Coming Up Friday at 6 p.m. On Indiana Newsdesk
More Stories at: http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/newsdesk/ We #39;re reminded what a global world we live in In West Africa, more than 8000 miles from the Hoosier state, an estimated...
By: WTIU
Read the original here:
More than just a Pretty Face - Using Botox to Treat Migraines
More than 30 million Americans suffer from migraines. It #39;s a condition that accounts for 25% of all neurology outpatient visits and costs the U.S. more than $20 billion every year in direct...
By: SSM Health Care
See the rest here:
More than just a Pretty Face - Using Botox to Treat Migraines - Video
The Big Data Opportunity in Medicine
Big data and connected devices are changing the medical world. Meet two startups leveraging data and connected technology to improve diagnosis and empower patients and health care workers....
By: Cisco
Read more here:
NEW YORK When swings in the stock market cause anxiety to spike, like it is now, many investors aim to get healthy.
Stocks don't come with guarantees, but health care stocks have held up better than others during past downturns. People get sick regardless of the economy's strength, after all, and an aging population around the world means more demand for prescription drugs and hospital care. That has brought more attention to health care stock funds, as worries about a weak global economy have sent stocks sinking in recent weeks.
Health-care stock funds have returned an average of 19.1 percent annually over the last five years, more than any of the other 101 fund categories tracked by Morningstar. The strong returns are luring more dollars: Investors put more into health care funds last month than they pulled out, contrary to the trend for stock funds in general. But it's important to keep in mind that conditions are much different for the sector than they were five years ago. Here's a look at some questions to consider before buying a health care fund.
ARE HEALTH-CARE STOCK FUNDS REALLY SAFER INVESTMENTS?
Everything is relative, but they have been in the past.
"We're investing in demand for health, and that comes in drugs, devices and hospital services," says Jean Hynes, manager of the Vanguard Health Care fund (VGHCX), whose $40.9 billion in assets makes it the largest fund in the category by far. Demand for those tends to be more stable than it is for, say, electronics or other non-essentials.
Consider how the financial crisis dragged the Standard & Poor's 500 index to a loss of 37 percent in 2008, even after factoring in dividends. That year, health care stock funds lost an average of 23.4 percent.
Many of the big pharmaceutical companies and insurers in the sector also pay dividends, which can help offer a smoother ride. Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Merck are the three largest health care stocks in the S&P 500, and all have a higher dividend yield than the index.
WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR IN A HEALTH CARE STOCK FUND?
Even within the health care sector, some types of stocks are safer than others. On the more volatile end are biotechnology stocks, which can be boom-or-bust investments depending on how much excitement their drugs under development are generating.
Read more:
Texas officials discuss 3rd patient diagnosed with the Ebola Virus
Health care officials in Dallas, Texas discuss the diagnosis and treatment of an additional Ebola patient.
By: FOX 5 Atlanta
See the original post:
Texas officials discuss 3rd patient diagnosed with the Ebola Virus - Video
Second health care worker tests positive for Ebola in Dallas
A second female healthcare worker at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for the Ebola virus, prompting the federal Centers for Disease Control and Protection to send in a team in a bit to...
By: ABC 10 News
Read the original here:
Second health care worker tests positive for Ebola in Dallas - Video
Are Minnesota Health Care Workers Prepared for Ebola?
University of Minnesota officials say health experts still have a lot to learn about Ebola. Dr. Michael Osterholm, the chair of public health at the University of Minnesota, spoke Tuesday...
By: KSTP
See the original post here:
Are Minnesota Health Care Workers Prepared for Ebola? - Video
Texas nurses call for new Ebola training
Nurses in Texas are calling for additional training on how to safely treat Ebola patients, including fellow health care workers who contracted the disease while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan.
By: USA TODAY
Excerpt from:
WTF! Hospital Workers Wore #39;No Hazmat Suits #39; for 2 Days While Treating Ebola Patient!
http://www.undergroundworldnews.com Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn #39;t wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed...
