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Tech Takeover: How Vietnam's Hospitals are Changing the Game

February 7, 2025

Imagine hospitals without piles of paper, where doctors use tablets instead of clipboards. That's the future heading to Vietnam's healthcare scene, where technology is starting to take over. The United Nations and World Health Organization have huge aims for better health worldwide. They see digital

health

Money Talks: Uncovering the Hidden Agenda in Disease Prevention

February 7, 2025

First, let's understand how diseases are not just about your aches and pains. It's all about how people handle them. They're mostly two types of diseases and they have to decide. One about the diseases you get, like flu, and the ones you live with, like diabetes. We have to deal with are the decisio

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Unlocking the Mystery of Rare Diseases: Brazil's Unique Approach

February 6, 2025

Brazil is taking a big step in the fight against rare diseases. These ailments cover a wide range of 6, 000 to 8, 000 different conditions. Most of these are caused by genetics. Sadly, only about 5% of these diseases have specific treatments available. These diseases often show up early in life, aff

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Making Hospitals Rainbow Friendly

February 6, 2025

The Rainbow Project is a five year old initiative that has been making big changes in healthcare. It aims to improve services for LGBTQ+ young people and their families dealing with chronic health issues. It all started in 2020 when a big city hospital decided to make a change. They wanted to mak

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Unmasking AMR in Brazil: A Closer look

February 6, 2025

Brazil has a serious problem that's not usually in the spotlight. The issue of antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is causing huge problems in healthcare, not just for Brazil, but for the entire region of Latin America. The problem gets really acute when we tackled it on the local level. Brazil's vast

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Smart Tech Helps Manage High Cholesterol

February 6, 2025

High cholesterol, or dyslipidemia, is a serious problem that raises the risk of heart issues. Imagine having a smart helper that can understand a lot of information. This kind of helper is called a Generative AI or GenAI, and it can be used to help manage high cholesterol. Think of it as a smart fri

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Faith at Work: How Beliefs Shape ICU Choices

February 6, 2025

Intensive care units (ICUs) are high-stakes environments where every decision can have life or death consequences. Imagine a team of doctors, nurses, and specialists working together to save lives. Now imagine that it's decision time. Should they continue treatment, or is it time to let go? This is

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Uncharted Territory: Kids' Hospitals Pause Gender Care

February 6, 2025

Many parents and their transgender children are now facing a difficult situation. A major hospital in Los Angeles stopped accepting new patients for a specific kind of treatment. This treatment was for kids and young people called hormone therapy. This therapy helps transgender people's bodies matc

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Jailed, Jailed Again and Out of luck: Trump's Trans Ban

February 6, 2025

So a bunch of trans women were dumped from their US jail lockups with just their hardened lives in their hands. The problem was because of Donald Trump's rules. Trump commandered the USA prison bros to get trans people out of women's lockups and into men's. Also, hormones? Out for the trans folks.

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Medication Management at Home: Do Tele-Pharmacy's Visits Benefit Seniors?

February 6, 2025

Let's call it a raw fact, seniors are more likely to have more than one chronic condition requiring multiple medications. Combine this with over-the-counter meds and supplements and you get a recipe for potential disaster. Doctors looking at these cases come across Time failing to address the comple