At the Brink of Losing, I Found Myself
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"I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone." ~Dwayne Johnson
Did you ever bow down to your mind demons? I have... but that experience taught me the best lifetime-lesson.
My life was not a fairytale. But fortunately, my fight was never for bread and butter.
I had every means to suffice my materialistic desires. I had beautiful people around in...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amanpreet Singh Tags: featured health and fitness psychology self improvement depression mental health mental strength Source Type: blogs
Environmental Effects on the Mind and Body: Depression Relief
Nature is an important aspect of our daily lives that is too often taken for granted. Now, in our technologically-driven society, we are often shut away from nature, and the times that we are out in nature, we are unable to appreciate it in its entire splendor. It is hard to truly separate yourself from the rest of the world, considering we are always “on”, but the effects of doing so prove beneficial to your general well-being and emotional clarity.
“[We] are all a part of nature. We are born in nature; our bodies are formed of nature; we live by the rules of nature,” writes Wesley P. Schultz, PhD, professo...
Source: World of Psychology - May 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Taylor Bourassa Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression General Research Sunlight Vitamin D Source Type: blogs
Ballot Initiatives Can ’t Be Corrupted and Won’t Love You Back
When voters want to change how they ’re being governed, the existing legal framework should make it easy for them to do so—or at least not get in their way. That’s what a group of concerned citizens from three cities in Washington state believed when they set out to reform unions. They tried to place their proposal on three muni cipal ballots, which involved collecting signatures from the relevant communities and filing them alongside the initiative.State law seemed to require the cities to place these measures on the ballot or adopt them outright. None of the city councils did either of those things, so the citizens...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 13, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus, Patrick Moran Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Dwelling on the Past Mistakes Caused by Mental Illness
Once we reach recovery from mental illness, we tend to dwell on the mistakes of our past. Thoughts of failures and people we’ve hurt ruminate inside our head and make it difficult to move forward.
Why do we think about these things? Does it protect us, make us feel better, or is it way to keep us from moving forward? In this episode, our hosts discuss their past failures in the hopes it allows our listeners to realize living in the past only really accomplishes one thing . . .
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“It just creeps into the deep dark depths of my head and it just goes around, and around, and around.”
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Source: World of Psychology - April 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Anxiety and Panic Depression Schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
Reverse Innovation: When Disruptive Health Solutions Go West
Zipline drones populate the Rwandan skyline, portable
electrocardiogram machines help doctors diagnose in clinics in rural India, easy
testing lets cure children in Botswana. Beyond being brilliant medical
innovations, at some point, all these technologies were brought to or should be
applied to high-income countries after their success in their original settings
in Africa or Asia – as they have been available for
a fraction of the cost, they have represented a highly creative solution
and/or the regulatory environment has allowed them to thrive. That’s what
researchers call reverse innovation, and
we tracked down the ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Portable Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones Africa asia development digital health disruption disruptive drones empowerment Healthcare Innovation medical drones reverse innovation technology West Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Case 078
A 48 year old woman presents with RUQ pain of 3 days duration. She has had several similar briefer episodes but on this occasion it has not settled and she has developed jaundice.
The post Ultrasound Case 078 appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane • LITFL • Medical Blog. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 20, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: TOP 100 Ultrasound biliary system Biliary Ultrasound Choledocholithiasis Common bile duct common bile duct stone Finding the CBD Gallstones Source Type: blogs
Pros and Cons of Delayed Cord Clamping
Delayed cord clamping allows extra time, usually one to three minutes, between the clamping and separation of the umbilical cord from the baby, until pulsations in the umbilical cord have ceased or the placenta is delivered. This allows the remaining stem cell-rich blood from the placenta to be transferred to the baby after birth (up to one-third of the baby’s total blood volume).
Delayed cord clamping at birth has proven to benefit both baby and mom. Some studies show that the added blood volume in babies (especially in pre-term babies) increases their red blood count by 60%. Not only does this help prevent iron deficie...
Source: Cord Blood News - January 29, 2019 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: Cord Blood pregnancy stem cells Source Type: blogs
Tiny Wearable UV Sensor Can Help to Optimize Phototherapy
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a “virtually indestructible” solar-powered UV sensor. Described as the world’s smallest wearable, the battery-free device is thinner than a credit card and smaller than an M&M candy, but can warn people about UV over-exposure and help clinicians to optimize dosing during light therapy.
