Wednesday, February 12

Tag: Medication

Heart Hospital in Malaysia scores country’s first EMRAM validation
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Heart Hospital in Malaysia scores country’s first EMRAM validation

In a country first, Institut Jantung Negara (National Heart Institute) in Malaysia has been recently validated for Stage 6 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The EMRAM measures an organisation's adoption and maturity of their EMR capabilities.  Founded in 1992, the 433-bed public quaternary hospital sees over 300,000 outpatients with cardiac, thoracic and vascular disorders each year, served by a staff of over 2,700. It is the largest cardiac hospital in Malaysia.  A 25-year journey Its digital record journey began in 1998 with the acquisition of the MedTrak hospital information system.  For over two decades, IJN faced difficulties in successfully rolling out an organisation-wide EMR system. One particular challenge was change management.  "We were unable to make much h...
Video: How to use a single-dose dry powder inhaler
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Video: How to use a single-dose dry powder inhaler

Here are general instructions for using a single-dose dry powder inhaler. To begin, remove the inhaler cover. Then hold the base of the inhaler firmly and twist the mouthpiece to open. Push the buttons on each side of the base to test the small spikes within the capsule chamber. These spikes puncture the capsule of medication. Remove the capsule from its foil container and place it in the capsule chamber at the base of the inhaler. Do not put the capsule in the mouthpiece. Twist the mouthpiece back to a closed position. With the inhaler upright and vertical, press the spike buttons once. You should hear a click; that's the capsule being pierced. Release the buttons and prepare to inhale. Do not shake the inhaler. Bring the inhaler to your lips in a horizontal position. The blu...
I Was Skeptical About Virtual Shamanic Healing
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I Was Skeptical About Virtual Shamanic Healing

I've long considered myself far too rational to try something like shamanic healing (or chakra balancing or vaginal steaming or reading "The Secret," for that matter). After all, I am the daughter of two scientists. ("My problem with psychedelic therapy is the purity and composition is variable and often not tested in controlled clinical trials," my father recently said to me.) I support my local public radio station. I subscribe to The Washington Post. However, as I've gotten older, I've become disenchanted with the Western healthcare system. When years of traditional therapy and medication couldn't alleviate my persistent mood swings and anxiety, I became increasingly willing (read: desperate) to explore nontraditional methods. That's how I — like many of my fellow millennials — began di...
Research study discovers 3 brand-new safe, efficient methods to deal with drug-resistant tuberculosis
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Research study discovers 3 brand-new safe, efficient methods to deal with drug-resistant tuberculosis

Tuberculosis stays among the leading contagious illness killers worldwide, a difficulty enhanced by drug-resistant kinds of the illness. Now, in a significant advance, a global scientific trial has actually discovered 3 brand-new safe and efficient drug programs for tuberculosis that is resistant to rifampin, the most efficient of the first-line prescription antibiotics utilized to deal with TB. The research study, released Jan. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicinewas led by scientists at Harvard Medical School and other members of the endTB job, a partnership amongst Partners In Health, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Interactive Research and Development, with assistance from scientists and clinicians at scholastic medical centers and research study centers worldwide. The freshly recog...
What Was an FDA Warning on Two RSV Vaccines About?
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What Was an FDA Warning on Two RSV Vaccines About?

Quizzes > > Weekly News Quiz-- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly test by MedPage Today Staff January 11, 2025 The 24-hour news cycle is simply as essential to medication as it is to politics, financing, or sports. At MedPage Todaybrand-new details is published daily, however maintaining can be a difficulty. As a help for our readers, and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question test based upon the news of the week. Subjects consist of a brand-new caution on 2 breathing syncytial infection (RSV) vaccines, the "Shkreli Awards," and a link in between coffee drink...
Diabetes Med for Kidney Stones? Workout and Heart Failure
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Diabetes Med for Kidney Stones? Workout and Heart Failure

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, take a look at the leading medical stories of the week. Today's subjects consist of catheter product for peripherally placed main catheter (PICC) lines, a diabetes medication for kidney stones, chauffeur anomaly clearance and regression forecast and workout and cardiac arrest. Program notes: 0:44 Exercise and cardiac arrest 1:44 322 clients with cardiac arrest and typical ejection portion 2:45 What portion continued? 3:30 Kidney stone avoidance with empagliflozin (Jardiance) 4:30 Once everyday followed by placebo 5:30 Also reliable in cardiac arrest 6:30...
Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round?
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Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round?

For centuries in medication, alcohol, especially red white wine, brought a health halo; in little dosages, it has actually traditionally been believed to have cardioprotective advantages. Michael Farkouh, MD, a teacher of cardiology at Cedars-Sinai, approximates half the doctors still accept individuals having a beverage or more a day. "That is still in practice, though the numbers are minimizing," he stated.Michael Farkouh, MDFarkouh no longer beverages alcohol, a position he has actually come to after getting more included in research study into the compound and his awareness that numerous of the research studies promoting alcohol's health advantages were flawed.Today, alcohol sits along with asbestos and tobacco as class 1 carcinogens. According to the World Health Organization, it has ...
What Happened to Patient Portal Messages After a Health System Billed for Them?
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What Happened to Patient Portal Messages After a Health System Billed for Them?

Quizzes > > Weekly News Quiz-- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly test by MedPage Today Staff January 4, 2025 The 24-hour news cycle is simply as crucial to medication as it is to politics, financing, or sports. At MedPage Todaybrand-new details is published daily, however maintaining can be an obstacle. As a help for our readers, and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question test based upon the news of the week. Subjects consist of client portal messaging, H1N1, and a blastomycosis break out. After taking the test, scroll down in your internet browser window to...
What Did New Data Show About Drinking Wine?
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What Did New Data Show About Drinking Wine?

Quizzes > > Weekly News Quiz-- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly test by MedPage Today Staff December 21, 2024 The 24-hour news cycle is simply as essential to medication as it is to politics, financing, or sports. At MedPage Todaybrand-new details is published daily, however maintaining can be an obstacle. As a help for our readers, and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question test based upon the news of the week. Subjects consist of brand-new information about drinking red wine, a cautioning about a hot flash drug, and a GLP-1 agonist eliminated from FDA's l...
Some drugs are truly proficient at decreasing cholesterol– however how low is too low?
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Some drugs are truly proficient at decreasing cholesterol– however how low is too low?

Somebody in the United States passes away from cardiovascular disease every 33 seconds. It stays the primary killer in the nation. It's no marvel that researchers are significantly focused on methods to even more lower the bad blood cholesterol, called low-density-lipoprotein (LDL), at the center of the condition. The mission has actually resulted in progressively effective medications that plunge LDL to brand-new lows, leading some individuals to question whether there's a health threat to dropping levels too far.LDL particles are the prime aspect behind the accumulation of fatty plaque in arteries that can burst, activating a cardiovascular disease or stroke. "We have a paradigm in cardiology that the lower the much better," states Erica Spatz, a cardiologist at Yale School of Medicine i...