Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in Singapore
Highest rates of Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFM) in Asia are reported by Singapore and Macao. In fact, the incidence of HFM in Singapore is even higher than that of the more familiar dengue fever. [1,2]
Reference:
Berger SA. Infectious Diseases of Singapore, 2016. 461 pages, 112 graphs, 2073 references. Gideon e-books, http://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/country/singapore/
See Gideon Graphs Tool at: http://www.gideononline.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Gideon-Graphs.pps
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Source: GIDEON blog - May 6, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs ProMED Hand foot and mouth disease Singapore Source Type: blogs
The dwindling of the medical lexicon. It matters.
I often wondered what got me here. I am a reader. Give me a book, an apple and a bus ride home and I was lost in the words. Send me to school and make me create 3×5 word cards for hundreds of new words and I was hooked. Then off to high school where science gave me a new vocabulary. Words could be traced to the civilizations of Plato, Confucius, and Freud. Never had the phrase “medicine is an art” intertwined so wisely as when I realized central pontine myelinosis was the illness deemed for the character Monsieur Villefort in The Count of Monte Cristo. The scientific world and literary world unite!
Howev...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 26, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Gita Balakumar, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
Do You Need a Medical Degree to Crowdsource Medicine?
By PATTI ZETTLER
There’s been a lot of talk about crowdsourcing lately. Everything from criminal investigations, to the tax code, to ski resorts have been crowdsourced or considered for crowdsourcing. And now medicine has thrown its hat in this trendy ring. KQED’s “Future of You” recently reported on a company called CrowdMed that wants to be the “Wikipedia of medicine.” (Due to space constraints, this blog post will not engage the important question of whether Wikipedia itself, is, in fact, the Wikipedia of medicine.)
CrowdMed touts itself as harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to improve and expedite diagnosis...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB CrowdMed KQED Source Type: blogs
My child has hand-foot-and-mouth disease. What do I need to know?
Desiree wrote in, “My 15-month daughter and a few other kids at her daycare were just diagnosed with hand-foot-mouth disease. I would like to hear how common it is, what treatments (or ways to soothe) you find helpful, and how you would differentiate this from measles or chickenpox. For example, my little one has blisters all over her body, not just H-F-M. What are other complications? Can she get it again?”
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 15, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Roy Benaroch, MD Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
How I Break Down Pediatric Rashes
More than once, I’ve heard colleagues and residents make the statement, “I’m no good at pediatric rashes.” The truth is that there is usually a large waste basket of “nonspecific viral exanthems” that are easy to bring to closure in your conversation with parents, and then there are similar-appearing rashes associated with drug reactions.
Then there are the targeted lesions, which include acute annular urticaria or urticaria multiforme, erythema multiforme minor, and serum sickness-like rashes that are frequently confused for each other.
My simplistic approach continues by acknowledging that there are...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - March 31, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
How I Break Down Pediatric Rashes
More than once, I’ve heard colleagues and residents make the statement, “I’m no good at pediatric rashes.” The truth as I see it is that there is usually a large waste basket of “nonspecific viral exanthems” that are easy to bring to closure in your conversation with parents and then similar appearing rashes associated with drug reactions. Then there are the targeted lesions, which include acute annular urticaria or urticaria multiforme, erythema multiforme minor, and serum sickness-like rashes that are frequently confused for each other. My simplistic approach continues by acknowledging that there are rare r...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - March 31, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in Singapore
Rates of Hand, Foot and Mouth disease (HFM) in Singapore exceed those of all other reporting countries in Asia. In fact, HFM is at least as common as varicella in Singapore [1,2]. See graph:
References:
1. Berger SA. Enterovirus Infections: Global Status, 2015. 102 pages, 67 graphs, 1,936 references. Gideon e-books, http://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/disease/enterovirus-infections-global-status/
2. Berger SA. Infectious Diseases of Singapore, 2015. 460 pages, 112 graphs, 1,964 references. Gideon e-books, http://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/country/singapore/
3. Gideon graph tool at http://www.gideonon...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 21, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs ProMED Hand Hand foot and mouth disease Singapore Source Type: blogs
"Speaking Truth To Crap"
Dalai's note: This piece is reprinted from today's American Thinker. It is one of the most eloquent, heartfelt, and most importantly, ACCURATE renditions of the Mideast situation today. It is a long essay, but well worth your time. Know the history. Know the TRUTH.Speaking Truth to CrapBy Dan GordonI've been home from participating in Operation Protective Edge for about a week. I am in uniform no more, though I still wear my dog tags in solidarity with my brothers in arms, who, like all citizens of Israel, await the outcome of cease-fire talks in Cairo. Because we never wanted this war. It was forced upon us by Hamas. Th...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - August 19, 2014 Category: Radiologists Source Type: blogs
