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In 2013 Lindsay McGloughlin, an Ayer resident and 28-year-old mother of 18-month-old Charlie, had just started a new job as a firefighter and an EMT with the Concord Fire Department when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. With the unwavering support of her new co-workers, her friends, and her family, she began a six- month journey to regain her health.
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Scurvy, or vitamin C deficiency, is not just an 18th-century seafarers’ disease, as a case […]
With so many emerging drugs, medical devices, and procedures coming to market, how can health professionals, administrators, and patients identify the ones that could truly have a significant impact in Canada? That’s where the Canadian Network for Environmental Scanning in Health (CNESH) comes in. For the second consecutive year CNESH, along with a panel of clinical experts, have been working to identify which new and emerging health technologies hold the greatest promise to improve both the lives of patients and the delivery of health care. The 2015 Top 10 New and Emerging Health Technology Watch List includes five emerging drugs and five innovative medical devices. “Every day we read sensational stories about the promise of new health technologies and wonder if they will really make a difference to
Prior studies have shown that most dog-bite injuries result from family dogs. A new study conducted by Mayo Clinic and Phoenix Children’s Hospital shed some further light on the nature of these injuries.