Lyme Disease: The Great Imitator
Spring is my favorite season. Warmer weather, budding flowers and lots of greenery in yards, gardens and parks encourages outside activities and fills me with energy. The spring season also brings out lots of crawling and flying critters like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, as well as some of the more unpleasant pests like ticks and mosquitos. If you enjoy spending time outside like I do, hiking, gardening or walking the dog, be aware that ticks and their bites can be not only annoying, but dangerous.
Jana’s Experience
Jana Braden found out how dangerous tick bites can be the hard way. She enjoyed the outdoors a...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Chronic Conditions Source Type: blogs
The Single Senior STD Epidemic
If you think your retired parents who have settled into a low-key retirement home or senior living community are spending their time playing checkers and watching soaps, think again! They may be running around having sex just like college kids let loose in a dorm for the first time. Senior citizens, contrary to popular belief, are often still sexually active. And they are spreading sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
According to the Center for Disease Control, since 2007, the incidence of syphilis among seniors, those 65 and over, is up by 52 percent, and the number of chlamydia cases has risen 32 percent. The rapid inc...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
When it becomes more important to state 'why' you do something
If you ask 100 occupational therapists what they do you will get 100 different answers, because the nature of the profession is to help people do the things that are important to them. Every patient has their own priorities, and that makes all the stories different.Instead of focusing on the 'what' I like to focus on the 'why.' When I need to be reminded 'why' I do what I do I like to drag this story out. I knew a young family and they were unable to conceive. After spending many thousands of dollars they made some arrangement with a young teenage mom so that they could adopt her baby (just about to be bo...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - April 23, 2015 Category: Occupational Health Tags: OT practice philosophy Source Type: blogs
Aortic Regurgitation
Aortic regurgitation can occur due to damage to the aortic valve as well as due to dilatation of the aortic root so that aortic valve leaflets fail to coapt. The later condition occurs in annulo-aortic ectasia, often associated with Marfan syndrome. Aortic regurgitation due valvular damage can occur in rheumatic fever. A bicuspid aortic valve can also become regurgitant as age advances. In the yester years, tertiary syphilis was an important cause of aortic root dilatation and aortic regurgitation.
Aortic regurgitation is quantified in terms of regurgitant fraction,which is the fraction of left ventricular output that re...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 22, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Echocardiogram Library Source Type: blogs
Did Andreas Lubitz Have Lyme Disease?
Although the editors of InsideSurgery.com did not participate in the care of Andreas Lubitz, we are following news reports closely.
Multiple sources today are reporting that he was under continuing care of a physician who recommended that he stop flying as a commercial airline pilot for Lufthansa controlled Germanwings air service.
Lubitz seems to be a well-liked, non-controversial young man from a stable upbringing who by all accounts loved being a pilot.
What could have caused him to fly his airliner with another 149 people aboard to their certain annihilation into a French mountainside? One wonders what medical conditi...
Source: Inside Surgery - March 27, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease andreas lubitz crash germanwings Lyme disease pilot Source Type: blogs
Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis
Dumont AS, Clark AWm Sevick RJ, Myles ST. Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis: A report of two cases and review of the literature. Background-- Authors note entity was described by Charcot and Joffroy, and that there are three forms: spinal, intracranial and craniospinal (latter is rarer). Past cases were often attributed to specific etiologies but most recent cases are idiopathic after investigation. Authors case 1 underwent 2 surgeries for biopsy/decompression , had persistent pain and numbness, but was non progressive for 15 years after one early...
Source: neurologyminutiae - March 25, 2015 Category: Neurology Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Satellite — 02-10-2015
This article calls testosterone the “drug of the future” and compares its use to estrogen – which isn’t a controlled substance. One person interviewed for the article noted that “almost everything we treat in medicine is age-related. Aging is related to bad eyesight, bad hearing, bad joints, bad hearts, bad blood vessels, and cancer. We treat all of these without trying to minimize or diminish them that they are age related.” Why pick on testosterone use?
