January 2023 • Volume 17, No. #1 From the Editor January is Cervical Health Awareness Month in the United States. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that 14,100 new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in the US last year, with an estimated 4280 deaths....
December 2022 • Volume 16, No. 12 From the Editor One of our favorite holiday traditions here at NIFA is to bring our readers’ attention to a nonprofit organization we support wholeheartedly: Mission to Heal (M2H). Mission to Heal is a global medical missions agency...
November 2022 • Volume 16, No. 11 From the Editor November is, among other things, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) awareness month. Marked by coughing, wheezing and difficulty breathing, COPD is the third leading cause of death worldwide, according to the...
October 2022 • Volume 16, No. 10 From the Editor Every year, as the shadows grow longer and my neighbors’ yards sprout decorative skeletons and ghosts, this newsletter takes a break from serious surgical topics. That’s right — it’s time for our annual Halloween issue....
September 2022 • Volume 16, No. 9 From the Editor Staffing experts have long predicted, then witnessed, a growing shortage of registered nurses, moving in tandem with the aging of the boomer generation. Nobody knew the trend would go into hyperdrive with staffing...
