Trips and falls can be life-changing for seniors, disabled people, or those living with chronic conditions. That’s why medical alert systems that have fall detection can prove to be invaluable. They support independent living while providing reassurance that help is available should it be required. “Monitoring devices that can detect falls are very useful for…
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Healthy indoor air quality is vital because airborne threats from viruses like COVID-19, fungi, bacteria, carcinogenic chemicals, and other pollutants. These dangers infect wellbeing, health, and functioning of the occupants of the structure, including hospitals, clinics, businesses, office buildings, and schools. AeroClean has an answer. “Indoor air quality (IAQ) is in focus because of this…
Issued by: Guidance Issuing Office Office of the Commissioner, Office of Clinical Policy and Programs, Office of Pediatric Therapeutics Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Center for Devices and Radiological Health Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Clinical investigations in children are essential for obtaining data on the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biological products,…
By searching thousands of electronic medical records, a team of NIA-funded researchers may have discovered key differences in pathology and clinical characteristics between men and women with Alzheimer’s disease, and also between individuals with and without this disease. The study, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates the potential of a “big data” approach involving advanced computer…
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Juanita Franklin was driving through the East Texas town of Gun Barrel City a couple of years ago when she saw a new sign down the road from the Christian Life Center food pantry where…
A bill introduced Monday in the House of Representatives would require private health insurance to cover forensic exams for sexual assault survivors in full. The legislation came after research published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that nearly 18,000 out of 113,000 emergency visits related to sexual violence in 2019 resulted in…
SteriTek, a contract sterilizer, will create 50 new jobs in Alamance County, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The company will invest $59.9 million to build an East Coast sterilization facility in Burlington. “SteriTek’s new facility in Alamance County is a great addition to our already thriving biotechnology and life sciences industry,” said Governor Cooper. “Companies…
Getty Images Giants backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor is suing Chargers team doctor David S. Gazzaniga and the Newport Orthopedic Institute for medical malpractice stemming from a punctured lung Taylor suffered during his time with the Chargers, according to findings by ESPN. The punctured lung occurred while being treated for a rib injury in 2020. Taylor is seeking…
[embedded content] DALLAS – Sept. 17, 2022 – Thousands of residents, business owners, and regional leaders gathered Saturday at the community celebration for the opening of UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird, the largest of its regional campuses and the first to bring academic medicine to the booming southern Dallas region. The two-story, 150,000-square-foot campus is UT Southwestern’s…
Medical debt is leaving many people in the U.S. unable to afford groceries or pay their mortgages — even among the insured, research published Friday has found. Researchers say the findings, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, provide additional evidence that medical debt is a driver of both health and financial inequities in America,…