Platelets vs. Bacteria
Platelets as potentscavengers of bacteria? Really?Something like 750 billion tiny cell fragments called platelets circulate in the human blood stream. When an injury to a blood vessel occurs, they stick to the exposed collagen in groups —forming platelet plug. And trigger additional reactions thateventually result in a blood clot.But did you know that they haveother helpful jobs, too? Likerounding up bacteria andfeeding them up to immune cells, which devour them to make us safe.Thisinnate immune function of plateletshas recently been outlined by researchers, as the information below summarizes.Read through the quic...
Source: The A and P Professor - January 5, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 301
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 301st 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
How can we individualize learning for our learners and for ourselves? The Curbsiders talk to ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 8, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V 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
Total Synthesis of ( −)‐Albocycline
AngewchemTotal Synthesis of ( −)‐Albocycline: The macrolactone natural product ( −)‐albocycline is a promising antibiotic candidate for the treatment of both methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin‐resistant strains. Herein... (Source: Organometallic Current)
Source: Organometallic Current - April 21, 2017 Category: Chemistry Tags: Total synthesis Source Type: blogs
CleanSlate UV Sanitizer for Mobile Devices in Healthcare: An Interview
The average cell phone is dirtier than you might think. It has been estimated that a typical mobile phone could be up to six times dirtier than a public toilet and as many as one in four handsets could carry pathogenic bacteria. While we wash our hands, our phones rarely, if ever, get cleaned, and so they accumulate a significant level of contamination.
This is a concern in healthcare facilities, where patients could be at risk of illness from introduced pathogens. While ethanol hand gels are provided in many hospitals, these are only of limited use if people immediately re-infect their hands by handling their cell phones ...
Source: Medgadget - March 1, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Public Health Source Type: blogs
Scaffolds Covered in Stem Cells and Silver Ions to Prevent Osteomyelitis
Bone infections are often very difficult to treat, and with the rise of MRSA this issue has become only more challenging. A team of researchers from University of Missouri, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, and Silpakorn University in Thailand has developed a way of making tissue scaffolds that ward off MRSA while promoting natural healing at the site of their implantation.
This microscopic image shows silver-coated, stem cell-seeded scaffolds after MRSA bacteria were introduced. These medical devices can help health care providers fight MRSA while growing lost bone tissue....
Source: Medgadget - February 24, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: ENT Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Headlines We Won ’ t See In 2017
By BILL REID
Earlier, I offered a sarcastic headline view of the coming year. Yet, underlying these headlines are some more serious issues that we as an industry have to address. They may not happen this year, but we need to continue to make progress. Wouldn’t it be awesome if for once we under predicted what will happen?
Healthcare Organization Wakes Up In Strange Place, Reports Massive Headache
Reality: Many organizations are not quite sure what hit them – they have purchased and implemented a number of systems, sometime more than once, in the last several years and now are waking up to the reality that that ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: THCB Bill Reid Predictions 2017 Source Type: blogs
The Irresistible Resistome: How Infant Diapers Might Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance (sort of)
In this study, nurses collect fecal material by swabbing the babies’ diapers (after the infant’s parents give informed consent). When children are followed up for 2 years or longer, parents collect the stool samples at home and mail them to Dantas’ pediatrician collaborators. The samples are then analyzed in Dantas’ lab.
Dantas’ recent findings confirmed his grim hypothesis. The gut microbiomes of antibiotic-treated infants include nearly 800 antibiotic resistance genes to 16 different antibiotics.
“We have now definitely shown a clear change in the enrichment of antibiotic resistance genes in infants following...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 6, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Alisa Zapp Machalek and Kathryn Calkins Tags: Being a Scientist Cell Biology Bacteria Cells Drug Resistance Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 158
Welcome to the 158th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 5 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Justin Morgenstern and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check o...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 2, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jeremy Fried Tags: Education EBM Emergency Medicine literature R&R in the FASTLANE recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Review: FlipPad, A Rugged Antimicrobial iPad Case
Conclusion: If you need to keep your iPad perfectly clean and useful in a clinical environment, the FlipPad is about the only real choice out there. The various usability features make it practical and ergonomic for daily use, something the FlipPad has proven to us during our two weeks with it in the hospital.
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Source: Medgadget - October 31, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
How to Beat a Cold Before It Gets Its Hooks into You – 5 Easy Natural Steps
At the first sign of a cold you can employ this easy and natural five prong attack to wipe out any cold before it gains any steam. To be most effective this strategy needs to be started as soon as you feel the first signs of a cold such as headache, sniffles, sneezing, or a sore throat.
In fact I just used this successfully yesterday. I had a cold coming on last night: headache, sneezing, tired. I followed this protocol and by the time I went to bed I already felt better! By the morning I was 100% healthy. Zero symptoms. This is amazingly effective. It’s effectiveness is directly proportional to how soon you get star...
Source: Life Learning Today - October 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Family Healthy Living How To Solving Problems common cold common cold remedy flu remedy natural cure Source Type: blogs
How to Beat a Cold Before It Gets Its Hooks into You – 5 Easy Natural Steps
At the first sign of a cold you can employ this easy and natural five prong attack to wipe out any cold before it gains any steam. To be most effective this strategy needs to be started as soon as you feel the first signs of a cold such as headache, sniffles, sneezing, or a sore throat.
In fact I just used this successfully yesterday. I had a cold coming on last night: headache, sneezing, tired. I followed this protocol and by the time I went to bed I already felt better! By the morning I was 100% healthy. Zero symptoms. This is amazingly effective. It’s effectiveness is directly proportional to how soon you get star...
Source: Life Learning Today - October 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Family Healthy Living How To Solving Problems common cold common cold remedy flu remedy natural cure Source Type: blogs
When do you really need antibiotics for that sinus infection?
It was February, and clinic was teeming with respiratory infections of all kinds: mostly the common cold, but also bronchitis, pneumonia, and sinus infections. The first patient on my schedule was a healthcare provider with “sinus infection” written down as her main issue.* She’d had about two weeks of nasal and sinus congestion which she blamed on a viral upper respiratory infection (URI, also known as the common cold). Her two young kids had been sick with colds all winter, so she wasn’t surprised to have these symptoms, along with endless postnasal drip and a cough.
Her congestion had improved a bit at one point...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Asthma and Allergies Cold and Flu Drugs and Supplements Infectious diseases sinus infection Source Type: blogs
The Ultimate Battle Against MRSA
Some hospitals are giving all intensive care patients germ-killing baths and an antibiotic nose ointment upon admission to fight MRSA, the potentially deadly bacteria. Recent studies show the universal treatment is effective. (Source: WSJ.com: The Informed Patient)
Source: WSJ.com: The Informed Patient - September 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: FREE Source Type: blogs
