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Graphene & Its Uses In Health Care
If you haven’t heard of graphene, you’re not alone. While it has been making headlines in the realm of physics since its discovery in 2010 (which netted its discoverer a Nobel Prize), it has only been more recently that people have begun to think about graphene’s implications for the medical field. Those implications, as Read the full article…
Coming Soon – A Better Way To Treat Chronic Pain
Is it possible to use Virtual Reality (VR) tech to treat, or perhaps even cure chronic pain? On the face of it, the idea seems silly, but on closer review, there’s more to it than you might think. Recently, Daniel Harvie, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Australia, conducted a remarkable Read the full article…
Do We Really Only Use Ten Percent Of Our Brains?
It’s a myth we hear talked about all the time. The idea that human beings only use ten percent of their brains. In fact, a blockbuster 2014 movie called “Lucy” explored this very idea. In it, an innocent woman (played by the lovely and talented Scarlett Johansson) was accidentally dosed with a new drug, Read the full article…
Talking To Your Patients About ACA
No matter what your personal feelings about the new health care law, it has had an undeniable impact on the medical field as a whole, with many more changes looming in the future. More people now have health insurance than ever before, although there are still large segments of the population doing without. Read the full article…
What Should You Do When Your Patient Refuses Vaccines For Them or Their Kids?
Vaccinations can be a tricky and difficult subject to broach with patients these days. Unfortunately, the issue has gotten highly politicized, and it has tainted all conversation surrounding the subject. The last thing medical professionals want to do in the course of their practice is get into a protracted political discussion with their patients Read the full article…
When (And Why) Anti-Smoking Programs Backfire
Undeniably, the world-wide anti-smoking campaign has been a huge success. The total number of smokers as a percentage of the global population is down and has been falling steadily for years. Note that even though this is true, the total number of smokers on the planet has actually risen due to humanity’s explosive population Read the full article…
Yes, Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Painful, but Can It Shorten Your Life? Maybe.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a dreadfully painful condition that more than 1.3 million people in the US alone suffer from, with nearly 75% of these being women. A recently published cooperative study between Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, found a linkage between that condition and premature death, which indicated that it may increase the Read the full article…
The Myth of the “Exercise Pill”
Everyone knows that the foundation of good health is a sensible diet and adequate exercise. There are no shortcuts here. Sadly, medicine in general, and American medicine in particular, seems especially prone to look for the quick fix in the form of this or that “miracle pill.” Over the years we’ve seen miracle Read the full article…
One Stop Shopping? – Can A Single Test Detect Almost Any Virus?
Viruses that occur in (or on) the human body are collectively called virome, and they pose a serious and significant threat to the nation’s health. Last year, during flu season, the virus called H3N2 killed more than 36,000 people. Part of the difficulty when dealing with viruses is that they can be somewhat tricky Read the full article…
Myth Busted: More Calcium Does Nothing to Improve Bone Health in Seniors
There are a great many things we accept as true in the world, without ever having put much thought into testing them. Sometimes when we test, we design our tests poorly, and get results that have little to do with reality. Take, for example, the truism that the body loses most of the Read the full article…