Standard medical care is the treatment accepted by medical experts as proper treatment for a certain type of disease and that is widely used by healthcare professionals. For example, the standard...
The Covid-19 pandemic turned the world upside down in 2020. Arguably, the medical community was one of the hardest hit populations. Everyone from patients to doctors had their lives affected in some...
Obesity in the United States is a common, serious, and costly disease. More than 40% of US adults and 19% of US children ages 2 -17 have obesity and those numbers continue to rise year after year....
Over the past 2 years, there has been momentous recognition of the heroics of healthcare workers throughout the world – and understandably so. The COVID-19 pandemic brought an unfathomable amount of...
On an average day, healthcare professionals often do more than expected, work longer than required, and care more than most. These past two years have been extraordinary in that the demands made on...
Genome mapping, pacemakers monitored via Bluetooth, and epilepsy drugs printed by 3D printers are some recent medical advancements that you may or may not have heard of. They all seem like something...
In the early days of radiation therapy, two-dimensional X-ray images and manual mathematic calculations were utilized to create treatment plans. In the 1970’s, the advent of computerized systems...
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began exploring the concept of an episode-based payment methodology for radiation oncology services in 2014, oncology providers immediately...
As someone whose father has gone through conventionalexternal beam radiotherapy (EBRT), I can tell you that the physical and emotional toll it takes on patients and their caregivers is no easy...
