A Weak Admission
A 64-year old woman presented to the emergency department with nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, dry eyes, and difficulty keeping her eyes open. She admitted to eating mandarin oranges out of a can the night before, and at that time she thought they "tasted funny" but did not think much of it.The next morning she noticed she was having trouble opening her eyes and that her mouth was dry. She looked inside the can of oranges and saw it was discolored.Her presenting vital signs were unremarkable. The patient was alert and awake. She had ptosis bilaterally, with mydriatic pupils unresponsive to light. The patient h...
Source: The Tox Cave - November 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Letting Go of a Depression Cure Can Set You Free
I keep going back to this quote by Vivian Greene when it comes to learning how to live with my chronic illness: “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
In fact, every morning I drink out of a mug with that quote on it to remind myself of Vivian’s wisdom: IT’S NOT ABOUT GETTING TO THE OTHER SIDE. With chronic illness, the important exercise is to get out the rain boots and start stomping in the puddles — to not let the downpour stop you from living.
Going into the second decade of living with a host of conditions — retractable depression, inflam...
Source: World of Psychology - September 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Personal Self-Help Bipolar Disorder Mood Disorder Stigma Source Type: blogs
8 Ways to Safely Take Charge of Your Health While Avoiding Toxic Vaccines
CONCLUSION
Conventional medicine has plans to develop more vaccines targeting every disease imaginable. Diseases targeted include diabetes, autoimmune disorders and cancer. Vaccinations have been causally linked to these diseases. No evidence supports that vaccines are safe or effective at preventing any disease.
Instead of using more toxic vaccinations to theoretically prevent a disease, we should avoid all vaccines like the plague. We can then focus on leading a healthy lifestyle, by eating a clean, nutrient dense diet, exercising, sleeping and getting lots of sun.
About the Author:
Michelle Goldstein is a mental ...
Source: vactruth.com - September 1, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Stories Healthy Living Pro Biotics Weston Price Source Type: blogs
The Roadmap To Physician Payment Reform: What It Will Take for All Clinicians to Succeed under MACRA
As the largest change in Medicare physician payment since the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) will affect up to 836,000 clinicians and allocate more than $1.2 billion in payment bonuses and penalties in its first year alone. Reflecting the importance of this policy, the 962 page proposed rule for its implementation generated thousands more pages of comments, with nearly 4,000 organizations and individuals submitting formal comment letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The proposed rule has been summarized by CMS, and there have been severa...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 30, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Mark McClellan, Frank McStay and Robert Saunders Tags: Costs and Spending Insurance and Coverage Medicare Payment Policy ACOs Alternative Payment Models Comprehensive Primary Care Plus MACRA Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Source Type: blogs
Shout Out to Disruptive Woman Sharon Terry and DW Man of the Month Pat Terry
The following BuzzFeed News post was published on August 20th, 2016. In it, our very own Disruptive Woman Sharon Terry and Man of the Month Pat Terry, both receive some very special recognition. And we are very proud to share it here!
This Guy Swallowed Parasitic Worms On Purpose — Then Became A Published Scientist
Sean Ahrens, who has tried just about every treatment for Crohn’s disease, ingested parasitic worm eggs as a last resort — and just wrote about it for a prestigious medical journal.
posted on Aug. 20, 2016, at 10:06 a.m.
Stephanie M. Lee
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Sean Ahrens
Since Sean Ah...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 22nd 2016
This study provides additional fuel to really bolster research efforts by us and others in geroscience, a field that seeks to understand relationships between the biology of aging and age-related diseases. Aging is the most important risk factor for common chronic conditions such as heart disease, Alzheimer's and cancer, which are likely to share pathways with aging and therefore interventions designed to slow biological aging processes may also delay the onset of disease and disability, thus expanding years of healthy and independent lives for our seniors."
Longer-Lived Parents and Cardiovascular Outcomes
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Source: Fight Aging! - August 21, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
More Evidence for the Inheritance of Longevity
This study provides additional fuel to really bolster research efforts by us and others in geroscience, a field that seeks to understand relationships between the biology of aging and age-related diseases. Aging is the most important risk factor for common chronic conditions such as heart disease, Alzheimer's and cancer, which are likely to share pathways with aging and therefore interventions designed to slow biological aging processes may also delay the onset of disease and disability, thus expanding years of healthy and independent lives for our seniors."
