Disease names – what do they mean?
In the midst of the continuing pandemic, World Dictionary Day seems like the perfect occasion to consider the meaning and origin behind some of the most well-known disease names. We’ve been speaking with Dr. Steve Berger, our co-founder, to learn more.
CORONAVIRUSES
Let’s start with the obvious one. COVID 19, which began as a localized outbreak of “Novel Coronavirus” infection, is now a name almost every household in the world will know. COVID-19 comes from COrona VIrus Disease which first appeared in 2019, with the disease itself being caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
SARS was a prominent name back in the early 2...
Source: GIDEON blog - October 16, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
Going Postal? Proposals for Post ‐Office Banking in 2020
Conclusion: The Strange Persistence of Postal BankingTo paraphrase the USPS ' s unofficial motto, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night —nor the evidence from unbanked surveys—have yet managed to dissuade contemporary proponents of postal banking. But there is no reason to believe that postal banking would significantly lower the number of Americans without bank accounts. That does not mean there are no suitable remedies, but th ese are more likely to come from innovative tech firms and retailers in the private sector, and from the removal of regulations that have raised the cost of keeping a bank account. ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 16, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Diego Zuluaga Source Type: blogs
Fermented Foods and Your Gut: Why They Are So Good for Your Health
Do you have more than the occasional abdominal upset? If you find yourself singing the Pepto-Bismol jingle most days, why not consider adding more fermented foods to your diet.
You don’t have to go to a fancy health food store to buy exotic-sounding ingredients. You probably have many staples in your pantry and fridge. Here’s the skinny on fermented foods and your gut and how they benefit your overall health.
What Is Fermentation?
You might think of the term “fermentation” in association with beer or wine. However, this food preparation method goes back thousands of years — as far as 60...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jennifer Landis Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement fermented foods gut health self improvement Source Type: blogs
Seeing Red Or Feeling Blue? People Around The World Make Similar Associations Between Colours And Emotions
By Emma Young
As an English-speaker, I might “see red” with anger, go “green” with envy or, on a bad day, “feel blue”. To me, it seems natural to associate certain colours with particular emotions — but is the same true for people around the world? And if so, do we all make the same emotion/colour matchings? These questions have been investigated in a new study, published in Psychological Science, which has produced some fascinating results.
An international team of 36 researchers, led by Domicele Jonauskaite at the University of Lausanne, analysed data gathered through the on...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Emotion Perception Source Type: blogs
NATO ’s Rogue Member Meddles in Another Conflict
Ted Galen CarpenterThis week,armed clashes erupted between the forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan, exacerbating already serious tensions in the Caucasus.The underlying reason for the latest incident is the long ‐standing struggle between the two countries for control of Ngorno‐Karabakh.That ethnically Armenian region is legally part of Azerbaijan, but Armenia assumes responsibility forguaranteeing the minority enclave ’s self‐declared political independence. The inherently unstable arrangement has led to several previous outbreaks of violence over the past three decades, but the latest incident seems especia...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 29, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
"At the end of our lives, we all become philosophers"
is a quote from the podcast episode "Life Lessons From Dead Philosophers" by AoM:https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/podcast-643-life-lessons-from-dead-philosophers/The Greek word “philosophy” (philosophia) is a compound word, composed of two parts: 'Philos' (love) and 'Sophia' (wisdom), "love of wisdom". Eric Weiner traveled thousands of miles around the world to visit the haunts of philosophers as he sought to better understand their insights and how he might apply them to his own life. He wrote about this philosophic pilgrimage inThe Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons From Dead Philosophers. ...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - September 28, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Philosophy Psychology Source Type: blogs
Streptomyces – the smell of life
The Mall in Central Park, New York City in late autumn on a rainy day
Did you know that humans can detect the smell of wet soil 200,000 times better than sharks sense blood? [1] It appears our olfactory abilities are not that bad after all, at least when it comes to finding potential sources of food. Petrichor, the term to describe the scent was coined in 1964, by scientists I. Bear and R.G. Thomas, meaning “petros” – stone and “ichor” – the blood of the gods [2] in Greek.