Damn. Boyfriend secretly records himself having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend. Video “somehow” gets uploaded to inte...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - February 10, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Encephalitis serological evaluation
Hsve
Cmv
Hiv 1 and 2
Vzv
Ebv
Toxo
Lyme
Mycoplasma pn
Leptospirosis
Legionella
Brucellosis
Chlamydia
Syphilis
Aspergillosis (Source: neurologyminutiae)
Source: neurologyminutiae - February 1, 2015 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
10 Reasons Not To Vaccinate
Conclusion
You are on your own to try and regain your health in the event that you are vaccine injured. The expense and suffering is yours alone to face. Very few individuals will be awarded money from funds set up by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. The system is designed for individuals to fail in making their claim of vaccine injury. The public pays for this injury fund in the cost of taxes on vaccinations.
To learn more, read my other in-depth articles on vaccinations which have been published on VacTruth or Natural News, here: Vaccinations
You may also check the resources below. Most important is to remember...
Source: vactruth.com - December 12, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Michelle Goldstein Top Stories autism National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) Reasons Not to Vaccinate Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) truth about vaccines Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Source Type: blogs
The end of HIV?
I don't know why we need to have single days when we're supposed to think about stuff we probably should be thinking about regularly (e.g., why do we have National Pickle Week when pickles matter all the time?) but for what it's worth, today is World AIDS Day.The One Campaign (Bono's charity) says there's good news: we're at a "tipping point" in that the number of people newly receiving HIV treatment now exceeds the number of new infections. Furthermore, the global incidence of HIV has fallen by 40% since 2001. This is no doubt for a combination of reasons, including better awareness and changes in people's behavior, but o...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 1, 2014 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Bad Blood Author James H. Jones Visits the Bioethics Commission
The staff of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) was pleased to welcome James H. Jones, Ph.D., to the office on November 21, 2014 for a discussion of his book Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, A Tragedy of Race and Medicine. First published in 1981 (Revised edition, 1993), Bad […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 25, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Alannah Kittle Tags: Health Care Bioethics History syndicated Source Type: blogs
Engaging Patients: Interviews With Patients, Providers, And Communities Across The Country
As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) reaches deeper into the daily lives of Americans, one impact is sure to hit home. The ACA encourages patients and providers to become more active partners in making the crucial strategic decisions over improving individual health. Three new videos, produced in partnership with Health Affairs and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), show how people all over the United States are learning that involving patients – teaching them, soliciting their input, and communicating with family-members and other caregivers right from the start – can result in better, more efficien...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 25, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: John Dimsdale Tags: All Categories Personal Experience Primary Care Quality Source Type: blogs
Five Things That Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) Can Learn From Social Media
As a physician who openly despises many aspects of current EMRs (see “How An EMR Gave My Patient Syphilis” or “The Medical Chart: Ground Zero For The Deterioration Of Patient Care” ) I recognize that they are here to stay. And so, since we’re all stuck with these digital middlemen, I have some suggestions (based on popular social media platform functionality) for making them better.
1. Likes. Healthcare providers should be able to “vote up” an excellent note in the medical record. Let’s face it, not all doctors are equally good at documentation. Untold hours of our time are s...
Source: Better Health - September 5, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: Health Policy Opinion Confidentiality Electronic Medical Records EMR Facebook Like Privacy Search Social Media Tagging Twitter Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 19-year-old man with a sore throat
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 19-year-old man is evaluated for a sore throat, daily fever, frontal headache, myalgia, and arthralgia of 5 days’ duration. He also has severe discomfort in the lower spine and a rash on his trunk and extremities. He returned from a 7-day trip to the Caribbean 8 days ago. The remainder of the history is noncontributory.
On physical examination, temperature is 38.3 °C (100.9 °F), blood pressure is 104/72 mm Hg, pulse rate is 102/min, and respiration rate is 16/min. His posterior pharynx is notably injec...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 17, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: mksap Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
