Chronicles of my COVID isolation
Day 1. I spent Thursday, my day off, golfing. Friday, I was scheduled to see patients and do surgery on the non-English-speaking mother of a patient I delivered a long time ago (who I didn’t really remember). She remembered me, though, and brought her mother from an hour away to see me. But as IRead more …Chronicles of my COVID isolation originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 18, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/beverly-joyce" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Beverly Joyce, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Mirage of Health
My personal update is that I ' m recovering day by day, but it ' s taking a while. I get a little stronger, a little more stamina each day and I expect to get back to my previous full strength in time to put in a solid week of work starting Monday. Meanwhile a little down time isn ' t the worse thing that could have happened.I ' ve gotten some very odd comments which show that some people harbor very basic misunderstandings about heath, illness and medicine. As I have noted here many times, medical intervention was largely ineffective until the 20th Century. It has grown more effective over the past 100+ years, but you nee...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 17, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How to help rewrite the COVID-19 information playbook
Facts combat fear It’s hard to believe the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in the U.S. only a year and a half ago. Like many others, I welcomed the COVID-19 vaccine as a triumph of global cooperation that leveraged decades of research and a beacon of hope that life could eventually return to normal. YetRead more …How to help rewrite the COVID-19 information playbook originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/joanne-armstrong" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Joanne Armstrong, MD, MPH < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Global Warming and Disease
BY MIKE MAGEE
A study eight years ago, published in Nature, was titled “Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic.” The study, which analyzed more than 80,000 gene sequences from flu viruses from humans., birds, horses, pigs, and bats, concluded the 1918 pandemic disaster “probably sprang from North American domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.”
The search for origin in pandemics is not simply an esoteric academic exercise. It is practical, pragmatic, and hopefully preventive. The origin of our very own pandemic, now in its third year and claiming more than 1 million ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Uncategorized Bird Ecology Global Warming Source Type: blogs
3 decades in medicine: new name(s), same me
Many women change their last names after marriage, after a divorce, or just because. During my 30-year career in medicine, I have had three last names. Yes, not a typo, three! I got married for the first time during my internal medicine residency. I didn’t change my name and was“Mrs. Married Name” to friendsRead more …3 decades in medicine: new name(s), same me originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/toyin-m-falusi" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Toyin M. Falusi, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 13th 2022
In conclusion, long-term cumulative BP was associated with subsequent cognitive decline, dementia risk, and all-cause mortality in cognitively healthy adults aged ≥50 years. Efforts are required to control long-term systolic BP and pulse pressure and to maintain adequate diastolic BP.
Longer-Lived Mammals Tend to Have Lower Expression of Inflammation-Related Genes
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/06/longer-lived-mammals-tend-to-have-lower-expression-of-inflammation-related-genes/
Researchers here make a few interesting observations on gene expression data from a range of mammalian species with...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 12, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Distrust in science is a cancer to public safety
When a congressional candidate was recently cheered on after demanding the execution of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, it was another reminder that civil discourse and trust in science are continuing to dwindle. A controversial household name in the sciences, Dr. Fauci was the first scientist to make the cover of Time Magazine in its 100-yearRead more …Distrust in science is a cancer to public safety originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 7, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/kajal-gupta" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Kajal Gupta, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Oil-Based Drug Gels Help Patients with Difficulty Swallowing
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a series of oil-based gels that are intended to help those with difficulty swallowing to take drugs orally. Some adults and many children have difficulty taking pills, and so developing other forms of medication for oral drugs is important. The gels could be particularly useful in low-resource regions, as they are low cost, and do not require refrigeration or a supply of clean water to suspend the drug. They can also be used to deliver a wide variety of drugs, including hydrophobic drugs that do not easily dissolve in water.
For those with swallowi...
Source: Medgadget - June 6, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: ENT Geriatrics Medicine Source Type: blogs
Differentially Expressed Circular RNAs in Long Lived Individuals
In this study, we investigated the circRNAs expression pattern of longevous families, from a Chinese cohort of longevity. Based on weighted circRNA co-expression network analysis, we found that longevous elders (98.3 ± 3.4 years) specifically gained eight but lost seven conserved circRNA-circRNA co-expression modules compared with normal elder controls (spouses of offspring of long-lived individuals, age = 59.3 ± 5.8 years). Both the gained and lost module-related genes were enriched in infectious disease-related pathways. This suggests that these elders might have a history of infection, which could be related to life i...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 6, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What you need to know about monkeypox
Recently, several European countries have reported outbreaks of monkeypox following the first case (index case) reported in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2022, linked to a traveler from Nigeria. Monkeypox belongs to a family of other pox-like viruses and is a rare viral disease characterized by flu-like symptoms and a blistering rash that typicallyRead more …What you need to know about monkeypox originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/tejas-sekhar-and-divya-srinivasan" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Divya Srinivasan and Tejas Sekhar < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Herd Immunity and this Pandemic
by Gertrud U. Rey Herd immunity occurs when a large enough percentage of the population has acquired either natural or vaccine-induced immunity against an infectious disease, thereby indirectly protecting a minority of non-immune individuals who are dispersed throughout the population. During this pandemic, many prominent scientists have stated that it is impossible to achieve herd […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 2, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey antibody disease herd immunity infection neutralizing antibody pandemic sterilizing immunity transmission vaccine Source Type: blogs
Public Alerted to Omicron in New Mexico Through Quick Detection
Genetic material inside a virus. Credit: iStock.
Over the past 2 years, you’ve probably heard a lot about the spread of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—and the emergence of variants. The discovery and tracking of these variants is possible thanks to genomic surveillance, a technique that involves sequencing and analyzing the genomes of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles from many COVID-19 patients. Genomic surveillance has not only shed light on how SARS-CoV-2 has evolved and spread, but it has also helped public health officials decide when to introduce measures to help protect people.
In December 2021, the N...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 1, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Genes Injury and Illness COVID-19 Genomics Infectious Diseases Viruses Source Type: blogs
Doctors as organizational stewards
COVID-19 melted down the world at a very inopportune time in history. Just as medicine was getting a handle on previously intractable conditions, from sophisticated diabetes management to less invasive surgical procedures, a new threat that devastates our population with few good treatments overwhelms health care. Medical workers come to the rescue, as we alwaysRead more …Doctors as organizational stewards originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 31, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/richard-plotzker" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Richard Plotzker, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 684
Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 684: Anisakid L3 larvaeThe following is our third and final discussion from our amazing guest author and 3rd year medical student, Hadel Go. I ' m sure you will all agree that her discussions have been among the best we ' ve ever had on this blog. Congratulations on the excellent work, Hadel!_____________________ Worm cases are always my favorite because the comments are either “They are so beautiful!!” (@Parasite_Power on Twitter) or “…That’s a wholelottanope” (Valmik in the comments).This is a nematode in the Anisakidae family, likelyPseudoterranovaorAnisakis spp., ...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - May 30, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Combatting antimicrobial resistance during COVID: What clinicians need to know
While the world has spent the last two years laser-focused on the COVID pandemic, another public health threat is still lurking in the shadows: the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been recognized since the early 1900s, yet rigorous research over the past decade has illuminated the magnitude of the threat and itsRead more …Combatting antimicrobial resistance during COVID: What clinicians need to know originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/anne-meneghetti" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Anne Meneghetti, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
