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Health & Wellness News tagged with hospitals

USA: In Protecting Against Flu, Face Masks Rank Last. Best? Vaccination!
Health & Wellness  (tags: USA, protection against H121, hospitals, hospitial staff, vaccinations, protective germ equipment, face masks, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pre, patient waiting rooms, hospitals, N95 respirators )

ON VACATI
- 37 days ago - reuters.com
New guidelines on protecting hospital workers against the H1N1 swine flu stress keeping influenza patients away from others; put protective equipment such as face masks last.vaccinate as many staff as possible against H1N1; U.S. Centers for Disease Cntrl.
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Health Care Reform : Uninsured Camp Out for Free Health Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, health care, health care reform, single payer, public option, President Obama, Democrats, Republicans, uninsured, 49 million Americans are uninsured, physicians, nurses, hospitals, insurance companies, lobbyists )

Blue
- 110 days ago - reuters.com
An estimated 3,000 people traveled to Wise, Virginia, to receive free health, dental and eye care from volunteer doctors, nurses and support workers, who provided the care at their own expense.
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IMSS, the Largest Social Security Institution in Latin America, MEXICO
Health & Wellness  (tags: Mexico, Social Security, humans, hospitals, doctors, great, cancer, ethics, family, health, healthcare, interesting, investigation, protection, safety, science, society, treatment )

Teresa
- 179 days ago - imss.gob.mx
The IMSS is the largest social security institution in Latin America, it is a fundamental pillar of the individual and collective wellbeing of the Mexican society and a main redistributing element of Mexico's richness; it is, doubtlessly,
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Teddy Bears Treated at Albany Med
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, hospitals, wellness, children, learning, research, study )

Dee
- 187 days ago - capitalnews9.com
ALBANY, N.Y. Albany Medical Center transformed into a hospital for teddy bears Sunday, for its 13th annual "Teddy Bear Hospital Day".Albany Medical College students hosted, giving kids the chance to see the Life-Net helicopter and learn about general--
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Flu Exposes Flaws in Mexico's Health Care System
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, Mexico City, Hospitals, humans, illness, disease )

Dee
- 195 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MEXICO CITY-Mexicans will do almost anything to avoid a public hospital emergency room, where ailing patients may languish for hours slumped on cracked linoleum floors that smell of sweat, sickness and pine-scented disinfectant.
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Need Surgery? Do Your Hospital Homework!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, protection, research, hospitals, doctors, surgery, risks, warning, illness )

Dee
- 212 days ago - cbn.com
Click the player to watch the report from CBN News Medical Reporter Lorie Johnson followed by comments from Pat Robertson.
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Most Hospital Patients Unable to Identify Their Physicians, Survey Finds
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, healthcare, study, hospitals, doctors, identify )

Lynne
- 293 days ago - nytimes.com
Hospital patients are rarely able to identify their doctors by name or to describe their roles in the patients' care, a new survey has found.
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C.Diff ~ THE NEXT DEADLY VIRUS
Health & Wellness  (tags: clostridium difficle, hospitals, doctors, nurses, strain, mutant, germs )

Vicky
- 383 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Overuse of antibiotics has allowed the germ to develop resistance in recent years, doctors said, and this is the mutant strain they're afraid of. 78% percent of cleaned surfaces were still contaminated; only bleach will kill the germ.
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The Evidence Gap: Quickly Vetted, Treatment Is Offered to Patients
Health & Wellness  (tags: doctors, medicine, FDA, alternate treatments, radiation, cancer, coverup, corruption, health care, healthcare, hospital, hospitals, patients )

Blue
- 389 days ago - nytimes.com
The F.D.A. regularly allows devices to market after only cursory review and without clear evidence they help.
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When Is Enough Enough?
Health & Wellness  (tags: biological maintenance, dying, medical treatment, hospitals, doctors, Medicare, Medicaid, nursing homes, prolonging life )

RC
- 410 days ago - nytimes.com
I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.
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Terrific Chart Compares Hospital Quality
Health & Wellness  (tags: hospitals, quality of health care, hospital data, hospital choice, medical procedures )

RC
- 447 days ago - hospitalcompare.hhs.gov
This site provides in-depth information and comparisons of hospitals on several different levels. You can compare up to three health facilities at a time by overall care, location, specific diseases and procedures, etc. This is one to bookmark.
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Teddy Bears Banned From Hospitals
Health & Wellness  (tags: australia, hospitals, children, disease, infections, germs, teddy bears, toys, banned )

Jacquelin
- 543 days ago - news.com.au
THE humble teddy bear and soft toys will be restricted in Melbourne hospitals because of fears they could harbour dangerous germs. The Royal Children's Hospital has banned donations of second-hand soft toys and restricts children from sharing toys they
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The Empowered Patient: How to Protect Yourself From Hospital Errors
Health & Wellness  (tags: hospitals, illness, medical error, negligence, death toll, avoidable, empowered patient, Julia Hallisy, hard-come-by experience, child's illness )

Alba
- 614 days ago - alternet.org
Annual no of lives lost to medical error? roughly equivalent to a WorldTradeCenter attack occurring every 2 wks. Author Hallisy became more savvy & educated the longer her child's illness went on. What every patient/patient's advocate needs to know...
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Many Doctors, Many Tests, No Rhyme or Reason
Health & Wellness  (tags: patient, physicians, lab tests, technology, health care, hospitals )

Blue
- 618 days ago - nytimes.com
In our health care system, if you have a slew of physicians and a willing patient, almost any sort of terrible excess can occur.
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Hospital Superbug Deaths Rise 72% in Just One Year, Killing 6,500
Health & Wellness  (tags: MRSA, Clostridium, hospitals, sanitation, medicine, healthcare, hand washing, contagion, super bugs )

Blue
- 632 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Deaths from a highly infectious bug have risen by almost three-quarters in a year, according to shocking official figures released today. The number of deaths involving Clostridium difficile rose by 72 per cent, the Office for National Statistics said
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