New Orleans nurses turn home into clinic
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The sign on the gate in front of the pretty blue house announced the good news to a neighborhood that has had little since Hurricane Katrina: "There's a doctor in the house. Make your appointment NOW!"
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As schools expand to include students with physiological and psychological challenges, the school nurse has become more than just someone to detect a fever from a fake.
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When a massive tsunami crashed into Sumatra more than two weeks ago, nurses at the Banda Aceh Hospital for the Mentally Ill unlocked the doors and let the patients wander off.
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Five months after opening its doors, a health clinic that serves the uninsured is about to launch a fund-raising campaign to pay for an $8 million building that will serve as its permanent home.
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A group of health-care leaders are banding together to make hospitals a less dangerous place to get well.
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LEBANON, N.H. -- It took Laurie Tostenson years of mopping floors, washing sheets and "screaming twice as loud" as the men around her before she managed to change her janitors' scrubs for a blazer befitting a supervisor at New Hampshire's largest hospital.
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Chobi DebRoy's lab is a haven for E. coli bacteria. No wonder she has bottles of disinfectant sitting all over the countertops.
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KINSHASA, Congo, Sept. 3 -- Two hospitals, named for two mothers. One is mired in the past; the other represents beaten-down Congo's hopes for a better future.
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A view of Upper East Side girls hits close to home.
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Newborns who are visited by nurses at home shortly after their mother&#39;s return from the hospital are less likely to require emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations.
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The first patient to receive a live liver donation on the NHS is due to leave hospital for home.
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Mercy Clinic's doors won't open for another hour, but already the waiting room is crowded with patients. A grandmother, a single man, a petite brown-haired woman with a slight cough and her boyfriend -- they've all come to this Gaithersburg clinic, one of 10 across Montgomery County that care for...
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Tough love is turning tender at rehab clinics where gourmet food and whale watching are often replacing bed making and group therapy as part of the treatment for addictions to drink and drugs.
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When former emergency room doctor Bill Thomas took a part-time job at a nursing home, he didn't know he was taking the first step toward creating an international nonprofit organization that could revolutionize eldercare.
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AYER -- Registered nurses at Nashoba Valley Medical Center are doing what few of their counterparts anywhere can do: logging on to their computers and bidding on working shifts that have openings.
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The government launches a 'matron's charter', based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale, to improve hospital cleanliness.
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NEW YORK  - Having a nurse visit the home a  few days after a woman has a baby reduces the number of  newborns being readmitted to the hospital with jaundice or  dehydration -- and it saves money -- according to a new study.