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Therapy Dogs Can Ease Nurses', Doctors' Stress, Too

Drugs.com

18, 2024 -- Therapy dogs can help boost the spirits of health care workers in the same way they brighten the moods of hospital patients, a new study shows. WEDNESDAY, Sept. The furry, four-legged friends reduced emotional exhaustion and job stress.

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A proactive diabetes review model: from concept to nurse-led research

On Medicine

There are a few (but growing) centers that will proactively see patients with diabetes in high-risk areas when admitted to the hospital, however, by far the most common practice is for patients to only be seen by a specialist team, including for diabetes, on receipt of a referral.

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AI in Healthcare: Care Delivery Use Cases

Perficient: Drug Development

Our recent discussions with Chief Medical Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Medical Information Officers, and a VP over Nursing point to this: AI can provide a huge amount of value when it comes to care delivery (e.g., Ideally, the doctor would review and approve the record and any actions coming from the visit.

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AHA News: Dance Show Alum Gets Her Groove Back After Stroke

The Pharma Data

The next thing Sandi remembers, it was a week later and she was in the hospital. To alleviate pressure from a burst blood vessel, doctors had shaved her head and removed part of her skull. To cheer her up, the nurses decorated her room with class of 2015 memorabilia. Later, she did the same thing for one of her doctors.

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Post-Stroke Rehab at Home May Work Best

The Pharma Data

“I’m not surprised that they could see similar effects of therapy with patients using telemedicine as they would via in person,” said Dr. Andrew Southerland, an associate professor of neurology and public health sciences at University of Virginia Health, in Charlottesville, Va.

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Behçet’s Disease: Diverse manifestations in both brain and body

On Medicine

Notably, she emphasizes the impact of a young student doctor along her journey, who suggested the condition as an explanation, and subsequently sent in a referral to a rheumatologist, setting her on the right track for diagnosis and then treatment.

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Deliberate Dysentery

Codon

You can do a challenge trial with deadly diseases, but you need a “rescue therapy.” And then, a month or two later, we went to the inpatient unit of a hospital in Baltimore and drank a shot glass of the Shigella bacteria. Volunteers were divided into the placebo-control and active vaccine groups.

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