Essential oils are concentrated liquids taken from plants, including herbs and fruits. Common essential oils include lemon, peppermint and lavender, but there are dozens, if not hundreds, of essential oils. They’ve been around for centuries, and are frequently used in food and other products to add flavor or a pleasing scent. Recently, essential oils have seen… Read More »
Waitematā District Health Board (DHB) in New Zealand has developed a Digital Academy to train its clinical IT leaders of the future. Robyn Whittaker, clinical director innovation at the DHB’s Institute for Innovation and Improvement i3, said clinicians do not get taught change management as part of their training, but those who can lead IT… Read More »
Toward the end of my clinical rotations, I met Salma, a 34-year-old woman who came from Egypt with her family to the U.S. two years ago. Wearing a latte-colored hijab, she was here at the hospital to care for her father, who had a case of congestive heart failure exacerbation with pleural effusions. When deoxygenated… Read More »
FDA Approves Rinvoq (upadacitinib), an Oral JAK Inhibitor for the Treatment of Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis Print this page NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Rinvoq (upadacitinib), a 15 mg, once-daily oral… Read More »