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The Politics, Public Health and Environmental Concerns of Genetically Engineered Salmon
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So-called “Frankenfood” — genetically-modified organisms meant for human consumption or use as animal feed — has been making headlines again. This time, the buzz is over the FDA’s recent completion of their evaluation of the first genetically-engineered (GE) salmon meant for human consumption, the AquAdvantage salmon. The White House’s Office of Management and Budget is now reviewing the evaluation, which puts the AquAdvantage salmon one critical step closer to finding its way into farms and onto plates. While the GE salmon would be the first genetically-modified animal approved for huma...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - October 24, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Kirstin Hendrickson Source Type: blogs
The Skinny Guy's Guide To GlutamineEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion At the start I stated that, "Glutamine has no muscle building effects whatsoever." After reviewing this article, you will notice that is not as black and white as that. However, the take home message, especially to you skinny guys, is that if you are on a proper muscle-building meal plan and using solid post-workout nutrition strategies, glutamine is not a worthwhile supplement for you. Save your money and put it towards food if you are motivated to gain muscle weight. Save your money and put it towards food if you are motivated to gain muscle weight. I hope this supplement was a good example of looking at the e...
Source: My Page - October 24, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs
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She is better today, fevers persisting, but with a dose of energy from the spinal tap and the antibiotics flowing every 3 hours. Dark circles under her eyes, she shuts them against the fluorescent light, showing off her new owl teapot with eyes squeezed shut.The flurry and adrenaline of the initial decision making fades on hospital day 2, and we and the doctors begin to contemplate those hard questions that still persist without answer. Why does she get infections in her brain repeatedly? It's nothing like the question "why does Caleb have allergies all year every year". This has such significant consequences to her health...
Source: Turquoise Gates - October 23, 2011 Category: Cancer Tags: trials refiners fire fullers soap ADEM battles Amelia the Cross lessons suffering encephalitis Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 24th 2011Email this article to a colleague.
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- Latest Headlines from Fight Aging!
ADJUSTING YOUR OWN MORTALITY RISK
Large-scale studies of health and longevity demonstrate the degree to which we can choose to shift our own risk of disease and death, and along with it the likely level of necessary medical expenditures in our future. A few examples can be found in the following Fight Aging! posts:
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/10/exercise-longevity-and-long-term-medical-costs.php
"One longevity-related line item that doesn't come up often enough in discussion is the matter of the expected state of your wallet as you move through life. Given th...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 23, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Kid's Allergies and AsthmaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: EverythingHealth - October 21, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs
CRO Employees Plead Guilty To Falsifying DataEmail this article to a colleague.
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A doctor and a clinical research coordinator who worked for a contract research organization hired by the former Schering-Plough have pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the drugmaker by falsifying study data. They also pleaded guilty to failing to maintain records as required by the FDA. The clinical trial, by the way, was designed to test a tablet the drugmaker was developing to treat allergies.
The pleas were made by Wayne Spencer, a 73-year-old doctor from Topeka, Kansas, and Lisa Sharp, 48, a registered nurse from nearby Olathe, who was the director of clinical trials for the Lee Research Institute. They could fac...
Source: Pharmalot - October 20, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized CRO FDA Fraud Lee Research Institute Merck Schering Plough Source Type: blogs
ADHD New Research – How Diet Is Playing An Ever Increasingly Important RoleEmail this article to a colleague.
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How we feed our kids is now the subject of a lot of ADHD new research. There is also the question of misdiagnosis and very often the ADHD symptoms are not ADHD at all but the result of :-
an allergy or allergic reaction
low blood sugar count (hypoglycemia)
thyroid disorders
anemia
sleep apnea or other sleep disorders
Vincent Monastra who has written a very useful book called Parenting Children With ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach and he mentions the fact that ADHD symptoms can often mimic those conditions I have listed above. So misdiagnosis seems to be a very real problem because ADHD should be the last call...
Source: Life With ADHD - October 20, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: ADHD Dad Tags: ADHD Research diet Playing Source Type: blogs
A Review of the State of Tissue Engineering of CartilageEmail this article to a colleague.
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An open access review paper: "In tissue engineering fields, recent interest has been focused on stem cell therapy to replace or repair damaged or worn-out tissues due to congenital abnormalities, disease, or injury. In particular, the repair of articular cartilage degeneration by stem cell-based tissue engineering could be of enormous therapeutic and economic benefit for an aging population. ... Many people over the age of 40 suffer from degeneration or injury of their cartilage, leading to a reduced workforce and increased medical expenses. Thus, improvements in cartilage repair using a cell-based tissue engineering appro...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 20, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Things Moms Do…Email this article to a colleague.
