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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
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March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal Cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States. More than 50,000 people will die this year. This is a very curable disease with early detection and treatment. Your first question should be: what can I do to protect myself? Your response: Visit NetWellness. Our colorectal diseases expert, Janice Frederick Rafferty, MD, is available to answer your questions about colorectal cancer as well as other diseases of the colon and rectum.
Four million Americans are currently affected by Alzheimer's Disease. This number is expected to increase to 10 million in the next century as more people live longer.
For the past decade, the goal of the University Memory and Aging Center of Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland has been to promote the best possible care for persons with memory problems, and to assist their families, through an integrated program of clinical services, research, and education. The University Memory and Aging Center is the only federally funded facility in the state of Ohio specifically designated by the National Institute on Aging as an Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
The University Memory and Aging Center carries out memory and aging studies in Northeastern Ohio, and collaborates with researchers across the country and throughout the world. Their researchers and clinicians are at the forefront in providing help in the present and hope for the future for those affected by Alzheimer's disease: patients, caregivers, family members and friends.
Members of the University Memory and Aging Center participating as NetWellness experts in the Alzheimer's Disease topic area include: Paula Ogrocki, Ph.D., Wendy Lemere, MSN, RN, CS, Concepcion Santillan, MD, Leighanne Hustak, ND, CNP, Karen Long, MSN, CRNP, and Robert Friedland, M.D.
We spend nearly a third of our lives sleeping, yet as many as 40,000,000 have some sleep related problem. Our sleep disorders experts, Dennis Auckley, MD, Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland and Likith V. Reddy, DDS, MD, Assistant Professor in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, are available to answer your questions and help you get the restful sleep you need.
In addition to our new sleep disorders experts NetWellness would like to welcome several new experts.
Several new articles were added to NetWellness in the last month.
Gareth S. Kantor, MD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has developed Pre-anesthesia Online Interview, an interactive interview for patients planning surgery. The interview will increase your knowledge of anesthesia so you can make better decisions about your care and be more confident about preparation for, and recovery from, anesthesia and surgery. The interview results in a summary that you can print and share with your surgeons or anesthesiologists. Dr. Kantor believes this is the first tool of its kind on the web.
In our mission to supply the most current information to visitors, NetWellness is now adding video news releases from our university partners to the site. These are brief but content-rich interviews with researchers. The following have been added this month:
We are always trying to improve to meet your needs. What do we do well? What can we do to better fit your needs? Please send your comments through our "Feedback" feature and we'll get them into the right hands. Thanks again for using NetWellness!
NetWellness is a non-profit consumer health Web site that provides high quality information created and evaluated by health professions faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University, and The Ohio State University. Started in June 1995, NetWellness was one of the first health sites on the Internet.
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