CARTOON: Dung Beetle & Robot No. 13 – 17 “DIDGERIDOO”
CARTOON: Dung Beetle & Robot No. 13 – 17 “DIDGERIDOO” Burragubba is also a social activist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burragubba Advertisements (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - December 22, 2017 Category: Disability Authors: andrea Tags: DUNG BEETLE & ROBOT Social Justice Source Type: blogs
CARTOON: Dung Beetle & Robot No. 013-017 “Didgeridoo”
CARTOON: Dung Beetle & Robot No. 013-017 “Didgeridoo” Burragubba is also a social activist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burragubba (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - December 22, 2017 Category: Disability Authors: andrea Tags: DUNG BEETLE & ROBOT Social Justice Source Type: blogs
Matt Damon in Downsizing
The new science fiction movieDownsizing with Matt Damon opens at theaters this week. Wiki provides a summary:Downsizing imagines what might happen if, as a solution to over-population, Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink humans to 5 inches (13 cm) tall and propose a200-year global transition from big to small, but with one catch: the procedure cannot be reversed. People soon realize how much further money goes in a miniaturized world, and with the promise of a better life, everyman Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) and wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to abandon their stressed lives in Omaha in order to become small and ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 18, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Bible Background
I ' m going to start reading the Bible tomorrow. In order to keep tomorrow ' s post a manageable length, I ' ll provide some background and explain the parameters of what I am going to do.The Bible is a compilation of many documents, from various historical and cultural contexts, which were produced for various reasons. People made decisions about what to include, and there were some debates about that along the way. The Old Testament is largely but not entirely based on the Jewish scriptures, called the Tanakh, although the organization is different; but the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testaments include additional ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 16, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Did medical school desensitize doctors to debt?
The high-pitched wail of the pneumatic saw cutting through the tibia, and the little bits of tissue the blade flung onto the surgeon’s gown were not enough to get to me the first time I saw a surgery, during my senior year in high school. It was the smell. Sliding down the wall in the corner of the operating room, wondering if lunch would stay put, I began to question my career choice. Certainly, no respectable doctor would almost pass out at the sights and smells of the operating room. No one else in the room was sitting on the floor.
Eight years later, by the end of medical school, those horrifying things no longer bot...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 15, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/cory-fawcett" rel="tag" > Cory Fawcett, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Medical school Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Zebrafish Scrapbook
Name: Danio rerio
Hometown: Freshwater ponds and rivers of India, Nepal, and neighboring countries
Occupation: Research
Long-term goal: Solving the basic mysteries of life
Work site: More than 600 science labs worldwide
That’s me and some other zebrafish, swimming in a tank in one of the more than 600 labs around the world that use us to study embryo development, genetics, and all kinds of human diseases. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Azul.
Apart from the tell-tale stripes that give me my nickname, zebrafish, I look a lot like your standard minnow swimming in the shallows of any pond, lake, or river. But I like to think I...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 7, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Beth Azar Tags: Genetics Research Organisms; Cool Creatures; Regeneration Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Costs Video
In all the crazy discussions that are happening about healthcare, it’s always frustrating to me that so few of them talk about healthcare costs. Politicians are talking a lot about healthcare insurance and coverage. Those in healthcare IT talk about meaningful use, MACRA, and over regulation. No doubt there are challenges associated with insurance coverage and with health IT regulation. However, none of them will move the needle on how much healthcare is costing this nation.
Sometimes it takes a little bit of humor to illustrate the point and that’s what this video from Adam Ruins Everything does with healthcar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 1, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare HealthCare IT Healthcare Costs Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 216
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogJust when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 216. Question 1Where was this photo taken and what is the significance of this “Trauma Room 1”? By Jpotter1138 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27892379+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answerexpand(document.getElementB...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aspirin Baxter burns Charles Frederic Gerhardt Charles Frederick morris saint Charles Rufus Baxter Jack Ruby JFK John Connally john f kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald Lewis Macken occam's razor parkland formula Source Type: blogs
Advanced Cell Therapy Rapid Growth
Advanced Cell Therapy is defined as “all therapies in which cells are more than minimally manipulated”, for the treatment of a variety of diseases.
