Who's Who in the Hospital?

Who’s Who in the Hospital?

With so many different medical specialties it’s easy to feel confused by the number of people who come into your hospital room to check on you. Sometimes your doctor may show up along with a whole bunch of medical students. Other times you may not recognize the person leaning over your hospital be

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Post-Polio Syndrome, A New Condition for an Old Disease

Post-Polio Syndrome, A New Condition for an Old Disease

Even though Jonas Salk's vaccine beat the polio virus into submission in the 1950s, the U.S. still has more than 400,000 polio survivors and up to half of them have post-polio syndrome (PPS). A National Institutes of Health website defines PPS as “a condition that affects polio survivors anywhere

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