The fecalization of America
I’ve been lately discussing the issue of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, a situation in which bowel microorganisms (especially of the undesirable Enterobacteriaceae variety such as E. coli and Shigella) ascend up from the colon and colonize the ileum, jejunum, duodenum, and stomach. This has numerous health implications that are only beginning to be appreciated: irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia, psoriasis and other skin rashes, restless leg syndrome, diverticular disease, heightened body-wide inflammation, increased risk for colon cancer—SIBO is either synonymous with these condition...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates bowel flora dysbiosis Inflammation microbiota prebiotic probiotic sibo small intestinal bacterial overgrowth undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Sleeping with your baby: Mainstream media gets it wrong
Recently, a journalist with NPR asked her audience if sleeping with your baby is as dangerous as doctors say. In short, yes, it is very dangerous.
In the article, Michaeleen Doucleff repeatedly trivializes the danger of parents co-sleeping with their baby. She uses anthropological evidence to reassure parents that sleeping with their infant is safe if parents don’t drink, smoke, or use illicit drugs. She makes light of this country’s infant mortality rate, which is one of the worst in the developed world. She points to mothers of other cultures responding with “shock” when learning that American infants d...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/karen-allen" rel="tag" > Karen Allen, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 009 Humongous HIV Extravaganza
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The diagnosis of HIV is no longer fatal and the term AIDS is becoming less frequent. In many countries, people with HIV are living longer than those with diabetes. This post will hopefully teach the basics of a complex disease and demystify some of the potential diseases you need to consider in those who are severely immunosuppressed. While trying to be comprehensive this post can not be exhaustive (as you can imagine any patient with a low ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 7, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Amanda McConnell Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine AIDS art cryptococcoma cryptococcus HIV HIV1 HIV2 PEP PrEP TB toxoplasma tuberculoma Source Type: blogs
Intermittent fasting: Surprising update
There’s a ton of incredibly promising intermittent fasting (IF) research done on fat rats. They lose weight, their blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugars improve… but they’re rats. Studies in humans, almost across the board, have shown that IF is safe and incredibly effective, but really no more effective than any other diet. In addition, many people find it difficult to fast.
But a growing body of research suggests that the timing of the fast is key, and can make IF a more realistic, sustainable, and effective approach for weight loss, as well as for diabetes prevention.
The backstory on intermittent fasting
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Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 008 Total TB Extravaganza
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TB affects 1/3rd of the population and one patient dies every 20 seconds from TB. Without treatment 50% of pulmonary TB patients will be dead in 5 years. In low to middle income countries both TB and HIV can be ubiquitous, poor compliance can lead to drug resistance and malnourished infants are highly susceptible. TB can be very complex and this post will hopefully give you the backbone to TB m...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine Genexpert meningitis TB TB meningitis Tuberculosis Source Type: blogs
HOW To Use Digital Health To Start Running?
If you are an outsider to the runners’ massive community, it must be difficult to imagine how come putting your leg in front of the other very fast gives so much joy. However, we give you some ideas, show you some methods and technologies if you decided to start with a jog tomorrow. Let’s do it! Running shoes on!
Why do people run?
I never understood why people run. It’s tough, tiring and boring. You put one leg in front of the other. You go in circles, seeing the same landscape over and over again. If you don’t have music or company, there’s silence and loneliness all around. So, how come that annually there ar...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 14, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: From Chance to Choice Health Sensors & Trackers app digital health exercise fitness fitness tracker health apps motivation Personalized medicine running technology wearable Source Type: blogs
Nurses, the Best Selfie is Internal
At a time in history when " selfies " are dominant in the depiction of our lives (and the potential measurement of our worth), the most important selfie for a nurse to take is on the inside, not the outside.Selfies are part of our 21st-century culture, and there ' s no denying their popularity. In essence, it ' s our way of presenting a self-portrait to the world just like Van Gogh or Rembrandt would, except we can effortlessly make dozens per day that can potentially be seen by hundreds or thousands of people. We can instantly photos of ourselves having dinner with friends, walking on the beach with our dog, or rela...
Source: Digital Doorway - June 4, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career nurse nurses nursing self development Source Type: blogs
The Top 12 Health Chatbots
Meet Molly, Eva, Ginger, Replika, Florence, Izzy – your new chatbot friends aiming to make your life better. In the last years, smart algorithm-powered, text or voice-based interfaces have multiplied, and they are also taking their place in healthcare. The Medical Futurist believes they will ease the burden on doctors in primary care and help patients learn to take care of their health responsibly. Do you want to try one? Check out the following health chatbots!
