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The Art of Measuring Blood Pressure
By Country Doctor Edna Lavoie has had horrendous blood pressure readings for several decades, but she has never had a stroke or heart attack. Her eye doctor swears her retinae are healthy. Whenever she...
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Blood Pressure Monitoring, Telemedicine, and Automated Hovering: A Future...
By Mike Miesen Use of an at-home telemonitoring blood pressure device significantly reduced out-of-control high blood pressure, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical...
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Sense and Sensibility on Hypertension
By Vik Khanna & Al Lewis Every now and then even blind squirrels find acorns. The medical care industry, which long ago abandoned sensible fiscal and therapeutic restraint in the quest for new...
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Will the Uninsured Become Healthier Once They Receive Health Care Coverage?
By David Orentlicher, MD JD The Affordable Care Act might not bend the cost curve or improve the quality of health care, but it will save thousands of lives, as millions of uninsured persons receive...
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Keas Poll on Workplace Stress and Disease Burden Provides an Education
By VIK KHANNA & AL LEWIS Al’s son once complained to Al’s Aunt Tillie about an overbearing supervisor. Aunt Tillie suggested that he try to work under a different supervisor. Tillie was one of...
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The Great American Hypertension Epidemic of 2017
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD On November 15, 2017, an epidemic of hypertension broke out and could rapidly affect tens of millions of Americans. The epicenter of the outbreak was traced back to the meeting of...
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BY JESSICA DAMASSA BioLum Sciences is introducing new chemistry that has the potential to completely change the way we test for respiratory illnesses, like asthma, and analyze blood samples to...
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BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH Livongo CEO, Zane Burke, has been a busy guy since the company’s IPO late last year. The applied health signals company has seen triple-digit (148%) growth and a robust...
View ArticleScaling Up One Drop: From Walmart & Apple Stores to Employers & Bayer | Jeff...
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH On the heels of a $40M Series B funding round led by Bayer, One Drop CEO Jeff Dachis stops by to hit the highlights about how the digital health platform is touching the...
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