Not surprisingly, more than 44 percent of respondents to our latest survey indicated that weight loss is their number one goal in 2010. 
To help you on the path to wellness and weight loss, we will be hosting weekly Twitter Chats, featuring weight loss experts for the next five weeks (or maybe longer depending on response). 
Mark [...]

WakeMed’s Trauma Program Director, Sylvia Scholl, shares great tips with parents for ensuring that your shopping trips are safe.
Just because a child is seated in a shopping cart does not mean you can assume they’re safe.   It is estimated that more than 20,000 children under age 5 are injured by shopping carts each year.
Top 5 ways to avoid [...]

Wayne Worden, MS, RRT, RCP has been a licensed respiratory care practitioner for 16 years and is director of respiratory care WakeMed Raleigh Campus.
As reported in the News & Observer, Saturday marks the first day of a restaurant smoking ban in North Carolina.  This is remarkable because these restaurants and bars are some of the last [...]

Can you increase your chances of wealth and health in 2010 by what you eat on New Year’s Day?  WakeMed Dietitian Diana Koenning took a look at New Year’s food traditions celebrated by different cultures and believes that while you may not be able to guarantee wealth by your dietary choices, you can certainly impact [...]

Don’t Have a Christmas Coronary

According to data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, more people have heart attacks around the holidays than any other time of the year.  The reasons for this doctors postulate are many including holiday stress, loneliness, skipped doctor’s appointments, lack of exercise, poor diet and especially binge drinking, which [...]

Looking for a last minute Christmas gift?  Make a gift in honor or memory of a loved one and help improve health care for children in our community by purchasing a star or a light on WakeMed’s Love Light Tree.  All donations will support Wake County’s first Children’s Hospital under construction on WakeMed Raleigh Campus. [...]

As of today, WakeMed Health & Hospitals is ending the age-related visitation restrictions (no children under the age of 18 permitted in patient care areas) that were created to help stop the spread of H1N1 flu. As always, visitors should consult WakeMed’s normal policies for visiting adult units, the pediatric unit and critical care units [...]

Today the Triangle has its first chance of wintery precipitation of the season. While snow days are extremely fun for children of all ages (including those over the age of 18), it is important to make sure that you are prepared.  And, yes, this means more than rushing out to the grocery to stock up [...]

Last week the News & Observer published a syndicated story about a study reviewing the effectiveness of back braces for treating scoliosis.  WakeMed features one of the most integrated scoliosis surgery programs in the state if not the country, where patients have access to a rehab program, pre and post op education and a spinal support [...]

Yesterday, Dr. Bill Atkinson, president and CEO, and Dr. West Lawson, chief medical officer, partnered to send a message to WakeMed’s 7,600 employees about H1N1. The email encouraged everyone to get vaccinated for H1N1and is applicable to health care workers and the community alike.  Excerpts from follow…
 Dr. West Lawson on H1N1
The H1N1 flu is unlike [...]