The “Antebellum Paradox”: What is it and why it matters.
BY MIKE MAGEE
I recently made the case that “Health is foundational to a functioning democracy. But health must be shared and be broadly accessible to be an effective enabler of good government.” I also suggested that the pursuit of good health is implied and imbedded in the aspirational and idealistic wording of our U.S. Constitution, and that the active pursuit of health as a nation is essential if we wish to rise to Hamilton’s challenge in Federalist #1 and prove that we are “capable of establishing good government from reflection and choice.” So why are native white males lagging behind in health?
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Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy antebellum paradox health informatics Mike Magee Population Health Source Type: blogs
Science Snippet: ATP ’s Amazing Power
ATP (yellow) powering a protein (blue) that moves material within cells and helps them divide. Credit: Charles Sindelar, Yale University.
Just as electricity powers almost every modern gadget, the tiny molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the major source of energy for organisms’ biochemical reactions. ATP stores energy in the chemical bonds that hold its three phosphate groups together—the triphosphate part of its name. In the human body, ATP powers processes such as cell signaling, muscle contraction, nerve firing, and DNA and RNA synthesis. Because our cells are constantly using and producing ATP, each of us t...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Molecular Structures Cellular Processes Science Snippet Source Type: blogs
What is pericardial effusion – Cardiology Basics
What is pericardial effusion – Cardiology Basics
Pericardial effusion is collection of fluid between the visceral and parietal layers of the pericardium. If the amount of pericardial fluid is large or there is a rapid increase in the amount of pericardial fluid, compression of the heart prevents its proper filling. This reduces cardiac output and causes hypotension and is known as cardiac tamponade.
Cardiac tamponade needs urgent pericardial aspiration or surgical drainage if the fluid is very thick. Very thick fluid can be there in purulent bacterial pericarditis. Sometimes it can be a hemopericardium due to bleedin...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 24, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –17th September, 2022.
This study adds to the evidence showing that expanded access to these services could have a longer-term positive impact if continued.”Roughly 1 in 8 beneficiaries in the pandemic group received OUD-related telehealth services compared with 1 in 800 in the prepandemic group, the research revealed. Access to telehealth services was associated with better treatment retention and lower risk of medically treated overdose in the pandemic group compared to those not receiving telehealth services.-----https://healthimaging.com/topics/management/education-training/ai-deterring-students-pursuing-radiologyConcerns about the future ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Shocking Impact of an Ancestor ’ s Secret Abortion
BY MICHAEL MILLENSON
When my siblings and I were young, we were fascinated by my father’s Uncle Byron. Handsome and confident, he drove a big, 1960s-era Chrysler Imperial, had a glamorous job — an executive at a Baltimore radio station — and radiated panache.
He also was part of a small family mystery. His father, Louis, was married three times, and Byron was raised by Wife № 3. But he was the biological child of Wife № 2, who died just a few years after his birth from an unknown cause.
Thanks to some persistent genealogical research, I recently discovered that cause: Annie Millenson had a botched a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Dobbs Michael Millenson Roe vs. Wade Source Type: blogs
Debunking the “chemical imbalance” theory yet not throwing out the antidepressant baby with the bathwater
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Andrew M McIntosh is Professor of Biological Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, and Cathryn Lewis is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology & Statistics at King’s College London.
To Learn More:
Studies find growing evidence linking weight, physical activity, neuroplasticity and depression
Computer-assisted cognitive behavior therapy (CCBT) may outperform Treatment as Usual (TAU) in helping patients reduce depression, improve remission rates
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) apps may help you more than sleeping pills
Five reasons the future of brain ...
Source: SharpBrains - August 3, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health antidepressants chemical-imbalance cognitive behaviour therapy depression inflammation neurotransmitter noradrenaline randomised controlled trials risk factors serotonin SSRI Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 682
This week we have a special guest author, Hadel Go, a medical student (Class of 2024) who is greatly interested in parasitology. I ' m very excited that Hadel will be our first ever guest author! The following is our case that she will be teaching us about later this week.The patient is a young man from Madagascar who presented with a 1-week history of chest pain, night sweats, and fever. Chest X-ray showed a right upper lobe peripheral cavitary lesion. Work up for tuberculosis including AFB stained smears of sputum and sputum PCR using the Xpert MTB/RIF assay were negative. Therefore, a wedge resection of the abscess was ...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - May 18, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Underfunding Research Of Female Health Leaves Huge Amounts Of Money On The Table
“Did you know that at least one-third of women have lower back pain before their periods every month, and yet, nobody seems to fully understand why?” – asked a Medical Futurist team member a little while ago. The question led to a discussion about the differences in research, funding and understanding of male-only and female-only health issues, and consequently, to this article.
