Thirty-two people die every day in North Carolina of cardiac arrest, but that could change if more people were trained to do CPR.
WakeMed Cardiologist Dr. George Hamrick, spoke with NBC 17 this week about the importance of learning CPR during a “Feel the Beat: CPR Anytime” event in Garner.
The program includes a presentation on the [...]

WakeMed pediatrician Dr. Travis Honeycutt spoke with WRAL this week about the use of probiotics in recovering from the contagious norovirus. Symptoms of norovirus include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach cramps. Probiotics is a healthy bacteria that normally lives in the intestine and can be found as dietary supplements. They combat the virus by putting [...]

WakeMed medication safety officer and pharmacist Alex Jenkins discussed prescription drug safety with WRAL. Pain medications, sleep aids, and anti-anxiety medications can be of concern, especially when a patient is taking a combination of all three. They work on the same brain receptors and can cause drowsiness, dizziness, unconsciousness, and difficulty breathing.  It’s important to [...]

Bariatric surgery is a surgical procedure to help patients lose weight, reduce the risk of life threatening conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure, and improve the overall quality of life.
Weight loss surgery is not a cure for obesity.  It is, however, a powerful tool to help you jump-start your weight loss and begin your [...]

How do we put more than one car seat in the back of the car? …. Our car is small.
Let’s start to answer this question by sharing that statistics show 73 percent of crashes are from either the front or rear or the vehicle and the other 27 percent are equally dispersed between the left [...]

WakeMed Cary Hospital is pleased to announce it is now home to a breastfeeding support group. 
The support group will meet weekly beginning Monday, February 12 and will be led by our certified lactation consultants who can answer questions and facilitate an open forum where moms can discuss common challenges with breastfeeding. This support group will [...]

WakeMed Heart Center is hosting a series of education programs and events to mark February as National Heart Month and to help North Carolinians lead healthy, heart-filled lives.
We are teaming up with Wake County EMS to teach the basics of CPR and the warning signs and symptoms of a heart attack in our “Feel the [...]

The NC Division of Health Service Regulation recently awarded 14 inpatient beds to WakeMed Rehabilitation Hospital after a competitive Certificate of Need (CON) process. 
Our rehab hospital – the only inpatient rehab hospital in Wake County – will grow from 84 beds to 98 once the beds are operational by the end of the year.  In [...]

Earlier this week we announced that the family of Clarence and Alice Aycock Poe generously gifted the historic Longview House, or Poe House as it is often referred to, and two acres of land upon which it sits to the WakeMed Foundation.
The Longview House is very close to many people’s hearts both as a historic [...]

Last week, the News & Observer included a picture on the front page of its Triangle section of a man balancing precariously on the top of a step ladder trimming trees.  This picture could be used as a great example of what not to do because falls from height remain the most common cause of [...]