Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 212
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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 212 – a “where in the world” edition from Dr Mark Corden – paediatric fellow in Melbourne.
Question 1
Where in the world was insulin discovered?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 3, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five appendicectomy artificial ear bionic ear claudius aymand cochlear implant frederick banting Graeme Clark hyperbilirubinaemia insulin Leonid Rogozov mestivier phototherapy pierre eymard Sister J Ward sodi Source Type: blogs
Optical Fiber Pajamas Light Up to Treat Jaundice in Newborns
Kids born with jaundice have to spend a good deal of time in an illuminated incubator before they can metabolize bilirubin hepatically. Nobody likes this, as the child has to be taken away from the parents to spend time inside a glass box.
At the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), a new illuminated fabric has been developed that can be used to make baby pajamas that literally blanket the child in light. There are technologies that resemble this, such as the Biliblanket, but Empa’s technology integrates optical fibers that are no wider than regular thread, right into traditional...
Source: Medgadget - November 1, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 58-year-old man with hepatitis C-related cirrhosis
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 58-year-old man is evaluated in follow-up for hepatitis C-related cirrhosis that is complicated by nonbleeding small esophageal varices and ascites. His ascites has recently worsened and has required large-volume paracentesis three times per month. He has been on a low-salt diet, spironolactone, and furosemide.
On physical examination, temperature is 36.8 °C (98.2 °F), blood pressure is 98/60 mm Hg, pulse rate is 65/min, and respiration rate is 16/min; BMI is 26. He appears chronically ill. Scleral icterus, ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 7, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Gastroenterology Hospital-Based Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs
Naturopaths: Able to turn even Epsom salt potentially deadly
Naturopathy and naturopaths are a fairly frequent topic on this blog —and for very good reason. If there is an example of a pseudomedical " discipline " that has been gaining undeserved " respectability, " it ' s naturopathy. It ' s licensed in all too many states, and physicians who have fallen under the spell of so-called " integrative medicine, " a specialty that rebrands science-based lifestyle medical interventions as somehow " alternative " or " integrative " and uses them as a vessel to " integrate " quackery into medicine, seem to have a special affinity for naturopaths. Indeed, so common has the presence of natu...
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 6, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: oracknows Source Type: blogs
After 8 years, this doctor is finally treating his pancreatic tumors
I’ve known that I’ve had tumors in my pancreas since 2009. Until now I’ve done nothing about them.
This might sound like a counter-intuitive, even foolhardy strategy, especially for an oncologist, who should surely know better than to let his disease gain an advantage through his own inaction. But I don’t have the “usual” type of pancreatic cancer, the kind that claimed the life of Patrick Swayze and has sentenced many other lesser-known patients to a hasty, painful, jaundiced death.
Adenocarcinoma of the pancreas is, indeed, a fearsome foe; I certainly haven’t compiled a list of m...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 6, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mark-a-lewis" rel="tag" > Mark A. Lewis, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Gastroenterology Oncology/Hematology Surgery Source Type: blogs
Novel Smartphone App for Bilirubin, Pancreatic Cancer Screening
Pancreatic cancer patients have one of the lowest five-year survival rates, due in large part to the disease going undiagnosed in its early and intermediate stages. There are no overt symptoms during the critical early period, and non-invasive screening tools for identifying early pancreatic tumors before they metastasize have yet to be developed and translated into clinical use.
A team of researchers at the University of Washington has recently developed a novel smartphone app, which enables straightforward, non-invasive screening for pancreatic cancer and other diseases based on image analysis. The app, named BiliScreen,...
Source: Medgadget - August 31, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Iris Kulbatski Tags: Diagnostics GI Medicine Net News Source Type: blogs
The Mysterious Demise of World Health Networks - Fugitive Kazakhs, the Trump Organization, Dodgy Visa Applications, Oh My
DiscussionAs we have previously discussed, based on the doctrines ofneoliberalism ormarket fundamentalism, the US health care system is increasingly dominated by for-profit corporations. The practice of medicine is increasinglycorporate. Hospitals and hospital systems are increasingly owned by for-profit corporations. Health insurance is increasingly provided by for-profit companies. Drug, device and biotechnology companies have been almost entirely commercial for a long time. And touted as sources of innovations, there are entrepreneurial start-ups everywhere offering new products and s...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: crime Donald Trump market fundamentalism marketing neoliberalism public health Steward Health Care Source Type: blogs
The first human virus discovered
On the wall of a Columbia University Medical Center building just across the street from my laboratory is a plaque commemorating two participants in the discovery of a mosquito vector for yellow fever virus.