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Mom helped me get Maggie out to the veterinarian the other day. “Yeah,” Dr. Thomas, our veterinarian said. “She’s got seasonal allergies and very dry skin.” He gave me a vial of diphenhydramine tablets which is Benadryl in layman's terms. One pill and Maggie is out for hours like an instant coma. We also got some $25 dry skin conditioning shampoo. Too rich for my blood. I am going to use Val’s recipe or some others online for anti dry skin lotion from now on. My mother is the “can do” person in the family when it comes to pet care, I don’t know what I would do without her. She take...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 19, 2011 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
Tuesday PSA: Good Neighbor SpiritEmail this article to a colleague.
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Binky and his outrageously attired younger brother Allergy are back in this public service ad, which really hearkens back to a bygone era when the kids plead their case in front of the Neighborhood Council.
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If nothing else, this ad shows that peer pressure works on adults too. “C’mon, Mr. Jones, you know you want to let the kids play basketball. All the cool neighbors are doing it…”
I think Mr. Jones acquiesces just so Allergy and his hideous bowtie will get out of his face. Perspective or not, it looks like Allergy has a head twice the size of Mr. Jones.
This is o...
Source: Polite Dissent - October 19, 2011 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Vaccination and Renal Patients: A Critical Examination of Assumed Safety and EffectivenessEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusions in the Characterization of Hazard and Dose Response, and References.” www.epa.gov/irishttp://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/iris_drafts/recordisplay.cfm?deid=223614
28 National Cancer Institute. Formaldehyde and Cancer Risk. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/formaldehyde
29 International Agency for Research on Cancer (June 2004). IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Volume 88 (2006): Formaldehyde, 2-Butoxyethanol and 1-tert-Butoxypropan-2-ol. Retrieved May 4, 2009, from: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol88/index.php
30 Occupational Safety and Health Guideline for P...
Source: vactruth.com - October 18, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Suzanne Humphries, M.D. Tags: Suzanne Humphries MD Top Stories Cancer Nephrology Phenol SV40 Thimerosal Vaccine Safety Source Type: blogs
The ascendancy of microbiology: #UCDavis and the Institute of Medicine as examplesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Just another few lines of evidence of the ascendancy of microbiology to report. #1 - At UC Davis Microbiology is very big and getting bigger. Consider this. The Dean of the School of Medicine, Claire Pomeroy is an infectious disease expect and microbiologist. The new Dean of the College of Biological Sciences, James Hildreth research focuses on HIV.The new Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine Michael Lairmore specializes in HTLVs (human T-lymphotropic viruses). Microbes seem to be literally taking over the place here ...#2 The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has been picking more and more microbiologists.Already there are...
Source: The Tree of Life - October 17, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
An Honest Review for ‘The Gerson Therapy: The Proven Nutritional Program for Cancer and Other Illnesses’Email this article to a colleague.
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Cancer. Hepatitis. Migraines. Arthritis. Heart Disease. Emphysema. For years, the medical establishment has called these chronic or life- threatening diseases “incurable.” But now, The Gerson Therapy offers hope for those seeking relief from hundreds of different diseases. Juice your way to wellness. One of the first alternative cancer therapies, The Gerson Therapy has successfully treated thousands of patients for over 60 years.
Now, in this authoritative revised and updated edition, alternative medicine therapist Charlotte Gerson and medical journalist Mor...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - October 16, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Heroin Treatment Source Type: blogs
ACE inhibitor induced small bowel angioedema presenting as an acute abdomen---CT characteristicsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Notes from Dr. RW - October 14, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: gastroenterology allergy and immunology Source Type: blogs
Halloween allergy and asthma triggers, and how to avoid themEmail this article to a colleague.
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For millions of children with asthma and allergies, and their parents, Halloween can be a frightful time of year. Not only because of the usual suspects—candy and treats—but some more unexpected culprits as well. Costumes, makeup, and other accessories can bring on dangerous allergy and asthma symptoms, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology. But fear not—be smart and consider these important tips on how to help your little ghost or goblin stay wheeze and sneeze-free on Halloween night.
