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Technology continues to transform society as advancements in software and computers bring the entire world within anybody’s reach – with just a single touch of a screen. Artificial intelligence looms on the horizon as more and more applications look to revolutionize all human industries, including that of the healthcare industry. In this race to innovate,…

Doctors today live in a world that has been transformed through modern technology, which has resulted in the emergence of certain types of equipment that has made this incredibly complicated profession just a little bit easier for everyone. These new devices go a long way in making a physician’s job more convenient and compatible with…

Working in healthcare has never been easy – but the emergence of the coronavirus, and the ensuing pandemic and lockdown that transpired because of it, has complicated things to an unmeasurable degree. Apart from putting many health workers in a tough situation by keeping them quarantined away from family, frontliners face death on a daily…

As the world struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic, the surge of fake news to generate traffic for websites has been an ugly side effect of the effort to keep people accurately informed about this dangerous disease. For every honest journalist in search of experts to provide medical information in an effort to curb the spread…

With the increasing need for contact tracing as a necessary means to contain the Covid-19 pandemic from spreading to the public, governments have turned to using smartphone technology to relay valuable information on people’s whereabouts. While many are worried about the surveillance of Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps, governing bodies globally have ensured that all private…

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the global health system with many questions being asked and answers still being researched. While most of the economy has crawled to a standstill to prevent the spread of the virus, the birthrate of newborns has not severely declined. The good news is that hospitals are well-informed…

Living in a world that requires strict physical distancing has turned telemedicine from an interesting option into an essential service seemingly overnight – and has given rise to a large group of telemedicine experiments that are being conducted by teams that have little to no familiarity or training with it. Although modern technology has made…

Doctors are beginning to realize that the Covid-19 virus has been causing dangerous clotting of the blood that has resulted in strokes, heart attacks, and other major issues in the lungs and/or legs of their patients. It has been noted during autopsies that tiny blood clots that are damaging to tissues all over the human…