How to Identify Suicide Risk Before It’s Too Late ?
Posted by admin in Health Knowledge Base, Nursing World, Your Health, Your LifeMar 8th, 2010 | No Comments
When someone you love is depressed, what are the warning signs that suicide is a possibility?
Every 17 minutes, someone dies by suicide in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Suicide is the 11th-leading cause of death for Americans, and while it often comes as a surprise to friends and loved ones, it is largely considered to be preventable if warning signs are heeded. “The tragedy of completed suicide is that most could have been prevented if family members knew what to look for,” says Lisa Boesky, a psychologist and author of When to Worry: How to Tell if Your Teen Needs Help–And What to Do About It. Read More…
President Obama Pushes Congress to Pass Health Care Reform
Posted by admin in Nursing World, Obama CareMar 8th, 2010 | No CommentsIn Campaign-Like Appearance, Obama Takes Aim at Insurance Companies
By BRADLEY BLACKBURN
At a campaign-like rally in Pennsylvania today, a combative President Obama criticized insurance companies, pushed members of his own party, and called for the public’s support in a final push for health care reform legislation before Congress. The White House has said it hopes to have a health care bill signed into law by March 18, but even with the president’s full support, passage of the bill is far from certain. Read More…
Vitamin D crucial to activating immune defenses
Posted by admin in New Discoveries, Nursing World, Your HealthMar 7th, 2010 | No CommentsScientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system – T cells – will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body.
How to lie and not look as though you are lying
Posted by admin in Nursing World, Your LifeMar 7th, 2010 | No Comments10-minute body language. This week: ways to tell if someone is lying.
By James Borg
Society would quickly collapse were it not for the dozens of tiny lies we permit ourselves every day. Mostly we use this for simple good manners. For instance, when breaking up with a partner, we reassure them that “It’s not you, it’s me”, when in reality it most certainly is them.
Sugary soft drinks lead to diabetes, research finds
Posted by admin in Nursing World, Your HealthMar 7th, 2010 | No CommentsDrinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks has been linked to an increase in new cases of diabetes and heart disease.
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
More people now drink soft, sport and fruit drinks daily, and the increase has led to thousands more diabetes and heart disease cases over the past decade, according to research presented to the American Heart Association’s annual conference.
Official blows whistle on food-safety agency
Posted by admin in Nursing World, Your HealthMar 7th, 2010 | No CommentsBy Ed O’Keefe
A Food Safety and Inspection Service veterinarian blew the whistle on his agency Thursday, telling lawmakers that managers repeatedly failed to heed his warnings about unsafe slaughterhouse practices, claims supported by government auditors who said the agency had failed to consistently enforce humane slaughtering standards.
Dutch government wants to sell flu vaccines back
Posted by admin in Nursing World, Swine fluMar 7th, 2010 | No Comments(Reuters) – The Dutch government wants to sell 21 million unused H1N1 flu vaccine doses back to their manufacturers after they proved unnecessary and no other country wanted to buy them, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
A spokeswoman for the ministry said it had approached manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis about buying back the doses.
Some medical billings are fraud
Posted by admin in Nursing World, Your MoneyMar 7th, 2010 | No CommentsTracy A. Jeffers
The health care debate rages on, and it appears that the Democrats are going to use the parliamentary maneuver called reconciliation to pass the bill presently before Congress without any Republican votes.
Nursing graduates frustrated with job market
Posted by admin in NCLEX, Nursing WorldMar 6th, 2010 | No CommentsBy HEATHER KEELS
HAGERSTOWN — Despite talk of a national nursing shortage that prompted Hagerstown Community College to roughly double the size of its nursing program two years ago, some new nursing graduates say jobs aren’t as plentiful as they had hoped.
Eliminating nursing program would be grave mistake
Posted by admin in Nursing World, Shortage of NursesMar 6th, 2010 | No Comments
By Shayne Roberson
President William Bloodworth of Augusta State University has a tough job. With mandated budget cuts from the state, he had to sit down with his red pen and decide what academic programs at ASU would be put on the chopping block.
I assume that in doing this, he considered the impact not only on the local student population, but on the needs of the community on the local and national level. Read More…
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