My Infertility Journey as a Woman in Medicine
Editor’s Note: For more on the challenges as well as strategies to address physician infertility, please read this Academic Medicine Invited Commentary, cowritten by the author of this blog post.
Most of us in medicine pride ourselves on being organized, detail-oriented, conscientious and able to achieve excellent results with enough hard work—and are not used to failure and loss of control. My experience with infertility has been the first time that I truly experienced failure and complete loss of control, realizing that fertility is not a merit-based system. No matter how hard I try, how many doctors I cons...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective infertility physician well-being women in academic medicine Source Type: blogs
Slowing Down: When You Need Time to Focus on Your Own Health
When most people think about E coli, the first thing that comes to mind likely is eating tainted food or as a result of improper handwashing. What came as a surprise to me was that it can also show up as a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) caused by kidney stones that back up in the urethra, which prohibits the flow of urine. It is more than an academic exercise that had me researching this all too common condition in men and women. As I am writing, I am less than 24 hours post-surgery to remove these pesky critters that have been backing up the works since 2014. It was my fourth go around that culminated in a cystoscopy, whi...
Source: World of Psychology - March 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Health-related Personal caregiving Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 9th 2020
In this study, we intravenously administrated the young mitochondria into aged mice to evaluate whether energy production increase in aged tissues or age-related behaviors improved after the mitochondrial transplantation. The results showed that heterozygous mitochondrial DNA of both aged and young mouse coexisted in tissues of aged mice after mitochondrial administration, and meanwhile, ATP content in tissues increased while reactive oxygen species (ROS) level reduced. Besides, the mitotherapy significantly improved cognitive and motor performance of aged mice. Our study, at the first report in aged animals, not only prov...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 8, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Surrogacy: Who decides to become a gestational carrier?
Why would a woman decide to carry another woman’s baby? One answer is that there are times in life when a loved one is in need of help. This happens when a sister or a cousin or a close friend has suffered repeated miscarriages, or had an illness or surgery that made pregnancy unlikely. In these instances, it is not unusual for a family member or friend to step forward, saying, “I’ll carry your baby.” But what of the woman who decides that she wants to carry for strangers? What prompts her to seek, usually through an agency, an individual or couple in need of a gestational carrier?
Surrogate or gestational carrier?...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ellen S. Glazer, LICSW Tags: Family Planning and Pregnancy Fertility Infertility Parenting Source Type: blogs
As Physicians Today, We Must Both Represent the “System” and Disregard it
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
Healthcare today, in the broadest sense, is not a benevolent giant that wraps its powerful arms around the sick and vulnerable. It is a world of opposing forces such as Government public health ambitions and more or less unfettered market ambitions by hospitals and downright profiteering by some of the middlemen who stand between doctors and patients, such as insurers, Pharmacy Benefits Managers, EMR vendors and other technology companies.
Within healthcare there is also a growing, more or less money-focused sector of paramedicine, promoting “alternative” belief systems, some of which may be ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Healthcare system Source Type: blogs
HDAC Inhibition Suppresses the Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype
The research materials here cover the recent work of one of many groups digging deeper in the mechanisms of cellular senescence, in search of novel ways to make senescent cells less harmful to surrounding tissues, or means to selectively destroy them outright. The accumulation of senescent cells with age is now well proven to contribute to aging, generating chronic inflammation and disrupting tissue function via a potent mix of signals known as the senescence-associated secretory phenotype, or SASP. The scientists involved here have discovered that HDAC inhibitors can to some degree suppress the SASP, and this intervention...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 3, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Clutter vs Hoarding- How to Live Clutter Free
Are you drowning in clutter? In today’s podcast, decluttering expert Tracy McCubbin identifies the 7 emotional clutter blocks that may be lurking in your psyche and offers tips to overcome each one. For example, do you have a basket full of unopened mail? Do you have an absurd number of name-brand shoes collecting dust in your closet? And what about that expensive candle you’ll light “one” day? Each of these clutter types is rooted in a different emotional clutter block.
Is there an area in your home you’d really like to declutter? Tune in to hear all 7 emotional blocks and get some good advice on how yo...
Source: World of Psychology - February 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Habits Interview LifeHelper Podcast Self-Help The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia in Women
Often we don’t really consider gender dynamics in treatment or medication. A lot of medications are only tested on men because of the risk of pregnancy, etc. This means there are whole drugs that have made it to market that may not have ever been tested with women. Schizophrenia affects women in many different ways than men.
In this episode schizophrenic Rachel Star Withers and cohost Gabe Howard discuss differences in age, symptoms, treatments, lifestyle, parenthood in the genders as they experience schizophrenia.
