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Food Is No Laughing Matter For My Son
This past Friday night, I was bringing my son Joshua to his friend's birthday party. Other parents arrived and dropped off their children, and then left. I recall those days when I was able to drop off my two older children at a party and leave in order to spend some much-needed alone time, or have a "date night" with my husband. However, my youngest child, Joshua, suffers from a severe food allergy and for me, those days are in the past.
As a parent with a food allergic child, I feel a constant low-grade anxiety about meals. The world is full of culinary land mines, and I try to map a path to navigate around them for my...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Referral letters to the emergency department: is the medication list accurate?
This study was designed to investigate the quality of information on medicines provided by general practitioners (GPs) on emergency department (ED) referral letters. A convenience sample of referral letters to the ED of a teaching hospital was reviewed. The medication list and/or patient's drug allergy status were noted. Medicines reconciliation including patient (or carer) interview was conducted to determine the patient's actual home medication list. This was compared with the GP list and any discrepancies were identified and addressed. A total of 92 referral letters were included in the analysis of which 60 were compute...
Source: Ir Med J - February 1, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: McCullagh M, O'Kelly P, Gilligan P Tags: Ir Med J Source Type: research
Soaring EpiPen Prices Raise Questions About Pharmaceutical Industry
BOSTON (CBS) – For someone with an allergy, an EpiPen can mean the difference between life and death. The price of this indispensable injectable drug has soared in recent years. Dr. Mark DeMatteo, an emergency room doctor at Beth Israel Deaconess in Plymouth, said the cost was around $60 ten years ago. The price now is about $400.
Every bite Dylan Frazier takes needs to be watched closely because the 9-year-old from Duxbury has severe food allergies.
“If we don’t have an EpiPen and he has a reaction, it could be deathly for him,” explained his mother Kristen Frazier.
Frazier makes sure there are EpiPens near Dy...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: rachelrmcknight Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Allergies Dr. Mallika Marshall Source Type: news
Your Journey From Not Exercising To Achieving Peak Shape
If you have been following my writing, you have seen by now that I am quite committed to regular exercising, which is the result of improving my health steadily since my childhood and working at Olympic Games.
Because I believe in giving our best at different areas of our lives: career, relationships, physical fitness and community I have realized that when heart, brain and body are balanced, our energy level is less likely to oscillate; our focus is clearer and we are more content about small things that make life so beautiful.
Below I share with you precious strategies that helped me go miles from not exercising at a...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Assessment of dietary food and nutrient intake and bone density in children with eczema.
CONCLUSIONS: Dietary restrictions are common among Chinese children with eczema in Hong Kong, who have a lower calcium, vitamin D, and iron intake. Nonetheless, such practice is not associated with changes to bone mineral density or bone resorptive biomarker.
PMID: 28775219 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Hong Kong Medical Journal - August 5, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Hong Kong Med J Source Type: research
The Ever-Expanding Base of New Knowledge
This issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America clearly illustrates why medical schools in the twenty-first century are actively seeking new ways to teach medicine. As noted by Dr Secord in her preface, there have been remarkable changes in our understanding of many of the basic premises of allergy and immunology, with significant advances in treatment accompanying this new understanding. This proliferation of new knowledge is certainly not limited to immunology and allergy; rather, it is being seen across the field of medicine.
Source: Pediatric Clinics of North America - August 27, 2019 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Bonita F. Stanton Tags: Foreword Source Type: research
We Used to Have a Lyme Disease Vaccine. Are We Ready to Bring One Back?
At my animal hospital in upstate New York, an epicenter of the U.S. tick epidemic, my dog Fawn lets out a whimper as the veterinarian injects her with her annual Lyme disease shot. I roll my eyes. She doesn’t know how good she has it.
The injection means that if a tick bites her (and in rural New York, a tick always does), the creepy crawly will feast on dog blood that’s been supercharged with a Lyme bacteria-killing substance, and Lyme disease won’t be transmitted to Fawn.
I wish I could be shot up with that superpower. Currently, there is no human vaccine for Lyme disease—even though more than two...
Source: TIME: Health - June 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mandy Oaklander Tags: Uncategorized Disease feature Source Type: news
Why You ’ re More Likely to Get Sick in the Winter, According to New Research
Fall and winter are traditionally boom times for respiratory viruses—a point well proven by this year’s confluence of influenza, RSV, and COVID-19. Almost 9 million people nationwide have been sickened by the flu already this season, RSV is surging among children, and COVID-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people in the U.S. each day.
