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Antiviral-Resistant Influenza Strain Identified in North Dakota
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The North Dakota Department of Health has identified the strain of influenza which is resistant to a common treatment…
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Public Will Have the Chance To Vote for the Winner of This Year’s Radon Poster Contest
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The North Dakota Department of Health is asking North Dakota residents to help choose the winner of the 2009 Radon Poster Contest…
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Healthy North Dakota Links to Fruits & Veggies—More Matters Video Center Website
Monday, February 09, 2009
Consumers now have access to a new video resource with information about how to choose, store and cook different fruits and vegetables…
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Governor Hoeven Proclaims Birth Defects Prevention Month in North Dakota
Saturday, February 07, 2009
State Health Department Encourages Women To “Get Fit for Pregnancy”
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Salmonella Cases in North Dakota Linked to National Outbreak
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Ten cases of Salmonella Typhimurium associated with a national outbreak are being investigated in North Dakota…
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Nurse who is also a doctor
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Nurse Stacey Pfenning goes by the term doctor.
It can be a little confusing for patients, so she tries to clarify.
“I tell them I’m Dr. Pfenning, your nurse practitioner,” she said.
Pfenning earned the title doctor last summer when she earned a doctorate in nursing practice. It is becoming more common for nurses to seek additional clinical experience with a doctorate degree.
“It really expanded the last five years,” she said.
The doctorate she earned is meant to provide more clinical experience for nurses. It also lets her do research and publish. Like a nurse practitioner, she can see patients, give a diagnosis and write prescriptions. Nursing doctors can work under a physician or independently, she said.
“We are able to see patients individually,” she said. “The nurse practitioner prior had to have a doctor sign off, but the nurse practitioner had the paperwork, diagnosis and plan of care done.”
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Helena group wants health care for uninsured
Friday, January 16, 2009
HELENA, Mont. (AP) The Lewis and Clark City-County Health Board is launching an effort to try to provide health care to all uninsured people in the Helena area.
The board approved a resolution last week that says health care is a “basic human right” and that all citizens have “a right to access to a universal health care system.” The board plans to appoint a task force to assess health care needs in the county and try to design a plan to provide health care for thousands of people without insurance.
The effort grew out of a health board retreat last year, when members learned that 21 percent of county residents are without health insurance.
Board member Alan Peura says the board has talked about a local single-payer system and expanding the community health clinic.
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If prices are lower, what is the problem?
Thursday, January 15, 2009
The letter from Tamara Ibach of North Dakotans for Affordable Healthcare in the Dec. 26 Forum was most informative. She says the pharmacy ownership law is all about choice, price and convenience.
No one disputes that North Dakota has more pharmacies per capita than any other state, especially in rural areas, so choice and convenience seem to be taken care of.
Amazingly, Ibach’s very own 2008 statistics show that the average prescription in North Dakota is $4.62 cheaper than the national average. Thus, the reason for changing the ownership law would be what?
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Nurse to graduate in spite of cerebral palsy
Friday, January 09, 2009
Carla Pease always wanted to be a nurse. Now, she is one - but it hasn’t been easy.
At age three, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. She admired the nurses who took care of her.
“I was never one of those kids that said I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer. I always knew I wanted to be a nurse,” said Pease, of Garrison. “When I was three, I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and I spent a lot of time in the hospital having surgeries. The nurses were the ones who took care of me.
“I knew I wouldn’t be happy being anything other than a nurse,” she added.
On top of her many surgeries beginning at a young age, Pease recalls developing reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) - a condition that attacks the nervous system after a surgery or some type of trauma - when she was 16.
Yet she still held on to the hope that she could be a nurse one day.
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Obama team seeks public input on health care
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Washington (AP) Incoming Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Daschle is polling the public in his effort to push through serious health care reform in the early days of the Obama administration.
Since mid-December, people across the country have held thousands of meetings set up by President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team to air grievances about the health care system.
At a meeting in Washington on Tuessday, Daschle said the volume of people looking to participate “is an indication of the degree of severity and concern that people have all over the country.” The meetings resemble Congress’ 2005 and 2006 efforts. Back then, the Citizens Health Care Working Group heard from more than 6,600 people at 84 meetings around the country and more than 14,000 in an Internet survey. But, the group’s recommendation’s weren’t acted on.
Daschle is hoping that a deteriorating health care system means his plans won’t suffer the same fate.
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