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Handheld Medicine
Handheld Medicine: Doctors Connecting with Patients using Smartphones Frank Magliochetti Report Doctors are connecting with patients in an entirely new way – through smartphones.Mobile payments, apps, and digital advertising changed the way retailers work by providing new opportunities to attract new customers, build loyalty and improve sales. Now these same technologies that altered retail are […]
Pharmacogenomic Testing & Health Care Costs
Pharmacogenomic Testing: Could it Reduce Health Care Cost? A relatively new type of drug testing could reduce health care costs. This type of testing is known as pharmacogenomic testing. It looks at how the genes a person inherits affects how medications works in his or her body. Many things can affect how drugs work in […]
Teen Use of E – Cigarettes
Teen Use of E-Cigarettes on the Rise – Good or Bad News? Teen use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has more than tripled since 2011, according to a recent report by the U.S. Surgeon General, with 40 percent of high school students saying they had used the product at least once in their lives. In that report, 16 […]
Prenatal Fish Oil – Lower Risk of Asthma in Children
Prenatal Fish Oil Supplementation May Lower Risk of Asthma in Children Taking fish oil supplements during pregnancy may lower the risk of asthma in children, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study shows that supplementation with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) during the third trimester can reduce the […]
Smoking Statistics: Focus on the Northeast
Smoking Statistics: Northeast USA Cigarette smoking is still the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), claiming more than 480,000 lives each year. Despite decades of anti-smoking campaigns, which have been largely successful at reducing the number of cigarette smoking and death rates […]