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People experience different types and amounts of pain after surgery. However, it is the aim of every health care provider to ensure a successful surgery and a better way to control the pain. Therefore, researchers have undertaken some measures to investigate ion how to reduce and control the pain after mastectomy. As a result, a team of researchers forms Mayo clinic carried out a research on the importance of intra-operative local infiltration particularly with liposomal bupivacaine.

Additionally, genetic variances make it even more complicated to treat the condition with new treatments. Medics need to do more research on whether these new medications would be effective for the minority groups, explains Dr. MyMyBuu who works at the pulmonary medicine department in the department in Stanford university school of medicine in Palo Alto, Calif. He adds that they are trying to make advancements in the field to avoid any differences. The medics are also studying what causes these differences.

Boy born with no eyes, nose and jaw

Wonder in medical science

It is still a miracle that Yahya El Jabaly lived past the day he was born. He did not have eyes or the upper jaw. He also had a huge hole on his forehead, the site where the nose should have been located. He is now three years old after he survived an eighteen hour reconstructive surgery and his star is still shining bright.

Hospital officials save the life of a shark bite victim

Yow attacked by a Shark

The reconstructive surgery was essentially undertaken at N.C Children’s Hospital at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. During this occasion, Kierston You who is a resident of Asheboro was on a family vacation with her family when on June 14, she was attacked by a shark. This happened as she swam about 20 yards off the Shore of Oak Island. About an hour later Hunter Treschl, aged 16 years lost his arm when the shark attacked.

How new cleaning standards could help reduce the risk of infection

New cleaning standards including use of wipes where chlorhexidine gluconate has been used as a coating and reduce the infection rate significantly in pediatric patients from the central line catheters. By using CHG to bath pediatric patients on a daily basis, this can end up reducing blood stream infections in a major way particularly those that are associated with central like catheters at the hospitals by about 60 percent as a new study shows.

Today,  communication with our friends, coworkers and families is primarily been done via Facebook and email and it is not a surprise that many people in America also wish they would be able this way with their providers of health care services. John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health recently conducted a survey involving 2, 252 customers of pharmacies. Their survey showed that there exists a major gap between the expectations of patients and their health care providers when it comes to engagement and communication and exactly what they get.

When carrying out the study, a couple of web based tutorials for pain management were tested by researchers on adults that had been experiencing the symptoms for a period of over six months. No matter the amount of contact the patients had with the clinicians, a significant reduction in anxiety, disability and average levels of pain were experienced when the experiment that lasted eight weeks came to an end.

Due to lack of awareness, people having blood sugar levels that are elevated are not likely to make helpful lifestyle changes as well like eating food that is less sugary or getting more exercises, which could prevent them from having diabetes ultimately. Pre- diabetic people tend to lose their weight modestly and increasing their physical activity could reduce their likelihood of them developing diabetes as found out by the study.

Family physician mentors such as Samuel Church who holds the key to recruitment. When medical students come to visit, Church never tells them how much he adores to practice family medicine here in Hiawassee, a rural community tucked in the mountains of North Georgia. Instead, he invites them in as he opens his life up as just an ordinary family doc in the small town. The students see the great impact that a family physician has on the community as well as his unmatched joy as he serves the local community. He has a great passion for his specialty and this is what has attracted most medical students into the world of family medicine.

The beauty of guinea pigs in schools

Guinea pigs don’t bully and don’t judge. Characteristically, they are tactile, amiable and social. They comfortably tuck into the laps of the child and are very cute and lovely. When guinea pigs are introduced to school for children to play with, it was found that there is a high likelihood of children having autism spectrum disorder to attend, they become less anxious and tend to display social behavior that is more interactive.