patient assistance Articles
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The right to die: does the state lose an interest in a dying patient's life?
In 2008, Washington approved a Death with Dignity Act modelled after a similar law enacted in Oregon in 1993. These laws allow terminally ill patients to seek Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS). The US Supreme Court has not acknowledged a fundamental right to die and opponents of the Death with Dignity Acts have sought to strike these statutes down as being unconstitutional. This comment evaluates ...
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Medical Oxygen in Remote Locations
On-site generation of oxygen with state-of-the-art generators. Securing the oxygen supply for medical assistance in remote locations. Oxygen is often used in the course of medical assistance and the treatment of patients. Oxygen can save lives, which is why its supply must be guaranteed at all times – even in remote regions with poor infrastructure. INMATEC, a globally leading manufacturer ...
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The brain as game controller
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have enabled the brain with a new, non-muscular communication and control channel, a direct interface for conveying messages and commands to the external world. The ability to communicate and control devices using one's thoughts without the need for motor movements is suitable for a broad range of medical applications, such as in assisting locked-in patients or ...
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Small Wristband Solved the Big Medical Problem
In clinical work, wristband checking is one of the important ways of patient identification, and plays an important role in strict implementation of the checking system. Especially for severe patients, neonates and infants with surgery, coma, unconsciousness and disability, wristband should be worn as the basis for effective checking. And hospitalization number is the only sign that patients do ...
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UK Team to Test Robot-assisted Exercise to Improve Balance in MS Patients
Researchers at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, U.K., are recruiting 20 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who can walk at least eight meters with a walking aid to test the effectiveness of a five-week exercise program using assistive robotic technology. A patient completes balance and strengthening exercises using the Rex robot. (Photo courtesy of East Kent Hospitals University NHS ...
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Case Study: Leading Interventionalist Makes the Move to mild® and Helps Patient (67) Find Lasting Relief
mild® Provider, Dr. Shawn Puri | Double Board-Certified Anesthesiologist and Pain Medicine Specialist | Relievus Pain Management This case study highlights a female patient, age 67, with debilitating back pain that prevented her from completing tasks of daily living and decreased her quality of life. Despite multiple interventions, including epidural steroid injections (ESIs) and medication ...
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Why You Should Ask Your Doctor About Principal Care Management
A cancer diagnosis is a life-changing event. The diagnosis alone is daunting and then suddenly you are faced with difficult decisions – decisions that may affect your care and quality of life. Cancer is a 24/7 diagnosis, it affects daily life and routines. Symptoms and side effects present themselves on their own schedule, not necessarily when it is convenient for you. Recognizing the ...
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Patient Perspectives on the Usefulness of an Artificial Intelligence - Assisted Symptom Checker: Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Abstract Background: Patients are increasingly seeking Web-based symptom checkers to obtain diagnoses. However, little is known about the characteristics of the patients who use these resources, their rationale for use, and whether they find them accurate and useful. Objective: The study aimed to examine patients’ experiences using an artificial intelligence (AI)–assisted online ...
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The Hidden Dangers and Facts of Cryotherapy: How to Remain Safe and Get Health benefits too
While cryotherapy or frost therapy has been used for millennia, the new cryotherapy center fad that's become popular in salon culture has come under scrutiny when a 24-year-old woman who worked at a cryohealth center in Las Vegas was found dead after using a cryo chamber at work. Learn more about cryotherapy, what it claims to do for the body, and whether or not it can be safely used. The ...
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Technology Helps Patients and Pharmacists Alike
Pharmacies have come a long way with the use of technology. From keeping better track of the medications being prescribed to patients, to called-in prescriptions, to safely identifying the medications, modern technology has helped this industry make huge strides. As with any type of company that sends or receives personal information over the internet, many pharmacies are using multi-factor ...
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Analysis of Differential Gene Expression (DGE) in RNA Sequencing
What are Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs) in Genetics? Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs) are genes that exhibit significant differences in expression levels between two or more conditions or experimental groups. In genetics and genomics research, gene expression refers to the process through which the information encoded in a gene's DNA sequence is transformed into functional proteins ...
By CD Genomics
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Healthcare in Crisis: Workplace Safety at Hospitals
Not long ago, I spent an extended time in the hospital with my father. As I stayed by his side, I was surprised to see how many potential workplace hazards and possible near-miss injuries hospital employees faced. The staff was looking out for my father’s safety, but I wondered if they were thinking about their own safety as well. We count on physicians, nurses and healthcare assistants to ...
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The Benefits of California Medical Marijuana
What California Medical Marijuana Is – and What it Is Not Whenever there’s more transformation of the bud, it typically means that lots isn’t very likely to squander. Luckily, utilizing a mail-order bud agency is much more easy than receiving supermarket and also a number of these disease-fighting strains can be discovered in a internet cannabis dispensary. If you are a ...
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Novel technology targets melasma
Could this new drug delivery system for tranexamic acid optimize melasma treatment? Joel Cohen, M.D., thinks it could be just what the specialty has been looking for. Researchers using a novel transdermal drug delivery system to deliver tranexamic acid deep into melasma patients’ skin found the technology-assisted treatment quickly and notably reduced the skin pigmentation of ...
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Philly Pharmacologists are Developing a Promising Pain-Relieving CBD Analog Drug
Scientists from Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine and local biopharma company Neuropathix are testing their compound, KLS-13019, which is intended to target chemotherapy-induced pain in cancer patients. Sara Jane Ward, assistant professor of pharmacology at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine, and Douglas Brenneman, chief pharmacologist at Neuropathix, discuss ...
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Force Myography for Monitoring Grasping in Individuals with Stroke with Mild to Moderate Upper-Extremity Impairments: A Preliminary Investigation in a Controlled Environment
1MENRVA Research Group, School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada 2Graduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 3Rehabilitation Research Program, GF Strong Rehab Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada 4Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, ...
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