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Dogs Double Risk for Distracted Driving

Distracted driving is something we usually associate with teens and their cell phones, or frenzied mothers and their minivan full of kids.  However the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration d… more →

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Dogs Double Risk for Distracted Driving

srxa wrote 1 week ago: Distracted driving is something we usually associate with teens and their cell phones, or frenzied m … more →

Tags: aging, Clinical Research, SRxA, Accidents, Auto Accidents, Car Accidents, cognitive performance, Distracted Driving, dogs in cars

www.Can-I-Help-You-With-That?

srxa wrote 1 week ago: There’s days when reading the news makes you feel old. Today is one of those days. It started out wi … more →

Tags: aging, nurses, robotics, SRxA, Georgia Institute of Technology, Internet, iPhone, robot-assisted surgery, robotic surgery

Fluffy Therapy

srxa wrote 1 week ago: These days, therapy dogs and cats are often brought into health care facilities to help boost their … more →

Tags: Pharmacies, SRxA, Alpacas, animal therapy, guide dogs, Llamas, napoleon, Pet Therapy, rojo

Radioactive Bacteria:1 - Pancreatic Cancer:0

srxa wrote 2 weeks ago: Years ago, when I was just starting my healthcare career, I worked with a team specializing in the m … more →

Tags: Cancer, Clinical Research, pancreatic cancer, SRxA, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, bacteria, Claudia Gravekamp, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie

Pumped Up about Promising new Parkinson’s Pump

srxa wrote 2 weeks ago: Parkinson’s disease, as many of our readers know is a chronic, progressive neurological disease that … more →

Tags: Cleveland Clinic, Clinical Research, Parkinson's disease, SRxA, brain, Brain health, drugs, FDA, Levodopa

Should You Stay or Should You Go?

srxa wrote 2 weeks ago: Picture this familiar scene. A critically injured person is wheeled into the emergency room by param … more →

Tags: death, Emergency Medicine, Health Outcomes, paramedics, SRxA, CPR, Emergency Departments, end of life decisions, family presence during resuscitation

Bullseye! Lyme Disease Without the Rash

srxa wrote 3 weeks ago: With the weather finally starting to warm up, if you’re anything like me, you probably can’t wait to … more →

Tags: Infectious Disease, Lyme Disease, SRxA, Borrelia Burgdorferi, bullseye rash, contact dermatitis, Diagnosing Lyme Disease, Insect bites, Lupus

Put on the red light

srxa wrote 3 weeks ago: We’ve all been there, some of us more often than others. You know what I’m talking about. That mid-a … more →

Tags: SRxA, behavioral health, Clinical Research, sleep, fatigue, sleep 2, Accidents, light, lighting research

The Skinny on Breakthrough Myelin Sheath Disorders — 1 comment

srxa wrote 3 weeks ago: In patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and other rare genetic disorders known as leuko … more →

Tags: Cerebral-Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, SRxA, Stem cells, case western reserve school of medicine, cerebral palsy, fibroblasts, leukodystophy, myelin

Puzzling how to get Lady Gaga out of your head?

srxa wrote 1 month ago: You know how it goes. You hear a song on the radio, or TV and it gets stuck in your mind. Once there … more →

Tags: SRxA, behavioral health, Lady Gaga, Music, catchy tunes, Earworms, music getting stuck in your head, Beyonce, Carly Rae Jepsen

Pharma Under Fire for Fair Balance Failings

srxa wrote 1 month ago: Uh oh! Seems like the Pharma industry is in trouble again. Research published in the Journal of Gene … more →

Tags: Pharmaceutical Industry, SRxA, physicians, Medical Education, Doctors, Drug safety, FDA, drugs, pharma industry

Lift Weights to Lower Blood Sugar? — 1 comment

srxa wrote 1 month ago: SRxA’s Word on Health was interested to read that researchers in the Life Sciences Institute a … more →

Tags: SRxA, Diet, diabetes, Exercise 2, Clinical Research, health, Marathon Running, Medicine, Metabolic diseases

Bye-Bye Backside

srxa wrote 1 month ago: Anyone who’s ever been a hospital patient knows that hospital gowns come in three sizes: short, shor … more →

Tags: SRxA, patient safety, Henry Ford Hospital, hospital gown, hospital gown jokes, henry ford innovation institute, college for creative studies, Fashion, functionality

Cutting Costs by Cutting Pills

srxa wrote 1 month ago: According to some disturbing data released yesterday by the CDC, many US adults aren’t following doc … more →

Tags: Adherence, behavioral health, Drug safety, drugs, Health Care Costs, Health Outcomes, SRxA, CDC, health care spending

Welcome to World Allergy Week

srxa wrote 1 month ago: Today marks the start of the World Allergy Organization’s (WAO) annual World Allergy Week. During th … more →

Tags: SRxA, Allergy, Food Labels, Health Outcomes, Food Allergy, Anaphylaxis, epinephrine, World Allergy Organization, Food Allergies

Stopping Herpes From Going Viral

srxa wrote 1 month ago: On Wednesday SRxA’s Word on Health reported on a link between memory loss and cognitive decline and … more →

Tags: SRxA, HIV, Infectious Disease, Clinical Research, sexually transmitted disease, herpes, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, M-D, oral herpes

Forgetting Your Cold Sore?

srxa wrote 1 month ago: Cold sores. Annoying, embarrassing, uncomfortable. Enough to drive you crazy? Not quite. However, ac … more →

Tags: behavioral health, Infectious Disease, Exercise 2, dementia, viruses, Medicaid, herpes, cold sores, oral herpes

Emergency! Epinephrine in Anaphylaxis: under-use and inappropriate use by EMS

srxa wrote 1 month ago: Despite a decline in anaphylaxis deaths over the past 25 years, lack of epinephrine and incorrect ad … more →

Tags: AAAAI, Allergy, Anaphylaxis, drugs, Emergency Medicine, SRxA, 5 rights of medication administration, Anaphylaxis, anaphylaxis related-death

Potential treatment for Ebola and other deadly viruses revealed

srxa wrote 1 month ago: Illnesses caused by many of the world’s most deadly viruses cannot be effectively treated with … more →

Tags: SRxA, Infectious Disease, Clinical Research, Vaccinations, Rare Diseases, Ebola, Ebola virus, hemorrhagic fever, antiviral therapy


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