Learning from old research (digging into history)
I recently submitted a manuscript to a journal. After the usual delay as the reviewers commented on my draft, I received the feedback – one comment stood out to me: “the references are quite old”. I scurried around to find some more recent references and resubmitted, but as I did, I started pondering this drive to continually draw on recent research even if the findings of the older references had not been superseded. There is a sense that maybe journal editors and perhaps people reading the journals think that old research has no merit.
As someone who relishes reading about the history of pain and pain m...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - July 22, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Back pain Low back pain Professional topics history Source Type: blogs
What happened to the first wheat eaters?
In the first Wheat Belly book, I recounted the history of wheat from its wild-growing 14-chromosome einkorn ancestor, to the 28-chromosome emmer of Biblical times, to 42-chromosome spelt and other Triticum species, and finally to high-yield semi-dwarf strains created by agricultural scientists in the 1960s now comprises 99% of all wheat products sold. The quantity of additional changes introduced since are many, including selection of strains enriched in wheat germ agglutinin and phytates for their pest-resistant properties (while increasing human toxicity), gliadin and glutenin for desirable baking characteristics ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 18, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten gluten-free grain-free grains health Inflammation wheat wheat belly Source Type: blogs
.Sunday Sermonette: More family values
Genesis 21 is another long chapter so I ' ll just do the first part today. We ' ll presume that believers accept the miracle of 100 year old parents and let that go by.21 Now theLord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and theLord did for Sarah what he had promised.2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.6 Sarah said, â€...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 8, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Arms Sales: Pouring Gas on the Fires of Conflict
Do arms sales cause war? Or do wars cause arms sales? Critics of arms salesoften argue that selling weapons abroad fuels conflict. And indeed, one can point to one or more sides using American weapons in many recent conflicts including Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Skeptics argue,on the other hand, that weapons don ’t start the fire and that conflicts would arise whether or arms exporters like the United States sell weapons abroad.The debate has important implications for foreign policy. If selling or transferring weapons abroad makes conflict more likely, or intensifies conflicts already in process, then the United States sho...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 2, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs
Bird life in North Norfolk
A few snaps from a recent, short, but sweet, and hot, camping trip to North Norfolk. Several Turtle Doves, one Cuckoo, lots of Whitethroat, Linnets, Swallows, Swifts, House Martins, several Sedge Warblers, Pied Wagtail, Wren, Common Tern, Dunlin, Knot, the usual gulls (Lesser Black-backed, Black-headed), Mallards, Moorhens, Coots, Avocet, Shelduck, Skylark, Kestrel, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, various geese (Canada, Egyptian, Greylag), nesting Common Ringed Plover and Oystercatchers.
Common Ringed Plover Sedge Warbler “singing” Juvenile Coot stepping out
Turtle Dover turring up the Wi-Fi
Mallard making a run for it...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 2, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Science Source Type: blogs
Prime Time Television, Disease, and Death
I recently experienced the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance during a commercial on the evening world news. It was an advertisement promoting a diabetes medicine that showed people with diabetes at a barbecue, cooking and dancing. How different this was from my day in the wound clinic where I saw patient after patient with obesity and diabetes suffering from nonhealing wounds and other complications.
So I tucked this into the back of my mind until another commercial caught my attention. As a litany of awful side effects was delivered by an offscreen announcer, the scene on TV lingered over a young couple enjoying a ...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - June 23, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: An Aging World Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care advertising death end-of-life care Healthcare Quality hospice illness Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD Nursing Homes pressure sores pressure ulcers ter Source Type: blogs
Prime Time Television, Disease, and Death
I recently experienced the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance during a commercial on the evening world news. It was an advertisement promoting a diabetes medicine that showed overweight people at a barbecue, cooking and dancing. How different this was from my day in the wound clinic where I saw patient after patient with obesity and diabetes suffering from nonhealing wounds and other complications.
