How can Warfarin be safe “ even in ” first trimester of pregnancy ? The story behind the 5 mg cut-off !
The well known pro-coagulant state of pregnancy is an evolutionary protective process to make blood clot quicker, to save fetal loss in early pregnancy and mitigate postpartum bleeding. Still, in many women, this natural adaptive process confers an enhanced thrombotic risk. The molecular mechanisms for this pro-coagulant state are, there is increased factor VII, fibrinogen, reduced protein S. It is interesting to note, while plasminogen levels are elevated, D-dimer is also increased, indicating an ongoing fight between pro & anticoagulant forces, converting the physiological maternal- placental bed a mini harmless DIC ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - March 20, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiology -pregnancy Pregnancy and heart pregnancy and heart disease Uncategorized carpreg registry zahara esc acc guidelines on pregnancy and heart disease first trmestr use of oac warfarin heparin switch over lmwh bridge in pregnancy Source Type: blogs
Microplastics, Major Problem
By KIM BELLARD
It’s been almost four years since I first wrote about microplastics; long story short, they’re everywhere. In the ground, in the oceans (even at the very bottom), in the atmosphere. More to the point, they’re in the air you breathe and in the food you eat. They’re in you, and no one thinks that is a good thing. But we’re only starting to understand the harm they cause.
The Washington Post recently reported:
Scientists have found microplastics — or their tinier cousins, nanoplastics — embedded in the human placenta, in blood, in the heart and in the liver and bowels. In one re...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Microplastics Source Type: blogs
A geriatrician ’ s transformative walk in Italy
I just walked about 90 km in six days along the Via Matildica del Volto Santo between Mantua and Lucca through the Appenine mountains in the Emilia Romagna region of northern Italy. This beautiful, lesser-known route, crossing regions once ruled by the formidable Countess Matilda of Canossa, offered a unique blend of physical challenges and
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A geriatrician’s transformative walk in Italy originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Paula Rochon, MD Tags: Physician Geriatrics Source Type: blogs
MMI Raises $110 Million in Series C Financing
Largest Ever Investment in Microsurgery will Further MMI’s Mission to Transform Open Surgery with Robotic Technology
MMI (Medical Microinstruments, Inc.), a robotics company dedicated to increasing treatment options and improving clinical outcomes for patients with complex conditions, today announced that it has raised $110 million in Series C financing. The round, led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, marks the largest-ever investment in microsurgery innovation.
The funds will support the commercialization of the Symani Surgical System in high-growth markets and continued investment in studies that generat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 11, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Andera Partners BioStar Deerfield Management Fidelity Management & Research Company Fountain Healthcare Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Mark Toland Medical Microinstr Source Type: blogs
Are AI Clinical Protocols A Dobb-ist Trojan Horse?
By MIKE MAGEE
For most loyalist Americans at the turn of the 19th century, Justice John Marshall Harlan’s decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). was a “slam dunk.” In it, he elected to force a reluctant Methodist minister in Massachusetts to undergo Smallpox vaccination during a regional epidemic or pay a fine.
Justice Harlan wrote at the time: “Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
What could ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion AI Dobbs Forced Sterilization Mike Magee racial bias SCOTUS Vaccination Source Type: blogs
Why Flight Emergency Medical Kits Need A Digital Health Upgrade
A few weeks ago a doctor used an Apple Watch to aid an elderly woman who suffered a medical emergency on a flight. NHS doctor Rashid Riaz, from Hereford, borrowed the device from a flight attendant to check the patient’s oxygen levels.
“The Apple Watch helped me find out the patient had low oxygen saturation,” the medic explained. Later, he also called on all airlines to consider having emergency physician kits as standard, which would ideally include tools to take basic measurements, diabetic and blood pressure meters, and an oxygen saturation monitor.
We all know that aircraft have some medical su...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers portable diagnostics emergency medicine Healthcare technology flight medicine wearables Source Type: blogs
Test results!
Hi everyone! Oh dear, I’ve been gone for quite some time, haven’t I? Life really does get in the way of plans sometimes.
In this period, in addition to being super busy with a million other things, I’ve been focusing on getting my arthritic knee in shape. There’s no going back to the knee I had in my 20s, of course, but I can try at least to stop it from getting worse, mainly with physiotherapy. Okay, but enough about my knee….that’s not the reason I’ve written this post…
Today I have some good news that I’d like to share with you…
Here’s the news: I just...
