There have been tremendous advances in medicine. Over the past several decades positions and the health care system have done a tremendous job of decreasing deaths from heart disease and stroke. However our fight with cancer has not been as successful. Despite hundreds of billions of dollars in research and multiple public health measures including… Read More
Insufficient sleep is considered by the CDC to be a public health epidemic. Sleep disturbances have long been associated with all cause mortality and more recently with inflammation. A study in the July 2016 issue of Biological Psychiatry examined inflammatory markers and their relationship to sleep disturbance in sleep duration. Both inflammation and poor sleep… Read More
Physicians have long complained that electronic health record systems (EHR) are inefficient, unsafe, and dangerous. This article in Modern Health outlines a lawsuit against Cerner’s EHR and reviews lawsuits which involved faulty EHRs. This article predicts athat This may be the first in a wave of such cases. This case involves a three-hospital system called PinnacleHealth… Read More
Whether you are a competitive athlete or an exercise enthusiast, most people have experienced serious cramping at least once and many athletes and others experience severe cramping more often. It can be embarrassing as marathon world record holder runner Paula Radcliffe and Superstar Lebron James have both been disabled by cramps during major competitions. The traditional… Read More
