Enclothed Cognition

Junior doctors in UK have staged their second walkout of the year, a 24-hour long strike after government legislators were unable to come to a resolution with the British Medical Association (BMA) regarding increased pay for weekends and evening work hours.

The results of genetic testing can provide valuable information about your risk for certain inherited conditions and can be used to provide screening regimens and treatments that lengthen your life.

One of the most frequently discussed topics of debate in healthcare is the ethics surrounding medical research and certain studies. Here are some of the most unethical medical studies from history.

Communicating effectively with your patients can be tricky but it is a necessary skill to master in order to maximize positive health outcomes.

Your doctors received years of training to heal patients, but statistics have shown that physicians are now spending as little as 10% of their working hours on direct patient care - a figure that has been shrinking each year.

Although technology has given way to many recent medical breakthroughs, it has yet to solve some serious patient safety issues.

Over the years we have witnessed the transformation of healthcare into a market-driven system that is completely at odds with the human understanding of what good healthcare should mean.

The "science" of phrenology advocated that certain functions of the brain could be found in specific spots, which a physician would find by feeling and measuring the bumps and grooves on the patient’s head. Today this sounds downright ridiculous - feeling around someone’s head for bumps, and using them as a means of judging how smart, creative, or logical a person is - but at the time, this practice was groundbreaking.

As educators, caretakers and communicators (to name a few), nurses are often overwhelmed with the drastic role variance they have to cycle between each day.

According to the co-founder, Geoffrey Chaikin, the mission of Blink Health is to make healthcare affordable, clearly priced, and easy to purchase.