Another option for life-threatening allergic reactions
For some people, many foods, medicines, and bee stings mean life-threatening allergic reactions that require immediate treatment with injectable epinephrine. For many people, January means the start of a new drug deductible to be met. In June 2017 the FDA approved a new form of emergency epinephrine called Symjepi, which may be good news for people who must be prepared in the event of a life-threatening allergic reaction.
The seriousness of a severe allergic reaction
Severe allergic reactions affect anywhere from 5% to 70% of persons, depending on age and prior exposure. Anaphylactic or “type 1” (immediate hypersensiti...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Susan Farrell, MD Tags: Allergies Health Source Type: blogs
The Rise of Private Communities
For 2017 I invested more than $10K to participate in private online communities (more than $15K if you include the associated travel and related expenses). For 2018 my investment has already exceeded $30K, and I’m looking to bump it to $40-50K within the next several months.
In terms of the value I received last year, these have been among the best investments I’ve ever made. My business income doubled from one fiscal year to the next, and the future is looking brighter than ever. If I’d invested these same funds in Bitcoin at the start of the 2017, the returns wouldn’t have been as good. I expect t...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - January 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Relationships discussion forums online communities paid communities private communities Source Type: blogs
You Can Choose to Not Be Depressed for the Holidays
I posted something on Facebook this past weekend that didn’t have the effect I wanted.“My recent timeline is filled with baking cookies, reviewing children’s picture books, and now I’ve discovered I’m spending tonight& New Year’s Eve home alone reading a book. Something is terribly wrong with my life. 😜 ”I had intended it to be snarky. That’s what the emoji was for. I wasn’t feeling sorry for myself. It’s nobody’s fault but my own that I don’t have a special somebody to spend New Year’s Eve together. I’m not logged into online dating sites d...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Family Goodreads Suicide Source Type: blogs
Make the Connection
“Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.” – Oprah Winfrey
How many connections do you have? Not contacts, connections. There is a profound difference, although it’s one that many today don’t recognize.
Connection, by definition, requires conscious effort. It is intention followed by action. To connect with another means to extend yourself, seeking to bridge a divide or forge a relationship with some meaning, and making yourself vulnerable.
You might be reticent, yet it’s important to overcome this reluctance.
It is, however, also tough to put yourself ou...
Source: World of Psychology - December 24, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Family Friends Mindfulness Relationships Self-Help Source Type: blogs
Love Them Forever
“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
With the holidays in full swing, along with party planning, gift buying, meal preparation and such on top of regular responsibilities, it may seem that little time is left for personal reflection. But when all the noise and activity cease, those quiet moments may prompt intense feelings of loss for those who are no longer with us. Indeed, the holidays are often a time of great sadness because we so miss our loved ones.
They will, however, always live on with one simple, yet extraordinarily powerful ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Family Friends Grief and Loss Holiday Coping New Year's Self-Help Bereavement grieving Holiday Season Source Type: blogs
When at First You Don ’t Succeed
Only 1 in 5 National Institutes of Health grant requests is funded. All researchers will feel the sting of rejection at one point in their career. For most, this means spending a lot of time looking for other ways of sustaining research projects through smaller grants or private and foundation funding. About 11 percent of
The post When at First You Don’t Succeed appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - December 18, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse federal funding Gates grants innovation Leidos NIH OnPAR Rockefeller Science Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Sci-Fi Contest 2017: Meet The Winning Stories
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have all been waiting for – the day that the winners of the Medgadget Medical Sci-Fi Competition are announced and their fantastic stories are published!
First, we would like to thank Eko Devices, the wonderful sponsors of our contest, that make the coolest and most advanced digital stethoscopes out there.The winner of our contest will receive an Eko CORE stethoscope that is both acoustic and electronic, has all the features of both, can amplify sound, record audio waveforms, and connect to your phone. Thank you, Eko!
Since we announced our Medical Sci-Fi Writing Contest i...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
3D Printing Helps to Implant Risky Transcatheter Mitral Valves
Transcatheter aortic valve implantations are now routine at a number of high-end hospitals around the world. Minimally invasive mitral valve replacements, on the other hand, are a lot more difficult and prone to post-op complications, and so are still a rarity. Yet, 60% of patients over 75 have mitral valve disease, and it’s an even bigger problem than aortic valves. We visited the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit to learn about an innovative program where clinicians use 3D printing and computer simulations to help install replacement mitral valves without having to resort to open surgery.
The Center for Structural Hea...
