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When Glenn Janssen decided to file a claim for disability benefits with the Veterans Affairs Department last year, he dreaded the prospect of dealing with federal bureaucracy and paperwork. Janssen, 57, lives in Portugal with his wife and has worked as a government contractor since leaving the Army in 2004. The Gulf War-era and Louisiana

Sunshine Private Hospital live with Kyra EMR, MedicalDirector Sunshine Private Hospital in Melbourne's west has gone live with Telstra Health's Kyra Clinical EMR system and MedicalDirector solutions. Kyra EMR, which provides real-time access to patient information anytime and anywhere, helps streamline care delivery at the newly opened 75-bed facility. It enables a smooth transfer of

This is the third in a four-part series. April 27, 2023 – In 2014, after smoking cigarettes for 40 years, Kati Markowitz decided to switch to vaping. She had heard the newer electronic cigarettes might be less harmful. And, at the time, she said, she wasn’t aware of other options to try to quit smoking.  For 7 years

Pop Medicine > Pop Medicine — YouTuber Max Feinstein, MD, discusses the details of "Good Samaritan" laws and more by Max Feinstein, MD April 27, 2023 Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, is joined by medical ethicist Jacob Appel, MD, JD, to discuss the legalities of intervening in emergency situations outside of a medical setting. Following

It was Labor Day weekend 2021 when Sara Walsh, who was 24 weeks pregnant with twins, began to experience severe lower-back pain. On Wednesday, a few days later, a maternal-fetal specialist near her home in Winter Haven, Florida, diagnosed Walsh with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a rare complication that occurs when fetuses share blood unevenly through

Gastroenterology > General Hepatology — Roux-en-Y bypass or sleeve gastrectomy resolved NASH without exacerbating liver fibrosis by Valerie DeBenedette, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today April 26, 2023 Two types of bariatric-metabolic surgery were more effective than lifestyle modification plus best medical care in the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a randomized trial from Italy showed. In

U.S. News & World Report released more of its graduate school rankings Tuesday, including those for graduate degrees in nursing, even though its annual medical and law school listings remain in flux. Emory University in Atlanta took the top spot on this year's best nursing master's program list, followed by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore

Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health A new study, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and led by an Upstate Medical University professor, has found that compared with standard antibiotic treatment, stool transplantation can increase the number of people recovering