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février 2, 2024Like
Getting the Right Diagnosis and Treatment for My Dry Eye Disease Was So Frustrating It Made Me Want to Cry
As told to Erica Rimlinger Imagine walking on the beach on a windy day. Sand blows into both your eyes. The sand hurts, itches and no amount of saline will dislodge it. Now imagine living with that sensation every day, for decades. That is my experience with dry eye disease. The symptoms started when I was a sophomore in college. Each morning, as I opened my eyes, I felt my eyelids scrape across my eyeballs like sandpaper. At this point Healthy
février 2, 2024Like
AJ Thomas of Corgan: Face Time
AJ Thomas (Headshot credit: Corgan) AJ Thomas is a healthcare sector leader — principal, at Corgan, (Phoenix). In Healthcare Design’s Face Time Q+A, Thomas shares what lead him to a career in healthcare design, why it’s important to ask questions on projects, and what he considers his superpower trait. What drew you to a career in healthcare design? There were very few firms hiring in 2002 (the year I graduated with my master of architecture degree from The University of Texas healthcare
février 2, 2024Like
Piedmont Healthcare Completes Tower Expansion At Piedmont Cartersville Hospital In Cartersville, Georgia
Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta) completed a 43,100-square-foot North Tower vertical expansion at Piedmont Cartersville hospital, in Cartersville, Ga. The $25 million project added two floors to the existing three-story tower. Specifically, the new fourth floor houses additional support space and general storage and the fifth floor has 20 beds for short-stay patients. The project also included renovating and adding 11,000 square feet to the existing sterile processing department. The project team includes TMPartners (architect; Brentwood, Tenn.), McCarthy Building Companies Inc. (construction services; St. healthcare
février 2, 2024Like
Mercy Health Kings Mills Hospital Opens In Mason, Ohio
Mercy Health (Cincinnati) held a ribbon cutting at Mercy Health Kings Mills Hospital in Mason, Ohio. The new hospital includes an emergency department (ED), 60 patient rooms, four operating rooms (ORs), a catheterization laboratory, interventional radiology, and an attached medical office building (MOB). GBBN (Cincinnati) was the architect on the project. For more on Mercy Health, go here. healthcare
février 2, 2024Like
11 Books About Heart Disease in Women That Could Save Your Life
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. More than 60 million women in the United States have some form of heart disease, according to the CDC — but only a little more than half of women realize it’s “their number one killer.” The most common form of heart disease, and the leading cause of death for women, is coronary artery disease, caused by plaque in the shek
février 2, 2024Like
A Patient’s Journey: How to Navigate Health Insurance for Heart Disease
February 2, 2024, is National Wear Red Day and February is AmericanHeart Month. For the more than 60 million women in the United States living with some type of heart disease, navigating health insurance coverage can be overwhelming. A patient’s journey with heart disease should move seamlessly from diagnosis to treatment, with a strong partnership between the patient and their healthcare provider (HCP). Too often, the HCP’s recommendations must first make it through complicated hurdles put in place by the Healthy
février 1, 2024Like
Study Looks At Impact of Family-Friendly Design On Dying Patients
Including comfortable and functional space for visitors to gather in a hospital patient room is a priority for many design teams, but actual evidence about the effects of these efforts, a new study posits, is hard to come by. Researchers in Denmark sought to address this gap in the study “The Impact of a Family-Friendly Hospital: A Patient Perspective,” published in Health Environments Research & Design (HERD) Journal. The study, authored by Dorte Buchwald, Ditte Buchwald, and Dorte Melgaard of healthcare
février 1, 2024Like
For Emma Stone, Anxiety Is ‘A Kind of Superpower’ — Here’s the Powerful Reason Why
Emma Stone has long used her platform to raise awareness and speak openly about mental health issues, including the debilitating anxiety she suffered from as a child. The Oscar-winning actor started having panic attacks at age 7, and while acting and therapy helped her manage the condition, she still experiences symptoms to this day. In a new interview with NPR on Thursday, the Poor Things actress revealed the roots of her childhood anxiety — and why she now sees it shek
février 1, 2024Like
HOK Establishes Centers Of Expertise For Pediatric And Behavioral Health Design
Global design, architecture, engineering, and planning firm HOK has developed the Pediatrics and Behavioral Health Centers of Expertise, which will serve as strategic extensions of HOK’s healthcare practice. The new specialized practices will provide resources, including the latest research and trends affecting pediatric and behavioral health treatment and care, to guide the firm’s design work. Behavioral Health Practice Leaders Shiva Mendez, Virginia Pankey, and Kristen Markos will lead the Behavioral Health Center of Expertise, which will work in collaboration with healthcare
février 1, 2024Like
The 10 Surprising Habits of a Lonely Person You Need to Know!
“The eternal solitude of the human soul is the most haunting thing in the world” – Vachel Lindsay Being a lonely soul might be a blessing and a curse at the same time. When you spend your lonely time wisely, it becomes a time of healthy introspection, but when you spend your time wallowing in your despair, loneliness becomes a curse. Loneliness is a universal experience that often hides in plain sight. While some signs of loneliness can be too calmsage
février 1, 2024Like
People Recall Moments After A Distressing Event Better Than What Happens Before
People remember moments immediately after a distressing episode with more clarity than the moment preceding the distressing event. Research investigating memory and trauma published in Cognition and Emotion could help inform the approach to treating PTSD, assist clinicians in combating memory loss in Alzheimer’s and even improve evaluation of eyewitness testimonies. “We know that we overall tend to have better memory for emotional events, but not all aspects are equally remembered. Sometimes, memory for contextual details surrounding emotional events is theravive
janvier 31, 2024Like
Copy of FAQs About MS
English La esclerosis múltiple (EM) es un trastorno médico crónico que comúnmente afecta a personas de entre 20 y 40 años. Y las mujeres tienen el doble de posibilidades de tener la enfermedad que los hombres. La EM a veces puede ser un diagnóstico espeluznante y precario, pero un tratamiento correcto será útil para controlar los síntomas. Aquí encontrarás respuestas para algunas preguntas frecuentes acerca de la EM. ¿Qué es la EM? La EM es un trastorno autoinmune que hace Healthy