More awful reporting on the "poop doping" claimed by Dr. Lauren Peterson
UggBeen trying to stamp out the awful reporting on the poop doping claims of Dr. Lauren Peterson. SeeIrresponsible reporting on "poop doping" from the Washington PostKudos to Bicycling Magazine for pedaling so so so much overselling of the microbiomeBut the crap keeps flowing. Here is the last - in the NY Post: Poop transplants are the final frontier in athletic doping | New York PostHere are some quotes from the story and my comments about them."The treatment helped her battle Lyme Disease, however, there was a downside."No evidence exists that this treatment helped her battle Lyme disease." “I had no mic...
Source: The Tree of Life - June 28, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Deaths and complications due to treating the fake disease known as “ chronic Lyme disease ”
Alternative practitioners invent and treat fake diseases like adrenal fatigue and chronic Lyme disease. Unfortunately, as a recent CDC report on complications due to treating chronic Lyme disease with long term antibiotics shows, treating fake diseases can cause harm and, in some cases, even kill. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - June 21, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking antibiotics Borrelia burgdorferi catheter-associated sepsis CDC chronic lyme disease Clostridium diff Source Type: blogs
Irresponsible reporting on "poop doping" from the Washington Post
Went on a bit of a Twitter tirade last night. See more below[View the story "Irresponsible reporting on "poop doping" from The Washington Post #microbiomania" on Storify]The Washington Post story, by Marissa Payne, requires a log in but the article is now in other papers that are free onlineincluding the Denver Post here.It is just really bad reporting because the claims of one scientist are presented as facts without any scrutiny and these claims need lots of scrutiny.Recently this story was covered in Bicycling Magazine and Igave them an "overselling the microbiome" award for their reporting on it. I guess I am pret...
Source: The Tree of Life - June 21, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Xylocaine and Lyme disease: A deer tick story
It was a small deer tick, hidden by the crus helix, embedded in the cymba conchae, the crevice just above the ear canal of my seven-year-old patient halfway through my Saturday clinic.
He was worried that it would hurt. His parents hadn’t wanted to try removing it on their own. I had a hard time even seeing the small tick as it was sitting at an angle where I saw it from straight behind.
“Let me get some stuff,” I said.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 24, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/a-country-doctor" rel="tag" > A Country Doctor, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
What I Would Do Differently if I Were Diagnosed with Depression Today?
Someone in recovery circles once told me that if you have one foot in the past and another in the future, you are essentially peeing on the present. I try to remember that when I’m engulfed in regret — obsessing about all the things I did wrong in the past and wishing to God I had made different decisions. However, writing about my mistakes has always been healing for me because I’d like to think this small action could possibly prevent someone else from making the same ones. If I can help a young person or anyone who has recently been diagnosed with depression take a more direct route to healing, it seems irresp...
Source: World of Psychology - May 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Medications Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Personal Psychiatry Stress Suicide Treatment Bipolar Disorder Depressive Episode Epigenetics Major Depressive Disorder Melancholy Neuroplasticity Sa Source Type: blogs
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LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
After years of preparation, extensive reading, sleepless nights, marriage breakdowns and caffeine – your week of being show ponies has arrived as the F.UCEM examinations are upon us. Giving hope to those who pray to the Utopian FSM we have managed to locate and leak one of the OSCE examination questions for the upcoming exams – hope it helps.
UCEM OSCE SCENARIO
You are the ED Consultant in charge of a tertiary hospital ED
You are approached by the red team night regi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 4, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Utopian Medicine F.UCEM OSCE Source Type: blogs
Am I or Will I Get Better?
I get asked often, am I getting better? Have any of my doctors found a miraculous treatment for me?The answers are and always will be a big fat ' no ' .There are different kinds of ailments out there. They are (in my non medical terminology):Acute - an ailment which happens and gets better. Think a cut, the flu, appendicitis, Lyme disease.Chronic - an ailment which occurs and lasts and lasts and lasts. Think things like arthritis, fibromyalgia, degenerating disks, etc.Terminal - an ailment which will kill you. "Terminal illnesses or infections are consideredincurable when there are no conservative therapies available which...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 26, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: ailments chronic conditions medical treatment pain management Source Type: blogs
Being High Risk
Normal people get exposed to something and they get told ' call us if there are any changes in whatever it is that is bothering them ' . They get sent home basically with a ' take two options and call me in the morning ' .Me? I ' m not a normal person. With my medical history? Of course not.We live in a wooded area with lots of deer and mice outside. Our two cats like to go in and out and in and out and in and out. They bring us home presents and usually leave them outside. But sometimes they don ' t.Yesterday I came home from the gym and took a shower. The cats went in and out and in and out. I decided it was time to trea...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 8, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: ailments Lyme disease Source Type: blogs
Our planet, ourselves: Climate change and health
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At first glance, climate change and personal health may not seem related. One is a global political and environmental concern, while the other deals ultimately with an individual’s well-being. However, climate change is already directly affecting human health in many parts of our world, including many areas of the United States. We are just beginning to understand, and to witness, the health effects of climate change.
The problem with a warmer planet
As human-made carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere increase, we create a “greenhouse effect,” and our world warms. T...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Peter Grinspoon, M.D. Tags: Health Health care Source Type: blogs
An open letter to Psychological Medicine, again!
In conclusion, noted Wilshire et al., “the claim that patients can recover as a result of CBT and GET is not justified by the data, and is highly misleading to clinicians and patients considering these treatments.”
In short, the PACE trial had null results for recovery, according to the protocol definition selected by the authors themselves. Besides the inflated recovery results reported in Psychological Medicine, the study suffered from a host of other problems, including the following:
*In a paradox, the revised recovery thresholds for physical function and fatigue–two of the four recovery measures–were so lax ...
Source: virology blog - March 23, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Commentary Information adaptive pacing therapy CFS chronic fatigue syndrome clinical trial cognitive behavior therapy Dave Tuller exercise graded exercise therapy mecfs myalgic encephalomyelitis outcome PACE trial recovery Source Type: blogs
An Aunt Minnie in Hand Injury
An afebrile diabetic patient came in a week after a drawer was slammed on his hand. He insisted that his hand wasn't broken but hurt much more now than it did when it was initially injured. Do you know the disposition just by looking at the picture?I did. It was an Aunt Minnie. I gave him IV antibiotics, admitted him, and arranged a visit to the operating room for him.The origin of the term Aunt Minnie is somewhat unclear, but it definitely came from radiology. The literature claims that Edward B. D. Neuhauser, MD, a chief radiologist at Boston Children's Hospital, coined this term to mean something so visually distinct...
Source: Lions and Tigers and Bears - March 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Finding the tick in time could save you from Lyme!
“Doesn’t it typically happen during the summer?” asked a worried lady that had walked into my clinic in November with a growing circular rash on her wrist. She was referring, of course, to Lyme disease, that scourge of outdoor enthusiasts. While the peak season for Lyme disease is indeed summer, the ticks that transmit it are active March through December. And, while this may be off-season for the ticks, it is a good time to catch up on how to stay safe in the not-so-distant spring.
What is Lyme disease, and how do you treat it?
Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi which is spread to peop...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Meera Sunder, MBBS, MRCOG Tags: Health Infectious diseases Prevention Source Type: blogs
Long term antibiotics after a diagnosis of Lyme disease
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - December 29, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: infectious disease rheumatology Source Type: blogs
Cardiomyopathy Quiz
Short quiz on cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy Quiz
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Question 1AV block in the presence of features of dilated cardiomyopathy (DC...
Source: Cardiophile MD - December 10, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs
