“Late last night our Exhibitions Manager put the final...
"Late last night our Exhibitions Manager put the final touches on our new exhibit #OurFinestClothing. If you're attending the #patattooconvention your wristband will get you a discount to our museum all weekend. #Repost @evi.numen with @repostapp. ・・・ Night at the #museum. Long hours working at the @muttermuseum but mission accomplished! Our new #skin #exhibition is up and looks beautiful! full of #syphilis, #smallpox, #cancer and the most umm striking #carbuncle #waxmodel you 've ever seen. We even have early #20thcent #tattoo #specimens just in time for the #philatattooconvention!" By muttermuseum on Instagram. ...
Source: Kidney Notes - February 12, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Zika virus and microcephaly
Three reports have been published that together make a compelling case that Zika virus is causing microcephaly in Brazil.
An epidemic of Zika virus infection began in Brazil in April 2015, and by the end of the year the virus had spread through 19 provinces, many in the northeastern part of the country. Six months after the start of the outbreak, there was a surge in the number of infants born with microcephaly. It was not known if most of the mothers had been infected with Zika virus, as results of serological tests, virus isolation, or PCR were not available.
An initial report of 35 Brazilian infants with microcephaly...
Source: virology blog - February 11, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information flavivirus microcephaly mosquito next generation sequencing placenta pregnancy viral viruses Zika Source Type: blogs
PART II: SEMBENE! X MOOLAADÉ X DESERT FLOWER: Female Genital Mutilation and Bioethics
Sembene! Theatrical Trailer https://vimeo.com/139538743Sembene! is a documentary co-directed by Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman. The filmmaking duo uses Sembene’s screen works to bracket the life events of African cinema’s founder. The ultimate illustration of capacity for complex socially relevant, visually compelling cinema lay in Sembene’s 2004 final film, Moolaadé (Magical Protection). This is a heart wrenching story of a woman named Collé living in a fictional, locked in time, Burkina Faso village.Collé’s is a polygamous family. She resists her daughter havi...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 5, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: September Williams, MD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Eyes On The Final Prize: Integrating Services To Transform Global Health
As 2015 draws to a close, the global health community is examining the strides that have been made and how we can transform this progress into further gains across the public health spectrum.
The United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 include SDG 3, a holistic goal for public health that aims to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages. It is with the backdrop of this collaborative, interconnected development landscape that two important meetings take place in Japan this week.
On December 16, a symposium on universal health care will bring together global leaders for a dial...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 17, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Eric Goosby Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Organization and Delivery Public Health HIV/AIDS Japan malaria sustainable development goals TB United Nations universal health care Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 129
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 129
Question 1
A young male presents to the ED with recurrent urethritis. What common causative organism should be considered in addition to chlamydia and gonorrhea?
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Mycoplasma genitalium
A recognized cause of male urethritis, is, in most settings, more common than N. gonorrhoeae. It is r...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 11, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five syphilis Malaria Mycoplasma genitalium Driver ants acute renal failure nintendinitis Pyrotherapy Source Type: blogs
A View of the Important Divide in Longevity Science from the Other Side of the Fence
Here I'll point out a view of the great divide in aging research from the other side. I have long argued that the most important divide in the field of aging research is between (a) the minority position of those who see aging as an evolved program, so that, for example, epigenetic changes occur that cause altered cellular behavior that in turn leads to an accumulation of damage, dysfunction, and death, and (b) the majority position of those who see aging as a matter of accumulated damage occurring as a side-effect of the normal operation of metabolism, and that damage results in epigenetic changes, dysfunction, and death....
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Limitations of Healthcare Science
By SIDNEY LE
Every once in awhile on the wards, one of the attending physicians will approach me and ask me to perform a literature review on a particular clinical question. It might be a question like “What does the evidence say about how long should Bactrim should be given for a UTI?” or “Which is more effective in the management of atrial fibrillation, rate control or rhythm control?” A chill usually runs down my spine, like that feeling one gets when a cop siren wails from behind while one is driving. But thankfully, summarizing what we know about a subject is actually a pretty formulaic exercise, involving a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Healthcare Science Journals Negative Studies Population Health Publication Research Sidney Le Source Type: blogs
In Defense of Mistakes
By MARTIN SAMUELS, MD
“How much of the medicine that you now use, did you learn during medical school?”
My answer may be surprising. It is not the response given to me by my professors, when they were asked similar questions. I recall them telling me that virtually nothing that I was learning in medical school would be correct 20 years later.
