Patient Healthcare Records Accessible in an Emergency

A Historic Announcement for Patient Healthcare Records The Department of Health and Human Services made a historic announcement about patient healthcare records on 16th July 2010. Enforcement of the use of electronic healthcare record systems will be enforced by 2014. This may bring some additional peace of mind to the wearers of medical alert jewelery, [...]

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RNS Neurostimulator Put Up for FDA Approval

Will the Neurospace Device Be Approved To Help Epilepsy Sufferers? Neurospace device trials for the treatment of epilepsy sufferers have been on going for some time now. There have been some interesting developments in the trials ups and downs over the last four years. Neurospace has now been put up for approval to the Food [...]

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Hypo Dogs to the Rescue

Hypo Alerting Dogs A blessing to hypoglycemic Patients Dogs are trained to help deaf and visually impaired persons are not surprising news to us. But now dogs can help diabetic persons especially hypoglycemic persons by alerting them when their blood glucose level falls beyond threshold level. Hypoglycemic patients have a high chance of danger, if [...]

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Cadmium in Childrens Happy Charm Bracelets

Children’s Happy Charm Bracelets Recalled It was announced yesterday that the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 70,000 charm bracelets and rings containing high levels of the the toxic metal cadmium. The trinkets have been distributed to kids at medical and dental offices over the past five years, according to the AP. The AP stresses that [...]

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Can Coffee Decrease the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes ?

Does Coffee Help to Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes? Today, over 110 million North Americans consume coffee. But how much is too much, and can it decrease the risk of type 2 diabetes or slow down aging?? Researchers report that those who drank three to four cups of decaffeinated coffee per day had a [...]

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PNH Drug Might Be Useful for Other Blood Diseases As Well

Rare Blood Disease Drug Trialled for Use with Other Conditions A pharmaceutical company, Alexion Pharmaceuticals that makes a single product Soliris® that is used as a therapy for the very rare chronic blood disease Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) have stated that they are testing the use of the drug as a therapy for up to [...]

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