Hair is undoubtedly the politician ’s crowning glory
It all started with John F. Kennedy ’s campaign for the presidency. After eight years with President Eisenhower’s baldness and Vice President Nixon’s receding hairline, the American public was ready for a change. Kennedy had great hair, which he flaunted by appearing bareheaded at his inauguration. A new political maxim wa s established that day; to win […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/joe-d-haines" rel="tag" > Joe D. Haines, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Dermatology Source Type: blogs
Adult acne: Understanding underlying causes and banishing breakouts
“I’m not a teenager anymore, why do I still have acne?!” This is a question we hear from patients on a daily basis. The truth is, it is quite common to see acne persist into adulthood. Although acne is commonly thought of as a problem of adolescence, it can occur in people of all ages.
Adult acne has many similarities to adolescent acne with regard to both causes and treatments. But there are some unique qualities to adult acne as well.
What causes adult acne?
Adult acne, or post-adolescent acne, is acne that occurs after age 25. For the most part, the same factors that cause acne in adolescents are at play in adult ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kristina Liu, MD, MHS Tags: Health Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
Discreet Wearable for Hair Regrowth Using Body-Generated Electricity
While there are some devices and medications out there to help slow hair loss and regrow hair, they’re bulky, uncomfortable, or have substantial side effects.
Low-frequency electric stimulation, delivered in pulses and over extended time periods, has a great deal of potential as an effective way to promote hair growth. The problem is that it currently requires batteries, electronics, electrodes, and accompanying components to work, making it impractical to implement in a hat.
Now, engineers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a device that is small enough to be placed under a baseball cap, an...
Source: Medgadget - September 20, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Nanomedicine News OTC Source Type: blogs
Different Methods To Alleviate Joint Pain
Our body is flexible due the joints. These joints connect two bones, provide support and help in the body parts movement. Joint pain is a feeling of discomfort, aches and soreness in any of our body ’s joint. There have been lots of cases of people having aches in their joints. These joint pains are due to injuries affecting the ligaments, bursae, or tendons surrounding the joint. Pain in the joints is also due to infection and inflammation and in an extremely rare case because of cancer. It becomes extremely painful when you try to move your body parts suffering this pain.There are different conditions which are respons...
Source: radRounds - September 11, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Benny Smith Source Type: blogs
Monistat for hair growth – does it work? episode 193
On this episode of the Beauty Brains we answer a number of beauty product questions and talk about big companies and the brands they own.
Beauty Questions On today’s episode we answer your questions about
Yeast infection medicine to treat hair loss Is an organic facial mask worth buying?What’s with mineral oil, is it bad, good or indifferent?
Beauty News
Walmart Launches New Range of Clean Beauty Products – Has the Clean Beauty trend jumped the shark?
A win for the little guy? – Olaplex wins lawsuit against L’Oreal
Recall Roundup – We check the FDA website so you don...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast facial mask hair growth hair loss mineral oil olaplex organic Source Type: blogs
Monistat for hair growth – does it work? episode 193
On this episode of the Beauty Brains we answer a number of beauty product questions and talk about big companies and the brands they own.
Beauty Questions On today’s episode we answer your questions about
Yeast infection medicine to treat hair loss Is an organic facial mask worth buying?What’s with mineral oil, is it bad, good or indifferent?
Beauty News
Walmart Launches New Range of Clean Beauty Products – Has the Clean Beauty trend jumped the shark?
A win for the little guy? – Olaplex wins lawsuit against L’Oreal
Recall Roundup – We check the FDA website so you don...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast facial mask hair growth hair loss mineral oil olaplex organic Source Type: blogs
DigniCap Delta Hair Loss Prevention System for Chemo Now in U.S.
Dignitana, a company out of Lund, Sweden, won FDA clearance and is now distributing its DigniCap Delta scalp cooling system in the U.S. The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) will be the first recipient in America of the fourth generation system that’s designed to prevent hair loss in patients undergoing chemotherapy to fight solid tumors.
The system pumps a cool liquid, carefully controlled thanks to a number of sensors, through a cap worn by patients undergoing chemo. Cooling the head constricts the blood vessels in the scalp, reducing the amount of chemo that can pass through. At the same time, the ...
Source: Medgadget - August 15, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Medicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
Is there a role for surgery in treating Hashimoto ’s thyroiditis?
This study raises the possibility of a role for surgery for patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis who continue to feel poorly despite optimal treatment with thyroid hormone.
However, the study, while well done, is a relatively small one. We need longer-term follow up and confirmation with additional studies done on diverse populations.
