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Serious Injuries, High Costs Associated With Lawnmower Injuries

Lawnmower injuries persist at a rate of close to 6,400 a year, most of them requiring surgery and hospitalization, and costing an average of $37,000 per patient. In what Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers call an unusually comprehensive analysis, they tracked …

Remote Alaska Port Clinic Taps Satellite Technology to Offer Telemedicine

The only clinic in one of the nation’s busiest commercial fishing ports is so remote that even conventional telemedicine for emergencies has been impossible for its limited staff – until this week. Beginning at the end of last week, a …