Not your Ordinary Organ Donation – The Scoop on Fecal Transplants
For decades, transplanting the intestinal microbial fauna from one person to another person has been used in Germany to treat ulcerative colitis and other chronic ailments. Several chronic diseases of the colon are thought...
What is Health Informatics?
Health informatics refers to the use of information technology in the medical field. In addition to being a key player in the race toward healthcare reform, the term health informatics describes the acquisition, storage...
Experts Weigh In on Finasteride as Prostate Cancer Prevention Drug
A decade ago, a drug sold as Proscar by Merck & Co. (and in generic form as Finasteride) was found to cut the risk of prostate cancer, but researchers also noted a slight increase...
Employers Overhaul Health care: Affordable Care Act Gets Into Full Swing
Under the Affordable Care Act, many changes are taking place in the field of health care. The shift in the health care system has prompted several states to engage in creative advertising encouraging citizens...
New Hampshire Patient Died of Rare Brain Disease, More Exposed
Medical Equipment Possibly to Blame Health officials across several states continue to monitor at least 13 cases of possible Creutzfeldt-Jakob exposure after one patient in New Hampshire died of the rare disease in August. Rented...
Teamwork Proves Fruitful in Fight Against Parkinson’s Disease
Interdisciplinary teamwork and innovative problem-solving are important parts of tackling today’s medical challenges. With the merging of fields such as medicine and technology, professionals training for a career in healthcare need to be able...
CDC Reports Skin Test Shortages for TB: What Traveling Nurses Need to Know
Twice in the last six months, the national supply of skin scratch tests used to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) has fallen to critically low levels. The tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) are the preferred method of...
Three of the Top Issues Facing Healthcare in the Second Half of 2017
While the healthcare industry continues to expand and remains one of the country’s top providers of jobs across many different careers, it also faces a variety of tough challenges the rest of this year...
U.S. Receives D+ on Emergency Care Report Card
States Grades on Access to Emergency Care from ACEP Emergency Care Report Card 2014 Emergency care in the United States has a lot of room for improvement, according to the latest report card from the...
Study: Our Smartphones Make Us Dumber
A new study reinforced the hypothesis that the proximity of a smartphone owner’s mobile device can affect his or her cognitive ability. Marketing and management researchers from the University of California-San Diego, the University of...