The plaque reads:
Aristides Agramonte, Jesse William Lazear, Graduates of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, class of 1892. Acting Assistant Surgeons, U.S. Army. Members of the USA Yellow Fever Commission with Drs. Walter Reed and James Carroll. Through devotion and self-sacrifice they helped to eradicate a pestilence of man.
Yellow fever, known in tropical countries since the 15th century,...
Source: virology blog - June 14, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information Aristides Aggramonte Cuba James Carroll Jesse Lazear mosquito US Army Yellow Fever Commission viral virus viruses Walter Reed Source Type: blogs
Physicians are under no professional obligation to provide care that is futile
I was covering for my partner over the weekend and saw his patient with end-stage liver disease, a consequence of decades of alcohol abuse.|
He was one of the most deeply jaundiced individuals I have ever seen. His mental status was still preserved. He could converse and responded appropriately to my routine inquiries, although he was somewhat sluggish in his thinking. It’s amazing that even after the majority of a liver is dead, that a person can still live.
When I do my hospital rounds, it is rare that one of my patients is not suffering some complication of chronic alcoholism. In the hospital, the disease is rampant. ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 12, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michael-kirsch" rel="tag" > Michael Kirsch, MD < /a > Tags: Physician GI Palliative care Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 281
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 281st LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
The 14th Critical Care Symposium was held last week in Manchester, featuring amazing speakers such ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 7, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 28-year-old man with elevated liver chemistry test result
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 28-year-old man is evaluated in follow-up for elevated liver chemistry test results, which were performed to assess a 3-month history of fatigue. He has no history of liver disease and has not had abdominal pain or fever. His medical history is significant for a 3-year history of diarrhea. Following a physical exam, lab results, and abdominal CT, what is the most appropriate next step in management?
On physical examination, vital signs are normal; BMI is 24. Spider angiomata and jaundice are absent. Abdominal ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 18, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions GI Source Type: blogs
A 7-Pound Premature Baby Died After Receiving 8 Vaccine Doses, Her Death Was Blamed On Co-Sleeping Instead Of The Toxic Vaccines
Conclusion
Medical examiners are putting the blame on parents for co-sleeping, while completely ignoring the vaccines given to the child hours or days before, when investigating these infant deaths. They will also relate an infant’s death to poisoning of the body due to something the child ingested or inhaled, but not from the poisons injected through the vaccines. [29]
In the state of Louisiana, health officials have been applauded for having fairly high vaccination rates, but at the same time, Louisiana has consistently been ranked one of the worst states in the nation for having high infant mortality rates, but nowher...
Source: vactruth.com - January 19, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Case Reports on Vaccine Injury Human Recent Articles Top Picks Top Stories Aysia Hope Clark Lafayette General Medical Center National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Recombivax Source Type: blogs
The Otter Newborn Warmer: A Low-cost Alternative to Complex Incubators
Design that Matters (DtM), a non-profit with the goal of developing medical devices to help combat pneumonia, jaundice, and hypothermia, is in the process of developing the Otter, a low-cost warming bassinet for newborns. The device is conceived as an alternative to complex and expensive incubators that are not always available in healthcare facilities in developing countries.
Unfortunately, a lack of appropriate medical facilities in developing countries contributes to the death of four million children each year, who die within a month of birth because of complications associated with prematurity, infections, and low bir...
Source: Medgadget - December 13, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Medical Review of Pure Genius, episode 2: “It’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Silk Surgery”
Back to the utopic ultra-technological hospital Bunker Hill, run by tech genius James Bell (trying too hard to pull off Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor) and “seventh best surgeon in the world” (apparently there’s a list) Dr. Walter Wallace.
The first patient is Amelia, who has vanishing bile duct syndrome — a particularly nasty type of drug-induced liver injury, for which transplant is the ultimate treatment. In this case, the story blames Amelia starting and stopping her antidepressants repeatedly as the cause for her liver damage (speaking of blame, notice how the episode more than once makes ...
Source: Polite Dissent - November 3, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
The 10 Most Innovative Health Technologies Saving Millions In The Developing World
There are striking differences in the general social, economic or political background of the developed and developing country-groups, and developing countries are in dire need for creative and innovative medical solutions. Here are the 10 most innovative health technologies which could save millions of lives in these corners of the Earth.
Imagine two babies being born at the exact same time: a little girl in Sweden and a baby boy in Mozambique. What are their chances for a long, healthy life?
In the Scandinavian country of the easily assemblable IKEA furniture and the most secure car in the world, life expectancy in 2015...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 19, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: 3D Printing in Medicine Bioethics Healthcare Design Longevity Africa future GC1 India Innovation Personalized medicine technology Source Type: blogs
