Data Democracy! ‘Dr. Google’ (2023) Vs. ‘Every Man His Own Physician’ (1767)
BY MICHAEL MILLENSON
In the 18th-century, a pre-Google guide offered democratization of medical information
In 1767, as American colonists’ protestations against “taxation without representation” intensified, a Boston publisher reprinted a book by a British doctor seemingly tailor-made for the growing spirit of independence.
Talk about “democratization of health care information,” “participatory medicine” and “health citizens”! Every Man His Own Physician, by Dr. John Theobald, bore an impressive subtitle: Being a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies for every disease...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Democritization of Care Healthcare Michael Millenson Participatory medicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 13th 2023
This study investigated whether taller Polish adults live longer than their shorter counterparts. Data on declared height were available from 848,860 individuals who died in the years 2004-2008 in Poland. To allow for the cohort effect, the Z-values were generated. Separately for both sexes, Pearson's r coefficients of correlation were calculated. Subsequently, one way ANOVA was performed.
The correlation between adult height and longevity was negative and statistically significant in both men and women. After eliminating the effects of secular trends in height, the correlation was very weak (r = -0.0044 in men and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Viral Infection in Middle Age Correlates with Later Dementia Risk
A range of evidence suggests that persistent viral infection contributes to the risk of suffering neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. This may be due to mechanisms relating to amyloid-β accumulation, in its role as an anti-microbial peptide, a part of the innate immune system. It may have more to do with lasting chronic inflammation subsequent to infection. Researchers here note another addition to the epidemiological data on this topic, in this case linking severe infections requiring hospitalization with later dementia risk. The effect sizes here are large and last for a long time following infecti...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Mundane Movies Meme
I posted a fairly simple challenge on Facebook at the weekend:
Make a movie mundane by subtly altering one word in the title. I'll start..."Radiators of the Lost Ark"
I expected a few friends to join in with the fun and for it to fizzle out quite quickly…I watched the first few entries dribble in and then went off and did something completely different. When I came back to Facebook a few hours later there were more than 500 comments, it quickly got to 600 and I added a few more of my own. It’s still going on, at the time of writing 745 comments, which is almost viral for one of my posts. I’d estimate th...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Love Yourself First: Why It Is a Prerequisite for Success
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If you ask most people if they love
themselves, the answer will be yes. But more often than not, this is not true.
For most people, what they feel about themselves is conditional love.
If you care more about what others
think of you than what you feel, or if your happiness solely depends on the
approval of others, even when such approvals follow acts of compromise on your
happiness, then you only l...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bernz JP Tags: confidence depression featured happiness psychology self-improvement love yourself pickthebrain self esteem self love Source Type: blogs
Low Value Testing and Unmet Cascades
By ANISH KOKA, MD
Mr. Smith has a problem.
He can’t see.
Even this cardiologist knows why. The not so subtle evidence lies in the cloudy
lens in front of his pupils. He is
afflicted with cataracts that obstruct his vision to the point he can’t really
do his job refurbishing antique furniture safely. His other problem is that he hates doctors.
He hasn’t had reason to see one for more than a decade. He’s 68, takes no medications, smokes a pack
of cigarettes a day, and is a master of one word answers. He’s in my office because
he needs a medical evaluation prior to his cata...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Anish Koka cardiology low-value testing Source Type: blogs
Trusting Reality
When I trust another person, I don’t trust them to be perfect. I trust them to be human and to behave as humans do, and so my trust is well placed and aligns well with how humans actually behave.When I trust reality, I don’t trust it to be perfect or wise all the time. I trust it to behave as reality actually does, so my trust is well placed and aligns with how reality actually behaves.If you trust reality to be wiser and more intelligent than human beings, does it always meet that standard? Is that a standard aligned with its actual behavior? Or are you sometimes disappointed when applying that standard?Realit...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality trust Source Type: blogs
Price-Fixing Case Reveals Vulnerability of Generic Drug Policies
By ANDREW MULCAHY
A massive lawsuit filed in May by 44 states accuses 20 major drug makers of colluding for years to inflate prices on more than 100 generic drugs, including those to treat H.I.V., cancer and depression. If true, the alleged behavior is not just a violation of antitrust law, but also a betrayal of the government policies that created and defended the entire generic drug industry.