But why does cold weather typically translate to cold and flu season? Experts often point to changes in human behavior—namely that chilly temperatures force people inside, where it’s easier for germs to spread. But a new study published in The Journal of All...
Source: TIME: Health - December 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
AI Cough-Monitoring Can Change the Way We Diagnose Disease
How many times do you cough a day? Do you cough more when you’re indoors or outside? Or more often after you eat? Or at night?
Chances are, your cough memory might not be that accurate. But all of that information about your coughing patterns could be an untapped resource to better understand your health. Coughs may be benign ways to clear a little extra phlegm, or they could be early signs of more serious conditions such as asthma, GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), or even lung cancer.
“In the era of precision health, it’s ironic that such a problematic symptom is simply unmeasured,” says Pet...
Source: TIME: Health - April 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Technology Source Type: news
Nanoparticle with mRNA appears to prevent, treat peanut allergies in mice
Key takeawaysPeanuts are one of the most common food allergens for children.UCLA scientists have developed a nanoparticle that delivers mRNA to liver cells in order to teach the immune system to tolerate peanut protein and alleviate allergies.In mice, the nanoparticle successfully dampened symptoms of serious allergy.Peanut allergies affect 1 in 50 children, and the most severe cases lead to a potentially deadly immune reaction called anaphylactic shock.Currently, there is only one approved treatment that reduces the severity of the allergic reaction, and it takes months to kick in. A group of UCLA immunologists is aiming ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 3, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Teaching and assessing endoscopic sinus surgery skills on a validated low‐cost task trainer
Conclusions:The sinus surgery task trainer provides an effective means of teaching and evaluating nasal endoscopy and basic sinus surgery skills for novice surgeons. With repeated practice, there was significant improvement in performance. An OSATS using the sinus surgery task trainer suggests that we can effectively measure endoscopic sinus surgery ability with the potential to reliably determine competency outside the operating room.
Source: The Laryngoscope - January 3, 2013 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Matthew K. Steehler, Eugenia E. Chu, Hana Na, Michael J. Pfisterer, Hosai N. Hesham, Sonya Malekzadeh Tags: Allergy/Rhinology Source Type: research
News and More News About Flu Season 2012-13
News about the 2012-2013 influenza (or “flu”) season has been everywhere recently. The cities of Boston and New York have declared public health emergencies, and Dr. Anthony Facui, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, has indicated that we are in what is classically described as a flu epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 22,048 flu cases from September 30 – December 31, 2012, compared with 849 cases reported during the same time frame in 2011 (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/).
One of the ways librarians and ...
Source: Network News - January 18, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Cheryl Rowan Tags: Consumer Health General (all entries) Public Health Source Type: news
Jefferson Digital Commons Quarterly Update: January – March 2013
The Jefferson Digital Commons is off to a great start for 2013. The first quarter of the year ended with 1,144 new assets added to the archive. To date the total number of assets in the JDC is up to 7,698. A link to the entire inventory is available at the bottom of this report and this report is not an April Fools’ Day joke.
Downloads went from 1,209,115 at the end of December 2012 to 1,331,432 at the end of March 2013
122,317 new downloads over the past quarter
Over the past quarter, the JDC averaged over approximately 40,772 downloads per month
Approximately 1,360 download per day.
The most downloaded asset a...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - April 2, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Towards evidence based medicine for paediatricians
Getting it straight from the start For more than a decade Archimedes has presented clinical queries and appraised the evidence that emerges, leading on to a clinical conclusion to the dilemma. What is strikingly common is that many questions can start in a muddle, and a failure to get an ‘evidence-based answer’ might actually be a failure to ask an accurate question. In a recent trans-disciplinary teaching session, one anaesthetist summarised the formulation of evidence-based medicine (EBM) questions as ‘Does drug A compared to drug B make outcome X happen more or less in patient group Z?’&mda...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - May 9, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Phillips, B. Tags: ADC Archimedes, Oncology, Journalology, Immunology (including allergy), Child health, Clinical diagnostic tests, Competing interests (ethics), Medical humanities Source Type: research
Highlights from this issue
When I was a very new paediatric doctor I worked in a unit that routinely used steam to treat children who had croup. It was a fantastic treatment—you could tell that you were doing something seriously efficacious; you would open the cubicle door to review the child and walk into this thick humid atmosphere—you could almost hear the witches chanting ‘Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble’ in the distance. There was just one problem. It was rubbish. This was roundly demonstrated when new smoke detector systems were installed which were triggered by the steam, so we had to sto...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice - May 13, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Wacogne, I. Tags: Immunology (including allergy), Ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology, Medical humanities Epistle Source Type: research
