Diagnosing Perinatal Depression
Experts discuss the balancing act that arises when healthcare providers are cautious when protecting a mother with perinatal depression (previously known as postpartum depression) and her child.
Violence Against Healthcare Workers
Experts discuss how and why attacks on healthcare workers occur and how hospitals and health care workers can do a better job preventing them.
Heart Attacks in Young Women (2018)
Surveys show young women are often unaware of their risk for a heart attack and are much less likely to go to the emergency room when one occurs.
ICU PTSD
A surprisingly high percentage of people who've been treated in the ICU later suffer from PTSD. Experts discuss why this occurs and what's being done to treat and prevent it.
It’s No Holiday in the ER
The holidays are like no other time in your local hospital's emergency department. Having family in from out of town results in pickup football injuries, carving knife gashes, and maladies that should have been addressed long ago. Heart attacks additionally create a spike in dead-on-arrival cases greater than any other days of the year. Experts discuss why …
Heart Attacks in Young Women (2015)
Young women are at relatively low risk of heart attacks, but when they have one, a much greater proportion die than among men of the same age. Surveys show young women are often unaware of their risk and are much less likely to go to the emergency room when a heart attack occurs. Experts discuss reasons and possible remedies.