It’s also important to consider that thyroid surgery in patients with advanced Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is difficult. Rates of complications, including injury to the laryngeal nerve (which controls voice) and the parathyroid glands (which maintain normal blood calcium levels), are incre...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Garber, MD, FACP, FACE Tags: Health Thyroid Disorders Source Type: blogs
Need to check your thyroid? Maybe not
As medical science advances, we have more tests and biomarkers available to help identify illnesses. Yet overdiagnosis and overtreatment that may occur following abnormal results can cause dangerous adverse effects and costly consequences. Hypothyroidism — a lower than normal range of thyroid hormones — may be the poster child for this problem because it is such a common condition.
What is hypothyroidism?
At the front of your neck lies the thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland that makes the hormone T4. When released into the bloodstream, T4 converts to T3, the most active form of thyroid hormone. Having sufficient levels ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marcelo Campos, MD Tags: Autoimmune diseases Fatigue Tests and procedures Thyroid Disorders Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Persistent Myths of Mental Illness
Myths spring up about everything that is misunderstood – and mental illness is one of the most misunderstood things out there. People are equal parts fascinated by and terrified of it, seemingly at the same time. In this episode, our hosts take a look at some myths about living with schizophrenia and even tackle the most common one – are schizophrenics violent?
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“People with schizophrenia are more likely to be victims of violence than to cause violence.”
– Michelle
Highlights from ‘Myths of Mental Illness’ Episode
[2:00] What are some myths about schizophrenia?...
Source: World of Psychology - July 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Schizophrenia Stigma Violence and Aggression Source Type: blogs
From Chernobyl To Mars: The Future Of Radiation Protection
In the minutes after block 4 of the nuclear power
plant in Chernobyl exploded, no one knew that they are experiencing a disaster
that never happened anywhere before on planet Earth. The public health,
environmental, and even the socio-political consequences were disastrous and we
can still experience the negative impacts. That’s why we posed the question of
what public health authorities, as well as individuals, can do to mitigate the
consequences of radiation exposure, and what digital technologies are available
for radiation detection. In this respect, after our investigations, it even
turned out that it would be benef...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Space Medicine astronautics chernobyl disaster fiction Health Healthcare Innovation mars nuclear power plant public health radiation radiation exposure radiation protection technology Source Type: blogs
3D-Printing Utilized to Grow New Human Hair
Researchers from the Columbia University Irving Medical Center have developed a tissue engineering and 3D printing method to grow new hair follicles and stop hair loss. Their work, recently published in Nature Communications, demonstrates that they were able to grow human hair follicles in a dish and on mice for the first time. These hair follicles could be used to address hair thinning and pattern baldness that affects millions of Americans.
This innovation arises, in part, due to recent advances in 3D printing that enabled the researchers to create a unique patterning device. The printed device has long extensions th...
Source: Medgadget - June 26, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Dermatology Materials Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
5 Surprising Things Stress Can Do to Your Body
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You just
got off a terrible meeting, your boss gave you an impossible deadline for the
next project, your team is pushing you to make extra hours, and you still need
to pick up the kids at school. Your body is in a “fight or flight response.”
Your stress levels are high, you feel your breath get quicker and even feel
your heart beating faster than usual. Although this is all a natural response
from your brai...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: annabelle Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement stress Source Type: blogs
“ I ’ m losing my hair on the Wheat Belly lifestyle! ”
It’s a complaint I hear occasionally from people starting the Wheat Belly lifestyle: “I’m losing my hair. Big clumps of hair fall out when I brush!”
Why does this happen? And is it permanent? Will people become bald after a few months?
Take a look at the many before/afters people have posted on the Wheat Belly Facebook page and the photos I’ve posted over the years on the Wheat Belly Blog. Even within the first few days, we commonly witness a curious and dramatic reduction in facial swelling, reduction in around-the-eye puffiness, reversal of skin redness. Many people look quite different. In ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 11, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle facial change grain-free hair loss Inflammation skin Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: What is Schizophrenia?
What is schizophrenia? From pop culture’s view to Rachel Star Withers, a diagnosed schizophrenic, view of herself to a leading mental health doctor and professor’s view. What are the actual symptoms? What is the difference between a hallucination and delusion? What is it like to experience one? How do you manage it? How is social media changing the way it is viewed? In this first episode of Inside Schizophrenia, Rachel and co-host Gabe Howard with special guest Dr. Ali Mattu explore this often misrepresented mental illness.
Highlights From ‘Schizophrenia’ Episode
[00:40] Would you think I am...
Source: World of Psychology - May 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Inside Schizophrenia Peer Support Self-Help Source Type: blogs