Treats: Peanuts, tree nuts, milk and eggs are common ingredients in chocolate and other co...
Source: Consumer Reports Health Blog - October 14, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Consumer Reports News Tags: Babies & Kids Child teen Children ' s Health Conditions treatments Food safety Health News Source Type: blogs
Sixty-Four Free Chemistry DatabasesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The open Web offers a rich collection of diverse chemical data sources - if you know where to look. It’s been over four years since I wrote the previous post in this series describing some emerging chemical databases, and a lot has happened in this space. The time seems right for an update.
Although some of the original databases are no longer active, it’s encouraging to see that a number of them continue to run and even prosper. It’s of course likely that still more services will be created and retired in the coming years. If you know of a free chemistry database that’s missing from this list, please leave ...
Source: Depth-First - October 14, 2011 Category: Chemists Authors: Richard Apodaca Source Type: blogs
Santa Claus: Is He Allergic to DairyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Is it possible that a bloated belly is linked to a dairy allergy?Contributor: Noah LamPublished: Oct 13, 2011
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - October 13, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Potty Talk in a Life of Chronic PainEmail this article to a colleague.
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The early part of this week, my granddaughter and I were watching a Beverly Cleary film, Ramona and Beezus. Ms. Cleary’s books were a part of my children’s lives when they were growing up and probably part of yours or your children’s as well. In the film, the little “individual” character named Ramona announced she was going to swear. After much sputtering she said, “GUTS!” Oh my, such language. My grandchildren are already obsessed with this subject as they used to give each other a detailed description as to “how many” and the distinctive color of their excrement. We have all decided the most interestin...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - October 13, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Chronic pain treatment Digestive Problems irritable bowel syndrome bowel movements defecation digestion excrement pain management Source Type: blogs
100,000 Steps…What color should we wear?Email this article to a colleague.
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The following is a guest post by Janice Lynch Schuster who works at the Altarum Institute, a new voice in the field of aging and end of life issues.
By Janice Lynch Schuster. Sunday night, simultaneously tired and wired from my participation in a 39-mile fundraising walk for breast cancer, I attended my daughter’s one-year anniversary meeting to celebrate her achievement: She has one year of drug-free living. The ceremony was moving and painful, joyful and sad. She talked about her struggle, her journey and moments of arrival, insights into her addiction and awareness of ways to overcome it. She talked about people in...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 13, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Guest Posts Women's Health breast cancer Conditions and Diseases National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Support Groups Source Type: blogs
WHO reports TB cases falling worldwide.Email this article to a colleague.
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World
Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologists announced on Tuesday that
"the number of new cases of tuberculosis in the world each year is falling
for the first time in at least two decades," with the downward trend
starting in 2006. There are "10 'candidate' vaccines for TB in the
research pipeline and two new drugs that could be available as soon as
2013." Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, was quoted as saying, "The field of research on
TB has really missed generations of advances in biology and technology. We
really need to bring TB research from the 19th ...
Source: Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG - October 13, 2011 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Chronic Disease Prevention Surveillance epidemiology infectious diseases Source Type: blogs
Adhd Homeopathic Treatment a Few Home TruthsEmail this article to a colleague.
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What if I told you that your child might be at risk from sudden death or a heart attack if he or she were taking ADHD conventional medication? This has actually happened in Canada where the ADHD drug Adderall has been withdrawn. It is easy to understand why parents are turning to ADHD homeopathic remedies which are safe, effective and much cheaper ! There is absolutely no need to have your child go through a cardiac check up before taking these medicines. There are no side effects with homeopathic ADHD remedies – period!
It was Hippocrates, the father of medicine, who also invented homeopathy – treating like ...
Source: Life With ADHD - October 13, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: ADHD Dad Tags: ADHD Medication adhd medicine home Homeopathic treatment Truths Source Type: blogs
Chronic Hospital Drug Shortages; Can This Problem Be Solved?Email this article to a colleague.
