If you have diabetes, it is very important to use a blood glucose meter. It helps you keep your blood sugar level within a healthy range They don’t all look like this one, but tthey all pretty much work the same way… you provide a drop of blood, and the meter shows your glucose level. […] Read more

During the past two decades, all of the industrialized nations have enacted some form of healthcare reform. America is no exception. Just a few years ago, the U.S. was consumed by a vigorous public debate about healthcare. In the end, the result was a useful one, reaffirming that the U.S. would retain its essentially market-based […] Read more

As the largest civilian EHR project in the United States, Kaiser Permanente’s Health Connect stores all patient information in a single electronic record, available to the patient’s physicians and other caregivers, 24/7 […] Read more

Welcome to Health South’s Information Hotline. This service is sponsored by eDiets, the preferred way to lose weight on line: www.eDiets.com If you know your selection number, you may enter it at anytime. If not, you can either view the list at www.HealthSouth.com/InformationHotline, or listen to the following list. If you have any difficulty using […] Read more

This American Heart Association course will teach first aid assessments and actions. Topics covered include: general principles of first aid, medical emergencies, injury emergencies, environmental emergencies and adult CPR. Blood borne pathogens will also be discussed as well as the chain of survival, activating the EMS system, systems of heart attack, diabetes, stroke and seizures. […] Read more

Today in the United States, over 10 million people need help with their daily activities — from simple eating or bathing, to round-the-clock nursing. 70% live at home — and desperately want to remain there — if help is available. HomeCall exists to enable them to remain at home … in comfort … with privacy […] Read more

Hormone trace substances produced by various endocrine glands, serve as chemical messengers carried by the blood to various target organs, where they regulate a variety of physiological and metabolic activities in vertebrates. Endocrinology, the study of hormones and their action, has long been an important field of vertebrate physiology, but apart from biochemical studies of […] Read more

Hormone trace substances produced by various endocrine glands, serve as chemical messengers carried by the blood to various target organs, where they regulate a variety of physiological and metabolic activities in vertebrates. Endocrinology, the study of hormones and their action, has long been an important field of vertebrate physiology, but apart from biochemical studies of […] Read more

The Human Papilloma Virus is the leading cause of cervical cancer. Connie McKombs, research nurse, and Dr. Warner Huh from the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Birmingham Alabama, explain how adding HPV screening to PAP testing can provide more security for women at high risk for developing cervical cancer […] Read more