU beds are always full. Cardiac, Surgical and most especially our Medical ICU, where I work. In MICU, it’s not very new to have full bed capacity because of our chronic bedridden patients. They fill up the place. Problem is, we don’t have the extended care facility that they should be in so I guess you can say that ...

As a young nurse I found caring for elderly, infirm people a bit of a challenge. While I got on well with my own older relatives none of them were actually that old. I found it difficult to relate to people who were confused, infirm and often incontinent. My elderly care placement during my training was not my favorite. I have ...

Patient number 1 is a 40ish man with no medical history that comes in from his job at a construction site where he suffered a sudden onset of right flank pain. Driven in by a co-worker he is barely able to walk in, hunched over, pale, sweaty, diaphoretic, writhing on the gurney, tachycardic and hypertensive. Shortly after getting to triage he ...