Unveiling alcohol ’ s health paradox: heart benefits and detrimental effects
Tons of ink have been expended on the health effects, both positive and negative, of alcohol consumption. Beneficial effects on the heart were discussed in the 1990s based on the “French paradox.” A paper published in 1995 noted that there was less ischemic heart disease in France compared to the U.S., despite higher saturated fat
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Unveiling alcohol’s health paradox: heart benefits and detrimental effects originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Edward Hoffer, MD Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Academics Weigh In On How To Bring Down Trump
By MIKE MAGEE
This week, as a fourth indictment came due, a tragic Donald Trump headed back to social media, digging himself into a hole that will eventually lead to some personal hell. But before Donald Trump, there was William Frederick Kohler.
He made his appearance on the American stage on February 28, 1995, an historian who had just completed his “Great Work” – The Guilt and Innocence of Hitler’s Germany. He was odd and dark and duplicitous. His life’s work was ready to go. All that was left was to write the introduction to his book. Instead his attention was diverted, as he followed his impulse to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Mike Magee Trump Source Type: blogs
THCB 20th Birthday Classic: As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
By MATTHEW HOLT
Our 20th birthday continues with a few classics coming out. Back in 2005 I was really cutting a lyrical rug, and would never miss a chance to get that Cambridge training in Marxism into use. This essay about whether health care should be a public or private good has always been one of my favorites, even if I’m not sure Starbucks is still making Frappuccinos. And 18 years later the basic point of this essay remains true, even if many of you will not have a clue who Vioxx or Haliburton were or why they mattered back then!
Those of you who think I’m an unreconstructed commie will correctly suspec...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Communism Frappuccinos Source Type: blogs
How to Strengthen the Role of Community Engagement on the Surge of Teenage Pregnancy in the Philippines
Al Francis Deniel Mantilla (Polytechnic University of the Philippines), Daphney Jay Aquino (Polytechnic University of the Philippines), Julia Louisse Castillo (Polytechnic University of the Philippines), Dominec France Magadan (Polytechnic University of the Philippines), How to Strengthen the Role of Community... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 12, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Investigating the Secrets of Cancer-Causing Viruses
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Mandy Muller.
While she was in graduate school, Mandy Muller, Ph.D., became intrigued with viruses that are oncogenic, meaning they can cause cancer. At the time, she was researching human papillomaviruses (HPVs), which can lead to cervical and throat cancer, among other types. Now, as an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst, Dr. Muller studies Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), which causes the rare AIDS-associated cancer Kaposi sarcoma.
A Continental Change
Dr. Muller has come a long way, both geographically and professionally, s...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Infectious Diseases Microbes Profiles RNA Viruses Source Type: blogs
Price ’ s Protein Puzzle: 2023 update
One of the joys (?) of having been online for…quite some time now…is watching topics reappear every few years or so.
What is the longest coherent word or phrase present in the amino acid sequence of a real protein?— Dr. Caroline Bartman (@Caroline_Bartma) July 21, 2023
Yes, it’s Price’s Protein Puzzle which I last wrote about back in 2019. The good news is that my code still runs, so I’ve updated the results of an English word search versus the UniProt Reviewed (Swiss-Prot) protein database. Just for fun I threw in a few other languages too.
So what’s new?
In terms of...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - July 26, 2023 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: bioinformatics statistics algorithm amino acid rstats search words Source Type: blogs
Consciously Exploring Your Relationship with Drugs
Humanity has a complex, long-term relationship with a wide variety of drugs. In this article let’s delve into your personal relationship with drugs, how you frame them, and how you might upgrade these relationships to be more conscious and aligned with your path of self-development. Let’s include common drug sources like coffee, tea, and chocolate too, so this will be very inclusive.
My purpose here isn’t to encourage or discourage you from using any particular substances but rather to invite you to take a more conscious and honest look at your current frames, attitudes, biases, and behaviors, and dete...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Emotions Health Lifestyle Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
Eggs And High Blood Pressure: Decoding The Dietary Dilemma
Conclusion
In navigating the winding road of managing high blood pressure, several key points emerge. Eggs, while a source of ongoing debate, can form part of a balanced diet for most people. It’s essential, though, to consider your entire dietary pattern, emphasizing heart-healthy choices like those found in the DASH and Mediterranean diets.
