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Maybe we should eat those carbs after all
Bambi Majumdar Food & BeverageIn the film "The Devil Wears Prada," Anne Hathaway's character Andy is admonished by a colleague because she eats carbs. The line was meant to be funny, but what it actually represented was a whole generation of people shunning an entire group of foods.
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Bacteria linked to hyperammonemia in lung transplant patients
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareNew research shows a rare but often fatal complication among lung transplant patients is likely caused by bacteria normally found in the urinary tract. Dr. Ankit Bharat, a thoracic surgeon and surgical director at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, found elevated levels of ammonia in a 44-year-old double lung transplant patient a week after transplant surgery. Reasons for the patient's hyperammonemia weren't clear.
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Study: New hope for infants with congenital heart defects
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareCongenital heart diseases (CHDs) affect nearly 1 percent (about 40,000) of births per year in the United States and are a leading cause of birth defect-associated infant illness and death. The prevalence of some CHDs — especially mild types — is increasing, while the prevalence of other types has remained stable.
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Choosing telehealth for growth: Evaluating logistics and operations
Karen R. Thomas Healthcare AdministrationOne of the first steps toward choosing the right telehealth program for your business is to determine the needs of your customers, clients and/or patients so you can assess how telehealth will help them achieve better health outcomes.
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Robotic anesthesia pushes surgery into a new era
Joan Spitrey Medical & Allied HealthcareA new automated anesthesia delivery machine is challenging the way we look at anesthesia delivery. The Sedasys Computer-Assisted Personalized Sedation System administers a propofol infusion to patients undergoing colonoscopy and espophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) procedures without the direct oversight of an anesthesia provider. The use of propofol for such procedures has been gaining momentum and has become a frequently preferred medication. The effects are quick, and the time for the medication to wear off is also quick, making it highly desired in procedure areas.
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3 exciting innovations that impact the EMS community
Mark Huber Medical & Allied HealthcareThere has been lots of news on the technology front in the last few weeks. Here is a look at three innovative ideas that will aid those who work in emergency medical services.
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Study: THC has no effect on Alzheimer’s symptoms
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied HealthcareThey did not get buzzed, but they also did not get better. The results of a study looking at marijuana-related treatment and Alzheimer's disease was recently published in Neurology. The study used an oral cannabinoid containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary active ingredient in marijuana, in a formulation of a controlled dose. However, researchers found no improvement in the test subjects' behavioral symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
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Including an AED as part of the RIT team
Joshua Daisy Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityThe fire service has a high rate of heart-related emergencies. According to the American Heart Association, the chance of survival from a sudden cardiac arrest decreases by 10 percent for each minute that passes. Is your department prepared for a firefighter's sudden cardiac arrest on a fire scene?
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Study: ED intervention helps encourage tobacco cessation
Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied HealthcareSmokers listen when emergency department doctors tell them to kick the habit, according to a new study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The results of this study suggest that ED physicians have a great opportunity to reduce overall smoking rates for the approximately 20 million smokers across the United States.
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What we know in Year 2 of health insurance marketplace enrollment
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationThe health insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act are now in their second year of insuring consumers. While there continue to be some glitches, there are more insured Americans — some possibly for the first time in their life. Almost 8.84 million people have signed up for Affordable Care Act qualified plans through Healthcare.gov, and 53 percent of these are newly enrolled in 2015. An additional 2.8 million people have signed up for marketplace plans in states operating their own health insurance exchanges.
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