6 Questions You Need to Ask About Surgery, Anesthesia and Dementia
This article -3 Things Everyone Should Know About Anesthesia - should be helpful in helping you ask the right questions and how to formulate those question. You might want to print the article and have it in hand if surgery is on the horizon.Does Anesthesia Cause Dementia or Memory Loss in the Elderly?Related ContentTest Your Memory for Alzheimer'sUrinary Tract Infections Can Hasten Memory Loss in Alzheimer's PatientsCan An Undetected Urinary Tract Infection Can Kill an Alzheimer's PatientCan you die from Alzheimer's disease?Learn More from Our Knowledge Base Topics PagesAlzheimers Dementia SymptomsCare of Dementia Patient...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - June 22, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's and anesthesia Alzheimers Dementia anesthesia dementia family health memory surgery anesthesia Source Type: blogs
Do you remember a guy named Barack Obama?
He ' s on Facebook.Here ' s what he posted today.His tone is measured, his words dignified, he refrains fromad hominem attacks. Here ' s what he writes:Today is World Refugee Day. If you ' ve been fortunate enough to have been born in America, imagine for a moment if circumstance had placed you somewhere else. Imagine if you ' d been born in a country where you grew up fearing for your life, and eventually the lives of your children. A place where you finally found yourself so desperate to flee persecution, violence, and suffering that you ' d be willing to travel thousands of miles under cover of darkness, enduring danger...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 20, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Dietary rut? 5 ways to snap out of it
Why is it that despite so many interesting foods in the world, we sometimes fall into dietary rut? For busy working families, lapsing into a boring menu routine may be due to a lack of time, planning, or know-how. Years ago, when I anchored the local TV news at dinnertime, my husband Jay made noodles with takeout meatballs so often that our three kids (even the baby) would tease him about it. “I didn’t know how to cook and I didn’t give much thought to dinner until everybody was hungry,” remembers Jay, my prince who would work all day, pick up the kids, and feed them before I got home. “We’d have leftov...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 20, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
The EBM Wars: When Evidence has a Price – The ECMO Trials (Part 2)
By ANISH KOKA
The year was 1965, the place was Boston Children’s and a surgery resident named Robert Bartlett took his turn at the bedside of a just born baby unable to breathe. This particular baby couldn’t breathe because of a hole in the diaphragm that had allowed the intestines to travel up into the thoracic cage, and prevent normal development of the lungs. In 1965, Robert Bartlett was engaged in the cutting edge treatment of the time – squeeze a bag that forced oxygenated air into tiny lungs and hope there was enough functioning lung tissue to participate in gas exchange to allow the body...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
What If We All Lived Beyond 130 Years?
Life expectancy is continuously growing but how far could it be stretched? Could you imagine that the average person lived beyond 130 years of age? How would longevity transform societies and our ways of life?
Based on the book, My Health: Upgraded.
The quest for immortality
Humanity has been yearning for the secret of immortality since the first temple for the ever-living Gods was built, which might have been 12,000 years ago in Gobekli Tepe, according to the current state of archeology. The ancient legends and myths are full of tales about how men on Earth wanted to join the community of immortals. However, sometimes t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 9, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine aging digital innovation Healthcare immortality longevity Personalized medicine society technology Source Type: blogs
