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Chatbots Will Serve As Health Assistants
Chatbots, intelligent personal assistants, artificial intelligence supported messaging apps or voice controlled bots are forecasted to replace simple messaging apps soon. In healthcare, they could take off the burden on medical professionals regarding easily diagnosable health concerns or quickly solvable health management issues. Here is the evolution of bots as health assistants. Imagined conversation with a health chatbot Hi Viola, how can I help you? I have a mild fever, headache, I feel dizzy. What could it be? What is your temperature at the moment? 38C. For how long have you been feeling the headache? In the l...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 13, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Telemedicine AI chatbot digital health gc4 Innovation intelligent personal assistant machine learning Source Type: blogs

6 ways to help keep your baby at a healthy weight
Follow me on Twitter @drClaire Everyone loves a chubby baby — there’s something about a roly-poly belly and thighs that is completely adorable. “Baby fat” is something people don’t worry about. Not only do we think of it as cute, we think of it as healthy — and temporary. Unfortunately, it’s not healthy or temporary. Which is why parents need to be mindful of their baby’s weight. It used to be that baby fat was indeed healthy and temporary. In days when infant mortality was high, a little heft meant some extra reserves for the baby. And until recently, most children lost their baby fat once they got old eno...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Healthy Eating Parenting Source Type: blogs

Procrustes
Crossposted fromTheFatLadySingsThis morning I read Ragen Chastain ’s latest post, They Want Fat People to Swallow Balloons Now about yet another invasive, potentially lethal weight loss device called Obera. As Ragen explains, Obera is a silicon balloon inserted into the stomach and left in place for 6 months and is promoted as non-surgical, non-invasive (though how having to be sedated in order to have the balloon inserted qualifies as non-invasive beats me), non-permanent, and no incisions. The “non-permanent” part is c orrect because as with any such effort the weight loss is not permanent. If you go to their...
Source: Jung At Heart - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs

Raising Community Voices: The Power of Storytelling in Public Health
Thursday, April 6, 2017 11am-12:30pm PST / 2pm – 3:30pm EST Join us for the next event in the Health Communication Matters Webinar Series during National Public Health Week to learn how to use storytelling to advance public health goals for the communities you serve. This webinar will have presentations from two creative professionals. First, Andrea Spagat, West Coast Regional Director of the StoryCenter will share tips on how to create effective stories for education or advocacy purposes. Andrea will share her experience with participatory story composition, the mechanics of video filming and editing, and some strate...
Source: BHIC - March 30, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Public Health Webinars Source Type: blogs

Study: Parents ’ educational and income levels (not breastfeeding per se) account for the brain development gains in breastfed children
CONCLUSIONS: Although 1 positive benefit of breastfeeding was found by using propensity score matching, the effect size was modest in practical terms. No support was found for statistically significant gains at age 5 years, suggesting that the earlier observed benefit from breastfeeding may not be maintained once children enter school. To learn more about lifelong brain development: What are cognitive abilities and how to boost them? How learning changes your brain (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - March 30, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness brain breastfeeding cognitive-abilities cognitive-development noncognitive noncognitive development Source Type: blogs

When should you introduce gluten to your baby?
Infants with a first-degree relative (parent or sibling) with celiac disease, and who carry an at-risk (DQ2 or DQ8) gene, have a higher risk of developing the autoimmune disorder triggered by gluten-containing foods. Many parents, especially those with a family history of celiac disease, are understandably nervous about introducing gluten into their child’s diet. They wonder whether there is an ideal time to introduce gluten, if they can prevent celiac disease by never introducing gluten, and for those with celiac disease, how to incorporate gluten into their child’s diet without getting sick themselves. Previously it ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 28, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/maureen-leonard" rel="tag" > Maureen Leonard, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions GI Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

A physician-mother on maternity leave learns how she can ’t ignore her job
The stretcher was wheeled into the operating room. I had been in this room on three prior occasions, under very different circumstances. But today, as I lay flat on the table, listening to the small talk around me, I tried to breathe against the weight of the baby and the pressure of the procedure. My husband will later tell me it happened so quickly, but for me, time stood still until I heard the crying. A reassuring sound. A healthy baby girl. After settling into the world, they brought her over for me to admire. My reaction was the same as with our first daughter; I vomited. So much for the glamor of child...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 23, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/amy-hughes" rel="tag" > Amy Hughes, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

Hospitals should quit alienating pregnant health care consumers
When Barbara (name changed) recently underwent her fourth Cesarean section, she was appalled by the care she received during her recovery. Her catheter overflowed, and a CNA asked her to check her own incision. When the CNA asked if she was breastfeeding her baby, Barbara replied tearfully that she couldn’t lift her out the bassinette. Rooming-in is a great idea. Unless you’ve had a 36-hour labor or major abdominal surgery. Pregnant women are vital health care consumers as they usually have a partner and one or more children who will presumably be accessing care in the future. However, many pregnant women still e...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 21, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/poppy-daniels" rel="tag" > Poppy Daniels, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

What ’s the evidence for evidence-based medicine?
Patients come in all the time asking about things they read about on the internet, or heard about from a friend. It may be an unexpected explanation for their mysterious symptoms, or a new test, or an amazing treatment they want to try. Heck, when I see things that I’m curious about, I research them, and sometimes I try them, too. When I was hugely pregnant and due and couldn’t stand even one more day as an awkward whale, I tried red raspberry leaf tea. When breastfeeding proved both difficult and painful, I tried …oh. just about everything, actually. Fenugreek tea, lanolin ointment, chamomile poultices. When I w...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Health care Managing your health care Tests and procedures Source Type: blogs

Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 175
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Welcome to the 175th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature. This edition contains 4 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Justin Morgenstern and, of cour...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 8, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Justin Morgenstern Tags: Education Emergency Medicine Obstetrics / Gynecology R&R in the FASTLANE EBM literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs

PART II: MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE BRAIN Bioethics and Meaning Derived from Science
Catherine Ryan and Gary Weinberg’s documentary film MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE BRAIN shows Dr. Marian Cleeves Diamond, PhD is not only a theoretical scientist but also an applied one. The Nuremberg Code—the rules for research conduct arising from the Nuremberg trials—has ten points. The second of those ten is that: Experiments should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature. Dr. Diamond’s scientific integrity at the work bench has yielded a change in how we view human capacity. ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 6, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: September Williams, MD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Is breastfeeding as a working doctor an impossible task?
I am a new mom to a beautiful 8-month-old girl, and I am breastfeeding. I am also a doctor at a large, well-known academic institution. The hospital where I work delivers several thousand babies a year, and highly encourages their new moms to breastfeed. They offer a postpartum consultation with a lactation consultant, keep the baby in the mom’s room 24/7 while in the hospital, and provide several other pro-breastfeeding initiatives. I delivered my baby at the hospital where I work, and I felt very supported in my efforts to breastfeed. After maternity leave, I returned to work, breast pump in tow, with the resolutio...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 27, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/maisie-jackson" rel="tag" > Maisie Jackson, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Pediatrics Source Type: blogs