Key Highlights Introduction A bad tooth will not only give your face an ugly bunch of teeth, but it can bring about other problems in your life, such as lowering your self-esteem, lessening your oral function and impacting your food choices. For this reason, it’s typically a primary goal of implant therapy to obtain “long-lasting” […]
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Healthcare information is often difficult to comprehend when clinicians use specialized vocabulary or provide long written descriptions. Individuals may finish a consultation knowing a diagnosis but remain unsure about the biological implications or the necessary subsequent steps. Visual tools simplify complex data – displaying anatomy, surgical techniques and disease progression in a clear format – […]
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The purpose of urgent care documentation is to reflect the actual patient progress, from registration to treatment and follow-up. Patients come with various symptoms, histories, and worries. Staff are engaged in multiple roles with regard to intake, screening, testing, communication, and clinical care. Records are best when they go in a logical sequence and include […]
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Your strength training might be doing more for your metabolic health than you think, Brazilian scientists say. Researchers claim in a new study that they can see changes in how fat cells behave within just seven days of strength training. The team say that these changes in fat cells trigger a molecular switch that gets our bodies burning fat more efficiently.
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Telemedicine has brought about changes in the way a patient accesses health practitioners where it is difficult or impossible to attend a physical visit. 24hrDoc is one firm in the telemedicine market providing patients with virtual consultations, health information, diagnosis, treatment, and prescriptions through their service. The core of their business revolves around 24-hour accessibility […]
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LONDON — Ioannis Pallikaris, MD, PhD, a pioneering leader in the development of LASIK, delivered this year’s ESCRS Heritage Lecture titled, “LASIK, What Next?”
During his presentation, Pallikaris summarized his more than 40 years of commitment to the art of enhancing vision.
“I never wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I wanted to be an artist,” he said during the lecture at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting. Later in life, he also became a farmer “because I like to eat my own bread,” he said. In between these
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The FDA approved zilurgisertib tablets for the reduction of heterotopic ossification among patients aged 12 years or older with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, according to a press release from the organization.
This is the third approved treatment for fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), alongside Garetosmab-grts (Pasatru, Regeneron) and palovarotene (Sohonos, Ipsen), as Healio previously reported.
The indication is supported by positive efficacy data from a randomized, double-blind, placebocontrolled
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The FDA approved obinutuzumab for the treatment of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in pediatric patients aged 2 years and older, according to a press release.
The injection is now indicated to reduce the risk of relapse in adult and pediatric patients “with frequently relapsing or steroid-dependent, childhood-onset, idiopathic nephrotic syndrome who are in remission,” the FDA said.
The ruling is supported by positive data from the phase 3 randomized, controlled, open-label, multicenter INSHORE study, which randomly
Autism prevalence has not significantly changed since 2005, according to a large population-based study of schoolchildren in South Korea.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other U.S. health officials have claimed there is an autism “epidemic,” blaming vaccines, acetaminophen and environmental toxins as potential causes for the rise in diagnoses.
Research has shown that there has been an increase in autism diagnoses, but experts say that is due to earlier detection and expanded diagnostic criteria. Young Shin Kim, MD, MS, MPH, PhD, a developmental psychopathologist at University of Texas
Results showed patients who underwent rapid exchange arthroplasty for chronic periprosthetic joint infection experienced superior outcomes at 24 months compared with two-stage exchange arthroplasty.
“The most important concept I have walked away with is the importance of extended, local, high-dose antibiotics around the infection to irradicate the antibiotic tolerant biofilm,” Ken Urish, MD, PhD, associate medical director at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Magee Bone and Joint Center and the director of the Arthritis and Arthroplasty Design Laboratory, told