Cardiologist: Don't demonize saturated fat (CNN video)
The problem may be the dietary replacement of saturated fat with carbohydrates which may trigger metabolic syndrome.
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - October 25, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Cardiology CNN Source Type: blogs
Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:
Efficacy of a Text Message-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Young People: another negative study http://buff.ly/1eklD7V
Normal use of tablet PCs leads to a remarkable amount of microbial surface contamination. Standardized surface disinfection with isopropanol wipes as guided by the application significantly reduces this microbial load but voids the warranty http://buff.ly/15YdewE
Still unclear if doctor rating websites reflect the quality of care offered by individual health care providers htt...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - October 24, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Tags: #HCSM Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2014 - According to Cleveland Clinic
Here is the list of the Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2014 according to Cleveland Clinic:
No. 9. TMAO (trimethylamine N-oxide) is produced by the body when your gut bacteria digest choline, which is found in egg yolks, red meat and dairy products. TMAO may serve as a screening tool for predicting future risks of heart attack, stroke and death. Heart experts believe this discovery could lead to personalized nutrition recommendations to help patients reduce their cardiovascular risk:
Retinal Prosthesis System: 2014 Medical Innovation No. 1 - YouTube http://bit.ly/1ccURh1
Genome-guided Solid Tumor Diagnostics: 2014 Medi...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - October 23, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Video Cleveland Clinic Source Type: blogs
Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:
Active Facebook Use During Relationship Termination: Uncertainty Reduction and Surveillance (study) http://buff.ly/16jzB3M
Facebook groups related to preterm birth have become a popular tool for fundraising and awareness-raising http://buff.ly/13mUF91
"I have the right to a private life": Medical students' views about professionalism in a digital world (study) http://buff.ly/1ebei5d
Loneliness and social avoidance are linked to more time spent on Facebook. Study: Women perceived Facebook as a more inte...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - October 18, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Tags: #HCSM Source Type: blogs
Average completion rate of MOOCs is just 7.5% - WSJ video
Millions of people around the world are now enrolled in massive open online course, commonly referred to as MOOCs, and that number is growing. But just how much do students learn from them?
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - October 16, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: WSJ MOOCs Education Source Type: blogs
Top medicine articles for October 2013
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles in medicine for October 2013:
Story and science: How providers and parents can utilize storytelling to combat anti-vaccine misinformation. http://buff.ly/16E0w8r
Household air pollution from solid fuel (biomass, coal): leading environmental cause of death/disability in the world http://buff.ly/13zu2Jp
Choking on food common among U.S. kids with top objects including candy, hot dogs, nuts and seeds http://buff.ly/13mVlei
What does it take to be the world's top men's tennis player? Novak Djokovic is a decidedly unusual fellow - WSJ http://buff.ly/19yLRQX
Patient Pref...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - October 15, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Tags: Health News of the Day Source Type: blogs
A school without books - any downsides of switching to digital-only?
Below are are several related videos from the WSJ YouTube channel. My suggestion is to watch them all before forming an opinion.
Tablet Guides Med Students in Gross Anatomy Lab -- A digital dissection manual, published by a professor and students at Columbia's medical college, aims to improve the gross anatomy student experience:
A High School Without Textbooks -- Archbishop Stepinac High School, in White Plains, N.Y., is one of the first schools in the U.S. to do away with paper textbooks. Instead, the all-boys prep school requires students to use tablets and laptops in class:
Children in some Chicago suburbs who g...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - October 14, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Education Source Type: blogs
Vaccines prevent this: Infant girl with whooping cough (Mayo Clinic video)
While the pertussis infection can be mild in adults (often it is quite severe though), if a baby who hasn't received a full course of vaccinations is infected, whooping cough can be extremely serious. Mayo Clinic News reporter has more on how to recognize and treat this potentially deadly disease:
Infant girl with whooping cough -- Mother holding infant girl in Intensive Care Unit. The baby has pertussis (whooping cough) and is coughing severely. Warning: the video is hard to watch.
Everyone should receive the indicated vaccines to prevent potentially deadly diseases such as pertussis.
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - October 9, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Mayo Clinic Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
How Old Are Your Ears? AsapSCIENCE video
How Old Are Your Ears? An attempt to reproduce a hearing test, from AsapSCIENCE YouTube channel:
Note: You must watch in 1080p definition and use headphones. The 19,000 Hz frequency is not available due to YouTube compression the file.
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - October 1, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: ENT Source Type: blogs
Italian Hand Gestures - a Short History in a NYTimes Video
Can Italians talk without using their hands? Gestures offer a window into Roman culture. Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1avwKYQ
Some gestures are simple but others are far more complex. They add an inflection — of fatalism, resignation, world-weariness — that is as much a part of the Italian experience as breathing.
To Italians, gesturing comes naturally. Some even joke that gesturing may even begin before birth.
Isabella Poggi, a professor of psychology at Roma Tre University and an expert on gestures, has identified around 250 gestures that Italians use in everyday conversation.
References:
When Italian...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - September 18, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
Anxiety treatment app from Mayo Clinic: "Anxiety Coach" ($5)
"Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach is designed to help people start mastering their fears and worries one step at a time. Watch this video to learn more about this iOS app and whether it might be helpful for you."
For more information go to: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/anxietycoach/id565943257
Description
Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach is a comprehensive self-help tool for reducing a wide variety of fears and worries from extreme shyness to obsessions and compulsions. Anxiety Coach helps you make a list of feared activities and then guides you through mastering them one by one. Through this experience you can increase your con...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - September 13, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Mayo Clinic Apps Psychiatry iPhone iPad Psychology Source Type: blogs
What If You Stopped Going Outside? (video)
If you spend most of your day inside, this video is for you. You may be suffering from "nature deficit disorder", without even knowing it.
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - September 12, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
R U OK? Cartoon Conversation
Suicide is second to only accidental death as the leading cause of mortality in young men across the world. High-lethality methods of suicide are preferred by young men: hanging and firearms in high-income countries, pesticide poisoning in the Indian subcontinent, and charcoal-burning in east Asia (Lancet, 2012).
Need some tips to start a meaningful conversation? This cartoon presentation in video format will help you and your friends have conversations that count:
Hugh Jackman shows his support for R U OK?Day, a national day of action that aims to prevent suicide by encouraging people to connect with colleagues, frien...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - September 10, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Psychology Source Type: blogs
Let's Make Our Day Harder - By Walking, Taking the Stairs, Parking Further Away, etc. (video)
From DocMikeEvans:
A review of some of the science around how our typical days have shifted with technology and culture and the impact on our health. It is also a call to action about how to "Tweak your Week" and make small changes to improve your health.
Don't forget to check the rest of the videos from DocMikeEvans' YouTube channel.
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - September 6, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Exercise Source Type: blogs
Marfan syndrome - Mayo Clinic video summary
In this video Juan Bowen, M.D., director of Mayo Clinic Marfan Clinic, discusses causes of Marfan syndrome and the importance of diagnosis and treatment:
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - September 5, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
