What ’s the best way to get rid of bed head? Episode 122
Does this bed head product really work?
Sasha asks…Can Ma Cherie Perfect Shower fix your bed better than regular water? Is this worth the money or is it nothing more than water mixed with leave in conditioner?
Let’s begin by talking about what causes bed head. First, you have to realize that there are two different kinds of bonds that control the shape of your hair. There are the disulfide bonds – these are very strong chemical bonds (kind of like the rungs of a ladder that keep the proteins in your hair locked in shape. These are very tough to break – think relaxer or straightening treatment. Then there...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Discover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
What’s the best way to get rid of bed head? Episode 122
Does this bed head product really work?
Sasha asks…Can Ma Cherie Perfect Shower fix your bed better than regular water? Is this worth the money or is it nothing more than water mixed with leave in conditioner?
Let’s begin by talking about what causes bed head. First, you have to realize that there are two different kinds of bonds that control the shape of your hair. There are the disulfide bonds – these are very strong chemical bonds (kind of like the rungs of a ladder that keep the proteins in your hair locked in shape. These are very tough to break – think relaxer or straightening treatment. Then there...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
Readmissions, Observation, and Improving Hospital Care
By ASHISH JHA, MD
Reducing Hospital Use
Because hospitals are expensive and often cause harm, there has been a big focus on reducing hospital use. This focus has been the underpinning for numerous policy interventions, most notable of which is the Affordable Care Act’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), which penalizes hospitals for higher than expected readmission rates. The motivation behind HRRP is simple: the readmission rate, the proportion of discharged patients who return to the hospital within 30 days, had been more or less flat for years and reducing this rate would save money and potentially impr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: Featured THCB Ashish Jha Source Type: blogs
DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Mock Test 13
In this study, cangrelor was discontinued 1-6 hours prior to surgery, while aspirin was continued throughout the perioperative period. Bridging with cangrelor did not increase major bleeds prior to surgery, though minor bleeds, mostly ecchymosis at venipuncture site, was higher. P2Y12 assay documented sufficient platelet inhibition corresponding to levels required for anti thrombotic effect [1]. Cangrelor is awaiting approval and more large scale trials regarding the use of bridging are needed.
Reference
1. Angiolillo DJ et al; BRIDGE Investigators. Bridging antiplatelet therapy with cangrelor in patients undergoing ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - February 7, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs
Today is National Wear Red Day
National Wear Red Day® is a special day dedicated to bringing attention to this staggering fact that each year, 1 in 3 women die of heart disease and stroke. Today we wear red to encourage women to raise their voices, know their cardiovascular risk and take action to live longer, healthier lives. For more information visit: http://www.goredforwomen.org/wearredday/.
In honor of National Wear Red Day® we are re-running the post below.
Heart Disease – It Looks Different From a Woman’s Perspective
By Terri L. McCulloch
Lara D. knew that heart disease ran in her family. Her father had his first heart attack at 46. Hi...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Go ahead: Eat your meat
“Reduce your intake of cholesterol, fat, and saturated fat.”
“Use more polyunsaturated fats.”
“Move more and eat less.”
“Oats are heart healthy.”
“Follow a balanced diet.”
“Eat more healthy whole grains.”
Well, add yet another “proven” statement of purported nutritional fact to this sad list of nutritional blunders: “Red meat is a carcinogen,” as was concluded by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC. Release of this analysis prompted the usual over-the-top headlines and exaggerations, such as NPR’s Alis...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 27, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora cancer carcinogen gluten grains red meat Source Type: blogs
Health Information Technology: A Guide to Study Design For the Perplexed
This study, which was widely reported in the news media and influenced policy, found significant differences in the rate of flu-related deaths and hospitalizations among the vaccinated elderly compared with their unvaccinated peers. Although it controlled for certain easy-to-measure differences between the 2 groups, such as age, sex, and diabetes, it did not account for other more difficult-to-measure “healthy user” factors that affect the well-being of the elderly, such as their socioeconomic status, diet, exercise, and adherence to medical treatments and advice.
The cohort design has long been a staple in studies of...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Hormone Imbalances and Testing: Which Test is Right for You?
As we age, one of the first things to go is often our hormone balance. Hormones are the critical chemicals that keep our bodies in alignment, help us get enough sleep and maintain our energy levels. As we get older our hormone levels change. Throw in the stress that many of us feel from raising children, managing careers, taking care of ill or aging parents, and the result? Low energy and an overall feeling of exhaustion!
