article thumbnail

When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

When dealing with chest congestion, it’s important to understand potential warning signs, as well as what type of medical care to seek for them. F or higher, chest pain, or blood in your saliva, you should consider seeking medical attention for chest congestion. Am I at risk for complications due to my medical history?

Medical 52
article thumbnail

The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. She spoke of her joy after being able to tell the time for the first time in more than six years.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. It’s more complicated than that.

article thumbnail

PEMPix 2024 Online Case #3: It’s a Small World

PEMBlog

Acute corneal hydrops The patient was seen by ophthalmology who recommended admission for medical management to prevent further self-inflicted trauma via clear plastic shields and initiate eye drops including atropine, prednisolone, and hypertonic saline. doi:10.1136/bjophthalmol-2015-308251 McMonnies CW. Open globe E. Eye (Lond).

article thumbnail

MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

The zero-sum medical day In many healthcare systems the Epic feature is turned on and health professionals are expected to respond. The problem is that doctors work in what I call a zero-sum medical day. While this may help the zero-sum medical day on one level, compensation models don’t necessarily fix the problem of human bandwidth.

article thumbnail

Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 2)

FDA Law

As FDA explains on its website (which includes lists— here and here —of the more than 300 Accelerated Approvals (and withdrawals)): The FDA instituted its Accelerated Approval Program to allow for earlier approval of drugs that treat serious conditions, and fill an unmet medical need based on a surrogate endpoint. Patent Nos.

Clinic 59
article thumbnail

It’s a Cruel Summer – Two New OPDP Untitled Letters

FDA Law

The approved labeling for AUVI-Q includes warnings and precautions regarding emergency treatment, injection-related complications, serious infections at the injection site, allergic reactions associated with sulfite, and disease interactions.

Clinic 59