Love and Homeopathics: Mental Health, Community Care, and the Political Imagination
Section: Articles Dissociation: Trapped in Your BodyImagine you are standing with your head poking out of a little tent, alone in an enormous open clearing, in the middle of a raging hurricane. There’s almost no space to hear yourself think over the wind. At the edge of the clearing, far away, the wind knocks down trees and power lines. The storm is so vast and loud you can’t hear your own voice over the pummeling noise, because the wind whips the words out of your mouth before you utter them.Someone you care about is standing outside the storm, and they are so far away they are hard to make out. You can barely se...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - April 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nadia Germane Source Type: blogs
United Church Observer: Through the Cracks: For Adults With Developmental Disabilities Gaps Remain
The United Church Observer article, Through the cracks, by Kevin Spurgaitis, tackles issues relating to the lack of available care for adults with severe developmental disabilities including autism disorders. Simply by addressing, and shining a spotlight on the lack of places that can provide permanent residential care to those with autism disorders they have helped to address the hard realities faced by many with severe developmental disorders including severe autism. I was interviewed by telephone by Kevin Spurgatis, who was exceptionally courteous and respectful, qualities which show up in t...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - March 21, 2014 Category: Autism Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
Polio-like paralysis in California
Image credit: Jason Roberts
Recently a number of children in California have developed a poliomyelitis-like paralysis. The cause of this paralysis is not yet known, and information about the outbreak is scarce. Here is what we know so far:
At least 5, and perhaps as many as 20 children have suffered weakness or paralysis in one or more limbs. The median age of the patients is 12 years and the cases have been reported since 2012.
One group of 5 patients recently presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual meeting developed full paralysis within 2 days, and have not recovered limb function in 6 months.
The cases a...
Source: virology blog - February 27, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information acute flaccid paralysis California outbreak enterovirus enterovirus 68 polio-like illness poliomyelitis poliovirus viral Source Type: blogs
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;The children were nestled all snug in their beds,While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.Away to the window I flew like a flash,Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snowGave the lus...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - December 24, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer's Communication and the Holiday Season
Communicating with the deeply forgetful is not only about memory, it is about feelings. It is not about words. It is about connection.By Bob DeMarco +Alzheimer's Reading Room We are now entering the Holiday season - Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, etc. This can sometimes be an anxiety ridden season for Alzheimer's caregivers and the deeply forgetful.How do you cope and communicate with a person living with dementia during the Holiday season?It is not unusual for me to get asked, how do you communicate with a person living with Alzheimer's?I concluded some time ago that during the Holiday period its best to...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 19, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Ignorant Nurse Calls Parent “Loser” for Not Vaccinating Her Child
Conclusion
Become an informed parent and stand your ground against bullies in the medical profession. If you don’t know much about vaccines, the good news is that this situation can be easily fixed.
You should also know this well-documented fact: Lower education levels and socioeconomic standing are associated with higher completion rates for vaccination. [5] In other words, the more educated a mother is, the less likely her child will be vaccinated.
Here is how you can start to become an informed parent right now:
Know your rights! Look at your state law regarding vaccine exemptions. [6]
Understand what your doctor in...
Source: vactruth.com - November 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories Informed Parents Palmetto Health Children's Hospital Vaccine Exemptions vaccine ingredients Source Type: blogs
You, with the knife in your hand:
Please stop. Just for a moment. Read. You are not alone. Someday the sneers will turn to cheers as you bring others deep into your life, as you reveal your struggles. I know you can't be brave right now. I know how badly life can hurt. But maybe, just maybe, after reading my story, you can cry instead of die. {this is written for Suicide Prevention Week and may contain triggers}Amy stands deep out in the icy surf of Lake Superior, her heart overflowing with joy as her muscles remember body surfing in the Atlantic Ocean so many times before. She spots the big waves and beckons her siblings to prepare. We are stared at ...
Source: Turquoise Gates - September 14, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: social anxiety self-harm depression cutting child abuse Suicide Prevention Week sexual abuse hope bullying PTSD Source Type: blogs
