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Meet The Youngest Face Transplant Recipient In The U.S.
Katie Stubblefield was just 18 when she attempted suicide with a .308-caliber hunting rifle. She survived, but the injury resulted in the loss of her face. Now at the age of 21, Katie has become the youngest person in the world to receive a full face transplant. The...
Diversity In The Medical Field Is Important
Racial, socioeconomic, and international diversity aren’t just nice things to have within America’s Physician workforce. They can be a difference between life and death. According to a study from researchers at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, patients treated...
Top 10 Highest Paying Specialties For Doctors
Medscape annually compiles the highest earning areas in medicine, surveying more than 20,000 physicians currently practicing medicine in the United States and comparing the data was against other studies, including one from the American Medical Association. See what...
Top 10 Highest Paying Specialties For Doctors
Medscape annually compiles the highest earning areas in medicine, surveying more than 20,000 physicians currently practicing medicine in the United States and comparing the data was against other studies, including one from the American Medical Association. See what...
Microsoft Healthcare Team Wants To Move Doctors To The Cloud
Microsoft has been working on health-related initiatives for years, but is now bringing its efforts together into a new Microsoft Healthcare team. It’s a bigger effort to create cloud-based patient profiles, push doctors to the cloud, and eventually have artificial...
First Army Physician In Space
Army Lieutenant Colonel and Emergency Physician, Drew Morgan, will be one of two American astronauts heading to the International Space Station next year. He will launch aboard a Russian Soyuz 59S rocket and spacecraft in July 2019 as a member of Expedition 60/61....
Artificial Intelligence Computer Can Diagnose Skin Cancer Better Than Doctors
According to researchers, a new A.I computer can diagnose skin cancer more accurately than doctors. The team, from Germany, the U.S. and France, behind the study published in the journal Annals of Oncology calibrated the specially programed device deep learning...
Artificial Intelligence Computer Can Diagnose Skin Cancer Better Than Doctors
According to researchers, a new A.I computer can diagnose skin cancer more accurately than doctors. The team, from Germany, the U.S. and France, behind the study published in the journal Annals of Oncology calibrated the specially programed device deep learning...
Doctors Blame Burnout On Tech Tool Interruptions
A survey was conducted by HIMSS Analytics, which is associated with HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare Finance News and Vocera, an IT company that offers a clinical communications platform. Physicians and nurses report a high level of stress associated with...
Doctors Blame Burnout On Tech Tool Interruptions
A survey was conducted by HIMSS Analytics, which is associated with HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare Finance News and Vocera, an IT company that offers a clinical communications platform. Physicians and nurses report a high level of stress associated with...
Doctors Are Reusing Kidneys To Save Lives
Vertis Boyce had been on the kidney donation wait list for 8 1/2 years. She got the call about a potential life-changing surgery. The donated organ had a backstory that a doctor would need to explain. “The backstory was that this was the second time it had been...
Test Could Show If Patients Are Taking Their Medication
Many patients don't take their blood pressure medicine they've been prescribed because of the side effects. Those patients also lie to their doctors about taking the medications. There is now a drug test that can tell whether a patient is taking the prescribed...
Dye Makes Cancerous Lymph Nodes Glow
Science Daily- Surgeons at Penn Medicine are using a fluorescent dye that makes cancerous cells glow in hopes of identifying suspicious lymph nodes during head and neck cancer procedures. Led by Jason G. Newman, MD, FACS, an associate professor of Otorhinolaryngology...
Healthgrades Reveals 2018 List of America’s Best Hospitals
Healthgrades, the leading online resource for information about physicians and hospitals, released America’s 50 and 100 Best Hospitals for 2018. The recipients of the America’s 50 and 100 Best Hospitals Awards™ — which represent the top 1% and 2% of hospitals in the...
U.S Health Care System Makes Native Americans Feel Invisible
According to NPR, the life expectancy of Native Americans in some states is 20 years shorter than the national average. There are a number of reasons why this is.