Monday, February 15, 2016

Surgery Saves Toddler With Rare Heart Defect From Needing a Transplant

Surgery Saves Toddler With Rare Heart Defect From Needing a TransplantZoey Jones's heart was not pumping enough blood to her lungs. "She's spent more than half of her life in the hospital," her mother Tori Goddard said in a video released by the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, last week. Last year, the family's first hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, told them there was nothing else they could do for the girl and referred them to Nationwide Children's Hospital.


App Helps Determine if Pneumococcal Vaccine Is Needed

(MedPage Today) -- The PneumoVaccines app is simple but effective, says Douglas Maurer, DO

WHO reports rise of neurological disorder in Zika outbreak

Army soldiers set a banner that reads in Portuguese BERLIN (AP) -- A rare neurological disorder is on the rise in several Latin American countries that are also seeing an outbreak of the Zika virus, the World Health Organization said Saturday.


Saturday, February 6, 2016

What to Expect When You're Sent Home After Surgery

WebMD explains what to expect on the day you get sent home from the hospital after surgery.