Archive for the ‘Community Health’ Category
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
The Methodist Hospital is giving Houstonians the opportunity to help save the lives of people waiting for bone marrow transplants.The third annual Bone Marrow Donor Event takes place July 14 and 15, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Crain Garden across from Starbucks in the main lobby of The ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
People with medical conditions need to think ahead before hurricane. If you have special medical needs, plan your evacuation before a hurricane hits.Dr. Jeff Kalina, associate director of emergency medicine with The Methodist Hospital in Houston, says it's important to have extra refills of medications in case the storm forces ...
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Learn to Save a Life. One thousand people will be trained at a mass CPR and AED training Saturday, June 27, 2009, at an event sponsored by the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, the American Red Cross, Texas Arrhythmia Institute and the University of Houston. Each student will receive ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center has opened a multidisciplinary valve clinic that provides one-stop-shopping for patients with complex diseases of the cardiac valves. The clinic, which streamlines the process for patients, is headed by national experts in diagnostic cardiac imaging, interventional cardiology, robotic procedures and cardiac surgery to provide ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
A few months ago, 63-year old Leona Carter could no longer use her right arm. She couldn't raise it, brush her teeth or get dressed.
The constant pain in her right shoulder was due to a massive and irreparable rotator cuff tear, along with severe arthritis. Her shoulder joint had worn ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Many marathon runners know it's important to drink plenty of water to keep the body hydrated. However, drinking too much H2O during the course of a 26-mile race can cause a potentially fatal condition called hyponatremia. "This condition occurs when you have low sodium in your body," says Dr. James Muntz, ...
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
From more than a thousand miles away, the news that Love Dabale heard was not good. Her father was dying of liver cancer, and she could not get to his side.
Love, a college student at Duke University in North Carolina, knew that her father, 57-year-old Done Peter Dabale, a United ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Surgeons at The Methodist Hospital in Houston were the first in the nation Thursday to inject highly-concentrated stem cells directly into a patient's heart, providing an intense, direct hit on damaged heart tissue.In an investigational study of new heart failure treatments, this promising new technique may be more effective in ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
With Hurricane Gustav churning in the Gulf of Mexico, now is a good time to make sure you are "medically-ready" in case you have to evacuate or you're without power for a few days or weeks. Dr. Jeff Kalina, associate medical director of emergency medicine at The Methodist Hospital, says ...
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