Sunday Sermonette: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Skin Diseases
For those who claim that the Bible is the literal and inerrant word of God, and who claim to live by the Bible, Leviticus 13 and 14 ought to pose a considerable problem. Of course nobody who makes that claim is sincere. They just skip the embarrassing parts. Noah ' s ark is a fun story with animals. You can build a theme park around it. These chapters, however, are just deeply weird.It ' s important to note that " leprosy " here does not mean the disease which has been given that name in modern times, now more properly called Hansen ' s Disease. None of the symptoms described here correspond to those of Hansen ' s disease,...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 19, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Tipping Point for Telehealth
By ALEXA B. KIMBALL MD, MPH
The tipping point for telehealth just happened. Many ways of doing business will change forever after the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, and health care, too, will never be the same.
Between the release from some HIPAA requirements announced by President Trump this month, shifts in payor policies, and mandated insurance coverage of telehealth visits, innovation and adoption are taking off like wildfire. As patients and outpatient-based physicians hunker down at home, they are rapidly experimenting, and improving the way care is being delivered remotely.
Our instit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Tech Health Technology Alexa Kimball Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Physician Performance LLC Telehealth Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Scrubbing your hands dry? Soaps, moisturizers, and tips to help keep skin healthy
If you’re like most people trying to do their part in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, you’re washing your hands diligently with soap and water many times a day. Excellent hand hygiene is one essential public health measure to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. Unfortunately, additional handwashing can result in dry skin and hand dermatitis, a rash that can manifest as red, itchy, cracked, or sore skin. People who have a history of eczema or who are prone to dry skin may be even more likely to develop dry, chapped hands during this pandemic.
What’s happening to your hands?
Intact skin acts as a protect...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Janelle Nassim, MD Tags: Health Infectious diseases Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 6th 2020
This study delves into the mechanisms by which a short period of fasting can accelerate wound healing. Fasting triggers many of the same cellular stress responses, such as upregulated autophagy, as occur during the practice of calorie restriction. It isn't exactly the same, however, so it is always worth asking whether any specific biochemistry observed in either case does in fact occur in both situations. In particular, the period of refeeding following fasting appears to have beneficial effects that are distinct from those that occur while food is restricted.
Multiple forms of therapeutic fasting have been repor...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Fasting Accelerates Wound Healing in Mice
This study delves into the mechanisms by which a short period of fasting can accelerate wound healing. Fasting triggers many of the same cellular stress responses, such as upregulated autophagy, as occur during the practice of calorie restriction. It isn't exactly the same, however, so it is always worth asking whether any specific biochemistry observed in either case does in fact occur in both situations. In particular, the period of refeeding following fasting appears to have beneficial effects that are distinct from those that occur while food is restricted.
Multiple forms of therapeutic fasting have been repor...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 3, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Viruses Carnauba Wax and Argan oil on hair – Episode 215
This is Episode 215. I’m your host, Perry Romanowski and with me today all the way from sunny California is Valerie George. Hello Valerie!
We have a few interesting beauty questions to cover today, including:
Can the coronavirus survive on your hair?
What does it mean when a permanent color says it’s not for gray hair?
Can ingredient technology justify a price point?
Is carnauba wax bad for hair?
Does argan oil penetrate the hair shaft and do anything useful?
Beauty Science
Scientists discover bacteria that can eat plastic
Check out The Dream podcast
Beauty Questions
Question 1 – Patty – What is the pot...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - April 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Viruses Carnauba Wax and Argan oil on hair – Episode 215
This is Episode 215. I’m your host, Perry Romanowski and with me today all the way from sunny California is Valerie George. Hello Valerie!
We have a few interesting beauty questions to cover today, including:
Can the coronavirus survive on your hair?
What does it mean when a permanent color says it’s not for gray hair?
Can ingredient technology justify a price point?
Is carnauba wax bad for hair?
Does argan oil penetrate the hair shaft and do anything useful?
Beauty Science
Scientists discover bacteria that can eat plastic
Check out The Dream podcast
Beauty Questions
Question 1 – Patty – What is the pot...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - April 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
The Case of the Bald Baker
Here’s an excerpt from the Revised & Expanded Edition of Wheat Belly, page 184:
I had a heck of a time persuading Gordon to drop the wheat.
