Answer to Case 541
Answer to Parasite Case of the Week 541: not a parasite; citrus juice vesicles.This is a not-uncommon finding in stool that is helpful to recognize, since it is occasionally submitted as a potential parasite. In this case, the patient reported eating clementines regularly. So here is a dissection of a clementine for comparison:Pretty good, huh? Of course it ' s not possible to recognize the type of citrus from this case alone, and a report of " not a human parasite " is usually sufficient for patient care.Wikipedia has anice articleon juice vesicles if you would like more information. (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - April 21, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Conferences / Unconferences
Our (amazing) team at Alliance for Better Health is planning an event in June. The purpose is to bring together people in our community who are using the Healthy Together platform, celebrate the community’s accomplishments, and strengthen the connections so that we can find greater success in the future.
I offered a thought this morning that perhaps this isn’t a conference, but an unconference. I wikipedia-ed (it’s a verb, yes?) the term, hyperlinked it in my email and (after sending) went back to read the wikipedia entry. It’s accurate and (I now know) expresses a long history of unconference...
Source: Docnotes - April 19, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jacob Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Bad Habits and Vices Related to Mental Illness
Everyone has bad habits. Even your sainted Granny who seems perfect to you has some bad habit that only your grandfather knows about. Bad habits, like everything, exist on a spectrum, from biting your nails to snorting cocaine – and everything in between.
In this episode, our hosts discuss bad habits that many people with mental illness seem to have – from smoking, to alcoholism, to drug use and, you guessed it, everything in between.
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“90% of people with schizophrenia smoke.”
– Michelle Hammer
Highlights From ‘Bad Habits Mental Illness’’ Episode
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Source: World of Psychology - April 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Addiction Habits Schizophrenia Stress Source Type: blogs
Are You Willing to Step Out of Your Comfort Zone?
I read the book summary of Hit Refresh recently. It’s an autobiography of Satya Nadella, the third CEO of Microsoft. It tells the story of how the young Nadella was obsessed with cricket and wanted to become a professional player. On the side, he also developed an interest in personal computing.
He enrolled in an institute in India and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. Realizing that being a professional cricket player was not for him, he then decided to follow his interest in personal computing.
He was at a crossroad at that time: should he stay in his comfort zone or step out of it?
For h...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
The Ninja Brain: Humans Can Prioritise Meaningful Sounds Even While Asleep
By Matthew Warren
We often think of sleep as a chance to switch off from the outside world, leaving us blissfully ignorant of anything going on around us. But neuroscience research has shown this is a fantasy – we still monitor the environment and respond to particular sounds while we’re sleeping (at least in some stages of sleep) – a fact that will be unsurprising to anyone who has woken up after hearing someone say their name.
Now a study published in Nature Human Behaviour has revealed more about the brain’s surprisingly sophisticated levels of engagement with the outside world during sleep. Not only does the s...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Perception Sleep and dreaming Source Type: blogs
My Trial With Sanofi's Admelog, The Biosimilar Version of Humalog
A while back Iblogged about the emergence of biosimilar insulin in the U.S., more than a decade after I studied the topic and discovered some troubling reasons none existed. Since then, in spite of top officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advocating for a more robust biosimilars market in the U.S., we have seen fewer rather than more, so that ' s not working out so well for the Trump Administration ' s promise to bring drug prices way down so far. In late 2018, Merck quietly pulled the plug on its own Lantus biosimilar which was to be branded as Lusduna Nexvue (see moreHERE for details). ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 9, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Eli Lilly and Company follow-on insulin analogs 2019 Admelog biosimilars generics Humalog insulin prices Medicare Sanofi Source Type: blogs
My Trial With Sanofi's Admelog, The Biosimilar Version of Humalog
A while back Iblogged about the emergence of biosimilar insulin in the U.S., more than a decade after I studied the topic and discovered some troubling reasons none existed. Since then, in spite of top officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advocating for a more robust biosimilars market in the U.S., we have seen fewer rather than more, so that ' s not working out so well for the Trump Administration ' s promise to bring drug prices way down so far. In late 2018, Merck quietly pulled the plug on its own Lantus biosimilar which was to be branded as Lusduna Nexvue (see moreHERE for details). ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 9, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Eli Lilly and Company follow-on insulin analogs 2019 Admelog biosimilars generics Humalog insulin prices Medicare Sanofi Source Type: blogs
The 4.2 kiloyear event
The title of this post is the weird name scientists have given toa prolonged drought that devastated the tropics, probably worldwide, beginning about 2,200 BC. Wikipedia says it may have lasted for the entire century, but some estimates have it considerably shorter, maybe 30 years. Anyway, that was enough. Important civilizations collapsed, including the Egyptian Old Kingdom and the Akkadian empire in Mesopotamia.You may be struck by the omission in the Wikipedia article of any discussion of the cause. That is because the cause is unknown. One hypothesis is that it resulted from a meteorite strike, although the mechanism w...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 8, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Economics Lessons from the Subcontinent: India ’s Coronary Stent Policy
This article originally appeared here on The Accad & Koka Report.