Avoiding processed meats and sugary breakfast options, while incorporating nutrient-dense foods, can significantly impact your blood pressure management. But remember, it’s not all about diet. A comprehensive approach, involving regular physical activity, stress mana...
Source: The EMT Spot - July 21, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
A Winnable War
Many commentators have likened the current Russia-Ukraine war to the Western Front of World War I. A better historical precedent to understand the current fighting in Ukraine can be found in the U.S. Army ' s experience fighting against Nazi forces in the hedgerows of Normandy in France in the summer of 1944. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 21, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Raphael S. Cohen; Gian Gentile Source Type: blogs
The First Amendment Protects Against Bad ‐Faith Prosecutions
Thomas A. BerryIn 2020, Netflix began streaming the French filmCuties. The film follows an 11 ‐year‐old Senegalese immigrant, Amy, torn between her family’s conservative culture and a more progressive French society. In the film, Amy is shown joining a pre‐teen dance group (the “Cuties”), whose sexualized routines are heavily influenced by social media. The film’s me ssage is critical of the influence of social media on young girls, but the film itself attracted significant controversy for its scenes depicting the dance group’s provocative performances.There is room for reasonable debate as to wh...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry Source Type: blogs
A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!
Written by Pendell MeyersA woman in her 30s with minimal past medical history presented simply stating she was " feeling unwell. " Her symptoms started suddenly about 48 hours ago, but had continued to worsen, including epigastric discomfort, nausea, cough, and dyspnea and lightheadedness on exertion. She denied chest pain and denied feeling any palpitations, even during her triage ECG:What do you think?Despite otherwise normal vital signs, she was appropriately triaged to the critical care area of the ED.She was awake, alert, well perfused, with normal mental status and overall unremarkable physical exam except for ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 3, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Missa Luba
We had a record of this in the house when I was growing up. I can ' t remember what I knew about it - maybe that it was from Africa, but maybe not which country. (I realise now that " from Africa " is not a meaningful description any more than describingpibroch orcerdd dant as " from Europe " would be). We had a lot of folk music in the house, so perhaps I saw it as folk music. And perhaps there is truth in that.I now have that same record in my house. The front of the record sleeve is shown above.It is on Spotify, and most of it is inThe Planet ' s Greatest African Music volume 2, dated ...
Source: Browsing - May 22, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: music Source Type: blogs
La Sombrita, or, How to Fail at Infrastructure
Paul MatzkoLos Angeles spent $200,000 on La Sombrita ( ‘“in the shade”), a bus stop shade/light structure that provides littleshade or light. It has been almost too easy to criticize its design, the token DEI framing given to the project, how most of the funds went to a global junket for the designers, or the fact that city officials held a tone deaf celebratory press conference for its unveiling. Would this “make waiting for the bus at night [feel]safer” to you?But La Sombrita isn ’t really the problem. Rather, its failures are symptoms of its designers trying to work around deeper, structural problems ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Paul Matzko Source Type: blogs
How RPM Can Reduce AI ’s Bias Problem & Improve Health Equity
The following is a guest article by Arnaud Rosier, PhD, Founder and CEO at Implicity
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most promising breakthrough technologies of the modern healthcare era, yet it also has the potential to be one of the most dangerous. AI algorithms that are trained on limited or poorly representative data sets can exhibit signs of bias in their results, skewing decision-making and possibly leading to ethnic, gender, and social discrimination and other unintentional consequences for the patients they serve.
Unfortunately, research shows that bias is already creeping into the nascent field of AI an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Academic Medical Center Ai Algorithm AI bias AMC Arnaud Rosier PhD Artificial Intelligence Dr. Arnaud Rosier HCP Source Type: blogs
Lock'em up -- cont.
In answer to a reader ' s question, no, mass incarceration in the U.S. is not because we have more crime. Violent crimes are easier to count internationally, and people care about them more, so that ' s the metric the Prison Policy Institute used for this comparison. They also show the huge disparities among the states of the U.S. This is a little hard to read so just keep in mind that low and to the right means a high rate of incarceration compared to the rate of violent crime. France and Louisiana, for example, have about the same rate of violent crime, but Louisiana locks up about 8 times as many people per capita. ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
