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Kevin Williamson wrote a piece last month in the National Review bemoaning the hand wringing he sees occurring across America surrounding the threat of millions of Americans losing their health coverage with the intended repeal of the ACA and its replacement with TrumpCare. He calls this piece: The "Right" to Health Care, with the scare quotes performing the task expected. (What? Did you think you had a "right" to health care when you get sick, silly boy?) appended with the self-answering subtitleThere isn't oneboldly patched in the space before the opening lede.He then goes on to construct a thought experim...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - June 6, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 191
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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 191.
Question 1
Hydroxycobalamin used as a cyanide antidote can discolour your skin and urine, but for how long?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five cotard's syndrome cyanide jack fisherman meningitis naloxone streptococcus suis Texas Sharp Shooter tiet canh tydroxycobalamin Source Type: blogs
8 things to watch for when your child has a headache
Headaches are common in childhood. Most of the time, they are nothing to worry about and are caused by common minor illnesses, a mild bump to the head, lack of sleep, not getting enough food or drink, or stress. Migraines can also be seen in childhood, but with awareness and avoidance of triggers, they don’t usually cause problems.
Sometimes, though, headaches are a problem — and something to worry about. Here is when you should worry:
1. When a headache is accompanied by a fever and a stiff neck. Your child should be able to look up at the ceiling, touch his chin to his chest and shake his head back and forth. If he c...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Headache Parenting Source Type: blogs
Antimicrobial Resistance: Where to from Here?
Conclusion
Newer tools capable of informing these early decisions are under development, but integrating an awareness of AMR into both hospital and GP practice is a key component of winning the fight against superbugs. Throughout the development process, discussion between clinicians and researchers will ensure that diagnostic tools are effective, and also meet the needs of frontline staff.
In the mean-time, cultivating an AMR aware mind-set is the best defence against over-prescription. Understanding and accepting the systematic, ubiquitous biases which affect our judgement of risk is particularly helpful. For example, do...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 16, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jarrad Hall Tags: Clinical Research Microbiology AMR Antimicrobial resistance ESBL MROs multi-resistant organisms multidrug resistant organisms (MROs) Source Type: blogs
Antimicrobial Resistance: Where to from Here?
Conclusion
Newer tools capable of informing these early decisions are under development, but integrating an awareness of AMR into both hospital and GP practice is a key component of winning the fight against superbugs. Throughout the development process, discussion between clinicians and researchers will ensure that diagnostic tools are effective, and also meet the needs of frontline staff.
In the mean-time, cultivating an AMR aware mind-set is the best defence against over-prescription. Understanding and accepting the systematic, ubiquitous biases which affect our judgement of risk is particularly helpful. For example, do...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 16, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jarrad Hall Tags: Clinical Research Microbiology AMR Antimicrobial resistance ESBL Joanna Tedeschi MROs multi-resistant organisms multidrug resistant organisms (MROs) Source Type: blogs
First Kicks by Dr. Greene: Track Your Baby ’ s Development During Pregnancy, by Week
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - May 2, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: DrGreene Team Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
First Kicks by Dr. Greene: Track Your Baby s Development During Pregnancy, by Week
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - May 2, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: DrGreene Team Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 280
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LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 280th 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
What does it take to give the greatest presentation ever? Ross Fisher discusses at SMACCDub. [AS]
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 29, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Anand Swaminathan Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
Engage With Your Co-Workers for BHSM!
As a school-based SLP, I usually celebrated Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM) by creating an activity to use with my students and a classroom lesson for teachers. But what about raising awareness with our co-workers? So this year, I created an activity I’m using with my ASHA co-workers and thought you might like to share it in your school, private practice, office, health care facility or community-based organization meeting during the month of May!
This BHSM game is a takeoff on Family Feud. First, divide your group into “families.” Ask each family to determine their spokesperson. They can also select f...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 25, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Stacey Glasgow Tags: Advocacy Audiology Events Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention hearing loss hearing protection Language Disorders Professional Development Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
Why vaccines are important for our country ’s financial health, too
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Imagine there was a simple treatment that could be given to babies and toddlers that was not only remarkably effective in preventing illness, but also inexpensive. And imagine that this treatment was not only inexpensive, but also lowered overall health care costs.
There’s no need to imagine; the treatment exists. It’s called immunization.
It’s National Infant Immunization Week, a time to recognize and celebrate immunization. It’s during infancy that we give the most vaccines, but the benefits extend far beyond infancy and beyond those babies. The protection lasts for years, keeping b...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Health policy Infectious diseases Managing your health care Parenting Prevention Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Sanofi Settles Vaccine Antitrust Dispute
Sanofi Pasteur Inc., has agreed to pay $61.5 million in a five-year long class action brought by doctors alleging that the drug company violated antitrust laws with contracts for its pediatric vaccines, according to an agreement filed in federal court in New Jersey in late January. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed the drug company held a dominant position in five pediatric vaccine markets, including a complete monopoly with quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine Menactra from 2005 to February 2010, when a competitor was introduced. At that point, Sanofi began bundling Menactra with other pediatric vaccines and substantiall...
Source: Policy and Medicine - March 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff 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
2017 update to the immunization schedule for kids
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Every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) update the recommendations for immunizing children from birth to 18 years. This past week, the latest changes were published.
The changes are usually small, and this year is no exception. But they are important — and they are a sign of how these organizations, and all the scientists who study immunization, take immunization effectiveness and safety very seriously. There is ongoing research to be sure that vaccines do everything we want them to do. As that research is done, discoveri...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Infectious diseases Parenting Prevention Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Lens-Free Automated Cell Counting System for Diagnosis of Meningitis
French researchers from Grenoble Alpes University and Aix-Marseille University have developed an automated lens-free microscopy technique for counting and telling apart red and white blood cells withing cerebrospinal fluid. Cerebrospinal fluid, gathered through a spinal tap, should be clear and have few, if any, blood cells within it. Patients with meningitis, due to inflammation and disruption of the membranes enveloping the brain, have white blood cells seeping into the cerebrospinal fluid (>10/μL). Doing a cell count on a sample of the fluid goes a long way toward a diagnosis.
The new microscopy system takes less th...
Source: Medgadget - January 27, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Pathology Source Type: blogs
