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by Bruce Brown | February 20, 2019 | Medical
Companies that sell step counters often recommend 10,000 steps a day as a fitness goal. The medical community doesn’t fall totally, um, in step with a fixed goal for everyone, but even the Mayo Clinic uses 10,000 steps as a reference point when urging people to...
by Alfred Poor | October 9, 2018 | General News, Health
Concussion and other trauma caused by head impact are of particular concern to those involved in sports, especially those that involve physical contact. One problem is that detection of concussion remains a largely subjective process. Organizations are making great...
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 | March 16, 2018 | General News, Health
Incontinence is a problem for the very young and the very old, as well for patients with certain conditions or following surgery (such as removal of the prostate). Infants don’t notice it for the most part, but it can be a frustrating and embarrassing problem...
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by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2018 | General News, Health
The winter 2017-2018 flu season rages on, with millions of U.S. victims getting very sick with a malady that takes a long time to move on. Seasonal influenza, aka the flu, has a hospitalization rate of 51.4 per 100,000 people, higher than rate recorded at this stage...
