The Lunate That Died
Everyone who works with me knows that I love joint radiographs, and the wrist is my favorite. It was no surprise when I came on shift that someone exclaimed, "I have an x-ray for you. I bet you will know exactly what it is! This 30-ish-year-old lady came in with atraumatic wrist pain."I did know exactly what it was. My eyes were drawn to the lucent lunate target. The patient was still in the ED, so I went to examine her hand. She had increased pain when I walked my fingers proximally down the metacarpal, which dipped into the carpal space. She was also not a fan of volar flexion or dorsiflexion. It made sense....
Source: Lions and Tigers and Bears - September 3, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Are Radiologists Prepared for The Future?
This article originally appeared on Medium here. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Technology Medical Practice Physicians AI Alex Logsdon Artificial intelligence Radiology Source Type: blogs
Autoimmune Disease: Start With Wheat & Grain Elimination
If you or someone close to you have an autoimmune condition such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, along with about 195 others, there are a number of steps you can take that reduce, even eliminate the autoimmune inflammation damaging your organs. (Unfortunately, some forms of autoimmune damage cannot be reversed. Autoimmune loss of pancreatic beta cells that lead to type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis that damages the thyroid gland, or autoimmune hepatitis that can lead to cirrhosis. for example, cannot be reversed even if the autoimmune p...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Autoimmunity autoimmune casein Gliadin grain-free omega-3 undoctored vitamin D wheat belly Source Type: blogs
‘ At Least You Don ’ t Have … ’ How to Be Supportive of Someone with Chronic Illness
I was speaking with someone recently who has a series of chronic and painful conditions; some of which are noticeable and some ‘invisible’. What is particularly distressful is that people sometimes say to her, “At least you don’t have cancer.” How dismissive is that? I know they are trying to help her feel better about what she does have and perhaps even attempt to minimize the impact, but it is not compassionate or helpful.
There are diagnoses such as fibromyalgia, lupus, diabetes, arthritis or neuropathy which some people have to navigate. It might mean taking naps on an as-needed basis, en...
Source: World of Psychology - May 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Chronic Pain Health-related Inspiration & Hope Personal Arthritis Chronic Illness Diabetes Fibromyalgia Lupus Lyme disease neuropathy peer support Source Type: blogs
Awareness and Social Media Fundamentals for Patient Communities – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/17 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Amanda (@LALupusLady) on the topic of “Awareness and Social Media Fundamentals for Patient Communities”. May is Lupus Awareness Month, Fibromyalgia Awareness Month, Mental Health Awareness Month, Arthritis Awareness […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 14, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT #HITsm Topics Amanda Green Healthcare Social Media LALupusLady Patient Communities Patients Source Type: blogs
Do not take medical tests as gospel
During my time in practice, I had at least eight patients who came to me sure they had systemic lupus erythematosus, also commonly called SLE or lupus. This is an autoimmune disease, characterized by joint pain, that can affect almost any organ, including skin, kidneys, brain, and heart, and can even be fatal. In every […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 31, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/edward-hoffer" rel="tag" > Edward Hoffer, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Rheumatology Source Type: blogs
Does Calling Depression an Illness Worsen Stigma?
I plead guilty to expounding on the biochemical vulnerabilities and abnormalities in neural wiring of depression to make the case that it is a legitimate illness alongside lupus, breast cancer, or psoriatic arthritis. I thought I was doing a good thing by quoting experts like Peter Kramer, M.D, who believes that because depression can be associated with the loss of volume in parts of the brain, it is the “most devastating disease known to mankind.”
My intention, like so many other mental health advocates I know, was to use science as a tool to lessen stigma. But is that really effective?
Proof of the Madness
I am relie...
Source: World of Psychology - March 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression General Mental Health and Wellness Psychiatry Psychology Research Self-Help Treatment biogenetic theory Depressive Episode Mental Illness Mood Disorder Stereotypes Stigma Source Type: blogs
Language Matters: You Are Not an Illness
A person should not be defined by an illness or condition.