By: DAHBOO77
Follow this link:
WTF! Hospital Workers Wore 'No Hazmat Suits' for 2 Days While Treating Ebola Patient! - Video
NEW EBOLA VACCINE FOUND - 40 Health Care Workers Receive Engineered EBOLA VACCINE
Ginetically engineered Ebola vaccines are now being used on Health Care Workers who are caring for Ebola patients. "... The first-ever human trials for an Ebola vaccine started in Mali earlier...
By: MLordandGod
Continued here:
NEW EBOLA VACCINE FOUND - 40 Health Care Workers Receive Engineered EBOLA VACCINE - Video
WARNING! SWAT Teams! The U.S. Government Will NOW Be Aggressive Towards Anything Involving Ebola
The U.S. Government Will NOW Be Aggressive Towards Anything Involving Ebola Virus SWAT Teams President Obama CDC SWAT Teams Will Combat Ebola Ebola FEMA Camps 2nd Dallas Health ...
By: Charles Walton
See the rest here:
Dallas will declare State of Disaster tomorrow
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Dallas-County-Judge-Clay-Jenkins-Creates-Order-to-Restrict-Travel-of-Ebola-Health-Care-Workers-279336932.html.
By: LoneStar1776
Continued here:
A Frontier Airlines plane is reportedly being disinfected in Cleveland after a second nurse to become infected with Ebola flew on the plane from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday. (Reuters)
The second health-care worker diagnosed with Ebola had a fever of 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit before boarding a passenger jet on Monday, a day before she reportedsymptoms of the virus and was tested, according to public health officials.
Even though there appeared to be little risk for the other people on that flight,she should not have traveled that way,Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a news conference Wednesday.
She should not have flown on a commercial airline,Frieden said.
This health-care worker flew on a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth with more than 130 other passengers.She did not have nausea or vomit on the plane, so the risk to anyone around her is extremely low, Frieden said.
The health-care worker was not namedby public health officials, buta spokesman for Cleveland identified her Amber Vinson.Family members told Reuters and the Dallas Morning News that Vinson is a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.She was part of a team that had cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who flew to Texas and was diagnosed with Ebola last month, during his hospitalization in Dallas. Duncan died last week. Nina Pham, a nurse who also cared for Duncan, was diagnosed with Ebola on Sundayand was in good condition Wednesday, the hospital said.
Vinson, who flew from Dallas to Cleveland on Friday, flew back to Texas on Monday, a day after Pham was diagnosed. She reported a fever on Tuesday and was isolated and tested for Ebola.
Still, the fact that she boarded a commercial flight raises the question of how much the other 50 health-care workers who entered Duncans room could have traveled or moved around in recent days. The CDC recommends controlled movement on private flights or vehicles for people who may have been exposed to Ebola, Frieden said.
We will, from this moment forward,ensure that no individual monitored for exposure undergoestravel in any way other than controlled movement, Frieden said Wednesday. He said the agency would work with state and local authorities to enforce this restriction.
It is still unclear how, exactly, Pham and Vinson were infected with Ebola, but Frieden suggested on Wednesday that it occurred during the days after Duncan was admitted to the hospital and before the CDC team arrived. Duncan was placed in isolation at the hospital on Sunday, Sept. 28, and the CDC did not arrive until Tuesday, Sept. 30, the day Duncan was diagnosed. Pham and Vinson both cared for Duncan during these days and had extensive contact with Duncan, who was vomiting and had diarrhea, Frieden said.
Go here to read the rest:
Health-care worker with Ebola flew on commercial flight a day before being diagnosed
The experts had warned that fighting Ebola is hard, and Wednesdays drumbeat of bad news proved them correct. The day began with a bulletin about another health-care worker stricken with the deadly disease, and the news got worse with the revelation that she had flown with a slightly elevated temperature from Cleveland to Dallas on a crowded airliner barely 24 hours before her diagnosis.
Before she boarded that flight, the woman, identified by Ohio officials as Amber Joy Vinson, 29, informed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that she was running a temperature of 99.5 degrees, a federal official told The Washington Post.