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The FDA is actively involved in the monitoring of drug shortages and perhaps some arm-twisting of drug manufacturers to prevent, or mitigate, the problem (see: Drug Shortages). Mr. HIStalk addresses an interesting aspect of this issue, the safety risks in hospitals of working with a presumably equivalent drug purchased from secondary channels at the time of shortages (see: Monday Morning Update 9/26/11). In part, he addresses the complexities of hospital information systems:
[A reader finds] finds this story about hospital drug shortages and the resultant third-party profiteering scary. I’ll elaborate from experience to ...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 12, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Source Type: blogs
Study Shows Bone Growth From Implanted Tooth And Dental Pulp Stem CellEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study highlights the promise of obtaining stem cells from unusual sources, such as teeth, and their potential benefit in familial treatments for bone reconstruction" said Dr. Julio Voltarelli, professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Immunology at the University of Sao Pãulo, Brazil, and section editor for Cell Transplantation. "Due to their potential to also become other cell types such as neural cells, it will be interesting to see what future studies reveal about the possible uses of these cells."
Source: Dental Technology Blog - October 12, 2011 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Prohibition in PerspectiveEmail this article to a colleague.
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An essay on the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914.
As the 20th Century began, America’s drinking habits were undergoing a thorough review. But In late 1914, five years before the prohibition of alcohol became the law of the land, the government also took aim at other drugs. The legal status of heroin and cocaine changed overnight with the passage of the Harrison Narcotic Act. The U.S. Congress, with the vociferous backing of William Jennings Bryan, the prohibitionist Secretary of State, voted to ban the “non-medical” use of opiates and derivatives of the coca plant.
Under the Harrison Act, physicians could be arrested...
Source: Addiction Inbox - October 12, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
Gimmee a QUAN!Email this article to a colleague.
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By Jan Chait
In my current, sometimes endlessly frustrating realm of blood-glucose wrangling, it may be time to go "on beyond Z."
For the un-Seuss-ified, the quote is from "On Beyond Zebra," by Dr. Seuss (naturally), which imagines a world where the existing alphabet isn't enough: You must go on beyond where it ends to be able to spell the names of some things that you see.
So, on beyond Z!
It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know
All there is to be known.
Take Quandary, for example:
Like QUAN is for Quandary, who lives on a shelf
In a hole in the ocean alone by himself
And he worries, each day, from the d...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - October 11, 2011 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jan Chait Source Type: blogs
A Parallel Autoimmune Online CommunityEmail this article to a colleague.
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Back in early September (September 12-19, 2011), it was national "Invisible Illness Week". The theme for 2011 was "Deep Breath, Start Fresh" and the basic idea behind the theme was that sometimes, it's very easy to get caught up in the day-to-day roller coaster of emotions, doctor's appointments and the like, so the organizers hoped to use the week to help remind everyone with a chronic, invisible illness to take care of themselves, and possibly share some healthy ways of actually doing that … but also to try and add some more joy (and even sunshine, hence the logo) into life! Truth be told, I joined Invisible Illness We...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 11, 2011 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott S Source Type: blogs
House — Episode 2 (Season 8): “Transplant”Email this article to a colleague.
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Hopefully not too many of you found yourself watching Terra Nova instead of House because of the ALCS running late tonight.
Tonight’s episode of House featured House’s return to Princeton Plainsboro Hospital to work under Foreman, the new Dean of Medicine. The social aspects of the episode was good, and the mystery intriguing, but the follow through lacked some luster.
Foreman, now Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital, has arranged for House to get a conditional release from prison. The conditions are fairly simple: House is to break no further laws, is under Foreman’s direction, and is only to ...
Source: Polite Dissent - October 11, 2011 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
A Diary of EHR-Initiated TragedyEmail this article to a colleague.
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"What you cannot anticipate, you cannot dread." - The Fire RoseI've realized that these past posts, when integrated for an upcoming investigation, tell a story that is probably not uncommon in hospitals today. They form a sort of Diary of EHR-Initiated Tragedy.I fear that these problems will become far more commonplace under the government "incentives" and penalties for "non-meaningful" users of "certified" health IT.(Definitions: certified = the IT has the features we mandate to gather the data we want, not that the features have to work well, or that the IT is safe; incentives = "take our meager $ and use this stuff, or...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 9, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Healthcare IT failure healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT deaths healthcare IT risks Source Type: blogs
A Diary of Death by EHREmail this article to a colleague.
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I've realized that these past posts, when integrated for an upcoming investigation, tell a frightening story that is probably not uncommon in hospitals today. They form a sort of Diary of Death by EHR.I fear that these problems will become far more commonplace under the "incentives" and penalties for "non-meaningful" users of "certified" health IT (incentives = "take our incentives and use this stuff, or we will punish you").These posts should be read in sequence:1. "On EHR Warnings: Sure, The Experts Think You Shouldn't Ride A Bicycle Into The Eye Of A Hurricane, But We Have Our Own Theory", http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 9, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Healthcare IT failure healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT deaths healthcare IT risks Source Type: blogs
E-patients – Engaged, Empowered, and Enabled expertsEmail this article to a colleague.
