There is an image from my childhood, drawn by Lorraine Schneider, which reads “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” As I read through a paper published this week on climate change’s contribution to the burden of chronic disease, I couldn’t help but conjure up Lorraine’s observation from my little girl memory bank. One of the largest […]
A new market for healthcare is experiencing a bit of a boom: Free-standing emergency rooms (FSERs). These facilities provide 24-hour-a-day emergency care, including imaging, trauma, and other services typically associated with a hospital’s emergency department. While they attempt to provide a helpful service for the communities they serve, FSERs face a number of challenges, including infection control and prevention. In […]
When you picture ADHD, what do you see? Is it an adult who is successful in their career? A parent raising a brood of kids? ADHD looks different in adults than it does in children – the typical life stage you might associate with ADHD. Some adults never even know they have it. That’s largely because it’s a tricky one […]
There is no simple recipe for success in being a world-class chief information officer, but keeping things simple is the ultimate goal. Successful healthcare CIOs know that engaging stakeholders, setting direction and creating a positive culture are essential tasks for any CIO. What separates the best from the rest is how they approach these tasks. Here are four mindsets that characterize […]
Dr Apparna is a well-celebrated Neurologist with an overwhelming experience of over 15 years in the field. She graduated with MBBS from Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada, in 2002 and later went on and did her post-graduation in Internal Medicine from Guntur Medical College, Guntur, in 2007. She also earned her Neurology doctorate from Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam, in 2010. She […]
The Medical Care Blog is returning from its summer break this month. We hope you are feeling recharged and ready to dig deep again into health care and public health. We’re beginning with a series of retrospective posts to highlight the work of our contributors on prominent topics. This week, we focus on a collection of five exceptional articles from […]
The goal of self-care for health-making is to improve lives by scaling health-and-wellness accessible to all, Bayer believes, giving people more control over their personal health. Self-care work-flows must be based in science to ensure products and services are trusted and deliver on their clinical promise, Bayer explains in Science-Led Self-Care: Principles for Best Practice, a paper published this week […]
There are 6,093 hospitals in the United States. Those facilities can be divided in a variety of categories depending on size, location, demographics, finances, and affiliation. Today’s post will explore the various categories into which any given hospital can be assigned. Knowing these categories can help consumers better understand the context of the hospitals from which they have to choose.
Viral hepatitis is a major public health threat both here in the United States and across the globe. So, this World Hepatitis Day, I join the global effort to raise awareness of the impact of viral hepatitis. Simply put, we can’t wait to eliminate viral hepatitis. With more than 350 million people are living with viral hepatitis globally and more […]
In another factor to add into the retail health landscape, Dollar General (DG) the 80-year old retailer known for selling low-priced fast-moving consumer goods in peoples’ neighborhoods appointed a healthcare advisory panel this week. DG has been exploring its health-and-wellness offerings and has enlisted four physicians to advise the company’s strategy. One of the advisors, Dr. Von Nguyen, is the […]