by Bruce Brown | August 20, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
The devastating opioid addiction crisis continues to ruin American lives, including 115 people who die every day after overdosing according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Pharmaceutical companies traditionally seek drug-centric painkillers that also...
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by Alfred Poor | August 17, 2018 | General News, Medical
Patients who have sustained injuries from accidents or stroke often face a long and difficult recovery. They must endure frequent physical therapy sessions as they relearn to control their bodies’ movements. One problem with this is that the sessions are...
by Bruce Brown | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
Subjective reporting about healthy behaviors results in data that are shaky at best and outright wrong and misleading in the worst cases. A metastudy of medical adherence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published in 2014 found patient noncompliance...
by Alfred Poor | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
“Mind over matter; if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” That is a gross oversimplification of a new approach to patient pain management: hypnosis. Medical hypnosis has long been used as a tool to help patients with pain, stress, and anxiety....
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by Bruce Brown | August 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
Each year approximately 15 million babies worldwide are born preterm, according to the World Health Organization. Defined as birth before completing 37 weeks of gestation, preterm birth and the associated complications are the leading cause of death among children...
by Alfred Poor | August 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
For many reasons, people fail to take their prescription drugs as instructed. Sometimes they forget. Sometimes they don’t want to (or can’t) spend the money to buy the medications. For whatever the reason, however, the estimates for the increased...
