Endometrial Tuberculosis: HSG
Female genital tuberculosis leads to endometrial adhesions with deformity and obliteration of the endometrial cavity and obstruction of the fallopian tubes with multiple areas of constriction. Advanced tuberculous endometritis may mimic Asherman syndromeFamous Radiology Blog http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com
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Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - June 16, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Are Priority Review Vouchers The Answer To Incentivize Drug Development? Not So Fast.
In the May issue of Health Affairs, two papers examine the potential for voucher systems to incentivize drug development in areas of unmet medical need. Co-authors Kevin Outterson and Anthony McDonnell take a look at potential exclusivity voucher programs designed to encourage development of new antibiotics, while David Ridley and Stephane Régnier analyze the effects that expansion of existing priority review voucher (PRV) programs may have on the value of PRVs as a development incentive.
Ridley and Régnier’s work is of particular importance as both houses of Congress pursue a spate of legislative proposals that do mak...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Pranav Aurora, Morgan Romine and Gregory Daniel Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Global Health Health Professionals Quality FDA FDAAA priority review rare diseases Source Type: blogs
Making Hepatitis C A Rare Disease In The United States
New breakthrough medicines for Hepatitis C present an important choice about setting goals and taking systemic action to achieve public health advances in the United States. Despite appearing to offer cure rates greater than 90 percent, high-priced Hepatitis C drugs have driven treatment rationing since their approval over two years ago. Gaps in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of Hepatitis C pose significant public health consequences.
In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified Hepatitis C as the leading infectious killer in the United States in 2014—the first year in which new me...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Victor Roy, Dave Chokshi, Stephen Kissler and Prabhjot Singh Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Population Health Public Health Gilead hepatitis C Sovaldi Source Type: blogs
Silicon Valley Joins the Drug and Device Discovery Party
Sean Parker
Kobe Bryant
Every year the Milken Global Conference pulls together an amazing cadre of people for discussions of a myriad of topics, from politics to energy to healthcare to technology and entertainment. There are few places where one can simultaneously sit in the green room with Vicente Fox, Sean Parker and Kobe Bryant, but this was the place to be if you like to be the least famous person in a room. FYI, of the four of us, I am the only one without my own Wikipedia page.
And I was in that room because I was fortunate enough to be asked to participate in a panel at the program called: The Search for Cur...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Biotech Genetics Silicon Valley Source Type: blogs
The demise of authentic makerspaces: From Dad's workbench to Angie's List
Makerspaces or hackerspaces are terms used to describe environments where people build or create with materials, to learn how to share resources and work together to make things. In their current iterations they are often found in libraries, schools, or even community centers and people are invited to come into the environment to work on individual or shared projects. Here is a picture of a modern makerspace:Occupational therapists are becoming more interested in makerspaces, perhaps based on a seemingly genetic interest in the concept of a constructed milieu where people can come together to develop skills.&nb...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - May 27, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Tags: history parenting Too much information Source Type: blogs
The demise of authentic makerspaces: From Dad's workbench to Angie's List
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Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - May 27, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Tags: history parenting Too much information Source Type: blogs
The Untreated Epidemic Of Medical Student Depression
According to a new meta-analysis spanning four decades of research, 28 percent of medical students are depressed and 5.8 percent have considered suicide. Researchers from Singapore analyzed 77 studies, examining nearly 63,000 medical students across the globe. Distress in medical students is not just a first world problem. The percentage of students with depression or depressive symptoms ranged from 20 percent in Europe to 31.8 percent in the Middle East. Medical students in North America had the second highest prevalence at 30.3 percent. Still, there were no statistically significant differences in depression by region, ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 17, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Kunmi Sobowale Tags: Featured Health Professionals Population Health Behavioral Health counseling depression Graduate medical education medical school Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 142
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 142
Question 1
We’ve all heard of Occam’s Razor but what is Hickam’s Dictum or the Anti-razor?
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A patient can have as many diseases as they damn well please.