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It’s fitting that in a book which talks about how we can use Information Therapy to put patients first , the last word goes to the most important person in the healthcare space – the patient!Jay ’s blog, Stork Stalking, can be accessed at http://aboutplanb.blogspot.com/. She is my role model of an e-patient – the expert patient who is active and articulate and is changing the face of medical care. There is great power in Participatory Medicine – and when used along with Information Therapy, Health 2.0 can transform healthcare.To explain how Information Therapy has helped me, I need to provide some background. I a...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - October 7, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Health care India patient Health 2.0 Information overload google Anti-Müllerian hormone Information Therapy Source Type: blogs
The Vocal Cord Injury Affecting AdeleEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Grammy-winning singer Adele has canceled a series of U.S. tour dates due to a vocal-cord hemorrhage.
As she wrote on her blog this week, she was first diagnosed with a hemorrhage in May, then rested and recovered. But recently, she was diagnosed with another hemorrhage. “My voice yet again went … it just switched off,” she wrote.
That sort of “instantaneous hoarseness” is typical of hemorrhages of the vocal cords, which are also called vocal folds, says Kenneth Altman, an associate professor of otolaryngology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The change in voice is often accompanied b...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - October 7, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Katherine Hobson Tags: Drugs Source Type: blogs
Schulze Diabetes Institute – Islet Cell TransplantsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Last Tuesday I attended a Diabetes Symposium put on by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation.
Richard Schulze, a Minneapolis area native, is the founder of Best Buy. His daughter lives with type 1 diabetes. In 2008 he and his foundation donated $40 Million dollars to the University of Minnesota (pioneers in diabetes), specifically for type 1 diabetes research. The University has renamed its Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation to the Schulze Diabetes Institute.
Dr. Bernard Hering & Kathy White
The symposium was held to help raise awareness of the work being done at the Schulze Diabetes Institu...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - October 7, 2011 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Islet Cells Dr. Hering Islet Cell Transplants Kathy White Schulze Diabetes Institute Schulze Family Foundation University of MN Source Type: blogs
Miniaturized Technologies in Pathogen DetectionEmail this article to a colleague.
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from Theron et al. in Nanotechnology in Water Treatment ApplicationsAdvances in microfluidics and microfabrication technologies have contributed greatly to the miniaturization of biological and chemical analytical systems, allowing the handling of low volume samples, as well as reductions in reagent consumption, waste generation, costs and assay time. Micro-total analysis systems (micro-TAS), sometimes called "lab-on-a-chip", are microfabricated devices capable of performing the functions of large analytical devices in small units. These devices are fabricated in glass, silicon or polymer materials, and integrate different...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - October 7, 2011 Category: Microbiology Tags: Nanotechnology Biotechnology Emerging Molecular Technology Hot Topics in Molecular Biology Source Type: blogs
30 Things About My Invisible IllnessEmail this article to a colleague.
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By Eric Lagergren
I'm headed out of town for a couple of days back to Kansas (boyhood home) to attend the Svensk Hyllningsfest in Lindsborg, get back to my Swedish roots, and see some of my family. So to get my blog entry off in time, I decided to do a delinquent answering of the "30 Questions" that came out in conjunction with National Invisible Chronic Illness Week (NICIW) a couple of weeks ago. I read Kerri's 30 things over at SixUntilMe, which she answered during NICIW. I thought I'd do it then, too. I didn't. I am now.
1. The illness I live with is:
Type 1 diabetes.
2. I was diagnosed with it in the year:
2007.
3. Bu...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - October 6, 2011 Category: Diabetes Authors: Eric Lagergren Source Type: blogs
Activation of the Immune System and the Nobel Prize for MedicineEmail this article to a colleague.
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The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced on Monday. The prize was awarded to three scientists for their work on the body’s immune system.
The prize of 10-million-Swedish-krona (US$1.5-million) was divided, one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler, age 54, at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, and Jules A. Hoffmann, age 70, at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology in Strasbourg, for their discovery of receptor proteins that can recognize bacteria and other microorganisms and activate innate immunity, and the other half to Ralph ...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - October 4, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Walter Jessen Source Type: blogs
Here comes the sunburnEmail this article to a colleague.
