Destroy the Comfort Zone: Insights From an Adventure of a Lifetime
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We delay making important choices when we’re on the edge of uncertainty. Whether it’s a last-minute trip, a move abroad, or a new job. Those who stand on the edge of that uncertain cliff, and take that leap of faith, are those whose lives are brimming with happiness.
They are staying true to their hearts, despite what they hear at the back of their minds.
There will always be doubts, but ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Samy Felice Tags: featured motivation self improvement best motivation blogs Comfort Zone get out of your comfort zone pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
“Animal hoarding” may provide comfort to people who struggle to form relationships
Consistent with the cultural archetype of a “cat lady”, two thirds of the animal hoarders were women
By Alex Fradera
The latest version of psychiatry’s principal diagnostic manual (the DSM-V) defines Hoarding Disorder as a psychopathology where the collection of items significantly impacts the person’s functioning, as they find it difficult and indeed painful to discard the items, creating congestion within the home and encouraging poor hygiene and accidents. However not only objects, but also living things can be collected pathologically, popularly enshrined in the notion of a “cat lady”. Acco...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 25, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
Addressing The Gap In Noncommunicable Disease Data With Technology And Innovation
High-quality health data is the backbone of strong public health policies. When government officials and public health professionals understand the factors that influence health, they can make informed decisions about how and where to target public health interventions and resources. In low- and middle-income countries, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) account for 67 percent of deaths but only 1 percent of global health funding (see page 5). As the NCD epidemic reaches all countries—regardless of income level, high-quality, quickly accessible data that provide information about NCD risk factors are the lever for action....
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 21, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Kelly Henning Tags: Featured GrantWatch Public Health Bloomberg Philanthropies CDC Foundation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chronic Care Global Health Health Data Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW Johns Hopkins U Source Type: blogs
Simulcast – A High Fidelity Podcast
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Last week I highlighted the ICE blog and the KeyLIME podcast as high quality #meded FOAM resources that clinician educators need to know about. If simulation is in your educator’s toolkit – and it really should be if you’re serious about helping others learn – then hopefully you also know about Simulcast. This is a resource I would have given my right arm for when I was starting out in sim – OK, I admit, I am left-handed – but you get the point...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 20, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Education Podcast ben symons jesse spurr simulation podcast simulcast victoria brazil Source Type: blogs
Anti-Paper Prophet: Comments on The Curse of Cash
ConclusionRogoff raises many other interesting issues in his response, and trying to cover them all would make this article much too lengthy. His arguments are generally sophisticated and sometimes challenging, even when I disagree with him or believe he hasn’t adequately addressed my concerns. Our most fundamental difference remains our analysis of the State. Rogoff unreflectively adopts what Harold Demsetz characte rizes as the“nirvana” approach to public policy. This makes him far more optimistic than is justified about the overall benevolence and competence of governments, particularly in developed countries. H...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Source Type: blogs
ICE blog and the KeyLIME podcast
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
As a FOAM-embracing Clinician Educator it is heartening to see the rise of high quality FOAM resources designed to help educators, not just those they educate. Of course, we are all students really, but I think this is further evidence that FOAM is really coming of age. A prime example is the ICE blog.
I have been meaning to shine the LITFL spotlight onto the ICE blog for sometime now. This is the blog of the International Clinician Educators Network and is overseen by ren...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Education clinician educator ICE blog International Clinician Educator Network Jason Frank Jonathan Sherbino KeyLIME podcast Linda Snell medical education Source Type: blogs
8 Foods that Boost Your Mood
What we eat might not be able to cure us indefinitely from depression. I learned that hard lesson earlier this year. However, researchers are compiling strong evidence that what we eat can influence our risk for developing depression and can keep persons in remission from possibly relapsing.
Eating better foods has certainly helped my mood and allowed me to get by on less medication. A 2014 review published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition examined the link between diet and depression risk and found that a diet consisting mainly of fruit, vegetables, fish, and whole grains was significantly associated with a r...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Depression Mental Health and Wellness Personal Self-Help Caffeine Depressive Episode Major Depressive Episode Mood Disorder phytochemicals Psychology Psychopharmacology Source Type: blogs
The inspiring growth of a doctor-patient relationship
Some days, it is about crossing paths with others that bring a smile to your face. Here is one such individual.
