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A musclecramp is a sudden contraction of one or more muscles. If you've ever been awakened in the night, you know that muscle cramps can cause severe pain. Though generally harmless, muscle cramps can make it temporarily impossible to use the affected muscle. Long periods of exercise or physical labor, especially in hot weather, can lead to muscle cramps. Some medications and certain medical conditions also may cause muscle cramps. You usually can treat muscle cramps at home with some helpful self-care measures. Symptoms Usually, a cramp can be very painful, often severely so. Commonly, the sufferer must stop whatever activity is under way and seek immediatehelp from the cramp.Also, the person is unable to use the affected muscle while it is cramping. Severe cramps may be associated with soreness and swelling, which can persist up to several days after the cramp has subsided. At the time of cramping, the knotted muscle will bulge, feel very firm, and may be tender

Driving requires a tremendous amount of focus and your complete attention. Distracted driving affects all drivers and can come with dangerous consequences. However, unfocused driving does not affect all drivers the same. Some take more risks and pay less attention to road thus increasing their risk for disaster. Understanding what is at stake and how even the smallest distractions can affect your ability to drive could prevent a serious accident. After you’ve been driving for a while you get comfortable and simply forget just how dangerous it can bebecause you’re complacent to the risks of driving. As a result, you’re more likely to feel like you can send a quick text message or daydream without putting yourself in danger. Compounding the problem are other states of mind like rushing, frustration and fatigue. All of these can further contribute to taking your eyes and mind off the task of driving and influence your decisions to do things when driving. Here is what causes you to lose y

Although most appointments scheduled in the healthcare industry today are conducted over the phone, majority of the patients will go online first to search for healthcare information they want before visiting their doctors. Patients will use online sources when looking for health information such as signs and symptoms of a disease, the treatment options for their illnesses, and the best hospitals or healthcare providers. According to a recent study, patients, especially the younger generation are more likely to book their appointments online, base their trust on online reviews, and highly value doctors with self-service appointment management. The fact is that today’s social and search trends are a clear indication of the growing role of digital connectivity in healthcare. Mobile, social, and search has a profound impact on how health consumers find their doctors online, search for disease symptoms, search and evaluate treatment options and also look for alternative and holisti

Language barriers create significant challenges to providing effective and high-quality healthcare . Of all Americans 5 years of age and over, 60.6 million people (21%) speak a language other than English. In the United States, federal and state laws provide a framework to ensure healthcare access for individuals unable to speak English. Many healthcare institutions have access to interpreter services, and the availability of professional translators has been associated with improvements in patient satisfaction, communication, and overall healthcare access. Whether you are providing advice about the winter flu season, or instructions on how to use a cardiac medical device, linguistically diverse populations need to receive critical health information in a language they can understand and speak. It has been established that poor access to medical information can result in serious danger to a patient’s health. Misunderstandings of medication dosage alone can and have resulted i

In the patient and people-centric world of healthcare, people’s understanding of how machine learning and business intelligence can improve patient care and save valuable time and resources is only just starting to be uncovered. The idea that machines can learn about their patients and help them is becoming more widely accepted across the medical field. Sometimes, it may seem strange to talk about “business intelligence” in a sector devoted to helping people get better and stay well. That is only until we realize that BI concepts like descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, all which sound like the medical terms, can actually be applied to healthcare in life-saving ways. Applied Machine Learning in Healthcare Machinelearning in medicine has been making headlines lately. Google has developed a machine learning algorithmto help identify cancerous tumors on mammograms. On top of that, Stanford is using a deep learning algorithm to identify skin canc

Glaucoma can be defined as a group of disorders that lead to progressive optic nerve damage which later cause loss of nerve tissue resulting to vision loss. Glaucoma is often linked to increased internal eye pressure (ocular hypertension). If glaucoma goes untreated, or uncontrolled, it first causes peripheral vision loss and later can cause full blindness. Glaucoma Stats and Facts       ·          Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness across the world. Glaucoma can cause blindness if it is left untreated. However, about 10% of glaucoma patients who receive proper treatment still lose their vision.       ·          Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness (behind cataracts) across the globe.       ·          Glaucoma has no cure and once vision is lost it cannot be regained. With surgery or medications further loss of vision can be halted. Glaucoma is a chronic condition which requires monitoring for life. Diagnosis for this condition is

With the variety of non-treatable and fatal disease challenging the health experts around the world, artificial intelligence is being proved to be a sigh of relief in many cases. The basic purpose of healthcare AI applications is to analyze relationships between treatment techniques and patient survival rates. Such applications are knitted around practices such as diagnosis, treatment, drug development, personalized medicine and patient monitoring and care. There are a number of healthcare startups that are developing AI based solutions for the healthcare industry. Listed below are healthcare startups to look out for in 2018 as far as AI based healthcare solutions are concerned.       1.       NeoLight NeoLight is a medical tech startup developing products for newborn health conditions. Their first device, which received FDA clearance, provides care for infant jaundice, a condition that occurs in 60 percent of infants around the world. NeoLight is also developing therapeut