Healthcare News

Respire Cases Launches Newest Product for Asthma Inhaler Protection Now it is possible to improve the look and feel of your inhaler as well as keeping it completely clean. Asthma Inhalers have been given a significant image upgrade with the recent release of the Respire Magnetic Inhaler Case. [7-6-2007]

Hospitals Urged to Be Vigilante Over Their Water Systems This Summer Legionella bacteria, while usually not a problem for healthy adults, can be most serious and even fatal for patients who are immune compromised, including those in Intensive Care Units, the very young and the very old, the chronically ill, and post-surgical, cancer and transplant patients. [6-28-2007]

FDA Grants Clearance to INRange System’s Electronic Medication Management Assistant EMMA is the first and only medical device commercially available for in-home medication management that can select, and deliver individual doses of medicine much like an ATM selects and delivers dollar bills. [6-25-2007]

Bacterial Pneumonia Patients at Increased Risk of Major Heart Problems A new study suggests patients hospitalized with pneumonia may be at serious risk of new or worsening heart problems. [6-19-2007]

Simple Disease Prevention Guidelines Frequently Ignored at Petting Zoo's As we enter summertime, petting zoos open to families, allowing adults and children to learn about and experience animals. Unfortunately, in addition to goats, sheep, and other animals, petting zoos sometimes allow people to meet critters with names like E. coli, Salmonella, Cryptosporidium, and Campylobacter—bacteria that live in the intestinal tracts of some animals and which are shed in the animal's feces. [6-19-2007]

Lutheran Healthcare and Hunter College Join Forces to Provide HIV/AIDS Sensitivity Training Lutheran staff trained to provide support and care for people at-risk for HIV and people living with HIV/AIDS. [6-18-2007]

FDA Approves New Drug for Advanced Kidney Cancer   [5-30-2007]

Nationwide Recall of of Similac Special Care Ready-to-Feed (RTF) Premature Infant Formula with Iron Premature infants fed this formula for more than a month after discharge could have an increased risk of developing anemia due to insufficient iron intake. If parents have any concerns about their baby's health, they should contact their baby's doctor or health care professional. [5-30-2007]

Children Get Strokes Too Stroke is not just an adult condition. In the US, it occurs in 4 out of 10,000 newborns and 3 out of 100,000 children per year. According to experts, about 200 newborns born in Brooklyn will suffer from a stroke this year, and about 40 children will have a new onset stroke. [5-30-2007]

Protect Yourself From Pesticides in Water With the arrival of warm weather comes the need to control weeds and insects and the temptation to use pesticides. [5-22-2007]

FDA Approves Neupro Patch for Treatment of Early Parkinson's Disease The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the approval of Neupro (rotigotine transdermal system), a skin patch designed to treat symptoms of early Parkinson's disease. [5-12-2007]

Serious Illness among Children with Sickle Cell Disease Reduced with Vaccine A vaccine introduced in 2000 has reduced by more than 90 percent the rate of a serious bacterial illness among young children with sickle cell disease (SCD), who are particularly susceptible to it, according to a new study that appears in the June 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. [5-3-2007]

Hospital Council Eases Insurance Enrollment Process; Opens Dedicated Office The Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council (NSHC) renewed its commitment to enroll all eligible children into state sponsored health insurance programs, when it officially opened its new headquarter office for its Facilitated Enrollment Program [5-3-2007]

NYC Health Dept Gives Away 5 Million Condoms In First Month NYC Condom Website Received 15,000 Visits in One Week [4-24-2007]