Often in popular media or casual conversation, people speak about the subject of a news story or an acquaintance by saying, “he is bipolar”, “schizophrenic”, or “mentally ill.” No one says, “She is cancer,” “she is a heart condition,” or “she is lupus.” Aside from a few very select common physical illnesses, such as diabetes where people find community and comfort in sharing their diagnosis, we would never consider insulting a person by simply identifying them by the disease which they have endured o...
Source: World of Psychology - February 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Colleen Donnelly Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Stigma Crisis Counseling destigmatization discrimination Labels neurodivergent Stereotypes Validation Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 28th 2019
In this study, we show that calorie restriction is protective against age-related increases in senescence and microglia activation and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in an animal model of aging. Further, these protective effects mitigated age-related decline in neuroblast and neuronal production, and enhanced olfactory memory performance, a behavioral index of neurogenesis in the SVZ. Our results support the concept that calorie restriction might be an effective anti-aging intervention in the context of healthy brain aging.
Greater Modest Activity in Late Life Correlates with Lower Incidence of Dementia
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Source: Fight Aging! - January 27, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Recent Update on the Use of Immune Ablation and HSCT to Treat Autoimmunity
For more than twenty years now, Richard Burt's research teams have been working on the treatment of autoimmunity through the destruction and recreation of the immune system. Autoimmunity is a malfunction in the self-tolerance of immune cells, leading them to attack patient tissues. The malfunction is entirely contained in the immune system, so if the immune system is destroyed and replaced, the autoimmunity stops. If the genesis of autoimmunity is happenstance, an unfortunate one-time accident, then this is a cure. But if autoimmunity has a trigger outside the immune system in a given patient, it will return after some per...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 22, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Stressed Out? 4 Ways Stress Affects Your Health
In this study, it was also reported that the participants who regularly did yoga felt less anxious and depressed. It is believed that yoga can play a role in slowing down the harmful effects that stress can cause the body both physically and psychologically.4
Weakened Immune System
Studies show that stress is linked to a malfunctioning immune system. When immune cells are suppressed, tissues are harmed by chronic inflammation. Patients with autoimmune diseases report flare-ups around stressful times in their lives. This could be the reason behind why people may get sick when going through stressful situations, leaving the...
Source: World of Psychology - December 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Barbara R. Edwards, MD, MPH Tags: Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Stress Blood Pressure brain-gut connection Chronic Stress Heart Disease Ibs Inflammation stress reduction Yoga Source Type: blogs
A Wee Wiggle in my Journey to Family
You're reading A Wee Wiggle in my Journey to Family, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Many of us have faced depression, struggled with low self-esteem, and other debilitating mental health challenges. My own journey with depression was a result of growing up with a rare blood disorder and being told I could never have children of my own. This completely changed my dreams of what family and life meant. Years later I suffered with a rare soft tissue sarcoma, yet, baffling the best of doctors, I survived. I’...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: donnagrantwilcox Tags: depression featured psychology self improvement best books Donna Grant Wilcox faith family mental health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 19th 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - November 18, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Mechanism by which Autoimmunity Raises the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
In autoimmunity, the immune system becomes dysregulated and mistakenly attacks portions of the patient's own biochemistry. The broad variety of autoimmune conditions are differentiated from one another on the basis of exactly which structures and cells come under attack. Some autoimmune conditions are highly disabling or lethal, while others are comparative mild, but even lesser autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis still shorten life expectancy. To the degree to which autoimmunity results in increased inflammation, a shorter life is the expected outcome, even when the tissues targeted by the immune system are...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 12, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
The Genomic Data Challenges Of The Future
As DNA is the new oil (or bacon?), and its amount continues to increase exponentially, technical, ethical, legal as well as security and privacy challenges arise by the dozens. The Medical Futurist believes now is the time for concerted, community-wide planning for the genomic data challenges of the next decade.
The amount of genomic data is soaring – and the challenges growing
Imagine genes as sentences and genomes as entire books consisting of tens of thousands of chains of words. Interpreting the whole book for the first time by completing the Human Genome Project took more than 15 years. It’s fascinating how far hu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 27, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Genomics Healthcare Policy Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers big data bioethics DNA genetic genetics genome sequencing genomic data population genomics technology Source Type: blogs