Occam’s razor can be paraphrased ‘when investigating a patient with multiple symptoms, a single uni...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 22, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five abarognosis anti-razor Crabtree's bludgeon hickam's dictum life expectancy occam's razor Rene Laennec Stethoscope Source Type: blogs
Improving Diabetic Care in Malaysia
(image credit : The Star)
By Dato’ Dr. Lee Yan San
(Consultant Physician & Medical advisor to Penang Diabetic Society)
Diabetes Mellitus is becoming more common and is a major cause of severe medical complications and early death. Fortunately, although diabetes cannot be cured, it can be controlled and those who are well controlled can enjoy good living and even normal life span.
Here are some facts which may help to improve diabetic care in Malaysia.
Regular follow up by your doctor is essential to avoid any chronic diabetic complications. I have noticed that many of those who do not have regular follow up by docto...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - April 19, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Guest - Health tips Diabetes Source Type: blogs
March blogs digest: essential tremor, brain awareness, kidneys, tuberculosis, and more
Shaking up the field
March is National Essential Tremor Awareness Month, a neurological movement disorder that causes unintentional shaking movements of the hands and head both when in static positions and during movements. In this guest blog Ariel Levy and Robert Chen, editorial board member for Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders, explained more about the disease.
Quiz: Test your action potential
Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign aiming to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research and it occurs in March. In light of this, we created a quiz to give you the chance to test how brain...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - April 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sophie Marchant Tags: Biology Health Medicine blogs digest Source Type: blogs
“25 years ago, Vietnam had nearly 600 cases of...
"25 years ago, Vietnam had nearly 600 cases of #tuberculosis for every 100,000 residents. Today, it has less than 200. But, Vietnamese officials and at the @worldhealthorganization fear that hard-won progress may soon be reversed and a remarkable success story may come apart, with deadly consequences. The biggest threat: The money is close to running out. To reach Vietnam's ambitious goal of essentially eliminating tuberculosis as a public health problem, its tuberculosis-control program will cost at least $66 million a year. The country now spends just $26 million a year, $19 million of which comes from foreign donors wit...
Source: Kidney Notes - March 28, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Funding Zika But Forgetting Tuberculosis
On February 8, the day before the White House sent its Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget request to Congress, President Obama requested $1.8 billion in emergency funding to respond to the Zika virus at home and abroad. The World Health Organization (WHO) has proclaimed Zika a “public health emergency of international concern,” and governments have been in panic mode. But while there is certainly sufficient cause for alarm, let us not forget another grave threat to public health, which kills 4,400 people every single day and receives relatively little focus: Tuberculosis (TB).
TB has now surpassed HIV/AIDS as the leading cau...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 24, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: True Claycombe Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Global Health Public Health 2017 budget infectious disease Obama TB tuberculosis USAID WHO Source Type: blogs
Aging Audaciously: Prevention Wisdom Kicked up a Notch Recap
During the Aging Audaciously event, “Prevention Wisdom Kicked up a Notch,” Disruptive Women cohosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program at the Library of Congress last Wednesday, our first speaker Dr. Lisa Nelson talked about the culture change that is necessary to transition from pill-centered treatment to lifestyle-focused prevention.
In the early 1900s, she said, infectious diseases, such as pneumonia, diarrhea, and tuberculosis, were the top three causes of death. To drive down the rates of these diseases, providers prescribed pills and vaccines and public health campaigns were commissioned t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
“It’s #WorldTBDay. This old machine claimed sunlight...
"It's #WorldTBDay. This old machine claimed sunlight could cure the disease. WATCH and find out more at youtu.be/GhkgwaLMl-Y (or visit our YouTube channel). #medicalmuseum #histmed #medicalhistory #tuberculosis #tb #disease #pathology #history #medicine" By muttermuseum on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - March 23, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
“For #WorldTBDay, see this unusual form of childhood TB:...
"For #WorldTBDay, see this unusual form of childhood TB: gastrointestinal tuberculosis. This disease can mimic inflammatory bowel disease and is often difficult to diagnose because of its vague and non-specific presentations. To learn more about childhood TB, search "WFPIeducation" on Figure 1." By figure1 on Instagram Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - March 23, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
