What is a Penis Pump?
Many men suffer with impotence problems. There are many reasons why men develop impotence, and although there are many treatments for it, one of the safest and easiest, is a penis pump.Contributor: Maria McCutchenPublished: May 03, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - May 3, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Parkinson’s Disease
Pathophysiology of Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease marked by:
1) progressive slowing of all voluntary movements
2) muscular “cogwheel” rigidity
3) tremors at rest
4) mask-like facies
5) emotional lability
Signs and Symptoms
1) tremors disappear with voluntary movement
2) drooling
3) dementia (15%)
4) depression
5) micrographia
6) “pill rolling”
7) hesitancy when rising from chair
8) short shuffling gait
9) decreased blink rate
10) diminished arm swing
11) stooped posture
12) loss of postural righting reflexes
13) autonomic problems (constipation, i...
Source: Inside Surgery - March 16, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Neurology cogwheel rigidity dopaminergic neurons Lewy bodies mask like face pill rolling shuffling gate substantia nigra tremor tremors at rest Source Type: blogs
Why Quiz is importent in stent life ?
by siva11 (Posted Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:56 am)Hi Friends,why educational quiz is impotent in student life. Please share website to play online quizzes. Thanks, (Source: Med Student Guide)
Source: Med Student Guide - March 2, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Sex, Lies & DTC Advertising For Impotence Pills
Several years ago, the drugmakers that sell impotence pills convinced Congress that federal regulations were not required to ensure objectionable ads would not be seen by children. However, a new study charges that industry efforts to regulate direct-to-consumer advertising have been a “ruse” designed to deflect criticism and block Congress from intervening.
From 2006 to 2010, when DTC advertising for erectile dysfunction pills rose 62 percent, to $324.3 million, the study found a “consistent pattern” in which drugmakers failed to comply with so-called guiding principles that were propagated by the ...
Source: Pharmalot - February 20, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bayer Cialis Eli Lilly Erectile Dysfunction GlaxoSmithKline Impotence Leviitra Merck Pfizer Viagra Source Type: blogs
Death of the Medicine Men
I don’t hate my job. Not really. But I hate what it’s become. Because back in the day, only a few years ago, I got to practice real medicine. I’d better explain that. I didn’t don a white coat and a stethoscope, diagnose diseases, and prescribe pills. Instead, I “practiced” medicine by understanding, educating, empowering, and motivating my patients. And I did that by spending the time it took get to know them as people, because that’s what you need to do to treat diabetes successfully. And I “practiced” medicine by taking the time to learn about my patient’s lives, too, because life gets in the way of ...
Source: LifeAfterDx--The Guardian Chronicles - February 20, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Wil Source Type: blogs
Healthcare insurance but no healthcare access
California doesn’t have enough doctors to provide healthcare to newly “insured” patients under the UnAffordable Care Act.
California state senator Ed Hernandez asks “”What good is it if they [state citizens] are going to have a health insurance card but no access to doctors?”
Wait. Health care insurance doesn’t mean that patients will have access to health care? Where have I heard that being said for more than 3 years?
The government is going to give patients their medical “insurance,” but access to physicians is limited by government policies, payment cuts, and administrative red tape &#...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - February 14, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Access to Care Policy Source Type: blogs
Steppin' Out
Revolutions come in all sizes: large and small.
For years I have written about the travesties of the American medical system. So many posts have focused on the atrocities of healthcare reform. Yet year after year, I follow the lead of my fellow physicians. I put my head down and work. I deliver the best I have to offer even as the paperwork, frustrations, and threats rise.
Physicians are a tired and humble group. We are meek. We have been slayed by our own oaths to a population of patients who in reality we harm. We harm them as we speed up the treadmill to cover over...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - February 3, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Survivor: Hospital Edition
You knew it was coming. Reality TV has come to health care.
WDEY network began filming a new reality show last month; it’s called Medicine Unlocked (1). It follows real patients navigating the health care system in search of treatment for their ailments. Each two-hour episode focuses on four patients who share a specific preliminary diagnosis; one week it’s back pain, another it may be gall bladder problems or men with suggested prostate cancer. Each patient-contestant receives a pre-loaded health savings account and debit card and earns “keys” that allow passage through a series of decision “gates.” Gate 1 is ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Cost Patients Quality safety Source Type: blogs
Healing Faith
A reader named Katherine recently e-mailed me. She had lost her husband, a man some years older than she, to multiple myeloma and Alzheimer’s disease. She is a Christian, and is struggling to make sense of his death, and the difficult questions of why God allows suffering. She writes, after giving me some details of his life, death, and fine character, and asks:
Why does God allow such terrible illnesses to such a kind person? I know there is really no answer as I know all about Job. The thing I am really afraid is that I prayed for his healing, and it did not happen. When I became a Christian back in the 80’s...
Source: The Doctor Is In - September 26, 2012 Category: Primary Care Authors: Dr Bob Tags: Christianity Death & Dying Faith & Reason Faith & Religion Prayer Problem of evil Suffering Source Type: blogs
Priapism Emergency
Last month I focused on managing a common female genital problem, the Bartholin Gland abscess. In the spirit of equality, this month’s blog post looks at an important male genital problem, priapism. Unfortunately, the literature guiding treatment is not the most robust. Nevertheless, we do have recommendations and guidelines created by national and international experts who have digested the available literature. The guidelines created by the American Urological Association are the most frequently touted resource.(1)
I have written and delivered several lectures to our residents on this topic over the past several yea...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - September 5, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
The idiot savant story
In acommentary epublished in March, about savant syndrome in autism, Patricia Howlin wrote:In 1887 Langdon Down was the first to coin the term ‘idiot savant’Howlin and several co-authors, including Sir Michael Rutter, wrote in a2009 paper:Down (1887) was the first to coin the term ‘idiot savant’Here are Pam Heaton and Gregory Wallace froma major 2004 review:The term ‘idiot-savant’ was first used by Down (1887)From1999, Pam Heaton again, as well as Linda Pring, Beate Hermelin, and others:The term " Idiot-Savants " was first used by Langdon Down in 1887Darold Treffert, often described as the authority on savants,...
Source: The Autism Crisis - April 9, 2012 Category: Child Development Source Type: blogs
Brand names make it to the OED!
I first created this post in 2007, and apart from the home page, it has been the most viewed page on my blog (over 6,000 views). So here it is again, with a link to the latest OED update.
It’s fascinating to peruse the new words added to the OED. (Here is the latest update, December 2010.) Brand names often enter the language as generic terms, and I’ve listed a few of them below. (I wonder who they have in mind with the word “flip-flopper”. And what on earth is a cotylosaur? I thought “chicklet” meant a little piece of gum, but I was disappointed to discover that it means a small chick o...
Source: ANNE T-V's BLOG - January 18, 2011 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: annietv600 Tags: Friday Fun Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Acupuncture vs botox for chronic headaches
ACUPUNCTURE VS BOTOX FOR CHRONIC HEADACHESOvee 70% of women and 50% of men have disabling headaches. Often emotional stress is implicated, but many people have headaches at time of stress free weekends. It is difficult to label a headache by its type, as muscle contraction headaches are often confused with other headaches.Headaches often occur because of stress, fatigue, hormonal imbalance, eating cheese and wine and other tyramine foods, MSG, nitrites in hot dogs, chocolates, flickering lights, missed meals, allergens, and vaso-dilating drugs.Many headache treatments exist and most are ineffective. The drugs b...
Source: Dr. Needles Medical Blogs - October 22, 2010 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Tags: ACUPUNCTURE VS BOTOX FOR CHRONIC HEADACHES Source Type: blogs
