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Dystonia is a neurological disorder characterized by over-activity of a specific group of muscles and/or muscle. It is the over-activity of these specific muscles that causes involuntary movements and tremors, sustained muscle contractions, and abnormal postures. How is Dystonia Misdiagnosed? Dystonia is misdiagnosed 90% of the time by clinicians. The involuntary movements and spasms caused by dystonia sometimes are attributed to ...

Test your knowledge of the H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu). Get information about H1N1 Flu symptoms, transmission, prevention, and treatment, including the H1N1 Flu vaccine.    

Do You Love Your Health Insurance? One of the animating principles (or should I say ideologies) of the Obama Administration’s health reform effort is the notion that Americans who have health insurance “like their insurance.”  To genuinely address the underlying problems in our health care system in ways even the President admits would be the most effective — like having ...

Researchers Stumble Upon Alternative Explanation for the Lifelong Challenges Faced by Children Born in Colder Months

www.fmaware.org  Fibromyalgia (pronounced fy-bro-my-AL-ja) is a complex chronic pain disorder that affects an estimated 10 million Americans. While it occurs most often in women, it strikes men and children, and all ethnic backgrounds. For those with severe symptoms, fibromyalgia (FM) can be extremely debilitating and interfere with basic daily activities.   Diagnosis: The FM diagnostic criteria, established by the American College ...

I must read for all nurses, I think!!  This is a top notch article for everyone in the Healthcare field.

Know about 4 diseases that could affect your preteen or teen. Then Know to help protect against them. My daughter which is 16 is due for her check-up before she go back to school in September, I have the Check-up Checklist if you are interesting, my email address is www.leedemetrice@yahoo.com

This is an excerpt of an article which was originally published in Rehab & Community Care Medicine, Spring 2007 and is reprinted with permission. To view the article in its entirety, go to www.compassionfatigue.ca and click on Resources and links. For comprehensive coverage of this topic, we recommend The Compassion Fatigue Workbook which can be obtained by visiting www.cfsolutionsbookstore.com “The expectation ...

Lawsuit Prevention Tips Common Issues in Lawsuits Against Healthcare Providers    Documentation    Reporting of incidents    Failure to follow hospital procedures    Failure to ensure patient's safety    Improper treatment and performance    Failure to monitor and to report    Improper use  of medical equiptment    Improper disposal of hazardous material, ex. needles, gowns, and gloves. Prevention Tips Be conscious of actions ...

Just a nice little way to keep up on some drug calculations.  It is a refreshing way to test yourself and see if you are correctly calculating dosages.  I find it helpful when I am transitioning to a higher education and need to brush up on some drug calculation skills.

At the end of this week, Showtime airs its new series Nurse Jackie with actor Eddie Falco, morphed from Carmela on the Sopranos to an ED nurse.  I just went on line and watched the first episode on my computer.  So here’s my first impression.  A lot of nurses won’t like Nurse Jackie.  She takes uppers to keep herself going ...

  The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) was initiated in 1987 and is an ongoing state- and population-based surveillance system designed to monitor selected maternal behaviors and experiences that occur before, during, and after pregnancy among women who deliver live-born infants in the United States. Self-reported questionnaire data are linked to selected birth certificate data and are weighted to ...

Interesting read!

Human milk is the ideal food for most infants. Breastfeeding benefits infants and their mothers (1). Breastfed infants receive anti-bodies from breast milk, which protect against infection in the early postpartum period, and breastfeeding is less expensive than formula feeding. This report summarizes information on breastfeeding rates in the United States based on data from the 1999-2006 National Health and Nutrition ...

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Heliox may have a beneficial effect when used to deliver racemic epinephrine to young children with bronchiolitis, suggest the results of a randomized controlled trial. Investigators found that children treated with epinephrine and heliox improved significantly more than those treated with epinephrine and oxygen, Dr. In Kim reported in a poster presented at the annual congress of the ...

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.