Top stories in health and medicine, December 6, 2013
From MedPage Today:
Fewer Mammograms Mean More Positive Nodes? The frequency of mammography may not have an impact on the size of tumors when they’re discovered, but fewer screens may be associated with more lymph node positivity.
Diabetes: More Than Type 1 and Type 2. Diabetes is a much more heterogeneous disease than the current system of classification implies.
Diverticulosis Progression Rare. Colonic diverticulosis progresses to acute diverticulitis more rarely than previously expected, particularly among older patients.
Off-Guideline Invasive Tests Carry Risks in Lung Cancer. Less than a quarter of patients di...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 6, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News Cancer Diabetes Endocrinology GI Pulmonology Source Type: blogs
Medical Mispronunciations and Misspelled Words: The Definitive List.
Hearing medical mispronunciations and seeing misspelled words are an under appreciated joy of working in healthcare. Physicians often forget just how alien the language of medicine is to people who don't live it everyday. The best part about being a physician is not helping people recover from critical illness. The best part is not about listening and understanding with compassion and empathy. Nope, the best part about being a physician is hearing patients and other healthcare providers butcher the language of medicine and experiencing great entertainment in the process. Doctors c...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - October 2, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Scientists describe new form of ib syndrome
This study expands our understanding a bit as to what might cause IBS. It’s such a common condition as well as there may be various flavors, ” Spiegel stated. “We’ve now additional a new flavor for the menu, a brand new risk factor of developing IBS. Through learning more, we may be able to expand the therapies we can utilize on these individuals. ”
The research was funded by simply Shire Drugs.
“Our findings support the changing paradigm of diverticular disease as a chronic illness- not merely a good acute condition marked by simply abrupt complications. Defina...
Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - September 5, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Pancreatic Cancer? the clock ticks down…
Earlier this summer I alluded to some medical problems. I sit here now, with occasional winches of abdominal pain, eight days post-op. The short version: I have a history of diverticulosis. After a couple of flare-ups of diverticulitis, we did … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - August 22, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed Pancreatic cancer Surgery Source Type: blogs
Prince Philip Abdominal Surgery Worrisome for Cancer?
Although we are not participating in the care of Prince Philip, husband to Queen Elizabeth of England, we have noted news reports that the prince consort is scheduled for “exploratory surgery” shortly after findings of abdominal.
He was admitted to the hospital today under his own power after attending an afternoon garden party for a planned surgery for abnormal abdominal findings detected during a staged medical workup.
Prince Philip is expected to be in the hospital for two weeks.
This announcement by Buckingham Palace is very carefully worded and is likely not sharing all the details known to the Palace at t...
Source: Inside Surgery - June 6, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Medical News Wire exploratory Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth surgery Source Type: blogs
Dementia Quotes, Sayings and Stories That Will Make You Laugh!
Over the years I've had some pretty fascinating, interesting and humorous conversations with dementia patients. Behind all that agitation and confusion that can make hospitalization for demented people so complicated and full of risk is the innocence of dementia itself. Dementia is a child like state of innocence that separates the patient's reality from ours. It is that skewed reality that drives both the pain and humor of dementia.
Take for example the demented old lady with multiple medical problems. She's brushing her teeth with the help of staff. She's laughing and giggling and then blurts out from nowhere, "I ...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - May 19, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Basidiobolus! – genus of the month at ATCC
ATCC sent out this email with the Genus of the month as Basidiobolus. It is worth noting they call out B. ranarum as inhabitant of bat and rodent guts but it is mainly known (and named) for being associated with frogs (hence the ‘rana’). It has some quite cool biology, it grows dimorphically as a yeast or hyphae, and is reported to have a large genome (Henk and Fisher PLoS One 2012).
Note that the genome and transcriptome of B. meristosporus is being sequenced as part of the 1000 Fungal genomes project from samples Andrii Gryganski prepared. Don’t forget that YOU can propose genomes to this project by ...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - April 26, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: 1000 Fungal Genomes zygomycete andrii basidiobolus Basidiobolus ranarum fungal 1000 genomes Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 091
Welcome to the in-depth 91st edition!
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
EKG Videos
This weeks ripper is taken out by the master of ECG’s Amal Mattu. Each week he puts out a n...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 15, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
An Answer to the Question: I have a really serious concern! I am on suboxone?
I thought I’d post this question from Ashley since a lot of people seem to be asking it lately:
which has helped me stay sober off of heroin for the past year and a half. I have begun to taper off of the suboxone, but it has given me serious constipation. I know that I am not ready to be completely off of suboxone but, I have tapered off somewhat. The problem is I got really bad constipation from the medication. My dr. told me I need to be on a laxative with a stool softener while I am taking the suboxone to prevent the constipation, but I feel as if the laxative is making me lose to much weight and I don’t hav...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - January 8, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Heroin Treatment Source Type: blogs
Recto-Vesical Fistula
Recto-vesical fistula is an anomalous communication (fistulous tract) between the bladder and the rectum. The common etiologies are diverticulitis, Crohn’s disease, irradiation, traumatic, bladder or colo-rectal cancer and tuberculosis.
Common symptoms of presentation are fecaluria (presence of feces in the urine), pneumaturia (passage of gas in the urine), hematuria (presence of blood or clots in the urine), intestinal symptoms, abdominal pain, and fever/chills.
Evaluation: urine test (urinalysis) shows food fibers, fecal particles, bacteria, white blood cells and red blood cells.
Cystography shows fistulous tract a...
Source: Unbounded Medicine - March 1, 2012 Category: Surgery Authors: Jon Mikel I ñarritu Tags: Fast Facts Medical Images fistula urology Source Type: blogs
