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Understanding MRI: basic MR physics for physicians
This article, written for the general hospital physician, describes the basic physics of MRI taking into account the machinery, contrast weighting, spin- and gradient-echo techniques and pertinent safety issues. Examples provided are primarily referenced to neuroradiology reflecting the subspecialty for which MR currently has the greatest clinical application.
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 12, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Currie, S., Hoggard, N., Craven, I. J., Hadjivassiliou, M., Wilkinson, I. D. Tags: Editor's choice Reviews Source Type: research
157 E-Books New to JEFFLINE
Scott Library added these 157 e-books to the growing collection in May and June:
Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory
Adult Emergency Medicine
Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination (4th ed.)
Advanced Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses (2nd ed.)
Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing (5th ed.)
Arrhythmia Essentials
Atlas of Advanced Operative Surgery
Atlas of Clinical Neurology (3rd ed.)
Atlas of Hematopathology: Morphology, Immunophenotype, Cytogenetics, and Molecular Approaches
Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases
Atlas of No...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 25, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Gary Kaplan Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
If you could propose one idea to help improve health care delivery in the United States, what would it be?
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Despite the rapid development of innovative technologies in the health care field, we have yet to discover a panacea that will easily transform our health care system into one that provides high-quality and cost-effective care. What we have discovered and come to agree on over the last decade is that our sick care system must be reconfigured to a health care system that emphasizes wellness and prevention. For that reason, I offer ...
Source: PHRMA - June 24, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: rlowe Source Type: news
Subconcussive blows and soccer: what’s the headache?
As the fall sports ramps up, teen athletes across the country are donning shin guards and cleats, prepping to return to their beloved sport—soccer. A handful, however, are foregoing the ritual. One child sitting on the sidelines is the 13-year old daughter of Ken Reed, sports policy director of the League of Fans. Reed and his wife decided the risk of short- and long-term brain damage from subconcussive blows to the head outweighed the benefits of the sport. They pulled their daughter from the field, a decision Reed shared on this recent Huffington Post blog.
Thriving checked with William Meehan, MD, director of Boston C...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - September 25, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Lisa Fratt Tags: All posts Concussions Orthopedics Sports & exercise athlete and concussion Bill Meehan soccer injuries Sports Concussion Clinic Source Type: news
What Causes Muscle Weakness?
Discussion
Muscle tone is the slight tension that is felt in a muscle when it is voluntarily relaxed. It can be assessed by asking the patient to relax and then taking the muscles through a range of motion such as moving the wrists, forearm and upper arm. Muscle strength is the muscle’s force against active resistance. Impaired strength is called weakness or paresis. There are 5 levels of muscle strength.
0 = No muscle contraction detected
1 = Barely detected flicker of contraction
2 = Active movement with gravity eliminated
3 = Active movement against gravity
4 = Active movement against gravity and some resistance
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Source: PediatricEducation.org - December 9, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
An Innovative Community Geriatrics Elective to Teach Year 4 Medical Students About Nursing Home Care
In Singapore, Geriatrics is core curriculum in medical undergraduate training. Year two medical students are introduced to aging in a four hour program based in a nursing home. In their final year they spend one month in geriatric medicine as part of their 3 month internal medicine posting. In the fourth year there is an elective period of six weeks where they choose postings that they would like to spend time to learn more about the subject. There are 65 NHs in Singapore with 9495 beds as compared to 6 acute hospitals with 7500 beds. The NHs have more patients for students to learn from. The residents are also more stable...
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - February 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: David Yong, David Yong, Patricia Lee Tags: Poster Abstracts Source Type: research
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery review
Patients see neurosurgeons as gods, but what is the reality? Henry Marsh has written a memoir of startling candourWe go to doctors for help and healing; we don't expect them to make us worse. Most people know the aphorism taught to medical students, attributed to the ancient Greek Hippocrates but timeless in its quiet sanity: "First, do no harm." But many medical treatments do cause harm: learning how to navigate the risks of drug therapies, as well as the catastrophic consequences of botched or inadvised surgical operations, is a big part of why training doctors takes so long. Even the simplest of therapies carries the ri...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 19, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Gavin Francis Tags: The Guardian Private healthcare Culture Society Reviews Books Neuroscience UK news Hospitals NHS Source Type: news
What Causes Ataxia?
