Giving Back: RAD-AID
Question: What do airships, 747 ’s, William Shatner, Radiology, and giving back have in common?Answer: RAD-AID International!Let me explain …A few years ago, I decided to bail out of the rat-race of private practice. My original goal was to retire altogether, but it seemed more reasonable to ease out slowly, maintain health insurance and some shred of income, and have something to do, at least periodically. And so I started out working 26 weeks per year, and now I ’m down to 22 weeks. Which leaves 30 weeks that need to be filled. I had originally thought I would ramp up my writing, but somehow that hasn’t happened;...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - September 18, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Departing are such sweet swallows
In some parts of the UK, the migrants have already departed, but there are plenty of swifts, housemartins, sandmartins, and barn swallows here in East Anglia, from the North Norfolk coast, to deepest Norfolk and west again to Cambridge (well those are the places I’ve seen them this week).
Back in early May, I photographed adult (barn) swallows (Hirundo rustica) getting it on at Bottisham Lock on the River Cam near Waterbeach (north of the city of Cambridge). The adults are still whirling around the skies and scooping up water and insects from the river. These two products of that springtime behaviour were anything b...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 26, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Flavors of DVI
I just completed (a rather long) Day 4 at Aga Khan Hospital, here in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (in case you didn ' t know where I was). As usual, time flies when you ' re having fun, and I really am enjoying my time here.Today was a day of many hats. In the morning, I played " real doctor " and attended an OB Gyn lecture series beamed over from the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi:The full title was " Female Sexual Dysfunction and its Effects upon Fertility " and it was quite well done. While the lecture will have little impact upon my medical practice, I ' m trying to get the staff used to me hanging around, and I ha...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - August 24, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Is bee venom a good anti-aging ingredient? Episode 163
Is bee venom a good anti-aging ingredient?
Monika asks…Korean Bee Venom essence but it does seem to work. My question is the bee venom really magic or is there something else that removes the spots?
RS: Thanks Monika…this gives me the perfect excuse time to remind listeners to go back to Episode 105 and listen to the story about how Perry got stung in the eye by a bee. If nothing else, just go the webpage and check out the picture of his face. It’s horrific. I’m not kidding. But let’s put my personal revulsion aside and try to figure out why this product seemed to work on Monika’s acne.
PR: We found a study pub...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Patient ID
Hello from the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania!Just wanted to let you know that I ' m here and on the job. I ' ve met so far with the head of Radiology (who is also the Chief of Staff of the Hospital), the head of IT, the Nuclear Medicine technologist/physicist, and briefly with the Regional CEO and the COO of the hospital. Everyone has gone out of their way to make me feel welcome here, and their warmth, and their pride in this amazing place is incredible.I am quite taken with the facility as it stands, but the additions, and plans for the future, will certainly propel AKH well into the forefront of patient car...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - August 21, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201
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Just 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 201, courtesy of Dr Hakan Yaman from RFDS.
Question 1
What is the rate of severe permanent TBI in the Asterix comics, 0%, 25%, 50% or 90%?
http://www.asterix.com/the-collection/albums/asterix-and-the-picts.html
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five asterix CRP Death dying Felty's syndrome fingernail GCS head injury hospital Pain pencil RA rheumatoid arthritis TBI Source Type: blogs
Xavant ’s NMS 460 Peripheral Nerve Stimulator for Pain Relief Cleared by FDA
Xavant Technology, a company based in Pretoria, South Africa, won FDA clearance for its NMS 460 peripheral nerve stimulation system. The device is used to address chronic intractable pain, post-surgical pain, post-traumatic acute pain, and for pain control arising from rehab routines.
The device delivers a hybrid pulsed radio frequency (PRF) waveform, developed by Xavant, through the skin via an accompanying stylus. The company claims that the resulting electromagnetic effects are similar to the ones that implanted neurostimulators generate, delivering some of the benefits of such devices without their invasive nature....
Source: Medgadget - August 2, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Pain Management Rehab Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 009 with John Myburgh
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John Myburgh – The importance of the intensive care clinical ward round
How important is the main daily ward round we do each day in the Intensive Care Unit? Is the ward round in your ICU focused and concise? Do you adequately communicate the plans you generate on the ward round to the whole ICU team?
John Myburgh AO (@JAMyburgh), an experienced Australian intensivist, who began his life and career in South Africa, is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at St George ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 4, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies john myburgh ward round Source Type: blogs
Being queer in the jungle: The unique challenges of LGBTQ scientists working in the field
The Stonewall Riots occurred on June 28, 1969. It was this summer evening that sparked the Gay Rights Movement. Now, forty-eight years later, the world celebrates Pride Month every June to celebrate, honor, support, and fight for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.
The queer community is resilient. No matter what obstacles they encounter, their battle to live, pursue their passions, and contribute to society endures. For many queer people that passion is science. Queer scientists such as Alan Turing who was crucial in ending World War II, and Sara Josephine Baker who made unprecedented br...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ben Ragen Tags: Uncategorized field research LGBTQ Source Type: blogs
Which came first: Words or Syllables?
Back when this blog was starting out Ireported on a paper given by Judy Kegl (nowJudy Shepard-Kegl) at a conference in South Africa. Kegl is an expert on sign language and had observed a new sign language emerge at a school for the deaf in Nicaragua. She listed four innate qualities that lead to language: (1) love of rhythm or prosody, (2) a taste for mirroring (imitation), (3) an appetite for linguistic competence, and (4) the wish to be like one ’s peers. I found this an interesting and plausible list and have wondered why I don’t see more references to it. Rereading that old post has made the silence more comprehens...
Source: Babel's Dawn - May 24, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
Are Micellar Water makeup removers the real deal? Episode 150
What’s the deal with micellar water make up removers?
Taylor asks…I’m a new listener and enjoy your show so much. (Gets me through the work day) I want to know the hype about micellar water and is this something new or just a mild makeup remover with a “fancy name.”
Micellar waters are named after the technical term, micelle, so before we talk about the products we should explain what that is.
Micelles are structures that are formed when surfactant are dissolved in water. Remember that surfactants, short for surface active agents, are used in beauty products as cleansers and emulsifiers that help mix oil ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
A Century of Forest Coverage Change on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula
The world’s forests provide a number of vital ecosystem services that benefit both society and nature alike. However, in recent years many have opined that the future of forests is in doubt. Deforestation, drought, fire, insect outbreaks and global warming represent only a handful of the many challenges that are claimed to be causing a near-term demise in forest health that is predicted to become only worse in the years and decades to come. But how valid are these fears? Are Earth’s forests truly on the eve of destruction?
Though there are indeed some locations that are suffering from a variety of maladies, there are m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 10, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Craig D. Idso Source Type: blogs
In South Africa, Bold Investments Turn Trash into Treasure
South Africa’s landfills are reportedly rapidly reaching capacity—as are those in many developing countries. Surveys show that only about 3 percent of urban South Africans sort and recycle their household waste frequently. Until recycling becomes more widespread, the nation will have to keep building landfills. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 3, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Big pharma in the dock over patent law plot in South Africa
Attempts to reform South Africa's patents laws have been marred with controversy over an alleged campaign by big pharma to derail the process. Adele Baleta reports from Cape Town.A heated row between the South African Government and the country's umbrella organisation for drug companies over a proposed publicity campaign to fight draft patent reforms has gained momentum with Danish company Novo Nordisk quitting the group in protest.The company is one of 26 research-based pharmaceutical companies who are members of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa (IPASA), which recently sent an email to members see...
Source: PharmaGossip - February 7, 2014 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
