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How Eyer Can Be Used in Neurology
As the popular saying goes, the eyes are said to be the windows to the soul. When we apply this to the realm of healthcare, we might adapt it to say, "the eyes are the windows to the body." This is because various diseases that affect our body manifest in the eyes....
Premature Retinopathy: Early Diagnosis is Crucial to Prevent Childhood Blindness
It is estimated that premature retinopathy has rendered 50,000 children blind worldwide. An expert explains its occurrence, risk factors, identification, and available treatments.
Step-by-step: learn how to use Google My Business for doctors
Google is the most used search engine on the internet. There are 5.5 billion searches a day worldwide. In fact, the platform brings answers to countless and unimaginable types of questions. In addition, it also takes the internet user wherever he/she wants. With...
One out of ten people in the world have diabetes. Half of those people don’t even know they have the disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has long warned about the danger of diabetes. The disease grows year by year around the world, and in the past 40 years the number of cases has quadrupled. According to the 10th edition of the Diabetes Atlas, published by the...
6 practical tips to reduce office costs
Managing medical clinics can, indeed, be a real challenge for doctors. Office management involves various simultaneous responsibilities, such as organizing data, financial control, personnel administration, marketing and patient experience, inter alia. So, many...
How BI in healthcare contributes to more assertive management
Business Intelligence (BI) is a concept aimed to assisting business management from collection, management and analysis of data. Even in the healthcare area. More and more offices, clinics, hospitals and other institutions in the sector have joined the system. Its...
Genetic treatment is a long hope of vision recovery
Imagine losing sight in childhood and regaining it partially after many years? This happened to a patient who received an experimental genetic treatment aimed to recover the vision of patients with Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) and severe visual impairment. The...
5 uses of virtual reality in medicine
Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-simulated environment that provides visual, sound and even tactile effects to the user. It allows complete immersion in the virtual scenario, as if the person was actually present there. It requires using technologies with...
Glasses and coronavirus: study indicates a reduction of the risk of contamination by up to three times
Since last year, scientists raised the hypothesis that glasses help to bar the contamination by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) through the eyes. This is because this region is also an open door for the virus, as well as a source of contagion. Now, a recent study...
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