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Rosie O’Donnell heart attack raises women and heart disease awareness
Talk show host and actress Rosie O’Donnell helped raise awareness of women’s heart disease risk yesterday by posting on her blog news of her recent heart attack: “maybe this is a heart attack … i googled womens heart attack symptoms … i had many of them … but really? – i thought – naaaa” It turned out she had a [...]
Barnes-Jewish among many to face Medicare penalties
An article in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch highlights new Medicare penalties many hospitals across the nation will face starting this October. The story is an important one. As you may know, the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program under the Affordable Care Act will penalize hospitals with excessive readmissions for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and [...]
Swine Flu Outbreak information
News reports may concern some with information that ”swine flu” is back. It is true, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): From July 12 through August 9, 2012, a total of 153 infections with influenza A (H3N2) variant (H3N2v) viruses have been reported in four states (Hawaii [1], Illinois [1], Indiana [120], and [...]
Barnes-Jewish part of national effort to improve breastfeeding rates
We’re excited to share Barnes-Jewish Hospital has been selected to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a first-of-its-kind national effort to significantly improve breastfeeding rates in states where rates are currently the lowest. Although breastfeeding is one of the most effective preventive health measures for infants and mothers, half of US-born babies are given formula within the first week, [...]
It starts with you and me
The following letter to the Bowling Green Times is reprinted with permission from Carrie Anne Mitchell: Not long ago, I was one of the 36 women that took advantage of a free mammography screening on July 18. With a history of breast cancer on my mother’s side of the family, I made an appointment with [...]
As School Year Begins, Be Aware of HCM
It may sound soon, but for many the new school year starts in early August. With so many going in for football and soccer practice, we want you to be watchful of a dangerous heart condition that kills several high school athletes every year — HCM or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It’s a genetic condition in which during the teen [...]
Goldfarb Nursing School Alum Goes Primetime
Katie Duke, a 2004 graduate of Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, went “primetime” with her television debut on ABC’s News Medical Documentary “NY Med” on July 10th, 2012. Katie is a nurse in the emergency department at New York Presbyterian Hospital, the busiest emergency rooms in New York City, and she has seen it [...]
Dr. Lukas Wartman Story Gains National Attention
Over the past couple of weeks, the story of oncologist and cancer survivor Lukas Wartman, MD, has gained much national attention. Dr. Wartman, was diagnosed with leukemia and through an analysis of his genes by Washington University researchers at the Siteman Cancer Center, oncologists were able to develop a therapy specific to Dr. Wartman that [...]
Endovascular Stents for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Approved by FDA
Approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of fenestrated endovascular stent grafts allows vascular surgeons at the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Heart & Vascular Center to be among few in the nation providing a new alternative to patients diagnosed with complex abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). While minimally invasive techniques developed in recent years [...]
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