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Volunteer Auxiliary Donates Vital Sign Machines
The CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial Lufkin Volunteer Auxiliary recently purchased vital sign monitors for two medical surgical units at the Lufkin hospital. The portable monitors provide nurses and nurse aids with accurate readings of a patient’s temperature, blood pressure, oxygen levels and more – all necessary information for understanding more of what is going…
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Stressed Parent? New Research Shows Your Children May Be Twice as Likely to Have Obesity
LOS ANGELES, CA: Prior research has shown that stress is associated with obesity in adults, and now for the first time, research suggests Latino parents who feel high levels of stress are twice as likely to have children with obesity as well. Researchers led by Carmen Isasi, MD, PhD, from Albert Einstein College of Medicine…
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Does Healthier Food Help Low-Income People Control Their Diabetes?
To determine whether healthy food could help low-income people better control their diabetes, a pilot study by UC San Francisco and Feeding America tracked nearly 700 people at food banks in California, Texas and Ohio over two years. The result: better diabetes control and medication adherence and an overall improvement in the consumption of healthy…
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Baby Pumpkins at CHI St. Luke’s Health
Guests and patients at CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial have been seeing little pumpkins leaving the hospital throughout the month of October. Thanks to the creative efforts of local volunteer Melanie East, babies born at Memorial during October have added bright orange crocheted caps to their wardrobes. Ms. East and her mother decided several years…
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For Children with Allergies, Reading Food Labels Crucial
It is estimated that one in every 13 children in the U.S. has a food allergy. Food allergy reactions can range from a rash to respiratory distress and even death. The uncertainty of how a child will react when exposed to food allergens is a great concern for parents. “It is impossible to know how…
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Biodegradable Implant Could Help Heal Broken Bones
A plastic derived from cornstarch combined with a volcanic ash compound, Montmorillonite clay, could help heal the bones of hundreds of thousands of patients with orthopedic injuries who need bone replacement after tumor removal, spinal fusion surgery or fracture repair. Traditional bone graft procedures require surgeons to remove bone from another part of the patient’s…
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CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial Celebrates National Hospital and Health System Pharmacy Week
Ensuring the appropriate acquisition, storage, selection, preparation and dispensing of medications, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians play a vital role in health care delivery. CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial Lufkin recently celebrated National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week by recognizing the pharmacy team including (back, l to r) Claudia Ramos, CPhT; Jennifer Phelps, CPhT; Michael Munroe,…
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CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial’s Stroke Center Earns National Re-Certification
CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial in Lufkin continues to recognize the dire need for high level stroke care, and as the first and only Joint Commission Certified Primary Care Stroke Center in East Texas, the hospital once again earned the National Gold Seal of Approval for Stroke Care, highlighting Memorial’s commitment to outstanding, quality care.…
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Cutting out Processed Sugar Improves Obese Children’s Health, Study Shows
In a study published in the journal Obesity, researchers from Touro University prove that just by replacing processed sugar, a group of obese children’s health improved in 9 days. Lustig and Jean-Marc Schwarz of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Touro University California ran their experiment on 43 obese Latino and black children aged 9…
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Can You Blame Your Health Problems on Your Grandfather? Possibly
If you have diabetes, or cancer or even heart problems, maybe you should blame it on your dad’s behaviour or environment. Or even your grandfather’s. That’s because, in recent years, scientists have shown that, before his offspring are even conceived, a father’s life experiences involving food, drugs, exposure to toxic products and even stress can…