From the weirdness file
I should probably dig up my weirdness file and post a few bits from it. For now, here's a new one.I am doing some minor research on workflows in primary care clinics. One of the sites we're looking at is affiliated with a hospital, which has various draconian policies regarding people who are going to be on site and potentially having patient contact. I was required to get a badge, which meant answering a ridiculous quiz, getting a TB test, and antibody titers for measles, mumps and chicken pox. Also passing a criminal background check. I finally got my badge, which has a photo on the front. Then the security guard respons...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 9, 2014 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
TWiV 311: Bulldogs go viral
On episode #311 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent visits the University of Georgia where he speaks with Zhen Fu and Biao He about their work on rabies virus and paramyxoviruses.
You can find TWiV #311, audio and video versions, at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - November 17, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology mumps virus parainfluenza virus type 5 paramyxovirus rabies rhabdovirus rna synthesis simian virus 5 viral Source Type: blogs
Is breast best?
Is it oversharing to tell you I wasn’t breastfed as an infant? Tough. I don’t feel that being bottlefed formula milk did me any harm. Breastfeeding is natural but it’s not always possible for new mothers and the push from the healthcare workers for breast is best waxes and wanes as any social fashion.
There is a lot of guilt poured on mothers who (a) choose to breast feed their infant (b) choose not to breast feed their infant (c) cannot breast feed their infant. Take your pick, there’s guilt from every angle. If it’s physiologically possible it should be every mother’s personal choice, ...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - November 5, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, October 14, 2014
From MedPage Today:
ID System Reduces NICU Errors. Mistakes made when entering clinical orders in one hospital’s electronic medical records system were reduced after implementation of a unique naming system to reduce confusion and miscommunication in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Clinicians Explore EV-D68, Paralysis Link. The mysterious cases of acute flaccid paralysis in children might be an unusual manifestation of the enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) infections that are also circulating.
MMR Vax Proves Safe Over Time in U.S. Adults. Over a 10-year period, more than 3,000 U.S. adults who received the measles, ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 14, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Endocrinology Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
The CDC: A Truly Corrupt and Dangerous Organization
Conclusion
It is clear that the CDC cannot be trusted when it comes to giving advice about vaccinations. Over the years, evidence has shown that the CDC continually lies, withholds evidence and fixes data to obtain the results that they want to achieve.
Due to their continual dishonesty, many children have suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. Although, for many of their parents, the latest revelations have offered a glimmer of hope in a very dark world, it has also caused many parents to just break down and weep, like one mother known to myself.
This is a tragic waste of the future potential of thousands of children...
Source: vactruth.com - September 11, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories autism Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Guillian-Barre syndrome miscarriage Polio Thimerosal truth about vaccines Vaccine-associated Polio Paralysis (VAPP) Source Type: blogs
Are Vaccines Right for Your Child? Debunking the Myths of the DTaP Vaccine
Conclusion
As a journalist and a mother myself, I found Dr. Lewis’s paper to be poorly written, lacking in substance and containing very few credible references. If parents are given poor information and very few facts, how can they ever make an informed decision about vaccinations?
Parents are continually being lied to by the medical profession, the mainstream media, the pharmaceutical industry and world governments, and it needs to stop. How can we trust a person paid to vaccinate our children? Let’s face it – Dr. Karen Lewis is, after all, the Medical Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services. She is h...
