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Alarming Findings About Hospital Monitors

Alarms on various monitors ring, beep, and do just about everything short of firing off a flare to get a nurse's attention. All that noise tends to wear nurses down, and often it masks the truly important warnings. Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2011 7:08 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog
Best Route To Heart May Be Through Your Wrist

Some cardiologists are pushing for an alternate approach to snaking catheters into the arteries feeding the heart. Going through an artery in the wrist, instead of the groin, poses a lower risk of bleeding, they say. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 08 2011 6:56 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog
Researchers Link Marijuana And Earlier Onset Of Psychosis

Australian researchers found that marijuana users who developed psychosis were 2.7 years younger than nonusers who became psychotic. Other sort of substance abuse sped up psychosis by 2 years, but alcohol alone showed no effect. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 5:57 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News Blog
Obama To Governors: Opt Out of Health Law If You Can Do Better

President Obama offered governors a smaller concession to health spending flexibility than they expected by endorsing a bipartisan proposal to allow states to opt out of most of last year's health law's requirements. Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 2:22 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

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