Dr. Wayne Guerra, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of iTriage answers common questions related to Bipolar Disorder. Do you have a medical question you’d like answered? Visit our Facebook page to submit your own health related question.
]]> <a title="View Comments" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/doctorbipolar-disorder/#comments"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/comments.png"></a> <a title="Follow Comments via RSS" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/doctorbipolar-disorder/feed/atom/"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/commentrss.png"></a> <div style="clear:left;"><h3><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/doctorbipolar-disorder/#comments">Comments</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/doctorbipolar-disorder/#comments">Comments</a></li></ul></div><h3 style="clear:left;padding-top:10px">Related Stories</h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/qa-cutting-cures-founder-dennis-mitchell/">Q&A With Cutting For A Cure’s Founder, Dennis Mitchell</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/neuropathy-awareness-week-17-yearold-takes-neuropathy/">During Neuropathy Awareness Week, One 17 Year-Old Takes On Neuropathy!</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/juvenile-arthritis-mothers-story/">Juvenile Arthritis: A Mother’s Story</a></li></ul>Last week, iTriage announced its partnership with barber Dennis Mitchell’s Cutting For A Cure, an event designed to raise awareness and funds for health issues affecting minorities. Funds raised through Cutting For A Cure provide education and free health screenings by a team of medical personnel from Harlem Hospital, Iris House and Barbershop Quartet. The [...]
]]> <a title="View Comments" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/qa-cutting-cures-founder-dennis-mitchell/#comments"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/comments.png"></a> <a title="Follow Comments via RSS" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/qa-cutting-cures-founder-dennis-mitchell/feed/atom/"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/commentrss.png"></a> <div style="clear:left;"><h3><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/qa-cutting-cures-founder-dennis-mitchell/#comments">Comments</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/qa-cutting-cures-founder-dennis-mitchell/#comments">Comments</a></li></ul></div><h3 style="clear:left;padding-top:10px">Related Stories</h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/doctorbipolar-disorder/">Ask the Doctor-Bipolar Disorder</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/neuropathy-awareness-week-17-yearold-takes-neuropathy/">During Neuropathy Awareness Week, One 17 Year-Old Takes On Neuropathy!</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/juvenile-arthritis-mothers-story/">Juvenile Arthritis: A Mother’s Story</a></li></ul>In September of 2010, friends and family noticed that Michael Rothman, then sixteen, was walking with a limp. “I was also having trouble opening bottles and buttoning my jeans,” says Michael. After seeing a few doctors, Michael was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) by Dr. Thomas Brannagan, III at Columbia University Medical Center, [...]
]]> <a title="View Comments" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/neuropathy-awareness-week-17-yearold-takes-neuropathy/#comments"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/comments.png"></a> <a title="Follow Comments via RSS" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/neuropathy-awareness-week-17-yearold-takes-neuropathy/feed/atom/"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/commentrss.png"></a> <div style="clear:left;"><h3><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/neuropathy-awareness-week-17-yearold-takes-neuropathy/#comments">Comments</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/neuropathy-awareness-week-17-yearold-takes-neuropathy/#comments">Comments</a></li></ul></div><h3 style="clear:left;padding-top:10px">Related Stories</h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/juvenile-arthritis-mothers-story/">Juvenile Arthritis: A Mother’s Story</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/doctorbipolar-disorder/">Ask the Doctor-Bipolar Disorder</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/qa-cutting-cures-founder-dennis-mitchell/">Q&A With Cutting For A Cure’s Founder, Dennis Mitchell</a></li></ul>In honor of National Arthritis Awareness Month, we hear from Lisa Shultz, Shultz, mother of Amelia and Liberty Shultz who were 2012 National Arthritis Walk Honorees. When our children are born we are excited to see what they look like – Whose eyes do they have? Do they have mom’s or dad’s nose? We always hope they get [...]
]]> <a title="View Comments" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/juvenile-arthritis-mothers-story/#comments"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/comments.png"></a> <a title="Follow Comments via RSS" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/juvenile-arthritis-mothers-story/feed/atom/"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/commentrss.png"></a> <div style="clear:left;"><h3><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/juvenile-arthritis-mothers-story/#comments">Comments</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/juvenile-arthritis-mothers-story/#comments">Comments</a></li></ul></div><h3 style="clear:left;padding-top:10px">Related Stories</h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/neuropathy-awareness-week-17-yearold-takes-neuropathy/">During Neuropathy Awareness Week, One 17 Year-Old Takes On Neuropathy!</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/doctorbipolar-disorder/">Ask the Doctor-Bipolar Disorder</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/qa-cutting-cures-founder-dennis-mitchell/">Q&A With Cutting For A Cure’s Founder, Dennis Mitchell</a></li></ul>With busy schedules and hectic lifestyles, people are often concerned about the amount of sleep they get. On the other end of the spectrum, parents worry that their teenagers sleep too long on weekends, and other adults wonder if their make-up sleep is detrimental to their health. The amount of sleep needed varies by age, [...]
]]> <a title="View Comments" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/sleep-sleep/#comments"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/comments.png"></a> <a title="Follow Comments via RSS" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/sleep-sleep/feed/atom/"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/commentrss.png"></a> <div style="clear:left;"><h3><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/sleep-sleep/#comments">Comments</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/sleep-sleep/#comments">Comments</a></li></ul></div><h3 style="clear:left;padding-top:10px">Related Stories</h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/doctorbipolar-disorder/">Ask the Doctor-Bipolar Disorder</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/qa-cutting-cures-founder-dennis-mitchell/">Q&A With Cutting For A Cure’s Founder, Dennis Mitchell</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/neuropathy-awareness-week-17-yearold-takes-neuropathy/">During Neuropathy Awareness Week, One 17 Year-Old Takes On Neuropathy!</a></li></ul>Congratulations to the following iTriage partner hospitals that recently made the Thomson Reuters annual list of 100 Top Hospitals. Now in its 19th year, the study identifies those hospitals with the best facility-wide performance. Nearly 3,000 hospitals were evaluated on measures including patient care, operational efficiency, and financial stability. According to the study, the 100 [...]
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]]> <a title="View Comments" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/top-5-reasons-career-nursing/#comments"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/comments.png"></a> <a title="Follow Comments via RSS" href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/top-5-reasons-career-nursing/feed/atom/"><img height="20" style="border:0;float:left;margin:0px 3px 0px;padding:0" src="http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/commentrss.png"></a> <div style="clear:left;"><h3><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/top-5-reasons-career-nursing/#comments">Comments</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/top-5-reasons-career-nursing/#comments">Comments</a></li></ul></div><h3 style="clear:left;padding-top:10px">Related Stories</h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/cut-career-nursing/">Are You Cut Out for a Career in Nursing?</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/nurses-nurses-week/">What nurses want this Nurses Week</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.itriagehealth.com/doctorbipolar-disorder/">Ask the Doctor-Bipolar Disorder</a></li></ul>Some of us know what we want to do with our lives from the time we are small children. My brother wanted to be a fireman (he currently works for an oil company – I guess he kind of went the other way with that one). My sister wanted to be a veterinarian and instead [...]
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