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The Diabetes Solution: Where Tech Meets Health

February 12, 2025

Technology is stepping up its game to help manage diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is becoming more common, and healthcare systems are feeling the strain. Managing these patients can be tough, especially when it comes to medications. Most of the time, people with diabetes have to deal with complex

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Walking Back to Health After Knee Surgery

February 12, 2025

A lot of folks who have knee replacement surgery struggle to get moving again. In Finland, doctors and physiotherapists give patients tips and exercises before and after the operation. But being active is a big problem for many. Pain and discomfort often hold them back from walking and doing daily t

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Games To The Rescue! Helping People with Intellectual Disabilities Manage Bowel Issues

February 12, 2025

Imagine this: games helping people with intellectual disabilities deal with bowel issues. It might sound tricky! But here is what we know. In the UK, about 2% of the people have an intellectual disability. One-third of them have problems with their bowels, like constipation or faecal incontinence. T

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Navigating Pregnancy: Early vs. Late Cholestasis

February 11, 2025

Cholestasis of pregnancy, or ICP, is a condition that affects the liver and can happen at different times during pregnancy. Understanding the timing is crucial because it impacts both mom and baby. This situation isn't unusual and happens to more people than you might think. When ICP shows

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What Do People Think About Measuring Progress in Functional Neurological Disorder?

February 11, 2025

Healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers aren’t just interested in getting to know a person’s symptoms. They want to know how well treatments are working in the long term. This study delves into the opinions of patients with a type of condition called a functional neurological disorder (FN

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Living with Diabetes: How Nerve Pain Affects Everyday Life

February 11, 2025

Firstly, it is clear that diabetes is difficult to manage and the nerve problem that comes with it known as Neuro or nerve pain is a massively stressful problem to deal with. It can greatly affect people's day to day lives and mental health. Research conducted on 6, 960 people with diabetes sheds

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Time Twist: How Our Minds Play Games with Time

February 11, 2025

Intuition is common in our experience. It is our internal gut feeling about things and has a massive role in our impulses. But it seems that intuition is connected to how we perceive time. Or rather, how we mess up our perception of time. You see, when we feel happy, sad, or meh, our brains can mak

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AI and Robots in Healthcare: Friends or Foes?

February 11, 2025

Imagine walking into a doctor's office and instead of a human, you see a robot. What would you think? Would you be excited or worried? This is the picture that many people in Poland are painting as they consider the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots in healthcare. The idea is t

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Ice-free organ transport: a tale of health app

February 11, 2025

Organ transport these days is a lot different than it used to be. For most of history, organs were kept on ice during transit before transplant. But that's not the case anymore. Imagine this: a kidney being pumped with a nutrient-rich solution, tracking its journey to the recipient. Now imagine tha

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How Psychopathy Can Influence Relationships and Careers

February 11, 2025

Ever wondered how someone's personality quirks can affect their relationships and job success? A study using a nationally diverse community sample of 490 employed romantic couples from New Zealand took a good look into this. They found that certain psychopathic traits can indeed cause ripples in per