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Food Safety - What’s On Your Plate?
So what's in your food besides additives that we should be concerned about?
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Medical Errors: Are We in Safe Hands?
Medical mistakes happen. Medical professionals are only humans who can err. One gets to wonder how many medical misadventures go unreported!
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CPR Needs Resuscitation & Resuscitation Needs CPR
Sudden cardiac arrest outcomes continue to remain dismal despite CPR. But, anybody can perform CPR, including children. It's not how well CPR was done, but whether it was done at all!
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Propofol, The New Illicit Prescription Drug
It took a high profile case such as the death of Michael Jackson to bring worldwide attention to the misuse and dangers of Propofol. Access and availability should be restricted, a move than will save lives
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest - Is There Hope?
Sudden cardiac arrest mortality remains high even in the setting of bystander CPR and AEDs. Routine placement of AEDs in the homes of patients who are at risk for SCA may be worth it but we still have a long way to go!
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Stroke - Is the Treatment Worth the Risk?
It's sad to say that customary stroke treatment is similar to how heart attacks were treated before the 1970's. New technology is needed, not just clot busters. In the meantime know where the nearest stroke treatment center is
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is Everywhere - Are We Safe?
Plastics are everywhere and so is BPA. Is it a real environmental hazard or just another scare?
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The Stroke Epidemic Part One - Can We Turn It Around?
The message is clear, stroke incidence is increasing, recognition is difficult and unlike heart attacks there is no widely-available treatment
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Prescription Drugs - It Pays to Save Money
The cost of drugs continues to sky rocket. Once you to understand how drug pricing works, you will be able to make some choices that will reduce your overall prescription drug expenses. It pays in the long run!
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Should the Legal Drinking Age be Lower?
Support for lowering the legal drinking age comes from the most unexpected places, several American colleges. Does it make sense?