Stent image courtesy Jack McLure via Wikimedia Commons (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Anish Koka coronary stent prices health economics India Source Type: blogs
Can Tubal Reversal Surgery Be Done With An Epidural?
“Can tubal reversal surgery be done with an epidural?”
Epidural needle being inserted at start of surgery
Women ask this question because they are fearful of being ‘put to sleep’ with general anesthesia.
Many women are familiar with epidurals because of child birth, c-sections, and tubal ligation.
Epidural anesthesia can cause more complications than general anesthesia. Epidural anesthesia may not the best choice for outpatient surgery.
Although tubal reversal can be done with epidural anesthesia, our experience has demonstrated tubal reversal under general anesthesia is safer and has less side effe...
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - April 1, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: anesthesia epidural surgery tubal reversal Source Type: blogs
The Eponym Episode | Using Modern Terminology | Episode 40
00:43 | What is an Eponym?06:16 | Sponsored by HAPS06:57 | Modern Use of Eponyms16:26 | Sponsored by AAA17:16 | Another Problem with Eponyms22:01 | Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program22:34 | How to Deal with Eponyms in Our A&P CourseIf you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here. Questions& Feedback:1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-546-6336) FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram! The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. (Pierre Paul Broca) 1 | What is an Eponym?5.5 minutesAn eponym is a term named after a person. A t...
Source: The A and P Professor - March 24, 2019 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Stalking the wild garganey in West Sacramento #birding #eBird #iNaturalist #birdphotography #nikonD500
So - I did a thing today. A new thing for me. I officially became a bird nut. For the first time in my life, I went on an outing to see a rare bird that I read about online.I went to West Sacramento, to a pond there, to see, and hopefully take pictures of, a garganey. What, you ask, is a garganey? It is a kind of duck. According to Wikipedia:The garganey (Spatula querquedula) is a small dabbling duck. It breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, but is strictly migratory, with the entire population moving to southern Africa, India (in particular Santragachi), Banglade...
Source: The Tree of Life - March 9, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Why I took a break from Facebook?
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Facebook, a social networking platform founded by Mark Zuckerberg has around 2.2 billion monthly active users as of January 2018 (source Wikipedia). I joined Facebook in October 2007, and I was compulsively posting every minute detail of my life. From birthday wishes to photo albums with my friends and family.
I joined Facebook because you had to be on it or there was FOMO! Over the next few years, I was on Facebook for the ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Raziakuvale Tags: featured self improvement abstain from social media digital detox facebook mental health pickthebrain social media detox Source Type: blogs
HIPAA RFI Comments: Patient Privacy Rights
By ADRIAN GROPPER and DEBORAH C. PEEL
Adrian Gropper
Deborah C. Peele
Among other rich nations, US healthcare stands out as both exceptionally privatized and exceptionally expensive. And taken overall, we have the worst health outcomes among the Western Democracies.
On one hand, regulators are reluctant to limit private corporate action lest we reduce innovation and patient choice and promote moral hazards. On the other hand, a privatized marketplace for services requires transparency of costs and quality and a minimum of economic externalities that privatize profit and socialize costs.
For over two decades, the HIPAA law...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Value-Based Care Adrian Gropper Deborah C Peel federal regulations Health Data HIPAA Source Type: blogs
Is executive function different from cognitive control? The results of an informal poll
It ended in a tie!Is executive function different from cognitive control?— sarcastic_f (@sarcastic_f)January 30, 2019Granted, this is a small and biased sample, and I don ' t have a large number of followers. The answers might have been different had@russpoldrack (Yes in a landslide) or@Neuro_Skeptic (n=12,458 plus 598 wacky write-in votes) posed the question.Before the poll I facetiously asked:Other hypothetical questions (that you don ' t need to answer) might include:Are you a clinical neuropsychologist? Do you use computational modeling in your work?1What is your age?Here, I was thinking:Clinical neuropsychologi...
Source: The Neurocritic - February 2, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
