Category: Medical
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Top 10 Dental Procedures for a Beautiful Smile
Everybody wants a beautiful arrangement of pearly white teeth. There are many types of cosmetic dentistry to fix teeth with improper bites, crooked and heavily stained – from teeth whitening and porceline veneers for discoloured tooth to root canal and crown implant for damaged ones. If you want to change the look of your smile,…
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Pharmaceutical Drug Patent Expiration List for 2017
Pharmaceutical companies rely on patents, which expire after 20 years, to defend their intellectual property or drug invention from copycat versions. The drug’s patent expiration has a huge impact on revenue for the major drugmakers. They have to cut costs, raise their prices or discover new blockbuster drugs. When patents expire, generic drug manufacturers are…
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Latest Technology in Knee Replacement Surgery
Knee replacement or knee arthroplasty is one of the most reliable and cost-effective surgeries in modern medicine because it is so helpful at improving the patient’s disability. Every year in America, tens of thousands of men and women with joint arthritis undergo total knee procedure and the most of them have remarkable results. Knee arthroplasties…
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CRISPR: New Genetic Engineering Tool Explained
What is CRISPR and how this gene editing tool works? CRISPR_Cas9 or CRISPRs, an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a genetic engineering technology that has massive potential to eliminate many genetic diseases, accelerate medical research and assist in increasing the food production. Watch the following video to discover how CRISPR works…
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How Bionic Limbs Improve the Lives of Amputees
Bionics is a modern method of replacing a biological limb or body part with a robotic prosthetic limb or part that is controlled by the wearer’s brain. Early model of prosthesis may have basic mechanical movement that is used as a simple replacement. Today’s bionic arm, leg, eye, cochlear implant and artificial heart are connected…
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How Wearable Technology is Revolutionizing Healthcare
From headsets that check out brainwaves to clothes that measure body temperature and blood pressure to sensing devices that monitor heart rate and calorie burn, wearable health monitoring gadgets are the next wave of innovation. Wearables have great potential to aid both patients and doctors to monitor crucial signs and symptoms to detect undiagnosed disease.…
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The World of Medical Tourism and the Cosmetic Surgery Industry
Many research and statistics indicate that medical tourism is a booming industry. Patients travel overseas in search of low cost, and many developing countries grab the economic opportunity and transform healthcare into an international trade. In this graphic, folks at Verve Clinic focuses on patients traveling for cosmetic surgery like breast implants, liposuction, tummy tuck,…
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Neuroplasticity: Rewiring the Brain
The brain is a three-pound complex organ. Our brain is so powerful it continues to regenerate and learn, re-learn and unlearn stuffs around us from birth to death. Neuroplasticity or brain plasticity describes the phenomena that the thoughts we think rewire our brains and change our lives. Neuroscientists thought that the adult brain is a…
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Hospital Room of Tomorrow
Medical Science has always been within the forefront of new technology.Future hospital rooms will be loaded with more advanced medical equipment to further improve heath care treatment. The infographic below, from Top Masters in Healthcare, provides a hint at what hospital rooms might look like in a not too distant future. Specifications Infographic Design Visual…