That was below the 100.4-degree threshold in CDC guidelines for screening travelers who have been in Ebola-affected countries, and which triggers a secondary screening. The CDC did not prohibit Vinson from traveling on the plane back to Dallas, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the issue.
But on Wednesday, CDC Director Thomas Frieden said that Vinson should not have been flying anywhere given her possible exposure to Ebola at her workplace, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, which has been the epicenter of the crisis in the United States.
Vinson did not yet have the classic symptoms of a full-blown Ebola infection, such as vomiting and diarrhea, and so epidemiologists doubt that she spread the virus during the journey. Ebola is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, which carry a higher viral load as the disease progresses.
A Frontier Airlines plane is reportedly being disinfected in Cleveland after a second nurse to become infected with Ebola flew on the plane from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday. (Reuters)
But Frontier Airlines and the CDC scrambled to contact the 132 passengers aboard Flight 1143, and the people on that flight joined a growing pool of people in the United States who may have been exposed to the virus in recent weeks.
As Wednesday ended, Americans had to be wondering when the U.S. outbreak will be contained, and whether public officials measured language and repeated reassurances are a gloss on a desperate and sometimes improvisational battle against a disease that in West Africa has killed more than 4,000 people.
The Vinson case highlighted how easily someone who is unknowingly infected can travel a great distance and potentially expose hundreds of new people. Scores of hospital staffers were involved in the treatment of the index patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola at the hospital Oct.8.
It is now clear that Presbyterian Hospital experienced a catastrophic failure of infection control when it treated Duncan. He fell ill four days after arriving in Dallas by plane from Liberia, a trip that included connecting flights in Brussels and at Washington Dulles International Airport. When Duncan first went to the hospital, he was sent home despite a high fever and his stated travel history, a misstep that the hospital still has not fully explained. Two days later, on Sept.28, he returned, with his family fearing that he had Ebola.
Here is the original post:
Health-care worker with Ebola was allowed to fly despite reporting slight fever
Last Updated Oct 15, 2014 7:02 PM EDT
The second health care worker to test positive for Ebola in Dallas traveled by air the day before presenting symptoms and being isolated, the CDC announced Wednesday.
The Cleveland Department of Public Health identified the health care worker as Amber Vinson. Officials said Vinson, a nurse in Dallas, was visiting family in northeast Ohio to prepare for her wedding.
CDC Director Tom Frieden said Wednesday the worker is currently in the process of being transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, which has previously successfully treated two American Ebola patients without the disease spreading further. She boarded a flight to Atlanta Wed. afternoon.
Play Video
A second health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital tested positive for the Ebola virus. Nurses empl...
The revelation has raised alarm about further spread of the disease, which is transmitted through body fluids such as blood and saliva after the victim starts showing symptoms.
In response to the latest Ebola case, the White House announced Tuesday that President Obama is calling off a planned trip to New Jersey and Connecticut and instead will convene Cabinet officials coordinating the government's Ebola response.
Amber Vinson
Link:
2nd Dallas health care worker with Ebola took plane before symptoms appeared
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter Latest Infectious Disease News
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A second health care worker who helped treat a patient who died of Ebola last week at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for the disease, health officials said Wednesday morning.
The unidentified woman reported a fever Tuesday and was isolated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Health officials interviewed the woman to identify any people who may have had contact with her, and those contacts will be monitored, according to a statement from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
The preliminary Ebola diagnosis was made after a test late Tuesday at the state public health laboratory in Austin. A second test that's expected to confirm the diagnosis on Wednesday will come from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The announcement of the second infected health care worker in Dallas came a day after the director of the CDC acknowledged that more health workers at the hospital could be infected. "It's possible we will see other people become ill," Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said at a Tuesday news briefing.
Both infected workers were part of a team of dozens of health care professionals and support staffers who took care of Thomas Eric Duncan, a native of Liberia who was the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Liberia is one of three West African nations -- the others are Guinea and Sierra Leone -- that have been ravaged since the spring by the worst outbreak of Ebola in history.
