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by Bruce Brown | December 1, 2016 | General News, Medical
Treating drug addiction remains difficult and costly. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 40 to 60 percent of addicts relapse. In the U.S. alone, drug abuse costs more than $600 billion annually, but treatment costs average $4,700 a year versus the...
by Alfred Poor | November 30, 2016 | General News, Medical
Anyone who has been suspected of having a heart arrhythmia is likely familiar with a Holter monitor. This is sort of a portable ECG that records your heart waves over a period of time. You wear it as you go about your normal daily activities, in hopes that it will...
by Alfred Poor | November 29, 2016 | General News, Medical
One of the most useful types of technology in medicine is the kind that lets doctors look inside the human body. X-rays images are one of the most familiar, but ultrasound and other methods are also used. There is growing interest in “terahertz” imaging...
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by Alfred Poor | November 28, 2016 | General News, Medical
Hearing loss can affect people of all ages. For the elderly, it can lead to social isolation and frustration with trying to communicate. For children, it can cause a serious barrier to learning, especially in a classroom setting. As a result, it is important that...
by Bruce Brown | November 21, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Health professionals encourage people diagnosed as prediabetic and those already diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes (T2D) to eat right and exercise to prevent, delay, or lessen the severity of the disease. Unfortunately, exercise isn’t always realistic for people...
by Bruce Brown | November 18, 2016 | General News, Medical
No one likes the annoying pinpricks and needles used so often diagnostic tests. We’ve written in the past about other projects to develop breath analyzers to detect diabetes. Researchers at Oxford University also have been working on a handheld unit to diagnose...
