General Healthcare Industry

Dentistry remains an elective health care option for the majority of Americans. In a bad economy, while people will still opt for heart surgery, dental care suffers and visits to the dentist...

Using metaphors in nursing education is a newly emerging idea. The paradigm of nursing is changing, and a new emphasis is being placed on considering not just the physical elements of a patient...

Medical research typically involves new treatments or medications, though studies vary significantly. For example, participants in a study that involves experimental drugs may be in the "blind"...

Health care reform has taken center stage as the government is desperately looking for solutions to ballooning health care costs and a growing uninsured population. While no-one can predict...

Minoxidil is used to treat hypertension in people who have not responded to other therapies and can even be used in low doses for the treatment of male pattern baldness. Taken orally, the drug...

Pain clinics are an important part of the health care system and provide an invaluable service to all those in need of pain management. Opening a pain clinic can be accomplished by all those who...

A butterfly needle is a small gauge venipuncture needle with a plastic wing-like attachment that helps to stabilize the needle and make it easier to handle. Butterfly needles are used to draw...

At a time when healthcare costs have become so high that they can plunge people into bankruptcy, many people look to government to assist, or even completely cover, medical costs. Whether free...

Someone complains of a medical problem (e.g., "I feel tired", "my throat hurts", "I have chest pain", "I feel nauseous", "I can't sleep", "I...

Avoiding nerve damage when performing a venipuncture requires using correct procedure during the blood draw. Venipunctures, performed correctly, carry a low risk of any type of injury. An...

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a method for establishing a person's conscious state. It was originally used only on coma patients but is now used to evaluate a wide variety of brain injuries. The...

Do you feel you’re missing everything except your life in the hospital? It’s either you’re so deeply attached to your patients or you just want to kill yourself (social life) slowly and painfully....

A leg prosthesis is an artificial leg that amputees may wear to regain the ability to walk again. A prosthetist is a medical professional that will work to custom fit a leg that will function as...

Mylan manufactures generic drugs, including prescription and over-the-counter drugs, and claims to market more than 900 separate products to consumers in more than 140 countries and territories...

The digestive or gastrointestinal (GI) tract consists of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine or colon, rectum, and anus. GI bleeding can occur anywhere along the digestive...

The demand for pharmacy technicians keeps growing. Most retail pharmacies offer on-the-job training to become a registered or licensed pharmacy technician in your state. The state of Oklahoma has...

If you are unable to work due to a physical or mental disability, the federal government (and even many private insurers) offers disability insurance to ensure that you can still support yourself...

Fatigue is something people face every day. What kinds of things can you do to help? These are some things I have found helpful, maybe you will too?

So you just got your first pair of soft contact lenses and you're not sure how to get them in. I can help! This can be challenging, especially if you are not comfortable touching your eyeball. ...

A healthcare business plan is just like any other plan in that you must demonstrate there is a large market for your product or service, you and your management team are uniquely capable of...

Recalls, Market Withdrawals, Safety Alerts. Seems like it never ends. Contaminated food (mostly produce) that has hit the headlines more often than not over the past five years. Just to make your...

Medicare supplement plans, also called Medigap plans, are administered by the U.S. government, but sold by private insurance companies to fill gaps in coverage such as co-payments, coverage when...

Boric acid might refer collectively to three specific compounds: orthoboric acid [B(OH)3], metaboric acid (HBO2) and tetraboric acid (H2B4O7). However, the term "boric acid" generally refers...

This How To article is intended for the dumb ass people out there who are being duped by conservatives and big business into thinking health care reform is BAD for you!

If you are someone who provide care to a physically blind person may it be a family member or not, and experiencing hard time during meal time;you might like to try this technique that will really...

There are numerous reasons why the health care industry continues to invest in information technology. The cost of implementing upgraded hardware devices and new software applications are...

A Certified Medical Transcriber translates patients' visits with their health care professionals. A CMT is responsible for interpreting and transcribing oral dictation from a voice recorder to a...

The diagnosis of cancer can be devastating for patients and their families. As if that wasn't bad enough, it can be very difficult to obtain life insurance following a bout with the disease. Are...

Medical records are complex because they attempt to assimilate a wide range of information in a way that is concise and clear to other people reading it. Medical information needs to be properly...

Electrophoretic separation is one of the most widely used methods in biochemistry. Although electrophoresis can be carried out freely in a solution, it is more convenient to use some kind of...

Some managers cringe when they hear the word "consultant." It often means someone will critique their work with no liability or responsibility to solve the problem. Good consultants, however,...

Steroids are a common subject in the sports world. Anabolic steroids are commonly used by athletes to help gain an unfair advantage over the competition or to help increase healing times. However,...

By reading this post one will learn how to safely and properly inject a patient with iodinated contrast media.

Learning how to become a medical transcriptionist can be the start of an exciting and financially rewarding career. However, to qualify as one, you'll need to be medical transcription...

The purpose of a medical progress report is to provide better patient care, as it gives members of a healthcare team the opportunity to note their observations as to a patient's condition,...

Post-mortem care is perhaps the most difficult aspect of a health care worker's job. While some choose health care as a means of saving lives, they are faced with the reality of death as well....

If you're interested in working in a doctor's office or hospital, medical transcription may be a job you will enjoy. Medical transcription requires good listening skills as well as a keen...

The role of physician assistant was introduced in 1968 and today there are more than 50,000 PAs practicing medicine in the United States. Physician assistants work under a supervising doctor and...

Registered nurses treat patients in a variety of healthcare settings, such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private physician offices, outpatient treatment centers and schools. However, there...

For contact and corrective lens wearers, dealing with an astigmatism can be a real challenge. But, thankfully, it doesn't have to be. With the proper care of your contact lenses and continued and...

When and if the time comes that you need a neurologist, shopping around for the right doctor may seem like the least of your concerns. After all, we don't just see a neurologist on a whim. But...

Inserting a catheter is a skill necessary in medicine. By inserting a Foley catheter, health care professionals gain access to the bladder and its contents. This enables draining of bladder...

As a disabled person who went through a period where I could not do anything for myself, I understand what a person goes through when they so desperately need the help of someone else. Especially...

Most of us are lucky enough to have doctors we really like. After all, if we didn’t like them, we'd never go back. Unfortunately, once in a while someone finds that they just don't "click"...

Most of us feel pretty helpless navigating the health care industry. Use these simple steps to get a little justice next time your health care professional doesn't act so professionally.

Maybe you've decided you're interested in plastic surgery. Perhaps it's something you've considered, but you need to know more about before you make a final decision. Either way, you'll need to...

The journey to obtain any advanced degree is a long and difficult one, but if you're thinking about becoming a forensic psychiatrist then you must know what all is involved before you finally make...

Maggot therapy was approved by the FDA in 2004 for selective debridement of various wounds. This article will detail the process in which sterile maggots are used to debride wounds.

In 1992 in the Journal of the American Medical Association Evidence Based Medicine [EBM] was first introduced. The process of EBM begins with a clinical question that is researched. Research...

This how-to article targets university and college officials looking to strengthen, expand or maintain nursing education programs. It has become increasingly difficult to remain competitive in...