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Clearly, it is time to put hospitals on airplanes to make them safer… Hospitalization More Hazardous Than Flying On A Plane July 22, 2011 Medical News Today – It is more dangerous to go to hospital than to fly on a plane, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which estimates that millions of patients [...]
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Medstory Well designed search engine specifically for health issues Medline Plus From the National Institute of Health; large database of relevant articles Yahoo Directory The most comprehensive directory for health and heart conditions Open Directory Project Another good starting place for health and heart conditions PubMed Comprehensive listing of research publications Scirus Most comprehensive scientific [...]
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Physicians who work with geriatrics have my vote for an under-appreciated speciality… Dr. Lachs spotlights a vulnerable time in hospital care… After a heart attack, the last thing I wanted to do was leave the hospital… This was the most anxiety I had ever dealt with in my life; the hospital felt like the only [...]
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From Why Our Hearts Need Other Hearts Lisa Holland December 27, 2009 1. The Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study, examined 131 women aged, 35 to 65 years, who were hospitalized for an acute coronary event. The study found that women with little or no social support were two and one half times more likely to [...]
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During a health crisis, support from friends and family can make all the difference in survival and recovery. http://www.caringbridge.org is a non-profit web-site “Connecting Family and Friends When Health Matters Most.” You (the advocate for the patient) create a website, post information (which can automatically be sent as e-mails), post photos. People visiting the website [...]
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Australian patients’ delay in response to heart attack symptoms objectives: To examine delay in seeking treatment among patients with an evolving acute myocardial infarction (MI), and to identify factors which contributed to this delay. Design: Patient interview combined with medical record review. Participants and setting: 317 patients with confirmed diagnosis of acute MI interviewed within [...]
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This is as very comprehensive and well-designed search engine for health related issues. Nothing I have seen on the Web compares to this. I find it strange that I never came across this before in several years of searching for health information on the Web. This is a jewel that has been hidden. Medstory Home
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