When I mention the cardiac diet I follow in upbeat fashion, I am looking to portray the genuine feeling that I really enjoy eating healthy. The game â€" and both my wife and I admit, the triumph â€" is being able to make tasty meals that are, in all seriousness, good for the heart.
With the announcement today that Toshiba has dropped their support of HD DVD, it looks as if the war is finally over between HD DVD and Blu-ray -- and I'm thrilled.
If someone asks you if they should go into nursing as a profession, what do you say? How do you answer? I know many nurses who go out of their way to discourage new blood.
An outfit looking to make some money is marketing a 7.5 mg strength of cyclobenzaprine to the tune of $1.93 per tablet at the listed wholesale acquisition cost. There is an immediate question here, but let's go on first.
A study featuring a new procedure in heart-attack intervention made the rounds in the news media last week. Dr. Feliz Zijlstra, of the University Medical Center...
This week I attended the Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona. It is one of the largest gatherings of everything in the...
Most people would think it pretty strange if you walked into work with a camera strapped around your neck, especially in a lab or health care setting.
The December 10, 2007 edition of Medscape Nursing had an editorial about donations of medical, nursing, and dental books that were sent to the healthcare professionals in Iraq.
I know the dreams you came out of school with. Work hard providing care for needy people. Save the lives of children who would have been dead in a minute in the 1950s.
As I was eating dinner the other night, an unusual sensation came over me. I knew what it was, nothing serious. I also knew that it would mean a trip to the dentist.
Our jobs as nurses can take a lot out of a person. We are subject to some of the most intimate and stressful moments of a person's life. But it's not always serious and I know I've had many laughs with coworkers.
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Ah, we made it into 2008 without any casualties. In a pharmacy, that means that none of the staff were thrown F-bombs.
One of the toughest things I have had to deal with as a cardiac recovery patient is the studies dealing with medication and implantable devices.
It's one of those days â€" you're not feeling well, but you're not deathly ill. If you have to, you can make it out of bed and in to work.
Have "Mr." and "Mrs." gone out of style? Are they gone the way of the dinosaur?
Does watching a television show, like House, drive you mad? Does the portrayal of nurses on soap operas may you want to scream? Is media an enemy of the nursing profession?
Following my heart attack in 2006, I knew I did not heed one of the warnings of one of my cardiologists.
How many nurses have heard "You could/should have been a doctor" from someone? It could have been said by a well-meaning family member or a grateful patient, but no matter where it comes from, the meaning is the same: You could have done better.
Health spending in the United States exceeded two trillion dollars in 2006 and will increase substantially for 2007. That is a hell of a lot of money, my friends.
A major facet of a person's recovery from a heart attack involves change in diet. High-fat fast foods, much red meat and other...
There are very few occupations that do not have intrinsic hazards. In an article in The New York Times recently, I read about a...
A new year usually brings reflections of the years past and questions about the year(s) to come. At the pace of change in healthcare, it's not hard to see the many...