Medical Job Interviews
Things That Should Stay “ON” during your Job Interview |
Things That Should Stay “ON” during your Job Interview
HospitalSoup.com’s Job Search Tips: Looking Your Best During Your Next Job Interview
In today’s competitive job market, the interview is your chance to impress upon the employer how hiring you will make their job easier. So the last thing you...
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Thyroid Information
Compounded Thyroid vs Other Thyroid Meds |
Compounded Thyroid vs Other Thyroid Meds
A fellow thyroid patient wrote in and asked a GREAT Thyroid Question. Cynthia asked what is the difference between compounded thyroid medication that has T3/T4 in it and tablets of natural desiccated thyroid. Tablets of natural desiccated thyroid...
Could It Be Your Thyroid? |
Could It Be Your Thyroid?
Thyroid Disorder: Thyroid Health
It’s small, in the shape of a butterfly, and located right above your collarbone and in front of your windpipe or trachea. It’s like the “gas tank” of the body, producing two hormones that are in charge...
How To Never Run Out of Your Thyroid Medication: Practical Thyroid Tips |
How To Never Run Out of Your Thyroid Medication: Practical Thyroid Tips
Thyroid Medication: If you take it you know how important it is to your body’s overall functioning. And for those of us who have no thyroid glands at all, it is not only important, but it is essential to life that we take thyroid replacement hormone...
Can Hypothyroidism Cause Muscle Pains? |
Can Hypothyroidism Cause Muscle Pains?
Pain and Thyroid Disease: Could it Be Affecting You?
One of our readers wrote in with a great question today regarding hypothyroidism and muscle pain. She was experiencing sharp stabbing pain in her calf muscle and asks if this could be related to...
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Heart Disease
One in Four Women Will Get It: Do You Know What It Is? |
One in Four Women Will Get It: Do You Know What It Is?
It kills more of us than breast cancer yet if we go to the Emergency Room doctors may not treat us appropriately. If you thought we were discussing heart disease in women, you’d be correct.
One in 4 women will die from heart disease, or...
How Your Heart Works - Understanding your Heart |
How Your Heart Works – Understanding your Heart
When it comes to the health of your heart, it helps to have basic understanding of its structure. This is especially true if you’ve been diagnosed with a specific problem that stems from your heart’s anatomy. Let’s discuss the structure...
Heart Healthy Cooking Tips - Cook for the Heart |
Heart Healthy Cooking Tips – Cook for the Heart
When it comes to keeping your heart healthy, your diet is critical. Incorporating new cooking techniques can help you to improve your cholesterol and blood pressure, which in turn will reduce your risk of heart disease. And if you learn to cook healthy...
Fast Cholesterol Facts - Facts About Your Cholesterol |
Fast Cholesterol Facts – Facts About Your Cholesterol
Cholesterol – Too Much Can be a problem, but we all need it in order to live. There are many misconceptions about cholesterol, and sometimes it can be confusing. Read on for more tips about this substance in our bodies, and some ways you can manage...
Easy Ways to Reduce Your Cholesterol - How to Lower Your Cholesterol Without Taking Medications |
Easy Ways to Reduce Your Cholesterol – How to Lower Your Cholesterol Without Taking Medications
Lower Your Cholesterol Without Medicines
You’ve just received a phone call from your doctor and it’s not so great news. Turns out, you’re cholesterol is over 200. Before you head to the pharmacy to pick up a cholesterol lowering medication,...
Holter Monitor Testing |
Holter Monitor Testing
What is a Holter Monitor?
A Holter Monitor is a machine that your doctor will order which will continuously record your heart rhythms for 24 hours or more. The monitor is worn continuously throughout the day and night and because it is worn for an extended...
Heart Disease
PTSD
Austin Plane Crash | PTSD and Events that Terrorize |
Austin Plane Crash | PTSD and Events that Terrorize
When software engineer Joseph Stack in his fury over the IRS and the government, crashed his single engine plane into a Northwestern Austin Office Building on Thursday, February 18th, 2010, there was not only a trail of physical devastation left,...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
How to Protect Your Thyroid Medicine While On Vacation
Summer Heat and Medication Safety: What you Should Know About Thyroid Medication and Warm Temperatures
As most of the nation struggles with a heat wave that has brought record high temperatures, there is a hidden risk for many patients who take prescription...
