Category: Injuries & Wounds
Each prescription drug you take has a unique code that the government can use to track problems. But artificial hips and pacemakers? They are implanted without identification. In fact, the FDA doesn’t know how many devices are implanted into patients each year – it simply doesn’t track that data.
To mark National Safe Kids Week, Dr. Melissa Hathaway, a pediatrician at The Polyclinic, offers tips for keeping kids safe.
There were 59 homicides in King County last year, the lowest number in a decade. The number deaths due to suicide, traffic accidents and overdoses also fell.
Every year more than 5 million people in the U.S. are treated in ICUs. For patients, family and friends, the ICU experience is often emotional and confusing. Here are some tips to help you cope.
Acute pain can be harrowing — and receiving prompt and helpful treatment can make all the difference in the world.
“Pain encompasses the entire person. It’s not just in your leg or back. It encompasses the entire being of who you are and what you can do and don’t do. So physically, mentally psychologically: you have to take care of all of those things.”
The flyovers will start in Seattle and Bellevue before moving to other areas of King and Pierce Counties, including Tacoma.
How to enjoy July 4th sun and fun without getting burned.
New research indicates children are much safer in rear-facing car seats, including a 2007 study that found that children under age 2 were 75 percent less likely to die or be severely injured in a crash if they are riding rear-facing.
The study’s findings suggest that despite strides made in pre-hospital and in-hospital trauma care, little progress has been made in improving the long-term survival of trauma patients.
More than one-third of adults over age 65 fall each year, and one-third of older adults who fall suffer moderate to serious injuries, including hip fractures and head trauma.
The Institutes of Medicine kicked off its yearlong study of cognitive rehabilitation therapy on Monday, a process that will help the Pentagon decide whether its health plan will cover the treatment for troops who have suffered brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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