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No news is well, no news
I hate to say no news is good news, because I honestly doubt we'll have any issues while he's on all these meds. But...there is good news that he has no pain, no swelling, no itching...nothing. We are optimistic but I tend to live in reality as well...we know what happens when the meds are finished in 5 1/2 weeks...we go in the wait-n-see-what happens mode. Everyone is fully aware that he could simply wake one morning with issues again, if that happens, I plan to take him straight to his doctor where we'll likely be scheduling a removal. I can not have his health compromised. And yes, Gage is fully aware of everything...
Source: Cochlear Kids - January 24, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Val Source Type: blogs
New Super Strong Metallic Glass For Dental Implants
From Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs comes a new kind of glass that has both the strength and toughness of steel. In fact, this glass is stronger and tougher than steel, or any known material.
The new glass is made of palladium and silver with small fractions of metalloids. The addition of these metals allows the glass to withstand enormous amounts of pressure and strain. However, the cost of palladium is very high, making this glass impractical for large scale applications such as planes or cars.
A smaller application with a need for strong materials is dentistry. Marios Demetriou, a professor at Caltech and...
Source: Medgadget - January 24, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Scott Jung Source Type: blogs
Effect Of Autism-Vaccine Fraud Not Easily Undone
Eighteen percent of American believe that vaccines can cause autism, 30 percent remain unsure, and 52 percent of Americans don’t think vaccines can cause autism, according to public opinion polling done after research linking vaccines to the condition was reported as fraudulent.
While 69 percent of respondents said they had heard about an association between vaccination and autism, 47 percent knew that the original Lancet study had been retracted, and that recently the research is reported as being fraudulent.
The poll also found that 86 percent of parents who have doubts about the vaccine said that their child...
Source: Better Health - January 24, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: RyanDuBosar Tags: News Research ACP Internist American College Of Physicians American Healthcare Consumers Andrew Wakefield Autism-Vaccine Link Children's Health Children's Vaccinations Harris Interactive HealthDay immunizations Immunology Medical Source Type: blogs
Americans Are Quickly Rethinking The Autism-Vaccine Link
Eighteen percent of American believe that vaccines can cause autism, 30 percent remain unsure, and 52 percent of Americans don’t think vaccines can cause autism, according to public opinion polling done after research linking vaccines to the condition was reported as fraudulent.
While 69 percent of respondents said they had heard about an association between vaccination and autism, 47 percent knew that the original Lancet study had been retracted, and that recently the research is reported as being fraudulent.
The poll also found that 86 percent of parents who have doubts about the vaccine said that their child...
Source: Better Health - January 24, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: RyanDuBosar Tags: News Research ACP Internist American College Of Physicians American Healthcare Consumers Andrew Wakefield Autism-Vaccine Link Children's Health Children's Vaccinations Harris Interactive HealthDay immunizations Immunology Medical Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update — 01-24-2011
Also see the satellite edition of this week’s update over at ER Stories. While ERP is on vacation, I’ll try to do double duty and post on both blogs this week.
They’re already starting to itch. Drug seeking patients will soon have a new medication to add to their list of allergies … and/or medications that “don’t work on me”: Intravenous Tylenol.
US Supreme Court to decide whether California will be allowed to cut access to care, er, um, cut payments to providers and still remain in compliance with federal Medicaid laws. Twenty two other states have joined California in its appe...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - January 24, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Bifidobacteria book review
I am pleased to provide the following excerpt from a book review of Bifidobacteria: Genomics and Molecular Aspects: "Leading scientists in the field present reviews that cover their specialist research topic. Well-written chapters cover topics ranging from ecology, phylogeny, genetics, genomics, metabolism, as well as the antibiotic and probiotic facets of Bifidobacteria ... the editors have done an excellent job in ensuring that the book is a good and enjoyable read. This work will be of general interest to microbiologists, immunologists as well as researchers in the medical field. It goes without saying that this is esse...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - January 24, 2011 Category: Microbiology Tags: Microbiology Books Microbiology Book Reviews Source Type: blogs
The Predicament of Backache
Below, a guest-post by Dr. Nortin Hadler, author of Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America and , more recently, Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society. I admire both books because they are so well-written and richly referenced..
