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Loyola First Illinois Hospital to have Cardiologists on Site 24/7
The procedure opened up an artery that was 100 percent blocked. „There was no damage to the heart because of how quick they were,” said Moss, 56, of Berwyn. „I feel good.”
To further improve its emergency angioplasty times, Loyola will become the first hospital in Illinois to staff a Heart Attack Rapid Response Team (HARRT) at the hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The HARRT program includes board-certified and highly-experienced interventional cardiologists, nurses and technicians.
Most hospitals do not have such personnel on site during nights and weekends. Thus, precious time is lost when the team has to be called in from home. This is especially true when staffers are delayed by snow storms or other bad weather.
By Janet Trautwein
Every corner of the nation is reeling from the recession. The government recently reported that America lost 2.6 million jobs last year. And the national unemployment rate now stands at 7.6 percent.
Because health insurance is usually tied to employment, many folks are at risk of losing their coverage.
Fortunately, there are several ways that newly unemployed workers can obtain affordable health insurance, even if they’re in less-than-perfect health.
One option is individual health insurance on the private market. Individual policies can cover just one person or an entire family. There are thousands of agents across the country who can help you find an affordable policy that suits your needs. The „agent finder” tool on the National Association of Health Underwriters’ (NAHU) website at www.nahu.org can be a great resource for locating a qualified health insurance professional near you.
Children’s Organ Transplant Association ® Giving Hope… Making Miracles
Chicago, IL – With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, many transplant patients are unable to shoulder the financial burden of such a procedure. The Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) is a national charity dedicated to organizing and guiding communities in raising funds for transplant-needy patients. In Chicago, volunteers are raising funds for transplant patients like local Jack Benjamin.
Born on June26, 2008, Benjamin was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia, and doctors at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago performed a life-saving liver transplant December 4, 2008.
An estimated $40,000 is being raised by Chicago volunteers.
Volunteers are needed to assist with fundraising activities. Individuals and groups interested in more information can contact Campaign Coordinator Chloe Johnston at 773.203.0807 or chloefsjohnston@gmail.mail.
Illinois reports six cases of salmonella matching the nationwide outbreak
SPRINGFIELD – Dr. Damon T. Arnold, state public health director, is asking consumers to let store managers and their local health department know when they see items on grocery store, in vending machines, gas station or convenience stores shelves that have been recalled because of the nationwide Salmonella outbreak. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is working with local health departments across the state to check stores for recalled products, but the number of recalled items continues to grow and it can be difficult to keep pace.
The most recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) list of products being recalled in relation to the nationwide Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak can be found on the IDPH Web site. Information from both the Minnesota and Connecticut state health departments, along with the results available from laboratory testing and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) epidemiological analysis, have now led the FDA to confirm that the source of this outbreak is peanut butter and peanut paste produced by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) at its Blakely, Ga. processing plant.
In November alone, more than 1.5 million people searched for the term on Google. Online ads and Web sites often include a photo of a celebrity – such as Oprah and Rachel Ray – and claim that she endorses acai as a weight loss miracle.
„The BBB strongly encourages consumers to make sure to read all the fine print and terms & conditions while purchasing any product, and be especially cautious with free trial offers,” said Steve J. Bernas, president & CEO of The Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois.
By Sally C. Pipes
President-elect Barack Obama has promised to make healthcare reform a top priority. But in order to follow through, Obama and lawmakers on Capitol Hill must reject some longstanding misconceptions about health care in this country.
Here are five such myths. Each is widely repeated, deeply held — and dead wrong.
1.) We need more government to insure poor Americans.
Government has been providing health coverage to low-income patients for over 40 years. The results are hardly encouraging.
Witness Medicaid. The quality of care beneficiaries receive is exceedingly poor. Heart attack victims covered by Medicaid, for instance, are less likely to receive state-of-the-art care than their privately insured counterparts — and they’re more than twice as likely to die as a result of their illness.
By Joel White
Jurors aren’t physicians. They’re regular people. So why would we entrust them with medical decisions best made by clinicians or scientists?
It sounds preposterous, but jurors could be given the responsibility for deciding how doctors should practice. That’s the scenario one woman is pushing before the Supreme Court.
Instead of expert scientists at the Food and Drug Administration having the final say on drug safety, people whose medical training consists of watching „ER” reruns could wield the power to pull the plug on a drug critical to your health.
The Court just heard oral arguments in Wyeth v. Levine challenging a legal doctrine known as „preemption,” which states that federal law trumps state law when they conflict. Rooted in the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, this legal principle provides a way to resolve discrepancies between federal, state, and local statutes.
W dniach 15, 17, 20 oraz 24 listopada 2008 r., pod kierunkiem prezesa ZLP w Chicago dr Bronisława Orawca przeprowadzono bezpłatne szczepienia przeciw grypie. Badano również ciśnienie krwi oraz udzielano porad lekarskich.
Pierwszy dzień akcji odbył się w Sali Borowczyka przy Kościele Świętej Konstancji (5843 W. Strong St.), drugi w Domu Podhalan (4808 S. Archer Ave), a trzeci i czwarty w klinikach dr. Orawca (5428 N. Milwaukee Ave. i 5200 S. Archer Ave.) w Chicago. Z darmowych szczepień skorzystało przeszło 400 osób.
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Stoją od lewej: prezes ZLP Bronisław Orawiec MD, Bożena Pakuła RN, Agnieszka Mierzejewska RN. Sala Borowczyka, Kościół św. Konstancji, Chicago, 15 listopada 2008.[/caption]
Należy przypomnieć, że grypa jest ostrym schorzeniem wirusowym wywołanym przez wirusy grypy A i B. Wirusy powodujące grypę zmieniają się często, dlatego szczepionka przeciw grypie jest udoskonalana każdego roku, by zapewnić jej skuteczność. Drobnousroje rozprzestrzeniają się drogą kropelkową. Okres inkubacji wyniosi 1-4 dni, średnio 2 dni. Chory jest najbardziej zakaźny dla otoczenia pomiędzy 1 a 5 dniem choroby. Niestety, grypa nie oszczędza nikogo i może zaatakować osobę w każdym wieku. Najczęściej objawy choroby trwają tylko przez kilka dni.
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