The morning after the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, the halls of Hopital Albert Schweitzer in the Artibonite Valley, some 40 miles north of the …
Author: Diane Rogers
Valuing bone marrow
Interested in a $3,000 scholarship? Or perhaps you could use a housing allowance? Under a pilot program, those could be some of the incentives offered …
Reducing surgical infections
Your mother was right: wash your hands and you'll live a clean life. Two new multicenter studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine …
Taxing cosmetic surgery
As the overhaul of the nation's health care system continues on Capitol Hill, some of the debate has the pop of prime-time medical dramas. One …
Face It
In the 1997 Academy Award-nominated movie Face/Off, terrorist Nicholas Cage had his face surgically replaced with that of FBI agent and sworn enemy John Travolta. …
Handle with care
At a time when patients nationwide are getting older, sicker and heavier, nurses also are aging, with micro tears and back injuries that result from …
Getting a good night's sleep
You're not likely to get well at the hospital if you can't sleep. A new program at Stanford Hospital & Clinics recognizes this fundamental idea …
Settlement reached in New York hospital death
A June 2008 videotape of Esmin Elizabeth Green lying on the floor of the psychiatric emergency room in Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital provoked outrage among …
They're a family
Lambda Legal, the gay rights organization, has filed a federal lawsuit that could challenge policies at hospitals nationwide. The suit against Jackson Memorial Hospital in …
Hold that phone
Don't take that call just yet. Researchers in Turkey who tested the cellular phones of 200 doctors and nurses in hospital intensive care units and …