The age of chatting algorithms is coming
Last week, Google stunned the world with the latest feature of the Google Assistant, Duplex, that was able to make ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 25, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: imported AI artificial intelligence chatbot chatbots digital health future health chatbot Innovation List medical Medicine Personalized medicine technology Source Type: blogs
PrEP: Protection against HIV in a pill?
HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) weakens the human immune system and destroys the important cells that fight disease and infection. A person can get HIV when bodily fluids — including blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids, or vaginal fluids of a person with the virus — come in contact with a mucous membrane or damaged tissue. HIV can be transmitted through breast milk, or when a contaminated needle or syringe comes into direct contact with the bloodstream.
There is no cure for HIV, but with proper medical care the virus and its effects can be controlled. HIV transmission can be reduced by consistent use ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Meera Sunder, MBBS, MRCOG Tags: Health HIV Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs
Dean Podcast on Breastfeeding and Flexibility for New Moms
Dean Patricia Davidson, PhD, MEd, RN, FAAN, discusses a recent study on female physicians and their breastfeeding patterns; cultural changes to better support women; and prioritizing psychological health and social welfare. Listen below, and check out additional podcasts. Program Notes: 0:12 Ranked No. 1 and 130 years of Hopkins Nursing 1:27 Breastfeeding study published in
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 15, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Danielle Kress Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Tags: Davidson Podcast New Nursing Podcasts On the Pulse breastfeeding cultural change mothers social change Womens health Source Type: blogs
Living with Panic Disorder: A Therapist ’s Perspective
Picture this, you are driving on the highway and your hands begin to sweat, your heart begins to race. Your feet become numb and you can’t feel the brakes. You feel like you are losing control and do not feel yourself. You think you are having a heart attack. Although you may be experiencing many of the physical symptoms of a heart attack, in actuality, what you are experiencing is a panic attack.
Panic attacks are intense and plain dreadful; and they can strike when you least expect it. Their exact cause is unknown, but we do know that they are typically hereditary. So, if say your mother, father, aunt, uncle or gr...
Source: World of Psychology - May 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julie Galiñanes, MSW, LCSW Tags: Anxiety and Panic Personal Stress Treatment Panic Attacks Panic Disorder Worry Source Type: blogs
Virtual Reality Can Help Women Get Through Childbirth With Less Pain
Erin Martucci didn’t expect to be among the first women to experience virtual reality during childbirth, she just wanted to deliver her baby girl without epidural, narcotics or any other drugs for the labor pain. However, when her doctor, Ralph Anderson introduced her the equipment, the calming beach scene and the soothing audio giving her breathing instructions really helped her through the most difficult parts of labor. The Medical Futurist asked Martucci and Dr. Anderson what they think about the option of using VR for labor pain.
Delivering a baby with VR
It was a grey dawn in November 2016, when Erin Martucci woke u...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 26, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Virtual Reality in Medicine baby birth childbirth digital health future gynecology pain pain management technology VR Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 007 Mega Malaria Extravaganza
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When you think tropical medicine, malaria has to be near the top. It can be fairly complex and fortunately treatment has become a lot simpler. This post is designed to walk you through the basic principals with links to more in depth teaching if your niche is travel medicine, laboratory diagnostics or management of severe or cerebral malaria. If you stubbled on this post while drinking a cup of tea or sitting on the throne and want a few basi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine malaria Plasmodium plasmodium falciparum plasmodium knowles plasmodium malariae plasmodium ovale plasmodium vivax Source Type: blogs
Why we shouldn ’t demonize formula feeding
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Breast is best — we pediatricians say this all the time, because it’s true. Breast milk was uniquely designed for human babies, and many studies have shown its health benefits. In our quest to increase breastfeeding rates here in the US, which are not as high as we want them to be, we encourage new mothers not to use any formula. Hospitals are encouraged not to feed new babies with formula during those first few days before the mother’s milk comes in, and not to send mothers home with samples of formula.
This is all good, as often, if we can get mothers and babies through those first fe...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 3, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Family Planning and Pregnancy Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 006 Watery Diarrhoea
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Our medical student who caught shigella on a Nepalese elective has a thirst for adventure. They plan to help at a Bangladesh refugee camp but the latest CDC report states there have been some cases of cholera. They’ve done a little bit of reading and want your help to teach them all about cholera and how they may prepare and best serve their new community.
Questions:
Q1. What is cholera and how is it transmitted?
Answer and interpreta...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 27, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine cholera diarrhoea john snow ORS rice water diarrhoea watery diarrhoea Source Type: blogs