Data shows that the number of cell therapies from 2016 – 2017 is rapidly growing. In 2016, the number of trials registered was 582 worldwide. We are only in the first half of 2017 and 315 trials have been registered already. This is “a modest 8% increase in the average number of trials per month.”
Almost all the 2017 trials registered thus far can be categorized as either Immunotherapy or Regenerative Medicine. Immunotherapy is “the treatment of disease by induci...
Source: Cord Blood News - November 27, 2017 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: medical research stem cells Source Type: blogs
Long History of Corruption in Congress
You can learn about how the federal government works fromWashington Post obituaries. Many people who have had careers in Washington seem to have focused on lining their pockets rather than serving the public interest. Everyone wants to succeed, of course, but for most Americans that means private-sector jobs that add value to society. Washington, by contrast, provides unique opportunities to make money by harming society and betraying the public trust.Sunday ’sPosthad a detailed obit for Bobby Baker, who was a close friend and “protégé” of Lyndon Johnson in the Senate, but who ended up in prison for tax evasion, th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 20, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 214
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 214.
Question 1
Who first described the phenomenon of malignant hyperthermia?
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Michael Denborough
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 17, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five apocrine miliaria Charles Maitland fox sign george henry fox john addison fordyce jones fracture malignant hyperthermia michael denborough Newgate pimp Robert Jones smallpox william osler Source Type: blogs
Down Syndrome Disappearing in Iceland; Similar Events Will Become More Common
We are now living in an era when infants born with genetic disorders such asDown Syndrome will disappear in some societies (see:"What kind of society do you want to live in?": Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing). Below is an excerpt from this article explaining this process. Read the whole article if you are so motivated. With the rise of prenatal screening tests across Europe and the United States, the number of babies born with Down syndrome has significantly decreased, but few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland. Since prenatal screening tests w...
Source: Lab Soft News - November 14, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Testing Lab Industry Trends Medical Ethics Medical Research Source Type: blogs
Christopher Robin: a sad story
Jump to follow-up
Today we went to see the film, Goodbye Christopher Robin. It was very good. I, like most children, read Pooh books as a child.
Image from Wikipedia
I got interested in their Author, A.A. Milne, when I discovered that he’d done a mathematics degree at Cambridge. So had my scientific hero A.V. Hill, and (through twitter) I met AV’s granddaughter, Alison Hill. I learned that AV loved to quote A.A.Milne’s poem, OBE.
O.B.E.
I know a Captain of Industry,
Who made big bombs for the R.F.C.,
And collared a lot of £ s. d.–
And he–thank God!–h...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 8, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: A.V. Hill AA Milne AV Hill Christopher Robin PTSD Winnie the Pooh Source Type: blogs
Christopher Robin: a sad story
Jump to follow-up
Today we went to see the film Goodbye Christopher Robin. It was very good. I, like most children, read Pooh books as a child.
Image from Wikipedia
I got interested in their author, A.A. Milne, when I discovered that he’d done a mathematics degree at Cambridge. So had my scientific hero A.V. Hill, and (through twitter) I met AV’s granddaughter, Alison Hill. I learned that AV loved to quote A.A.Milne’s poem, OBE.
O.B.E.
I know a Captain of Industry,
Who made big bombs for the R.F.C.,
And collared a lot of £ s. d.–
And he–thank God!–ha...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 8, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: A.V. Hill AA Milne AV Hill Christopher Robin PTSD Winnie the Pooh Source Type: blogs
Christopher Robin: a sad story
Jump to follow-up
Today we went to see the film Goodbye Christopher Robin. It was very good. I, like most children, read Pooh books as a child.
Image from Wikipedia
I got interested in their author, A.A. Milne, when I discovered that he’d done a mathematics degree at Cambridge. So had my scientific hero A.V. Hill, and (through twitter) I met AV’s granddaughter, Alison Hill. I learned that AV loved to quote A.A.Milne’s poem, OBE.
O.B.E.
I know a Captain of Industry,
Who made big bombs for the R.F.C.,
And collared a lot of £ s. d.–
And he–thank God!–ha...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 8, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: A.V. Hill AA Milne AV Hill Christopher Robin PTSD Winnie the Pooh Source Type: blogs
