Glassdoor Releases 25 Highest Paying Jobs for 2016
Technology-related positions dominate Glassdoor’s “25 Highest Paying Jobs in America for 2016” list, but physicians rank at the top with a median base salary of $180,000. Other healthcare jobs in the top 25 include pharmacy...
Urgent Medical Issues can Stump Smartphone Voices
Smartphone personal assistants may know who’s fifth on the all-time home run list (Willie Mays), the 1924 Democratic presidential candidate (John W. Davis) and the 74th element on the periodic table (tungsten), but they...
Nullifying Nicotine: An End to Addiction
If you’re an American, there’s about a one-in-six chance that you smoke cigarettes. And if you are a smoker, there’s a big chance you smoke a lot. Every day, or every other day. You’ve seen...
Massachusetts House Unanimously Passes Bill to Combat Opioid Addiction Crisis
Opioid addiction has become a national problem, but government officials in Massachusetts are being more specific in their observations. They’re using words like “crisis” and “epidemic” when describing the prevalence of opioid abuse in...
Bionic Fingertip Restores Feeling to Missing Limbs
Dennis Aabo Sorensen became the first person to consistently recognize the texture of a surface without ever touching or seeing it. What’s more astounding is that Sorensen is an amputee, and he recognized the...
Genetic and Molecular Tests May Help in Fighting Melanoma
Melanoma rates in the United States have doubled over the past 20 years, but new genetic and molecular tests may prove helpful in diagnosing and treating the skin cancer. That’s the word from Emily Chu,...
Peanut Allergy Risk may be Reduced by Early Peanut Exposure
The growing number of peanut allergy cases could be curtailed by a common food. That would be peanuts themselves. A March 2016 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that introducing peanuts to...
Study: Increased Water Consumption Can Improve Your Diet
Want to cut calories and reduce your intake of saturated fat, sugar, sodium and cholesterol? Drink more water. That’s the conclusion reached by University of Illinois Kinesiology and Community Health Professor Ruopeng An, PhD. in a...
Researchers Invent ‘Magic Wand’ to Protect Healthcare Data
A “magic wand” developed to prevent hackers from stealing healthcare data will be introduced in April at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications. Nicknamed “Wanda,” the digital tool was created by Dartmouth College researchers...
Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Liver Damage Caused by Alcohol Consumption
Coffee has never been more popular. There are coffee shops on every corner, espresso machines on every kitchen counter. We have cold brew, drip, French press, percolated, iced, instant, with milk, without milk, canned,...