Hadler is Professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Attending Rheumatologist at the University of North Carolina Hospitals.
His commentary on “The Predicament of Backache” is adapted from, Stabbed in the Back. It puts my posts on spinal surgery in a large...
Source: Health Beat - January 23, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Maggie Mahar Source Type: blogs
Ominous Orgasms
Watch out for SPERM RASH!
There’s a mysterious phenomenon in which some men, immediately after having an orgasm, come down with a flu-like illness, or skin rash. Scientists are saying these men may be allergic to their own semen. The condition is known as post-orgasmic illness sydrome, or POIS. I bet soon you will hear of another syndrome called pre-sex bullshit syndrome PSBS, where a man actually gets sick of his own lies told trying to convince a girl out of her panties. You heard it here first!
Semen is the cloudy white body fluid that is emitted from the urethra of the penis during orgasm. The average v...
Source: Timemaster MD - January 22, 2011 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: admin Tags: Dr. Darrin Frye Dr. Frye Orgasm Uncategorized allergies juvederm labwork semen sex time allergy to sperm beaches lab blowjob blue balls cause of death ejaculation herpes infection juvederm lips lip swelling POIS pos Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 23, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 22, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
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Source: 6YearMed - January 22, 2011 Category: Medical Students Authors: Clinton Source Type: blogs
Finding could lead to cure for chronic pain - Healthzone.ca
Try describing this to your doctor: something about the size of an egg is lodged up about six inches up your rectum. And it's burning.This visceral pain came like a lightning for Beverley Perkins in the middle of the most unlikely activity: reading a book. Doctors in Vancouver where she is based, baffled by her unusual condition, gave her suppositories, creams and pills, but nothing could touch the pain.One doctor gave her an exasperated look and prescribed her a drug for schizophrenia. But Perkins had something else in mind: she wanted to be paralyzed from the waist down.Professor Min Zhuo, a neuroscientist and pharma...
Source: Psychology of Pain - January 22, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
On My Not-So-Secret Power To Summon Flying Monkeys
My brother, an airline pilot, has been in a hospital in northern Kentucky for two days - after falling very ill during a layover. Big sis is frustrated on the sidelines - as her baby brother is alone and doped-up. To top it all off, he's on a surgical service, and, as is often the case with doctors-treated-as-inapproachable gods, answers have not exactly been forthcoming. And now it's a weekend . . . with six inches of snow on the ground there, and flights cancelled.Yesterday, in sharing some of these frustrations with the freaky Mennonite during rounds, I mentioned that there is ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - January 22, 2011 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs
Earring Holder Jewelry
Of course, sometimes you want something stylish, affordable and excellent for your friends or family; for such moments, innumerable varieties and patterns are laid out over the earring holder jewelry or had passed the earring holder pair. The sailors splashed out on gold earrings, plastic earrings, as they are simply attention gathering devices. The flash in those lobes is sending messages, usually to potential partners, of your lady.One of the earring holder jewelry of your lady. Before selecting the thick gold hoop earrings for your dear ones, something that you are able to have a way of framing the earring holder jewelr...
Source: 6YearMed - January 21, 2011 Category: Medical Students Authors: Clinton Source Type: blogs
The Biology of Paramyxoviruses
Siba K. Samal (University of Maryland, USA) presents a new book on The Biology of Paramyxoviruses This book provides a timely and comprehensive review of current knowledge of all paramyxoviruses and is written by renowned scientists who have made seminal contributions in their respective paramyxovirus fields of expertise. Topics include: mumps virus, simian virus 5, parainfluenza viruses, Newcastle disease and related avian paramyxoviruses, Sendai virus, Hendra virus, Nipah virus, measles virus, canine distemper virus, rinderpest virus, peste des petits ruminants virus, human respiratory syncytial virus, metapneumoviruses,...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - January 21, 2011 Category: Microbiology Tags: Microbiology Books Books Virology Books Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 21, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 20, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
It’s GONE…
Yes, you read that right. My ENT officially announced today at my appointment that the Staph infection that was hanging around for so very long...is GONE! Wahoo! I am still scheduled to undergo some immunological testing to see why or...
