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Dec
FACING THE WORST DRUG EPIDEMIC IN US HISTORY
Six out of ten overdose deaths in the US involve an opioid drug. Between 2000 and 2015, more than 500,000 people died from drug overdoses. And every day, 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose.This epidemic has been called the worst drug epidemic in the history of the United S...
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Dec
Pseudouridimycine: New natural antibiotic capable of destroying resistant bacteria
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, popularly known as ‘superbugs', are one of the major threats to global public health. These microorganisms have once evolved to counteract the efficacy of antibiotics - usually by abusive or improper use of these drugs, in the case...
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Dec
Tech Tattoos
Wearable fitness devices can track pulse rates and physical activity over time in order to achieve long-term health goals; however, more advanced technology is being developed to monitor what's happening inside the body in real time.Researchers are now creating wearab...
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Dec
Value Based Care Using Ultrasound.
2017 presents an opportunity for healthcare providers to evaluate how technologies like ultrasound can solve their challenges. By expanding their use of ultrasound, we believe providers can attract more patients, increase their patients' level of satisfaction, and reduce co...
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Dec
Music in Medicine and Medicine in Music
Sounds are the common language for anyone who has an auditory system that conducts sound waves to another transducer system so that, in the next relay, they acquire a meaning. In fact, in the brain there are areas that process various components of music, such as tone, vibration...
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Dec
Calabadions: New Broad Spectrum Agent to Reverse Neuromuscular Blockade.
Anesthesia The introduction of neuromuscular blockers (NMBs) revolutionized the practice anesthesia. It allowed adjusting the degree of muscle relaxation independently of hypnosis or analgesia favoring orotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation; avoided th...
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Dec
Space Medicine & Telemedicine
It is the vocation of the doctor to study, analyze and reflect on the health problems that afflict our population, as well as to deepen in the emerging areas of medicine and that it seems necessary to penetrate more decisively in their field of knowledge.Such it the case of space...
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Dec
Measles outbreak
Measles is a very contagious and serious disease caused by a virus.In 1980, before widespread use of the vaccine, measles caused about 2.6 million deaths a year. Globally it remains a leading cause of death in young children, despite the fact that there is a safe and effective va...
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Dec
FDA Approves Direct to Consumer Genetic Predisposition Test.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing of 23andMe Personal Genome Service Genetic Health Risk (GHR) tests for 10 diseases or conditions. These are the first direct-to-consumer (DTC) tests authorized by the FDA that provide information on an inidual's...
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Dec
The Electronic Cigarette: Danger or Opportunity??
The first concept of an electric cigarette was patented in 1965 by Herbert A Gilbert.Subsequently, an aerosolized, high-frequency e-cigarette was patented in China by Mr. Hon Lik and Ruyan Technology; it entered the marketplace in 2003 and was patented internationally in 2007 an...
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