Author: Dorron Blumberg

Baptist Health Nurse Named a National Magnet Nurse of the Year – Jobic Ray Butao, BSN, RN, CCRN

Posted by | Nov 15, 2018 | |

Baptist Health South Florida is proud to announce that Jobic Ray Butao, BSN, RN, CCRN, has received the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s 2018 Magnet Nurse of the Year Award for Empirical Outcomes. 
 
Butao, a clinical nurse in the intensive care unit at West Kendall Baptist Hospital, is the first Baptist Health nurse to receive the prestigious award and the first recipient in the state of Florida. 

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SFHEF Educational Event

Posted by | Nov 15, 2018 | |

South Florida Healthcare Executive Forum, Inc. presents The Importance of Diversity in Healthcare on Thursday, November 15 at Broward Health Medical Center. For more information or to register, visit www.sfhef.org.

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National Science Foundation (NSF) awards FIU nearly half a million dollars for “remote-controlled brain” research to treat neurodegenerative diseases

Posted by | Nov 15, 2018 | |

The brain’s neural network is a complex electric circuit of interconnected neurons – there are about 80 billion neurons in just one brain. A defect in the circuitry leads to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
 
Controlling neurons remotely might be a way of treating the millions of people who suffer from neurodegenerative diseases. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded FIU $450,000 to research wirelessly controlled nanotransducers that repair the neural circuitry in the brain.

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Men’s Health Blog by Dr. Neil Galindez at FMC

Posted by | Nov 15, 2018 | |

 Men’s Health Blog

Dr. Neil Galindez specializes in cardiothoracic surgery and minimally invasive surgery for AFib in Florida Medical Center.

November is Men’s Health Month and I want to take this opportunity to talk about heart disease and us, men, the not so stronger gender.

Even though the majority of people who die of coronary artery disease (the buildup of plaque in the heart’s arteries that could lead to a heart attack) are 65 or older, there are recent trends in industrialized countries, pointing to an increase in the incidence of coronary artery disease among younger people. Although coronary artery disease affects both men and women, men have a greater risk of having a heart attack than women do, and men have attacks earlier in life.

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