Intoxicated Patients: Doctors Dealing with Drunks
Heavily intoxicated individuals are difficult to deal with in any situation. However, the funny drunk dad at the neighborhood BBQ with some questionable dance moves is far less of a problem than a belligerent inpatient admitted to a healthcare professional’s care equipped with both a serious attitude…and injuries. Taking care of the medical needs of patients under the influence of drugs or alcohol poses a threat to...
Doctors Without Borders: Stopping the Ebola Outbreak
Let’s start with some facts: The first Ebola outbreaks occurred in Nzara, Sudan and Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1976. After that, there was an outbreak in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name. Fruit bats are considered to be the natural hosts of the Ebola virus. The average Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) case fatality rate is around 50%. The case-fatality rate varies from 25 to 90...
New Study Suggests Schizophrenia is 8 Diseases
For decades healthcare professionals have been treating schizophrenia as one disease, coming up with therapy and other treatment programs based off of what we know. However, recent studies show that schizophrenia may actually be eight separate diseases. Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that affects over 1 percent of the population. When it’s active, schizophrenia symptoms can potentially include hallucinations,...
Will Technology Replace Doctors in the Near Future?
It’s no secret that healthcare professionals sometimes make mistakes, that’s how some people learn what works and what doesn’t throughout the healthcare industry. Developing an average from multiple studies conducted on the subject, misdiagnosis accounts for 40,000 to 80,000 hospital deaths per year and diagnostic error lawsuits are are about twice as common as medication errors. The research showed nearly twice of...
New Weight Loss Program “Re-trains” Brain
In recent, researchers have been observing the new dietary weight loss program iDiet. According to their website, this new diet discovery is a science-based weight loss program that significantly lowers health care costs and productivity loss associated with high risk and obese employees, by reducing Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and the need for gastric surgery. The research. The research behind...