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NCSBS guidelines underscore effectiveness of simulation-based practices in healthcare education

Guidelines released this month from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing emphasize the use of simulation in nursing training, and recommend certification to demonstrate that the lead faculty and simulation lab personnel are qualified.

28 Oct 2015

Researchers develop new growth charts for U.S. children with Down syndrome

Pediatric researchers have developed the first set of growth charts for U.S. children with Down syndrome since 1988. These new charts provide an important tool for pediatricians to evaluate growth milestones for children and adolescents with this condition. With these new charts, pediatricians will be able to compare each patient's growth patterns with peers of the same age and sex who have Down syndrome.

28 Oct 2015

Watching too much TV increases risk of death

On average, 80% of American adults watch 3.5 hours of television per day and multiple observational studies have demonstrated a link between TV viewing and poorer health. In this new study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, investigators reported an association between increasing hours of television viewing per day and increasing risk of death from most of the major causes of death in the United States.

28 Oct 2015

Snakebite claims thousands of lives every year but remains a 'forgotten killer'

Snakebite claims thousands of lives in the world's poorest communities every year but remains a 'forgotten killer,' according to a new editorial published in the British Medical Journal.

28 Oct 2015

Endocrine Society to host Congressional briefing on November 4 to combat diabetes epidemic

The Endocrine Society is hosting a Congressional briefing on November 4 to examine policies to help the 29 million Americans who have diabetes and the 86 million who are likely to develop the disease.

28 Oct 2015

Diabetic patients at increased risk for developing surgical site infections

Diabetic patients are at considerably increased risk for developing surgical site infections (SSIs) while undergoing most types of surgeries, compared to non-diabetic patients, according to a new study published online today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

28 Oct 2015

Pharmacy-led glycemic control program improves outcomes for surgical patients with diabetes

A pharmacy-led glycemic control program is linked to improved outcomes for surgical patients with diabetes and those who develop stress-induced hyperglycemia or high blood sugars as a result of surgery, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in the American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits.

28 Oct 2015

Experts call for better risk profiling for GI cancers

Cancers of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract continue to exert their toll across Europe, with many diagnosed too late for effective treatment. Bowel cancer screening programmes are now underway in most European countries, but screening for other GI cancers is patchy and not necessarily well-targeted.

28 Oct 2015

InComm, Pursuant Health partner to promote health risk assessments in Walmart stores

InComm, a leading prepaid product and transaction services company, and Pursuant Health (formerly SoloHealth) announced today a partnership to allow health plans to promote health risk assessments (HRAs) at Pursuant Health kiosks in Walmart stores. Health plans will be able to issue their members branded incentive cards with healthy rewards as part of the completion of the HRA.

27 Oct 2015

MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Ebola Response Team recognized with 2015 Patient Safety Award

MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Ebola Response Team has been honored with the 2015 Patient Safety Award from the District of Columbia Hospital Association. The award recognizes the team's outstanding efforts in its Ebola-related plans and training to care for potential or confirmed patients with the Ebola virus.

27 Oct 2015

MHNConnect's connectivity improves health care delivery

The Medical Home Network collaboration in Chicago is changing the way health care is being delivered to Medicaid patients through the use of innovative technology combined with a highly efficient, patient-centered and team-based model of care, according to information released October 15. This has an impact on hospital readmissions, the length of hospital stay and the cost of providing care. Rush University Medical Center is one six founding hospital partners.

27 Oct 2015

Newly revised Competencies in Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing published

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. has published revised Competencies in Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing.

27 Oct 2015

MedStar Washington Hospital Center sets up new videophone booth for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing patients

MedStar Washington Hospital Center has installed an innovative videophone booth for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing to communicate with others in real-time. The Sorenson Video Relay Service (SVRS) videophone allows those who use American Sign Language (ASL) to place phone calls through a sign language interpreter.

27 Oct 2015

New computer model predicts levels of HIV care engagement

A computer model developed by Johns Hopkins health care delivery specialists predicts that strengthening a handful of efforts to keep people with HIV in lifetime care, along with more rigorous testing, would potentially avert a projected 752,000 new HIV infections and 276,000 AIDS deaths in the United States alone over the next 20 years.

27 Oct 2015

New report enumerates opportunities and challenges for nephrology workforce

The American Society of Nephrology released the latest in series of analyses of the nephrology workforce, which outlines current and future challenges to the specialty.

27 Oct 2015

Study finds no link between intervention and state-level rates of shaken baby cases

A new evaluation of a statewide shaken baby prevention effort found that the number of calls to a nurse advice line from North Carolina parents who called because of a crying baby were reduced in the first 2 years after the intervention was implemented in 2007.

27 Oct 2015

Study: Green office environments influence cognitive function performance of workers

People who work in well-ventilated offices with below-average levels of indoor pollutants and carbon dioxide (CO2) have significantly higher cognitive functioning scores--in crucial areas such as responding to a crisis or developing strategy--than those who work in offices with typical levels, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Center for Health and the Global Environment, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and Syracuse University.

27 Oct 2015

Limited use of general anesthesia does not cause developmental problems for children

An international team of researchers that includes a pediatric anesthesiologist from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado is reporting that limited use of general anesthesia with an infant does not cause developmental problems for the child.

27 Oct 2015

Study: Reduction in Amazon deforestation improves air quality, prevents premature deaths

Because of decreasing deforestation and emissions from forest fires in the Amazon over the past ten years, the amount of particulate matter (aerosols), ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and other atmospheric pollutants released by burning biomass has fallen by 30% on average during the dry season in southern Brazil, Paraguay, northern Bolivia and Argentina.

27 Oct 2015

New game-based simulation training for firefighters beats home fires, minimizes heart risk

Firefighting isn't what it used to be. Whether it's a complex blaze raging in an urban high-rise or a seemingly straightforward single-level home fire, modern building construction and furnishings have made fighting fires more difficult: Flames burn hotter, produce more smoke, and spread more quickly.

27 Oct 2015

Healthcare News

NCSBS guidelines underscore effectiveness of simulation-based practices in healthcare education

Researchers develop new growth charts for U.S. children with Down syndrome

Watching too much TV increases risk of death

Snakebite claims thousands of lives every year but remains a 'forgotten killer'

Endocrine Society to host Congressional briefing on November 4 to combat diabetes epidemic

Diabetic patients at increased risk for developing surgical site infections

Pharmacy-led glycemic control program improves outcomes for surgical patients with diabetes

Experts call for better risk profiling for GI cancers

InComm, Pursuant Health partner to promote health risk assessments in Walmart stores

MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Ebola Response Team recognized with 2015 Patient Safety Award

MHNConnect's connectivity improves health care delivery

Newly revised Competencies in Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing published

MedStar Washington Hospital Center sets up new videophone booth for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing patients

New computer model predicts levels of HIV care engagement

New report enumerates opportunities and challenges for nephrology workforce

Study finds no link between intervention and state-level rates of shaken baby cases

Study: Green office environments influence cognitive function performance of workers

Limited use of general anesthesia does not cause developmental problems for children

Study: Reduction in Amazon deforestation improves air quality, prevents premature deaths

New game-based simulation training for firefighters beats home fires, minimizes heart risk

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Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

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