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It is not easy sleeping in the intensive care unit (ICU). Many patients experience insufficient sleep quantity and fragmented sleep, and they complain of poor sleep quality. Although environmental controls, such as dimming lights and avoiding noise and unnecessary interruptions during nighttime hours are first-line recommendations to support sleep in the hospital setting, they can be difficult to implement in the ICU.
Read MoreVideo Journal of Sports Medicine (VJSM) is a new open access video journal focusing on video-based teaching and learning and aims to provide useful surgical, rehabilitation, and physical examination techniques as well as other demonstrations for providers across orthopaedic sports medicine disciplines in an effort to support the health of all athletes.
Read MoreIn today’s world, patients have multiple choices in terms of adopting any health system for being healthy. Medical systems are generally divided into two major categories: science-based, modern medicine and alternative medicines.
Read MoreWhen you take antidepressant pills for depression, a course of 3 to 6 months is enough, most of the time. After that period the depression is over, and you can stop taking the pills. However, some patients find it difficult to stop taking the pills because they are afraid that the depressive symptoms will return. And sometimes their physician is also afraid of this. As a result, many patients take their antidepressant pills for too long.
Read MoreBeing a molecular biologist with a PhD degree in my own genetic condition has already helped me to understand many aspects of the ultra-rare disease, erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP). Moreover, having contributed to the development of the first safe and effective treatment for EPP, and having even tested it myself, made me a suitable candidate for patient representation during the approval proceedings for "afamelanotide" at the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Read MoreMany thousands, likely millions, of animals are used each year worldwide to test the safety of potential new medicines - work that is critical for the protection of healthy volunteers and patients if these new medicines proceed to clinical testing and further into widespread use. These toxicology tests are regulated by international guidelines, however, scientists are constantly looking for ways of improving the predictivity and human-relevance of the data packages.
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