Fundraising Update: $66,000 Pledged to the Matching Fund
Starting on October 1st and continuing through to the end of the year we'll be running a grassroots fundraiser for SENS rejuvenation research, with all donations going to the SENS Research Foundation. Initiatives like this help to fund ongoing cutting edge work taking place at noted laboratories around the country, projects that build the foundations for future therapies to reverse the effects of aging and prevent all age-related disease. Aging is just damage to cells and tissue structures, we know what that damage is, and we can envisage the technologies needed to repair it in great detail. All that is lacking for rapid p...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 14, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Disgrace of the Year: Leading Lung Health Groups Call for Ban on Fake Cigarettes, But Want Real Ones to Remain on the Market
Yesterday, a group of international lung health organizations issued a position statement on electronic cigarettes, which called for a ban (or severe restrictions) on these products until more is known about their health effects. In contrast, these organizations did not express any problem with real tobacco cigarettes remaining on the market, even though they kill millions worldwide each year, and electronic cigarettes are not known to have killed a single person ever.According to a press release from the American College of Chest Physicians: "Experts from the world’s leading lung organizations have released a position s...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 11, 2014 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Satellite — 07-2-2014
Ve have vays of keeping you qviet. Halt den mund! Government-contracted security force who actually call themselves the “Brown Shirts” … threatens to arrest medical providers if they leak any information to media about all of the medical illnesses that are being seen at an illegal alien refugee camp in Lackland Air Force Base.
By the way, this story is from FoxNews, so everyone should just ignore it until you or your family members sit next to one of them on a bus or in a movie theater. Combine these kids on playgrounds with anti-vax kids? What could go wrong?
Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
New Y...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - July 2, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Fact vs. Fiction: Judge Upholds Barring Unvaccinated Children from Public Schools
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Vaccination is one of the great success stories of public health. People who receive vaccinations against disease are far less likely to contract that disease. In 1900, 30.4% of all deaths from infectious disease were to children under the age of 5 and the top three causes of death were pneumonia, tuberculosis and diarrhea-enteritis. By 2010, the only infectious disease in the top ten list was influenza and pneumonia at 9th place. In 2012, 91.4% of adolescents are immunized for measles, mumps & rubella, 92.8% for Hep B, and many others.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 27, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Cultural Featured Posts Health Regulation & Law Pediatrics Philosophy & Ethics Politics Public Health vaccination Source Type: blogs
Hemoptysis Pearls
There was a nice article over at Consultant360.com by Drs. Laren Tan and Samuel Louie on hemoptysis pearls. Learned quite a few things.
200 mls of blood (about a cupful) is enough to fill the dead space in the lungs and is therefore generally considered the minimum amount of blood to make the diagnosis of “massive” hemoptysis.
Hemoptysis with chest pain – think pneumonia/pleurisy, PE with pleurisy, pulmonary edema from an MI, or lung cancer
Hemoptysis with dyspnea – think either exacerbation of patient’s underlying medical problem or a precursor to respiratory failure
Hemoptysis with fever ...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - June 26, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Medical Topics Source Type: blogs
GlaxoSmithKline's Marketing Firm Promised "Clinical Trials Could be Your Solution" to Poor Graduate Students
We have frequently raised concerns about the increasing domination of clinical research, particularly clinical trials, by those with vested in interests in the research producing particular results. In particular, drug, biotechnology and device companies often sponsor trials meant to evaluate their own products. Often it appears that commercial trial sponsors manipulate various aspects of research design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination to increase the likelihood of a result favorable to their interests. Furthermore, when even such manipulation fails to produce the desired result, particular s...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 24, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: clinical trials GlaxoSmithKline manipulating clinical research marketing research subjects Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Satellite — 06-23-2014
The right to carry a concealed weapon only exists if your doctor says so. Many states are requiring that physicians certify whether patients are competent to carry a concealed weapon. Some states require mandatory reporting of those deemed not competent to carry a concealed weapon. Of course, the natural extension of such laws is that if the doctors make an inappropriate determination, then the doctors can be held liable if the certifiee does something inappropriate with the weapon.
