In theory, taking your medication shouldn’t take up a lot of time and energy. The reality is that taking medication correctly can be a complicated task, especially if multiple drugs are taken in a day. The dose, intake timing, whether or not you should eat before taking the medicine - these and many other elements play an important factor in ensuring the medicine’s … [Read more...]
Why Are People Leaving Healthcare Careers?
For the majority of people working in healthcare, it’s as much a vocation as it is a job. Healthcare tends to attract dedicated, interested people who have a deep desire to help others. The fact they get paid for it is important, of course, but it’s not the only thing that attracts them to the role. So the question has to be asked: why do so many established healthcare … [Read more...]
In A Medical Emergency, Who You Gonna Call?
Nobody wants to spend too much time thinking about what might happen if they find themselves in a medical emergency. However, statistics prove that it will happen to most of us at some point. So, it’s important to understand the available assistance and know who to call. Sure, in severe cases, the individual will have to get themselves straight to the hospital. The issue is … [Read more...]
The Clinic Of Clean: Dealing With Messy Medical Matters
Living your life with any medical condition, big or small, can be a real challenge. Trying to maintain a career around regular appointments and bouts of feeling bad can be impossible. And, this is before you even begin to consider the other aspects of life an illness can impact. This gets made all the worse when you have a condition which comes with a little bit of … [Read more...]
The Transposon System: Leading The Cancer Battle
As a method for treating cancer and tumors, the transposon system has been a vital tool. And specifically, the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System, named because of its reconstruction from extinct transposase that belonged to the Tc1 or mariner class, and therefore brought back to “life” from a long sleep, 13 million years to be precise. Transposons are DNA which are not … [Read more...]
4 Tips & Tools To Aid with Bedsores
Experiencing mobility issues or a debilitating disease that leaves you or a loved bed-limited can be extremely challenging and exhausting. Add on top of that a bedsore (or pressure ulcer) and you have a recipe for trouble. What is a bedsore exactly? When a person spends most of their waking hours lying in a bed or reclined in a chair, for example, the lack of movement and … [Read more...]
Physical Therapy vs. Opioids
The First Line of Defense Takes a Back Seat to Painkillers for LBP While low back pain (LBP) continues to be the leading cause of disability across the globe, its treatment modalities have recently seen a significant change regarding their prescribed order. Unfortunately, this is not a change for the better. According to a study recently published in Spine, physical … [Read more...]
5 Helpful tips on How to Write an Impressive Surgery Letter of Recommendation
Letters of recommendation are of utmost importance if you are in the field of academics. It provides a summary of the performance of a student through someone who has worked with him. A good recommendation letter can really help you in your career. Although, it is not quite easy to write a letter of recommendation. In fact, most students don’t know whom to ask for getting a … [Read more...]
Routine Surgery: What You Should Expect
Routine surgical procedures take place each and every day. Nevertheless, when you are the person who’s having the surgery carried out on them, it’s natural to be nervous. To stop your nerves and to think things through clearly, you should learn as much as possible about the process that you’re about to go through. Although these steps might be common knowledge to people in the … [Read more...]
The Rise of the Cyberchondriac
Search engines are very useful tools. Whereas in previous generations we would had to have asked around for information, or gone to a library or another place of research to find out the source of question (how did they ever get by watching a movie and not instantly finding out what film they’re seen a certain character in before?), it is now available at our fingertips. This … [Read more...]