A team of scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital have reported that people with a high body mass index (BMI) showed reduced visuospatial abilities, cognitive flexibility, and an inability to delay gratification. Other studies that have been conducted also showed that people with a high BMI are more prone to over eating.
When setting up a surgical facility, a factor that is of the utmost importance is the maintenance of complete sterilization of all the basic surgical instruments and the premises itself.
Extraction forceps are hinged, hand-held instruments designed to clasp and extract a tooth from its socket as a single piece, keeping the crown and root intact. The type of extraction forceps needed depends on the type of tooth that needs to be rooted out.
Risk of mortality in a rare cardiac condition, transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy, plunged by 30% on administration of Pfizer’s tafamidis in a 30-month long study on 440 patients.
Medical Devices companies Wright Medical Group and Cartiva signed a $435 million cash-based contract wherein the Netherlands-based firm will avail all the outstanding shares of the Osteoarthritis focused US-based firm.
A survey spanning 3 years by Rock Health on 4000 U.S residents, to assess their usage and opinions on digital health, revealed that 87% of Americans were using a minimum of one digital health service in 2017 as compared to 80% in 2015.
Heart disease is considered to be the number one cause of death throughout the world. Those who are facing lifestyle diseases such as heart problems are more prone to hypertension. Hence there is a global need for blood pressure monitors especially among the elderly.
An ante-natal check-up is incomplete without evaluating the rate and rhythm of the heartbeat of the fetus.
A Forehead thermometer or a temporal thermometer is a mercury-free, user-friendly, touch-free infrared type thermometer often used at home. It can accurately measure a person’s temperature within 10 seconds via the forehead by scanning the temporal artery blood flow.
Patient monitors are electronic medical devices which were first designed to assist anaesthesiologists to assess the vital signs of a patient undergoing surgery.
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