AKRON, Ohio — How can a novice doctor learn to implant a pacemaker through a vein to save a patient with a deadly slow heart rate?
PacerMan to the rescue.
Dr. Rami A. Ahmed, an emergency medicine physician and simulation medical director at Summa Health System, worked with Summa Simulation Manager S. Scott Atkinson to create the...
MILWAUKEE — During a home visit with a social worker, in her second trimester of pregnancy, Kalia Yang stares at a chart that shows how many packs of cigarettes an unborn baby is exposed to if the mother smokes:
Sixty-seven packs — or 1,350 cigarettes — if she smokes five cigarettes a day in the course of a full-term pregnancy.
...
Teens suffering from anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders are more likely to suffer from suicidal thoughts, anxiety disorders and substance abuse — but how much they suffer may depend on the type of eating disorder they have.
That’s according to an analysis published online in the Archives of General Psychiatry that, with 10,123...
As far as bad habits go, a morning cup of coffee probably isn’t topping the list of those negatively affecting your health.
“Caffeine is controversial, but there isn’t any definitive collection of studies to show it is harmful. A lot of people are making a bigger issue than is there,” said Rod Hansen, associate professor of nutrition at...
Attention, coffee drinkers.
If you think your craving for a cuppa joe stems from sleepiness, habit or simply a desire to make Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz an even richer man, you are sorely mistaken.
A team of researchers from Harvard, the National Cancer Institute and other esteemed institutions of biological science reports that...
