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Colorado Health Report Card: Better Grades For Kids, Less So For Seniors

Colorado improved its prenatal and early-childhood health indicators in the past year but slipped in its care for seniors ...

Aimee Sharp
Crab Shell Bandages

Crab Shell Bandages To Be Sold In U.K.

Researchers in the UK have discovered a way to get a healing mineral from crustacean shells into a wound dressing. Crab shell bandages could soon be on...

Aimee Sharp
Zika virus and microcephaly

Zika Virus + Microcephaly: 4 Family Blogs Offer a Bright Perspective

Zika Virus and Microcephaly: 4 family blogs offer a bright perspective on parenting a child with microcephaly. Read FAQs on Zika virus and more.

Sarah McIlvaine
Feeding Tube Awareness Week

Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2016

The 6th annual Feeding Tube Awareness Week® will be celebrated worldwide February 7-13, 2016! ​Feeding Tube Awareness Week® was created by the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, to increase awareness of feeding tubes and enteral feeding.   Here’s how you can participate in ​Feeding Tube Awareness Week®:   Join the Conversation on Social… Continue reading Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2016

Amy Long Carrera, MS, RD, CNSC, CWCMS
Illinois Incontinence Supplies RFP

Alert: Illinois Medicaid Releases Sole Source Provider RFP for Incontinence Supplies

The Illinois Dept. of Healthcare and Family Services recently released an Incontinence Supplies RFP seeking a single supplier for all Medicaid beneficiaries

Brooke Phillips, CWCMS
Memory Loss

Too Few Older Adults Tell Doctors About Memory Loss: Study

Originally published by Medline Plus - learn about how only 1 in 4 adults aged 45 or older discussed memory problems with a health care professional

Aimee Sharp

High Blood Sugar Might Raise Risk of Complications After a Heart Attack or Stroke

By Editor for the Lawndale News Here’s one more reason folks living with diabetes or pre-diabetes should take care of their cardiovascular health. New findings published in the journal of British Pharmacology show high blood sugar levels may trigger more severe blockages in arteries that are already blocked, and potentially cause a patient to suffer… Continue reading High Blood Sugar Might Raise Risk of Complications After a Heart Attack or Stroke

Aimee Sharp

Boulder Community Hospital Set Health Care Standards — and Affordably

By Silvia Pettem for the Colorado Daily Almost everyone who has lived in Boulder for any length of time knows someone who was born, had an operation, was treated for an illness or died at the former Boulder Community Hospital on Broadway. The building has been sold to the city of Boulder, and redevelopment plans… Continue reading Boulder Community Hospital Set Health Care Standards — and Affordably

Aimee Sharp

Wound Care Clinic Now Offered at Virginia Gay Hospital

In this article, originally published by Vinton Today, learn more about the new wound care clinic that Virgina Gay Hospital is opening.

Aimee Sharp
webinar schedule

Shield HealthCare Educational Webinar Schedule 2016

Here you can find information about all of the free webinars we held in 2016. For healthcare professionals, you may receive CE Contact Hours by watching some of the recordings.

Aimee Sharp
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