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Breastfeeding Advocates Target Doctors, Hospitals
There’s a grassroots effort in Memphis to encourage more mothers to breastfeed, and a national expert recently visited the city to evaluate the initiative and encourage the “troops” to press on.
SCOTT SHEPARD |
Grand Rounds November
New Spinal Fusion Procedure Performed at Methodist University Hospital
Judie Fenner, RN, Becomes Certified Legal Nurse Consultant
Bill Appling Selected to Medical Group Management/University National Board
Cathy Thillen Named Director of Nursing Education and Research
Memphis Nurse Executive Herrin Elected President-Elect of AONE
St. Jude Identifies The Specific Cell That Causes Eye Cancer, Disproving Long-held Theory
West Clinic Continues Expansion Into Asian Market With Opening Of Shanghai Cancer Center
Tennessee’s American College of Physicians Honors Dr. Lee Schwartzberg For Outstanding Community Service
Lifesaving Tool for Stroke Patients Comes to Methodist University Hospital
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Home Health Errors — Who’s to Blame?
Home healthcare isn’t just one option out of many for a lot of people; it’s a necessary service.
Even if patients or their families are reluctant to use home healthcare, insurance companies are increasing pressure for people to take care of their own medical needs at home.
GLORIA BUTLER BALDWIN |
Pay for Performance
Delta’s Employee Owners Work for Selves
When a patient at Delta Medical Center takes his meds, they are counted and logged by the hospital’s owner.
When his family takes a break in the cafeteria, the owner is there, too, ready to pour coffee and serve up a slice of apple pie.
SCOTT SHEPARD |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. George Burghen
For more than 40 years endocrinologist Dr. George Burghen has been dedicated to the mission of understanding and preventing diabetes. As chief of the department of endocrinology and metabolism at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, Burghen and his small team shoulder a tremendous responsibility in combating the obesity epidemic.
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Research Web site Dedicated to Cancer Education Worldwide
Developing nations have limited access to the latest in cancer research and education but thanks to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, healthcare providers across the globe can communicate via a free Web site called Cure4Kids™.
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Study Aims to Unravel Mysteries of Ethnic Disparity in Diabetes
What factors cause one person to develop diabetes while someone else with a similar background never acquires the disorder?
Why is it that African-Americans develop diabetes at a twice the rate of Caucasians?
An innovative study at the University of Tennessee intends to answer those questions.
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
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