Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 192
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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 192.
Question 1
Which gas was used in Europe for chemical warfare during the Second World War?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 8, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five bornholm disease cadmium poisoning chlorine conditioning coxsackie B virus daae-finsen devil's grip dinar sylvest gas masks iron mustard gas Pavlov popeye spinach tai-itai vitamin A world war two Source Type: blogs
Is it Possible to Die from a Broken Heart?
You're reading Is it Possible to Die from a Broken Heart?, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Falling in love is one of the most beautiful and exciting feelings in the world. We need only to think of our beloved partner and our heart skips a beat. We are full of energy and plans for the future.
Yet what about when the romance dies? What happens to our heart then? Anyone who’s been properly lovesick knows how painful it is to feel so lovelorn, so sad, and so worthless. It seems to us that our loss i...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Greystone Tags: featured happiness health and fitness popular reading best books best health books best self-improvement blogs broken heart can you die from a broken heart cardiac love mental health pickthebrain stress wellness Source Type: blogs
Mothers and Substance Use
By Christopher Welsh, MD
Women have some unique challenges when it comes to alcohol, tobacco and drug use and misuse. These differences are based on both biology and culturally defined expectations of women. Hormonal changes, the menstrual cycle, fertility issues, pregnancy, breastfeeding and menopause can all impact a woman’s use of substances. Women often use smaller amounts of a substance for shorter amounts of time before developing a problem. They also may have greater physical problems from their substance misuse.
Alcohol, tobacco and drug use during pregnancy can present significant problems for both the mother a...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 19, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Health Tips Source Type: blogs
Reducing IVF anxiety
Lots of patients are very scared of doing IVF. This is partly because they've heard lots of horror stories about how IVF babies are abnormal, or that the hormones will make them fat, or that if they grow too many eggs, they will either get menopausal sooner, or start getting ovarian cancer as they grow older. And, they've heard lots of horror stories from some of their friends, who've done IVF, about how painful the injections can be, or how many mood swings it causes, or the fact that you need bed rest or that there are lots of complications, or that the risk of miscarriage is higher after IVF.There are lots of myths and ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - May 17, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Motherhood, the Brain and Dementia: Changing Hormones Alter Risk
Throughout decades of study, hormone therapy (HT), often but not always the same as hormone replacement therapy (HRT), has been glorified and demonized in turn. The information that doctors receive has come from ongoing studies that seemed to offer over time radically conflicting results. A new study may add more confusion since this study has found that not only does HT given near menopause create changes in a woman’s brain, but motherhood itself creates changes.
Read full article on how changing hormones can alter the risk of Alzheimer's:
Support a caregiver or jump start discussion in support groups with real stories&...
Source: Minding Our Elders - May 13, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Electronic Medical Records 2017: Science Ignored, Opportunity Lost
By KENNETH BARTHOLOMEW, MD
My big brother Bill, may he rest in peace, taught me a valuable lesson four decades ago. We were gearing up for an extended Alaskan wilderness trip and were having trouble with a piece of equipment. When we finally rigged up a solution, I said “that was harder than it should have been” and he quipped in his wry monotone delivery, “There are no hard jobs, only the wrong tools.”
That lesson has stuck in my mind all these years because, as simple as it seems, it carries a large truth. It rings of Archimedes when he was speaking about the simple tool known as the lever: “Give me but one fir...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized EHR EMR Knowledge Coupler Number Needed to Kill POMR value-based care Source Type: blogs
Fertility: 12 things you didn ’t know (and 1 to never ask)
By Katrina Mark, MD
1. Fertility naturally declines as we age
That alone doesn’t mean you should start to worry. The general advice I give a woman is if she has been trying to become pregnant for a full year with no luck, she might consider a fertility evaluation. For a woman over age 35, she might consider it after six months. If a woman is younger and has irregular periods, it’s likely she isn’t regularly ovulating, so she might want to be evaluated sooner.
2. Sometimes there’s a reason for infertility – and sometimes, there’s not
There are some things we know cause infertility. About 20 percent of the time,...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 2, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Health Tips Women's Health fertility Katrina Mark obgyn UMMC Source Type: blogs
Horse Urine … Really?
An excerpt from my new book Undoctored.
This one little tale about hormonal health of human females, pregnant horses, and drug patents paints a microcosm of the bigger healthcare picture. It is an example of how when money becomes the primary goal, health may not be served.
