In honor of breast cancer awareness month, Ford and Reader’s Digest have partnered together for the first time to create the “Beautiful Warrior” program to honor the real life Warriors who fight the disease. Reader’s Digest asked its readers to submit stories at http://www.readersdigest.com/warriors, about a Beautiful Warrior in their life. A “Beautiful Warrior” is [...]

There are a number of nursing services and agencies in Buffalo who have painstakingly been committed to serve the community for a better and healthier tomorrow. These health units have contributed significantly to the welfare of the sick and aged and helped build a strong moral bonding within the community. New technological advancement in the [...]

ohn S. Kovach, M.D., Chair, Board of Directors and CEO of Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. announces the appointment of Mel Sorensen, M.D. to the company’s Board of Directors.
Dr. Sorensen is currently Board Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ascenta Therapeutics. He is a highly experienced leader and administrator in cancer therapeutics and cancer drug [...]

Tonight’s episode of Fox’s “House” seemed designed to placate nurses unhappy that the show has spent the last four seasons pretending nurses play no important role in hospital care. The show’s isolated effort to make amends did not focus on what nurses actually do, but instead relied on a strike plotline which supposedly showed how [...]

As millions of Americans participate in educational initiatives as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, they should keep in mind an important yet under-recognized consequence of breast cancer therapy: oral mucositis, one of the most common and debilitating side effects of cancer treatment.
Oral mucositis (OM) is a painful inflammation/ulceration of the mucous membranes in [...]

Kim at Emergiblog feels the way I used to feel about nursing. She loves taking care of patients and can’t picture doing anything else.
The difference between her and I is that I lost that feeling LONG AGO and discovered I was trapped in a profession that was a dead end.
Kim talks about the fact that [...]

Velos announced today that the Duke University Health System (DUHS) has completed a successful go-live of the Velos eResearch system. This clinical trials management system is now operational with a basic set of functionality and in cancer research.
The go-live completes beginning phase activities related to DUHS’ enterprise-wide strategic business model of clinical trials informatics. Velos [...]

For the past 15 years, mission teams from Walker, Jefferson and Cullman counties have taken time from their busy schedules to go to Honduras to help meet some of its residents’ needs. What began with one team from Christ United Methodist Church with Dr. Tom Camp as the team leader has expanded throughout Alabama and [...]

Since the eighth grade, Angela Crisp of Ventura, Calif., has known she wanted to be a nurse. In high school, she earned certification as a nursing assistant. Then, she enrolled at nearby California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) and launched into the prerequisites for a bachelor of science degree in nursing (BSN)—anatomy, physiology and medical [...]

In recent meetings, the Morgan County school board approved several contracts for supplies and services for the 2008-2009 school year.
School officials selected Potomac Farms Dairy of Cumberland, Md. to be the main dairy supplier delivering milk, cottage cheese and yogurt to county schools. Potomac Farms’ bid of $76,154 beat out a $92,229 bid from [...]