By Francis S. Collins MD PhD – With the holiday season fast approaching and COVID-19 surging in most parts of the country, millions of Americans—including me and my family—will break with tradition this year to celebrate in ways that we hope will help to keep us all safe and healthy.
Nurse Lauren, contributor of NursesNOW, offers tips to keep your heart healthy including eating right, exercising and quitting smoking.
This week, Matrix Medical Network celebrates Nurse Practitioner Week with these five facts you should know. NPs are at the front lines helping to diagnose and treat COVID-19 patients in primary, specialty, acute and long-term care settings. Thank you to all NPs!
Throughout the month of October Answers Media celebrated Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020 with a plethora of posts each focused on a specific cybersecurity topic. This week’s Friday Five recaps all of the information and advice offered in those posts by our experts.
By Cindy Brach, MPP & Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS – When healthcare consumers are unable find, understand, and use information to inform decisions about their care, the consequences can be dire.
The Center for Lyme Action, a leading nonprofit dedicated to increasing federal funding for Lyme disease research, held a “Call to Action” on-line event and issued a report outlining a “Moonshot” strategy for eliminating Lyme Disease by 2030.
According to the DEA, too often, unused prescription drugs find their way into the wrong hands. Each year the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day addresses this crucial public safety and public health issue. This week’s Friday Five focuses on the facts and events surrounding the day and how you can participate.
Nurse Lauren, contributor of NursesNOW, discusses Breast Cancer Awareness Month this week in her Wellness Wednesday post. Remember that in addition to wearing pink this month to raise awareness, you should also be doing your monthly self-checks and scheduling your yearly mammogram.
The California Health Care Foundation Health Innovation Fund, Acumen America, and Health Equity Ventures, in partnership with Adaptation Health, have announced the Remote Patient Monitoring Innovation Challenge.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This week’s Friday Five highlights organizations that are supporting, promoting, and celebrating the cause.
This week’s Friday Five celebrates International Podcast Day with our own growing podcast library, podcast recs from our radio hosts, what you can do to join the fun and even some direction to readers who may have considered starting their own podcast.
Monday, September 21 is World Alzheimer’s Day and to celebrate this week’s Friday Five shares information about the disease, the latest in research, funding and what the future holds.
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