Too many emergencies
Yes, the Trump Foundation and the border wall and birtherism and all of the dreck that spews from Ronald T. Dump should get news coverage.However, there is shit happening in the world that is like, really, really important and probably ought to be discussed by the candidates. You know, that little climate change problem, nucular weapons, mass extinction . . .There is also this. When antibiotics stop working, it ' s not just those poor dusky-hued people in distant lands currently dying of tuberculosis who will be shit out of luck. It ' s you. Not only might you die from an infected scratch on your hand, common surgical proc...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 22, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Women ’s Health Amendment Is Getting An Update. What Should It Include?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most private health plans in the United States to cover four sets of recommended preventive services without copayments, deductibles, or other out-of-pocket costs. One of those four sets of services focused on women’s preventive care needs. It was called for under the law’s Women’s Health Amendment, developed by an Institute of Medicine panel, and officially incorporated by the federal government into health plans’ requirements in 2012. Taken as a whole, the ACA’s preventive services provision requires coverage of a wide array of sexual and reproductive health services, from...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Adam Sonfield Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Public Health Quality ACA contraceptive coverage HIV/AIDS sexually transmitted infections Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Syphilis epidemiology in London: sustained high numbers of cases in men who have sex with men
Public Health England (PHE) - The aim of this report is to update on the epidemiology of syphilis in adults in London. It shows that the rate of syphilis diagnoses in three times higher among Londoners than anywhere else in England and that it disproportionately affects men who have sex with men. The report contains an overview on syphilis alongside data sources and a breakdown of the syphilis burden in London by local authority.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 16, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Confronting Race Issues in Medicine
As I am writing this, our nation is
mourning both the death of several police officers in Dallas, and the end of
two more young black men’s lives at the hands of police in Minnesota and
Louisiana. The issues of racial
prejudice, racial distrust, and racial profiling and stereotyping affect every
aspect of American life and culture, and so medicine is certainly not an
exception. Despite what I would wish, I
know that I have racial prejudices, and perhaps at times my patients can sense
them. But if medicine in non-unique in its racism, it bears a special
responsibility to heal itself so it can best heal oth...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 14, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Andrew Wakefield and Del Bigtree: Privileged white males harming African-Americans with antivaccine propaganda
There’s always been a major thread of distrust of the medical profession in the African-American community, understandably so given the history of abuses such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which the natural progression of untreated syphilis was studied in African-American men for 40 years. It’s not just that experiment that’s responsible, either. During the… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 25, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Movies Popular culture Aja Brown Andrew Wakefield Compton Del Bigtree Polly Tommey propaganda quackery Sheila Ealey Tony Muhammad vaccines Vaxxed Source Type: blogs
CONCUSSION: Bioethics, Foot Ball and Post Traumatic Lies.
Concussion is a documentary biography about medical science’s triumph over a social and corporate conspiracy to suppress evidence of a serious preventable disease. Forensic pathologist, Bennett Omalu, MD, discovered a pathognomonic sign confirming chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). He happened to find it in a cluster of professional football players during autopsies. Concussion was written and directed by Peter Landesman, who managed a riveting story pace, despite most of the visuals occurring in the inglorious world of microscopes and morgues —done to death on television. Will Smith’s Dr. ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 11, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: September Williams, MD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Actually, Medical Errors are the Leading Cause of Death
By SAURABH JHA, MD
Josef Stalin famously said: one death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. Perhaps 250, 000 preventable deaths from medical errors, according to an analysis by Makary and Daniel in the BMJ, maketh a Stalin.
The problem with Makary’s analysis, which also concluded that medical errors are the third leading cause of death, isn’t the method. Yes, the method is shaky. It projects medical errors from a series of thirty five patients to a country of 320 million, which is like deciding national spice tolerance on what my family eats for dinner.
The problem with Makary’s analysis isn’t that it is ful...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 144
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 144
Question 1
What do Inuits avoid eating that early Europeans didn’t ?
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Polar bear liver, but also any liver from the top predators in the arctic region as they can store high levels of vitamin A.
In 1957 Gerrit de Veer was taking refuge in Nova Zemlya recorded the effects...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 6, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five baby sex congenital syphilis Hutchinson's triad hypervitaminosis A Ludwig's Angina Polar bear liver varicose veins Source Type: blogs
These spiral-y guys were illustrated to represent none...
"These spiral-y guys were illustrated to represent none other than SYPHILIS in Dr. Harry Wilmer's "Corky the Killer" (1945). Join us tomorrow (4/21) for a special pop-up exhibit to celebrate STD Awareness Month. #STDAwareness #medical #pathology #gettested #std #disease #histmed" By muttermuseum on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - April 19, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 140
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…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 140
Question 1
What would you smoke to bring on acute diffuse alveolar haemorrhage?
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Crack
that is…Cocaine. [Reference]
Question 2
What is the more common name for ephelides?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 8, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aide's pupil argyll robertson pupil cocaine crack crack cocaine ephelides freckles lhermitte's sign ms multiple sclerosis neurosyphilis nitrous oxide torus transverse myelitis Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 139
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…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 139
Question 1
Who is likely to have given one of the first blood transfusion in the United States (clue: famous surgeon)?
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William Halsted, at the age of 29.
His sister had delivered her first baby and severe haemorrhage followed.
His sister had uncontrolled haemorrhage and others thought ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five blood transfusion botulinum botulism FFFF herpes zoster hutchinson sign jarsich-herxheimer melanoma syphilis topagnosis William Halsted Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 138
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…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 138
Question 1
Which tyre company invented the surgical glove?
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1890.
With the publication of germ theory, William Halsted was using carbolic acid (introduced by Joseph Lister), to sterilize his hands and his nurse’s hands. She was sensitive to th...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 18, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five gonorrhoea Keraunoparalysis lethologica lightening seat of the devil signal node surgical gloves virchow's node William Halsted Source Type: blogs
Learn or Die!
This post originally appeared on The Timmerman Report and then ran on Venture Valkyrie.
I have a new favorite TV show: Join or Die with Craig Ferguson. Ferguson is a irreverent, sometimes raunchy Scottish comedian who used to host the Late Late Show alongside his skeleton puppet sidekick Geoff. Join or Die airs Thursdays at 11 pm on the History Channel, which is your first clue that this isn’t your run of the mill late night talk show.
The premise of Join or Die, named after Ferguson’s tattoo, is that four people, a random assortment of comedians, actors, historians and scientists plus Ferguson, debate a historic q...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Quality Source Type: blogs
Increase in Rates of Congenital Syphilis
According to the November 13, 2015 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, there was a rise in the cases of congenital syphilis (CS), which occurs when a mother with syphilis passes the infection on to her baby during pregnancy. “During 2012–2014, the number of reported CS cases in the United States increased from 334 to 458, representing an increase in rate from 8.4 to 11.6 cases per 100,000 live births…the increase in CS rates during 2012–2014 reflected an increase in the rate of…syphilis among women (22.2% increase, from 0.9 to 1.1 cases per 100,000 women) during the same period.”
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Source: BHIC - March 14, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Public Health Source Type: blogs
“This #skull is the reason you should have #protectedsex...
"This #skull is the reason you should have #protectedsex and not share #tattoo guns. The marks were caused by #syphilis which rotted the skull while the patient was alive… Want to learn about the history of #tattoos with Dr. Gemma Angel and @mrs_angemi …and win the chance to have a #muttermuseum tattoo from @truehandsociety? Join us at "What are you inking? A tattoo chat and party" on April 9. Details and tickets: bit.ly/muttertattoo" By muttermuseum on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - March 14, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
