Should the FDA approve lovemaking technique?
Everybody knows that having sex is beneficial for your health. It lowers your blood pressure, reduces risk of heart attack, improves your self esteem and reduces stress (as per webmd.com). I think that one of the most important gifts God gave us is the ability to love.
But recently I realized that there’s a problem with love: Unlike so many other things that keep us healthy, lovemaking procedure is not approved by the FDA!
There are no randomized controlled studies about the safety of lovemaking, no government recommended doses, no side effects. Nothing! So I asked myself: how can we do it without FDA and government...
Source: Doctor Kalitenko antiaging blog - June 13, 2013 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: admin Source Type: blogs
Less Cancer in Long-Lived Families
Longevity is inherited to some degree, with the evidence suggesting that the contribution of your genes grows in importance in old age. Prior to that point, your lifestyle choices are far more significant to long-term health. Nonetheless, some genetic lineages are superior to others when it comes to tilting the odds in favor of a longer life. One of the objectives for longevity science is to make these differences irrelevant, swamping them in the benefits to health and longevity created by therapies capable of rejuvenation. For example, why would anyone care about inherited cancer risk if clinics could reliably cure or pre...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Wingnuttery kills
Among the sexually transmitted infections, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV, to its friends) is among the least glamorous. Everyone knows syphilis and gonorrhea, but for some reason HPV doesn't share their celebrity. It should, because some strains of it cause a very common and highly unpleasant problem, genital warts -- or warts wherever people's parts happen to interact, and you can use your imagination. Other strains cause cancer -- cervical, genital, anal, oral and pharyngeal. In fact, HPV is basically the cause of cervical cancer.So it doesn't take a sodomite to see that a vaccine which is highly effective in preventing tra...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
PhRMA Report: Over 5400 Medicines in Development and 70% are First in Class
According to report released by PhRMA, companies have more than 5,400 medicines in development globally, and more than 70% of therapies in the pipeline are potentially first-in-class and could offer patients new treatment options, and a notable number of potential therapies target diseases with limited treatment options such as ALS and rare diseases. A breakdown of their report offers insight into the various medicines in development for different diseases and populations.
Older Americans
America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are developing 465 new medicines that target the 10 leading chronic conditi...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Service Member Shares Vaccine Experience
From an anonymous service member,
“I do not know what-all was in these vaccines, but I thought I would share my story of three vaccines, all received in the last three years in the US Navy. I had never had a serious reaction to any vaccine before, and it was after the third round of it that I decided to do some research for myself. Now I am carrying my first child, and I am grateful that I have done this research so that I can spare my child the results of a criminal undertaking in the form of mass vaccination.
First up: bird flu.
December 2009, Great Lakes. Avian Influenza was scaring half the world out of its mind ...
Source: vactruth.com - March 19, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: VT Tags: Questions About Vaccines Vaccine Safety Vaccine Side Effects Source Type: blogs
Health Equity Symposium: Science and Medicine in Africa
Don't miss the upcoming Health Equity Symposium: Science and Medicine in Africa
It has been a long standing challenge to help the developing world to battle disease, and while examples of progress have been made, including the eradication of smallpox, and the near eradication of polio, developing nations are still disproportionately burdened by infectious diseases that devastate lives and livelihoods, and put a continuous drag on struggling economies.
Some nations are making progress in public health, but a new unexpected burden of chronic, non-communicable diseases has emerged with changes in lifestyle and increasing li...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - February 19, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Africa Novartis Source Type: blogs
White House PCAST: Rival Countries Gaining on US Medical Research Spending
The Nation once led the world in investments in research and development (R&D) as a share of gross domestic product (GDP), but more recently, the United States has been investing less in R&D than other leading and emerging nations invest. Moreover, U.S. industry has been shifting its investments toward applied R&D, narrowing the support for basic and early-stage applied research, which is crucial to transforming innovation.
