Category Archives: Features
How do physicians and nurses live their pledge of giving the best patient care?
The case of Medical Marijuana Legalization in U.S
Researchers are looking forward having a permit to undergo more studies about Medical Marijuana in the relation of the legalization of the drug to use in the future medical treatments as the United States Senator Orrin Hatch passes a bill about the issue. Hatch presents the draft law to the court together with the three […]
What’s the Difference Between Medical Assistants and Licensed Practical Nurses?
Do you ever wish there was a little more obvious way to distinguish America’s health care professionals from one another? Before the new trend of wearing coordinated scrubs in neon colors and festive patterns, nurses wore all white and it was hard to tell one from the other. WHY PEOPLE MISTAKE ONE FOR THE OTHER? There […]
Are health apps as effective as snake oil?
In the 1850s, America was full of self-proclaimed doctors peddling patent medicines that. Not only they might kill you that definitively rarely cured you. It took doctors and regulators decades to differentiate fraud from authentic and ban toxic products. Now, claims Dr. James Madara, head of the American Medical Association (AMA), we are entering a […]
Who was Mary Eliza Mahoney?
Mary Eliza Mahoney – Civil Rights Activist, Women’s Rights Activist & Nurse Early Life Mary Eliza Mahoney was born on May 7, 1845 (some sources say April 16, 1845), in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. After working for several years as a private-duty nurse at Boston’s New England Hospital for Women and Children, in […]