Discussion
Coordination and balance problems are caused by various problems affecting the central and peripheral nervous system. Normal development of a child or weakness of a child are commonly mistaken for true ataxia. Ataxia specifically refers to “…impairment of the coordination of movement without loss of muscle strength.” If it is purely due to abnormalities of the cerebellum then there should be no changes in mental status, sensation or weakness. Sometimes it is difficult to determine if there are abnormalities in other areas. For example, Guillian-Barre often presents with difficulty or clumsy wal...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 31, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
When Can A Child Start Strength Training?
Discussion
Exercise is an important part of health and daily life. A review of recommendations for general exercise for children and adults can be found here. Many people use pedometers as a marker of their activity and a list of activities and their equivalent steps can be found here.
The benefits of strength training includes improved performance, injury prevention and rehabilitation, improved cardiovascular fitness, improved bone mineral density, improved blood lipid profiles and mental health. Improvements in strength can be found in properly structured programs of at least 8 weeks duration occurring at least 1-2 time...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - May 12, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Health industry leaders honored among this year's 40 Under 40 winners
From running a hospital to reforming care at the Veterans Health Administration to developing new biomedical devices to solving global health problems, the eight people from health organizations who were included among this year's Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40 honorees are all involved in important work.
NanoString Technologies held its initial public offering in June of last year, raising $54 million. Cadence Biomedical is helping stroke patients and injured people learn to walk again…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - July 31, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Becky Monk Source Type: research
What Are the Essential Amino Acids and How Much Protein Do I Need?
Discussion
Vegetarians have a diet pattern that emphasizes consuming plant foods (i.e. vegetables, grains and nuts) and avoiding flesh food (i.e. red meat, poultry, fish). Some vegetarians include milk and egg products in their diets and would be more accurately described as lacto-ova-vegetarians. Vegans are vegetarians who avoid all animal products including foods such as dairy products, eggs, butter, honey and gelatin.
One of the most common questions that vegetarian are asked is about how they obtain enough protein from their diets. In general, a mixed diet of a variety of foods with appropriate calories should provide...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - September 29, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
5 Things You Should Know About Vascular Disease
Vascular disease is known as a silent killer because many people don’t experience symptoms until it is too late. Read on to learn about the risk factors for vascular disease and what tools are available to you to prevent it.
1. It can lead to a limb loss, aneurysm or stroke. This is caused by the build-up of plaque in the arteries of your legs, neck and aorta.
2. It leads to more deaths than cancer. This is an indisputable fact. Fortunately, there are easy tests to screen for vascular disease,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - October 7, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Dr. Joel Reginelli Source Type: research
Make Halloween healthy: If you dare!
Meaghan O’Keeffe, RN, BSN, is a mother, writer and nurse. She worked at Boston Children’s Hospital for nearly a decade, in both the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Pre-op Clinic. She is a regular contributor to Thriving.
Happy Halloween! This is a festive time of year when kids get excited to dress up in fantastical costumes and enjoy some light-hearted scares. But let’s be honest. Most kids dream about one thing and one thing only: the enormous bounty of candy that awaits them. Didn’t you?
Besides tasting great, sugar intake heightens the pleasure and reward centers of the brain. Feel-good hormones like dopa...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 21, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Meaghan O'Keeffe Tags: All posts Source Type: news
What is the Remission Rate for Antithyroid Drug Treatment for Hyperthyroidism in Children?
Discussion
The thyroid gland secrets two hormones – T4 which is a prohormone and T3 which is the biologically active hormone. Receptors for T3 are found in nearly all body tissues. T3 regulates metabolism and energy production. Organs most affected are the heart, liver and central nervous system as well as growth of the fetus and child. Hyperthyroidism is common with a prevalence rate of about 1-2% for women and 0.2% for men. The most common cause of thyrotoxicosis is Grave’s disease where autoantibodies to thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) exist. These autoantibodies attach to thyroid tissue TSH receptors and...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - January 26, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
The Power of Touch Between Mom And Baby
There is something about seeing a mom hold her baby for the first time that never gets old. Everything about that moment, from the way she's cuddling her baby, to seeing her stroke his or her head -- you just know she wants to do what's best for her baby.
As a nurse and through my work with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), I have been very fortunate to meet moms and babies all over the world. Most recently, on a trip side by side with JOHNSON'S®, I traveled to China and India, where I learned more about their people's customs and practices, including how women touch and hold the...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
