The following is a statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: North Carolina on January 2 will take an historic step for health when it becomes the first major tobacco-growing state to implement a statewide smoke-free law that includes all restaurants and bars...
Family physician and cholesterol expert Michael Cobble, M.D., has some simple resolutions and fun advice for staying heart healthy in the new year...
Time magazine has released it’s top ten lists for everything in 2009, and among those are their choices for the top ten medical breakthroughs of 2009. New Mammography Guidelines – Based on new calculations weighing the risks and benefits of routine screening, the U.S. Pr...
Health care workers who require CPR certification to perform their jobs can get a nationally recognized certificate from ProCPR.org for $17.50 if they take the online course and purchase their certificate before the end of the year...
Talk about your amazing CPR stories. This man suffered from sudden cardiac arrest, and the doctor did not give up. He had been dead, but now he is living back at home in Brooklyn...
Providence Health & Services employees put together this video to generate breast cancer awareness throughout their hospital system. They had a ton of fun putting this together and hope it inspires others to join in the cause...
ProCPR http://www.ProCPR.org ProCPR offers online CPR certification for health care professionals through high quality video training. Unlike a classroom setting, online training is more consistent and perfected, offering the student a better training experience. ProCPR is nationally recognized and follows guidelines set fort...h by the American Heart Association and ECC/ILCOR.
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This is something that will likely cause shock waves in the healthcare industry. It’s likely to create scandal and will bring to mind cases where people were taken off of life-support, thinking that someone is in a coma when they actually could be completely conscious. ...
The first randomized intra-arrest cooling study performed using a novel intra-nasal cooling method showed much faster and earlier cooling in treated patients and significantly higher neurologically intact survival – to – discharge rate in many patients. Th...
Those that follow this blog know that I’m a pretty big fan of Nintendo Wii, and what it can contribute to a healthier world. It’s recently been verified that it does, in fact, provide beneficial exercise. Wi...
If you’ve been following the blog, you’d know that we seemed to disappear from updates for a few months. We’ve been really busy with some new developments since late August that we’re hoping to launch in the near future. In the...
ProCPR We have just re-launched with a brand new interface. It's easier to use than ever before!
We’ve been working on a new way to get weekly training videos, and have just released a gadget that you can add to your iGoogle Homepage. It is updated every week with a different CPR training video so that you can keep your skills up to date throughout the year and between certifications. ...
