Amnesty International reveals the rotting health care system in North Korea

Amnesty International reveals the rotting health care system in North Korea
According to a human rights group, Amnesty International, North Korea is unable to meet up to even the most basic health needs of its population. The report was released this Thursday.
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This is a Backgrounder On Health Care

This is a Backgrounder On Health Care
America’s emergency rooms are in crisis. Emergency medicine encompasses the care of patients with traumatic injuries or serious signs and symptoms of disease. Quick evaluation and rapid treatment of these patients obviously cannot be done on an “elective” basis.
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St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System Selects Toshiba Imaging Equipment For New Lakeside Hospital

St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System Selects Toshiba Imaging Equipment For New Lakeside Hospital
St. Luke’s Lakeside Hospital of The Woodlands, Texas has chosen Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. to provide magnetic resonance (MR), ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), X-ray and vascular equipment for its newly built surgical hospital. St. Luke’s Lakeside is a collaboration between St. Luke’s [...]

Health policy research roundup: Long-term care, diabetes disparities, health IT

Health policy research roundup: Long-term care, diabetes disparities, health IT
Annals of Internal Medicine: Cultural Competency Training and Performance Reports to Improve Diabetes Care for Black Patients – In this study, researchers measure the effects cultural competency training and performance training for physicians has on the clinical outcomes for black patients with diabetes.
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VITAMIN D AND HEALTH: BONES AND BEYOND

Introduction
Vitamin D also called as vitamin D3 or ‘cholecalciferol’; is a fat-soluble vitamin. Human beings are dependent on the sun exposure to fulfill their needs of vitamin D. It is uv-B radiation that are being absorbed by 7-dehydrocholesterol present in the skin that aids in converting previtamin D3 to vitamin D3. Vitamin D is essential [...]

Environmental Impact and Health Effects of Boron

Boron is a non metallic element and the only non-metal of the group 13 of the periodic table of the elements. It is electron-deficient, possessing a vacant p-orbital. It has several forms, the most common of which is amorphous boron, a dark powder, unreactive to oxygen, water, acids and alkalis. It reacts with metals to [...]

Natural Health Therapies and Cancer – Part One

Cancer. The word itself is alarming. It sounds like a death sentence. In many cases, it is. But it doesnâ??t necessarily have to be that way. The topic of cancer is so large that we will take at least three or four articles to even begin to touch on the [...]

Magnet Technology and Health Care

Most people have a basic understanding of what a magnet is, but don’t really contemplate the many ways in which magnets can be used.  Did you know that magnets play important roles in our everyday lives?  Without magnet technology, our cell phones, computers, and even many automobiles would cease to function.  Magnet technology has come [...]