More Annoyance
I try to eat and drink healthy. I try to avoid premade ' chemical ' food and use whole ingredients, meaning real, unprocessed food. In the mornings it may not be wise to get between me and my first cup of coffee. Later in the day, I like my herbal tea for its flavors and lack of caffeine anytime after 10 am. My husband makes fun of all the different kinds of herbal teas I have. I just like to be able to choose which one I am in the mood for.I also subscribe to tips from WebMD to help keep me up on how to be healthier, what to do or eat or what not to. Usually I find this helpful.But not yesterday.I got an email ongood and ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 2, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: annoyance breast cancer hormone receptor status Source Type: blogs
U.S. to Get Its Own Supply of Radioisotopes Thanks to Approval of RadioGenix System
A good deal of advanced medical imaging to spot cancer tumors, and help to diagnose coronary artery disease and other conditions, relies on injecting radioisotopes into the body whose location can be tracked. The most common is technetium-99m (Tc-99m), but it has been in short supply because there are only a few nuclear power stations around the world making it as a byproduct of highly-enriched uranium, but new technologies are maturing that can help avoid many of the radioisotope sourcing issues that exist to prevent nuclear weapon proliferation and guarantee safety.
The FDA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of ...
Source: Medgadget - February 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Nuclear Medicine Oncology Radiation Oncology Source Type: blogs
Super Bowl Babies: More Boy Births 9 Months Later?
Ah, Super Bowl Sunday. One of the unofficial national holidays of Americans, and second only to Thanksgiving in the amount of food and drink consumed. The annual championship game of the National Football League in the U.S. is often the most-watched television event of the year.
During any big event — whether man-made or natural — researchers often find surprising trends in birth rates. When you follow the data, all sorts of interesting things can be discovered.
Let’s find out how Super Bowl Sunday influences birth rates in America.
Let’s face it. The Super Bowl has become one of those annual pasti...
Source: World of Psychology - February 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Family General Psychology Research Sports baby boys Birth Rate boy births male-to-female ratio more boys born Pregnancy super bowl babies Source Type: blogs
Carb Loading: Outdated and Dangerous
It has become a familiar scene at athletic events: sugar and carb-fests before and during marathons, triathlons, swimming competitions, and other sports among amateurs and professionals, even high school athletes and grade school soccer players. They do it for energy and enhanced athletic performance, having been told that loading up on carbs is the ticket to winning.
This common practice is based on decades-old flawed studies that reported that athletes experienced reduced performance when deprived of carbohydrates, performance restored upon restoration of carbohydrates. Thus was born the notion of “carb-loading” (i.e...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 22, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: BLOOD SUGAR Car Loading Carbohydrates Undoctored Wheat Belly Wheat Belly Lifestyle Wheat Belly/Undoctored Cruise carb loading Dr. Davis exercise Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Embarrassing the Country
Rachel Campos-Duffy, the wife of Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI), cohosting “Outnumbered” on Fox News Friday,complained that Democrats “make our country look bad” by revealing what President Trump said in a meeting with members of Congress:“I still have a problem with people in a private meeting going out and saying what the president said….It makes our country look bad. I think the Democrats, in this case, should have used some discretion. And even if he did say something like that, not repeat it for the benefit of the country.”Her comments reminded me of one of my favorite parliamentary exchanges. Helen Suzman, th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 13, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Trypanosomiasis – Imported / Exported
Gideon follows cross-border Infectious Disease events in tabular form – including movement of infected animals, and outbreaks related to imported items. [1] The following list chronicles cases of African trypanosomiasis which were imported into South Africa, or were exported from Zambia. Further details and references are available from the author.
Acquired in Zambia.
1986 – An American tourist acquired trypanosomiasis in Zambia.
2000 – A British tourist acquired trypanosomiasis (nonfatal) in Zambia.
2001 – A British national acquired trypanosomiasis in Zambia.
2008 – A British tourist acq...
