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Recent statistics released in the United States show that prescription drug abuse has climbed to the rank of epidemic, with a large portion of the people taking such medication doing so without respecting directions. Doctors' ignorance and ready access to online pharmacies are equally responsible for this. The f... |
20 December 2011
11:11 GMT |
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In a new research, experts have discovered that parents are very likely to apply genetic testing to their children as well, if the opportunity becomes available. Nearly all of those who said that they would take the tests added that they would also apply it to their kids. This is very worrying because these tests are... |
18 April 2011
07:14 GMT |
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In a new series of investigations, experts have revealed that healthcare professionals who exhibit small displays of empathy to the people they are treating are having a very positive effect on the outcome of the overall treatment.It was found that patients who benefit from this type of treatment tend to report incre... |
26 January 2011
03:17 GMT |
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The usual place to find a pharmacist is behind the counter, in a local pharmacy for example, but an associate professor in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, believes that pharmacists would be more helpful in doctors' offices.Scot Simpson has published a new study ... |
27 November 2010
06:19 GMT |
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A new research carried out by a team from the University of Bristol, tried to find out what would be the most reliable way of assessing the performances of doctors and practices, focusing on whether patient surveys are reliable or not.The survey concluded that it is better to ask patients about their actual experienc... |
13 October 2010
06:58 GMT |
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People should know better not to take antibiotics when having a viral infection, but the most concerning thing is when actual doctors make this mistake on their patients.A study published in the November issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, concluded that doctors are frequently misusing antibiotics w... |
23 September 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Investigators from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) College of Medicine and the Texas A&M University have just announced the conclusions of a new study they conduct on physician-patient relationships in the nation's healthcare system. They determined that doctors don't really get their patient... |
26 July 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Over the past couple of decades, the incidence of allergy cases in the United States and around the world has increased considerably. Due to unhealthy diets, excessive hygiene habits, stress and other factors, immune systems become weaker and have nothing to exercise their functions on. As such, they begin attacking ... |
5 June 2010
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When working in a doctor's office, you would expect to encounter nothing but patients all day, plus the occasional inspections. But a doctor in Virginia got more than he signed up for, when a meteorite came crashing through the roof of the building. Fortunately, according to sources, no one got hit or injured du... |
22 January 2010
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A new scientific study has determined that using mannequins to guide would-be doctors when they learn how to use ultrasound imaging is highly effective, without risking the quality of healthcare provided to patients. The method should be used in a lot more settings than it's currently employed in, as it ensures ... |
30 November 2009
03:40 GMT |
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Endoscopes are currently of tremendous use for doctors and patients alike, because they provide healthcare experts with the ability to look inside a body without having to resort to surgery, biopsies, or other types of invasive procedures. A University of Florida engineering researcher has now taken the utility of th... |
20 November 2009
02:33 GMT |
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Antibiotic over-prescription is a very serious problem in the world today, but especially in civilized countries. Here, pediatricians often prescribe way too much medicines for children for a very harmless disease, and the trend appears to be accelerating every year, analysts say. According to a new study, it would s... |
6 November 2009
06:59 GMT |
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In his work “The Art,” the ancient Greek Hippocrates wrote, more than 2,500 years before the modern era, that medial practitioners were not scientists, but artists, and that their art was using their knowledge to do good. Healthcare providers were also described as people who knew when to use their medica... |
21 October 2009
03:57 GMT |
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According to a new paper published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Behavioral and Healthcare Research, the more tired resident physicians in learning hospitals are, the more likely they are to make a mistake. This may sound like stating the obvious, but clear scientific data are required before me... |
14 September 2009
10:49 GMT |
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A few years ago, a very small number of patients visiting their physicians had questions of their own after a consult, when they asked doctors about diseases they read about online. Now, such behavior is not at all uncommon, with many people searching for diagnostics and other answers online themselves. A new researc... |
1 September 2009
20:31 GMT |
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Over the years, as more and more homes started getting access to computers and the Internet, a shift was recorded in the classical sources people turned to in order to get their medical information. Rather than visiting the doctor's office, many people now prefer browsing for a response to their questions online... |
