Beating the Travel Bug & Innovation in Hand Sanitation: Interview with Zoono CSO Dr. Andrew Alexander
While flu season is drawing to a close, transmission of germs can still lead to colds and serious respiratory diseases. In few places are individuals more exposed to a multitude of unique germs and germ carriers than during travel. Unlike some forms of travel, such as buses, where an individual can choose to get off the vehicle or find an alternate transit option, like carpooling, air travel is much less flexible. Based on data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, in 2010, on average 1.73 million passengers boarded domestic flights every day in the United States. On a plane, individuals are confined in a tight env...
Source: Medgadget - May 15, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Patient Modesty: Volume 87
EO, a visitor writing in the Comment section of Volume 86 of this thread title has set the stage for further discussion-- particularly the way male patients are treated within the medical system. I thought his narrative would be appropriate to start this Volume. ..Maurice.Graphic: My composition using ArtRage and appearing as the graphic on the thread "Order vs Chaos in Medical Practice"At Sunday, May 06, 2018 3:55:00 PM, Though I am encouraged that many of the contributors to this blog have become activists as regards affording male clients (patients) the same rights as female clients when it comes to mode...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 7, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Maurice Bernstein, M.D. Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Patient Modesty: Volume 87
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Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - May 7, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 23rd 2018
In conclusion, a debate exists on whether aging is a disease in itself. Some authors suggest that physiological aging (or senescence) is not really distinguishable from pathology, while others argue that aging is different from age-related diseases and other pathologies. It is interesting to stress that the answer to this question has important theoretical and practical consequences, taking into account that various strategies capable of setting back the aging clock are emerging. The most relevant consequence is that, if we agree that aging is equal to disease, all human beings have to be considered as patients to be treat...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 22, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Arms Control Hostage to Skripal and Syria Attacks
Two prominent poisoning assassination attempts and Kremlin denials of gas attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad raise doubts about Moscow ' s commitment to the purposes of the Chemical Weapons Convention. Never has the future of negotiated arms control involving Russia been at greater risk. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - April 19, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: William Courtney Source Type: blogs
An Interview with a Programmed Aging Theorist
Josh Mittledorf holds an interesting somewhat group selection based view on the evolution of programmed aging, and here is interviewed by the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation volunteers. I have long said that the important divide in the research community is between (a) those who think that aging is programmed, in the sense that evolution selects for epigenetic changes in later life that are a primary cause of damage and dysfunction, and (b) those who see aging as a stochastic process of damage accumulation, that occurs in later life because there is little to no selection pressure for ways to prevent it, and this damage...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 18, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Potato Poisoning (Not due to Solanine in greens!). With Positive Modified Sgarbossa Criteria.
In this study of consecutive patients with LBBB who were hospitalized and had an echocardiogram, 13% had a QRS duration greater than 170 ms, and only 1% had a duration greater than 190 ms.Clinical CourseThe clinicians recognized this as hyperkalemia. The lab result was too high to measure (greater than 9.4 mEq/L).p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; background-color: #fefefe}The patient received albuterol x 6, calcium gluconate x 5 g, D50 (50 ml) x 2, 5 units regular insulin, 40 mg furosemide, and 50 mL of Na bicarb.It turns out he had been told several days earlier that his K was low a...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 17, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
TAPNA 2018: Its toxicology, Australian Style.
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What is it?
TAPNA is the annual scientific meeting for the Toxicology and Poisons Network Australia. Join Australian and International toxicologists at Sydney to run through a plethora of topics including fomepizole (should we use it in Australia?), urine drug screens, what to do with an anion gap and the latest in OP poisoning.
TAPNA is hosting a stellar faculty including Dr Michael Eddleston from Edinburgh whose primary research is in pesticides and antidotes. He will ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Conference TAPNA toxicology Source Type: blogs
TAPNA 2018: It ’ s toxicology, Australian Style
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
What is it?
TAPNA is the annual scientific meeting for the Toxicology and Poisons Network Australia. Join Australian and International toxicologists at Sydney to run through a plethora of topics including fomepizole (should we use it in Australia?), urine drug screens, what to do with an anion gap and the latest in OP poisoning.
TAPNA is hosting a stellar faculty including Dr Michael Eddleston from Edinburgh whose primary research is in pesticides and antidotes. He will ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Conference TAPNA toxicology Source Type: blogs
Inadvertent Overdose in First Responders
Part 4 in a Four-Part SeriesThe United States is in the midst of a significant opioid epidemic, and a large proportion of the illegal opioids being sold contain fentanyl or fentanyl analogs. The Drug Enforcement Administration reported that U.S. law enforcement agencies seized at least 239 kilograms of illicitly produced fentanyl from August 2013 to the end of 2015. (http://bit.ly/2obUOLs.) This drug is responsible for many opioid overdoses and deaths because of its extremely low lethal dose.First responders, a population not initially thought to be at risk, have been found to be exposed to synthetic fentanyl analog...
Source: The Tox Cave - April 2, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
The Dander Riseth Ever Higher: Shulkin Case Emblematic of Dysfunction
This isnumero sesto if memory serves in a series of what gets one ' s dander up in this era of dysfunctional health care. Of course today it ' s all about the focal dysfunction mirroring the much broader problems of a dysfunctional government. I learned just now of the current VA Secretary ' s ouster while overseas in a country that does things in many ways much more effectively.Today we blog about this one issue only. It seems to perfectly encapsulate the Reality Show-cum-wrestling match that our Republican leadership has morphed into. Oh, wait, maybe it didn ' t morph. It was always that way, perhaps, and people are...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 29, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 231
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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 231.
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Question 1:
You find yourself on holiday in Africa helping out with a dermatology clinic (yes, your forte as an emergency physician). In the queue is a young boy who describes a papular ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five anthrax cholera Dilip Mahalanabis Dr Bayford dysentery dysphagia lusoria ORS saber shins Thomas Hodgkin wool-sorters disease yaws Source Type: blogs
ACA Market Stabilization Push Is On But Success Is Uncertain
By STEVEN FINDLAY
A critical test in Congress comes this week in year 2 of the ACA wars. Will lawmakers do the right thing?
It’s up in the air—again. Congress has until this Friday at midnight to pass a budget bill to fund the government through Sept. 30. That bill is widely considered to be the last “must-pass” legislation before the mid-term elections.
As such, it’s probably the last chance lawmakers will have to enact measures aimed at stabilizing the ACA marketplaces for 2019. Health plans start pulling their bids together in May and June and the deadline for final submissions is in September.
As of t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Holistic Tech-Assisted Rehab: The Future of Addiction Recovery
Statistically, if you know ten people in the US, at least one of them is expected to enter a near futile battle with addiction — chances of long-term recovery are low. Traditional drug rehabilitation alone isn’t working for enough people, not even slightly. Finally, the foundations for the creation of next-generation therapies have been laid that could help turn these numbers on their head.
Recent developments in our understanding of the biological and neural networks involved in substance abuse disorders and psychological theories of behavioral change, coupled with the rapid evolution of technology-assisted therap...
Source: World of Psychology - March 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Addiction Brain Blogger Publishers Recovery Technology Treatment drug rehab programs Drug rehabilitation Healing Addiction Summit Holistic Relapse Source Type: blogs
Rocker Bret Michaels Joins Insulin Affordability Fight
Insulin affordability advocacy may be getting a major celebrity boost. That is, legendary rock singer Bret Michaels of Poison has vowed to add his name to the roster of those passionate about the #insulin4all fight.
Remember he's one of us, diagn... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - March 15, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