Divine or not, Streptomyces is a genus of over 800 bacterial species and subspecies responsible for the eart...
Source: GIDEON blog - September 15, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology Microbiology News Source Type: blogs
Suspension Therapy for Pressure Injuries: A Rediscovered Footnote to Nazi Medicine
Shortly after the end of WWII, a British medical officer inspecting a military hospital in Germany observed a treatment for pressure injuries developed by Nazi doctors. The officer’s name was Captain James Fulton Neil and his case report was published in the British Medical Journal along with a photograph of the unfortunate patient reproduced above. The treatment employed suspension by wires drilled into pelvic bones, and I discovered Captain Neil’s article while researching the history of wound care. This post is a summary of my paper recently published in Advances in Skin & Wound Care that describes the a...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - September 14, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Pressure Injuries & Wound Care bedsore bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD medical history pressure sore pressure sores pressure ulcer pressure ulcers Source Type: blogs
An Old NATO Nightmare Returns: Possible War between Greece and Turkey
Ted Galen CarpenterU.S. and other Western leaders have longworried about what to do if an armed conflict ever erupted between two NATO members.Rapidlyrising tensions between Greece and Turkey, primarily involving a maritime dispute over oil, natural gas, and other resources under the eastern Mediterranean, have brought that nightmare to the surface once again.Germany ’s Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas,warned both governments in late August against further military escalation. “Fire is being played with and any small spark could lead to catastrophe,” he stressed.The heart of the North Atlantic Treaty is Article 5, w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
A Tale of Two Elders
Concern for elderly relatives and friends has been heightened during the coronavirus pandemic. In the last month, I have visited two nonagenarians: one was in the assisted living portion of a large multi-level care facility; the other, in her own home. In both, frequent hand washing or sanitizing by visitors was done. The assisted living … Continue reading "A Tale of Two Elders" (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 6, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: D. Joy Riley Tags: Health Care assisted living bioethics COVID-19 Elder Care Greece nursing home beds syndicated United States Source Type: blogs
How COVID-related stress can disrupt your brain circuits and nine tips to prevent it
COVID-19 has touched each of us somehow. Many now recognize that caring for our mental health is as essential as addressing the virus if we are to emerge stronger, more connected and more resilient.
The Ancient Greeks said “know thyself” to live soundly, but it is only now that we have the technology to start understanding how our individual experiences arise from the complexity of our brains. Gaining understanding of our brain responses offers a window into how mental health symptoms arise, and allows us to mitigate the negative effects of the pandemic on mental health.
At the Stanford Center for Precision Mental Heal...
Source: SharpBrains - September 3, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: World Economic Forum Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness accelerated accelerated learning Anhedonia anxiety disorder biotypes brain circuits Brain-Plasticity chronic-stress clinical depression Cognitive Fog cognitiv Source Type: blogs
PTMC : How to cross a difficult mitral valve ?
This is a PPT presentation taken from archive (Made in 2012)
Please pardon , it lacks audio.
PDF version : Prof SV PTMC mitral valve crossing
Final message
Often times I have seen my Interventional colleagues struggle more at the mitral valve crossing than at IAS puncture during PTMC. Experience prevails over Image assistance. Assessment of LA size , IAS plane , and sub valvular disease seem to be critical. Probably the secret of success which I found out was , smart guys never hesitate to repeat IAS puncture site for optimal trajectory . Over the wire technique is not forbidden.
Unfortunately, TTE guidance is of littl...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - August 22, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized dr venkatesan ppt drsvenkatesan ppt inoue vs accura balloon mitral valve crossing ptmc retrograde ptmc Source Type: blogs
Teaching As a Human Trait
What did people have to talk about when language was new? They had been getting along fine without words, and suddenly they had a few, but what was there to say?Donald M. Morrison has written a book (The Coevolution of Language, Teaching, and Civil Discourse among Humans) that proposes language got up and running as a teaching system. Speculation about teaching is common, but usually limited to teaching how to make stone tools. Opinions are mixed as to whether language was necessary to teach how to make the early tools, especially Oldowan tools. Showing without talking might well have been enough to teach how to make th...
Source: Babel's Dawn - August 17, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
