Study results indicate ibuprofen is also an effective and safe option for fracture pain UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA SUMIT GUPTA, MD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE EXAMINES A PEDIATRIC PATIENT DURING A CLINIC APPOINTMENT. view more CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI HEALTH CARE Doctors have traditionally avoided prescribing nonsteroidal...
Fear avoidance, pain medication use, and treatment expectations impact response to nonpharmaceutical treatments to relieve chronic low back pain BOSTON – New research shows that people with chronic low back pain (cLBP) have better results from yoga and physical therapy compared to reading evidence-based self-help materials. While this finding was consistent across many patient characteristics,...
MAY 6TH, 2020 POSTED BY KARA GAVIN-U. MICHIGAN “Anecdotally, we hear of more people taking Uber or a Lyft, or having someone drive them, to the emergency room to avoid an ambulance bill. But if you truly need an ambulance, concerns about cost should not get in the way,” says Karan Chhabra. (Credit: Getty Images)...
by Tom Murphy In this file photo from May 2, 2019, Cadet Cheyenne Quilter works with a virtual reality character named “Ellie” at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making...
A new Northwestern Medicine study was the first to directly compare the quality and experience of outpatient care between adults with or without primary care. It found that Americans with primary care received significantly more high-value healthcare—such as recommended cancer screenings and flu shots—and reported better patient experience and overall healthcare access, compared to those...
The popularity of smart watches, activity trackers, and other wearable devices is in large part due to the hope that such tools can help monitor health. While new products keep coming out, progress on embedding sensors that can monitor things other than one’s heart rate and activity level has stalled. Now researches at Rutgers University...
