Poison dew drops
Last night I dreamed of airplanes. Again. Every night I dream of airplanes. Every night for the last seven nights, anyway. Big ones. Little ones. New ones. Old ones. But my dream planes aren’t soaring high and wild in blue skies like they were built to do. There’s always something wrong with them. They’re broken down. Out of fuel. Victims of weather. My dream planes are trapped, barred from their natural environment. In my dreams, they are prisoners of the ground. This morning as the fog of dreams lifted, I put it all together. My subconscious is processing the fact that I, too, am a prisoner.Oh, Lord, where to even ...
Source: LifeAfterDx--The Guardian Chronicles - January 5, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Wil Source Type: blogs
The Beauty Brains Show Episode 07 – How do hair conditioners work?
In this week’s show we find out that Perry was a “lackey” early in his career. We also explain why it’s almost impossible for us to tell which is the “best” conditioner for you to use.
Click below to play Episode 07: “How do hair conditioners work?” or click “download” to save the MP3 file to your computer.
Show notes
What are hair conditioners supposed to do?
Remember that hair is dead! It’s a common misconception that hair can be healthy. Hair can be no more healthy than a shoe lace, a cotton blouse, or any other non-living fiber. The hair on your head is n...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - December 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerThe Beauty Brains Tags: Best Claims Podcast Problems Source Type: blogs
Battery Packs As Car Structural Parts
Imagine your car trunk lid as a battery pack. The same sort of thinking applies to solar panels. Check out solar photovoltaic roof shingles.... (Source: FuturePundit)
Source: FuturePundit - November 5, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs
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Source: Carin' For Karen - November 2, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Yttwrqspqk Tags: Life in general Source Type: blogs
When Patients Don't Pay
Before we start, some housekeeping issues:
First, I want to say that I was misled. I was told that gazpacho freezes well, and following such advice, I can say with impunity that fresh gazpacho is far better than defrosted gazpacho.
Second, I want to say that when I deactived my personal Facebook account, I lost access to the ShrinkRapBook Facebook account where I post new Shrink Rap articles and other links to Shrinky Things of Interest. Instead, please follow us on Twitter: ShrinkRapDinah, ShrinkRapRoy, and ClinkShrink. I'm slowly transferring my social media addiction.
Third, ClinkShrink ...
Source: Shrink Rap - September 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Many medical interventions are 50/50: Who informs the patient?
Lately, my virtual inbox in our electronic medical record has seen a surge in requests for prescriptions for the vaccine against herpes zoster, shingles. This has made me think a lot about our responsibility as physicians to inform patients about the evidence behind our recommendations – but who informs the patients when doctors are kept out of the loop or put under pressure to prescribe without seeing the patient?
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 16, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Physician Infectious disease Primary care Source Type: blogs
Vaccination for shingles in the elderly
Is this a good thing? (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - July 16, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Media release: Herpes zoster as a marker of underlying malignancy
Open Medicine
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Herpes zoster as a marker of underlying malignancy
Today, Open Medicine <http://www.openmedicine.ca/> published a study assessing whether a diagnosis of herpes zoster is a risk factor for subsequent malignancy.
Both herpes zoster—more commonly known as shingles--and cancer are associated with suppression of the immune system; however, it has been unclear what, if any, association there is between an earlier finding of shingles and later diagnosis of a malignant tumor.
“This is, we believe, the largest study to date examining th...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - June 18, 2013 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Carlyn Zwarenstein Source Type: blogs
Record Snow at Mayo Clinic
Thursday, May 2, 2013:
We Minnesotans thought we were done with snow for the season. Highway departments had even removed the plows from their big trucks, converting them for summer use. After all, Rochester, Minnesota's previous all-time record snowfall for the entire month of May was two inches. Last night and today, though, Rochester and Mayo Clinic got a foot. We saw the forecasts and drove from our home to Rochester yesterday afternoon before the storm, staying at a hotel. Today we did our medical business entirely indoors, using the clinic's warm, dry honeycomb of tunnels, returning home this afternoon when the...
Source: Myeloma Hope - May 4, 2013 Category: Cancer Source Type: blogs
Six ways Big Pharma manipulates consumers - Salon
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
The blockbuster pill profit party is over for Big Pharma. Bestselling pills like Lipitor, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Singular and Concerta have gone off patent and sites which their ads sustained are withering on the vine. WebMD, for example, the voice of Pharma on the Web, with a former Pfizer exec serving as CEO, announced it would cut 250 positions in December.
But don’t worry, Wall Street. Pharma isn’t going to deliver disappointing earnings just because it has little or no new drugs coming online and has failed at the very reason for its existence. Here are six new Pharma ma...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 28, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
(Another one of) Jo's Annual Gardening Post(s)
It's been a good-news, bad-news kind of almost-month.The good news is that we're very busy at Sunnydale (Healthcare for the Hellmouth). The bad news is that we're so short-staffed in every department except the one that does, like, colonoscopies and stuff that I've had five-patient days lately. As in, start with two, discharge those, get three.The good news is that The Boy is moving down here in a couple of weeks, and that he has a fabulous new job that will keep me in beer to the point that I'll need to have my own floating scooter to get around the house. The bad news is that he's got shingles.Yes, shingles. I diagnosed ...
Source: Head Nurse - April 11, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
Red Tape Rant
Nat had a strange rash today. I got the call from his caregiver, who also sent me photos of the rash via text. I immediately remembered the shingles Nat had a few years back. Shingles is an awful disease that is related to chicken pox. It hurts and hurts and it takes a while for it to clear up. I called my sister who is a pediatrician and sent her the photos. It was just a rash, she concluded. Thank God. Give Nat Benadryl, she told me.
The thing that bothers me is that when I called the house manager I was told that legally, the caregivers are not allowed to give Nat Benadryl without a doctor calling the pharmacy and signi...
Source: Susan's Blog - April 1, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, February 15, 2013
This series is brought to you by MedPage Today.1. Repealing SGR Raises Questions for Congress. Opinions on what to replace Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula with and how to get there vary greatly.2. Depression May Lower Response to Shingles Vax. Untreated major depression may hamper the protective effect of varicella zoster virus (VZV) vaccine against herpes zoster — shingles — in older individuals.3. Contraception: Condoms Are King, Plan B Takes Hold. In the realm of contraception, the condom reigns supreme, but one in 10 have used emergency contraception such as Plan B. Manage your online...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 15, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News Infectious disease OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Who will save the independent physicians?
The Wall Street Journal is my favorite newspaper, but its Op-Ed page is not the place to turn to for sober, non-partisan analysis. So I was only a little bit surprised to read The Doctor’s Office as Union Shop, which blames the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for ushering in “a potentially radical factor in the transformation of health care –the doctor as union worker.” The author, Dr. David Leffell from Yale Medical School, asserts that the ACA’s reimbursement schemes are forcing doctors to abandon their practices, although he doesn’t get into specifics. But reading between the lines it’...
Source: Health Business Blog - February 1, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Physicians Source Type: blogs
Pregnant in Healthcare: diseases to avoid
This article from Nursing Center has some additional information on risks that pregnant healthcare workers are exposed to, with some suggestions for how to mitigate these risks. As a currently pregnant, currently recovering from very mild illness person, I can attest that it's pretty miserable being sick when you don't have many options for medication, are already tired, are at greater risk for dehydration, and are worried about the development of your child.Knowledge is power- hope this list helps you feel more empowered as a pregnant healthcare worker! (Source: Occupational Therapy Notes)
Source: Occupational Therapy Notes - February 1, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Tags: practice issues acute care Source Type: blogs