Source: vactruth.com - August 17, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Dr. Karen Lewis DTaP vaccine dtp Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: OLAP remains a great healthcare analytics architecture, even in the Big Data era
I’ve been getting many questions these days about big data tools and solutions, especially their role in healthcare analytics. I think that unless you’re doing large scale analysis of biomedical data such as genomics, it’s probably best to stick with traditional tried and true analytics tools. Online Analytics Processing (OLAP) can be invaluable for medical facilities to use when interpreting data and health informatics because most of that data is in relational, key-value, or hiearchical databases (such as MUMPS). I reached out to Ron Vatalaro, who works with the University of South Florida Morsani Coll...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - August 14, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shahid N. Shah Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: OLAP remains a great healthcare analytics architecture, even in the Big Data era
I ’ve been getting many questions these days about big data tools and solutions, especially their role in healthcare analytics. I think that unless you’re doing large scale analysis of biomedical data such as genomics, it’s probably best to stick with traditional tried and true analytics tools. Online Analytics Processing (OLAP) can be invaluable for medical facilities to use when interpreting data and health informatics because most of that data is in relational, key-value, or hiearchical databases (such as MUMPS). (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - August 14, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Guest Article: OLAP remains a great healthcare analytics architecture, even in the Big Data era
I’ve been getting many questions these days about big data tools and solutions, especially their role in healthcare analytics. I think that unless you’re doing large scale analysis of biomedical data such as genomics, it’s probably best to stick with traditional tried and true analytics tools. Online Analytics Processing (OLAP) can be invaluable for medical facilities to use when interpreting data and health informatics because most of that data is in relational, key-value, or hiearchical databases (such as MUMPS). (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - August 14, 2014 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Fact vs. Fiction: Judge Upholds Barring Unvaccinated Children from Public Schools
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Vaccination is one of the great success stories of public health. People who receive vaccinations against disease are far less likely to contract that disease. In 1900, 30.4% of all deaths from infectious disease were to children under the age of 5 and the top three causes of death were pneumonia, tuberculosis and diarrhea-enteritis. By 2010, the only infectious disease in the top ten list was influenza and pneumonia at 9th place. In 2012, 91.4% of adolescents are immunized for measles, mumps & rubella, 92.8% for Hep B, and many others.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 27, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Cultural Featured Posts Health Regulation & Law Pediatrics Philosophy & Ethics Politics Public Health vaccination Source Type: blogs
This ‘Misdirection Tactic’ is Used by Mainstream Media When Reporting Outbreaks
Conclusion
It is difficult for parents to know who is right and who is wrong when it comes to vaccination. It is even more difficult to know whom to trust.
As parents, it appears that we are ‘damned if we do and damned if we don’t.’
When Professor Poland stated that the new vaccination “would lack contraindications and permit administration without highly trained health care personnel; it would be inexpensive, and heat stable,” could he inadvertently have been saying that the current MMR vaccination does have contraindications, is not always being administered by highly trained health care personnel and is no...
Source: vactruth.com - May 18, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories herd immunity measles outbreak MMR truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
The Scary Truth About the New York City Flu Vaccine Mandate
Conclusion
Families should not be forced to inject their child with toxic substances. They should not be forced to receive a vaccine that is ineffective and dangerous. They should not be forced to give up their preferred choice for quality, early childhood education and care programs in order to avoid forced vaccination. Families should be allowed to make the choices for their health and well-being that are best for their family.
If your child attends day care or preschool in New York City, we urge you to contact your elected officials and tell them you are against forced vaccination for your child. In addition, you may ex...
Source: vactruth.com - April 21, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Missy Fluegge Recent Articles Top Stories Flu Vaccine FORCED VACCINATION truth about vaccines vaccine mandate Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Satellite — 03-25-2014
Patients gone wild. Really wild. 70 year old Brookdale Hospital nurse Evelyn Lynch gets knocked to the ground by patient Kwincii Jones and has her head stomped. She was knocked unconscious and suffered severe facial fractures. Also underwent brain surgery, so it is likely she suffered a brain bleed or has brain swelling as well.
Congratulations to the antivaccination movement for increasing the worldwide incidence of pertussis and measles. Measles and mumps are now “crushing” the UK. Patients with “religious exemptions” to receiving vaccinations were reportedly the source of one recent California p...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - March 25, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Should We Be Worried About the Mumps? SELF's On-Call Medical Adviser Weighs In
In case you missed it, there have been a few mini-epidemics of the mumps (a viral disease that causes fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue and swelling in the salivary glands) popping up this winter, mostly on college campuses -- at Fordham University in NYC this February, and most recently at the Ohio State University in Columbus, where the number of cases has reached 40 and the outbreak has reportedly begun to spread into the community. (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - March 24, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Health Dr. Lodge disease health news Source Type: blogs
