CDC Warns of Powerful New Norovirus Strain GII.4 Sydney
The CDC is warning about the emergence of a powerful new norovirus strain, GII.4 Sydney. The strain was first identified in Austrlia in March 2012. It is currently spreading around the U.S. The norovirus causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. One of the biggest dangers from the norovirus is dehydration. People infected with norovirus who are unable to drink enough liquids may require an emergency room visit so they can get fluid through an IV.
ABC's Dr. Richard Besser explains how you can avoid the norovirus, which is not easy as the annoying virus cannot be killed with hand sanitizers and can survive for weeks on hard sur...
Source: HealthNewsBlog.com - January 26, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: norovirus Source Type: blogs
New Strain of Norovirus Hits
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Source: EverythingHealth - January 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: blogs
An open post to my community.
The following post in no way represents the opinions, policies or strategies of my employer. Nor does it necessarily represent the opinions or feelings of my colleagues.
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The US is currently experiencing quite a bad influenza season.
Healthcare services and drug supplies are being stretched to the limit in the United States as the authorities warn this year’s flu season is severe.
Official figures indicate that influenza is now “widespread” in 41 states, with high numbers of cases reported in New York, where state governor And...
Source: impactEDnurse - January 22, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: reflective practice. Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update — 01-07-2013
Colorado Medical Society files suit to prevent chiropractors from administering medications. The Chiropractic Board of Examiners created a rule permitting such actions after chiropractors complete 24 hours of study and a certification exam.
I go against the grain on this one. Let chiropractors prescribe medications. After patients start experiencing bad outcomes because the 24 hour course chiropractors take doesn’t teach them about drug interactions or side effects, patients will learn to appreciate doctors a little more. Then throw a few chiropractors in jail for administering too much pain medication and see how many o...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - January 7, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Just a big list in the new year
I'm not doing well medically, which is dragging my depressed mood even deeper, so not much to say. Here's just another big list of places I've browsed over the last week. Toward the end of this week's link list are some more links to older music that holds many memories for me, good and bad. 16 Things About 2013 That Are Really Going To Stink A Clockwork Watermelon murderbymedia End of 2012 and Unleashing of Evil Alan Watt Movie Predictive Programming BBC Madness In The Fast Lane MKULTRA clones? Brainwashing Zionist Mind Control Through Pornography By Invitation OnlyCloud Atlas Hollywood's Occult Fantasy - henrymakow Cloud...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - January 5, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
Vomiting Larry, an Emesis Robot, Helps Scientists Study Norovirus
Norovirius is certainly a pesky bugger. But discretion is the better part of valor, and patients familiar with norovirus’ famous side effects can, like war veterans, remain silent about the horrors they have suffered through. Medical researchers have insatiable curiosity, however, and so appropriate experimental tools have to be built to study the projectile vomiting common to norovirus propagation.Researchers at Britain’s Health and Safety Laboratory decided to study how vomit takes flight and spreads by building an anatomically correct robot, named Vomiting Larry, that does one thing and does it well. Thr...
Source: Medgadget - January 3, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: in the news... Public Health Source Type: blogs
