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Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Pioneers of Hospice: Changing the Face of Dying

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I saw this video recently. Here is the first 18 minutes on Youtube: The full video runs about 50 minutes. It's very informative, w...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Death and dying in America

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Seeking a ‘Beautiful Death’ [...] Dr. Volandes, a staff physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, noted that “in the abstract...
Sunday, May 04, 2014

One Conservative's Understanding of the Real and Genuine Need for Medical Marijuana

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My trip to the pot shop PUEBLO WEST, Colo. — It’s 9 a.m. on a weekday, and I’m at the Marisol Therapeutics pot shop. This is serious busine...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

What happens when vaccinations stop?

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The green is Whooping Cough, the red is Measls: The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic [...] A couple o...
Saturday, July 06, 2013

Nattokinase: a replacement for Warfrin?

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I've been looking at Nattokinase as a supplement for my mother, who is suffering from a calcified heart valve, due to (I believe) her lo...
Sunday, June 02, 2013

My Brilliant Career, Part III: Medical Coding

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Medical Records and Health Information Technicians It's not exactly exciting; it sounds like the medical equivalent of tax preparati...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

The changing face of healthcare

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I recently came across this article, which is aimed at American physicians: Getting ready for emerging care models Like it or not change ...
Friday, April 26, 2013

A new kind of sleeping pill: "Dora-22"

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A Sleeping Pill Without The Sleepy Head? [...] DORA-22 is part of a class of new drugs — one of which the Food and Drug Administration is a...

Real Pharmaceutical Marijuana?

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Is it comming? Maybe: Pot in a pill: All the pain relief without the smoke [...] Let me introduce you to dronabinol. It turns out that th...
Sunday, April 07, 2013

My Brilliant Career, part II

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Previously, I explored Tax Preparer as an additional source of income. This time, I'm going to look at Pharmacy Technician. It's...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Death by Alzheimer's is increasing

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U.S. deaths from Alzheimer's growing, data shows (Reuters) - Deaths and the risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease have risen sign...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Rawanda Healthcare: Lessons for us all?

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Rwanda's Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Might Learn [...] Over the last ten years, Rwanda's health system development has ...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Five Tips for Saving Money on Drugs

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Dos and Don'ts for Saving Money on Rx Drugs If you think you’re spending a lot of money on prescription drugs, you’re probably right. In...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

"Watson" the game-playing talking super computer is getting a job at your doctors office

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But he won't replace your doctor. At least not right away: IBM's 'Jeopardy' computer lands health care job NEW YORK (CNNMon...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Vitamin B12, and Alzheimers Disease

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Apparently, a deficiency of the former is often mistaken for the later: When Is Alzheimer's Disease Not Alzheimer's? When It's V...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

A Double Arm Transplant? Yikes, it's true!

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Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction: World's First Double-Arm Transplant Recipient Calls 'Being Whole Again' Indescribable ...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

iGoogle and it's WikiHow offerings

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For quite some time now, the home page of my Firefox web browser has been iGoogle , which is a customizable start page, which gives you many...