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If you or someone you love suffers from diabetes, you know the importance of having the correct test strips for your glucose meter.  Everything has to match!  If your glucose meter is from the Accu-chek brand, the test strips have to be the same brand as well.  Having enough test strips at home and for traveling is always good, and that is why this week’s promo is especially for those who use diabetic supplies.

Demand for home care medical supplies could be on the rise (the supply is right here at Discount Medical Supplies) thanks to a new pre-hospice care program developed by a San Diego health system. Most elderly people would rather have months to live than years if they could spend their remaining time on this Earth at home instead of a hospital. Unfortunately, those months would quickly turn into mere days if the patient failed to receive medical treatment that only hospitals are equipped to administer. As a result, San Diego-based not-for-profit integrated regional health care delivery system created Transitions.

Yoga – which you can’t practice without medical supplies online such as this mat – may help improve the quality of life of people who experience the inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis (UC), according to a study published in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. “Perceived stress seems to be a risk factor for exacerbation of ulcerative colitis,” wrote the authors. “Yoga has been shown to reduce perceived stress.” And then they presumably shouted ‘Eureka!’ while a 25-watt light bulb appeared over their heads. Stress-aggravated ulcerative colitis can result in such daily life-disrupting symptoms as diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramping, rectal pain and bleeding, fatigue, fever, and inability to defecate despite urgency to do so – otherwise known as ‘phantom defecation.’

Why is it important for female doctors to know where to get inexpensive medical supplies such as laryngoscopes, ophthalmoscopes and otoscopes, pen lights, reflex hammers, stethoscopes, tongue depressors, and other diagnostic accessories? According to the first annual physician compensation report by professional network for healthcare professionals Doximity, female physicians earn approximately $91,000 – or 26.5% – less a year on average than their male counterparts. The researchers compared compensation reports from 36,000 full-time U.S. physicians from 2014 to 2017 and adjusted their findings for factors such as specialty, geography, years of experience, and reported weekly work hours.