Sitting in my office was my new patient and her husband. She was a just-pregnant Brazilian woman wearing a warm smile; he was an older, overweight, unkempt American who sat uncomfortably in the chair. I imagined he had never been to a gynecologist’s office and was perhaps unsure what to expect. Together they seemed an odd pair, and I wondered if this was an arranged marriage.
“Mail-order bride,” I breathed in; “Oh boy,” I breathed out. If this truly was an arranged union, how would they not only survive...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andrea-eisenberg" rel="tag" > Andrea Eisenberg, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Toxic Nanoparticles Coated with Antibiotics Safely Kill Drug Resistant Bacteria
A team of Brazilian scientists may have come up with a practical way of killing off resistant bacteria by targeting them with toxic silver-silica nanoparticles coated with an antibiotic. Since antibiotics don’t have the full punch to eliminate bacteria resistant to them, the researchers instead used the antibiotic ampicillin as a mechanism to deliver the killer nanoparticles to the pathogens.
Normally, silver-silica nanoparticles would be toxic to the body, but because they’re coated with ampicillin they seem to be inert to the body’s cells and don’t affect how they divide and multiply.
Bacterial...
Source: Medgadget - July 11, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
Eating the Same Foods Repeatedly Is Stupid
Do you have a tendency to eat the same foods over and over?
Are you aware that it’s much better for your overall health, mental functioning, and immunity to take in a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, greens, nuts, and seeds? Eating the same limited foods repeatedly increases the chance that you’ll miss out on certain micronutrients, including many that haven’t been identified or studied yet. A nutritionally restricted diet also increases your susceptibility to disease.
Our forager ancestors moved around a lot and ate nutritionally different wild foods wherever they went. With the rise of agriculture, h...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
Proposed Spending Cap in Brazil Could Be a Key for Economic Recovery and Renaissance
One of the most remarkable developments in the world of fiscal policy is that even left-leaning international bureaucracies are beginning to embrace spending caps as the only effective and successful rule for fiscal policy.The International Monetary Fund is infamous because senior officialsrelentlessly advocate for tax hikes,but the professional economists at the organization have concluded in two separate studies (seehere andhere) that expenditure limits produce good results.Likewise, the political appointees at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developmentgenerally push a pro-tax increase agenda, but professi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
A New Era for Brazil
The Brazilian Senate impeached President Dilma Rousseff yesterday, bringing an end to the era of Worker Party rule, which began there in 2003.Rousseff and her supporters have disingenuously denounced the impeachment, calling it a coup d ’état. But it is likely that her removal from office will strengthen the country’s institutions and lead to an improvement in the policies that have led Brazil into its worst recession since the 1930s and that Latin Americans in recent years considered a model to emulate because it was seen to combine economic stability and enlightened social policies.Let ’s first of all dismiss the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 1, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Florida D-Mom: Teen Son with Type 1 Has Olympic Triathlon Hopes
With the Olympic Summer Games going on in Rio, many have athletic achievements and aspirations on the mind. In our own Diabetes Community, it's great to hear news of T1 Olympic swimmer Matheus Santana from Brazil competing, among other PWDs (peopl... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - August 15, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs
Zika virus in Brazilian non-human primates
Zika virus RNA has been detected in New World monkeys from the Northeast region of Brazil. This finding suggests that primates may serve as a reservoir host for the virus, as occurs in Africa.
The results of numerous serological surveys have shown that different Old World monkeys in Africa and Asia, including Rhesus macaques, Grivets, Redtail monkeys, and others, have antibodies that react with Zika virus. In these areas Zika virus is probably transmitted among monkeys in what is called a sylvatic cycle. Periodic outbreaks (epizootics) of Zika virus infections in nonhuman primates have been documented.
Where monkey rese...
Source: virology blog - April 26, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information Brazil capuchin marmoset microcephaly mosquito New World monkey reservoir host viral virus viruses Zika zika virus Source Type: blogs
Impeachment in Brazil: Myths and Facts
On Sunday night, Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies voted overwhelmingly (367-137) to open impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff. The Senate will now vote on whether to take the case and try her, which is all but guaranteed. As a matter of fact, barring some unforeseen event, Dilma’s days as president are numbered.
These are Brazil’s most turbulent months since the return to democracy in 1985. Not only is the president about to be removed from office, but the country is also mired in its worst economic recession since the 1930s. It is not coincidence that Dilma’s popularity (10%) stands at a similar le...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 19, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Juan Carlos Hidalgo Source Type: blogs
