With Austin’s Med School on November’s Ballot, It is Time for New Voices to be Heard?
For the UT Medical School -Austin proposal to be successful, it is time for new voices to lead the charge. Political, civic and community leadership need to step aside and let the voices of those that would truly benefit from the school be heard. Voices like quadripertic Daniel Curtis, who might have benefited from a medical school in Austin.
Austin AMA Healthcare Panel Features Two Speakers Involved to “Bring Brack Back”
Two communication professionals, Adrienne Lallo and Christie Garbe,involved deeply with the effort to bring a medical school to the Austin area which includes a new Brackenridge Hospital, are scheduled to address area healthcare marketing on an Austin AMA Healthcare panel.
Quick Response Code-Enabled Patient Safety Education Program Launched
Medical errors and mistakes in delivery of care harm or kill patients while costing hospitals billions each year. “Learn How to Be Safe While Receiving Medical Care” is new safety education poster program delivering critical education information directly into the hands of patients and their families and requires no staff time or training.
Texas Teen Receives Rare Double Organ Transplant
Tyler Nelson, a 17 year old with cystic fibrosis, has lived in Houston for the past 16-months waiting for a double organ transplant of lungs and liver believing that any day organs would become available. During the wait, Tyler spent his time being home schooled and writing an eBook about his experiences.
A Robust Year for Healthcare PR
The national healthcare act and its new regulations are just one issue benefiting the public relations industry over the past year. PR firms and their client’s grapple with numerous heath related issues according to 2011 O’Dwyer’s healthcare rankings.
Texas Women’s Health Federal Funding In Jeopardy
The federal government will withdraw funding for a Texas program providing more than 130,000 low-income women which preventive health care, including birth control and lifesaving cancer screenings because Planned Parenthood clinics are not allowed to participate in the program.
IDSA Proposes New Pathway for Antibiotic Approval
Eleven-year-old Addie Rerecich a healthy 11-year-old girl from Tucson, AZ, spent months in a hospital fighting several antibiotic-resistant infections and needed a lung transplant to save her life.
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Nightly dinner in the Lallo household is usually served Roman style, comfortably relaxing in the recliner or upon the couch. The casual mood also serves well for conversation about the day’s activities, problems or successes; and for the Lallos, that usually centers on the topic of health care.
Emergency Medicine Program for Docs to Debut at Seton’s Brackenridge Hospital
Newly minted doctors from across the country who want to specialize in emergency medicine will soon be trained at Austin’s first emergency medicine residency program.
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