Telemedicine and virtual care have certainly made an impact in the industry from a client facing side, but has it helped to ease the rates of nursing burnout?
How Will Hospitals Change Post-Pandemic?
If there was one industry who didn’t miss out on any work during the (ongoing, at time of publication) COVID-19 pandemic, it was the healthcare industry. Here are some ways hospitals are expected to change once the COVID-19 pandemic is finally brought to an end.
Why It’s So Hard For New Drugs To Be Approved
It seems like every day, we hear news of hopeful scientific discoveries that could one day cure a specific disease or diversify the treatment options available to certain types of suffering patients. But then we don’t hear any updates for years, if we hear any updates at all. The number of new drugs and new medical treatments introduced each year is staggeringly small—which is troubling, considering the rise of superbugs and the arms-race like need to develop new antibiotics to fight against them.
Immunological Paralysis: A Reason for Concern?
Could vaccinations trigger immunological paralysis? Vaccinations fool the immune system into thinking you are suffering from a serious bacterial or viral illness, although your body does not become acutely ill. Getting sick soon after receiving a flu vaccination suggests this is possible.
Medical Agents Provocateurs Revisited
Although rates of new diagnosis of colon cancer and death rates from colon cancer have declined steadily and significantly in the last twenty years the data simply do not support concluding that all this testing has been an important factor in the decline.
Momma, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Doctors
If you make a mistake, people die…
Passionflowers
The Aztecs were the first recorded to have used the Passionflower as a medicine. Spanish doctor Nicolas Monardes documented the use of Passionflower in Peru in 1569 and brought the plant back to Europe, where it eventually became widely cultivated.
Top Reasons to Support Medical Research
Without the benefits of medical research, the human lifespan would be much shorter than it is today. In order to continue making medical breakthroughs, we must find ways to fund and support research of diseases and cures.
Colouring Your World
I had seen videos of people crying with emotion when they put on their Enchromas. I did not. My jaw, however, did drop.
Reducing HIV in Rural African Children
Standing in the delivery room wearing a flimsy pair of rewashed latex gloves and holding a pair of surgical scissors in my hands, I became acutely aware of one of the many statistics which had been shared with us on day one. I was a medical student working in a government hospital in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa; it was 1997. The figure flashing through my mind was that 50% of the women using the delivery unit were HIV positive.
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