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My XeeMe helps you find all my social networks and groups on one page: http://xeeme.com/Natalie_Stewart If you would like your own go to: http://xeeme.com/?r=giHf1iKM$gJ8 It's free. Plus you get a powerful social address book and much more. Via Natalie Stewart No comment yet.
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A person with a master in public health can work in either the private sector or for some form of government - local, national, or state. Programs that are accredited by the CEPH (the Council on Education for Public Health) are rigorous and provide educational experiences that will prepare students for their new jobs. This page is about what is involved in studying a masters in public health, where you can study it online, and the job and salary prospects after completion...
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What is celiac disease? It is a hereditary, autoimmune disease caused by intolerance to the food protein, gluten – which is found in wheat, barley and rye. When people with celiac disease eat gluten-containing foods, the lining of the small intestine is damaged and eventually destroyed, preventing nutrients from being absorbed adequately. Untreated, celiac disease can lead to nutritional deficiencies, including anemia and osteoporosis, as well as other conditions, including other autoimmune diseases, intestinal cancers, infertility, delayed growth in children and failure to thrive in infants. Read more at: http://www.feelgoodnatural.com/news/know_about_celiac_disease/Delete the scoop?
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Most of the work done by graduates of health education focuses on planning, organizing, and directing educational programs for communities, labor unions, civic organizations, and other groups. They work alongside other healthcare professionals to establish needs, develop goals, and assess the availability of healthcare services. Find out more about health education degree programs, where you can study it online, the career and salary prospects after completion, and more ...
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Newborn babies that use dummies may have better protection against cot death because it improves their cardiac control, Australian research shows. Associate Professor Rosemary Horne, of the Monash Institute of Medical Research says epidemiological studies have consistently shown dummy use protects against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). However, she says, how the soother does this has been unclear. "Since 2005 there have been a number of case-controlled studies and they have all shown dummies to be protective, yet how does it work when dummies fall out 15 minutes after the baby goes to sleep," she asks. In research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in the US, Horne and colleagues suggest the use of dummies helps improve infants' cardiac control. Read more at: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/05/06/3751068.htmDelete the scoop?
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Home health aide training can start you in a career in health care or nursing. This page has details of the training, where you can find it, and more ...
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Using a new, stem cell-based, drug-screening technology that could reinvent and greatly reduce the cost of developing pharmaceuticals, researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have found a compound that is more effective in protecting the neurons killed in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) than are two drugs that failed in human clinical trials after large sums were invested in them. The new screening technique developed by Lee Rubin, a member of HSCI’s executive committee and a professor in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB), had predicted that the two drugs that eventually failed in the third and final stage of human testing would do just that. (...) - By Joseph Caputo (Harvard Staff Writer), HarvardScience, April 18, 2013 Via Julien Hering, PhD Delete the scoop?
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Nurses are the first point of contact as regards administration of treatment and conduct of diagnostic tests, and as such, they are incredibly important in the health care profession. Find out about online nursing programs, what is involved, the schools where you can study them, what jobs there are, what the salary prospects are, and more ..
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A new prosthetic hand lets wearers have better control — thanks to an app. Users of Touch Bionics' next generation "i-limb ultra revolution" prosthetic device can configure parts of the hand using the companion iOS app, as shown in the above video. The "biosim" app allows wearers to activate 24 custom grip modes, which can help with daily tasks (e.g. tying a shoe or holding a pen). It can also run diagnostics to ensure the i-limb is working correctly. New electrodes in the updated i-limb model enable users to better control the strength of their grip; this feature is useful for performing a wide range of tasks. The device also features a powered rotating thumb that improves dexterity. Read more and view the video at: http://mashable.com/2013/04/22/touch-bionics-i-limb-prosthetic-hand/
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Because the public has become more aware of the importance of proper nutrition, new jobs have been created in food manufacturing, marketing, and advertising. In these fields, dietitians prepare literature, analyze foods, and review the nutritional content of recipes and vitamin supplements. Find out about what is involved in a dietetics degree, where you can study it, and the careers and salary prospects after completion...
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The technology that’s already increased retail revenues and made law enforcement more effective could enhance healthcare providers’ business, by improving patient outcomes and lowering costs.
