Matthew Holt ’ s EOY 2017 letter (charities/issues/gossip)
Right at the end of every year I write a letter summarizing my issues and charities. And as I own the joint here, I post it on THCB! Please take a look–Matthew Holt
Well 2017 has been quite a year, and last year 2016 I failed to get my end-of-year letter out at all. This I would like to think was due to extreme business but it probably came down to me being totally lazy. On the other hand like many of you I may have just been depressed about the election–2016 was summed up by our cat vomiting on our bed at 11.55 on New Years Eve.
Having said that even though most of you will never comment on this letter and I ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Matthew Holt Charity Patient Activism Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 83 Pre-Hospital Medicine with Gregor Prosen
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
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ED people doing house visits?
Medical retrieval teams having a cup of tea and taking a detailed social history?
Emergency doctors going to someone’s home before they come to the ED and recommending treatment at home?
Including End of Life treatment?
Sound Crazy?
Ever been to Maribor? Slovenia?
I spoke with Slovenian Emergency Physician and Pre-Hospital Gregor Prosen at dasSMACC. He talks like an emergency physician. He curses like an emergency physician. Gregor ju...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean gregor prosen Serbia Source Type: blogs
Zika virus has always been neurotropic
Written with Amy Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
Zika virus has been infecting humans since at least the 1950s (and probably earlier), but epidemics of infection have only been observed in the past ten years and congenital Zika syndrome in the last two. Two hypotheses emerged to explain this new pattern of disease: evolution of the virus, or random introduction into large, immunologically naive populations. Results from our laboratory show that one component of these disease patterns – neurotropism, the ability to infect cells of the nervous system – has always been a feature of Zika virus.
If evolution has selected for Zika...
Source: virology blog - November 2, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information congenital zika syndrome flavivirus microcephaly neuroinvasion neurotropism organotypic brain slice culture viral zika virus Source Type: blogs
The Devilish Side of Psychiatry
Final Destination 3 (2006)The devil always experienced malicious pleasure in imposing himself in neuropsychiatric nosologyOlry and Haines (2017) published a mischievous article in theJournal of the History of the Neurosciences:Having an inquiring mind by nature, the Devil always managed to interfere in all spheres of human activity, including the sciences. ... Biologists use an enzyme called “luciferase” — Lucifer has been described as the “light-bearing” fallen angel, hence the bioluminescence — to spot certain proteins by chromogenous reactions (Lodish et al., 2005, p. 92). ...But how did the Devil get a foot...
Source: The Neurocritic - October 31, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
How to Stop Fear from Stopping You
There may be some kids who come into this world with courage, confidence and guts. I wasn’t one of them. I come from fear. I was born sensitive and shy. Lots of things scared me. I worried about serious things like how awful it must be to fight in a war. And I worried about typical kid stuff, like what other people thought of me. I still remember coming home crying because my 2nd grade teacher accused me of lying. Me! The kid who wanted to please, do good, help out. Little did my teacher realize that even if I wanted to, I was too scared to lie.
In contrast, today I’m a confident, competent, courageous adult, comfortab...
Source: World of Psychology - October 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Linda Sapadin, Ph.D Tags: Anxiety and Panic Books Habits Happiness Personal Self-Help Anxious Thoughts Avoidance catastrophic thinking Fear Life Changes Life Goals Limitations Perfectionism risk-taking self limiting Worry Source Type: blogs
A Connection Between the Zika Virus and Curing Brain Cancer?
Not long ago, Zika virus was dominating headlines. A new infection was hardly ever heard about before then, yet is now affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Latin America, causing disfiguration and microcephalia in new-born babies. Microcephalia is caused by severe delayed and abnormal development of the brain, resulting in the range of intellectual disability, dwarfism, poor motor functions and speech. With no cure or even preventive vaccination available, many women in the most affected regions were reportedly considering postponing any planned pregnancies.
The virus was actually discovered back in 1947 in Zika fo...
Source: World of Psychology - October 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Brain and Behavior Brain Blogger Health-related Publishers Research brain cancer Delivery glioblastoma Immune System microcephalia Pregnancy Sexual Contact stem cells Zika virus Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 461
This week ' s case was donated by Dr. Peter Gilligan. The patient is a toddler who presented with high fever and tachycardia. The patient had come to the United States from Uganda 16 months prior to presentation and had not traveled outside of the United States since. The following are representative fields from the peripheral blood smear.Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - September 25, 2017 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 461
Answer:Plasmodium vivaxinfectionThis case has several features that are consistent withP. vivax/P. ovaleinfection; specifically, the size of the infected red blood cells (RBCs) are slightly larger than the neighboring uninfected RBCs, and the timing indicates a relapsed infection which is only seen with these 2 species. We also know that both species are found in Uganda where this patient was from.Differentiating betweenP. vivaxandP. ovalecan then be done by looking at a number of features. TheCDC DPDx websitehas a nice table that compares these features (see the Laboratory Diagnosis panel). In this case, there are some fe...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - September 24, 2017 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Building Self-Sustainable Health Care in Uganda
BY JK FALLIN, MDI had the opportunity to travel an extraordinarily long distance to Uganda last year on a mission with One World Heath, a nonprofit that aims to provide affordable health care to communities in need. The trip had a rather disjointed start because Delta forgot that they needed a computer to fly their airplane. After this minor hiccup, we embarked on our journey across the Atlantic, then Europe and Africa before landing in Entebbe, Uganda.Entebbe is about 20 miles southwest of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, but there is in reality little demarcation between the two towns. It's located along beauti...
Source: Going Global - August 9, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Hemopurifier Filters Ebola, Hep C, Metastatic Melanoma: Interview with James A. Joyce, CEO of Aethlon Medical
Filtering infectious pathogens and cancer cells directly from whole blood has been an almost fantastic proposition, but the Hemopurifier from Aethlon Medical does just that. We’ve been covering it for over 10 years on Medgadget as it proves itself in clinical trials and new applications for it are discovered. It has already been studied as a treatment option for hepatitis C, metastatic melanoma, and the Ebola virus. Recently at the 2017 BIO International Convention in San Diego, virus capture data was presented from a study of the Hemopurifier involving health-compromised patients infected with a virus.
We wer...
Source: Medgadget - July 18, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Medicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
Zebra and Teleradiology Solutions Are Joining Forces
Zebra Medical Vision is partnering with India-based Teleradiology Solutions (TRS) to deliver its deep learning-powered image analysis system to 150 hospitals in 20 countries throughout Asia and Africa.Since 2015, Zebra has been working with health care facilities in the U.S. and Europe to bring technology that detects bone, liver, lung, and cardiovascular diseases. Their mission is to revolutionize the medical imaging service industry so that it can keep up with the needs of the steadily increasing middle class and aging populations. Their collaboration with TRS is a move to “bridge the growing gap between demand and sup...
Source: radRounds - July 14, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Being queer in the jungle: The unique challenges of LGBTQ scientists working in the field
The Stonewall Riots occurred on June 28, 1969. It was this summer evening that sparked the Gay Rights Movement. Now, forty-eight years later, the world celebrates Pride Month every June to celebrate, honor, support, and fight for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.
The queer community is resilient. No matter what obstacles they encounter, their battle to live, pursue their passions, and contribute to society endures. For many queer people that passion is science. Queer scientists such as Alan Turing who was crucial in ending World War II, and Sara Josephine Baker who made unprecedented br...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ben Ragen Tags: Uncategorized field research LGBTQ Source Type: blogs
