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Friday, June 10th, 2016 in General.
On May 12th, 2016, nurses from across the United States met in the nation’s capital to call for safe staffing practices in hospitals, nursing homes and health care facilities. Nurses are on the frontline, and so when nurses from grassroots nursing organizations – not nursing unions – spend their own time and money to travel Read more…
Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 in Healthcare Technology Development.
Technology in all walks of life is advancing rapidly, as advancement in the medical field is no exception. Medical devices on the horizon promise to change the way we are diagnosing diseases, as well as monitor patient reactions and conditions in a remarkably non-invasive way. While current technology can identify disease, patients are often not Read more…
Thursday, May 19th, 2016 in Medical Industry News.
In April, a major international healthcare organization began the hunt for its next top leader. In 2017, Dr. Margaret Chen, the first Chinese national to serve at the helm of the World Health Organization, will be relinquishing her post after 10 years and two terms. WHO is the central coordinating body for international health within Read more…
Thursday, May 12th, 2016 in Healthcare Technology Development.
In 2015, President Barack Obama announced the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative — an innovative research effort to revolutionize health care and treat disease. Cancer MoonShot 2020 was initiated in January of 2016; the coalition has the stated goal of finding vaccine-based immunotherapies against cancer. At the time of the announcement, the President pledged Read more…
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016 in Healthcare Technology Development.
“Help us help patients.” Technology should always facilitate and reinforce the patient-doctor connection, and then step out of the way. Unfortunately, current EHRs seem to have had the exact opposite effect, a sad fact that physicians are hoping to change. Don’t misunderstand, no one wants to return to paper charts; but health care providers across Read more…
Friday, April 22nd, 2016 in Medical Industry News.
According to Dr. Pamela Wible, who recently gave a popular and well received TED talk at TEDMED, physician suicide is a rampant problem that should be addressed from the very first day of medical school. Wible cited that other high stress professions – such as fire and police departments – foster a feeling of family Read more…
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 in Medical Field: Urgent Care, Specialty Primary Care.
The role of urgent care centers is growing, but that fact represents the only real consensus we have on the subject. There is a large discrepancy between sources as to the number of urgent care centers in the United States. The Urgent Care Association of America reports approximately 6,400 centers, while the American Academy of Read more…
Monday, March 21st, 2016 in General, Specialty Surgery.
One of the most special and uniquely personal experiences in a woman’s life is giving birth to a child; the quest to make this possible for women who have not been able to conceive has been long and increasingly successful. From fertility treatments to donors, medical research has allowed couples to have children through a Read more…
Monday, March 14th, 2016 in General.
Zika virus disease was first seen in 1947, and is named after the Ugandan Zika Forest. The disease is transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito; and then because illness is generally mild with common symptoms, many people are not even aware that they have contracted Zika. The most common symptoms of Read more…
Sunday, March 6th, 2016 in General.
Join us during the Hospital Medicine 2016 meeting held by the Society of Hospital Medicine in San Diego this year going on this week! Occurring this month from March 6th through the 9th, the Hospital Medicine 2016 meeting will be held in the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego California and will consist of Read more…