Saving lives is all in a day’s work at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, New Jersey. In over 100 years of operation, the hospital estimates it has healed 2.3 million patients from every corner of the US and 87 countries around the world.
When it comes to providing quality health care for veterans, military members and their families, our country falls short. Only about half of all veterans who need mental health care ever receive it. Similarly, nearly all wounded veterans reported exposure to hazardous or toxic substances during military service, yet only 9% have received treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals for their exposures.
Researchers have found that an activated form of the hunger hormone ghrelin can help people with heart failure by increasing the heart’s pump capacity.
Because medicine is changing at an ever-accelerating rate, many physicians are becoming increasingly specialized to provide patients with the most advanced, effective and targeted care.
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