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Cough Monitoring Solutions: The Current Digital Health Landscape

The Medical Futurist

These can essentially be categorized into two groups: smartphone apps and specialized hardware. For example, those with conditions like COPD and asthma could glean insights into whether they are about to experience a flare-up. If you’ve guessed 4.6 coughs, then you’ve hit the bull’s eye as this is what the most recent study indicates.

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3 Conditions Internal Medicine Can Treat

Hitchcock Family Medicine

According to the American College of Physicians, a physician who specializes in internal medicine focuses on the treatment of sickness and diseases in adults. If it's determined that you need more specialized treatment, a referral can be made to a cardiologist. Conditions such as asthma can also be treated through internal medicine.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Special thanks to Todd Florin, MD, MSCE who contributed to this post – he is also an expert on respiratory and infectious emergencies. A common phenomenon in EDs around the country, this scenario is only made worse by typical spikes in patient volumes during respiratory viral seasons.

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How to prepare for INI-SS Medical Genetics exam?

Tiny Physician

Important miscellaneous topics Enzyme Replacement Therapy Gene Therapy Sustainable Development Goals Global Nutrition Targets 2025 National guidelines for TB, HIV, Asthma Dengue Special advises Practice calculation-based questions One or two questions involving calculations will be there in the exam and you need to practice those questions.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

” Related AI scribes story: Analysis: AI scribes save physicians time, improve patient interactions and work satisfaction Dr. Nguyen also highlighted the potential to utilize artificial intelligence and Kaiser Permanente’s extensive medical database to develop predictive analytic models aimed at enhancing patient care.

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Podcast: ECPR

PEMBlog

asthma, heart failure, and more. eCPR is typically performed in specialized centers with highly trained personnel in well coordinated teams. ECPR involves using ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) to take over heart and lung functions, offering a last-resort option that is becoming more common in large pediatric hospitals.

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Critics Suggest FDA Approving Aduhelm Will Erode the “Public Trust”: What About Patients’ Trust?

FDA Law Blog

For 6 years, I served as a patient liaison within FDA in what was then called the Office of Special Health Issues. Over the years, this function expanded to cancer (renamed the Office of AIDS and Special Health Issues) and, ultimately, all serious and life-threatening diseases (dropping the AIDS nomenclature).