Ultrasound devices came first to existence with the discovery of the piezoelectric effect by Pierre and Jacques Curie in the 1880s. Since then, ultrasonic devices have been used in a wide range of industrial and medical sectors. Ultrasound technology…
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as “a lung disease characterized by chronic obstruction of lung airflow that interferes with normal breathing and is not fully reversible.”1 A COPD diagnosis is confirmed by a test…
The Marketing and Outreach Restoration to Empower Health (MORE) Health Education Act was introduced in the Senate as bill S. 455 and in the House of Representatives as H.R. 987 in early February 2019 [1, 2]. In the House, the…
Though the purpose of medicine is primarily to heal patients,1 the medical field also provides careers to numerous physicians, nurses, technicians and more. Because so many earn their livelihoods from health professions, it is important to acknowledge health care providers’…