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12/12/10 Do You Know a Parish Nurse? – Darvocet Pulled from Market – Vitamin D, a Must Have Vitamin

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:02:31 +0000

Do you know a Parish Nurse? Do you know what a Parish Nurse does? MaryJean Tague, Parish Nurse Coordinator with St. Vincents Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT met with Dennis and Dawn to discuss this growing trend in health and wellness.
Parish nurses tend to work with one large congregation or several small ones to help provide connections between faith and health. They may offer education services, work with people trying to understand complicated health care issues, and emphasize preventative health care measures in keeping with the teaching of the particular church they work for.
Get to know a Parish Nurse, it may change your life.

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Reading Links

http://www.parishnurses.org/DocumentLibrary/Parish%20Nursing%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

http://www.parishnurses.org/

When Blind Faith in a Medical Fix Is Broken

dennis — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:09 +0000

Ideally, treatments, operations and diagnostic procedures should be thoroughly tested before they come into routine use. But that is not always the case. Drugs and medical devices have to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but once they are on the market, doctors can prescribe them in almost any way they see fit, a practice called off-label use.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/health/26double.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssv

Safety of Drug Trials Tested

dennis — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:35:44 +0000

In a deviously inventive sting operation, Congress appears to be taking aim at the private review boards that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) trusts to protect patients who enroll in thousands of clinical trials of drugs, biologics and medical devices.

http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/policy/articles/safety_of_drug_trials_tested.html