University of Maine researchers developed an augmented reality smartphone app for teaching nursing students an interactive lesson about heart failure. The app displays a floating, animated heart model onto the smartphone screen, which is imposed onto the video feed from the camera. Continue reading →

Yolanda Carter, RN, MSN, JD, began her career in the 1980s working as a trauma nurse in a Texas emergency department, where she would often accompany STEMI patients to the cath lab, and fell in love with the work being done there. Born to Native American and Black parents, Carters own childhood history of rheumatic fever convinced her that cardiovascular medicine was her calling. Continue reading →

KINGSTON, N.Y. The parent company of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley said it laid off hospital employees in Kingston on Mondayto eliminate "redundancies" as it begins to consolidate inpatient services at its two city locations into the Mary's Avenue Campus. Westchester Medical Center Health Network would not say how many people were let go, only that there was no reduction of bedside nursing positions and that services will continue at current levels. Continue reading →

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Dominick D'Anna flew B-52s from bases across the U.S. He died in November 2014, at the age of 80.(Photo: Courtesy of John D'Anna) This will be my seventh Fathers Day with no one to buy a card for Continue reading →

Show Caption Hide Caption Algae in the C-44 Canal near Indiantown on June 2, 2021 This video shows toxic microcystis algae in the C-44 Canal about 12 miles east of Port Mayaca Lock and Dam across from Timer Powers Park in Indiantown. Ed Killer, Wochit Bella died last month in a gush of bloody horror after the 8-year-old boxers owners believe she ate toxin-laced detritus from the C-51 canal marking her as possibly the first reported canine death in Palm Beach County from blue-green algae poisoning Continue reading →