What Scientists and Historians Understand: Without Truth, Progress Is An Impossibility
BY MIKE MAGEE
“This too will pass, honey!” That’s what my mother used to say when any of my eleven brothers and sisters or I seemed to be overwhelmed by whatever. And largely, now, three quarters of a century since my birth, she was mostly right. Whether in personal lives or the life of our nation, over a span of time, the slope has been slight, but upward.
But there are weeks, like this past one, where we are forced to witness the beating death of an innocent 29 year old black man at the hands of police in the very city where Martin Luther King was slaughtered 55 years ago, when it would be easy to lose hope. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy black history month Mike Magee Ron DeSantis Source Type: blogs
Brucellosis – how dangerous is it?
Brucellosis is most frequently transmitted via unpasteurized dairy products
Zoonotic diseases to be keeping the world on its toes. What is the disease responsible for the latest outbreak in China and what is its pathogenic potential?
Not the next COVID-19
Brucellosis is a category B bioterror disease, as classed by CDC. While it is one of the most important zoonotic diseases worldwide, brucellosis has limited pandemic potential, since human-to-human transmission is sporadic and occurs via blood, sexual exposure, or breastfeeding.
63% of cross-border events since 1965 were directly linked to the consumption of unpa...
Source: GIDEON blog - September 19, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Streptococcus suis Infection in Thailand
Currently, Streptococcus suis infection is more commonly reported in Thailand than a number of more familiar zoonoses acquired from pigs – Trichinosis, Hepatitis E, Brucellosis and Japanese encephalitis. [1,2] See graph below
References:
Berger S. Infectious Diseases of Thailand, 2019. 506 pages , 169 graphs , 2,339 references. Gideon e-books, https://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/country/infectious-diseases-of-thailand/
Gideon e-Gideon multi-graph tool, https://www.gideononline.com/cases/multi-graphs/
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Source: GIDEON blog - April 23, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs ProMED Source Type: blogs
Meet the Academic Medicine Editorial Board: What Was Your First Publication?
Do all medical educators start out by publishing advanced research? Or do some try their hand at something else first? We asked the members of the Academic Medicine editorial board about their first publication. This is what they said.
M. Brownell Anderson, National Board of Medical Examiners
Except for serving as editor of my high school newspaper, my first publication was: Soler NG, Mast TA, Anderson MB, Kienzler L. A logbook system for monitoring student skills and experiences. J Med Educ. 1981;56:775-777. My first publication as first author was: Anderson MB, Mast TA, Soler NG. A required internal medicine preceptorsh...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 23, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Editorial Board Q & A Featured Academic Medicine Anthony R. Artino Jr Brenessa Lindeman Bridget C. O’Brien Carrie L. Byington Christopher S. Candler Colin P. West Denice Cora-Bramble Grace Huang John P. Sánchez M. Brownell Ander Source Type: blogs
What Do Measles, Tuberculosis, and Grains Have in Common?
What do measles, tuberculosis, and grains have in common? For that matter, what do anthrax, influenza, and brucellosis also share in common with grains?
All the conditions listed are examples of zoonoses, i.e., diseases contracted by humans from animals. When humans first invited domesticated grazing creatures–cows, sheep, goats–into our huts, adobe homes, or caves, often sleeping in the same room, using them for milk or food, we acquired many of their diseases. These diseases were unknown prior to the human domestication of grazing ruminants.
The process of animal domestication changed the course of human civi...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 21, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten gluten-free grain-free grains tuberculosis wheat belly zoonoses Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 230
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 230.
Question 1:
Braille refined ‘night writing’ so it could effectively be used in the blind population. Who originally commissioned ‘night writing’ for the military?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 15, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five beard bowel obstruction Braille Charles Barbier Faget's sign Hans Steininger Napoleon orthodontic wire Sutton's law Sutton's slip Source Type: blogs
Spinal Brucellosis: Integrated Approach
Presenting a short DAMS Unplugged video on a patient with focal brucellar spondylodiscitis and explained in an integrated fashion, which is ideal approach for Doctors preparing for various competitive examsFamous Radiology Blog http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com
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Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - November 10, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 139
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 139
Question 1
Who is likely to have given one of the first blood transfusion in the United States (clue: famous surgeon)?
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William Halsted, at the age of 29.
His sister had delivered her first baby and severe haemorrhage followed.
His sister had uncontrolled haemorrhage and others thought ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five blood transfusion botulinum botulism FFFF herpes zoster hutchinson sign jarsich-herxheimer melanoma syphilis topagnosis William Halsted Source Type: blogs
What Do Measles, Tuberculosis, and Grains Have in Common?
What do measles, tuberculosis, and grains have in common? For that matter, what do anthrax, influenza, and brucellosis also share in common with grains?
All the conditions listed are examples of zoonoses, i.e., diseases contracted by humans from animals. When humans first invited domesticated grazing creatures–cows, sheep, goats–into our huts, adobe homes, or caves, often sleeping in the same room, using them for milk or food, we acquired many of their diseases. These diseases were essentially unknown prior to the human domestication of grazing ruminants.
The process of animal domestication changed the course o...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 9, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat-Free Lifestyle barley corn gluten grains measles rye tuberculosis zoonoses Source Type: blogs
Encephalitis serological evaluation
Hsve
Cmv
Hiv 1 and 2
Vzv
Ebv
Toxo
Lyme
Mycoplasma pn
Leptospirosis
Legionella
Brucellosis
Chlamydia
Syphilis
Aspergillosis (Source: neurologyminutiae)
Source: neurologyminutiae - February 1, 2015 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
Brucellosis Rates in Armenia
The following graph summarizes rates of brucellosis in Armenia and neighboring countries. [1-3]
References:
1. Berger SA. Infectious Diseases of Armenia, 2014. 383 pages. 82 graphs, 1,424 references. Gideon e-books, http://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/country/infectious-diseases-of-armenia/
2. Berger SA. Brucellosis: Global Status, 2014. 137 pages, 136 graphs, 1,137 references. Gideon e-books, http://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/disease/brucellosis-global-status/
3. Gideon graph tool – see http://www.gideononline.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Gideon-Graphs.pps (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - May 27, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs ProMED Armenia brucellosis Source Type: blogs