Most prescriptions in the U.S. today — 9 in 10 — are filled with generics, which are just as safe and effective as their brand-name equivalent. And yet generics account for only 22 percent of U....
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Andrew Mulcahy drug price controls Drug Pricing generic drugs pharmaceuticals price-fixing Source Type: blogs
The Brain Stage: The Power & Promise of The Cephalic Phase for Health
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[00:00:03] Hi I’m Dr. Alan Greene pediatrician and I’d like to talk with you tonight about The Brain Stage.
[00:00:10] I remember vividly when I was a pediatric resident in training go to a Grand Rounds about a surprising topic.
[00:00:18] The function of the brain and the function of the skin and one of the things that dermatologists talked about was a common procedure freezing warts. Freezing warts was then, and is still, one of the most common ways to get rid of warts. What she talked about was how wildly different the results were in different studies. Peo...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - May 23, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized Cephalic Phase Placebo The Brain Stage Source Type: blogs
The Brain Stage: The Power & Promise of The Cephalic Phase for Health
Listen to the Podcast or Read the Transcript
[00:00:03] Hi I’m Dr. Alan Greene pediatrician and I’d like to talk with you tonight about The Brain Stage.
[00:00:10] I remember vividly when I was a pediatric resident in training go to a Grand Rounds about a surprising topic.
[00:00:18] The function of the brain and the function of the skin and one of the things that dermatologists talked about was a common procedure freezing warts. Freezing warts was then, and is still, one of the most common ways to get rid of warts. What she talked about was how wildly different the results were in different studies. People use...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - May 23, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized Cephalic Phase Placebo The Brain Stage Source Type: blogs
No, the HPV vaccine isn ’t optional
A lot of parents ask me, about the HPV vaccine,“Isn’t that the optional one?” Well, let me walk you through why my answer to that question is a hard“no.” Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a virus that causes warts and several types of cancer. There are over 200 different strains of HPV, some of which […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 19, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chad-hayes" rel="tag" > Chad Hayes, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Meds Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Expensive beauty products – how is their price determined? Episode 172
On today’s episode we’re going to be answering your beauty questions about
Does a product’s price indicate anything about quality?Does Glycerin and Aloe Vera really moisturize?What does Salicylic acid do in products?And how legit are beauty product / ingredient trends?
Beauty Science News
Unilever goes further with transparency
The Big Companies are finally hopping on the transparency trend and have pledged to list a breakdown of the ingredients in their fragrances for all to see. While they started in early 2017, Unilever has now completed their project to list the ingredients in their fragranc...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Expensive beauty products – how is their price determined? Episode 172
On today’s episode we’re going to be answering your beauty questions about
Does a product’s price indicate anything about quality?Does Glycerin and Aloe Vera really moisturize?What does Salicylic acid do in products?And how legit are beauty product / ingredient trends?
Beauty Science News
Unilever goes further with transparency
The Big Companies are finally hopping on the transparency trend and have pledged to list a breakdown of the ingredients in their fragrances for all to see. While they started in early 2017, Unilever has now completed their project to list the ingredients in their fragranc...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Do Personality Tests Really Mean Anything? 5 Things to Keep in Mind
Are you an Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging personality (INFJ)? Maybe you’re an ENTJ or INTP? Don’t know what I’m talking about? You obviously haven’t checked your Myers Briggs personality type.
We love a label in our society. It’s so much easier to identify where we belong, whom we belong with and why when we all have tidy labels to our names. Whether it’s the vagueness of your horoscope, the procrastinating fun of the What Hogwarts House are you? quiz, or the slightly more credible Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, personality tests and their subsequent write-ups continue to be popular.
In the US alone,...
Source: World of Psychology - January 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elaine Mead Tags: Communication General Industrial and Workplace Personality Students Success & Achievement Aptitude human resource Myers Briggs Personality Testing Source Type: blogs
Ancestry DNA Tests Don ’t Always Find What We Expect
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Advances in DNA testing in recent years has made tracing your family tree accessible to the masses, prompting millions to go down the route of discovering their lineage.
But what people find is not always welcome. The results of genetic tests are life-changing, but in some cases people are left wishing they’d remained in blissful ignorance.
Ancestry DNA tests help people to discover their genealogy...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured self improvement dna testing history pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