Source: GIDEON blog - January 12, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Source Type: blogs
A Remedy for Corruption
Do I really have a remedy for corruption? I wish I did. But, I have lately found an effective balm for the sickening discouragement that it is easy to feel when confronted day after day with another instance of the medical industry ’s price-gouging corruption, purposeful distortions, and callous disregard of patient welfare. That remedy is a new podcast from Australia:Ray Moynihan ’sThe Effective Dose. If you don ’t already recognize Moynihan’s name, he’s an author ofSelling Sickness and he ’s had a persistent interest in overdiagnosis and medicalization. He describes the podcast as “interviews...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 1, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Assisted Dying: Human Rights in the 21st Century – 2018 Conference of World Federation of Right to Die Societies
The World Federation of Right to Die Societies will hold its 2018 conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The theme is "Assisted Dying: Human Rights in the 21st Century." (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 5, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 085 with Victoria Stephen of BadEM
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogThe quadruple burden of disease in South Africa with Victoria Stephen.You don’t want a triple burden never mind a quadruple burden.Trauma, Lifestyle Diseases, Communicable Disease, peri-natal morbidity and mortalityIt’s not all trauma in South Africa, it’s worse than that. The Rainbow nation unfortunately gets a rainbow of pathology too. Which makes for challenging work and interesting medicine. It means that South Africa is a bit different and that’s where www.BadEM...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 4, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean BADEM Victoria Stephen Source Type: blogs
50th Anniversary of the 1st Heart Transplant
On December 3, 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in South Africa.
A key element permitting the procedure was Barnard's ability to determine the donor dead despite the beating heart. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 2, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 216
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogJust 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 216. Question 1Where was this photo taken and what is the significance of this “Trauma Room 1”? By Jpotter1138 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27892379+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answerexpand(document.getElementB...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aspirin Baxter burns Charles Frederic Gerhardt Charles Frederick morris saint Charles Rufus Baxter Jack Ruby JFK John Connally john f kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald Lewis Macken occam's razor parkland formula Source Type: blogs
Let ’s appreciate the growing landscape of digital brain health & enhancement: 177 experts and pioneers in 23 countries –and counting!
Registrants for the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5-7th) as of November 23rd, 2017
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Quick update on how registration stands for the upcoming 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Brain Health & Enhancement in the Digital Age (December 5-7th) — THANK YOU to everyone who has registered already
We are pleased to report that so far 177 experts, pioneers and practitioners are registered to participate. 130 seem to be based in the US and 47 abroad (based on IP address during registration), with the following country breakdown:
United States 130
Australia 7
Canada 7
Israel 5
United Kingd...
Source: SharpBrains - November 24, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Technology brain health innovation brain-enhancement Brain-health sharpbrains virtual conference virtual summit Source Type: blogs
The bacteria in your gut might affect your vulnerability to PTSD
By Emma Young
After a traumatic experience, why do some people develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), while others don’t? Work to date has found evidence that various factors play a role, including a lack of social support and low levels of the neurotransmitter neuropeptide Y (due to its role in the body’s stress response). Into this mix come new findings, reported in Psychosomatic Medicine, that an individual’s complement of gut bacteria (their gut microbiome) may contribute to their vulnerability to trauma. The researchers are now investigating whether tweaking the gut microbiome could help to prevent or tr...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: biological Mental health Source Type: blogs
Dispatch From South Africa
My blog readers must think I ' ve abandoned them over the past few weeks. I apologize for the whirlwind of October and November. With the BIDMC-Lahey merger planning and the new cloud hosted Meditech go lives of my day job, plus the usual Fall conference commitments, and my new work with the Gates Foundation, blogging has fallen behind.The Gates Foundation has a bold plan for Africa - unifying the health records of the continent using biometrics, simple phone apps, and a highly resilient low bandwidth cloud that includes data integrity components based on blockchain.Here ' s the use case - patients with HI...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - November 20, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 83 Pre-Hospital Medicine with Gregor Prosen
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
ED people doing house visits?
Medical retrieval teams having a cup of tea and taking a detailed social history?
Emergency doctors going to someone’s home before they come to the ED and recommending treatment at home?
Including End of Life treatment?
Sound Crazy?
Ever been to Maribor? Slovenia?
I spoke with Slovenian Emergency Physician and Pre-Hospital Gregor Prosen at dasSMACC. He talks like an emergency physician. He curses like an emergency physician. Gregor ju...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean gregor prosen Serbia Source Type: blogs