Source: Medgadget - December 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Exclusive Source Type: blogs
What to do for stubborn low back pain
A while back, I covered the updated evidence-based treatment guidelines for acute (less than four weeks) and subacute (less than twelve weeks) low back pain. I promised a post on chronic (more than twelve weeks) back pain.
Well, as I write this, I am suffering from a recurrence of my own low back pain, which radiates down my right leg at times. This has been literally and figuratively a pain in my rear end, for years.
Being a doctor who practices what I preach, I am putting all the advice I dispense to good use.
First, look for possible triggers
This fall, I had gotten away from my regular core-strengthening routine (night...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Back Pain Health Pain Management Source Type: blogs
“ Non academic ” Tips and tricks in CTO – PCI : Open sesame ! , Show me your treasures !
We know, The Mysterious Alibaba cave opens with a voice password . . . legend tell us it had unlimited hidden treasures. It would appear , CTOs mimic the cave in several ways. What is inside ? Should we open it ? Can we come out safely ? Do we have any magical password in cath lab to get across the complex tissue boulders ?, every cardiologist would love to have one !
Dear CTO,Open Sesame . . . I have come with all the wires you love ! Please let me in !
Indication
“CTOs are never an emergency . . .but please realise we can very easily create one while resuscitating a dead snake !
Don’t...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - November 27, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiology -Therapeutics Cath lab Hardware cath lab tips and tricks cto chronic total occlusion absolute refractory period Best guideline on cto pci cart reverse cart chronic total occlsuion cross boss sting ray cto club CTO club euro Source Type: blogs
Stash House Stings: When the Government Can Invent Crimes and Criminals
Imagine a friend approaches you with an opportunity for what he believes will be easy money: a guy he met knows where some local drug dealers store their merchandise —a great big pile of it, fifty kilos, lightly guarded. Your friend’s guy thinks it could be grabbed relatively easily and flipped for a hefty profit. The whole thing sounds sketchy to you, but cash is tight this month and stealing from drug dealers does not feel like the most morally objectionab le of crimes. Perhaps not the most sophisticated sort (andhaving watched a bit too much TV), you soon find yourself in a van on your way to the score.Except there ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 22, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Trevor Burrus, Reilly Stephens Source Type: blogs
Abstractness, innateness, and modality-independence of language: reflections on SNL & SfN 2017
Guest post by former student, William Matchin: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It ’s been almost 10 years since the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference (SNL) began, and it is always one of my favorite events of the year, where I catch up with old friends and see and discuss much of the research that interests me in a compact form. This year’s meeting was no ex ception. The opening night talk about dolphin communication by Diana Reiss was fun and interesting, and the reception at the Baltimore aquarium was spectacular and well organized. I was impressed with the high quality of many...
Source: Talking Brains - November 20, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
She sees difficult patients, but is a difficult patient herself
The patient is a 27-year-old Caucasian woman: slender, well-groomed. She is sitting in the office of her urologist, and she is unconsciously twisting her hands as she interrupts the doctor, having finally worked up the nerve.
“I know you told me to expect some pain for a while after the lithotripsy. But I’ve been having pain in my bladder, even when I don’t think there are any stones. It started two years ago, before the stones. It feels like pressure, and it really stings when I urinate. It especially hurts when I’ve taken naproxen or loratadine, or if I have caffeine, or if I get dehydrated at all...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 8, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kristin-puhl" rel="tag" > Kristin Puhl < /a > Tags: Education Primary Care Urology Source Type: blogs
Don ’t Blame Us Libertarians for School Choice Disappointment
The headline of Megan McArdle ’slatest Bloomberg View piece stings, at least for a libertarian whose job is to advance educational freedom: “We Libertarians Were Really Wrong About School Vouchers.”Ouch! But to this I say: Speak for yourself!To be fair, I don ’t know how things work for big-time columnists, but there’s a good chance McArdle didn’t pen her own headline. Pubs need clicks, and the shrewd marketeers at Bloomberg were no doubt well aware that such an inflammatory header would draw in all roughly ten professional libertarian school choic ers, boosting readership by huge hundredths of a percent. And i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 24, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: October 24, 2017
Anger is a powerful emotion. It’s one we’d rather keep hidden. But like any emotion that’s repressed, anger erupts to the surface triggered from the slightest offense.
In balance, anger is a protective emotion that alerts us to something that needs our attention. But left unchecked, it can be explosive destroying relationships and impacting our health.
Feeling angry this week? Did you know being neglected as a child, experiencing a traumatic event and not caring for yourself could all be reasons for your anger? Keep reading and you’ll discover ways to confront this complex emotion.
Long-Term Narcis...
Source: World of Psychology - October 24, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Source Type: blogs