This New England Journal of Medicine article shows that many doctors aren’t comfortable making that determination.
Then again, I’v...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - June 24, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Roll-Out Of New TB Drug Must Be Handled With Care
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, has announced that it will make its breakthrough new tuberculosis (TB) drug, Sirturo, available at a discount in 130 developing countries. As the first new antibiotic to be approved to treat TB in over 40 years, Sirturo will be an important new weapon in the aging arsenal of medicines used to treat this deadly disease.
Sirturo’s approval was a breakthrough for global health and TB treatment. In 2012, the airborne disease killed about 1.3 million people, making it second only to HIV/AIDS in the ranks of infectious killers. While the number of people dying from...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 13, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: José Castro Tags: All Categories Global Health Pharma Policy Public Health Source Type: blogs
Eat Pooideae
Pooideae is a subfamily within the biological family of grasses, Poaceae. Grasses within the Pooideae subfamily include wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice, as well as the rye grass and Kentucky bluegrass in your back yard and wild grasses in fields near your home.
Pooideae grasses can be promiscuous. Some of the grasses in this subfamily are able to cross-fertilize and mate with each other. This is how, for instance, einkorn wheat from 10,000 years ago evolved to create emmer wheat, the 28-chromosome of the Bible. Emmer is the product of the natural mating of 14-chromosome einkorn with a 14-chromosome wild grass, Aegilops ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 4, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Grasses Source Type: blogs
Eat Pooideae (A Problem For Hungry Humans)
Pooideae is a subfamily within the biological family of grasses, Poaceae. Grasses within the Pooideae subfamily include wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice, as well as the rye grass and Kentucky bluegrass in your back yard and wild grasses in fields near your home.
Pooideae grasses can be promiscuous. Some of the grasses in this subfamily are able to cross-fertilize and mate with each other. This is how, for instance, einkorn wheat from 10,000 years ago evolved to create emmer wheat, the 28-chromosome of the Bible. Emmer is the product of the natural mating of 14-chromosome einkorn with a 14-chromosome wild grass, Aegilops ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 4, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Grasses Source Type: blogs
Eat Pooideae (A Problem For Hungry Humans)
Pooideae is a subfamily within the biological family of grasses, Poaceae. Grasses within the Pooideae subfamily include wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice, as well as the rye grass and Kentucky bluegrass in your back yard and wild grasses in fields near your home.
Pooideae grasses can be promiscuous. Some of the grasses in this subfamily are able to cross-fertilize and mate with each other. This is how, for instance, einkorn wheat from 10,000 years ago evolved to create emmer wheat, the 28-chromosome of the Bible. Emmer is the product of the natural mating of 14-chromosome einkorn with a 14-chromosome wild grass, Aegilops ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 4, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Grasses Source Type: blogs
Emmanuelism provided the Core Values to the developing occupational therapy profession
As part of a multi-year research effort into the nature of Social Justice I have been participating in an lengthy conversation about this topic on the OT Connections forum, which is an official message board for the American Occupational Therapy Association.From the beginning of the discussion some have claimed that Social Justice is a Core Value in occupational therapy. This has been a difficult claim to validate, because there does not seem to be a a standard definition of 'Core Value' just as there does not seem to be agreement on the definition of Social Justice itself."In 2003, members of the AOTA Representative...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - May 7, 2014 Category: Occupational Therapists Tags: history Source Type: blogs
What Is Tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is not a disease of the past. It is important to educate yourself on the disease, what the symptoms are, and how it is treated.Contributor: Lisa P. KirkpatrickPublished: Mar 26, 2014 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - March 26, 2014 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Get Schooled on Tuberculosis (TB)
We will go over five interesting facts about tuberculosis, including some things the general population may not know about.Contributor: Ashley PhamPublished: Mar 26, 2014 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - March 26, 2014 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Tuberculosis Facts You Need to Know
Tuberculosis is the second leading infectious killer in the world. Today, TB is a global health concern with an increase in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Learn the facts about TB and how it might affect you.Contributor: Sam MontanaPublished: Mar 26, 2014 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - March 26, 2014 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
