We know that quitting smoking is tough. Even tougher: quitting for good. Readers Digest reports a new vaccine holds promise for the 90 percent of quitters who relapse. After six monthly injections, users of NicVax build up antibodies to nicotine, just as they would to a disease. If you smoke when you’re on it, your […]
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A Seattle, Washington based health care startup has received funding from Michael Dell and Jeff Bezos, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Their business model is unique and could radically change health care in this country. More from the WSJ: Qliance operates three clinics in the Seattle area that offer primary care treatment to patients
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While many MIT students busily build break-dancing robots or websites that let your pets network better at doggie daycare, PhD candidate Danielle Zurovcik has designed a $3 pump to drastically speed up the healing of countless patients in the aftermath of Haiti’s recent earthquake. Popular Science magazine reports that the device simplifies and lightens a
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According to a story at CNNMoney, there are an estimated 300 to 400 companies in the United States peddling electronic medical records (EMR) systems to the nation’s hospitals, medical clinics and solo practitioners. While some, such as GE Healthcare and NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, are part of corporate behemoths, the vast majority are small, privately
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According to an article in Mental Floss, “An hour’s nap in the afternoon can boost a person’s brain power and improve their memory … showing that short periods of sleep during the day can make it easier to function mentally.” It all happens in the hippocampus, which is a part of our brain which temporarily
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photo credit: A new study out from Germany indicates that bacteria-killing jets of plasma could soon replace the dental drills currently used to remove the cavities in our teeth making visits to the dentist’s office less painful. Plasma is the fourth state of matter, after solids, liquids and gases. It is formed when gases are
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While Washington attempts to overhaul the medical industry, one franchise is gathering momentum and might just be our way out of the healthcare mess. They offer an affordable, convenient market-based solution to rising health care costs and an alternative to the current system. Any Lab Test Now is the first franchise opportunity in the medical
The proportion of Americans ages 12 to 54 who need corrective lenses for distance sight has risen in recent decades, increasing to almost 42 percent in 1999-2004, up from 25 percent in the early 1970s, The New York Times reports a national study has found. While the prevalence of nearsightedness has increased around the world,
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At his Doctors Express center in Towson, Md., Dr. Scott Burger has spent the last three years tending to the community’s night-time fevers and weekend hurts. USA Today reports the former emergency room physician wants to take the center’s model nationwide, doing for urgent health care what, say, Papa John’s did for pizza – making
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TIME’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. It’s odd to think of putting sticks of wood inside people as a revolutionary medical procedure, but that’s exactly what a group of Italian scientists is working on. They’re using wood – red
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