Venereal Diseases in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.
As noted in a recent ProMED post, the incidence of gonorrhea, syphilis and genital chlamydial infection are increasing in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. http://www.promedmail.org/post/6192757 I’ve compared recent trends for these diseases in the following graphs, based on data from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com [1] Note that highest rates for all three conditions are consistently reported by the United States.
Reference:
Gideon e-Gideon multi-graph tool, https://www.gideononline.com/cases/multi-graphs/
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Source: GIDEON blog - December 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs ProMED Source Type: blogs
myLAB Box STI at-home Test Kits. Interview with Lora Ivanova, Co-Founder and CEO at myLAB Box
myLAB Box, a healthcare company based in California, has developed and pioneered an at-home sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing service. With the number of STDs rising, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 20 million new STDs occur annually in the US, and half of these are in people aged 15 to 24.
STDs are often symptomless, but can have significant consequences. For instance, an estimated 24,000 women become infertile every year because of undiagnosed STDs. An estimated 80% of sexually active people will have a human papillomavirus (HPV) infection at some point in their lives, and HP...
Source: Medgadget - November 7, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Medicine Public Health Reproductive Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Clap
Back when I was working for a community based public health agency, we thought we were close to conquering the common sexually transmitted infections -- syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia. We spent a lot of effort on HIV prevention because it ' s incurable, but the incidence (that means the number of new cases per given time period) was declining, and the other STIs were becoming pretty rare. The public health response to these diseases basically has two components: convince people to use condoms whenever they have risky sex, and detect new cases quickly and treat them.Well there ' s bad news, and it isn ' t getting much a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 29, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 247
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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 247 (with a little art contribution from Dr Michelle Johnston)
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Question 1
What is the poison that Socrates is about to voluntarily consume?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 3, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Aorta brown sequard epilepsy hemlock Jacques Louis David Joseph Lawrence joseph lister Listerine Marat Socrates stabbing Source Type: blogs
Top searches on health topics? It may depend on where you live
You can learn a lot about a person’s medical concerns by looking at the health topics they’ve searched for online. It’s fascinating (and a bit creepy) to take a peek at what others are searching — and to compare what you find to what sends you online.
I’ve posted before about how the health issues people report worrying about the most differ from those that are most common, deadly, or have the biggest impact on quality of life. There’s overlap, of course, but certain important conditions (such as lung disease, the third leading cause of death in 2015) did not make the top 10 list of health concerns in a 2015 su...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 009 Humongous HIV Extravaganza
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The diagnosis of HIV is no longer fatal and the term AIDS is becoming less frequent. In many countries, people with HIV are living longer than those with diabetes. This post will hopefully teach the basics of a complex disease and demystify some of the potential diseases you need to consider in those who are severely immunosuppressed. While trying to be comprehensive this post can not be exhaustive (as you can imagine any patient with a low ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 7, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Amanda McConnell Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine AIDS art cryptococcoma cryptococcus HIV HIV1 HIV2 PEP PrEP TB toxoplasma tuberculoma Source Type: blogs
A graduating medical student reflects on the last few years
I will graduate from medical school next week. As it winds down, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on what I’ve learned and how I’ve changed over the past five years.
Obviously, I now know a lot more about medicine. There’s no escaping the need to absorb an enormous volume of information. I can rattle off the symptoms, mechanisms, and treatments for heart failure, diabetes, syphilis, and dozens of other diseases off the top of my head. And I’ve repeatedly needed to do so on exams, during clinical rotations, and occasionally as a party trick.
But in looking back on my experience, medical knowledge only scratches...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/akhilesh-pathipati" rel="tag" > Akhilesh Pathipati < /a > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Medical school Source Type: blogs
Empowering young women to use their voices in health care
Women’s voices are finally being elevated on a national level to the prominence they deserve on workplace, political, and social issues.
But as a physician (and father of two adult daughters), I’m concerned that women may not feel empowered to use their voices for their own health care. A 2015 survey found that only 22 percent of women in the United States possess health literacy skills, although health literacy is critical to achieve optimal outcomes. Other research suggests women’s physical symptoms are more likely to be interpreted as due to psychological factors than are men’s.
Unfortunately, these barrie...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 21, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/damian-p-alagia" rel="tag" > Damian P. Alagia, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Spying on Your Social Media to Fight STDs
Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied whether certain search terms that are used on Google and topics covered on Twitter can point to a outbreak of a contagious disease. They focused on syphilis and found that by monitoring the incidence of certain terms, such as “STD” and “find sex”, they were able to identify hotspots that were eventually noticed by the CDC.
The research relied on machine learning algorithms that can crunch through a lot of data and spot correlations within it.
If put into practical use, simple monitoring of pub...
Source: Medgadget - April 19, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Net News Public Health Society Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 220
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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 220.
Question 1
What deceased Nobel Prize winner’s eyes are currently sitting in a safety deposit box in New York City?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 29, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Albert Einstein Clutton's joints diabetes erysipelas eyes glucose holy fire Lattimer Napoleon Bonepart New York nintendo penis St Anthony's Fire syphilis Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
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Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
This is the 1000th presentation to my bioethics blog since starting on Google Blogspot.com in 2004.There has been many topics covered. Though comments by the visitors has always been encouraged and, since as a "discussion blog", comments leading to discussions I have felt was the definitive function here. Virtually none of the thread topics have gone unread and most have had some commentary, some with mainly particularly strong and emphatic opinions http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2013/01/should-pathologists-be-physicians.html, some with extensive up to 12 years long continued discussion http://bioethicsdiscussion....
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Maurice Bernstein, M.D. Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
We must ask patients obvious questions
Four o’clock on a Friday afternoon is an anxiety-inducing time to be running behind in clinic as patients and staff both begin to show signs of wanting to leave. After finishing with a particularly complicated case involving chronic pain with multiple spinal and abdominal surgeries, I rushed into the room of the patient scheduled for 3 p.m. frazzled. The patient was an elderly man, seated with arms folded, looking sternly down a knobby nose at me. I couldn’t help feeling guilty as he stared at me as if I’d done something to unforgivably wrong him. Trying to appear less disconcerted than I was, I started taking a hist...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 28, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/weijie-violet-lin" rel="tag" > Weijie Violet Lin < /a > Tags: Education Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Venereal Diseases in Canada
For several decades, rates of gonorrhea, syphilis and genital chlamydia infection in Canada and the United States have followed similar trends. [1,2] As with many other countries, the incidence of gonorrhea in the region fell precipitously following the appearance of AIDS during the 1980’s, but have been rebounding since 2000. The following chart was generated by a tool in Gideon (www.GideonOnline.com) which converts yearly incidence data into rates per 100,000, and combines graphs selected by the user. [3]
References:
Berger SA. Infectious Diseases of Canada, 2017. 452 pages, 114 graphs, 3,091 references. Gi...
Source: GIDEON blog - October 31, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs Source Type: blogs
Microbial Theories of Alzheimer's Disease are Gaining Support
The lack of concrete progress in the amyloid clearance approach to Alzheimer's disease, despite significant investment and many clinical trials over the past decade, has led to a great deal of theorizing in the research community. Is it that the dominant anti-amyloid strategy immunotherapy is intrinsically challenging when applied to the brain at this point in the progress of medical biotechnology, or is it that amyloid is not the best target? In the SENS view of aging, amyloid accumulation is a primary difference between old and young tissue, and it should be removed. But Alzheimer's is a very complicated condition, invol...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 8, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
