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The Benefits of Genetic Cancer Screening
Genetic Cancer Screening Benefits for You and for Your Family Genetic cancer screening can be one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself and to your family. Cancer seems to “run in families.” Sometimes this is because families share an environment or lifestyle, such as tobacco use, known to increase the risk of […]
Rising Drug Costs: Trending 2017
2017 Trends: Rising Drug Costs The cost of prescription drugs has been rising rapidly since 2010, and will likely continue to rise in 2017. Frank Magliochetti The largest drug maker in the United States, Pfizer Inc., raised prices on 133 of its U.S. brand name products in 2015. More than three-quarters of the increases were 10 percent […]
Wearable Sensors: Identify Early Signs of Disease
Wearable Sensors May Help Identify Early Signs of Disease Wearable technologies may be able to do much more than monitor a person’s blood pressure or total number of steps each day, according to a new study, which suggests wearable sensors can detect early signs of serious disease. Wearable biosensors, otherwise known as wearables, are a low-cost […]
Top eLearning Trends for 2022
eLEarning Trends to Watch for 2022 E-learning has come a long way since Donald Bitzer, a laboratory assistant at the University of Illinois, created the first e-learning system in 1960. This system, known as PLATO, featured innovative networking capabilities that made it the leader in e-learning. By 1986, a quarter of high schools were using […]
C -Diff Rates Highest in the Northeast
Highest C-Diff Rates in US are in the Northeast Frank Magliochetti Report Clostridium difficile (C. difficile or C. diff) is a deadly superbug that causes severe illness, diarrhea and sometimes death in thousands of people in the United States each year. Now a study shows that infection rates of these antibiotic-resistant bacteria are highest in the Northeastern section of the […]