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November 23, 2017

"The Cost of Assuming your Doctor Knows Best" - Response to Dr Parkash

Vinita Parkash, MD, a professor of pathology at Yale School of Medicine, published a blogpost last week on “The Cost of Assuming your Doctor Knows..
November 16, 2017

1 Minute Read | Late Pregnancy Bleeding | Differential Diagnosis

Late pregnancy bleeding, or antepartum hemorrhage is vaginal bleeding which occurs after 20 weeks of gestation and is reported in 2-5% of all..
November 9, 2017

Could I Have Lung Cancer? | Symptom Checker

Recently, we blogged about Stoptober, a British initiative to encourage people to quit smoking. Now we’re into November, it’s the awareness month for..
November 2, 2017

Are you doing Movember 2017? | Prostate Cancer Symptoms and Diagnosis

It’s that time of year again, the summer is most definitely over and Halloween is behind us. In the world of charities and awareness, November means..
October 26, 2017

How Has Stoptober Affected Your Health | Benefits of quitting smoking

We’re nearly at the end of October, which also means the end of Stoptober, an initiative in the UK set up by the NHS and Public Health England. The..
October 19, 2017

New resources for clinical reasoning | Diagnostic Error in Medicine

The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) held its 10th International Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference in Boston last week, and many..
October 12, 2017

Could I have Breast Cancer? | Awareness Month | Symptoms

Noticed a lot of pink around recently? That’s because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Around the world, people are wearing pink or sporting..
October 5, 2017

60 million US adults say they have experienced a misdiagnosis

The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) have just published a survey of “Americans’ Experiences..
September 28, 2017

The new Isabel Symptom Checker | New look website and symptom checker

As you will have noticed, over the last year we have changed the look, feel and functionality of our Isabel Professional DDx Generator and Isabel..
September 21, 2017

National Cholesterol Education Month | Everything about cholesterol

September is National Cholesterol Education Month in the USA, and coming up in October it is the UK’s turn. The recommended cholesterol levels for a..
September 14, 2017

Could I have Hodgkin's Disease (HD)? | Nick Clegg and Claire Chambers

This week the former deputy Prime Minister of England, Nick Clegg, shared the story of his son, Antonio, who has been battling Hodgkin Disease, a..
September 7, 2017

Maternal and Neonatal Sepsis | World Sepsis Day 2017

Here at Isabel Healthcare we have often blogged and talked about sepsis and the dangers of this life threatening infection, particularly in children...