29 July 2009
16:51 GMT |
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A new investigation has revealed that health care providers, doctors and nurses have not yet completely let go of pen and paper while they are on duty. In addition to the electronic medical records they keep, which show the full data about any patient, they still resort to notes, index cards, post-its on computer scr... |
21 July 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Living in some of the most secluded places in the world, such as Australia's Antarctic bases, can be a very challenging task, especially if you take into account the fact that most of these facilities remain isolated from the rest of the world for more than nine months per year. If a disease besets the scientist... |
18 May 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Leading European experts have recently made it clear that fighting lung cancer, in all its forms, as well as preventing it, may be made a lot easier if physicians, surgeons, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists learned to cooperate a lot better and more efficiently share test results. Prevention programs and... |
27 April 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Designers at the Royal College of Art (RCA), in London, the United Kingdom, are currently at the forefront of emergency vehicle creation. The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has been funding the Healthcare on the “Move: The Smart Pods Project” for about two years, and the fir... |
8 April 2009
04:12 GMT |
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Over the past years, doctors in Asia have begun to prescribe impressive amounts of medication, giving patients who enter their practices drugs for conditions that they do not suffer from. Some of the physicians think too far and prescribe pills for complications that might appear if the usual drugs do not work. In on... |
6 April 2009
06:15 GMT |
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New research seems to indicate the fact that doctors and other health care personnel in the United Kingdom strongly oppose legalizing euthanasia in public facilities. They say that's immoral to do this, even though proponents of the measure state that, for terminally ill patients who wish it, the possibility sho... |
26 March 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Doctors and physicians around the world are currently in the middle of an effort to force the Google giant search engine to enforce more strict control on the pages it indexes, so as to limit the number of people who suffer excruciating pain every year, after searching online for cures and ending up on sites that sel... |
23 March 2009
07:56 GMT |
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The issue of medical health care in the case of terminally-ill patients has been under debate for quite some time now, but to little practical use. Doctors say that they do all they can for the patients with no survival chances, and that they try to divide their time as best as possible between these people and all t... |
10 March 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Over the past 8 years, marijuana dispensaries throughout the US have come under increased scrutiny by the Drug Enforcement Agency, which has performed large numbers of raids on and seizures at these institutions. In California, the situation has been the worst, as this was the first state to legalize selling pot to p... |
9 March 2009
01:38 GMT |
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The fact that the media influences people's perception on things is a fact known by both the outlets and the persons who watch TV daily. Still, it would appear that not many filter the information they get from their television sets, in that they tend to do exactly what they are told by various anchors. The same... |
5 March 2009
04:02 GMT |
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A new scientific study conducted in Europe has pointed out the fact that warm and humid days are very likely to trigger a spike in hospital admissions for people suffering from a wide range of respiratory diseases. The researchers in charge of the investigation, who have published their results in the American Journa... |
4 March 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Only a few years ago, the idea of having small robots introduced into their body made people think they were the victims of a sci-fi practical joke. But that's no longer the case, as several hospitals in the United States and Japan already employ such technologies, using massive robots such as the daVinci in col... |
13 January 2009
05:55 GMT |
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While medicine and our understanding of the human body have evolved constantly for the past centuries, there are still the occasional medical conditions that leave even the most trained professional speechless. Here are a few of them, in a top 7 put together by New Scientist.Water allergy – medically known as a... |
16 December 2008
09:57 GMT |
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Doctors who use very technical terms when describing a disease to their patients are more likely to scare the people seeking their help than those who introduce medical conditions with their lay terms, instead of the correct medical ones. When hearing words they don't understand, especially in relation to their ... |
9 December 2008
04:33 GMT |
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The general opinion was that gaming makes you obese, destroys your social life and causes depression... A certain percentage of this statement was true, but things have changed drastically since the Nintendo Wii was launched. The gaming device is now considered the ideal indoor sports gear and even used with curativ... |
9 October 2007
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