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Value of Screening Urinalysis Prior to Office Procedures Questioned
Value of Screening Urinalysis Prior to Office Procedures Questioned
Pre-procedure urinalysis can be skipped before certain office-based urology procedures, such as prostate biopsy and cystoscopy, according to the results of a randomized trial. Some centers perform the pre-procedure test to avoid urinary tract infections (UTIs), a feared iatrogenic complication, but the new findings indicate the step is unnecessary. These results “will alter screening urinalysis…
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Cycling Watches Guide: The 7 Best Picks for 2022
Cycling Watches Guide: The 7 Best Picks for 2022
Before smartwatches, cycling computers stored and displayed all your riding data, from distance to pace. They’re still superior when it comes to screen size, but in terms of features, today’s cycling watches far outweigh handlebar-mounted devices. In addition to basic metrics like speed, responsive sensors pick up on your heart rate, caloric burn, recovery time, movements during activity, and…
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15 Powerful Yogic Ways to Remove Samskaras • Yoga Basics
15 Powerful Yogic Ways to Remove Samskaras • Yoga Basics
One of the main aims of yoga is to create and cultivate sattva—a state of peace and harmony within oneself. Our sense of inner peace is most often challenged when we activate an unconscious mental and emotional pattern, or samskara. These are subtle impressions or energetic imprints in the unconscious mind left behind by past actions, thoughts and emotions. They are karmic seeds that take root in…
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WELL Health is investing $32M in R&D to improve the patient experience
WELL Health is investing $32M in R&D to improve the patient experience
The healthcare industry hasn’t exactly been a leader in customer service, as Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO of the digital health patient communication company WELL Health, is quick to point out. After being frustrated and overwhelmed by the inefficiency of trying to communicate with his own health system during a health scare, de Zwirek founded WELL in 2015 with the singular mission to make healthcare…
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Nerve Gas Sarin Probably Caused Gulf War Syndrome
Nerve Gas Sarin Probably Caused Gulf War Syndrome
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) After 30 years, researchers believe they finally have definitive evidence of the primary cause of Gulf War syndrome: exposure to low levels of the nerve gas sarin. Gulf War syndrome is blamed for leaving a quarter million veterans of the 1991 conflict with a disabling array of long-term symptoms. They range from…
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Cabbage Leaf Wraps for Arthritic Knees
Cabbage Leaf Wraps for Arthritic Knees
Unbelievably, a randomized controlled trial of cabbage leaf wraps for arthritis was published. In a section of the British Medical Journal called “Minerva,” where interesting little snippets are compiled, a picture was published of a woman who had taped a cabbage leaf to her knee. She said that was the only measure that provided relief from the symptoms of her osteoarthritis. You can see the…
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Do You Shake for No Reason? You Might Have Essential Tremor
Do You Shake for No Reason? You Might Have Essential Tremor
May, 23, 2022 — Fred Gutermuth, a 67-year-old retiree based in Virginia Beach, can’t remember a time when his hands didn’t shake. During the earlier part of his life, he never gave it much thought. For 22 years, he had been in the Navy, and the tremor did not hurt his performance. But after he took a job in the Water Treatment Division of his city, testing the water for potential bacteria or…
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How I Keep Myself Hydrated In This Scorching Heat?
How I Keep Myself Hydrated In This Scorching Heat?
How I Keep Myself Hydrated In This Scorching Heat? Temperatures are rising day by day and the scorching heat makes us crave for more of summer chillers. If you are weight watcher and strive of live a healthy life, and then sipping those preserved summer drinks may look scary. Those chilled drinks, laden with sugars give us a satiating effect for a while but it definitely does more of harm and…
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Higher Dose Founders Lauren Berlingeri and Katie Kaps Talk Infrared
Higher Dose Founders Lauren Berlingeri and Katie Kaps Talk Infrared
We’ve been talking about the benefits of infrared saunas on The Chalkboard ever since we launched about ten years ago. (Ten years ago!) It was around that time that more wellness spas in L.A. began offering infrared sauna therapy and the buzz among wellness devotees really started to take off. In brief, infrared saunas use wavelengths just above the red end of the visible light spectrum to…
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The Victorinox I.N.O.X. Professional Diver LE Is Inspired by Shipwrecks
The Victorinox I.N.O.X. Professional Diver LE Is Inspired by Shipwrecks
The new Victorinox I.N.O.X. Professional Diver LE checks all the boxes for a dive watch—it has a strong titanium case, it’s water resistant to 200 meters, and it’s ISO-certified for diving—but it comes with some unique extras: A stunning 3D-printed dial pattern and a handy pocketknife in a matching color scheme. If you’re on the hunt for a capable tool watch that’s also a real head-turner, look…
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Worldwide shortage of health workers threatens effective health coverage
Worldwide shortage of health workers threatens effective health coverage
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 43 million additional health workers are needed to meet targets for universal health coverage around the world, according to a new peer-reviewed study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine that was published today in The Lancet. The largest gaps were observed in sub-Saharan…
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The Way of Yogic Breathing: How to Breathe Correctly During Yoga
The Way of Yogic Breathing: How to Breathe Correctly During Yoga
Breathing is something that we often don’t pay attention to. It’s an involuntary function of the body that doesn’t require a conscious effort which is why it is often neglected.  However, breathing is at the core of yoga practice. In fact, it’s “breath” only that sets yoga apart from other forms of physical exercise.   In yoga, we learn breathing fundamentals as a totally separate practice in the…
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Severe COVID Is Equivalent To 20 Years Of Aging – New Study
Severe COVID results in cognitive impairment similar to that sustained between 50 and 70 years of age and is the equivalent of losing ten IQ points, our latest research shows. The effects are still detectable more than six months after the acute illness, and recovery is, at best, gradual. There is growing evidence that COVID can cause lasting cognitive and mental health problems, with recovered…
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FAQs on Medicare Coverage of Telehealth
FAQs on Medicare Coverage of Telehealth
Telehealth, the provision of health care services to patients from providers who are not at the same location, has experienced a rapid escalation in use during the COVID-19 pandemic, among both privately-insured patients and Medicare beneficiaries. Prior to the pandemic, telehealth utilization among traditional Medicare beneficiaries was extremely low, with only 0.3% of traditional Medicare…
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Doximity reports nearly $344M in revenue for fiscal 2022
Doximity reports nearly $344M in revenue for fiscal 2022
Doximity, a networking platform for healthcare professionals, posted revenue of $93.7 million for its fourth quarter that ended on March 31, compared with $66.7 million in the prior-year quarter. The company’s net income came to $36.7 million compared with $21.5 million last year. Doximity also posted results for its fiscal 2022, bringing in $343.5 million compared with $206.9 million for fiscal…
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Set Workout Goals - VASA Fitness
Set Workout Goals – VASA Fitness
Setting workout goals can be difficult, so we’re here to help! Here are some ways to set workout goals so you can stay on track, stay motivated, and succeed.     What Do You Want to Accomplish at the Gym? Before you step foot in a gym, setting attainable fitness goals should be your starting point. If you don’t know what you want to accomplish, it’s hard to determine the right exercises and…
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