Lori Van Popering, a Certified Holistic Practitioner and Coach, has been there! She knows what it’s like to feel exhausted, foggy and just “not herself”. Her hot flashes, weight gain, di...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Source Type: blogs
Avoiding Expensive And Consequential Health Care Decisions Based On Weak Research Designs
Long before Congress created the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, giving $32 billion to health care providers to transfer to Electronic Health Records (EHR) vendors, plans for that windfall were created by an by Health Information Technology (HIT) vendors, HIT enthusiasts, and friendly politicians (like Newt Gingrich).
The plans included an enormous lobbying campaign. Congress responded obediently. Most commentators focus on that $32 billion for the HITECH Act’s incentives and subsidies. But that was only seed money. The real dollars are the trillions providers spent and will s...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 31, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Stephen Soumerai and Ross Koppel Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Health IT Long-term Services and Supports Quality ACOs CDC HITECH Act methods ONC Research Source Type: blogs
Weighing the Risks of Hormone Therapy
The post below originally ran on Huffington Post’s Healthy Living blog on February 19. To see the original post click here.
For over a decade, hormone therapy (HT) has been a hot topic in medicine. Unfortunately, women are still confused and concerned about using HT after two federally-funded studies linked HT to potentially serious health risks. Even decades after these studies, information on HT is seriously muddied, and not much is still fully known or understood about the treatment. It’s time to clear up the confusion and debunk the false reports surrounding its risks.
HT is used to primarily treat menopaus...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Women's Health Source Type: blogs
As Vaccination Rates Dip, Parents Walk A Tightrope Between Doubt And Risk
The recent re-emergence of measles in the United States following a 15-year period of occasional cases provides a compelling example of an unresolved societal tension in public health: that between the value of autonomous decision-making and the need for social responsibility. The outbreak---more than 700 cases since January 2014---reveals not only this tension, which also plagues other arenas of health care reform.
It also reveals the tenacity of doubt about vaccine safety that has led to a tipping point in undermining herd immunity. (That is, within a community, high rates of immunization protect both individuals and th...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 23, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Sharon Kaufman Tags: Featured Population Health Public Health autism risk awareness vaccines Source Type: blogs
Heart Disease – It Looks Different From a Woman’s Perspective
Lara D. knew that heart disease ran in her family. Her father had his first heart attack at 46. His second, two years later, took his life when she was in high school. She learned intimately the impact that a heart attack has on a family. She saw her mother struggle to keep her children on track while trying to manage her own feelings of loss. Her college years were spent working full time and going to a community college in the evenings to get her degree and become a CPA. While many women work hard to get a degree, holding full time jobs, raising children and supporting spouses, this wasn’t what her parents had pl...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Chronic Conditions Women's Health Source Type: blogs
A Review of the Endocrinology of Aging
Here is an open access review of what is known of changes in the endocrine system that occur with aging. This is many steps removed from the low-level cellular and molecular damage that causes degenerative aging. It is a good example of a body-wide set of linkages between organs and signals and processes in which every change or failure in one component part will cause corresponding reactions in all of the other components.
A sizable field of medicine continues to focus on these changes, trying to find ways to shift levels of hormone signals to be closer to measures taken in youth. In past decades this has produced some l...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 22, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer's Memory Loss Turned Back with Calorie Restriction and Exercise
There is primary aging and there is secondary aging. The former is a side-effect of the operation of metabolism, an accumulation of damage about which little is done at present. The latter is the consequence of an unhealthy lifestyle, which at the most obvious end of the spectrum includes the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes caused by becoming sedentary and fat. Over the years numerous studies have shown that some of the declines of aging taken as inevitable are in fact self-inflicted by our own indulgences in this age of comparative leisure and low-cost calories. There is a modest difference to be made here, it is t...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 1, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Dispelling the Myths of Insulin Therapy
By Betsy Carlisle
In my position as a pharmacist and certified diabetes educator, physicians often assign me the task of starting their patients with Type 2 diabetes on insulin therapy. Unfortunately, in most situations, insulin has been presented to these patients as a last-ditch treatment option, after target glucose goals have not been achieved or maintained with lifestyle modifications and other therapies.
Not surprisingly, I encounter people who are upset at the news that insulin is now necessary. Others feel anxious or overwhelmed by the prospect of fitting insulin into their lifestyles. Many people believe that ins...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - August 5, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Betsy Carlisle Source Type: blogs
