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Skin tag on eyelid: Causes and treatment

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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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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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Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies in Healthcare

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In order to effectively combat the problems related to counterfeit medicines, several companies have come up with innovative technologies to provide the necessary tools to manufacturers, healthcare professionals and patients to authenticate pharmaceutical products. Such technologies have been shown to have highly secured features.

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Jolly Good/Teijin Pharma develop VR digital therapeutics for depression

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In 2019 Cognitant and Addenbrook’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK piloted a programme that aimed to educate patients to improve adherence to rheumatoid arthritis medicines. The company halted development before it eventually sold its digital health unit back to Eric Careel, co-founder of Withings, the following year.

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

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Educate Your Staff on Parkinson’s Disease Pharmacists are a constant in the lives of patients living with Parkinson’s Disease. 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.

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Revolutionizing Medicine and Public Health: The Emergence of Big Data in Healthcare

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Velocity: Big Data needs to be handled promptly as businesses generate data at an unprecedented speed, driven by the growing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT), and technologies, such as RFID tags, sensors, and smart meters are used to deal with the high velocity of data in real-time. It is loosely arranged into categories using meta tags.