I have thought about this since and will reveal my answer shortly, but before I do, we should pause for a moment to reflect on the process of medical education. I will refer here to natural selection as an analogue of this process, a concept that I have adapted from some ideas gle...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs
In Defense of Mistakes
By MARTIN SAMUELS, MD
“How much of the medicine that you now use, did you learn during medical school?”
My answer may be surprising. It is not the response given to me by my professors, when they were asked similar questions. I recall them telling me that virtually nothing that I was learning in medical school would be correct 20 years later.
I have thought about this since and will reveal my answer shortly, but before I do, we should pause for a moment to reflect on the process of medical education. I will refer here to natural selection as an analogue of this process, a concept that I have adapted from some ideas gle...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs
New Study Violates Research Ethics by Assigning Subjects to Smoke, Instructing Them to Smoke, and Failing to Provide Mandated Care
A study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine describes the results of a clinical trial in which adult smokers who expressed no intent to quit at baseline were randomly assigned to smoke their regular brand of cigarettes or reduced nicotine cigarettes at varying levels of nicotine.(See: Donny EC, et al. Randomized trial of reduced-nicotine standards for cigarettes. New England Journal of Medicine. Published online ahead of print on October 1, 2015. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa1502403.)According to the study: "Participants were randomly assigned to smoke for 6 weeks either their usual brand of cigarettes or one of ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - October 1, 2015 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
The Stanford Prison Experiment film: An Essential Teaching Tool
By Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
In teaching research ethics, there are a few “classic cases” that we offer students as examples of where human subject research went wrong: Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis, the Nazi medical experiments, Willowbrook Hepatitis Experiments, human radiation experiments, and (now) the Guatemala syphilis study, among others. When discussing social science examples, the two studies that are usually taught at Milgram’s obedience studies and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment.
As an undergraduate at Stanford, my Psychology 101 teacher was Philip Zimbardo.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 4, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Featured Posts Human Subjects Research & IRBs Informed Consent Psychiatric Ethics Research Ethics Stanford Prison Experiment Source Type: blogs
Avoiding the Doctor? It’s Time to Man Up and Get Checked Out
Do you know someone who should have seen a doctor years ago? Maybe it’s your husband, or your father, or your brother, even your son? They complain about the shortness of breath, the nagging cough, or the stomach pain. But they never take action. For some men, so decisive at work or within the family circle, the lack of motivation to get an illness or symptom checked out is surprising. In fact, men are 24% less likely to have visited a doctor in the past year than women. Seeing a doctor is scary and it makes them feel weak and out of control.
Roald Bradstock was one of those men. An Olympic athlete who trained 3 to 4...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Men's Health Source Type: blogs
Avoiding the Doctor? It’s Time to Man Up and Get a Checked Out
Do you know someone who should have seen a doctor years ago? Maybe it’s your husband, or your father, or your brother, even your son? They complain about the shortness of breath, the nagging cough, or the stomach pain. But they never take action. For some men, so decisive at work or within the family circle, the lack of motivation to get an illness or symptom checked out is surprising. In fact, men are 24% less likely to have visited a doctor in the past year than women. Seeing a doctor is scary and it makes them feel weak and out of control.
Roald Bradstock was one of those men. An Olympic athlete who trained 3 to 4...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Men's Health Source Type: blogs
How Texas Lawmakers Continue To Undermine Women’s Health
For years, Texas has had the highest proportion of uninsured individuals overall, and for adult women specifically, of any state. In 2013, one in five Texans had no health insurance of any kind, including 2.1 million adult women.
Beyond limited access to health coverage, Texas consistently has lackluster health indicators — particularly with regard to sexual and reproductive health care. Yet, at seemingly every turn, state lawmakers continue to implement neglectful, or even hostile, policies that hinder access to affordable sexual and reproductive health care and information, especially among low-income Texas women a...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 20, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Kinsey Hasstedt Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Population Health Abortion Access contraceptives HIV Medicaid Reproductive Health STI Texas Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Prenatal care should start before pregnancy
Dr. Alisa Hideg via @spokesmanreview
Anyone thinking about pregnancy, should also be thinking about prenatal care. This care is important for the mother’s health and the health of the child. Whenever possible, it should begin prior to pregnancy.
A visit with your health care provider prior to pregnancy to review your immunizations, start a prenatal vitamin with folic acid (which can prevent certain birth defects if begun prior to pregnancy) and otherwise “check in” is always a good idea. Once you are pregnant, regular prenatal care visits during pregnancy are just as important to your baby’s ...
Source: Cord Blood News - May 15, 2015 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies blood disorder brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy affordable cord blood banking cerebral palsy cord blood banking fees cord blood treatment for Leukemia cord clamping due dates healthy pregnanc Source Type: blogs
