• Household chemicals can decrease a child’s immunity0

    Harvard Researchers found exposure to common chemicals called PFCs, found in many common items, may lower the number of antibodies in a child’s body. NBC Nightly News, 1/24/2012

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  • Household chaos may be hazardous to a child’s health0

    Did you know that a chaotic household can cause your children to have poorer health? New research from The Ohio State University (OSU) has found that having a routine is essential for young children to develop and stay healthy. While the study focused on low-income families, lead author of the study, Claire Kamp Dush, believes

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  • Hospitals: The cost of admission0

    Doctors have been saying that the hospital chain they worked for (Hotel Management Associates) pressured them to admit patients and fill beds with people who did not actually need to be admitted, simply to make money. Cliff Cloonan, who worked at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania as the assistant emergency room director, warns, "If

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  • Hospitals Try House Calls to Cut Costs, Admissions0

    Many hospitals are now bringing back house calls, partially because they're facing financial penalties for re-admitting certain patients soon after discharge. Hospitals are also dealing with growing pressure to keep patients with chronic illness from being admitted in the first place.  The Wall Street Journal, 2/5/2013

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  • Hospitals Take On Post-ICU Syndrome, Helping Patients Recover0

    More patients who have been treated in the intensive-care unit (ICU) are experiencing negative side effects after release, which doctors call “post-intensive care syndrome.” Some of the life-saving measures that are used to keep patients pain-free and breathing can lead to “ICU delirium,” a temporary brain injury that can negatively impact memory and brain functioning.

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  • Hospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it.1

    “What we know about those deaths is that most of them were absolutely preventable. They were from causes that we could have done something about. We could have prevented it if we had recognized the emergency early on.”

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