WakeMed Discontinuing Pacifier Availability and Formula Sample Distribution on Mother’s Day
This Mother’s Day, Sunday, WakeMed Women’s Pavilion & Birthplaces – Raleigh and Cary are taking major steps to become a Baby Friendly hospital as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).  WakeMed is the first hospital in the [...]

ENERGIZE!, WakeMed’s community-based fitness and nutritional education program for teens and pre-teens, has been selected as one of three programs nationwide to qualify for recognition by the Department of Health & Human Services.  We need your help to win this high-profile recognition.  Please visit this web site to vote for ENERGIZE! Voters can only vote [...]

Enjoy local farm-fresh foods for Mother’s Day Brunch at Market Restaurant to benefit the Farm It Forward program, a community supported agriculture (CSA) program for Wake County citizens who are working to improve their nutrition due to health concerns and who could use extra help financially to make these changes. Through Farm It Forward, needy [...]

Families and professionals have different challenges in supporting children after disasters depending on many factors. First, of course, is the degree of impact.  Children who were injured or lost their homes obviously have very different needs from those who had no direct effects but who saw damage in their communities or on TV, or who [...]

Continuing our series on seasonal eating in North Carolina, this month’s seasonal sensation is the strawberry.  We North Carolinian’s take pride in our strawberries. In fact, North Carolina is the fourth largest producer of strawberries in the country, and almost all strawberries grown in North Carolina are eaten right here in our state.
What better way [...]

Fever is a word that most parents dread.  Just the first hint of a fever sends the worried parent to the medicine cabinet to find the fever and pain reliever. In many cases this is an appropriate response, but not for the reasons parents think. 
Fever in and of itself is not dangerous to the vast [...]

WakeMed Raleigh Campus and WakeMed Cary Hospital. the only Joint Commission certified Stroke Centers in Wake County, have received quality awards from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
WakeMed Raleigh Campus received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Performance Achievement and Gold Plus Quality Achievement Awards for exceptional performance for 24 [...]

Did you know that currently if a manufacturer decides to stop making a drug, they can just stop without alerting anyone? Additionally there are no rules dictating when companies have to tell the FDA that there is an issue found in the manufacturing process.
This often leaves patients, pharmacies, and clinical providers in tight spots. Frequently, [...]

Wake Orthopaedics physician Dr. Jonathan Chappell shared information with WRAL about whether or not stretching is beneficial before or after exercise.  This story was an expansion of a previous blog posted on this site by Dr. Chappell.
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Before you dismiss your baby’s sniffles as merely a common cold, consider this: What often appears to be a common cold may in fact be a very common virus called RSV in disguise.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a virus that leads to mild, cold-like symptoms in adults and older, healthy children. Unfortunately, RSV can be [...]