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Northumberland is a chatty old place. Partly because the people are friendly, and partly because even the people you don’t think you know probably know who you are, because they go cycling with the uncle of your doctor’s receptionist, or their Grandma lived up the back lane from your Grandma. So it’s worth talking to everyone, just in case your mother later tells you off for ignoring someone you ought to have spoken to. Ignorance is no defence in Amble.
Supermarket queues are especially conversational. I was standing in Marks and Spencer in Morpeth last week, on one of the unseasonably hot days that we...
Source: Bah! to cancer - October 4, 2011 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Recovery From Breast Cancer Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Superiority of virtual microscopy versus light microscopy in transplantation pathologyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nice study in this month's Clinical Transplantation on light versus virtual microscopy.
Increasingly studies are showing equal or superior interobserver agreement with virtual over light microscopy.
What if we find whole slides are better than glass slides in terms of diagnostic accuracy compared with "truth" or "gold standard" diagnosis?
Clin Transplant. 2011 Sep 29. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01506.x. [Epub ahead of print]
Ozluk Y, Blanco PL, Mengel M, Solez K, Halloran PF, Sis B.
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Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Department of Pathol...
Source: Digital Pathology Blog - October 4, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Kaps Source Type: blogs
House — Episode 1 (Season 8): “Twenty Vicodin”Email this article to a colleague.
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The first episode of what is likely to be the final season of House is off to a good start. The constraints of practicing medicine in prison focus the usually superficial medicine on the show down to its core elements.
After last season’s finale, House is now in prison for driving his car into Cuddy’s house and then fleeing the country for three months. In a meeting before the parole board, House is informed that due to prison overcrowding, he is due to be released in five days, as long as he can stay out of trouble. What follows is a week in the life of Gregory House, prisoner.
As the week start, we see him in line t...
Source: Polite Dissent - October 4, 2011 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Innate and Adaptive Immunology Pioneers Win The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011Email this article to a colleague.
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Earlier this morning, The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has announced that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be shared with one half jointly by American Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffman from France and the other half by Canadian born Ralph M. Steinman from Rockefeller University in New York for their seminal discoveries in immunology. Unfortunately, Dr. Steinman, who discovered the dendritic cell, did not live to know about the prize, as he passed away just days before the announcement. Drs. Hoffmann and Beutler are well known for their research in innate immunity.The following scientifi...
Source: Medgadget - October 3, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: in the news... Source Type: blogs
Your Kids Needs Medication? Be Careful on School DaysEmail this article to a colleague.
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By Glenna Crooks. It’s hard enough to be a parent these days, right? It’s harder still if your kids are ill. And really difficult when – as is increasingly the case – their condition is chronic and you, they and the adults who are there when you are not there must manage a regimen of care.
An increasing number of kids need some sort of special care: dietary management, medication management and ‘rescue’ strategies for medical crises and allergies. Some of these conditions are life-threatening and improper management can be deadly.
It’s hard enough to make modifications, even at home. Imagine what it’s like...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 3, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Dendritic cell pioneers win Nobel PrizeEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided thatThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011shall be divided, with one half jointly toBruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmannfor their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunityand the other half toRalph M. Steinmanfor his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity SummaryThis year's Nobel Laureates have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation.Scientists have long been searching for the gatekeepers of the immune response by which man and other animals de...
Source: The A and P Professor - October 3, 2011 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Sappy Dog BloggingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Back by popular demand (with attribution to William the Coroner for the post title) … more pictures of our pets.
Our two dogs are doing well. However, during a check up, we found that our puppy has demodectic mange. Of course, that freaked everyone in the family out until we learned that it wasn’t contagious. Transmitted from mother to baby, not generally from adult dog to adult dog. We just thought the red areas on her skin were because of her white hair. Also found out that she has food allergies. She’s on some $90/bag food that is made from only duck and potato. Initially, she liked it. Now, when we gi...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - October 2, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Random Thoughts Source Type: blogs
Branding disease – how drug marketing worksEmail this article to a colleague.
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This from CNN by Dr. Carl Elliott, an M.D. and Ph.D., who is is the author of “White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine” (Beacon Press, 2010).
If you want to understand the way prescription drugs are marketed today, have a look at the 1928 book, “Propaganda,” by Edward Bernays, the father of public relations in America.
