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Reading Tower Health
Focused on the patient/family experience and integration with the existing hospital campus, the Ballinger-designed Reading HealthPlex turns the site and program challenges into opportunities for connectivity, enhanced green space, and advanced medical care. This new building in Reading, Pa., which represents the next phase of Tower Health’s long-range master plan for the Reading Hospital campus, consolidates campus-wide surgical services, expands emergency medicine, and adds 150 new private patient rooms to the urban institution. A significant portion of the surgical program healthcare
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New Study Finds Children Can Recognize When Others Are Sick
A new study published in the Journal of Child Development looked at infection detection in faces and children’s development of pathogen avoidance. “We were interested in understanding whether children ages four to nine years old can avoid and recognize sick faces,” study author Tiffany S. Leung told us. “Previous studies have reported that adults can use faces to recognize when someone is sick and make judgements about whether to approach or avoid them. However, so far, no studies have measured theravive
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Are You Being Shallow? Here Are 7 Ways to Stop Being Shallow
Where we live in a world filled with Instagram filters and quick swipes on dating apps, it can become almost easy to get caught up in the shallow end of the pool. With showering praises and a never-ending loop of who liked your content, it’s almost impossible to look beyond these superficial things. I’ve lived in a society where my personality was defined by my job, my choice of career, and even the way I dressed up. While I soon calmsage
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Caffeine And Migraines: Can Caffeine Help Tension Headaches or Cause Them?
The relationship between caffeine and migraine is a complex one, with caffeine being an acute pain reliever as well as a potential trigger. Understanding the factors for caffeine-induced migraines can help you make informed choices about caffeine consumption. Migraines are no joke; they are more than just severe headaches too. Migraines are like those uninvited guests who come with a drum set to play an enthusiastic solo right in your head. These severe headaches often come bearing nausea and sensitivity calmsage
septembre 11, 2023Like
Elaine Welteroth Is Speaking Out About Pain Inequity
For some people, visiting a medical professional when you’re not feeling well or are injured, is a routine process that ends in working toward a diagnosis and a solution. Yet for marginalized communities, in particular non-white Latinx and Black patients, getting validation of pain, and fair treatment in a medical office is not a guarantee. Historically, this rings true: Medical professionals over time have ingrained racial bias in treating Black patients, believing them to be more tolerant of pain based shek
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The New COVID Booster Is Now FDA-Approved — What You and Your Family Need To Know
As we head into a new cold, flu, and COVID season, there’s major news on the vaccine front: the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new COVID booster shot, which is expected to be available in a few days, pending final approval from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s welcome news, considering that COVID hospitalizations and deaths are back on the rise in the US — just as school is getting back in session and shek
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Overview Myalgic encephalomyelitis, formerly known as chronic fatigue syndrome and now often referred to as ME/CFS, was recently redefined and renamed to more accurately reflect the brain inflammation and multisystem symptoms of the disease. With the renaming came new guidelines from the National Academy of Medicine to help primary and specialty care providers more readily diagnose and manage a condition that has traditionally been difficult to diagnose and manage. Symptoms leading to a diagnosis of ME/CFS now include: an impairment Healthy
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The Effects of Social Media on Teens
Social media continues to evolve and grow in popularity, and its powerful influence on teenagers shows no sign of slowing. Though often touted as something mostly positive that offers connectivity and information sharing, social media can pose serious challenges for younger generations. The effects of social media on teens are varied and wide-ranging. Cyberbullying, mental health concerns, social media addiction, and privacy issues are potential adverse effects we should be paying attention to. If you’re like most parents, you’ve probably talk
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Here’s Why Your Allergies Get So Bad In the Fall — & What to Do About Them
The days of pumpkin spice and apple picking are here, but you can’t stop sniffling and sneezing (and googling whether your symptoms match up with the flu or COVID-19.). We might think that fall should offer us a reprieve from the bursting blooms of spring and the sinus crud that often comes in with winter. However, according to Clifford Bassett, MD, founder and medical director of Allergy and Asthma Care of New York, fall is actually (and unfortunately) quite a shek
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The HCD 10: Corey Gaarde, Building Professional
Corey Gaarde, principal, project executive, IMEG (Naperville, Ill.) As a principal and project executive at IMEG, Corey Gaarde leads the Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) Advisory Services team and strategically aligns HIT to the collaborative design process. With 20-plus years of experience in HIT, his work focuses on strategic planning and execution of advanced solutions pertaining to facility design and transformation, clinical collaboration and communication, patient/family engagement, clinical workflow, telemedicine, and medical device integration. His goal is to ensure that the healthcare
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Henry Ford Health Plans Two Projects In Detroit
Henry Ford Health (Detroit) announced plans for two new projects in Detroit: the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and the Nick Gilbert Neurofibromatosis Research Institute. Expected to open in 2029, the 125,000-square-foot Shirley Ryan AbilityLab will have 72 beds for inpatient rehabilitation for those recovering from stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other conditions. The new facility, which will be managed by the Chicago-based Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, will occupy three floors of a new patient tower planned at the Henry healthcare
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Middleman Family Pavilion, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia at King of Prussia
Extending specialized care into the growing communities surrounding the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the Middleman Family Pavilion (King of Prussia, Pa.) was conceived as a beacon of hope. CHOP envisioned a new hospital that could both provide advanced pediatric care and also imbue patients and families with a sense of joy. Designing a building that dovetailed with CHOP’s existing outpatient building, the Specialty Care Center (SCC), was important to the client and the community, and stitching the site together while providing healthcare