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Product News CleverMade's CleverCrates
No ordinary crate, this organization tool is lightweight and durable. A collapsible crate built to provide total utility and flexibility in transportation and storage, it can ...Full Article
Product News BaxMAX Lumbar Support System
The BaxMAX belt was created to prevent spine compression altogether by taking the body weight off the spine. Our belt features a patented pulley system incorporated into the d...Full Article
Life-Saving Post-ER Suicide Prevention Strategies Are Cost Effective
Three interventions designed for follow up of patients who are identified with suicide risk in hospital emergency departments save lives and are cost effective relative to usu...Full Article
NUS Scientists Combine Antimalarial Drug With Light Sensitive Molecules For Promising Treatment Of Cancer
Artemisinin, a potent anti-malarial drug, has been widely hailed as a promising alternative cancer treatment. Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recent...Full Article
Poll: Parents Not Confident Schools Can Assist Child With Chronic Disease, Mental Health Issues
If your child had an asthma attack during the school day, would school personnel know how to respond? Which staff at your child’s school would recognize and assist an element...Full Article
Medical Students Not Trained To Prescribe Medical Marijuana
Although 29 states and the District of Columbia allow marijuana use for medical purposes, few medical students are being trained how to prescribe the drug. Researchers at Was...Full Article
Insult To Injury: US Workers Without Paid Sick Leave Suffer From Mental Distress
Only seven states in the United States have mandatory paid sick leave laws; yet, fifteen states have passed preemptive legislation prohibiting localities from passing sick lea...Full Article
Stay Informed And Pay Attention To Your Body To Prevent Or Combat Gynecologic Cancers
Gynecologic cancers affect any area of the female reproductive organs (uterus, cervix, ovaries, vulva). For 2017, the American Cancer Society estimates more than 100,000 new c...Full Article
New Clues To How A Successful HIV Vaccine Could Work
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made a discovery that could speed efforts to develop a successful HIV vaccine. The scientists found that on the HIV e...Full Article
People With Schizophrenia Are Dying Younger
People with schizophrenia have a mortality rate that is three times greater each year than those without schizophrenia, and die on average, eight years earlier than people wit...Full Article
American Academy Of Pediatrics Announces Its First Recommendations On Tattoos, Piercings
Tattoos and body piercings are an increasingly popular form of self-expression, but it is important for young people to carefully consider the consequences and potential risks...Full Article
Time To Dial Back On Diabetes Treatment In Older Patients? Study Finds 11 Percent Are Overtreated
Anyone with diabetes who takes blood sugar medication knows their doctor prescribed it to help them. After all, the long-term effects of elevated blood sugar can harm everythi...Full Article
Need For Epinephrine In Schools -- And Staff Trained To Administer It
With school nurses often covering multiple buildings, nearly one in five students who experience severe allergic reactions are given potentially life-saving epinephrine inject...Full Article
One Vaccine Injection Could Carry Many Doses
MIT engineers have invented a new 3-D fabrication method that can generate a novel type of drug-carrying particle that could allow multiple doses of a drug or vaccine to be de...Full Article
Study Of Transplanted Hearts Reveals Risk Gene For Cardiovascular Disease
In the largest transcriptome study to date, an international research team analysed the RNA of transplanted hearts and discovered a number of new risk factors for dilated card...Full Article
ScanSmart: New Patient Safety Initiative Calls For Cool Heads When Using CT Scans On Kids
As young athletes head onto the football field or soccer pitch this fall, there's greater awareness about the risk of concussions and other head injuries. In New Jersey hospit...Full Article
Rehabilitation Psychologists Provide Pathways To Quality Of Life For The Injured, Ill
When a person experiences a traumatic injury or illness, much emphasis is placed on physical care and rehabilitation. But traumatic events, such as injury, chronic illness and...Full Article
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Designates Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children, a Certified Duchenne Care Center
Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children (Nemours) in Wilmington, Delaware, became the 17th clinic named a Certified Duchenne Care Center by Parent Project Muscular Dystr...Full Article
Chronic Pain Common In People Living With HIV
Because ongoing pain is a significant problem that affects 39 to 85% of people living with HIV, everyone with the infection should be assessed for chronic pain, recommend guid...Full Article
Large-Scale, Collaborative Effort Could Help Ease Global Hearing Loss
A team of hearing experts at Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke Global Health Institute is calling for a comprehensive, worldwide initiative to combat hearing los...Full Article
International Biophysics Introduces Their Next Generation Of The AffloVest® Fully Mobile Respiratory Airway Clearance Vest
International Biophysics Corporation, a global medical device manufacturer and the pioneer of mechanical oscillation vest therapy, introduced its next generation AffloVest ful...Full Article
Raising The Bar For Nursing Education - Laerdal Medical Introduces Nursing Anne Simulator
The role and responsibilities within nursing have undergone profound changes within the last twenty-five years, resulting in a stronger emphasis on patient-centered care, diag...Full Article
Emergency Nurses Association Prepares Nurses To Respond To Natural Disasters And Mass Casualty Incidents
In the midst of a historical hurricane season, emergency responders in hard-hit areas are faced with an influx of seriously injured patients. Operations can be made even more ...Full Article
SIDS Research Confirms Changes In Babies' Brain Chemistry
University of Adelaide researchers have confirmed that abnormalities in a common brain chemical are linked to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In the first study of its k...Full Article