For Bernays, the public relations business was less about selling things than about creating the conditions for things to sell themselves. When Bernays was working as a salesman for Mozart pianos, for example, he did not simply place advertisements for pianos in newspapers. Tha...
Source: seroxat secrets... - October 2, 2011 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Big Pharma Drug Marketing Paxil Seroxat Source Type: blogs
Viral Etiology for Chronic Fatigure Syndrome Seriously QuestionedEmail this article to a colleague.
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In a previous note, I covered some early news about the XMRV virus, the possible relationship of the virus to the chronic fatigue syndrome, and the blood donor criteria (see: Recently Described Virus, XMRV, May Threaten Our Blood Supply; Red Cross Barrring Blood Donors with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). It now appears out that this viral theory for the disease has been seriously questioned by other researchers. In addition, this article on this topic contains some other interesting data (see: Viral Theory Is Set Back In Chronic Fatigue Study):
Dashing the hopes of many people with chronic fatigue syndrome, an eagerly awaited ...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 30, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Blood Banking Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Laboratory Industry Trends Medical Consumerism Medical Research Source Type: blogs
FDA Removing Over-the-counter Asthma Drug From Shelves for EnvironmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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Users of Primatene Mist, the only over-the-counter treatment for acute symptoms of asthma, will need to find an alternative as of December 31, 2011. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that the medication will no longer be available because it uses chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as a propellant agent [1], and CFCs have long been known to deplete Earth’s ozone layer.
Primatene Mist contains epinephrine, also called adrenaline, which stimulates the sympathetic branch of the body’s autonomic nervous system.
Sympathetic branch: the portion of the autonomic nervous system responsible for t...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - September 30, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Kirstin Hendrickson Source Type: blogs
Lazy Links--Casual Friday EditionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Yep, it's time again for Crabby's Completely Casual Collection of random health and fitness links!
And for those of you too fatigued or busy to concentrate on big long paragraphs of stuff? No worries! It's Friday, we'll keep it simple. You can pop in, find a magic (and tasty) cure for depression, then find some good news to pass along to your pothead friends, and check out some fun links... then scoot right back to playing Words With Friends finishing off your important work that you always do so diligently.
First up, ever wonder if taking fish oil capsules will work as well as eating real fish for...
Source: Cranky Fitness - September 30, 2011 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Study: Kids Given Plasma Despite No Clear BenefitEmail this article to a colleague.
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Many kids get plasma transfusions when there's little evidence they do much good, according to a new study.Transfusions of so-called fresh frozen plasma are sometimes given to both kids and adults whose blood has problems clotting, or if they have lost a lot of blood from surgery or an accident.But only a couple of studies in kids have shown that plasma transfusions are a good option for one specific heart surgery procedure. The rest of the time, researchers have found they don't work, or that their benefit is uncertain.In the current study, pediatricians reported that almost three percent of kids admitted to children's&nb...
Source: Medical Hemostat - September 30, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hemostatguy at gmail.com (hemostat guy) Source Type: blogs
Crooked CannulaEmail this article to a colleague.
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By Eric Lagergren
Sunday started for me like most days. Wait, let me revise that sentence and begin again. Sunday, as far as diabetes goes, as far as my health goes, started for me like most days. I woke up, checked my blood glucose — which I was happy with — took my thyroid hormone (since in addition to Type 1 diabetes, I also lack my thyroid thanks to thyroid cancer), and then about twenty minutes later Kathryn and I headed out with Ellie to Dog Church. Dog Church is the 18-acre members-only dog park that Ellie loves, and which is our Sunday morning ritual.
So far, so good.
Our afternoon plans were to head up...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - September 29, 2011 Category: Diabetes Authors: Eric Lagergren Source Type: blogs
The significance of cultural competence in the healthcare industryEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion
Although anecdotal, these examples show us that that understanding attitudes towards drugs should be a priority for pharmaceutical companies looking to launch a drug in emerging markets, as it is in these markets that one tends to be confronted with less conventional attitudes (at least from a Western viewpoint) towards illness and wellbeing. That is why deep local knowledge and market-tailored decisions are necessary to transform information into healthy behaviours. Patient-oriented analytics are also needed to extract meaningful intelligence from large amounts of information about populations and patients.
Cre...
Source: Creation Interactive - September 29, 2011 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Authors: Georgiana Murariu Tags: All Articles Asia Healthcare Social Media Source Type: blogs