What’s the future of big data in healthcare?
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, using data to better predict the healthcare needs of the U.S. population could save between $300 and $450 billion.
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Degrees in nutrition focus on the utilization of food that is for human growth and its metabolism, in regard to both the normal and dysfunctional states. The programs cover biochemistry, food science, dietetics, physiology, biotechnology, food and nutrition studies, clinical sciences and biophysics. Find out about nutrition degree programs, where you can study them, and the careers and salary prospects after completion ...
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If you're interested in getting into CrossFit -- but you don't have a proper "box" -- CrossFit Unboxed is a new iPhone app that may be just what you need. CrossFit Unboxed, the latest app from Gain Fitness, lets users go through a customized guided CrossFit exercise program, without having to lay out the cash for a special CrossFit program or gym. The idea behind Gain Fitness is to gamify exercise. The app acts as a personal trainer, and it includes instructional videos for how to perform certain exercise and provides users with a workout schedule that is designed in such a way as to not be too repetitive or boring.
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Due to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics deep ties with the food industry, including such corporate giants as Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Nestlé, and PepsiCo, their genuine credibility as a nutritional organization is called into question. As this report will show, the food industry’s deep infiltration of the nation’s top nutrition organization raises serious questions not only about that profession’s credibility, but also about its policy positions. The nation is currently embroiled in a series of policy debates about how to fix our broken food system. A 74,000-member health organization has great potential to shape that national discourse – for better and for worse. Delete the scoop?
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Concerns that firms' rights to hold patents on genes linked to breast cancer is pushing up cost of testing for disease. Beore the end of next month the US supreme court will issue a landmark decision in a case brought against the biotech firm Myriad Genetics, which is based in Utah, by the Association for Molecular Pathology. The firm owns a patent on the BRCA1 gene, which Jolie carries and which is believed to carry a high risk of causing breast cancer. It also owns a patent on the similar BRCA2 gene. It means that Myriad has the exclusive right to develop diagnostic tests for those genes – a fact that has implications for other firms, who thus might be prevented from developing innovations in the field.
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A firm in the US owns the patent to my genes? This is absolute disgusting nonsense. Wake up Supreme Court and get common sense back into decision making. Delete the scoop?
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Tool makes it easy to search for health providers who are active in the Medicare prescription drug program.
What’s the purpose of Prescriber Checkup?
A. We’ve made it easy to search for doctors and other health providers who are active in Medicare’s prescription drug program, called Part D. You can find out how many prescriptions each wrote and which drugs were prescribed. You can compare your doctor with others in his or her specialty and state. And you can check out the drugs you are taking or any that your doctor recommends.
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Until now, the identities of doctors and which drugs they prescribed in Medicare Part D have not been public. ProPublica obtained the data under the Freedom of Information Act and investigated prescribing patterns. We are making the data available to help consumers stay informed. Via nrip Delete the scoop?
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Withings has built quite a name for itself since launching its first Wi-Fi Body Scale in 2009, and the new Withings Smart Body Scale is perhaps the biggest update yet released for its original connected scale tech. The new hardware monitors and tracks not only weight, but also body fat percentage, blood pressure and environmental air quality. I tested the Smart Body Analyzer over the course of the past week, so if you’re looking to invest in one of the newly available scales, here’s how it performs. Read more at: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/20/withings-smart-body-analyzer-review/ Delete the scoop?
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The Jawbone UP fitness tracker is a lot more useful now that Jawbone has opened the API to third-party developers. One of the most exciting companies tapping into the UP platform is online automation tool, IFTTT. In the article below, I will talk a little bit about connecting your UP to IFTTT and then list some of my favorite recipes. IFTTT is an automation tool that allows you to setup tasks that happen at a certain time or in response to a certain event. It uses a trigger event ("If this happens") to initiate an action ("then do that"). Within the IFTTT framework, you create what are called recipes to select the trigger event and its resulting action. For example, you can create a recipe that uses a date/time trigger to send you an email at the same time each day.
