Wellness Wednesday – Healthy Heart Tips with Nurse Lauren
Nurse Lauren, HealthcareNOW Radio’s NursesNOW content contributor, discusses this week’s Wellness Wednesday tip, how to have a healthy heart.
7 Ways Telemedicine Helps Control Diabetes
By Joel Barthelemy – Most people have some awareness of what diabetes is; many have family members or friends with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. But what isn’t as well known is how telemedicine is helping patients manage their condition – and even saving their lives in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Holiday Gift Giving for the Nurse in Your Life
Nurse Lauren shares her recommended products that get her through her shifts and her life. Do you have a nurse in your life and you are searching for a perfect gift? Looking to currently thank a nurse working on the front lines during the holiday season? Bookmark this page!
National Family Health History Day 2020
From all of us at Answers Media Network we wish you a safe and happy holiday. Thanksgiving is National Family Health History Day. Over the holiday the Surgeon General encourages Americans to talk about, and to write down, the health problems that seem to run in their family.
Spotlight On Diabetes
November is American Diabetes Month, a time to learn the latest about the disease, help spread awareness and research what you can do to help join the fight to find a cure. We look back at what organizations are doing to spread awareness this past month, how you can get involved, and what having diabetes in the age of COVID-19 means.
Stop and Screen
By Maria Zannes – My father was 39 when he died of lung cancer, attributed to his twenty-year Lucky Strikes habit. The U.S. Surgeon General had yet to issue his first report on the health hazards of smoking in 1960 when my father was diagnosed.
The Friday Five – 5 Ways Radiomics Can Help Fight Lung Cancer
Brought to us by HealthMyne, a pioneer in applied radiomics, this week’s Friday Five identifies five benefits radiomics brings to the fight against lung cancer. November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month.
Planning Your Holidays During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Francis S. Collins MD PhD – With the holiday season fast approaching and COVID-19 surging in most parts of the country, millions of Americans—including me and my family—will break with tradition this year to celebrate in ways that we hope will help to keep us all safe and healthy.
The Great American Smokeout with Nurse Lauren
Nurse Lauren, contributor of NursesNOW, offers tips to keep your heart healthy including eating right, exercising and quitting smoking.
The Friday Five – 5 Must-Know Facts about Nurse Practitioners
This week, Matrix Medical Network celebrates Nurse Practitioner Week with these five facts you should know. NPs are at the front lines helping to diagnose and treat COVID-19 patients in primary, specialty, acute and long-term care settings. Thank you to all NPs!
The Friday Five – Wrap of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Throughout the month of October Answers Media celebrated Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020 with a plethora of posts each focused on a specific cybersecurity topic. This week’s Friday Five recaps all of the information and advice offered in those posts by our experts.
Organizational Health Literacy More Essential than Ever for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease
By Cindy Brach, MPP & Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS – When healthcare consumers are unable find, understand, and use information to inform decisions about their care, the consequences can be dire.
