“Allowing multiple births raises grave concerns about the medical ethics and the medical cost burden.  It demands a fundamental change in policies to curtain these extravagance from happening again. The artificial means should be for those who naturally are not capable and should target only one child at a time.  It is only natural” This [...]

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As the United States continues to experience a nursing shortage that is expected to grow to one million nurses by 2016, a new research study highlights a pool of potential candidates who could alleviate the shortage in an economical way.   The study, published in the January/February 2009 issue of the Journal of Professional Nursing, [...]

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  “But we’re already doing it!” Why Validation Is the Key to Effective Hourly Rounds No doubt about it: Hourly rounding is hot.  And no wonder. In 2006 Studer Group’s Alliance for Health Care Research initiated a call light study—whose findings were published in the American Journal of Nursing—which proves how well it works.  In addition, [...]

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AFP repots that  MP3 players are leading to more and more hearing problems in young people, with damage to the inner ear now registered in one in five 16 to 20-year-olds, German doctors warned on Tuesday.   Hearing problems usually associated with old age are now being noticed in people as young as 20, the [...]

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Studies have shown consistently over the years that the deaths and medical injuries in the hospitals have not improved noticeably in over a decade.  This is  in-spite of the advent of newer and newer technologies and efforts by the providers.  Statistics indicates that there are about 100,000 avoidable deaths per year and about 1,000,000 avoidable [...]

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