Today ’ s FDA Announcement Signals Deregulation of Hearing Aids, Eliminates Medical Evaluation Requirement
The FDA issued new guidance immediately removing a requirement for people over 18 to receive a medical evaluation or sign a waiver before purchasing most hearing aids and opens doors for the creation of a new over-the-counter category of hearing aids.
Eric Mann, clinical deputy director of the Division of Ophthalmic and Ear, Nose, and Throat Devices at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), announced the new guidance at a meeting on hearing health care in adults at the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning.
The regulatory agency stated its “commitment to consider creating ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 7, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Haley Blum Tags: Audiology News Hearing Aids Source Type: blogs
University of Maryland Ear, Nose & Throat Team Preparing, Fundraising for Annual Volunteer Medical Mission
The University of Maryland Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) team is gearing up for their next volunteer medical mission trip – and they’re hoping you can help them help more people. The team, led by head and neck surgeons Rodney Taylor, MD and Jeffrey Wolf, MD, has begun fundraising for their March 2017 medical mission to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
The team is kicking off fundraising with a happy hour at Pen & Quill in Mount Vernon this Thursday, December 8th, from 5-8 pm. A portion of the proceeds and silent auction earnings will contribute to the team’s fundraising efforts.
Every year, the ENT team travels to differe...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - December 6, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Doctors Events Service dr jeffrey wolf dr rodney taylor ear nose throat medical missions vietnam volunteer Source Type: blogs
Surviving Honeymoon ‘ Disasters ’
Conclusion
In conclusion, with all of the problems mentioned above, they are easier solved if you can somehow maintain your sense of humor and a feeling of inner peace.
It is the silly problems you’ll remember about your honeymoon.
In 20 years, you’ll be toasting your anniversary and giggling about how you spent three days of the trip in the local library because of pouring rain.
Don’t let the little “disasters” get you down. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - November 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Marriage and Divorce Self-Help Stress Women's Issues canceled holiday Cold Feet Coping Honeymoon Newlyweds Perspective regret travel problems Vacation wedding disaster Source Type: blogs
TytoCare: Comprehensive telehealth exam platform
TytoCare hopes to take telehealth to the next level by providing a solution that allows clinicians to conduct remote examinations. Patients (or caregivers) will use a TytoCare device to conduct an exam that can be interpreted by a physician over a cloud-based platform with video conferencing.
The company took a step forward recently by obtaining FDA clearance for its digital stethoscope. The approach looks pretty cool, but clearly it will be a challenge to get the devices out to patients ahead of need and to do so cost effectively.
CEO & Co-Founder Dedi Gilad answered my questions via email:
1. What was the insp...
Source: Health Business Blog - November 3, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Devices e-health Entrepreneurs Patients Physicians Source Type: blogs
Flu news: Now most people with egg allergies can get a flu shot
There are hundreds of viruses that can cause respiratory illnesses; influenza (the “flu”) is just one group of viruses which can cause mild to severe illness, and sometimes even death. Certain people — such as the very young or the very old, pregnant women, or those with chronic medical conditions like asthma, diabetes, or heart disease — are at greater risk for serious complications from the flu. Though the numbers fluctuate, the flu leads to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and anywhere from 3,000 to 49,000 deaths every year in the U.S., based on the numbers from the last few decades. How bad the flu sea...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Wynne Armand, MD Tags: Cold and Flu Infectious diseases Prevention Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Simple Solutions for Difficult Problems, Part 1
Sometimes the best solution is the simple one, and this series of handy tricks will help you master the most difficult problems. The majority of the procedures require old-school techniques with a new flare. Many of these might have been forgotten, but just a few minutes of brushing up on the basics while watching our how-to videos and reading our step-by-step blog will get you ready.How many times have you removed objects from someone's ear? If it's too many to count and you have been successful, then you don't have to reinvent the wheel. But if you are looking for a different way to remove objects such as earbuds, insect...
Source: The Procedural Pause - September 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
2-Month Old Infant Suffered Apnea and Died Following 8 Vaccines
Conclusion
After watching their son get buried, Cash’s parents were thrown into a world they didn’t know much about. They were now another set of grieving parents who senselessly lost their child due to medical practices recommended under a doctor’s care.