I met Gordon because he had coronary disease. Among the causes: abundant small LDL particles along with the usual accompaniments of low HDL, high triglycerides, and high blood sugar. I asked him to completely remove the wheat from his diet in order to reduce or eliminate the small LDL particles and thereby obtain better control over heart health.
Problem: Gordon owned a bakery. Bread, rolls, and muffins were part of his everyday routine, three meals a day, seven days a week. ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 1, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open alopecia areata grain-free hair loss Inflammation wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Thinning hair in women: Why it happens and what helps
Many people think of hair loss as a male problem, but it also affects at least a third of women. But unlike men, women typically experience thinning hair without going bald, and there can be a number of different underlying causes for the problem.
“Some are associated with inflammation in the body. Some are female-pattern hair loss,” says Dr. Deborah Scott, assistant professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Hair Loss Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. But the good news is that in many cases this hair loss can be stabilized with treatment, and it may be reversible. Whe...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kelly Bilodeau Tags: Health Skin and Hair Care Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Micro-OCT Lets Docs Spot Tumors Below Tissue Surface
A collaboration between researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Harvard Medical School, and University of Alabama has led to the development of a prototype device capable of imaging through tissues at resolutions down to 1 micrometer (μm). The micro-OCT imager takes advantage of optical coherence tomography (OCT) at wavelengths between 700 and 950 nanometers. At these wavelengths, the near-infrared light can penetrate a few millimeters below the skin, as well as other soft tissues, to elucidate the structure of individual cells below.
The technology doesn’t rely on expensive equipment, such as CT and MRI...
Source: Medgadget - March 25, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Dermatology Diagnostics GI Oncology Pathology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Skin tag removal: Optional but effective
Skin tags are common, benign skin growths that hang from the surface of the skin on a thin piece of tissue called a stalk. They are made up of many components, including fat, collagen fibers, and sometimes nerve cells and small blood vessels. It’s possible that these collagen fibers and blood vessels become wrapped up inside a layer of skin, leading to the formation of a skin tag. The medical term for a skin tag is acrochordon, and they can also be referred to as soft fibromas or fibroepithelial polyps.
Skin tags are frequently found in areas of friction on the skin, such as the neck, underarms, under the breasts, eyeli...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kristina Liu, MD, MHS Tags: Cosmetic surgery Health Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
Coronavirus can be controlled, but we must embrace sacrifice
In the midst of this coronavirus pandemic, a friend of mine relayed a troubling story to me recently. My friend is a dermatologist who is 9-months pregnant, living and working in a county with no known community spread of the novel coronavirus. After spending time examining a 19-year-old with acne, the patient told her that she […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/cory-michael" rel="tag" > Cory Michael, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Does Beverly Hills MD Brow Serum work and other beauty questions? episode 213
We have a lot of beauty questions to answer today, including:
What do we think of the Beverly Hills MD brow serum
Are lash tints safe?
Why do anti-aging ingredients affect skin color?
Why do dermatologists keep saying hyaluronic acid is pointless?
Perry and Valerie are under self imposed quarantine! But we’re still recording.
Beauty science news
Are cosmetics going to be more regulated?
The spokesperson from the EWG (who likes this new legislation by the way) said the following about the cosmetics industry. “…no category of consumer products is subject to less government oversight than cosmetics and o...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 16th 2020
We report a new class of natural-product-inspired covalent inhibitors of telomerase that target the catalytic active site.
Age-Related Epigenetic Changes that Suppress Mitochondrial Function
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/03/age-related-epigenetic-changes-that-suppress-mitochondrial-function/
Today's open access research reports on two specific epigenetic changes observed in old individuals that act to reduce mitochondrial function. This joins an existing list of genes for which expression changes are known to impact mitochondrial function with age. A herd of hundreds of mitochondria are found...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 15, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Can I use a facial cleanser as a shampoo? Episode 212
Beauty Questions covered
We have a lot of beauty questions to answer today, including:
What are the best facial moisturizers for sensitive skin?
Is there a big difference between facial cleansers and shampoo?
Will castor oil help your hair grow?
How does someone become a cosmetic chemist? (Audio)
Beauty Science News
How is the spread of the coronavirus affecting the beauty industry?
You can’t turn on any news channel without hearing about the coronavirus, and that includes the beauty news! The coronavirus is doing more to the beauty industry than impacting stocks; supply chains for all aspects of the beauty indu...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
