March 2023 • Volume 17, No. #3 From the Editor March is, among other things, Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month – as in genetic bleeding disorders that get in the way of clotting, like hemophilia and von Willebrand disease. Although bleeding disorders affect only...
February 2023 • Volume 17, No. #2 From the Editor As part of NIFA’s RNFA training, we offer a class in Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting (EVH). EVH is a surgical technique used in connection with coronary artery bypass surgery, in which a surgeon obtains a healthy blood...
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...