Oral cancers don’t get a lot of mainstream attention because they aren’t among the deadliest cancers by sheer numbers. They do, however, carry a surprisingly high mortality rate: between 40 and 50 percent of people diagnosed with an oral cancer die within five years. The problem, according to the Oral Cancer Foundation, is that they’re […]
An unlikely candidate is at the center of a capital punishment debate: propofol, the anesthesia many physicians use to put patients under. Why? A shortage on the anesthetic drugs used for lethal injection caused state governments to look elsewhere for sedatives, the Scientific American reports. Propofol, used up to 50 million times a year in US […]
Health systems have spent billions on portals while investments in modernizing the voice channel — the dominant preference of healthcare consumers — have taken a backseat.