When Tremayne Jackson was a child, he didn’t want to be a famous athlete. He didn’t want to be an astronaut or a senator. All Jackson wanted was to drive an ambulance.
So it should come as little surprise that Jackson has been a paramedic with the St. Louis City Fire Department for the past [...]

NASCAR drivers helped spread Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s NASCAR creed: Go Pink or Go Home! NASCAR drivers Kyle Busch, Bobby Labonte and Elliott Sadler will Go Pink at today’s Bank of America 500 race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C.
While it is uncommon to see drivers in pink during a NASCAR race, [...]

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 [...]

The Pardee Hospital Medical Detoxification Unit will present “Is My Loved One in Trouble with Drugs or Alcohol?” at noon Friday at the Pardee Health Education Center.
During the free seminar, medical experts in the field of addiction will discuss the disease process, assist attendees in recognizing the signs and symptoms of addiction and present possible [...]

Kindred Healthcare Inc. has announced that 50 of its nursing centers have been named recipients of the 2008 American Health Care Association Step I Quality Award for demonstrating a strong commitment to quality improvement.
Of the 50 Kindred Nursing Centers to be awarded this prestigious award, three of them were in Connecticut: Kindred Crossings Healthcare West [...]

There has been a nationwide shortage of nurses for at least two decades. But it’s not because nobody wants to be a nurse.
“You have a lot of students who want to go into nursing,” said Toni Barnett, head of the nursing program at North Georgia College & State University. “We get between 400 and 600 [...]

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) today released preliminary survey data which show that enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs increased by 5.0 percent from 2005 to 2006. Though this increase is welcome, surveyed nursing colleges and universities turned away more than 32,000 qualified applicants due primarily to a shortage of nurse [...]

Waterbury and the muslin gray sky has yielded to a pale, hopeful blue. It has been hot this week, which, coupled with a cottony humidity, has lured apartment dwellers outdoors, where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water. At the corner of Central Avenue and [...]

Patty Tanksley and her husband were fed up with borrowing money from friends and relatives in order to put food on the table.
Eventually she turned to the Smyrna/La Vergne Food Bank for help. She was “a little embarrassed” to do so because she volunteered there when it first opened in the 1980s.
“We had to or [...]

New York College of Health Professions, a premier undergraduate and graduate College of Holistic Health, has developed and released a proprietary line of personal AromaTherapy products that has had a remarkable effect on many patients suffering from Migraine Headaches and other common ailments.
This unique Dry Personal AromaTherapy System can often bring relief in seconds from [...]