Dr. Hayden Finch joins to explain the medical side.
Highlights in “Schizophrenia in WomenR...
Source: World of Psychology - February 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Inside Schizophrenia Mental Health and Wellness Women's Issues Gender Differences Mental Disorder Mental Illness Psychiatry Psychology Psychotherapy Women's Health women's mental health Source Type: blogs
Exploring Beyond the Cage
I just read an interesting BBC article about why there are significantly more vegan women than men, which is mostly summarized by this statement at the top:
When women hold two incompatible beliefs, they’re more likely to change their behaviour to reconcile them. Men, by comparison, tend to dig themselves in.
The article cites a variety of studies that delve into gender differences and how these connect with dietary decisions. Reading it had an odd effect on me, making my vegan side feel good and my male side feel primitive and stupid.
While I do consider myself an ethical vegan today, this article reminded me t...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - February 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Values Source Type: blogs
Can Breastfeeding Delay Early Menopause?
February is American Heart Month, and the Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness for women’s heart disease. Most people unfortunately still think of heart disease as a men’s health issue, but the truth is that more women die from cardiovascular disease (CVD) than men! In that spirit, I would like to make mention of a well-done study just out in JAMA which points to a significant risk factor for heart disease in women – menopause.
Research has shown that premature menopause (before the age of 45) has been linked to an increase in cardiovascular disease and premature death in women. In fact, some studies show tha...
Source: Cord Blood News - February 18, 2020 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: maze_cordadmin Tags: medical research parents Source Type: blogs
With a little planning, vegan diets can be a healthful choice
Recently there has been much discussion and many questions about vegan diets. Are vegan diets — which exclude meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, and dairy — healthful? Do they provide complete nutrition? Should I try one? Will it help me lose weight?
Many people around the world eat plant-based diets for a variety of reasons, some because meat is not readily available or affordable, others because of religious convictions or concerns about animal welfare. Health has become another reason people are moving to plant-based diets. And research supports the idea that plant-based diets, including vegan diets, provide health benef...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
The Smart Sleep Alarm Is The Holy Grail Of Health Tracking
No, I kid you not. There’s no Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film nor eloquent monologues about swallows, and not even a reference to hose-riding coconut mimicry. I’ve truly found the Holy Grail of health tracking and will share it with you today. Behold as the answer is… the smart sleep alarm! If you ask anyone I know, they’ll probably share how I reverently praise smart sleep alarms. By the end of this article, you will understand why this is the case.
Don’t count sheep, your health depends on it
When I was a baby, my parents used to sing me lullabies to lull me off to sleep. As for adults, peopl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 6, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers sleep digital health sensors sleep sensor digital health technologies smart alarm Source Type: blogs
How safe is exercise during pregnancy?
Two lines on a home pregnancy test, a flickering heartbeat on ultrasound, and suddenly your world has changed: you’re pregnant! Regardless of where this new path takes you, you may start to examine your daily decisions in a new way as you discover an intense drive to protect the growing baby inside you. Even your exercise routines may come under scrutiny, particularly if late-night Googling has you second-guessing everything that you believed you knew.
Just how safe is exercise during pregnancy?
The short answer? Exercise during pregnancy is not only safe, it’s encouraged. An overriding principle for pregnancy is: what...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Reiff, MD Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
When Friends Part Ways
We don’t often think too much about our relationship with our friends. We don’t tend to work on them, communicate within them, or bring them to therapy with us. Maybe we should!
Friends are vital in our lives. Recent studies on loneliness have found that a lack of social connection is about as bad for us as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. These relationships can be passionate and powerful. They tend to sustain much longer than most romantic relationships. When a friendship ends, it can break our hearts.
We don’t keep every friend we’ve ever made, of course, but most friendships end with a whimper—we slowly stop seei...
Source: World of Psychology - January 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Friends General LifeHelper Publishers Spirituality & Health friendships Letting Go Relationships Source Type: blogs
CES 2020: The Wows and the Whys in Health Tech Innovation
The 53rd edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is officially underway! With over 4,400 exhibiting companies from industries ranging from gaming to digital health showcasing their latest products and technologies, you might need some assistance to stay afloat in the flood of new announcements. Donning our rescue caps, The Medical Futurist team is coming to your aid! We’ve compiled the most exciting (and questionable) CES news relating to digital health that we’ve found at this year’s show. Let’s take a look!
The Wows
Every year at CES, companies come up with promising technologies, some just mer...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 9, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine ces digital health Healthcare technology digital technology digital health companies digital health tech Source Type: blogs
