Men, Mosquitos, Sex & Zika
I often hear from readers with questions about pregnancy and Zika. This series of questions from a dad explores several issues important to couples when they consider sex in a post Zika world.
Q: I just returned from a trip to a tropical location. There are confirmed cases of Zika in the area and there were definitely mosquitos where I was staying. Sadly, I got a few bites – nothing crazy, but I did get a few. The CDC recommendation is to avoid sex or use condoms for six months post traveling in a Zika zone.
My wife and I are not trying to have another child right now, but my wife is not on any form of birth control.
W...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - July 10, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Birth Defects Insect Bites & Stings Sex Source Type: blogs
Over Reactions
I have no idea why my body has changed so much but it has. And I tend to blame chemo for the changes. Since chemo, I have reactions to tons of things. The list of things I am allergic to has grown immensely. I am even allergic to Benadryl....I will say its been a very long time since I was stung by a bee. That is approximately 1986 when I stepped on a bee that had come in through the wall of our kitchen in an apartment. I remember it as being extremely painful because there is no flab on your toe to absorb the venom. I ended up calling the pharmacist to ask for options.... But I also remember it going away mostly by the ne...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 10, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: allergens annoyance reactions Source Type: blogs
Using Journaling to Cope with Sadness
Sadness is a difficult emotion to feel. Usually, we ignore it. We pretend it doesn’t exist. We distract ourselves by staying busy. Or we berate ourselves for feeling too sad or not sad enough. We judge ourselves, as if certain situations require certain amounts of sadness — and clearly, we’re coming up short (or long).
We misunderstand our sadness, because we’re so eager to sweep it away or annihilate it.
This is why it’s important to have healthy coping tools at our disposal. Journaling is one of those tools. It’s a powerful way to process any emotion. It “is a way to get emotions out of our heads so we ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Accept acceptance Coping Strategies coping strategy coping tools Emotion Emotional well-being Emotions Feeling grief healthy coping Healthy Habits Heartache Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 196
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 196.
Question 1
What happens if you swallow chewing gum?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 6, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five catatumbo chewing gum children Constipation drowning growth lightning pancreatitis Schaltenbrand syndrome scorpion bite spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak Source Type: blogs
How to Accept That Time Doesn ’ t Heal All Wounds
Wounds don’t heal with time; you just get better at living with them.
I never like to be the bearer of bad news, but unlike a scrape on the knee or a cracked femur, emotional wounds do not heal with time. It’s a nice, thoughtless cliché that people resort to when they feel like others need hope or comfort, but it isn’t true.
You Need To Know The Differences Between Healthy And Unhealthy Relationships
I get that all this sounds very pessimistic, but hear me out: I’m of the firm belief that looking at life’s storms directly is what prepares us for any type of weather. Instead of struggling to “move on” from s...
Source: World of Psychology - July 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Grief and Loss Happiness Publishers Self-Help YourTango acceptance Cliche comfort emotional wounds Feelings healing with time hope Liz Pardue-Schultz Love Pain Past Perfectionism Present Relationships self-compassion Source Type: blogs
Being queer in the jungle: The unique challenges of LGBTQ scientists working in the field
The Stonewall Riots occurred on June 28, 1969. It was this summer evening that sparked the Gay Rights Movement. Now, forty-eight years later, the world celebrates Pride Month every June to celebrate, honor, support, and fight for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.
The queer community is resilient. No matter what obstacles they encounter, their battle to live, pursue their passions, and contribute to society endures. For many queer people that passion is science. Queer scientists such as Alan Turing who was crucial in ending World War II, and Sara Josephine Baker who made unprecedented br...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ben Ragen Tags: Uncategorized field research LGBTQ Source Type: blogs
Completing Your 30-Day Trials
Many people find it really challenging to finish a 30-day trial when wanting to build a new habit or explore a new lifestyle possibility, such as eating vegan or getting up at 5am. People often give up after a few days, lacking the discipline (or so it seems) to follow through on such commitments. And of course quitting early denies these people the benefits of completing these trials.
Let me share some tips that I use to keep going when a 30-day trial becomes challenging. Most of these involve adopting an empowering mindset before you begin.
