Sherri Bishop Named to Head Development at UHHS
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 (958 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Tom Zenty,
president and chief executive officer of University Hospitals Health
System, today announced the appointment of Sherri Bishop to the
position of senior vice president for Institutional Relations and
Development. Bishop comes to UHHS after 13 years at the Cleveland
Clinic, where she most recently was vice chairman of the division of
Institutional Relations and Development.
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Depressed Teens Helped with Combination Drug and Talk Therapy
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 (563 reads)
CLEVELAND -- A short-term
approach, involving both medication and specific cognitive behavioral
'talk' therapy, is highly effective in the treatment of teenage
depression. In a national
study involving more than 400 adolescents (including 33 from the
Cleveland area), researchers concluded that a combination of Prozac and
focused psychotherapy, known as CBT, appears to be the best approach to
both alleviating depression and reducing the level of suicidal thinking
in adolescents.
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Parents Prefer Doctor's Phone Call -- and the Bill
Thursday, August 12, 2004 (576 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Doctors estimate
that 30 percent of their medical care for children is handled via
telephone calls, prompting researchers at University Hospitals' Rainbow
Babies & Children's Hospital to examine this practice and conclude
that parents overwhelmingly prefer to have their children's simple
illnesses managed by phone.
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