Another child dead from quackery
Naturopathy is quackery, and, like many forms of quackery, it kills. People who trust naturopaths to treat actual serious diseases instead of using real doctors and real medicine dramatically decrease their odds of surviving a serious illness. While competent adults have every right to make that choice, to use fake medicine instead of real medicine,… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 9, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Naturopathy Collet Stephan David Stephan Ezekiel Stephan meningitis Source Type: blogs
Could Dangerous Mandatory Vaccines Containing Aluminum Salts be Responsible for Microcephaly in Brazil?
Conclusion
There is mounting evidence to suggest that vaccinations and medications containing aluminum salts are harmful to brain development. We need to ask ourselves why a vaccination known to contain well above the recommended levels of aluminum has been passed as safe for use in pregnancy by the Brazilian Health Ministry.
For more information on the dangers of aluminum, I recommend parents read the growing number of articles, studies and peer-reviewed papers that the Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute have listed on their website.
References:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7087284
www.cdc.gov/vaccines...
Source: vactruth.com - March 1, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Logical Top Stories adjuvants Aluminum Salts Brazil Dr. Sears Microcephaly Source Type: blogs
You Decide: The Risks and Benefits of the MMR Vaccination
Most of us weigh the risks and benefits of medical procedures prior to obtaining them. We sign an informed consent form with an understanding of the potential harm versus the perceived benefits.
In the case of vaccinations, the great majority of parents obtain vaccinations for their children, influenced by the “sales pitch” and “scare tactics” used by physicians. We are assured that the vaccination is safe and will protect us and our children from the various targeted deadly diseases. If we blindly trust our doctors, as I once had, we readily agree.
It is important that we think critically before agreeing to any va...
Source: vactruth.com - February 18, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Stories autism Centers for Disease Control (CDC) MMR vaccine vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
Adjunctive Steroids and Harm in Cryptococcal Meningitis via...
Adjunctive Steroids and Harm in Cryptococcal Meningitis via Now@NEJM Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - February 10, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Does wearing makeup give you better grades? Episode 119
In this study published by researchers at Metropolitan State University in Denver, they found that attractive female students earn higher grades than unattractive ones. This advantage disappears when the students take an online course where the instructor is not able to see them.
In the study they compared the students class grades to ratings of their physical attractiveness as judged by outside observers from the student ID card photographs.
They found women judged as least attractive earned significantly lower grades (after controlling for their ACT scores). The best-looking women earned higher grades. And, surpris...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
A Nefarious Character with an Agenda
Every new advanced nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or resident gets his fair share of complex emergency department procedures during training. Seasoned providers, however, are just as excited to place a central line in a septic patient, LP a "rule-out meningitis," or swiftly fix a nursemaid's elbow.This month we hope to remind you of a few sweet and satisfying procedures that take only moments to do. Your skill in completing these procedures is imperative. Not only will you amaze your patient, but you'll shorten your door to dispo-time.The StyeThe stye is a nefarious character with an agenda. It starts o...
Source: The Procedural Pause - February 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
A Year in Review: FDA 2015 New Drug Approvals
The approval of first-of-a-kind drugs rose last year to forty-one, resulting in the highest level of newly approved U.S. drugs in nineteen years. The total number of new drugs approved last year was even higher at sixty-nine. The rising figures reflect an industry-wide desire to research and develop drugs for rare and hard-to-treat diseases.
The newly approved drugs serve to advance medical care and the health of patients suffering from many ailments, including various forms of cancer, heart failure, and cystic fibrosis. Additionally, more than 40% of the new therapies were approved for treatment of rare or "orphan" dise...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 212
Welcome to the 212th 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 chuck of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Incredible talk from SMACC Chicago on Performance Psychology for Resuscitationists from Jason Brooks. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
Peripheral vertigo and no meclizine? Ryan Radecki tells us not to worry because promethazin...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 27, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 126
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…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 126
Question 1
An anxious but otherwise healthy child receives oral midazolam as an anxiolytic prior to an ED procedure. The child develops agitation and delirium. How do you treat this idiosyncratic postmidazolam paradoxical reaction?
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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Flumazenil
Case reports indicate that such reactio...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 20, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Anaphylaxis flumazenil Leptospirosis midazolam Purpura fulminans reverse segond fracture tryptase levels Source Type: blogs
TWiV 361: Zombie viruses on the loose
On episode #361 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVsters discuss Frederick Novy’s return from retirement to recover a lost rat virus, and evidence for persistence of Ebolavirus in semen.
You can find TWiV #361 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - November 1, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology bacteriology ebolavirus Frederick Novy Kilham rat virus meningitis parvovirus Paul De Kruif persistence semen sexual transmission University of Michigan viral Source Type: blogs
Shaken Baby Syndrome or Death by Vaccine? Doctor Speaks Out…
Conclusion
Head and spinal cord injury consistent with non-accidental injury.” (emphasis added)
Comment from Dr. Innis
“There is no conflict with Dr. Al-Sarraj’s findings, but it is the interpretation of those findings which I dispute. He is evidently prepared to review his interpretation if further information becomes available and I would like to draw his attention to the fact that Amelia had biochemical as well as anatomical abnormalities. The biochemical diagnoses of hyperglycaemia, glycosuria, coagulation abnormality (INR 1,3, APTT 39.6) all suggest she was suffering from an autoimmune disorder tissue scurvy, [1...
Source: vactruth.com - October 27, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Human Top Stories Adverse Reaction Darryl Elliot ischemic encephalopathy Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
Would you buy used makeup? Episode 103
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Would you buy used makeup?
Link
Have you heard of this company, Glambot? It’s a startup company that is apparently sells a million dollars a year of pre-owned makeup. The company, which was founded in 2013 by CEO Karen Horiuchi, buys used makeup and resells it online. They clean and sanitize every product before resale. (They use heat or alcohol to sterilize containers or in some cases to “remove layers of product to get down to a fresh one.”
Here are their guidelines:
They only buy products on their “accepted brand” list which cover...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - October 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
5 Year Old New Jersey Girl Died from the MMR Vaccine, Holly’s Law Created
Conclusion
We leave you with words from Robin:
“My family and I hope that Holly’s story will make a difference and help you realize that you must be aware of the risks of vaccinations, just as you make yourself aware of the risks of any medical procedure.
We hope to make change, and one very important improvement must be that the pediatricians acknowledge that there are vaccine reactions, that moderate to serious and even fatal vaccine reactions do exist and occur at least 100 times more than is reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
We are still very disappointed and disgusted with the actio...
Source: vactruth.com - September 24, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories adverse reactions Holly Marie Stavola Holly's Law MMR vaccine National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) Robin Stavola truth about vaccines Vaccine Death VAERS Source Type: blogs