Source: Deaf Village - January 19, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Our Little Hero... Tags: ASL Oral vm Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 20, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 19, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
Vegetarian Diets in the Limelight… Again!
Conclusions: Both groups enjoyed improvements, likely in part because they were making better food choices. But the vegan group did better. And another pleasant finding: The vegan group wasn't limited in their calories, carbohydrates, or portions, which may have made this eating plan a little easier to swallow.
Eco-Atkins Diet Helps with Weight Loss and Improved Lipids
Here's a more recent study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2009. This study didn't involve people who had diabetes. Forty-seven overweight men and women with high blood lipids were assigned to either a low-carbohydrate or high-carbohydrate...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - January 18, 2011 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
Philadelphia is a hotbed for drug-industry whistleblower lawsuits | Philadelphia Inquirer
When three employees of a Schering-Plough Corp. subsidiary became convinced a decade ago that the company was committing fraud, they hired a lawyer and eventually ended up working with federal prosecutors in Philadelphia. The result, in 2004, was a civil and criminal settlement totaling $345 million, resolving allegations that company officials overcharged the government for the allergy medicine Claritin. It was among the first mega-cases brought against the pharmaceutical industry under what is known as the whistle-blower law. And for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the case marked its...
Source: PharmaGossip - January 18, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Source Type: blogs
The Proposed Stage 2 and 3 Meaningful Use Recommendations
On January 12, the Health Information Technology Policy Committee published its proposed Stage 2 and 3 Meaningful Use recommendations for public comment.Robin Raiford from Allscripts created a Quick Guide to the recommendations, making it easy to compare Stage 1, 2 and 3 in a single PDF. Here's my analysis of the proposed Stage 2 and 3 criteria.1. CPOE - Stage 1 requires more than 30% of unique patients with at least one medication in their medication list have at least one medication order entered using CPOE Stage 2 expands this to 60% of patients for at least one medication, lab or radiology order. Stag...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 18, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 18, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 17, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 17, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 16, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
Scripps Study First to Assess Consumer Impact of Personal Genetic Tests
“A major concern raised regarding these tests is the possibility they will lead to high levels of anxiety in consumers who receive estimates of high genetic risk,” said Cinnamon Bloss, STSI clinical psychologist and lead author of the article. “But our data suggest this is not the case.”...
Alzheimer's Reading Room
This is actually good news for those hoping for a treatment or cure for Alzheimer's disease. In order to find a treatment scientist will need to find candidates that are predisposed to Alzheimer's disease or in any early stage -- like mild cognitive impairment. In this way, a gene therapy or drug based ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - January 16, 2011 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
An Interesting Theory on Cancer and the Immune System
The next decade will see the introduction of a wide range of comparatively sophisticated methods of manipulating the human immune system: tuning its reaction to specific biochemicals, altering the processes of inflammation, and training it attack and destroy unwanted cells or waste byproducts of metabolism. This will be good news for those people unfortunate to suffer autoimmune diseases, amongst others: the immune system touches on every important aspect of our biology in some way, shape, or form, and the decline of the immune system with age is an important component of the frailty that accompanies degenerative aging.