So I tucked this into the back of my mind until another commercial caught my attention. As a litany of awful side effects was delivered by an offscreen announcer, the scene on TV lingered over a young couple enjoying a wal...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - June 23, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: An Aging World Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care advertising death end-of-life care Healthcare Quality hospice illness Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD Nursing Homes pressure sores pressure ulcers ter Source Type: blogs
U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council: Right Decision, Bad Optics
Confirming rumors that had been circulating for weeks, the Trump administration announced that the United States will withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council. That body consists of 47 member states with rotating, staggered 3-year terms. It is tasked with protecting human rights as well as highlighting and condemning regimes that violate those rights. The Council has been controversial since its inception, especially among American conservatives. George W. Bush ’s administration declined to make the United States a member when the UN General Assembly established the Council in 2006. President Obama reversed that decisio...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 20, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
The EBM Wars: When Evidence has a Price – The ECMO Trials (Part 2)
By ANISH KOKA
The year was 1965, the place was Boston Children’s and a surgery resident named Robert Bartlett took his turn at the bedside of a just born baby unable to breathe. This particular baby couldn’t breathe because of a hole in the diaphragm that had allowed the intestines to travel up into the thoracic cage, and prevent normal development of the lungs. In 1965, Robert Bartlett was engaged in the cutting edge treatment of the time – squeeze a bag that forced oxygenated air into tiny lungs and hope there was enough functioning lung tissue to participate in gas exchange to allow the body...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: A painful day in Canaan
This chapter is sort of a weird interlude between episodes of depravity. It is of interest in that it exemplifies two sharp differences between the Old Testament and the New. When Abram was ninety-nine years old, theLord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.2 Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers. ”3 Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.5 No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I h...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 27, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Best of the United States: The top 10 places to be this vacation
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From the salt flats of Nevada to the glitzy casinos in Las Vegas. From the bounties of nature in the Yellowstone to the daunting skylines of NYC. The USA has a lot of diverse vistas to offer to the keen traveler who knows where to look.
Here are the 10 of the finest US destinations for the thirsty traveler yearning for a new experience.
Yosemite national park
Millions of people visit Yosemite...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Silvia Watson Tags: happiness Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Just when you think it couldn't get more depraved
As we have seen, whatever the Bible may be it is not a manual for morality. Genesis 16 takes it to 11. (But don ' t worry, it gets worse.)Now Sarai, Abram ’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;2 so she said to Abram, “TheLord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her. ”Abram agreed to what Sarai said.3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.Credit to the NIV for call...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 20, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Crystal Healing, Crystal Therapy and Energy Healing
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Healing Crystals used in Spiritual Healing, Holistic Healing, and Chakra Balancing
When people think of crystal healing, they usually visualize precious gemstones or mythical talismans being used by a New Age practitioner. Crystals and healing gemstones have fascinated humans for centuries because of their unique colors, complexities and their functional use for making tools and artifacts. They were mined ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lane Jesse Tags: featured happiness health and fitness psychology chakra crystal healing crystal therapy energy healing holistic healing spiritual healing Source Type: blogs
God as con artist
For some reason we don ' t hear much preaching about Genesis 15, even though it seems pretty juicy. Here it is.After this, the word of theLord came to Abram in a vision:“Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward. ”2 But Abram said, “SovereignLord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus? ”3 And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”4 Then the word of theLord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 13, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Interview with a Scientist: Jeramiah Smith on the Genomic Antics of an Ancient Vertebrate
The first known descriptions of cancer come from ancient Egypt more than 3,500 years ago. Early physicians attributed the disease to several factors, including an imbalance in the body’s humoral fluids, trauma, and parasites. Only in the past 50 years or so have we figured out that mutations in critical genes are often the trigger. The sea lamprey, a slimy, snake-like blood sucker, is proving to be an ideal tool for understanding these mutations.
The sea lamprey, often called the jawless fish, is an ancient vertebrate whose ancestor diverged from the other vertebrate lineages (fish, reptiles, birds and mammals) more than...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 9, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Chris Palmer Tags: Being a Scientist Genetics Chromosomes Cool Creatures Research Organisms Source Type: blogs
