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Hospital Safety Data is Vitally Important to Patient Safety

To Enhance Hospital Safety, Experts Suggest Publishing Hospital Stats Most of us would hardly go to a restaurant where we planned to spend big bucks without checking out the reviews online or in a Zagat report. However, most of us will go to a hospital…

By David Mittleman

/ 6 Dec 2013

Immune System Wellbeing Closely Connected to Mental Health

Mental Illness Linked to Immune System Wellbeing For too long we’ve assumed that mental illness is merely a symptom of the mind, and unrelated to the condition of the rest of the body. However, recent research suggests that a depressed immune system can have an…

By David Mittleman

/ 1 Dec 2013

Parents Outraged After Students’ Phones Confiscated Following Student-Teacher Confrontation

Parents Outraged Over School’s Confiscation of Student Phones Parents of children at an Oregon middle school are outraged after finding out that school officials temporarily confiscated their children’s phones in order to delete recordings of a confrontation between a student and teacher. The incid

By David Mittleman

/ 30 Nov 2013

Gratitude Has Better Health Benefits Than Exercise or Skipping Dessert

Gratefulness Has Better Health Benefits to Exercise and Skipping Dessert With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I was pleased to see a recent article on the health benefits of gratefulness. In fact, recent evidence suggests that sitting around and verbally expressing your gratitude has better…

By David Mittleman

/ 27 Nov 2013

The Most Surprisingly Dangerous Health Habits

The Worst Health Habits You might not realize it, but some of your supposedly “innocuous” health habits can be seriously harmful to your health. Some bad habits are relatively easy to spot–clearly you should avoid eating McDonald’s Big Macs too frequently–but did you know that…

By David Mittleman

/ 26 Nov 2013

Thanksgiving Does Not Mean Unhealthy Eating – A Nutritionist’s Guide To The Holiday

You Can Still Be Healthy Even At Thanksgiving What do brussels sprouts, apples, butternut squash, cranberries, nuts, and pomegranates have in common? They are all healthy foods that can be implemented into a nutritious and delicious Thanksgiving Day meal! As you invite your family to…

By David Mittleman

/ 24 Nov 2013

The New and Dangerous “Cotton Ball Diet”

Fad Diet is Incredibly Dangerous I’ve heard it all, and I’m sure you have, too: from The South Beach Diet to Weight Watchers, there are plenty of diet peddlers out there trying to sell you the next “magic” formula to lose those unwanted pounds. However,…

By David Mittleman

/ 23 Nov 2013

Thanksgivukkah, More Than Just a Holiday

I knew it was going to happen shortly after Thanksgiving last year. Such an uncommon event. In fact it won’t happen again for another 77,000 years. Because the Hebrew or Jewish calendar is based on the lunar schedule, Chanukah lands on different dates of the…

By David Mittleman

/ 21 Nov 2013

Lullaby Cradle Glider Recalled Due To Risk Of Babies Falling Out

A Chinese manufactured cradle known as the Lullaby Cradle Glider has been recalled due to two incidents involving malfunction with the mattress support board. Fortunately, neither incident resulted in injury to the children involved. The Lullaby Cradle Glider is distributed by Dream On and sold…

By David Mittleman

/ 17 Nov 2013

Study Reveals Addictive Prescription Painkillers are Widely Overused in Hospitals

Study Reveals More Than Half of Hospitalized Patients Are Given Addictive Prescription Painkillers A recent study conducted by researchers as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center discovered that more than half of patients hospitalized at 286 medical centers across the country were prescribed addicti

By David Mittleman

/ 14 Nov 2013

Depression Makes Us Biologically Older, But There are Ways to Cope

Depression Makes Us “Biologically Older” Recent front-page new stories paint a dim picture about the realities of depression. One article, recently published in the BBC News, says that depression can actually make us biologically older. Lab tests in adults with severe depression showed that their…

By David Mittleman

/ 12 Nov 2013

Johnson & Johnson to Pay $2.2 Billion for Off-Label Use of Risperdal to Senior Citizens

Johnson & Johnson to Pay $2.2 Billion to Feds Federal prosecutors have reached an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, that the company will pay $2.2 billion for allegations that it illegally marketed its drug Risperdal for elderly patients with…

By David Mittleman

/ 10 Nov 2013