It is a well-known fact that some diseases or conditions dominantly affect one gender or the other. There are the trivial ones, like prostate cancer or ovarian, cervical, uterine cancers. But there is a long list of diseases and condit...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Medical Education women female health under-reseached gender gap in healthcare Source Type: blogs
More on why we Stay Alive
A couple of days ago I referred to the doubling of human life expectancy in 100 years, and the importance of pasteurization of milk in making that happen. Our next installment is about water. There ' s nothing more basic than good old H2O, but it used to kill city dwellers about as often as milk. People actually figured this out even before Pasteur and Koch came up with the germ theory of disease.Cholera is an intestinal infection caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholera, which is spread through contaminated water or food. The disease causes severe diarrhea that can last for several days. Depending on the strain of bact...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 21, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How Do We Know If COVID Is Over?
Is it the end of COVID? – we hear this very question more and more often these days. This topic has been analysed over and over in the past two years, I also wrote about it more than once. Here, at the beginning, we outlined possible scenarios on how the pandemic will develop. By now we can determine that we ended up somewhere between #2 and #3.
We also discussed how widespread vaccination is the way to go, and how it will contribute to getting back our lives.
The speculation on finally getting over it is not surprising. It is in line with recent reports, and the discussion about the pandemic entering the endem...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Covid-19 public health covid19 pandemic endemic end of covid Source Type: blogs
Does Digital Health Technology Have a “ Famous Trio ” in the Making?
By MIKE MAGEE
Yale historian, Frank M. Snowden wisely notes in his 2020 book, “Epidemics and Society”, that “We must avoid the pitfall of believing the driver of scientific knowledge is ever a single genius working alone.”
His insight came to mind this week as I was reviewing the January 11, 2020 Forbes article by Seth Joseph, health tech policy correspondent, titled “What Bubble? Digital Health Funding Year in Review 2021.”
By one measure of success – dollars invested – it’s been a banner year. According to Joseph, there was over $29 billion funded, and 729 digital health US-based st...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Breakthrough digital health Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
TB Wrist Joint : MRI
Xray- Frontal radiograph of wrist shows multiple osteolytic areas with surrounding sclerosis is seen involving all carpal bones and second metatarsal bone s/o permeative type of bone destruction.MRI- MRI shows Extensive areas of altered marrow signal with osteolysis are seen involving all the carpal bones and almost the entire 2nd metacarpal bone. Similar areas of involvement are seen in the proximal radius predominantly involving the dorsal aspect with large soft tissue component.The altered areas appear hypointense on T1 and hyperintense on T2 WIs. There is involvement of base of the third and the fourth ...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - February 8, 2022 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Reflections on HIV
My post yesterday on the lunkhead senator from Wisconsin inspired some thoughts about Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the disease it causes, called Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS. The syndrome got its name before the viral cause was discovered, which is why it ' s called a syndrome, the word for a collection of symptoms when the cause is unknown or unspecified. It might be better to call the disease simply HIV disease, as it can have symptoms other than immunodeficiency, and many people nowadays do just that. I spent much of my career in public health, and then in academic research, focusing on HIV....
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 7, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Disposable Lives: COVID-19, Vaccines, and the Uprising
Matiangai V. S. Sirleaf (University of Maryland), Disposable Lives: COVID-19, Vaccines, and the Uprising, 121 Columbia L. Rev. Forum. (2021): Two French doctors appeared on television and publicly discussed potentially utilizing African subjects in experimental trials for a tuberculosis vaccine... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 12, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Putty Kidney : NEETPG 2021 Recall
Tuberculosis of Genitourinary tract is an important topic for NEETPG and in 2021 we had a visual question on Putty kidney. Here is a brief video describing the approach to MCQ.Famous Radiology Blog http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com
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Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - September 12, 2021 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
