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If you ask any individual with an acute cardiac condition, what their biggest worry is, most of them would inevitably tell you that, their utmost concern is the sudden rise or decline of their heart beats, which is also known as arrhythmia. Such a condition in extreme cases could lead to complicated surgeries or even prove to be fatal, if not checked [...]

Long gone are those days, when people used to go the neighborhood doctor for just about everything, even for information on various health related concerns and issues. Nowadays, the Internet, a virtual world unto itself is fast becoming the one stop information library for just about every health issue. In the latest findings released by Harris Interactive, [...]

Communication between the doctors and technicians is often limited while performing an MRI scan on a patient. It is vital for the surgeons (who are at the gantry) and the technicians (who are in the control room) to effectively communicate between them in order to perform their work well. It’s difficult to use conventional headsets due to the [...]

Drug switching done by pharmacists on doctors’ prescriptions is legal as ‘laws allow substitution of generic drugs without patient knowledge.’ The practice called therapeutic substitution rests on the premise that the substituted drugs belong to the same class as the original prescription and will therefore treat the same condition. However, [...]

The medical records of tens of thousands of patients have been lost in Britain in a number of serious security breaches by the National Health Service. Between January and April this year, there were over 140 such failures, more than in all central government departments and local governments together. According to Information Commissioner Richard [...]

Many a times doctors and medical health practitioners feel the need to check the position, location and the size of veins for various reason. It could be to check the length and girth of the vein itself or the best location to give a shot. Whatever the case is, proper observation of the veins is very necessary. The AccuVein AV3000 is a device which [...]