Archive for September, 2007
Heading Home With Your Newborn From Birth To Reality with Jennifer Shu, MD
Friday, September 21, 2007 9:45 No CommentsJennifer Shu, MD, Pediatrician and Author To Talk About Heading Home With Your Newborn From Birth To Reality
Jennifer Shu, M.D.
Jennifer Shu, MD, Pediatrician and Author will join Barbara Ficarra on Health in 30™ Radio Show to talk about Heading Home With Your Newborn From Birth To Reality. Please tune in on Friday, September 21st [...]
Gov. Blagojevich Signs Bill Improving Illinois’ Mental Illness Treatment Law
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:41 No CommentsNAMI Illinois and family members credited for removing requirement for “dangerousness”
Governor Rod Blagojevich has signed Senate Bill 234 into law, to the elation of many who have been fighting for years to improve the state’s strict mental illness treatment law. Illinois currently requires someone to be an actual physical danger to themselves or others before [...]
Is a Health Aide Taking Over for the Professional School Nurse in California: Who’s Caring for Your Kids?
Friday, September 14, 2007 19:30 No CommentsNancy Spradling
Is a Health Aide Taking Over for the Professional School Nurse in California: Who’s Caring for Your Kids? by Nancy Spradling
Since Prop 13 was passed in California, in 1978, many school districts have chosen to neglect or ignore the issue of school health. Some claim it is an issue of funding, and without appropriate [...]
School Nurses in California Speak Out About the Shortage!
Friday, September 14, 2007 10:03 No CommentsSchool Nurses: It’s More Than Band-Aids; It’s a Child’s Life!
Your children’s health care is of the utmost importance and it should not be subjected to the lack of professional school nurses. The issue of understaffed or overextended school nurses needs to be addressed and the message needs to be loud and clear to everyone [...]
Health Benefits of Tomatoes
Monday, September 10, 2007 16:41 No CommentsBy Leo Galland M.D. and Jonathan Galland
Tomatoes are one of our favorite fat-burning foods. They help reduce inflammation and reverse leptin resistance. Reversing leptin resistance is the key to losing those stubborn extra pounds. That is why tomatoes are used almost daily in The Fat Resistance Diet.
Tomatoes are excellent sources of potassium and several vitamins:
folic [...]



Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA, is an award-winning journalist, media broadcaster, speaker, medical blogger, consultant, media trainer, and health expert. She is creator, executive producer and host of Health in 30® Radio Show. Barbara is a registered nurse active on the front lines of health care: She is a head nurse at a level 2 trauma center and covers multiple medical and surgical units, critical care, oncology, cardiology and step-down units, the psychiatric in-patient unit and the Women’s and Children’s units, pediatric ER and Barbara has many years experience covering the main emergency room. Her clinical experience ranges from oncology to general medicine and surgery.
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