Medics Stand Ready to Aid Groundhog Day Crowds
When 30,000 visitors swarm Gobbler’s Knob around 4 a.m. today to watch a groundhog’s fleeting appearance, about 20 health providers from five responding organizations will be standing by in case something goes medically wrong. Something usually does. Typically it’s a minor issue, but sometimes it isn’t. Leo Pernesky, paramedic preceptor for Jefferson County Emergency Medical […]
2 Models Of Apple Watch Can Go On Sale Again, For Now
LOADINGERROR LOADING Two higher-end models of the Apple Watch can go on sale again after a federal court temporarily lifted a sales halt ordered by the International Trade Commission over a patent dispute. The ITC, a federal agency, ordered the halt in October to block Apple from using specific technologies underpinning a blood-oxygen measurement system […]
I’m A Nurse Practitioner Caring For Trans Kids. Here’s What The GOP Doesn’t Want You To Know.
“How many parents will have to watch their children’s light dim because our state legislators feel emboldened to overstep the provider-patient privilege?” the author asks. Orathai Mayer / EyeEm via Getty Images I sit across the exam room from a happy, healthy 16-year old boy. His voice cracks just a little as he tells me […]
Wearable Tech Shows Promise for Predicting IBD Flares
DENVER — A smart watch app may help physicians and patients pinpoint and predict inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) flares, researchers reported. When a person with IBD has a normal gut environment, a bell curve is produced by the watch application, explained Robert Hirten, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine/Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel […]
What To Buy For Migraine Relief, According To Neurologists
As a kid, I’d watch my mom get migraine attacks a few times a month. She’d come home from work, muttering, “It’s starting behind my eyes,” take two Excedrin, then retreat to her room for darkness and quiet. It was a routine I knew well, which made it all the more upsetting when I started […]
Why What Simone Biles Just Did Matters So Much To Black Women Like Me
Full disclosure, I wasn’t even going to watch the Olympics this year. I’d considered watching Track and Field just to see Sha’Carri Richardson literally run circles around her competition. But when she was disqualified for having THC in her system, it felt as though watching the Olympics wouldn’t be worth my time. Until earlier this […]