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How Virtual Healthcare Can Revolutionize the Health Industry
By ActiveBeat Author Your Health

How Virtual Healthcare Can Revolutionize the Health Industry

Can you imagine the state of healthcare 10-, 20-, even 50 years into the future? This infographic speculates that it may include specifically tailored treatments, at home recovery, better treatment for rural patients, and virtual consultations via life-sized physician holograms to give doctors more time and patients better overall care. No, you haven’t entered a sic-fi […]

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8 Conditions Doctors Often Diagnose Wrong
By Emily Lockhart Your Health

8 Conditions Doctors Often Diagnose Wrong

When painful indigestion, joint pain, or other unexplained health woes plague you for weeks and months on end, you naturally make an appointment with your doctor for answers. However, what do you do when your health care provider is unable to identify the source of your mysterious ailment? Here are eight medical conditions the doctors […]

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Fox Medical Drama “House” Helps Save Man’s Life
By ActiveBeat Author Trending Health News

Fox Medical Drama “House” Helps Save Man’s Life

The Fox drama “House” has saved a German man’s life. Real-life doctors turned to the series after a man began experiencing symptoms similar to those seen in an episode of the show. The man in question suffered a worsening condition following a double hip replacement. At least one member of the man’s medical team then […]

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New Mexico Judge Approves Doctor-Assisted Suicide
By ActiveBeat Author Trending Health News

New Mexico Judge Approves Doctor-Assisted Suicide

There are few topics in the medical and legal worlds more controversial than doctor-assisted suicide. Slowly, however, opinion on the subject appears to be changing. Now, a New Mexico judge has determined that doctors may legally prescribe drugs specifically designed to help their patients die. That decision was made by New Mexico judge Nan Nash, […]

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Canadians Wait Longest to See Family Doctors, Survey Finds
By ActiveBeat Author Trending Health News

Canadians Wait Longest to See Family Doctors, Survey Finds

Several years ago Michael Moore painted a fairly rosy picture of Canada’s healthcare system in his film Sicko. However, a new survey of eleven OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries has found that Canadian patients are waiting a long time to see their family doctors. In fact, such wait times are reportedly longer […]

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The 9 Worst Reasons to Use an Online Symptom Checker
By Emily Lockhart Your Health

The 9 Worst Reasons to Use an Online Symptom Checker

You have a weird rash. You should just go to the doctor, but you just don’t have the money. You’re not sure what to do. So you do what thousands of other Americans do—you check your symptoms online. Reaching for your computer is the new norm when it comes to shedding light on your health. […]

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