MKSAP: 64-year-old woman with an incidental pituitary adenoma
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 64-year-old woman is seen for follow-up evaluation. Two weeks ago, she was in a car accident, and an incidental pituitary adenoma was found on a cervical spine CT scan. She has no residual injuries from the car accident.
She is otherwise healthy and takes no medications. She went through menopause at age 51. She has night sweats two to three times per month and occasional hot flushes. These have improved over the past decade and are not bothersome. She is not sexually active. She has never taken hormone replac...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 17, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Are Micellar Water makeup removers the real deal? Episode 150
What’s the deal with micellar water make up removers?
Taylor asks…I’m a new listener and enjoy your show so much. (Gets me through the work day) I want to know the hype about micellar water and is this something new or just a mild makeup remover with a “fancy name.”
Micellar waters are named after the technical term, micelle, so before we talk about the products we should explain what that is.
Micelles are structures that are formed when surfactant are dissolved in water. Remember that surfactants, short for surface active agents, are used in beauty products as cleansers and emulsifiers that help mix oil ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Aubrey de Grey and Matthew O'Connor of the SENS Research Foundation Answer Questions on Mitochondrial Research at /r/futurology
Aubrey de Grey, who should need little introduction here, is cofounder of the SENS Research Foundation, while Matthew O'Connor leads the foundation's in-house research efforts. O'Connor's focus is on the allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes, the complicated form of gene therapy needed to copy versions of these genes from the vulnerable mitochondrial genome into the much more secure nuclear genome, but altered in such a way that the resulting proteins can find their way back to the mitochondria where they are needed. Earlier today de Grey and O'Connor stopped by /r/futurology at Reddit to answer questions on this and...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 13, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Is Your Thyroid Really Running the Show?
A while ago, I wrote to you about thyroid function and the role it plays in managing your metabolism. This is so important that I wanted to mention it again. If you are taking the proper steps, and have removed all of the toxic grains from your diet, but still aren’t losing the weight you desire, maybe you should consider having your thyroid checked.
Is your little thyroid sensitive?
The thyroid gland sits on the front of your throat like a miniature bow-tie. Of all endocrine glands, the thyroid gland is the most susceptible to autoimmune damage. When the immune system is unable to distinguish proteins in th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 20, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Dr. Davis News & Updates Thyroid disease Weight loss Wheat allergy Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar diabetes grains Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Finding Similarities Between Health and Life
Obtaining the Services of Wellness and Aesthetic Physicians
Though many societies do not accept aesthetic treatment, the treatment has been of help to many individuals in regaining their confidence. It is very common these days to find people undergoing aesthetic treatment. When people are not comfortable with their appearances; they visit aesthetic and wellness doctors. To correct or enhance their appearances, both men and women can seek the services of wellness and aesthetic doctors. Whenever an aesthetic treatment is successful, a person’s way of look will not be the same as it was before.
There are several aes...
Source: All Kidney News - August 18, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: admin Tags: Clothing & Fashion Source Type: blogs
Palliative Chemotherapy: An Oxymoron
By Rebecca Gagne HendersonI was inspired to write this after reading the series of posts on Pallimed titled “Against Euphemisms” by Drew Rosielle. At its very best, the term “Palliative Chemotherapy” is an oxymoron. At its worst, it is a treatment that robs the patient and family of quality of life and valuable time may have been spent doing the things that are important to them.As a palliative consultant on a campus which does not house a cancer center my referrals typically come from hospitalist attending physicians rather than oncologists. I cannot begin to tell you the number of conversations I have had through...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 1, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: cancer chemotherapy euphamisms gagne henderson palliative rebecca Source Type: blogs
Will silicone ruin a coconut oil hair treatment? Episode 133
Is the “Remedy” hair treatment by Rita Hazan really magic?
Lizzy asks…Does the Rita Hazan Remedy have any magic in it? My hair feels soft and shiny after I use it, but it didn’t do anything for my sister.
I must say I’ve never seen a product quite like this before. It’s a two part system involves something like 60 different ingredients. (See below.) Just having a lot of ingredients doesn’t mean it’s a better product (a lot of the ingredients are just botanical extracts that are primarily there for show) but the product is packed with a LOT of different conditioning agents. Some of these are very s...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Conditioners and treatments Hair coloring products Makeup and Perfume Podcast Shampoo Styling Source Type: blogs
Why I Became a Cancer Advocate: Amy
by Amy Mattes, LIVESTRONG Leader
Walking out of a friend’s funeral that had lost her battle with leukemia, and watching her three young daughters, husband, family and community grieving, felt very unnecessary. In addition, her twin sister had stage IV lymphoma. I was forever changed that day.
