May 15th, 2012

Week28Now it’s the last part of your 40-week journey. At pregnancy week 28, your baby can now blink his/her eyes, and eyelashes and eyebrows are mature. Your baby may be able to see the light inside the uterus.

Between this week and 32 weeks of pregnancy, the level of amniotic fluid in the uterus reaches its maximum. Read all post…

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Tags: pregnancy week 28 | Posted in Health Online |
May 14th, 2012

If you’re anything like most of us, you’ve found that a car ride is often just the ticket to help a fussy baby get to sleep. The combination of the snug hold of the car seat with the noise and vibration of a ride in the car seems to help even the fussiest babies fall asleep. Additionally, the need to focus on the road can help a frustrated parent divert some of their attention from a crying infant.

Very few would find any fault with using car rides to help baby get to sleep. When you get back from the car ride, though, the question becomes whether to leave baby sleeping peacefully in the car seat, or to try to move her to the crib without waking her up. For

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Tags: Sleep | Posted in Health Online |
May 14th, 2012

Incredulous. Astounding. Unanticipated.

 

Those were my initial thoughts when I had a moment to read the two reports released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the use of tanning beds and sunburn/sun protective behaviors.

 

I was completely unprepared for the results of the studies. And I am supposed to know this stuff.

 

As I mentioned in one of the interviews published on the topic, the information contained in those studies raised my concern and passion about the topic to a new level. And if you are aware of this issue, it should raise your concerns as well. If

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May 13th, 2012

The following is a guest post by Jill Nesbitt of dentalpracticecoaching.com. If you are interested in guest posting for Dental Heroes, please sign up here.

In Part 1: Where to place ads? We reviewed how to attract candidates for your dental position. In Part 2: Telephone interview I shared the questions and approach to eliminating unqualified candidates. Today, we will discuss how to do an onsite ½ hour interview.

When your candidate arrives, give them your patient brochure or some information about your practice. It’s best if you create a one page profile of your practice to answer the standard questions: what are the hours? What is the job description and career advancement opportunity? Gi

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Tags: Part, Part Iii | Posted in Health Tips |
May 6th, 2012

We here at Medgadget are huge fans of the innovative, but low-cost medical devices that undergraduate and graduate school students develop for their senior projects. We applaud the vision to distribute their devices to remote corners of the Earth to improve healthcare worldwide, but always wondered about how developing nations might best go about learning about these lifesaving technologies.

A group of students and researchers from the University of Michigan asked themselves that same question after realizing that no such comprehensive resource existed, and created the Global Health Compendium. T

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Tags: Device, Medical Device | Posted in Health Tips |