MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'epinephrine'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:49:08 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4984450&cid=t_112076_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fred-neck-physician-antics%2F2011.06.29 A physician friend of mine recently bragged that, while driving along a rural South Carolina road, he had stopped, chased a timber-rattler into the bushes, located said rattler, then urinated on it. ‘I wanted to say I had peed on a rattlesnake!’  He beat a hasty retreat (and I imagine a hasty zip-up) when the snake rattled and struck at the air.  Who can blame Mr. Snake? You can take the redneck to medical school, but you’ll just get a redneck with a medical degree. Which brings me to me.  I have to work on our tool-shed/work-shop in the morning.  The tool-shed/work-shop is, however, over-run with red-wasps.  I counted no less than ten nests inside.  These are irritable, contentious creatures with no love of humanity.  If they were humans, they would be (more…) ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4984450 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:00:45 +0100 4984450 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3679817&cid=t_112076_111_f&fid=39123&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fnursingcomments%2Ftdtc%2F%7E3%2FJI8jqU2_BUM%2F           My oldest son always carries an EPI-pen (short for Epinephrine); as I have to give him three shots for his severe allergies to just about everything ‘green’.  It is a life saving drug that is used for cardiac arrest, allergic reaction, asthma attacks and emphysema patients.  Early this month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration put Epinephrine on its list of drug shortages.  The time of year couldn’t be worse – the sudden heat increases cases of difficulty breathing, cardiac arrest and even insect bites.  Hospira is currently the only manufacturer of the drug.  It is struggling to meet demand after another company stopped making it late last year.  Apparently professionals have started a back-up plan that involves mixing a vial of Epinephrine that is a hig... Nursing Comments blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3679817 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:24:51 +0100 3679817 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2074608&cid=t_112076_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FBHgi1GlYe0U%2F Dogs have truly proven they are man’s best friend. A study led by a nurse Kathie Cole, at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center used dogs to interact with heart patients. The study conducted by Kathie, used therapeutic dogs. There were 76 patients with an average age of 57, that had been hospitalized with heart failure. Patients received a visit from a volunteer with a dog, just a volunteer or no visit at all; physiological responses were measured before, during and after the visits. The findings were that anxiety dropped 24%, in the patients that were visited by a volunteer with a dog.  There was only a 10% drop in patients when visited by a volunteer and those with no visits stayed the same. When your body is under stress, levels of (epinephrine), which is a... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074608 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:43:56 +0100 2074608 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1208968&cid=t_112076_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F229688710%2F Below you have a very insightful article on stress by one of our new Expert Contributors, Gregory Kellet, a researcher at UCSF. Enjoy! (Credit for Pic of Victoria Crater in Mars: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, via Wikipedia).  ---------------------------------------------- “My brain is…fried, toast, frazzled, burnt out.” How many times have you said or heard one version or another of these statements. Most of us think we are being figurative when we utter such phrases, but research shows that the biological consequences of sustained high levels of stress may have us being more accurate than we would like to think. Crash Course on Stress Our bodies are a complex balancing act between systems working full time to keep us alive and well. This balancing act is constantly adapting to th... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1208968 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:39:22 +0100 1208968 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=543560&cid=t_112076_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F14%2Fstress-helps-cancer-resist-treatment%2F Filed under: Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Research, Stress Reduction, Daily newsWay to go Wake Forest University scientists -- for adding to the body of evidence connecting stress to illness and for reporting before anyone else that the stress hormone epinephrine causes changes in prostate and breast cancer cells that may make them resistant to death.Emotional stress contributes not only to the development of cancer, says lead researcher George Kulik, D.V.M., Ph.D, but it also reduces the effectiveness of cancer treatments.Previous research shows levels of epinephrine, produced by the adrenal glands, are sharply increased during stressful situations and can stay elevated during long-term stress and depression.During this study, published in the on-line Journal of Biological Chemistry, K... 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