Meanwhile, the first health care worker in Dallas to be diagnosed with Ebola, 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham, is in stable condition, and said in a statement Tuesday that she is doing well.
"I'm doing well and want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers," Pham said.
On Tuesday, public health officials said they were actively monitoring 76 workers at Texas Health Presbyterian who may have been exposed to Ebola while treating Duncan. They may have been exposed to the Ebola virus through contact with either Duncan or his bodily fluids, Frieden said.
To prevent future exposures of health care workers, Frieden pledged to send a team of top CDC infection-control experts to any U.S. hospital that must treat an Ebola patient.
The rest is here:
Second Health Care Worker in Dallas Tests Positive for Ebola
They work long hours on their feet and risk their lives at work each day in return for a modest salary. And now America's nurses are at the front lines as the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history threatens to spread across the United States.
With more than four times as many registered nurses as physicians in the United States, nurses make up the bulk of hospital staff and serve as the primary providers for direct patient care, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.Terry Jones, assistant professor of nursing at the University of Texas at Austin, said treating infectious diseases like Ebola is merely part of the job.
On the other side of the disease is a real human being that is who we are there for. The virus is part of the package, Jones said. You have to accept that as part of the package and make your peace with it. Risk cannot be eliminated.
At least two health care workers who cared for an Ebola patient in Texas have contracted the deadly virus in recent days. Amber Joy Vinson, 26, and Nina Pham, 26, bothcontracted Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas before he died last week.
Vinson reported a fever on Tuesday and was isolated within 90 minutes of her temperature being taken, health officials said. Phamwas upgraded to good condition Tuesday, after being in isolation since Friday. She is the first person to contract Ebola in the U.S., and the case has triggered a CDC investigation to identify the cause of the infection.
The deadly virus is transmitted via contact with infected bodily fluids, according to Jones. That really is our job, and those bodily functions are part of the nursing care that we provide, said Jones, who has been a nurse for over 25 years.
CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden has said hes unsure how Pham was infected. What we need to do, is all take responsibility for improving the safety of those on the front lines. I feel awful that a health care worker became infected in the care of an Ebola patient. She was there trying to help the first patient survive, Frieden said during apress conference Monday.
Nursing is the nations largest health care profession and represents one of the largest sectors of the American workforce,according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Theyspend, on average, 72 percent of their time performing patient care and keeping patient care records, according to findings from the2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses.
On average, full-time registered nurses work over 40 hours per week, often working 12-hour shifts at a time and usually standing on their feet, Jones said. Nurses paid on an hourly wage basis are typically paid for overtime work, while salaried nurses do not receive overtime pay. The majority of registered nurses do not report working overtime, the national survey showed.
Nearly 85 percent of nurses working in hospitals are under the age of 30, and over 88 percent of staff nurses have five or fewer years of post-graduate experience, according to the survey published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.According to Jones, a nurses age isnt necessarily relevant to his or her level of experience. Many recent graduates are arguably most readily equipped and trained, she said.
See the original post:
Ebola Outbreak 2014: Nurses, Health Care Workers Most At Risk
Ebola: Liberian health care system on the brink
(CNN) -- Health care workers in Liberia who say they haven #39;t been paid in weeks are threatening all-out strikes.
By: KHON2 News
Read this article:
Health care workers monitored after Ebola case
Federal health officials on Monday urged the nation #39;s hospitals to think Ebola and keep vigilant watch for symptoms of the disease in any patients who have traveled from three West...
By: kxan
Read more from the original source:
Health Care - Responsive Health WordPress Theme + Download
Download here: http://goo.gl/elX2i0 Health Care is a powerful multipurpose responsive WordPress theme suitable for medical and health related businesses. Its fresh and clean design makes it...
By: fiercethemesupdate
Read more:
Health Care - Responsive Health WordPress Theme + Download - Video