Without adequate support for such research, the United States risks losing its leadership in invention and discovery—the driving force behind the new industries and jobs that have p...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
USMLE Questions – Characteristic Disease Findings
The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) is designed to emphasize knowledge of clinical scenarios and clinical pearls, even on Step I. Listed below are some commonly encountered disease findings and characteristics.
Feature
Disease
45, X chromosome
Turner’s syndrome
5-HIAA increased in urine
Carcinoid syndrome
Aganglionic rectum
Hirschsrpung’s disease
Apple-core sign on barium enema
Colon cancer
Arched back (opisthotonos)
Tetanus
Argyll-Robertson pupil
Syphilis
Ash leaf on forehead
Tuberous sclerosis
Auer rods
Acute myelogenous leukemia
Austin Flint murmur
Aortic regurgitation...
Source: Inside Surgery - January 18, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Surgpedia USMLE diseases findings VMA water hammer pulse Source Type: blogs
Notes from talk by Stephen J. O'Brien at #UCDavis
Stephen O' Brien talked at UC Davis a few days ago. I met with him in the afternoon before his talk. It was one of the more interesting discussions I have had in a long time. He has done some very interesting and important work (e.g., comparative genomics, HIV, feline evolution) though most of what we talked about was not work per se (e.g., we talked a lot about baseball and big cats since my kids are obsessed with big cats).
Anyway, below is a "Storification" of tweets from his talk. Best part - he signed a copy of his Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors
book with a dedication to my ki...
Source: The Tree of Life - January 9, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
WHO will switch to type 2 inactivated poliovirus vaccine
The World Health Organization’s campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis made impressive inroads in 2012: only 212 cases were reported, compared with 620 the previous year; moreover, India remained polio-free. The dark side of this story is that as wild polio is eliminated, vaccine-associated poliomyelitis moves in to take its place. The landmark decision by WHO to replace the infectious, type 2 Sabin poliovaccine with inactivated vaccine is an important step towards eliminating vaccine-associated polio.
A known side effect of the Sabin poliovirus vaccines, which are taken orally and replicate in the intestine, is vaccine...
Source: virology blog - January 8, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information eradication IPV OPV polio poliomyelitis poliovirus Sabin Salk vaccine VDPV viral WHO world health organization Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 012
TechTool review of EM Rashes by Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association on iOS (reviewed on iPhone)
Website: – iTunes - Website
EM rashes is designed to give the user an algorithm for quick diagnosis of rashes as they present in ED. The user answers a few simple questions about the rash and is taken to a page with information about the differential diagnoses. The content of the app is based on an article published in Emergency Medicine Magazine in 2010
Design and User Interface
Basic but it works. The flow through the app is very easy to follow for the user – just answer the questions as they appear ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 3, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Android Application Dermatology Education Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews TechTool EM rashes EMRA iphone iPhone App Tech Tool Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 012
TechTool review of EM Rashes by Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association on iOS (reviewed on iPhone)
Website: – iTunes - Website
EM rashes is designed to give the user an alogorithm for quick diagnosis of rashes as they present in ED. The user answers a few simple questions about the rash and is taken to a page with information about the differential diagnoses. The content of the app is based on an article published in Emergency Medicine Magazine in 2010
Design and User Interface
Basic but it works. The flow through the app is very easy to follow for the user – just answer the questions as they appear...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 3, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Android Application Dermatology Education Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews TechTool EM rashes EMRA iphone iPhone App Tech Tool Source Type: blogs
Couldn't find it? !!!
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Source: MJM Wardrounds - October 29, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
Couldn't find it? !!!
If you would like to read more, there is a good discussion of the approach to diagnosis inThe cause of the plague of Athens: plague, typhoid, typhus, smallpox, or measles?Burke A. Cunha, Infect Dis Clin N Am 18 (2004) 29 –43.MJM (Source: MJM Wardrounds)
Source: MJM Wardrounds - October 29, 2009 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