Not knowing of Northwestern’s role in this technology, we recently covered the now available sensor when it was released as a L’Oreal product through Apple stores.
Light therapy has numerous applications, including blue light therapy for jaundiced newborns and UV therapy...
Source: Medgadget - December 6, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dermatology Materials Public Health Source Type: blogs
Concern over too much EGCG
I just finished reading a BBC article about a man in Texas who had been taking an EGCG (extracted from green tea) supplement for 2-3 months when he found out that his liver was in very bad shape, to the point that he had to have an urgent liver transplant. His doctors ruled out everything else and concluded that this serious injury may have been caused by the EGCG supplement.
Even though I personally don’t take EGCG, I was horrified, at first. Then I read the article, which states that drinking green tea, as I do on occasion, is perfectly safe. What you have to be careful about is its extract, known as EGCG, which ap...
Source: Margaret's Corner - October 27, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll EGCG EGCG toxicity green tea liver injury Source Type: blogs
A life moment you dare not dream of
As a third-generation physician, I grew up thinking and dreaming of a being a physician, and 33 years later, I am still living the dream. I dreamt of saving people’s lives. I dreamt of a day like today when I received a LinkedIn request from a young lady on whom, 21 years ago, I performed a living donor liver transplant from her mother.
Today she is graduating from college and hopes to work in healthcare and would “love to catch up and thank you for everything.” I dreamt of using my skills to perform liver transplants so children could grow up, parents could enjoy raising their children, and grandparents coul...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 11, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/j-michael-millis" rel="tag" > J. Michael Millis, MD < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Surgery Source Type: blogs
In Search of Intra-Aero-Bili-ty
By MATTHEW HOLT
Another one of my favorites, although this one is much more recent than those published so far–dating back to only March 2015. It was the written version of a talk I gave in September 2014 following the birth of my son Aero on August 26, 2014. So if we are discussing birthdays (and re-posting classics as, yes, it’s still THCB’s 15th birthday week!) we might as well have one that is literally about the confluence of a birthday and the state of health IT, health business, care for the underserved and much more!
Today is the kick-off of the vendor-fest that is HIMSS. Late last week on THCB, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 16, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health 2.0 Matthew Holt Tech Epic Interoperability Nadine Burke Sutter Source Type: blogs
Poem
Turnpike PATurnpike claustrophobic:Hemmed in narrow lanes,Orange cones,Rumble strips,Low shoulders,Long tripsInto a ceaseless night.Can't breathe, anaerobic,Smoke rising up from leaning trees,White lines smeared,Boundaries between road and wild obscuredForests on fireOr maybe it ’s always just been fog.Addled mindsBlurred west-bound headlights.Mile and then mile,I count the tenths of miles,Endless white knuckled slogKittatinny Mountain tunnelOpens up in the darknessLike a gaping mouth,Semi-circle of reprieve.Gash in the base of rock.Arched walls lined with blocks of yellowed tilesLike old teethIn jaundiced gums.Curved ca...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - July 25, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Medical Care in Rural India
By SAURABH JHA
I’ve humbly realized that doctors aren’t always indispensable. When I was three, a compounder – a doctor’s assistant – allegedly saved my life. Dehydrated from severe dysentery, I was ashen and lifeless. My blood pressure was falling and I would soon lose my pulse. I needed fluids urgently. An experienced pediatrician could not get a line into my collapsed veins. When hope seemed lost, his compounder gingerly offered to try, and got fluids inside my veins on the first attempt. My pulse and color returned and I lived to hear the tale from my mother.
So, on a recent trip to India...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 16, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 009 Humongous HIV Extravaganza
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The diagnosis of HIV is no longer fatal and the term AIDS is becoming less frequent. In many countries, people with HIV are living longer than those with diabetes. This post will hopefully teach the basics of a complex disease and demystify some of the potential diseases you need to consider in those who are severely immunosuppressed. While trying to be comprehensive this post can not be exhaustive (as you can imagine any patient with a low ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 7, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Amanda McConnell Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine AIDS art cryptococcoma cryptococcus HIV HIV1 HIV2 PEP PrEP TB toxoplasma tuberculoma Source Type: blogs
