Diabetes Drug Significantly Reverses Alzheimer's Like Memory Loss
A drug developed for diabetes could be used to treat Alzheimer ’s after scientists found it significantly reversed memory loss.ByAlzheimer's Reading RoomThe findings are significant because the drug works by protecting the brain cells attacked by Alzheimer's disease in three separate ways; rather than, by relying on a single approach.This is the first time that a triple receptor drug has been used which acts in multiple ways to protect the brain from degeneration.What is the Difference Between Alzheimer ’s and DementiaA Diabetes Drug Has 'Significantly Reversed Memory Loss' in Mice With Alzheimer'sA drug developed for ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - January 8, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's and diabetes alzheimer's diabetes alzheimers. diabetes diet health Source Type: blogs
ST elevation in aVL with reciprocal ST depression in the inferior leads
Written by Pendell MeyersA male in his 50s with history of thyroid cancer was brought to the Emergency Department after being found minimally unresponsive with sonorous respirations on his couch at home. Blood glucose level was 76 mg/dL. EMS administered naloxone, which was followed quickly by hyperventilation but no improvement in mental status. EMS performed RSI at that time using etomidate and succinylcholine, but intubation was unsuccessful. Luckily, BVM ventilation was easy in this patient, and he was bagged on the way to the ED, with oxygen saturation maintained in the mid-90s.He was intubated immediately on arrival ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 5, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Do You Have the Visceral Fat of a Wheat Belly?
The consumption and wheat, grains, and sugars provokes release of blood insulin, a process that stimulates accumulation of visceral fat. Although you cannot directly view visceral fat that encircles the abdominal organs, you can see the “spare tire” or “love handles” that commonly accompany deep visceral fat.
Having visceral fat is a very unhealthy factor that raise potential for type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and dementia substantially. It results from consumption of wheat, grains, and sugar, commonly developing in people who have been told that a low-fat diet is healthy. Low-fat diets are...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 3, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten-free grain-free grains health Inflammation inflammatory love handles spare tire subcutaneous visceral Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Nothing ’ s Wrong … So Why Do I Feel So Depressed?
Here’s what you need to do.
Have you recently been feeling depressed but nothing is wrong?
Do you feel like you have everything that you want in your life but still you feel like you are carrying a hundred pound weight on your back, that you have no interest in anything and that all you want to do is sleep?
I am not a doctor but I can tell you that I used to feel that way all the time. I lived with this overwhelming sense of hopelessness and dread. I tried to be a good parent but keeping my energy up was close to impossible. I tried to be a great wife but my irritability prevented that from happening. I had a great ...
Source: World of Psychology - January 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Depression Disorders Publishers YourTango Chemical Imbalance Clinical Depression clinically depressed Depressive Symptoms Source Type: blogs
Novel Microneedle Drug Delivery Patch for Burning Fat
This study corroborates previous research and provides promising proof-of-principle that the conversion of white energy-storing fat into brown energy-producing fat using degradable microneedle drug delivery patches is an effective localized strategy for addressing excessive white fat storage.
Study in journal Small Methods: Transdermal Delivery of Anti-Obesity Compounds to Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue with Polymeric Microneedle Patches…
Via: Nanyang Technological University… (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - January 2, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Iris Kulbatski Tags: Medicine Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
Discussion Blog)
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
Measures to reduce radiation exposure during interventional procedures
Lower the rate of fluoroscopy
Minimize the use of cinefluoroscopy which has 10 times higher radiation dose
Proper use of collimation
Maximize the distance between the operator and X-ray source
Doubling the distance reduces exposure to one fourth
Avoid left anterior oblique projection which gives maximum scatter radiation to operators
These measures are in addition to routine precautions of using lead apron, thyroid shield, lead glasses, radiation protection caps and if available, lead shields for the legs. Hanging lead shields protect scatter from the image intensifier. Lead shields below the table reduces radiation fr...
Source: Cardiophile MD - December 20, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Dr. Nuance versus Crusaders of the Lost Art
By, SAURABH JHA MD
The two writers who got inside my head were polar opposites. Christopher Hitchens was an atheist, who mocked religion incessantly, and spared few sacred cows – he went after both Mother Teresa and Bill Clinton, though for patently opposite reasons. G.K. Chesterton, the sardonic, plump Englishman, went after heretics. Hitchens destroyed orthodoxy. Chesterton mocked radicals. Hitchens once quipped that “what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” Chesterton quipped that the rebel, the infinite skeptic, was in fact a decerebrate orthodox. If both were on Twitter th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Dr. Nuance versus the Crusaders of the Lost Art
By SAURABH JHA, MD
The two writers who got inside my head were polar opposites. Christopher Hitchens was an atheist, who mocked religion incessantly, and spared few sacred cows – he went after both Mother Teresa and Bill Clinton, though for patently opposite reasons. G.K. Chesterton, the sardonic, plump Englishman, went after heretics. Hitchens destroyed orthodoxy. Chesterton mocked radicals. Hitchens once quipped that “what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” Chesterton quipped that the rebel, the infinite skeptic, was in fact a decerebrate orthodox. If both were on Twitter they’d...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Screening Recommendations Based on Doctor Personal Experiences
Recently in JAMA," ...a research letter... explores howsocial interactions with friends, family and colleagues who have been diagnosed with breast cancer may affect a physician ’s recommendations to patients. "What it found was that a doctor ' s personal experiences impact what they recommend for their patients. They did not necessarily follow the current guidelines. " Physicians familiar with someone with a poor prognosis who was not diagnosed via screening were much more likely to recommend routine checks for women between 40 and 44 years old and those over 75. "“Describing a woman whose breast cancer was not di...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 19, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: arthritis treatment cancer history cancer screening medical history Source Type: blogs
How An Undetected Urinary Tract Infection Can Kill an Alzheimer's Patient
Urinary tract infections can be the "bane" of our existence as caregivers of people living with dementia.By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomUTIs are a cause of great distress. This happens to caregivers becauseurinary tract infection often go undetected even by doctors and physician assistants.Urinary tract infections in dementia patients don't always come with signs and symptoms.In dementia patients the signs and symptoms of a UTI are oftensilent.Persons living with dementia rarely tell us they have a UTI. Why? Because they don't know it.UTIs often cause dementia patients to become mean.Article -Death by Complications ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 18, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: care of dementia patients care of dementia patients at home dementia care elderly dementia care health help alzheimer's help with dementia care how to care urinary tract infection UTI Source Type: blogs
Mismanaged Prescription Drugs May Create Dementia-Like Symptoms
Dear Carol: My mom was drugged into dementia. She started out having a thyroid problem, but she kept developing more illnesses and receiving more prescriptions. The prescriptions ranged from her thyroid medication, which was necessary, to anti-depressants, anti-anxiety pills, and counting until she was eventually put in a psych ward. There, she was prescribed Alzheimer’s medications and then moved to the memory unit of an assisted living facility where she was medicated with antipsychotics. To shorten the story, I have Power Of Attorney so I moved from one coast to the other in order to be with my mother and ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - November 26, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
What A Concept!
I met with a pharmacist yesterday or a pharmacologist. It was great. When I had my annual physical with my primary care doctor in September, she was concerned about my medications and interactions.The pharmacologist went through my entire list of medications - prescription and OTC - and asked why I was taking each one. Then she went through and looked up possible interactions with them. She gave me some advice which I found very helpful.Because I am on Prilosec for GERD from a sliding hiatal hernia, I need to take it in the morning, 30 minutes after my thyroid medication and then wait another 30 minutes before eating. I wa...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 21, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: doctors medical advice medications prescriptions Source Type: blogs