Make the Initial Decision Carefully
Committing to a 30-day trial is a decision. T...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Source Type: blogs
Special Needs
My autistic son has had dozens of doctors, therapists, intervention specialists, teachers, aids, coaches and camp counselors, and most of these individuals and their programs have been very helpful for Tommy. Nine years of special attention have been good for him. He went from an anxious child with behavior problems, with average grades to a more confident 12-year-old who won the citizenship prize at school, with straight As and an Honor Roll certificate.
In getting Tommy “up to speed,” it took many helpers. My husband and I owe much to them. In fact, there is no way to repay them. They chose to help Tommy becaus...
Source: World of Psychology - June 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Aspergers Autism Caregivers Children and Teens Parenting Personal Students Success & Achievement Treatment Autism Spectrum Disorder Education Learning Making Friends School Social Skills Special Needs Source Type: blogs
Think you can do anything you set your mind to? Think again.
During my salad days, I — like a lot of physicians — thought I could take on the world. Despite working in a smaller, community hospital, our ER saw a lot of the same type of orthopedic trauma I saw during residency. And my young partners and I took virtually every case that came in except spinal trauma. We did this whether we were on unassigned ER call or not and irrespective of insurance coverage. If I was on call for a weekend, it was not uncommon for me to not make it home until late Monday. Looking back, I can’t believe I actually did what I did, but I was quite proud of the results — comparable to any lev...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 8, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/thomas-d-guastavino" rel="tag" > Thomas D. Guastavino, MD < /a > Tags: Policy Emergency Orthopedics Source Type: blogs
Celiac Disease: A Serious, Life-Changing Condition
I met Paul Graham courtesy of one of his essays. Then, we talked by phone and I read – no devoured – his book, In Memory of Bread: A Memoir. Pardon the pun. Paul is a professor of English Department at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY and on July 1 becomes Department Chair. He focuses on fiction and non-fiction creative writing and lives with his wife, Bec and their German shepherds.
Paul, your book is the best description I’ve read about the challenges of being diagnosed with celiac. Can you summarize what happened? Given your experience, what recommendations would you have for clinicians? Should celiac be su...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
10 Ways to Come Back from Failure
If you’re like most of us, you detest failure. It’s one of the worst feelings possible to experience, let alone get past. Yet, some failures are inevitable, while others may be avoidable. How can you best prepare yourself to come back from failure, once it happens? Here are some suggestions.
Analyze what went wrong.
Maybe you didn’t adequately consider the amount of time, resources or other pertinent factors that affected the outcome. When things go wrong and failure is the result, there’s always a reason. Often, it’s a combination and not a single reason. To come back from failure, and as a first step in coping ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Habits Happiness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Success & Achievement Character Strength Failure Resilience weakness Source Type: blogs
How to Deal with Rejection: 7 Habits That Have Helped Me
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.”
Harvey Mackay
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
In this week’s article I’d like to look back into the past.
Back to the time when I was single.
It was a period when I faced rejection a lot of the time.
Which was actually a step forward for me. Because before that I spent mu...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness People Skills Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
Pain, Creativity, and Secret Notebook Excerpts
If you own (or used to own) a diary, have you ever looked through your past entries in an unsuspectingly good mood and found yourself offended by your own depressive writings? Don’t worry, you may not quite be the Negative Nancy that your diary paints you out to be, or a person who is perpetually bummed out. You don’t necessarily have to look back upon the works of your 15-year old self and cringe at your 67th “I’m am so alone” entry; as silly as you think they may sound now, these feelings were real at the point of time they were written, and every bit valid considering how circumstances were back then.
Some re...
Source: World of Psychology - May 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maryann Wei Tags: Children and Teens Creativity Grief and Loss Inspiration & Hope Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Diary Introspection Journaling Personal Growth Source Type: blogs
Obstruction of Justice
President Trump is being accused of “obstruction of justice” because of a conversation that he may have had with former FBI Director James Comey. According to the news stories, Trump may have asked Comey to lay off his former National Security advisor, Michael Flynn. In this post I want to briefly examine the legal doctrine of obstruction of justice.To begin, a basic principle of American criminal law is that the line between what ’s lawful and what’s unlawful needs to be clear so we will know, in advance, what conduct might land us in a prison cell. That’s the gist behind the constitutional prohibition of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 17, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Tim Lynch Source Type: blogs
