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Media distort reality of latest treatment for blindness

Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied Healthcare

We all want heroes and dramatic rescues, and we want the day to be saved. A happy ending is preferred, and perhaps this is at the expense of unbiased observations from the media and the limited availability of neutral reporting on medical advances. Such is the case with how the media has handled the information regarding retinal prosthetic devices.

The role of nanomaterials in the treatment of cerebral palsy

Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani Medical & Allied Healthcare

Cerebral palsy is a chronic childhood disability that may be a result of injury to the developing brain either in uterus or immediately after birth. The injury to the brain can lead to defects in motor, sensory and cognitive functions. The child develops rigidity and distortion of limbs later in life. Although there are different causes for the development of cerebral palsy, neuroinflammation plays a major role in brain injury.

Why HealthCare.gov should have been a mobile app

Alex Bratton Healthcare Administration

Of all the problems with the HealthCare.gov site, perhaps the most baffling is why it was created as a website in the first place. The main target of the HealthCare.gov website is young, healthy millennials, those aged 18 to 29 years old. Since millennials don't run up big healthcare bills, their monthly premiums will subsidize the insurance benefits of nearly 4.3 million older and less healthy Americans.

10 tips to help your clients help themselves

Heidi Dawson Sports & Fitness

Successful treatment of an injury or pain condition comes down to a working partnership between the therapist and the client. Each person has to keep to his/her end of the deal to achieve the desired result. Here are my top 10 tips for helping your clients to understand the importance of their own efforts, feel empowered into helping themselves and for aiding even the busiest or most forgetful client in getting their homework done.

Does diversity matter in medical training?

Jonathan Ryan Batson Medical & Allied Healthcare

Maybe I was wrong as to think that diversity matters in the sociocultural melting pot of the United States. Maybe we were all wrong. Am I now doomed to believe that diverse thought and experiences, which shape lives to create new innovations and remove inequalities from the status quo, does not really matter? Maybe not. Maybe the approach to diversity is wrong.

Clock is ticking: New acetaminophen combo limitations coming soon

Jason Poquette Pharmaceutical

Beginning next month, manufacturers of combination prescription products containing acetaminophen are expected to limit their APAP content to no more than 325 mg per dose. The significance of this is that many narcotic combination products currently being dispensed will soon no longer be compliant with these guidelines. The guidelines do not impact any OTC acetaminophen products or combinations.

Pharmaceutical industry exerts influence on statin guidelines

Dr. Jonathan Kaplan Medical & Allied Healthcare

On Nov. 12, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) came out with their 2013 guidelines for who should and should not be on statin therapy to lower their bad cholesterol levels. When I saw them, I was surprised by the recommendations of widespread expansion of statin use. The new guidelines recommended what amounts to one-third of American adults being placed on cholesterol-lowering statins. To me, this smacked of industry influence because it was so obvious that one particular industry would benefit greatly from these recommendations. Maybe I was being paranoid. So I decided to do a little research.

Traumatic brain injury: Prevalence, diagnosis and treatment

Rosemary Sparacio Medical & Allied Healthcare

Recognition over the last several years regarding the prevalence and seriousness of traumatic brain injury has led to more attention in the media, among physicians, trainers, athletes (adults and children, professional and amateur) and the general population. The reality is that even a single concussion may cause lasting damage to the brain, and that even after symptoms fade, the brain is still injured.

Study on organ scarring may reduce need for organ transplantation

Joy Burgess Medical & Allied Healthcare

Recent transplant research on organ scarring may help to reduce the need for organ transplantation in transplant patients, therefore reducing the need for organs from organ donors. This new study focused on tissues and how they scar, and researchers hope to use the new discovery to develop new treatments to prevent organ deterioration as a result of fibrotic diseases.

Metoprolol bringing big changes to emergency care for heart attacks

Bambi Majumdar Medical & Allied Healthcare

A recent study on the beta-blocker drug metoprolol and its ability to lessen damage from heart attacks promises major changes in the way emergency medicine will be looked at. It will no longer just focus on sustaining the patients until they reach the hospital but on administering drugs that will help them in faster recovery all the way.

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