With over 500 downloads per day, ‘iStethoscope’ has clearly piqued some people’s interest. [...]
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“Farm Bureau and other organizations will continue doing all we can to educate farmers, farm employees and their supervisors about how to avoid heat illness. [...] The days of needing a ventilator or a heart monitor are gone. The shirt itself can monitor blood pressure, pulse and body temperature, and regulate all of these functions from a central control panel. [...] “People just aren’t using healthcare like they have,” Wayne DeVeydt, WellPoint’s chief financial officer, told the Journal. “Utilization is lower than we expected, and it’s unusual.” [...] ATV OMG! Head and spine trauma from ATV accidents cost $3.24 billion annually, [...] 90 percent think that reducing the number and severity of medical errors will help reduce costs. [...] WHOOPING COUGH EPIDEMIC MAY BE WORST IN 50 [...] Communication is part of an employer’s multi-level strategy of communication with everyone –employees, doctors, TPA, and broker. It may include video messages from the president, sample weekly meeting guidelines for workers’ comp coordinators to use, and forms for injured employees to complete. [...] Gil Garnier and colleagues explain that determining a patient’s blood type is critical for successful blood transfusions, which save millions of lives each year worldwide. There are four main blood types: A, B, AB, and O. Use of the wrong blood type in a patient can be fatal. Current methods for determining blood type require the use of sophisticated instruments that are not available in many poor parts of the world. An inexpensive portable test could solve that problem. [...] “Our findings suggest that reducing sugar-sweetened beverages and sugar consumption may be an important dietary strategy to lower blood pressure and further reduce other blood pressure-related diseases,” said lead author Liwei Chen, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor at Louisiana State University Health Science Center School of Public Health in New Orleans, La. [...] |
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