It sounds like the simple instructions for making Ramen or hot chocolate. A new appliance-looking device could be mass producing drugs in a similar fashion in the near future. When hooked up to some test tubes, chemists have used the Freezemobile to make a ring of crystalline ice ready for transport to the most remote … Continued
Who said 15 minutes was the amount of time a doctor should take to examine a patient? This is the same amount of time men spend on the toilet, and patient care is much more complex. Insurance reimbursement is the reason for this time allotment and dictates much of what is done in medicine. Medicare … Continued
Eccrinology, the study of sweat and other gland secretions, may sound like a gross job. However, sweat carries the same biomarkers as other bodily fluids and is the least invasive to collect. The military is learning to collect health data from perspiration to monitor pilots. To collect sweat, a patch is strapped to the arm … Continued
According to data collected by Quest Diagnostics, illicit drug use in American workers has reached the highest level in a decade. Illicit drugs range from marijuana to heroin and metamphetamine. “Safety-sensitive” workers, such as truck drivers, pilots, ship captains, subway engineers, and other transportation workers had an increase in positive drug tests from 1.7% to … Continued
Health insurance costs for employers have risen this year, but not as much as in previous years. Premiums rose 3.4% in 2016, while it was greater in years before 2011. 3.4% is still faster than overall economic growth. Employers are finding ways to cut costs, be it more affordable plans or placing more of the … Continued
From mass shootings to severe car accidents, it is not uncommon for victims to bleed to death at the scene waiting for trained assistance to arrive. The events of 9/11 and the war in the Middle East have taught Americans that at the time of a trauma incident, everyone around the injured becomes a first … Continued
In a time and motion study published in the latest Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers have determined that physicians are spending nearly half of their time in the office on electronic health records (EHRs) and desk work. Less than a third of their time is spent in the exam room with patients. Physicians are becoming … Continued
Jessie Quinn of Sacramento was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010. This blood cancer progresses quickly and she was told that chemotherapy may not help. Being of mixed racial heritage, finding a bone-marrow match was impossible. What saved her was an experimental transplant of umbilical cord stem cells. Bone-marrow transplants infuse healthy blood cells from a … Continued
Until now, the only way to stimulate brain activity in patients recovering from a coma was a risky, invasive surgical procedure called deep brain stimulation which places electrodes inside the thalamus, the brain’s central processor. A 25 year old man in California is making amazing progress following a sonic stimulation, kick-starting the brain using noninvasive … Continued
In the game of Mylan Monopoly, there is no bonus money or trips to jail, but you will pay the banker for the real estate. The lifesaving EpiPen is a necessity for many Americans, and the drug’s list price has blown through the roof. A two-pack of epinephrine injectors has gone from less than $100 … Continued
