Researchers Discover Gene Linked to Esophageal Cancer
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a gene linked to esophageal cancer.
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Source: HealthNewsBlog.com - May 11, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: esophageal-cancer trim44 Source Type: blogs
Protection from periodontitis and related chronic diseases
28 October 2013 Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. doi:10.1128/AAC.01375-13 American Society for Microbiology A drug currently used to treat intestinal worms could protect people from periodontitis, an advanced gum disease, which untreated can erode the structures - including bone - that hold the teeth in the jaw. The research was published ahead of print in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Current treatment for periodontitis involves scraping dental plaque, which is a polymicrobial biofilm, off of the root of the tooth. Despite this unpleasant and costly ordeal, the biofilm frequently grows back. But the investigat...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - November 22, 2013 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
I have no way of knowing whom I may have hurt
A colleague writes with a thought-provoking story:As is often the case, learning the meaning of something can happen well after the actual events that precipitate our own maturation. So it was for me when my mother developed a growth on her esophagus just before her stomach, in the fall of 2009.My mother was scared and my father was trying not to appear scared. Together, they were preparing themselves to be lead by the healthcare system in the discovery of exactly what my mother was afflicted with and how it would be treated. Having started my life in healthcare 29 years ago, working then as an X-r...
Source: Running a hospital - November 20, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Critical Care Compendium update
LITFL’s Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.
Currently there are almost 1,500 entries with more in the works… Some pages are more developed than others, and all the pages are being constantly revised and improved. Links to new references and online resources are added daily, with an emphasis on those that are free and open access (FOAM!).
These pages originated from the FCICM exam study notes created by Dr Jeremy Fernando in 2011, and have been updated, modified and added to since. As such will be particularly us...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Critical Care Compendium Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured CCC LITFL collection Source Type: blogs
On the Same Day, Two More Tobacco Control Practitioners Tell the Public that Smoking May Be as Safe as Using Electronic Cigarettes
If a tobacco company were to publicly state that we don't know if smoking is any more hazardous than using non-tobacco, non-combusted electronic cigarettes, we would instantly attack those companies and perhaps initiate a lawsuit, claiming public fraud. We would cite the damages caused to the public by undermining their appreciation of the serious hazards of cigarette smoking by even suggesting that these products, which kill more than 400,000 Americans each year, may be no more hazardous than inhaling aerosol from a mixture of propylene glycol and nicotine (that contains no tobacco and involves no combustion).But what hap...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - October 31, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators 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
Insurance wars and woes
This morning's news includes a story on a gentleman with stage IV esophageal cancer who is disputing with his insurance company to cover the costs of his treatment. He is treated at Dana Farber and is pursuing alternative treatments. I am fully supportive of efforts to prevent insurance companies from making medical decisions.Also, I am a big fan of preventing bloated insurance costs where people expect everything to be covered and then can't understand why their premiums keep going up in leaps and bounds. There has to be a happy medium while is why insurance companies need to be allowed to draw the line somewhere.As yo...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - September 2, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: insurance costs cancer treatment treatment options Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Noted Pancreas Surgeon Dr. Charles J. Yeo
Recently, InsideSurgery had a chance to speak with Dr. Charles J. Yeo about his career as a top Whipple and pancreas surgeon and his ongoing role as a surgical leader and educator.
As the Samuel D. Gross Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery, you welcomed your second intern class to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania last month. What one piece advice do you have for your new trainees?
One piece of advice….that’s tough! Several pieces of advice….enjoy the challenges and experiences of internship; read and increase your knowledge base outside of that 80 hours; practice kno...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 12, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Interviews Source Type: blogs
Cardiology MCQ Test 6
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Source: Cardiophile MD - July 16, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs
CDx Diagnostics Wide Area Transepithelial Sample Biopsy with 3D Analysis Effective in Spotting Barrett’s Esophagus (VIDEO)
An interesting tool from CDx Diagnostics (Suffern, NY) is proving effective at identifying dysplasia and Barrett’s Esophagus, potential precursors for esophageal cancer.The company’s WATS3D (Wide Area Transepithelial Sample biopsy with 3-dimensional analysis) technology collects a more varied sample of tissue than individual pokes using forceps and collects more samples to analyze than cytology. These are then analyzed in 3D throughout the entire sample to spot any signs of disease, a technique that in the latest study showed an “increased detection yield of Barrett’s Esophagus by 20% (9-32%, p &#...
Source: Medgadget - May 21, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: GI Source Type: blogs
With GERD, How Often Should My Father Have an EGD Done?
GERD, also known as acrid reflux disease, can lead to esophageal cancer. People with GERD are encouraged to have endoscopic exams to check for this cancer.Contributor: Melissa HowePublished: Apr 17, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - April 17, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
OralCDx Places Oral Cancer on Short List of Preventable Diseases
Oral Cancer Awareness Week: A Disease That is Rapidly Growing Among Women, Young People and Non-Smokers 4 billion mathematical operations per second used to analyze each of the 100,000 cells painlessly obtained from the mouth of one patient. Over 500,000 patients already tested by primary care physicians, ENTs and dentists. 50,000 precancerous abnormalities found. 2,000 lives saved. Oral cancer has met its match. Oral Cancer Awareness Week was created by people who saw the anguish that oral cancer can cause and refused to give up. This week is in memory of all those who have suffered and died from...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - April 16, 2013 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Fibro what?
So I was told last September that I have fibromyalgia by my rheumatologist. I had been referred to her by my pain management doctor who had been treating me for my back pain from degenerating disks. I also had pain in lots of other places that was getting worse over the years as opposed to better. His diagnosis to my rheumatologist was myofascial pain or fibromyalgia with possible rheumatoid arthritis.Well the rheumatologist confirmed within ten minutes of meeting me that I had fibromyalgia. My pain doctor had put me on Savella, Lyrica, and Cymbalta at different times in the past to treat my pain. Those are the only medica...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 22, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: symptoms fibromyalgia medication pain treatment Source Type: blogs
A drug for every wheat condition
Nina posted this tale of an entire family’s health gone sour, treated with medication after medication, only to discover that it was wheat at the bottom of it all.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your book. So many answers in one place.
My oldest daughter had what moms call “upset stomach” a lot while growing up. She began having acid reflux which only got worse and, by her sophomore year of high school, she had grade B esophageal ulcers and was diagnosed with depression. By senior year, her GI doctor had run all the tests. She was on 3 types of meds: one for reflux, one for irritable bowel, and one...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 12, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Gluten sensitivity Wheat-elimination success stories Source Type: blogs
Celiac is not a disease
. Lest you think I’ve gone off my rocker, let me explain.
Say that, of 100 people you know who smoke, only 1 gets lung cancer. Do we declare that the only person who has problems with cigarettes is the poor unfortunate guy or girl with the one lung cancer? Shall we ignore the 60 cases of chronic bronchitis and emphysema, the 10 abdominal aortic aneurysms, the 5 thoracic aortic and iliofemoral aneurysms, the oral, tongue, and laryngeal cancers, and the several dozen other conditions that typically develop in smokers–but not as imminently fatal as lung cancer?
In other words, do we dismiss all these conditions ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 5, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Celiac disease Source Type: blogs