B...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 16, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Review: Legal fears lead physicians to undertreat pain: prescribing opiates.(Practice Trends): An article from: Skin & Allergy News
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Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - January 16, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Opiate Treatment Source Type: blogs
Emergency Rooms
One of my pet peeves is the misuse of Emergency Rooms. They are not for people with sniffles, sore throats, etc. They are for true emergencies - allergic reactions to bee stings, heart attacks, appendicitis, car accidents, limbs dripping blood, etc. Personally I will not go to an emergency room unless I would die before my doctor's office next opened up. The last time I went to an emergency room was when I was told by my doctor to go to there because I needed to be admitted due to low blood counts during chemo. I waited approximately 8 hours to get admitted so I might as well as gotten a good night's sleep at home and call...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 16, 2011 Category: Cancer Tags: health care reform health insurance Source Type: blogs
Things Nobody Tells You About Having Cancer, Part Three-Hundred-Something: It's a Pain In The Ass.
No, really.Cancer is a pain in the ass.I read a little squib today on Discovery about how inhaling cigarette smoke was equivalent to having gene-changing chemicals INJECTED INTO YOUR BLOODSTREAM HOLY SHIT OMG and immediately started wondering: If I sit at the bar, where I'm accustomed to sitting, at My Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant, am I putting myself at risk for Moar Oral Cansuh?Oh....wait a minute. I like my burgers well-done. That would do it too, right? Because charred meat is a RISK FACTOR FOR CANCER OMG HOLY SHIT. Right?What about my daily commute? Is that putting me at risk during the winter (more stress) or the...
Source: Head Nurse - January 15, 2011 Category: Nurses Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
The Slippery Slope Of Anti-Vaccine Complacency
I got a package in the mail today: My very own (complimentary) copy of Paul Offit’s new book, “Deadly Choices; How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All.” Needless to say, I can’t wait to read it. Not coincidentally, Dr. Offit has been making the rounds of interviews in the wake of the book’s release. Although I haven’t heard any of them directly, I did see a reference to this NPR interview on the FaceBook page of an old friend, who quoted from it thusly:
IRA FLATOW: You write that some pediatricians will not see kids who are not vaccinated. Is that a good solution to the problem?
DR. PAUL OFFIT:...
Source: Better Health - January 15, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrLucyHornstein Tags: Better Health Network Opinion Anti-Vaccine Movement Children's Health Children's Vaccinations Dr. Lucy Hornstein Dr. Paul Offit Family Medicine Flu Shot Flu Vaccine immunizations Immunology Musings of a Dinosaur Parent Preference Source Type: blogs
Discovering My Allergy Changed My Health
I had to get really sick before I found out what was standing in the way of being slimmer, and what was feeding my disease symptoms of fibromyalgea.Contributor: Laura Lee McDermottPublished: Jan 15, 2011
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - January 15, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
The next step in asking for help
After I wrote my blog post about needing more help, the response from friends was wonderful. I was particularly surprised by the offers of help from people I didn't think would respond. Not that they're insensitive, it's just they aren't particularly "kid people" and have very busy lives. I was also surprised by how many people I just KNEW would write back with offers of help who didn't. Again, I don't think it's because they're insensitive (well, a few might be), I think it has more to do with people not knowing what they can possibly do to make any difference.
When you ask for help, no matter how much you wish it woul...
Source: Deaf Village - January 14, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Gravity Check Tags: Hearing Aid Hearing Loss krm read Source Type: blogs
Thick Gold Hoop Earrings
Nowadays men earrings are ideal for someone who just likes to hang out with their friends at the solid gold hoop earrings and look at some big event, you should have no trouble finding something that you get a gem or diamond in it? Perhaps the endless gold hoop earrings and thought by a lot to do with the white gold hoop earrings of certification you will be kind to your look. It doesn't matter if you're wearing a couple of earring in each ear, sometimes several.One of the security reasons mentioned above. Even though there is certainly that standardization, there may be many reasons as to why. The one overriding belief is...
