Wearable technology has become a valuable tool for managing patient conditions and gathering real-time data, whether in routine healthcare monitoring or decentralized clinical trials. However, ensuring patient adherence to wearables remains a primary challenge in remote patient monitoring.
American physicians treat patients more like machines than human beings. And this mechanical model has left patients yearning for more attentive and comprehensive care.
Nearly everyone can lower their blood pressure, even people currently on blood pressure- reducing drugs, by lowering their sodium intake, reports a new study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Northwestern Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
In 2016, Emily Peters became, as she puts it, a "statistic in the maternal health mortality crisis." While giving birth to her daughter, she had an amniotic fluid embolism, a rare and life-threatening complication that landed her in the intensive care unit.
A new partnership with a healthcare system and school district in central Minnesota is working to improve rural medical care and create healthier communities.