Baby Sleep Problems |
Baby Sleep Problems
New Baby: How to Help Baby Sleep Better
During the first few weeks after bringing a new baby home, the expression “sleep like a baby” certainly seems like the biggest misnomer in the world. Instead of the long, relaxed, undisturbed sleep the...
A Toast to An American Soldier on Memorial Day |
A Toast to An American Soldier on Memorial Day
While many of us will spend Memorial Day enjoying the company of family and friends, one young soldier is on his way to basic training. And then, off to Afghanistan.
As we sent him off this past weekend, there was both a tear in my eye and a tug...
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome: Drinking During Pregnancy |
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome: Drinking During Pregnancy
Alcohol and Pregnancy
Bringing a child into the world puts a lot of responsibility on your shoulders. You are literally responsible for another life from the moment of conception in the simplest and most direct way possible: whatever you take into...
Caffeine and Pregnancy: How much is OK? |
Caffeine and Pregnancy: How much is OK?
Pregnancy often spells sacrifice for women because of all the things they have to give up on. Sweets, alcohol, smoking (for those who have the vice), staying up late and those extra hours on the couch. The question many ask is: is coffee (or caffeine)...
Mosquito Repellent and Mosquito Disease |
Mosquito Repellent and Mosquito Disease
These little buzzing insects may seem benign and too small to cause more trouble than those annoying itchy bites, but mosquitoes are not to be belittled despite their size. In fact it may be their puny size and how this allows them access to virtually...
Saying Goodbye to a Precious Pet |
Saying Goodbye to a Precious Pet
Lessons from Abbey
Where there is great love in life there is also great pain and grief when our loved one’s pass. Losing anyone is never easy, but there is a certain ache in the heart when we have to say goodbye to a fur kid in the family. ...
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Nurse Educator
Assistant Professor of Nursing Part 2 - Salaries Career Opportunities |
Assistant Professor of Nursing Part 2 – Salaries Career Opportunities
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Part 2 of HospitalSoup.com’s Interview with Professor Bethany Hoffman
Another “Day in the Life” series brought to you by HospitalSoup.com featuring innovative health care professionals and medical careers....
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Health Care Services
Arizona Medicaid Opts to save $45 Million Dollars By Denying Patient’s Transplants |
Arizona Medicaid Opts to save $45 Million Dollars By Denying Patient’s Transplants
First -world countries come with first-world benefits. Or so we thought.
In the State of Arizona, the seemingly benign words: ‘budget cut’ are resulting into tragic consequences for many citizens. Last March, a bill that was passed to lessen...
TIGRCon10 Focuses on Trends Impacting and Influencing Effectiveness of Interactive Patient Education |
TIGRCon10 Focuses on Trends Impacting and Influencing Effectiveness of Interactive Patient Education
TeleHealth Services’ TIGR User Conference explores maximizing clinical benefits and facility quality initiatives with interactive patient education systems.
Nashville, TN and Raleigh, NC – December 5, 2010- TeleHealth Services’ TIGR User Conference...
Arizona Hospital Grants Patient’s Wedding Wish |
Arizona Hospital Grants Patient’s Wedding Wish
The Best Medicine Comes from the Heart
In the spirit of the holidays HospitalSoup.com would like to take a step back and to remind everyone to treasure the moments in life that matter. It’s not about how many gifts you give or get, but the meaning of...
Texas Hospital Provides Free Heart Screening For Athletes |
Texas Hospital Provides Free Heart Screening For Athletes
Cardiovascular Screenings (over a $700.00 value) offered by leading Texas Hospital for Young Athletes
Heart Hospital of Austin, a premiere Texas Hospital Helps Screen Young Athletes for Cardiovascular Disorders
Cardiovascular disorders are...
New Partnership Combines Innovative Technologies to Bring the Comforts of Home to the Hospital |
New Partnership Combines Innovative Technologies to Bring the Comforts of Home to the Hospital
Samsung and TeleHealth Services Partner to Introduce LCD TVs Designed Exclusively for Hospitals
Ridgefield Park, NJ & Raleigh, NC, July 29, 2010 — Samsung Electronics America Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics,...
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