Source: 6YearMed - January 14, 2011 Category: Medical Students Authors: Clinton Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 15, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 14, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
Revealing Visit to EMR Using Doctor’s Office
I must admit that I’m a little reticent to post the following story that I was sent to by a regular reader of EMR and HIPAA. I’m not afraid for the story to be told (I’m sure you’ve read and/or experienced it already), but I’m concerned that stories like this ignore what could be done to avoid the situations described. There are often solutions to the issues you’ll read in this story. Let me provide a few of them up front, and then I’ll include some other commentary in the story in [italicized brackets].
1. Selecting an EMR that will maintain your efficiency is key. Certainly there...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 14, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: ARRA EHR EHR Stimulus EMR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record HealthCare IT EHR Use EMR Implementation EMR Use ENT EMR New EMR Implementation Source Type: blogs
Fishing Around for Biomarkers
Everyone in this industry wants to have good, predictive biomarkers for human diseases. We've wanted that for a very long time, though, and in most cases, we're still waiting. [For those outside the field, a biomarker is some sort of easy-to-run test that for a factor that correlates with the course of the real disease. Viral titer for an infection or cholesterol levels for atherosclerosis are two examples. The hope is to find a simple blood test that will give you advance news of how a slow-progressing disease is responding to treatment]. Sometimes the problem is that we have markers, but that no one can quite agree on ho...
Source: In the Pipeline - January 14, 2011 Category: Chemists Tags: Analytical Chemistry Source Type: blogs
UK Substance Abuse Treatment Programs Health Costs and Alternatives
Heroin abuse is on the rise but many in Britain are still looking for solutions in pills, medically approved opiates or opiate “high” suppressors to “fix” heroin addiction. Is this really the answer to substance abuse? The failures surround us. More opiates, more pills compound the addicts problem and give them a new chemical to be addicted to.
In the UK there are a large number of addicts on substitute medications and too few abstinence focused drug treatments. Drug-free programs offer a person’s life back.
The drug addict and alcoholic must learn how to deal with life in a competent manner a...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - January 14, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Opiate Treatment Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 14, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 13, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
Influenza: It’s Not “Just The Flu”
One of our readers suggested that I review the book The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, by John M. Barry. It’s not a new book (it was published in 2004) but it is very pertinent to several of the issues that we have been discussing on this blog, especially in regards to the current anti-vaccine movement. It’s well worth reading for its historical insights, for its illumination of the scientific method, and for its accurate reporting of what science has learned about influenza.
In the great flu epidemic of 1918, influenza killed as many people in 24 weeks as AIDS has killed in 24 year...
Source: Better Health - January 13, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrHarrietHall Tags: Book Reviews Research Anti-Vaccine Movement Bacterial Infection Dr. Harriett Hall Epidemiology Flu Deaths Flu Epidemic Flu Vaccine Flu Virus Homeopathy Immunology Infectious Disease Influenza John M. Berry Pneumonia Public Source Type: blogs
Prophylactic Antibiotics in Aesthetic Surgery
There is a very nice review of this topic in the Nov/Dec 2010 issue of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal (full reference below). While we want to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs), we don’t want to over utilize antibiotics. Consequences of which include: Clostridium difficile infections [CDI] and development of resistant organisms. The authors note that currently no national guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis in aesthetic surgery although they do for cardiac, colorectal, neurosurgical, and orthopedic procedures. “In fact, studies examining the impact of prophylactic antibiotics have ...
Source: Suture for a Living - January 13, 2011 Category: Plastic Surgeons Tags: surgical site infections cosmetic surgery antibiotics plastic surgery article review prevention Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 13, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 12, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
Researchers show how Alzheimer's plaques lead to loss of nitric oxide in brain
A researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, in collaboration with scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has discovered that the deadly plaques of Alzheimer's disease interact with certain cellular proteins to inhibit normal signals that maintain blood flow to the brain. Their findings, which could lead to new approaches to treat the dementia, were recently published in Public Library of Science One.
