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Nurses Week

Posted By: Make Medicine Better meta_seperate Date Posted: May 7th, 2012 meta_seperate Category:

It’s Nurses Week, and we want to talk about all the great nurses working among us. This is a great opportunity to recognize the thousands of nurses at BJC HealthCare and throughout the region who go above and beyond to improve the patient experience. In this discussion, we want you to tell us what they [...]


Grounding Helps Chronic Pain and Sleep

Posted By: Yuhan Smith meta_seperate Date Posted: March 20th, 2012 meta_seperate Category:

A Clinton Ober published the finding of a study in the January 2000 issue of ESD Journal that suggests that sleeping while grounded makes for a better night sleep, and helps with chronic muscle and joint pain. For the study, 60 participants, (22 males and 38 females) between the ages of 23 and 74 slept [...]


Free flu shots in the community

Posted By: Debra Denham meta_seperate Date Posted: September 23rd, 2011 meta_seperate Category:

The single best way for families to protect against the flu is to get vaccinated each fall. Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s Hospitals are partnering to offer free flu shots to those in the community ages 3 years and older, unless otherwise noted. Free flu shots are available while supplies last and no pre-registration is [...]


Visit the Global Health Fair

Posted By: Henish Bhansali, MD meta_seperate Date Posted: September 21st, 2011 meta_seperate Category:

As a part of the Global Health Program, our mission is to not only promote health globally, but also in our own backyard of St. Louis. Keeping that in mind, we will be conducting our first health fair through Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University open to the entire St. Louis community. The fair will be [...]


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