Vaccines are being ignored when compiling infant mortality data. In 2013, Cash Dewayne Thomas was one of 23,440 babies who died in the United States before reaching their first birthday, according to the latest infant mortality data published in 2016. [19] About 11,300 newborns die within their first day of life, many soon after receiving their first hepatitis B vac...
Source: vactruth.com - June 16, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories apnea Cash Dewayne Thomas Jesse Dewayne Thomas newborn vaccines truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Whitney Hill Source Type: blogs
Will The Medical Tricorder From Star Trek Become Real?
Analyzing disease instantly: the medical tricorder has been one of the most exciting futuristic technologies in medicine since Star Trek. But will it ever get to the black bag of General Practitioners?
As a movie fan, I love talking about how the science fiction movies of the last 100 years have shaped our ideas about medical technology. When university students doing film studies asked me to give a talk on how sci-fi influenced medical technology, I dedicated a whole section to technology inspired by Star Trek. The long list includes telepresence, the hypospray for painless injections, voice–activated communicators, the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Portable Diagnostics GC1 Source Type: blogs
Ask your doctors how they are doing. Please.
It’s Tuesday around 9 a.m., and I, a pediatric ear, nose, and throat surgeon on my third or fourth patient at a satellite clinic an hour away from home when the abdominal pain started. It feels as if someone is repeatedly stabbing a knife, and twisting it around, right below my breastbone.
I barely got through that encounter, then moved to the next patient. It will stop, it has to. There were 14 patients on my schedule this morning, and 12 in the afternoon.
The pain made it clear I was not in charge today. In between the stabbing pain, I managed to get through each appointment. Our staff suggested that I go home.
“No...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 5, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Julie Wei, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Surgery Source Type: blogs
Ear, Nose & Throat Team Returns from Medical Mission after Cyclone Winston Rocks Fiji
A 12-person team of nurses, surgeons, residents and anesthesiologists from the University of Maryland Medical Center have returned from their medical mission in Fiji. Team members performed 15 surgeries and saw 150 patients before Tropical Cyclone Winston rocked the islands. Watch the video above to hear about the mission from the team themselves.
To donate & learn more about the team, click here.
Previous coverage: ENT Surgical Team Annual Volunteer Trip
(Source: Life in a Medical Center)
Source: Life in a Medical Center - February 26, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Community Outreach Employees & Staff Nurses Uncategorized ear medical mission nose and throats Source Type: blogs
ENT Surgical Team Annual Volunteer Trip
Annual Volunteer Trip Takes UM Surgical Team to Fiji to Treat Patients with Head and Neck Conditions
Update (2/21/16): This past weekend, Fiji was devastated by Cyclone Winston. All 12 members of the UM surgical team are OK and awaiting the international flight home.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Fiji as they struggle to rebuild, and we pray for the families who lost loved ones and whose homes were destroyed.
We are exceptionally proud of the courage and dedication of our mission team. They saw over 100 patients over the course of their stay and completed a large number of surgeries. The actions of t...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - January 12, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Doctors surgery ENT Fiji Jeffrey Wolf medical mission Natuvu Creek Rodney Taylor Vanua Levu Source Type: blogs
Test your medicine knowledge: 84-year-old man with cough and nasal congestion
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
An 84-year-old man is evaluated for a 5-day history of rhinitis, nasal congestion, sneezing, and nonproductive cough. The symptoms began with a sore throat, which resolved after 24 hours. He has mild ear pain when blowing his nose or coughing. He has a history of coronary artery disease and hypertension. Medications are aspirin, metoprolol, and hydrochlorothiazide.
On physical examination, temperature is 36.5 °C (97.7 °F), blood pressure is 130/72 mm Hg, pulse rate is 82/min, and respiration rate is 16/min. He...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 5, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: mksap Tags: Conditions Primary care Source Type: blogs
What They Really Think of Us, UK Version - Health Secretary Derides NHS Doctors for Not Working Enough on Weekends
A new story from the UK suggests what top leaders of health care really think about health care professionals. I realize that I risk showing my shallow understanding of UK politics when I comment on this, but I believe that the story is straightforward enough for someone from the US to understand, and has lessons for the US and other countries.UK Health Secretary Says Doctors Do Not Work Enough on Weekends The story started earlier in July, 2016, when the current UK Health Secretary within the current Conservative government told National Health System (NHS) doctors they must work seven days a week, as reported...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 26, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: generic managers ill-informed management NHS UK Source Type: blogs
