Alegent marks fourth year as national quality leader
Logan Herald-Observer & Woodbine Twiner Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:18 PM PDT
For the fourth straight year, Alegent Health has been named a top performer in a national study that rewards hospitals for delivering high quality care in five clinical areas: Acute Myocardial Infarction or heart attack; heart failure; coronary artery bypass graft; pneumonia; hip and knee replacement. |
Simple screening could save the lives of student athletes
News 8 Austin Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:04 PM PDT
Saturday Championship Hearts Foundation offered free Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy screenings at the Heart Hospital of Austin. HCM is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death among young athletes. |
Consumers Devouring Nutrient-Spiked Foods, Drinks
ThirdAge Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:56 PM PDT
MILWAUKEE -- From heart-friendly margarines to sugary cereals that strengthen bones, once-demonized foods are being spiked with nutrients to give them a healthier glow -- and consumers are biting, even on some that are little more than dressed-up junk food. |
Battling inflammation through food
Hartford Courant Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:06 PM PDT
Though it's an emerging field, proponents of anti-inflammatory diets point to growing evidence that foods like vegetables and fish can ease an overactive immune system. If you want to live longer -- avoid heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and cancer -- then pick and choose your foods with care to quiet down parts of your immune system. |
Supes OK commercial rehab plan
Sonoma Index-Tribune Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:52 AM PDT
Now that the first phase of the Highway 12 project in the Springs is almost complete and the Sonoma Valley Community Health Center is hoping to buy property for a new 20,000-square-foot facility in the heart of the redevelopment district, more changes - albeit cosmetic changes - should be coming to the corridor. |
Fundraiser's proceeds to go to l&m, yale
New London Day Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:48 AM PDT
Groton - A couple whose daughter was born with a heart condition called supraventricular tachycardia, or SVT, are organizing a “Babies Heart Run†motorcycle run on Sunday, Sept. 6. Jay and Nina Bills hope to give funds raised to Lawrence & Memorial Hospital and Yale Children's Hospital, where 7-month-old Isabella Bills was treated, for patients' parking, food, or gas. The run will leave ... |
Author's gambit at Waterford school results in his arrest
New London Day Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:41 AM PDT
Waterford - Christopher M. Schildt, an author who has penned two horror novels, met with Superintendent of Schools Randall Collins and High School Principal Donald Marcino last spring to tell them a heart-wrenching story. At the high school, Schildt told officials he had a 17-year-old nephew, Matt, who had suffered from throat cancer and an ailment that made him sensitive to light, and had been ... |
Kennedy funeral: Great legislator, 'giving heart'
KXXV Waco Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:08 AM PDT
President Barack Obama led the nation Saturday in mourning "the greatest legislator of our time," celebrating the indelible impact of Edward M. Kennedy as a senator for nearly a half-century and leader of America's most... |
Level 3 and 4 Roller-Ski Training
FasterSkier.com Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:54 AM PDT
It’s the end of summer and you’re sweating in the 90 degree heat as you pound the pavement with your poles and glide smoothly over the road while your heart beats like a well oiled machine at 180 beats a minute and your whole body screams as it tries to clear lactic acid as quickly [...] |
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