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For many years residents in rural remote areas of Australia have been grappling with the scarcity of dental services and professionals in their midst. Could the Dental Relocation and Infrastructure Support Scheme (DRISS) be the answer? The DRISS is a government sponsored grants program that seeks to encourage more dentists to move their practices or establish new practices in remote rural areas. Any dentists interested in establishing such a practice which will help the government fulfil its promise to improve and diversify dental services in remote areas will benefit from a sizeable grant that will cater for infrastructure and other relocation essentials. Read more at: http://www.myhealthcareer.com.au/latest-news/dentistry/driss Delete the scoop?
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Genetic sequencing has dumped a mountain of data into researchers' laps, but it hasn't yielded a silver bullet to cure cancer This spring, a massive international collaboration doubled the number of known genetic regions associated with the risk of breast, prostate or ovarian cancers. The genetic markers are signpost that researchers can follow to better understand the biology of these cancers. Only a few of the 74 newly identified markers are shared by more than one type of cancer, underscoring cancer's complexity. Yet exactly how the findings can inform public health recommendations remains to be discovered. Each marker is associated with small modifications of risk, but the effects add up. The findings could lead to more accurate cancer screening and hint at ways cancers could be caught before the disease becomes aggressive. Only further study, however, will show where to draw the lines between risk percentages that tell patients "not to worry" or "get tested now." Read more at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=news-from-cancer-warDelete the scoop?
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The reality is that EMR systems are designed to finesse the payment system more than they are for patient care. That is because the thing we call “health care” refers to the payment system, not to actual patient care. My frustration with my current EMR system is not that it doesn’t do it’s job well (it still is better than my old one … I think), it’s that it is grown on a planet where the honor being a healer is being consumed by the curse of being a provider. Patients don’t matter as much as payment in our system, so EMR systems will follow those priorities. Those who don’t will not succeed. Read more at: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/03/patients-dont-matter-payment-system.htmlDelete the scoop?
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Women who give birth as teenagers more likely to become overweight or obese later in life, study finds. Via Gina Stepp Delete the scoop?
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Jeff Bauman, who lost two legs in the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this week and helped identify the attackers, is without health insurance... and the Internet wants to help. Bauman has become a national hero for helping authorities identify the suspects involved in the attacks. From his hospital bed, he was able to pinpoint the suspects at large — one of which looked at him just minutes before a bomb went off. But now, news has surfaced that the 27-year-old is without health insurance to pay for his care, an online funding campaign has been set up in his honor.
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Demo Mobile kicked off this morning with presentations from four mobile health startups. Each of these companies is applying mobile technology to the medical field to give people more control over their bodies, or to streamline the clinical process for physicians. “Mobile computing is just getting bigger and bigger,” said Demo’s executive producer Erick Schonfeld in an interview before the event. “In health, it started with quantified-self applications, but now we are seeing real medical applications for patients and doctors that are really dedicating to improve alienate and doctor outcomes. They show mobile devices could be a partial answer to the healthcare crisis.”
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Time to step up or step out of the way? The digital health movement is growing rapidly. Almost everyday we hear of new technology, apps and ideas that bring the promise of improved medical care, health and wellness. From hand-held ultrasound devices to smart phone arrhythmia monitoring, the digital health movement isn’t only about expensive pedometers and the ‘gym elite’ but about key areas in health and wellness that will have a direct impact on medical care. Pharma–for better or worse–has a seat at this table.
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Gastric banding, a common surgery to reduce obesity, leaves much to be desired. Typically, the patient is left with a feeling of constant hunger. Stimulators implanted in the feeding centers of the brain, like the hypothalamus, have met with mixed results. Partly that is to be expected since there is considerable functional overlap within those areas, and also due to the limited resolution that can be obtained with implanted electrodes in bulk brain tissue. Doctors have also tried to stimulate the main trunk of the vagus nerve, the largest nerve in the body. The vagus nerve, however, hits all the major organ systems, not least being the heart. It also provides two-way channels of communication throughout its extent. Researchers in the U.K. , led by Chris Toumazou, have developed a nerve cuff electrode that targets the branch of the vagus that ennervates the gut. The controller can apparently read conditions in the stomach and provide signals of satiety to the brain with proper stimulation. Via Adam Atodl Delete the scoop?
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