Source: Margaret's Corner - February 21, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll boswellia curcumin osteoarthritis Source Type: blogs
Welcome to the nuthouse
Despite having his Precious Bodily Fluids depleted and polluted by the feminist succubus and the Bill Gates microchip vaccine, Travis Kelce turned in a Hall of Fame-worthy performance to lead the KC Chiefs to the Superb Owl. So, right on cue, MAGAland is in hysteria becausethe game was obviously rigged, presumably by an Italian satellite, Dominion Voting Systems, and Hugo Chavez.“Taylor Swift is an op,” Benny Johnson, a right-wing media
personality who boasts millions of followers across different social
media platforms, wrote on X. “It’s all fake. You’re being played.”“The Democrats’ Taylor Swift electio...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 30, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Digital Health at CES 2024
CES is always a fun show for a tech guy like myself. With 130,000 people, there’s a lot of noise that doesn’t relate to healthcare IT, but over the years the digital health portion of CES has really grown. This year that growth was particularly true thanks to the great efforts of Catherine Pugh who put together an entire Digital Health track, a long list of digital health vendors, and a packed house digital health networking event.
While I’m sure I missed plenty of the digital health happenings at CES, here’s a quick rundown of some of the things I found interesting.
Digital Health Media Panel a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Alzheimer's BeamO Blood Glucose Monitor Bone Density Test C.Light Technologies CES CES 2024 Concussions CTA Source Type: blogs
Knee osteoarthritis and Pavarotta
Well, earlier this week we had to say goodbye to our eldest cat, Pavarotta. She was 19 years old.
Here, in brief, is what happened: last Monday, November 27, I heard a scary, very loud howl coming from the dining room, where the kitties have their water fountain. I got there in time to see Pavarotta fall on the floor and begin scrambling about, trying to get up. A few of our other cats came running and sat around her…I think they wanted to help. After hearing my reassuring voice (but I was freaking out, truth be told), she finally lay down and rested for about a half hour, then got up and seemed almost normal. She ev...
Source: Margaret's Corner - December 1, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll death of a cat gonoartrosi knee osteoarthritis Source Type: blogs
A mother ’ s healing love song
An excerpt from A Petit Mal. In ER, we are seen by French doctor, which is unusual and relevant because doctor asks boy if he likes any French soccer teams. Boy is wearing Italian soccer jersey. Yes, Paris Saint-Germain, boy says. Ah, doctor says, you like PSG. And you also like Juventus, ah. Boy is
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A mother’s healing love song originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ana María Caballero Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
Orange, Green, and Red – The Colors of Tribalism
BY MIKE MAGEE
As Thanksgiving Day approaches, let’s give thanks for the study of history, in part because it reminds us that Trumpian words like “vermin” have been used before and serve to alert the human race that we have entered danger zone
One President who understood the power of words more than many others was FDR. When he structured up “a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations…to provide support for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly”, he memorably packaged the plan under the label, “The New Deal.”
Seizing alliteration in 1933, he further ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Declaration of Human Rights March of Dimes Mike Magee Thanksgiving Welfare Source Type: blogs
TikTok on the Gender Gap
By MIKE MAGEE
The juxta-positioning of Tuesday’s New York Times headlines was disturbing. The first “Why Does This Bride Look So Mad?”, was followed by “An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy in Men.”
The “reluctant bride” referred to in the first article is (by now) an estimated 175 years old intended bride was 18 in the painting. The painting itself was the work of artist, Auguste Toulmouche, in 1866. The original title was “The Hesitant Fiancee”. Its current fame has a much shorter timeline – 2 weeks to be exact. That’s when it began to appear on TikTok, hosted as a statement of disg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Gender gap Life Expectancy Mike Magee tiktok Source Type: blogs
8 Practical Predictions For The Near Future Of Healthcare
This article aims to bridge that gap, providing a condensed overview beneficial for healthcare professionals and users alike.
1) Patients will become the point of care
In the pursuit of more streamlined and patient-centric healthcare, traditional hospital frameworks are under reassessment. The stereotypical scenes of long waiting lines, overwhelming paperwork, and sterile, uninviting corridors symbolize a dated workflow. The evolution towards modernity beckons a shift from this conventional setup, ushering in an era where patients, armed with digital health tools, become the focal point of care, reducing the dependen...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence digital health Source Type: blogs
Great Food Can Improve Brain Development (Even Before Birth)
What we eat – and what our kids eat – affects so much in life: appearance, energy, cognition, focus, mood, how often we get sick, how quickly we get better, how likely we are to develop a chronic disease, and how we age.
Every bite of food is either an investment in our future, a new debt we are taking out, or some of both.
There are many ways to enjoy the benefits of real food. One healthy way of eating that has been studied a lot is the Mediterranean diet, a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, seeds, fish, herbs, spices, and olive oil. Red meats, processed foods, and added sugars are limited.
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - September 5, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized Mediterranean Diet Pregnancy Nutrition Top Family Nutrition Source Type: blogs
