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Skin tag on eyelid: Causes and treatment

The Checkup by Singlecare

Skin tags , also called acrochordons, are harmless growths that can occur anywhere on your body but tend to develop in more friction-heavy areas like the armpit, the neck along the seat belt line where clothes and jewelry touch, under the breasts, in the groin, or on the face—specifically, the eyelid. What causes skin tags on eyelids?

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Smart pharmaceutical and healthcare labels: Lets trace medicines from its origin

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Traditionally, text and images were printed on pharmaceutical products to convey important information. In recent years, the use of smart labels allows the developer to convey a greater amount of information about the product to the consumers, without the need for additional packaging space.

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RFID: The future of smart labelling?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry began using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in the early 2000s. Pfizer was the first to use the tech, adding RFID tags to track a Viagra (sildenafil) shipment circa 2006. As computing has developed in the past decade, so has the potential to store and use information in the cloud.

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Scientists and medics turn to TikTok to reassure public on vaccine safety

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Tik Tok is unlikely to spring to mind as a source of reliable information about complex issues, but scientists are using it to fly the flag for COVID-19 vaccines and other health topics. Additionally, we will soon introduce a new vaccine tag to detect and tag all videos with words and hashtags related to the COVID-19 vaccine,” says Morgan.

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Jolly Good/Teijin Pharma develop VR digital therapeutics for depression

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The goal of the partnership for approval for the Japanese market from the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA). Jolly Good is a medical technology company that develops VR solutions and AI-based medical and welfare services that analyse user behaviour in the VR space.

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BD partners with Biocorp on connected self-injection devices

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Medtech giant Beckton Dickinson (BD) has signed a deal with France’s Biocorp to use the latter’s near-field communication (NFC) tags in injectable devices. The Injay tag can confirm a complete injection and transfer that information via an NFC reader to a smartphone or tablet for review by a healthcare professional.

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5 Ways Your Pharmacy Can Participate in Parkinson’s Awareness Month

Digital Pharmacist

Parkinson’s patients and their caregivers are going to be frequent customers at your pharmacy, so it is important for your staff to understand the disease they’re faced with and the medications used to treat it. Overall, it is imperative for your pharmacy staff to be aware of the special medication needs of your PD patients at all times.