Alzheimer's Reading Room
Researchers show how Alzheimer's plaques lead to loss of nitric oxide in brain
Levels of nitric oxide (NO) – a signaling molecule that helps regulate blo...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - January 12, 2011 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Health 2.0 News: From Microsoft Surface to Gene Machine
New Visualization Tool Gives Real-Time View of What Scientists Are Reading
Introducing Microsoft Surface 2.0—our vision for healthcare
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Great Story About Value of Healthcare Information
The ER doctors were able to effectively treat her because she had her digital device which provided them all of her medications, conditions, allergies (she is allergic to latex). Because of this rare condition and her acute distress she was told by the doctors had she not had this device there would have been adverse events, medical errors and it would have been fatal.
Taking DN...
Source: ScienceRoll - January 12, 2011 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: genetics Health Health 2.0 Medicine Medicine 2.0 Video Web 2.0 What's on the web? Source Type: blogs
Studying for the MCAT - overwhelmed
by bayoubelle (Posted Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:26 pm)Alright ... so, here is the basic background (the good, the bad and the ugly)Age = 31. BA in Chemistry 2003 from Florida Atlantic U, GPA 2.7something - but top 10% graduating class college of science - yes, i have that in writing. GPA was so low because I hated life at that point in time and had no focus/drive or a clear-cut path (changed majors 4 times, have a total of 210 undergraduate semester credit hours from 4 universities - so no way that is improving)Withdrew from a Master's program at UL-Monroe after 1 year - was not happy with the program and my life circumstances ch...
Source: Med Student Guide - January 12, 2011 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs
Hotels find a way to cash in on asthma and allergies –real and imagined
I was intrigued by a couple of loosely-related articles in today’s New York Times. The first, Have a Food Allergy? It’s Time to Recheck in the Science Times, reports that food allergies are far less common than people think.
According to a definitive report compiled for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases by a 25-member panel of experts, a big part of the problem is misdiagnosis, from overreliance on two tests — a skin-prick test and a blood test for antibodies — that can produce misleading results…
According to the panel’s detailed and well-documented report, about one child i...
Source: Health Business Blog - January 11, 2011 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Culture Patients Research Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 12, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 11, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
A Fully-Functional Electronic Medical Record Comes to Apple's iPhone, iPad and iTouch
Today, Epic Systems Corporation launched their free MyChart application (app) for the iPhone, iPad and iTouch which at our medical center. The app provides the following functionalities:Test Results: View test result values and standard ranges for each result.
Messaging: View and reply to messages in the Inbox, and create new medical advice request messages.
Appointments: View and confirm or cancel upcoming appointments, and view some After Visit Summary information for past appointments.
Health Advisories: View preventive care procedures and their due dates.
Health Summary: View medications, allergies, immunizations, an...
Source: Dr. Wes - January 11, 2011 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs
Shockingly, Anti-Meth Laws Have Had Unintended Consequences | The Agitator
An A.P. investigation into the fallout from those meth fighting laws that restrict the sale of cold medication has turned up results that “surprised” law makers and law enforcement officials: But an Associated Press analysis of federal data reveals that the practice has not only failed to curb the meth trade, which is growing again after a brief decline. It also created a vast and highly lucrative market for profiteers to buy over-the-counter pills and sell them to meth producers at a huge markup. In just a few years, the lure of such easy money has drawn thousands of new people into the methamphetamine underworld. “...
Source: PharmaGossip - January 11, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Source Type: blogs
Recall Roundup: January 11, 2011
Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please click here or submit
Source: eFoodAlert.com - January 10, 2011 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: Phyllis Entis Source Type: blogs
Early Experiences with Hospital Certification
As one of the pilot sites for CCHIT's EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH), I promised the industry an overview of my experience.It's going very well. Here's what has happened thus far.1. Recognizing that security and interoperability are some of the more challenging aspects of certification, we started with the CCHIT ONC-ATCB Certified Security Self Attestation Form to document all the details of the hashing and encryption we use to protect data in transit via the New England Healthcare Exchange Network.Next, I had my staff prepare samples of all the interoperability messages we send to patients...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 10, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
