A drop of blood can provide a rich picture of an individual's health state — risk of heart attack, cholesterol levels, likelihood of pre-diabetes, and much more. This infographic from WellnessFx illustrates the health information stored in a drop of blood, valuable biometrics for disease self...
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The FDA has begun an extensive look at the design and use of the devices. According to this article there have been too many mishaps and the FDA believes better designs with incorporating new technologies would improve the process by working with the manufacturers. In addition the FDA stated...
I have seen a lot of press of late so today I decided to take a run at this with some sample searches and compared 3 hospitals, all very different, one owned by Tenet, one recently take over by Memorial Care and one owned by Prime. Not as a patient but otherwise have been inside the doors of all...
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We have probably all chuckled a bit as this being a way to go, but it doesn’t have to be as in Switzerland they are taking the matter seriously and ordering defibrillators to be on available at the brothels and sex clubs. A couple years ago in Orange County, California they made it the law where...
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The Jupiter study was one that literally shook up healthcare and one of the potential side effects is diabetes and muscles that hurt with the use of statins, but it appears the FDA says it’s ok for our muscles to hurt as you are going to lower your odds of heart disease, so us as patients need to have...
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This is sad story as he was waiting and the articles states it was a heart attack, but while waiting he was robbed of his watch by others who had signed in and fled before security could catch them with the dying man’s watch. Back in September we had a doctor steal a watch from a patient and left...
This was an eye opener for me. This 22 year old was not breathing and was brought back from the dead. Mouth to mouth was not the answer, compressions on the chest was the lifesaver. The family called 911 who instructed him on how to use CPR. The trick is to get to as many compressions...
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100,000 Kaiser Permanente members will have some format of genomic sequencing performed, the article doesn’t state whether this is a whole or partial interpretation but it is all good. At the base of all the research and grants is their electronic medical records system. Again, going back...
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A Kaiser Permanente study proves the use of electronic health records and predictive modeling technology can improve patient health and reduce medical crises. The pharma records were not adequate as many patients were taking aspirin, not a prescription drug, but an important part of the program...
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This is one of those bizarre sad tales, how in the world would a doctor do this? The nurses were right on his trail too with noticing the watch being gone and reported to security. The doctor was caught on security cameras outside throwing the watch into a grassy area and the watch was found...
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Capsaicin is also found in red chili peppers. Capsaicin can be purchased over the counter at most drug stores. It could be used in an ambulance or in the ER room and it is known to have little or few side effects. They are still working to figure out exactly which spots on the...
The Interventional doctors, these are the guys/gals you want to know. They are the skilled doctors who use technology to help save your life via catheters and make your procedures a lot less invasive. Not too long ago I did an interview with Dr. Muhs from Yale Medical Center relative to aneurisms...
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The cardiac stem cells injected into the scar tissue were removed from a portion of the upper chamber of Jones’ heart and were sent to Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to grow the cardiac stem cells. The procedures is fairly simple and minimally invasive as well...
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