Medical Notes: June 4, 2023
Can Netflix help with childhood cancer treatment? Microplastics may be messing with sex hormones. Red-flag warning signs of cancer. Your child’s drink may be toxic.
Health Care Sub-categories:
- Access to Care (16)
- Affordable Care Act (6)
- Alternative Medicine and Treatments (30)
- Diagnoses (71)
- Doctors (155)
- EMDR (1)
- Emergency Medicine and First Responders (50)
- Emergency Room (30)
- End of Life Care (2)
- Family Medicine (13)
- Fraud (6)
- Head/Brain Injury (23)
- Hospitals (51)
- Injury (57)
- Insurance (53)
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU) (8)
- Medical Imaging (1)
- Medical License (2)
- Medical Malpractice (1)
- Medical Records (10)
- Medicare and Medicaid (15)
- Medication (123)
- Misdiagnoses (18)
- Non-invasive Treatment (5)
- Nurse Practitioner (2)
- Nurses (12)
- Nursing Homes (5)
- Outpatient (5)
- Pain Management (15)
- Patient Care and Safety (115)
- Pediatrics (97)
- Physical Therapy (8)
- Physician Assistant (2)
- Physician Burnout (9)
- Prevention (155)
- Primary Care (24)
- Recovery (50)
- Rehabilitation (13)
- Specialist (34)
- Surgery (135)
- Symptoms (131)
- Telemedicine (5)
- Therapy (97)
- Treatments (140)
- Undiagnosed and Mystery Illness (22)
- Wound Care (4)
Adrenal Dysfunction May Be Causing Your Brain Fog and Weight Gain
Dr. Izabella Wentz, a thyroid expert, explains the lifestyle changes you can make to fix your hormone imbalance.
Ozempic: A Look Into Hollywood’s Magic Weight Loss Pill
Dr. Disha Narang explains how these types of therapies need to be paired with long-term, strict daily routines in order to be effective.
Medical Notes: May 28, 2023
When should you get a mammogram? Can science regrow missing limbs? Proper chewing may help people with type 2 diabetes. Airplanes may be ruining your sleep.
‘It’s Just Easier To Not Include Women’: The Gender Bias in Health Care
Experts discuss the dangerous reality of gender bias in health care.
Medical Notes: May 21, 2023
Mistletoe isn’t just for kissing under. Your thirties are more important than you think. Always forgetting to take your daily pills? We may finally have a vaccine for RSV.
Honoring the Mothers Who Never Got To Meet Their Children
This week, we open the conversation around miscarriage in an effort to normalize this common experience.
Medical Notes: May 14, 2023
A new treatment cured 100% of mice from brain cancer after tumor removal. Can science reverse a bad diet? Birth control is becoming gender neutral. And more.
How AI Is Thrusting Us Into the Future of Medicine
Experts discuss the many different applications of AI and how we can expect to interact with the technology in the field of medicine going forward.
What You Need To Know About Your Baby’s Flat Head
Peter Taub, a professor of pediatrics, says plagiocephaly ("flat head syndrome") isn’t a syndrome at all and doesn’t cause any neurologic symptoms.
Medical Notes: May 7, 2023
Having dementia doesn’t mean taking more medication. Does the size or shape of your heart that matters? Speech therapy is going digital. And more.
“I’m Not Dying, But Is That Good Enough?”: Improving Lupus Research
Lupus ABC is the first of its kind public-private partnership with the FDA, allowing researchers and patients to work together on lupus treatment breakthroughs.
