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Health Care
Restaurant Customers Consuming Fewer Calories
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
WASHINGTON -- Restaurant chains are reducing the number of calories in many of their menu items, a new study finds. The report, by researchers at the department of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University, looked at the calories in the items served at more than 60 large U.S. chain restaurants including Chipotle, Wendy’s and Applebee’s Bar & Grill.
Overall, the menu items that the chain restaurants introduced in 2013 had 12% fewer calories than items in 2012, the report found. Calories in new children’s items dropped a significant 20%.
NEOMED Sends Doctors Back to Their Communities
Monday, October 13, 2014
ROOTSTOWN, Ohio -- As she grew up in Nigeria, Maryam Audu saw a mélange of health issues. Common, she says, were basic issues such as high blood pressure and a lack of prenatal and infant care.
When she was 10, she moved to Cleveland where her father, a doctor, was working. Half a world away from where she was reared, Audu saw that the same health issues prevalent in her home country were just as widespread in Greater Cleveland.
NEOMED Puts Focus on Interdisciplinary Education
Friday, October 10, 2014
ROOTSTOWN, Ohio -- Providing medical care is never a singular effort. In primary care, doctors must be in constant contact with specialists and pharmacists. For those who work in hospitals, collaboration with nurses, administrators, pharmacists and other doctors is routine.
When Northeast Ohio Medical University established its College of Pharmacy in 2005 – its first expansion beyond being simply a college of medicine – part of its mission was to increase collaboration between primary care physicians and those who dispense medications.
Realism Key to Educating Physicians at NEOMED
Thursday, October 09, 2014
ROOTSTOWN, Ohio -- It looks like a standard doctor’s office. The walls are light blue. The green-cushioned exam table is covered in translucent tissue paper. The jars, lined up evenly on the countertop, are filled with tongue depressors, cotton balls and bandages.
Even the people in the room aren’t out of place. Patients come in and wait before they talk to the “doctor,” who is dressed in the requisite white coat, about their concerns and ailments as he or she reviews their charts.
Researchers at NEOMED Study Cardiac Stem Cells
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
ROOTSTOWN, Ohio -- On the screen, they’re little more than white, black and gray shapes. Some are long and narrow, others almost perfectly round, giving no hint of the secrets they might hold.
Under a microscope, it’s easier to see what they are: cells, such as a sample taken from a patient about to undergo heart bypass surgery. Some of these cells, the lab workers hope, are stem cells.
As a group of students gathers around the screen, Dr. William M. Chilian interjects and points to some of the black shapes.