Health and Fitness

Sun Pharma probes cyber breach Indian pharma giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has reported an “information security incident,” according to PTI.  The news report noted that the company has already reported the incident to the authorities and has since isolated its affected IT assets.  Presently, the company is investigating the matter while taking appropriate containment and remediation …

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The Australian Digital Health Agency has come up with its first mobile consumer application for accessing health information on My Health Record. WHAT IT DOES Available on both iOS and Android devices, the my health app has a user-friendly interface where users can quickly view medicine information history, vaccination history and upcoming immunisations, hospital discharge …

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According to a 2021 HIMSS survey, 73% of healthcare provider organizations have legacy information systems. They’re costly to maintain and a pain to keep up. The question is, what to do about them? Healthcare IT News spoke with Tony Jaros, CEO of Legacy Data Access, to discuss his views on legacy IT systems and inflation, …

How best to manage, or dump, legacy healthcare IT systems Read More »

Some telling new statistics from the Qualtrics XM Institute’s latest research on customer-facing employees show healthcare workers are less likely than the global average to say their teams are understaffed (7% versus 11%). But these workers are also far more likely to report they think of leaving their jobs multiple times per month, even with …

Healthcare workers still think about quitting often, even on well-staffed teams Read More »

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. WHY IT MATTERS The dual team study published by Epic found that 60% of the time, the virtual primary care telehealth appointments held between March 1, 2020, and …

Most primary care telehealth visits don’t require in-person follow-up, Epic study shows Read More »

This content is imported from youTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. According to recently published research, men’s average penis size has increased considerably over the last 29 years. Which might sound like great news—but what …

Science Has Found That the Average Penis Is Getting Bigger. A Urologist Explains Why. Read More »

Courteney Cox is the sole remaining cast member from the original Scream to return for the slasher franchise’s upcoming sixth chapter, which transposes the suspense and gore from the small town of Woodsboro to New York City, where her character Gale Weathers now lives. When a new masked villain takes on the mantle of Ghostface …

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ORIGINALLY, GINA Carano’s Cara Dune, a bounty hunter in the The Mandalorian/Star Wars universe, was getting her own show. At least, that was the rumor. Carano—an actor who began in MMA before landing notable roles in Fast & Furious 6 and Deadpool—had clearly impressed executives enough to consider a spinoff series centered on her character. …

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The following story contains light spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 3, Episode 1 “The Apostate.” FOUR YEARS out, and Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker—the closing episode to Disney’s big Star Wars sequel trilogy and the seeming conclusion to what’s been dubbed “The Skywalker Saga”—is not super well revered. In fact, the …

Babu Frik Returns As The Mandalorian Salvages Something From Rise of Skywalker Read More »

Credit: Zhang et al Proteins, long polymers comprised of smaller constituents known as amino acids, play a crucial role in the functioning of the human body. Over the course of a human’s life, these “strings” of proteins fold into unique 3D structures or conformations, and this folding process affects how different channels and receptors in …

Study unveils mechanism regulating the transmission of a protein associated with the progression of Parkinson’s disease Read More »