United States Should not Confront China over Other Nations’ Territorial Disputes
The Asian order is under strain as the People’s Republic of China has become an economic colossus with growing military might and diplomatic influence. The PRC is asserting territorial claims once considered impractical or worthless. Brunei, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, and Vietnam all stand opposed to these claims.
Washington is not a claimant, but has sparred with the PRC over the U.S. Navy’s legal right to engage in intelligence gathering in Chinese waters. More important, America has a formal military alliance with Japan which, the president declared, covers disputed territories. Washington’s military relation...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 27, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Cancer is Not a Death Sentence
Life is Good!
If you or a loved one has just gotten a cancer diagnosis, I want to reach out to you with this article to let you know you don’t have to be afraid. Of course you will be in the beginning. We are conditioned to fear cancer. But, I want you to know that you have enormous hope for a high quality, healthy, even long, life in your future if you want that and are willing to listen to the message from your body and take action to heal it.
Let’s Face the Fear Factor First
I realize that having “death” in the title is a little scary, but it’s true: Cancer is not your death sentence. Being born is. At birth...
Source: Life Learning Today - May 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Green Living Happy Healthy Living How To Solving Problems Spiritual alternative cancer cures alternative cancer healing Believe faith fear fear of cancer heal yourself healing cancer healing power love yourself Source Type: blogs
How an eleven-pound cat precipitated domestic chaos and delayed surgery
Termites are endemic in southern California, and we’ve had spot treatments several times over the years at various sites in our house where little piles of sawdust have appeared as evidence of termite activity. Finally, it became clear that the termites were winning, and more aggressive treatment was in order: tenting. This is the process of hoisting a big, brightly-colored tent over the whole house and putting an end to the termites with a poisonous gas called Vikane, or sulfuryl fluoride.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 19, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Karen S. Sibert, MD Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
InstaBuzzed: Celebrities, Drugs, and Social Media
Do you like the summertime feel of Valencia, the creamy black and white texture of Willow, or the soft pastels of Nashville? If you’re one of the 76% of teens are on Instagram, it’s likely you have a few “go-to” photo filters you use whenever you post.
There are more teens on Instagram than any other social media platform—and many follow their favorite actors, singers, and athletes. With celebrities racking up millions of followers, it’s a bummer that some of them use their reach and power to promote their use of alcohol and drugs.
Wiz Khalifa, Diplo, Rihanna, and Nicky Minaj have posted hundreds of picture...
Source: NIDA Drugs and Health Blog - January 22, 2015 Category: Addiction Authors: The NIDA Blog Team Source Type: blogs
What Doctors are Thinking
Ever wonder what your doctor is thinking while taking your history? If we’re doing it right, we’re looking at you instead of a computer. We’re making appropriate eye contact while displaying welcoming body language. And we’re letting you tell your story with as few interruptions as possible. Clearly we are listening intently, but did you ever wonder what’s going through our minds while you’re speaking?
I’ve been thinking about this lately in the context of teaching medical students about history-taking. They’re being taught all the right questions to ask and how to ask them (...
Source: Musings of a Dinosaur - December 31, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: notdeaddinosaur Tags: Medical Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Second Week of December 2014
The reality of farming is that it creates dependency on the farmer - animals, plants, and infrastructure need to be supported 365 days a year. This week, I had a failure of my personal anti-virus software (and my flu shot) and developed the 2014 flu. My wife, who has been my life partner for 35 years, took over my tasks feeding, watering and cleaning all our animal areas while my energy was reduced. At nearly 53 years old, my endurance is boundless, but the flu does reduce my physical abilities. Illness has caused us to realize that we have to be careful to balance to the joys of farming with our ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - December 11, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
What a messy house has to do with medicine today
I spent this past week worrying that my in-laws were going to divorce me. For sure. No getting out of it this time.
I do not keep a neat house. There are piles everywhere. Piles of books. Piles of papers. Piles of clean-but-unfolded laundry. Piles of mail. Piles of music. Piles (believe it or not) of instruments. Piles of shoes. Piles of coats (it’s cold these days, but varying degrees of cold). There’s a drum set in the living room (because that’s where the piano is). Did I mention the books?
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guid...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 25, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Abigail Schildcrout, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
A virus that melts sea stars
Sea stars are lovely marine invertebrates with a round central body connected to multiple radiating legs (photo credit). In the past year millions of sea stars in the west coast waters of North America have melted into piles of slime and ossicles. Sea star associated densovirus might be the cause of this lethal disease.
Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) is characterized by lesions, limb curling and deflation, and death as the animals rapidly degrade or ‘melt’. The current outbreak began in June 2013 and has killed sea stars from Baja California, Mexico, to Southern Alaska. SSWD might be the biggest marine wildlife ep...
Source: virology blog - November 17, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information densovirus echinoderm marine invertebrate parvovirus Pycnopodia helianthoides sea star starfish viral Source Type: blogs
Communication is key between physicians and EHR programmers
It seems like every few days we get a message in the in-basket of our electronic health record (EHR) about a new type of message that we will be receiving in our in-basket.
They call these messages “system notices.”
OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration, maybe not every few days, but the different types of in-baskets and all the information we are bombarded with is getting out of control. As users of electronic health records know, the in-basket has become both a lifesaver and the bane of our existence, where the continuous influx of work to do piles up and up throughout the day, a tide which we continuously s...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 16, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Fred N. Pelzman, MD Tags: Tech Health IT Primary care Source Type: blogs
Embodied robots -- Post #2 on Wilson & Golonka 2013
There's some cool stuff highlighted by W&G including robots that tidy up without being programmed to do so, robots that walk (downhill) with only the power of gravity simply because their bodies were designed in the right way, and cricket robots that find the best mate automatically due to the architecture of the sound localization system. We've discussed sound localization previously so let's focus on the two other examples.Robots that tidy without the intention to do so or knowledge they did it. Robots with two sensors situated at 45 degree angles on the robot's "head"and a simple program to avoid obstacles detected ...
Source: Talking Brains - November 7, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Should medical students consider lifestyle when choosing a specialty?
A medical student recently asked my advice on her decision to pursue a career in dermatology. It was about 25 years ago when my own parents encouraged me to pursue this specialty. What was their deal? Perhaps, they anticipated future developments in the field and were hoping for free Botox treatments? As readers know, I rejected the rarefied world of pustules and itchy skin rashes for the glamor of hemorrhoids, diarrhea and vomit.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 5, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Michael Kirsch, MD Tags: Education Dermatology Medical school Source Type: blogs
Homeopathy for hemorrhoids? What a pain in the…well, you know
In a past life, before I became so specialized, I was a general surgeon. Like all surgical oncologists and even breast surgeons, before I became a specialist, I had to do a general surgery residency. In addition to the usual cancer problems a general surgeon faces, the two most common being breast and colon cancer,… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 15, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Quackery Surgery anal fissure hemorrhoid Source Type: blogs
The Outside Like the Inside
By Scott Coulter
My wife and I have been updating our house this summer. We repainted about half our rooms with a new color, tore up some carpeting along our stairs to reveal the hardwood underneath (which, perhaps next summer, we might sand, restain, and get in better shape), put in new curtains, updated the window blinds to something more substantial and modern, put in some new furniture, and put in a new bookshelf that I built and stained myself (I'm somewhat proud of that one…).
What started as just an idea to update the color of one room has turned into a pretty hefty makeover. Our house is currently looking be...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - August 28, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott Coulter Source Type: blogs
Can Meditation Help You Become Wolverine?
When I started meditating 7 years or so ago I was reluctant to tell anybody about my guilty little secret, including my family.
After all, meditation was weird because how on earth could just sitting quietly achieve anything other than giving you a sore arse and maybe piles?
Only strange people meditated.
People who wore sandals a lot, stroked whales, raved over recipes using tofu and burned a lot of incense and other assorted legal and not-quite-so-legal herbs.
Normal people didn’t meditate.
I mean, why on earth would they? Where was the payoff?
Then the research started to trickle in.
At first it seemed like once i...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - August 27, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
30 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Day in 5 Minutes or Less
You’re a busy person. Your days are filled with meetings, project, deadlines, family issues, and many other urgent things. That leaves very little time for rest and rejuvenation. Over time you may begin to feel disillusioned. You may wonder “What is this all for?” But the thought goes away as quickly as it comes. You may say, “I’d love to take some time out to rejuvenate but I don’t have the time to sit for 30 minutes to an hour.”
Yes, we’re all strapped for time. It’s often difficult to find a moment to sit, reflect and rejuvenate your spirit. Instead, we push and push until we burn out from the effects...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 26, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Cylon George Tags: happiness motivation find happiness pickthebrain self improvement tips stress stress relief Source Type: blogs
