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5 Ways the Healthcare Field Is Going Green

5 Ways the Healthcare Field Is Going Green

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From a growing demand for environmentally friendly drugs to demanding that landscaping at hospitals is green, the healthcare field is being taken to task to go green just like every other sector in the world.  From going paperless with bills to going paperless with options such as SCF finance cash flow suppliers, they are doing their part to comply. Luckily, there are other ways that hospitals and other sectors of the healthcare field can go green as well. If you're looking for some options for your hospital, read on below for a few that might just help you out.  Always Purchase Green Cleaning Products Hospitals should provide a safe clean environment for patients and staff alike. You can do that by purchasing green cleaning products to use. It is a fact that many common...
Guidelines to Improve Technical Documentation

Guidelines to Improve Technical Documentation

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Technical documentation is difficult for both writers and readers. This is not just because of the inherent complexity of a technical subject, but also because of the complexity of language itself to simulate a semblance of reality.  It’s not enough to simply equip a writing team with the best technical writer software and ask them to do the best they can to explain a technical product, process, or performance. There are many nuances to technical writing that affect its quality. Fortunately, there are three guidelines to make technical documentation easier for readers to understand and act upon the valuable, well-researched information. Increase Clarity  Unless a technical writer understands that the purpose of documentation is to increase clarity, then it’s only too ...
How to Choose the Right Protein Characterization System

How to Choose the Right Protein Characterization System

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Proteins perform a vast array of functions. Their structure and their role in the different metabolic networks has always been a popular subject of study for scientists. The most widespread techniques that must be explored in order to understand protein behavior are their characterization and purification methods. Protein analysis instruments are utilized to measure biomolecular interactions, enzyme kinetics, affinity characterization, among other biological events. DNA sequencing techniques are among the most useful when describing the primary conformation of a protein. However, to fully describe complex protein behavior, it is necessary to analyze protein structure after foldage. This occurs when the biomolecule acquires its three-dimensional conformation. This configuration defi...

The Importance Of Drinking Clean Filtered Water

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Without water, life would simply not exist. All animals, plants, and humans need water to survive on earth. Water is the very source of life, not only in nature but within yourself. Your body is made up of almost 70% of water, each cell in your body needs water to function. Water is a natural resource but due to overpopulation, climate change, pollution, and various other outside factors, freshwater is fast becoming a precious resource. Some may argue that the next world war will be fought because of water. Considering how precious water really is, it is not only vitally important to drink water daily but to drink clean water. Pure filtered water tastes as refreshing as it sounds. Why Pure Filtered Water? Considering your body weight is approximately 60% water, it is no wonde...

Why Are Prescription Drugs Addictive?

Drug Counterfeiting
While care should be taken with any medications that prescribed, opioids, or drugs based on opiates, are typically considered to be the market’s most addictive drugs. Many people from all walks of life abuse these drugs prescribed by doctors when they take them for things other than relief from pain – like their mind-altering effects. The sad thing is that even those who take them to help them cope with legitimate chronic or severe pain can easily find themselves addicted. When It Turns into Addiction Medications can alter the way the brain works, especially when they need to be taken in escalating doses or for extended periods of time. They can actually change the brain’s reward system by making it more difficult for the user to feel good without having the drug(s) in question. This...
Working With a Genetic Counselor for Prenatal Care

Working With a Genetic Counselor for Prenatal Care

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Genetic counselors are healthcare professionals who work with couples and individuals for a variety of reasons, including: Prenatal care: Helping women and/or couples who are planning a pregnancy, or who are pregnant, learn more about their pregnancy. Pediatric care: Diagnosing a child who shows physical signs of a genetic condition. Adult risk assessment of inherited genetic disease: Helping individuals understand if they are at risk of passing on a gene associated with a certain genetic condition to their children. Cancer risk assessment: Helping individuals understand whether they have inherited a gene that may increase their risk of developing a certain type of cancer. This article will explore the reasons why women and couples may seek help from a genetic counselor ...
Would Virtual Clinical Trials Work?

Would Virtual Clinical Trials Work?

Clinical Trials
Further into the future, clinical trials to test the efficacy of new drugs would not require the test subject physically traveling to a clinical research facility or hospital. Mobile devices – smart phones, watches or glasses with inbuilt wearable sensors – would be enough to connect one to the clinical research study and report general information and adverse events. These sensors would record data such as body temperature and blood glucose levels, which would be sent to the Electronic Data Capture (EDC) record. The clinician would then visit the subject at home for drug administration and follow-up. One could even postpone or pre-pone the visit using automated reminders in their devices but within a time frame permitted by the study protocol. The future of pharmaceutic...
Issues with Detecting Counterfeit Drugs

Issues with Detecting Counterfeit Drugs

Drug Counterfeiting
Counterfeit medicines have been pervading the pharmaceutical industry, with a sharp increase by 51% between the years 2011 and 2015 as per the Pharmaceutical Security Institute in Vienna. The high reimbursement costs of medicines due to the higher R&D risks have attracted a massive chain of drug racketeers that sell spurious medicines at prices too good to believe. Even legitimate pharmaceutical supply chains, including community and online pharmacies, haven’t been spared by adulterine medicines. Counterfeit drugs pose a serious health threat to the public and cause serious financial damages to pharmaceutical companies. Fake medicines are of two kinds – contaminated, contain the wrong or no active ingredient; or could contain the right active ingredient at the wrong dos...

The Future of Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Research and Development
The inter linking of medicine and technology is paving way for newer opportunities in pharmaceutical medication, surgery, and health monitoring. Medicine is increasingly being interspersed with fields such as computer science, nanotechnology and biotechnology to give hybrid fields that are slowly taking over traditional pharmaceuticals. Some of these fields are set to redefine the future of pharmaceuticals. Precision Medicine Precision medicine is a field that attempts at discovering the biological basis of disease using clinical and molecular information of a patient, obtained by converting DNA into data through genome sequencing. This data is used for identifying specific gene abnormalities that help understand which types of patients a drug would be most effective on, an...

Dealing With Vaccine Allergies

Cure & Prevention, Pharma Treatment, Vaccinations and Antidotes
According to a research conducted by the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), allergic reactions to vaccines are extremely rare among people. The most dangerous form of reaction to vaccine components is anaphylaxis shock. However, the redeeming quality of a vaccine-triggered allergy is that it is temporary, which means most patients outgrow it within a matter of two to five But these allergies and the myths surrounding them are often used to avoiding immunization altogether, which can have severe consequences for the patient and their progeny. As per experts in the field, the most common symptom of an allergic reaction to vaccines is fever, which shouldn’t contraindicate future doses. However, any other serious symptom must be reported to concerned au...