by Bruce Brown | March 16, 2020 | Medical
The American Heart Association recently published Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics — 2020 Update. This annual report details the health and economic burdens of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the U.S. and worldwide. The AHA updates its widely-cited study each...
by Alfred Poor | March 13, 2020 | Medical
Digital voice assistants are taking over the world. Okay, maybe not, but it sure seems that way. It seems that everywhere you go these days, you are within earshot of an Amazon Echo or similar device. One reason for their rapid acceptance is that they provide useful...
by Bruce Brown | March 2, 2020 | Medical
Patients who have an initial psychotic episode generally have good response rates to antipsychotic injection treatments, according to a 2015 study. Treatment success odds correlate with the time lapse between the onset of psychotic symptoms and treatment. The less...
by Bruce Brown | February 28, 2020 | Medical
Heart failure patients who are hospitalized then discharged are readmitted to the hospital at alarmingly high rates. According to the CDC, 17.3% of such patients are readmitted within 30 days. A study by the University of Utah Health reports 30% of discharged heart...
by Bruce Brown | February 26, 2020 | Medical
Teva Phamaceutical’s Teva Respiratory, LLC scored again this week with its DigiHaler digital inhaler. We wrote about the ProAir Digihaler last fall when the FDA cleared the albuterol sulfate inhaler for use in patients 4 years of age and older to treat or...
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by Bruce Brown | February 25, 2020 | Medical
Remote patient treatment monitoring (RTM) can be an effective alternative to monthly clinic check-ins to assess patient status. Researchers from Fresenius Medical Care recently published a study in Kidney 360 that measured treatment outcome success with 6,343...
