Quitting Drinking May Help Alcoholics' Bone Loss

Title: Quitting Drinking May Help Alcoholics' Bone Loss
Category: Health News
Created: 9/14/2012 6:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 9/17/2012 12:00:00 AM

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Precision Dynamics Introduces New Securline(R) Bar Code Blood Band For Blood Recipient Identification

Precision Dynamics Corporation, the global leader in healthcare identification solutions, announced the release of the new Securline� Bar Code Blood Band, a blood recipient ID wristband system that provides automated patient identification for blood transfusion, specimen collection, and tracking. As the only snap closure bar code blood band on the market, the product allows caregivers and phlebotomists to apply the band to patients quickly, correctly, and securely... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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?Five Rights of Laboratory Testing? Will Become a Hallmark of Lab Medicine

Here in Chicago at the huge HIMSS meeting, people are paying attention to lab testing
Dateline: Chicago, IL-Most physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers are quite familiar with the “Five Rights of Medication.” If one innovative healthcare company is successful, soon all these folks will be equally familiar with the newly-articulated “Five Rights of Laboratory Testing,” which emphasizes that every patient is entitled to receive the proper benefits from laboratory testing.
Sunquest Information Systems, Inc has launched a campaign to promote the Five Rights of Laboratory Testing. The goal is to increase awareness among all healthcare workers of the need to exercise vigilance when ordering laboratory tests and using laboratory test data in patient care decisi...

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How Touching Saves Lives

When I was a fourth-year medical student, I once did a month-long rotation in the ER. One night a woman came in who we decided needed some lab work. When I let her know we needed to draw her blood, she began to tremble visibly. "I'm scared of needles," she whispered to me.She squeezed her eyes shut as the phlebotomist set up next to her gurney to draw her blood. "It'll be over before you know it," I tried to encourage her. She didn't even acknowledge I'd spoken.The phlebotomist glanced at me once, concerned probably more that the patient was going to jump or prove to be a hard stick, and then said to her, "You're going to feel a little poke."The patient tensed, tears appearing at the corners of her closed eyes. Not knowing what else to do, I reached out and took her hand, feeling awkward a...

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Robotic exoskeletal device: Preliminary research findings for Ekso in spinal cord injury

Preliminary research findings have been released from a clinical study of the wearable robotic exoskeletal device, Ekso (Ekso Bionics). Initial results are promising for the potential application of Ekso-assisted walking in rehabilitation, in exercise/wellness programs, in the community and for home use.

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What is the temperature range that blood samples need to be kept at?

Unfortunately, we cannot answer this question. We searched the NLH Library, the Lab Tests Online, and the National Association of Phlebotomists websites but found no useful information to answer this question. (Source: NLH Question Answering Service)

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Doping is now a public health issue, conference told

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The use of performance-enhancing drugs is now a public health matter rather than simply a sporting problem, delegates said at a top anti-doping conference.

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