I vowed to use my experience and knowledge and advocate in the fight against cancer. As a cancer registrar, I have witnessed almost every aspect of cancer. A very insightful aspect of my job has been participating on a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, and pastoral care staff. We discuss our patient...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - May 7, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs
Samumed and Regeneration via Altered Wnt Signaling
This article profiles Samumed, who are producing regenerative therapies based on manipulation of Wnt signaling, presently at various early stages in the pipeline. Wnt signaling is implicated in cancer, aging, and regeneration, but like many protein networks it is involved in a large number of very fundamental cellular processes, making precise control of outcomes a challenge. This is something that the Samumed researchers claim to have solved to a large enough degree to produce drugs that target this pathway, with Wnt-based regenerative treatments in the works for a range of tissues:
Samumed has raised $220 millio...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 14, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 11th 2016
In this study we expanded the study by investigating associations of the rest blood parameters with age, and associations between generations, aiming to seek candidate factors associated with familial longevity. Associations of blood parameters in centenarians (CEN) with their first generation of offspring (F1) and F1 spouses (F1SP) were analyzed.
In this study, using association and further comparison analyses we identified several blood parameters that may contribute to longevity. First, total cholesterol (TC) and triglyceride (TG) increased with age until 80 years, but decreased in centenarians, indicating that l...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 10, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Hair Follicles from Old Tissue Rejuvenated When Placed into Young Tissue
Experiments based on exposing old tissue to a young environment, and vice versa, have been gaining much more attention in recent years. The most common are the heterochronic parabiosis studies in which the circulatory systems of an old and a young individual are linked, with the result that the older individual benefits in a modest reduction in many measures of age-related decline, such as stem cell activity. This has led research groups to focus on the effects of signal molecules in the bloodstream as a proximate cause for some age-related changes in biochemistry. There are many other approaches to mixing old and young bi...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 4, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly: Self-Directed Health?
Director chair, film slate and load horn.
Here’s a proposal for you: If, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, a long list of conditions are reduced or reversed at no risk, almost no cost, reversing even chronic and potentially fatal conditions . . . does that mean that the notion of self-directed health might be on the horizon, i.e., putting control over health back in our own hands?
I think it does. No, we will never implant our own defibrillators or take out our own gallbladders. But so many chronic health conditions afflicting modern humans recede that I believe that it is entirely reasonable to start talking a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 16, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle arthritis autoimmune diabetes eating disorder gluten grains Inflammation joint Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
From health disaster to health success
Andrea endured a lot of health problems, never receiving any real answers from doctors, although plenty of medications were prescribed. Then she stumbled on the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
“I learned in 2005 (27 years old) after having my 2nd child that I was hypothyroid. I was put on Levothroid. I complained often to my doctor that I felt no different a few months after starting this prescription. They ordered some labs and adjusted my dosage. Still no changes. I still felt extremely forgetful, sluggish, unable to concentrate. Instead of losing weight, I gained weight very easily. This went on for years!
“I was ne...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 10, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories eczema fatigue gluten grains hair loss rash Thyroid toenail fungus Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Arguing that Progeria Mechanisms are Significant Enough in Normal Aging to Be Worth Addressing
Today I'll point out a very long post that argues we should pay more attention to the mechanisms of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS, or simply progeria) in normal aging. Progeria is one of a small number of rare conditions in which patients have the appearance of accelerated aging. It isn't really accelerated aging, but it is at root a form of biological breakage that leads to greatly increased rates of cellular damage and dysfunction. This produces medical conditions that overlap with those of normal aging since they, also, are the consequence of high levels of cellular damage and dysfunction. Both aging and pr...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Aging Hair Follicles Change to Become Skin
An interesting mechanism that appears to contribute to age-related hair loss was recently identified. It is unusual in that cells of one tissue structure are changing to cells of another as a result of age-related damage:
Scientists have uncovered a new mechanism behind hair loss: When stem cells in hair follicles are damaged by age, they turn themselves into skin. Over time, this happens to more and more stem cells, causing hair follicles to shrink and eventually disappear. This is the first time such a switch has been associated with aging in any tissue. Stem cells - precursor cells that can give rise to specialized cel...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 8, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