For years, physicians prescribed estrogen hormone replacement for women experiencing menopause, believing that drugs like Premarin, manufactured by harvesting estrogens from the urine of pregnant horses, prevented osteoporosis, improved cholesterol values, and reduced cardiovascular risk, since preliminary epidemiological studies, not real clinical stud...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 27, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Hormone Replacement Drugs Undoctored Source Type: blogs
My cold hands met their match
Despite living in Michigan for over 30 years, my cold hands disclose my Southern California origin. As a physician, these cold hands have touched many lives. For my pregnant patients, they usually sigh with relief as I touch their bellies, the coolness of my hands offering them respite from the inferno growing inside them. They smile when I tell them I can feel their baby squirming and how it is laying inside them. And I smile inside that I have the privilege to touch them and their baby.
My gynecology patients, even though I warn them, jump in surprise at how cold my hands truly are. Those past menopause, in the midst of ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 27, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andrea-eisenberg" rel="tag" > Andrea Eisenberg, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Sex talks with 60 year olds
As a gynecologist, I not only witness new love but have to regularly ask about it because it can impact my patient’s health. They may need birth control, STI screening and counseling, or pre-conceptual counseling. Then there is one of my favorite group of patients: those that are “older” and entering into new relationships either for the first time or following a divorce or loss of a spouse. The balance of being seasoned in life and the naivete and excitement of starting over, I find refreshing and sweet. It reminds me that we are never too old to embrace something new.
K was a school teacher, an avid swimmer and at ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 20, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andrea-eisenberg" rel="tag" > Andrea Eisenberg, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
What Can Women Do to Prevent Early Menopause?
About Early Menopause
The average age a woman goes into menopause is 51. Menopause is considered abnormal when it begins before the age of 40 and is called “premature ovarian failure.” Common symptoms that come with menopause include hot flashes, night sweats, sleep problems, sexual issues, vaginal dryness, pain during sex, pelvic floor disorders (urine, bowel leakage, pelvic organ prolapse), losing bone mass, and mood swings.
Menopause is mostly genetically predetermined, which means you generally can’t do much to delay it from happening. What we can do is work to counter-balance or prevent the symptoms and effe...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - March 13, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Health Tips Women's Health diet and exercise early menopause tatiana sanses Source Type: blogs
Searching for Similarities in the Biochemistry of Long-Lived Mammals
Portions of the aging research community study various long-lived mammals, such as naked mole-rats, bowhead whales, elephants, and Brandt's bats. In most cases research projects compare a long-lived species with another species that is similar but short lived; consider the many papers examining the differences between naked mole-rats and mice or rats, for example. Naked mole rats and mice are about the same size, but the naked mole-rats live an order of magnitude longer. The hope is that such large differences in life span should help to illuminate those areas of cellular biochemistry most important in determining the pace...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
An infertile patient's secret thoughts, worries and fears
This is a guest post from a very thoughtful patient of ours.It describes very eloquently the worries and fears which prey on an infertile patient's mind. It's very hard to discuss them with anyone, and bottling them up just makes things worse !--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Isn't it a paradox that when India and world's population is exploding at alarming rate; here I am ,struggling to have a single child for 5 long years and with no idea when the struggle will really end.I am being treated at Malpani's and yesterday the doctor urged...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - February 6, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Michael Phelps and Depression – NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
Michael Phelps shares his struggles with depression in the Winter 2017 issue of the NIH MedlinePlus Magazine. Additional articles include:
Understanding Depression
Treating the Problem Prostate
Beating Breast Cancer
Putting a Pause in Pain
From Hot Flashes to Cool Insights: Menopause
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Source: BHIC - January 31, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: General National Library of Medicine News Source Type: blogs
What ’s Confusing Us About Mental Health Parity
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) has been law since 2008. MHPAEA provided that health plans could not limit mental health or substance use disorder benefits in a way that was more restrictive than how most medical/surgical benefits were limited. This sounds simple enough, but in this year alone there has been a White House task force, voluminous Department of Labor guidance, a SAMHSA best practices manual, and an Energy & Commerce Committee hearing to find out why most people still can’t access care.
We still don’t have all the answers. The issues these efforts have uncovered are numerous:...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Nathaniel Counts, Timothy Clement, Amanda Mauri, Paul Gionfriddo and Garry Carneal Tags: Featured Payment Policy Public Health Quality Behavioral Health Mental Health substance use Source Type: blogs
