By Liz Szabo Kaiser Health News A widely anticipated study has concluded that neither vitamin D nor fish oil supplements prevent cancer or serious heart-related problems in healthy older people, according to research presented Nov. 10 at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. Researchers defined serious heart problems as the

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ second edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans was released at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions meeting Nov. 11. The second edition provides evidence-based recommendations for youth ages 3 through 17 and adults to safely get the physical activity they

            Although hot water and bubble baths may sound relaxing to many, for those with atopic dermatitis, this can have the opposite effect, causing dry, scaly, red patches to develop on the skin. Affecting nearly 28 million Americans, atopic dermatitis, also known as eczema, is

  FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc., developers of point-of-care ultrasound solutions, has entered the medical informatics space with the launch of SonoSite Synchronicity, designed to optimize workflows by integrating with existing data management systems and enabling the use of current user login credentials. The software can be implemented across multiple departments in an organization to standardize operations. In

The School of Medicine at Emory University has published a study suggesting that educational videos significantly improve the patient consent process versus traditional face-to-face methods.   The physicians who participated in the study also believed that they spent less time during the face-to-face portion of the consent process following video

   By Bruno Tabbi The phone is going through a bit of a renaissance. Even almighty Google concedes that inbound calls to businesses are worth more than web leads, hence their push toward click-to-call. A recent <ital>Harvard Business Review <endital> article noted that calls convert to new business 10 to

           A global ultrasound devices market report has added to the Research and Markets  offering. According to the “Global Ultrasound Devices Market — Segmented by Application, Technology, Type, and Geography – Growth, Trends, and Forecast (2018-2023)” report, the market is expected to register a CAGR of about 4 percent during 2018-2023. The

Metactive Medical Inc., a Kansas medical device company developing products for the treatment of neurovascular and peripheral vascular diseases, announced today that Kieran Murphy, professor, vice chair and director of research in the department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto, presented new nonclinical results from Metactive’s peripheral vascular

   By Larry Storer Mid-level practitioners in the medical field include occupations of nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists and physician assistants, to name a few. In this article, I asked two mid-level practitioners from American Vein & Vascular Institute to share their thoughts on the occupation,

Patient presents with bilateral bulging varicosities   By Ajit Naidu, MD An estimated one-third of the population in Western countries has untreated venous disease.[i] Some of these individuals have lived with debilitating symptoms of venous insufficiency for a decade or more because their primary care physicians or OB/GYNs have told