Dubai is one of the most preferred career destinations for qualified and registered Nurses from India and other countries supply nursing manpower. Dubai hospitals offer attractive living conditions, salaries, benefits including generous leave and leave time air travel ticket to and from the country of recruitment, free accommodation, medical insurance and end of contract payment.
This [...]

Kentucky is next to last in the nation in dental health, but there is hope for local residents.
“Oral health is clearly an educational, health and economic issue,” said University of Kentucky School of Dentistry professor Dr. Raynor Mullins.
“It’s pretty clear across all kinds of research, that oral health is directly affected by income and education [...]

While many 94-year-olds may sit in a wheelchair and look out the window all day, or lie immobile in a nursing-home bed, Craig Ono, 94, of Kailua, lives alone, mows his lawn and rides his bike to the supermarket.
While many 80-plus-year-olds who fall and fracture a hip never walk again, Mary Lynne Godfrey, 86, of [...]

The state health department has fined two local nursing homes after Medicare inspectors reported poor care, including one incident where a resident later died after choking during her evening meal.
Blossom South Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, at 1175 Monroe Ave., and Blossom Health Care Center, at 989 Blossom Road, were each fined $2,000, the maximum [...]

School nurse Barbara Lynn Filer doesn’t just slap Band-Aids over playground scrapes and dole out Tylenol tablets.
Every day she juggles duties ranging from disaster preparedness to the simple task of applying an ice pack to a bumped elbow — at two different schools.
“It’s all a day-in-the-life of every school nurse,” said Filer of Spring Township, [...]

Registered nurses (RNs), regardless of specialty or work setting, treat patients, educate patients and the public about various medical conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients’ family members. RNs record patients’ medical histories and symptoms, help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical machinery, administer treatment and medications, and help with patient [...]

In 2007, the state joined just two others — Alabama and Mississippi — where 30 percent or more of adults are obese, according to new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Experts point to a collection of personal and public choices as driving the rise of obesity in Southern states such as Tennessee, [...]

For most pregnant women, a key part of their birth plan involves how they’ll get to the hospital. But more and more moms-to-be are skipping that step and planning to deliver at home. Old-school birthing is back in style, with well-read women forsaking obstetricians for midwives and epidurals for warm baths. These women want to [...]

The shortage of registered nurses in the Bay Area will worsen in the next decade, as baby boomers continue to age - leading to more people needing care - and as aging nurses retire.
A report released in June by San Francisco-based Health Workforce Solutions predicts that by 2020, the Bay Area is expected to [...]

The Kentucky General Assembly has another to-do on its list for the next session: Give some muscle to the law protecting mothers who breast-feed in public.
That’s the lesson of this week’s unfortunate, but timely story about Jessica Denny’s expulsion from a McDonald’s in Berea.
Timely because it came during National Breast Feeding month and just after [...]