NHPCO’s Caring Connections Encourages People to Learn More Recent media coverage on the challenges patients and families face with overtreatment of a life-limiting illness brings the issues of hospice and palliative care and advance care planning to public attention. “It’s important to remember that quality of life and a patient’s personal wishes, beliefs and values [ Read More ]
Archive for June, 2010
For anyone who knows the racing, “misfiring” brain associated with today’s multitasking lifestyles, finding a safe, effective remedy to achieve calm can be a challenge. Women-run Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems, a leader in natural nutrition for nearly 30 years, has developed a breakthrough remedy to calm the “busy brain” that can impair mental clarity and [ Read More ]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced approval of the first rapid blood test for antibodies to the hepatitis C virus (HCV) for individuals 15 years and older. The OraQuick HCV Rapid Antibody Test is used to test individuals who are at risk for infection with HCV and people with signs or symptoms of [ Read More ]
Governor David Paterson and the New York Legislature have taken historic action to protect the state’s kids and taxpayers from the devastating toll of tobacco use by increasing the state cigarette tax by $1.60 to $4.35 per pack. This increase will give New York the highest cigarette tax in the nation and continues New York’s [ Read More ]
Every nine and a half minutes, someone in the United States is infected with HIV, and one out of every five of these individuals doesn’t know it. To help stem the spread of this disease, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved an innovative new diagnostic tool, which will allow patients to be [ Read More ]
The FDA announced that the American Red Cross has been fined $16 million for prior failures to comply with Federal laws and regulations related to the collection and manufacture of blood products. Despite the compliance failures, FDA found no evidence that the Red Cross violations endangered any patients and the blood supply is believed to [ Read More ]
Data presented today at the European Institute of Oncology’s 12th Milan Breast Cancer Conference confirms that Breastlight detects malignant tumours, picking up lesions as small as 7mm.(1) The hand held device, for women to use at home, was trialled at a breast clinic in Sunderland City Hospital involving 300 women. Patients were examined with Breastlight [ Read More ]
Alliance for a Healthier Generation Recognizes Schools for Increasing Healthy Eating and Physical Activity The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, founded by the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, today recognized 179 schools that have transformed their campuses into healthier places for students and staff. President Bill Clinton, American Heart Association Chairman [ Read More ]
The first step of your pregnancy, after seeing the little positive stick should to have it confirmed. Call immediately to have a pregnancy test done with your local doctor, you may be in luck and get in that same day or have to wait about a week or two. Patience will become your best friend [ Read More ]
Study of 46,000 Patients Shows More Serious Heart Attacks Also Declined By Much More Heart attacks declined by 24 percent within a large, ethnically diverse, community-based population since 2000, and the relative incidence of serious heart attacks that do permanent damage declined by 62 percent, according to a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research study in [ Read More ]