Not very long ago, an arthritic knee or aching head were to be suffered through, endured, with no options for pain relief. With the advent of modern pharmacology and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry, it would seem we now have innumerable options for reducing pain. Walk through the ...
STORRS, Conn. — Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge. Among them is University of ...
MARQUETTE — A staffing crisis at Michigan hospitals has renewed efforts to protect nurses from unmanageable patient loads and too many hours of consecutive work. The Safe Patient Care Act, first introduced in 2017, has picked up additional cosponsors from both parties in the House and ...
Recently, a friend of mine told me that her son called her and said he was having some belly pain so he was just going to stay home until it went away. After she asked a few more questions to learn of his belly pain, she strongly advised him to go to the local Hospital Emergency Department ...
The data about dieting is discouraging. The more weight we gain, the more weight we attempt to lose. But the two pandemics—one a pandemic of obesity, the other of weight-loss attempts—keep spreading and reach alarming proportions. The prevalence of obesity in the US is expected to reach ...