Longer-Lived Parents and Cardiovascular Outcomes
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Source: Fight Aging! - August 16, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
10 Ways to Cultivate Good Gut Bacteria and Reduce Depression
In this study published in the journal Neuroscience, the performance of mice on various tests of mental and physical function began to drop just four weeks after being fed a diet high in fat and sugar. Monosaccharides, the simplest carbohydrates containing a single molecule of glucose and fructose (a piece of Wonder bread), disrupt a healthy microbial balance because they are digested very easily by us and absorbed into our small intestine without any help from our microbes. That leaves our gut bugs hungry, with nothing to munch on, so they begin nibbling on the mucus lining of our intestines, which is meant to be a stro...
Source: World of Psychology - August 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Books Depression Mental Health and Wellness Personal Research Alcohol Caffeine Diet gut bacteria Gut flora Lactobacillus leaky gut Monosaccharides Probiotic sugar Source Type: blogs
MGH marketers take on Boston Children ’ s
The doctor will see you now –and forever
I was driving along in Boston last weekend when I heard an intriguing radio advertisement for MassGeneral Hospital for Children, the pediatric division of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
MGH is a world famous hospital, but when it comes to pediatrics it’s much smaller, less well known, and lower ranked than Boston Children’s Hospital –the #1 rated children’s hospital by US News.
I thought MGH picked a clever angle for the ad: highlighting a patient with Crohn’s disease who was diagnosed at age 10 and is now an adult. The message: illnes...
Source: Health Business Blog - August 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Culture Hospitals Uncategorized boston children's hospital crohn's disease Massachusetts general hospital Source Type: blogs
Would You Inhale?
We know Bill Clinton did not inhale but Barak Obama did inhale (because that was the whole point). I might have inhaled in the past but would never consider it now. All my past experiences involved smoking and occasional batches of brownies. < br / > < br / > One friend told me that she asked her doctor about it and he told her it wasn ' t appropriate for her. She thinks she could go off all her other medications if she could go to pot. Another blogger recently revealed her problems trying to determine how much marijuana was contained in cookies she purchased. < br / > < br / > Medical marijuana has been looming outside of...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 26, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: ailments medical marijuana medications pain relief Source Type: blogs
June blogs digest: irritable bowel syndrome, regenerative medicine, single cell omics, and more
Overcoming irritable bowel syndrome
The various mysteries about the nature and causes of irritable bowel syndrome are particularly frustrating for patients who experience it, as well as for those who try to treat it. Following the Digestive Disease Week conference which took place in San Diego from 21-24 May, Shanti Eswaran explained more about the work she presented on a diet found to improve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
Regenerative medicine in China: when myth meets reality
Burns & Trauma has recently started a thematic series titled ‘Trauma regeneration’ introducing the latest developments of rege...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - July 6, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sophie Marchant Tags: Biology Health Medicine blogs digest Source Type: blogs
People are going broke because they can’t afford care. It needs to end.
“I need help with my colitis.”
“Really? I thought we had things pretty well controlled.”
I hadn’t seen her in the better part of a year. I remembered how hard it had been to get her ulcerative colitis into remission. How sick she had been, how miserable her life was. There was a bit of trial and error in the office, followed by a hospitalization for intravenous steroids, then a tapering dose of prednisone and a transition to budesonide, a steroid who’s metabolism greatly limits many of the nasty side effects of prednisone. And she had lots of prednisone side effects: swollen ankles, blood pressure creeping up...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Michael P. Jones, MD Tags: Policy GI Medications Source Type: blogs
Like detergent to your intestines
Emulsifying agents are commonly used in foods to keep them mixed. You will commonly find carageenan, for instance, in ice cream to keep dairy fat from separating from the water and proteins, especially after repeated melting and refreezing.
The capacity for a compound to emulsify a solution varies from minimal to dramatic. Even some natural compounds in whole, unprocessed foods can exert modest emulsifying effects, such as acacia (acacia seeds), pectin (apples, peaches), and lecithin (egg yolks). The most powerful emulsification effects occur with synthetic or semi-synthetic emulsifying agents, such as polysorbate-80, carb...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 6, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora emulsifiers emulsifying health microbiota prebiotic probiotic Source Type: blogs
