Optometry Practice Financing Strategies for Expanding Optical Retail Stores  

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Optometry practice financing is important because it helps optical retailers grow their operations at a time of increased patient demand. With more competition in the eye care field, expansion has become essential for sustainable growth. Many optometry owners will finance their business for a new branch opening, investment in technology advancement, and improved customer service. […]

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Male Pattern Baldness Develops Sooner Than Most Men Realize. This Is What Science Has to Say About It.

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If you’re a man in your 20s or 30s who has started studying your temples a little too closely in the bathroom mirror, you’re not being vain. You’re noticing something that research says shows up earlier and in more men than most people assume. The frustrating part is that by the time hair loss is […]

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Why Fatigue, Weight Change, and Hormone Symptoms Need a Broader Clinical Evaluation

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Fatigue, weight loss/s gain, sleep disturbances, decreased attention span, and changes in mood or sexual function frequently occur in tandem. That pattern can make any one explanation seem easy to understand, particularly if symptoms are experienced around the middle of life. However, the same complaints may occur with endocrine changes, sleep disorders, side effects of […]

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Medical Lawyer in Turkey: What Foreign Patients Should Know

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Hair transplant clinics and dental centres pull more foreign patients into Turkey than almost any other country markets to, and with cosmetic surgery and weight loss operations added in, the yearly count runs into the hundreds of thousands. Most fly home pleased. A smaller group does not. Those patients are facing something harder than the […]

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The Truth about Fat burning and Strength Training

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Myth: Strength training doesn’t do much for weight loss, so we should focus on cardio. Reality: We’re all looking for hacks to keep ourselves fit and healthy without too much work, so it’s easy for sciencey sounding fitness factoids to bubble up. If you’ve heard that strength training doesn’t do much to burn fat it’s […]

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‘Unknown territory’: How can prediction markets affect drug trials?

Prediction marketplaces are taking their first steps into the pharmaceutical field — a move that some experts say may threaten the integrity of clinical trials.
Prediction markets are platforms where users buy and sell shares on the future outcomes of events across a variety of subjects, like entertainment, sports, politics and technology.
According to Matthew Vogel, MBA, a professor of health policy at Brown University, and colleagues, online prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are introducing betting on drug development outcomes such as “whether POLARIS-AD, a phase 3 trial of the

Patient presents with unusual case of unilateral disc edema

A 35-year-old woman was referred by her optometrist for a neuro-ophthalmology evaluation for left optic disc edema and transient visual symptoms in the left eye.
Her medical and ocular histories were notable for elevated BMI but were otherwise unremarkable. She was not taking any prescribed or over-the-counter medications at that time.
Approximately 1 year before presentation, she began experiencing severe left retro-orbital pain that gradually decreased in severity over several months but otherwise remained. At the same time, she began experiencing intermittent, transient episodes of blurred

Hooked on Primary Care with Derek B. Southwick, MD

Some of my earliest memories of medicine involve trying to follow my dad to work.
My father is a family physician, and when I was a small boy, I once climbed into one of those little toy cars with pedals and drove after him as he left for work. I made it out into the road before my mom caught me. When she asked what I was doing, I told her I just wanted to go to work with Dad.
Even then, I think I was drawn to more than the idea of medicine. I admired the life I saw him living. He knew his patients, their families and their stories. He was part of the community in a way that extended far beyond

ASTCT recommendations address HCT for advanced lymphoma

The treatment landscape for classical Hodgkin lymphoma has evolved rapidly with the introduction of brentuximab vedotin, immune checkpoint inhibitors and other novel therapies.
As treatment options expand, clinicians face important questions regarding the optimal timing of transplantation, the sequencing of therapies, and the role of maintenance and allogeneic transplant strategies.
The American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) developed updated clinical practice recommendations to help clinicians navigate these decisions. The recommendations — titled “American Society