Category Archives: Health
Smartphone Apps Bolster Patient Engagement
Smartphone Apps Bolster Patient Engagement. I hope “focus on patient interest” doesn’t take away from the realistic image of a patient’s actual weight loss.
Are non-smokers smarter than smokers?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cigarette smokers have lower IQs than non-smokers, and the more a person smokes, the lower their IQ, a study in over 20,000 Israeli military recruits suggests.
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Can Doctors Tell Patients No? It’s Not Easy
Why? It’s hard for doctors to say no. A big reason is that they don’t want patients to be dissatisfied. Think parents who want antibiotics for their screaming kids’ ear infections, even though the evidence says that’s usually not the … Continue reading
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Israeli Exoskeleton Suit Enables Paralayzed People To Walk
After being paralyzed for the past 20 years, Radi Kaiof began to walk down a street in Israel to the sound of a dim mechanical hum. That was the sound of an electronic exoskeleton, developed by …….
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In Bid for Better Care, Surgery With a Warranty
What if medical care came with a 90-day warranty? Slideshow
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Hospitals Could Stop Infections by Tackling Bacteria Patients Bring In, Studies Find
“Hundreds of thousands of patients each year suffer from infections after surgery, and experts say more than half of those infections stem from bacteria the patients themselves are carrying in their nose or on their skin. Otherwise harmless bacteria can … Continue reading
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Mapping the Human ‘Diseasome’
Researchers created a map linking different diseases, represented by circles, to the genes they have in common, represented by squares.
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The Doctor Will See You Now…On Video
New technologies allow doctors and patients to interact at far-flung locales.In today’s Doctor and Patient column, Dr. Pauline Chen writes about the promise and the disappointment of telemedicine, which is the use of video conferencing, the Internet and other technology … Continue reading
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Are you ready to write off this past decade of your life?
A thought provoking question at that- According to Thomas Friedman’s New York Times Op-Ed piece in the December 27, 2009 New York Times, the 2000′s were “The Big Zero.” Not very encouraging for a recent college graduate The story of … Continue reading
