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Can I Tap That?
Part 1 of a Series   How often do you come in contact with a patient whose chief complaint is knee pain? How often can you actually to do something about it? Collectively as emergency providers, we do not typically fix these types of injuries in the ED, and at times, it is not even certain if we actually diagnose knee pain properly. The truth of the matter is simply that we can diagnose it correctly, help our patients feel better, and give them some answers.   Frequently, traumatic knee pain can be diagnosed as a contusion, generalized strain, or sprain. Rest, ice, compression, elevation, and NSAIDS are often prescribed...
Source: The Procedural Pause - September 1, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs

American Hospitals Need to Stop Offering Fast Food, Quick!
Ban on Hospital Smoking: A Model In the 1950′s the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published what was, at the time, an incredibly surprising finding: smoking is detrimental to health1. By 1964, the Surgeon General had publically acknowledged the linkage between smoking and cancer and, by the seventies, the smoking-cancer relationship was standard curricula in U.S. medical schools 2. Despite both medical and public awareness, however, hospital policy lagged behind the science; most healthcare centers had little to no official regulation regarding smoking in their facilities2. Reducing Smoking in Hos...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Food Policy Publc Health Source Type: blogs

Title X: The Lynchpin Of Publicly Funded Family Planning In The United States
The Title X national family planning program was created 45 years ago with broad bipartisan support. Today, Congress has Title X—still the only federal grant program dedicated entirely to family planning and related preventive health care—in its sights for severe funding cuts or even elimination. The U.S. House of Representatives has proposed ending the program for the fifth year in a row, and the U.S. Senate is recommending a sizable reduction to Title X’s budget. In addition, while legislation aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, whose health centers serve one-third of Title X clients n...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Kinsey Hasstedt Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Featured Long-term Services and Supports Population Health Public Health Quality ACA family planning Planned Parenthood Title X Women's Health Source Type: blogs

Recent Research on Exercise and Aging
In this study we extend our understanding of the different and overlapping roles of CRF and PA in brain resting state function in healthy but low-active older adults. Depending on brain region and task, greater CRF is associated with either increased or decreased change in blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal, a proxy for neural activity. As a result, it is unclear whether high or low amplitudes of BOLD signal reflect optimal functional brain health. Here we employed a more general measure of neural function: moment-to-moment variability in the BOLD signal during spontaneous brain activity. Moment-to-moment vari...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 6, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Culture influences end of life decisions
“Either way, no matter what we do, you’ll live less than 12 months, probably less than nine. Even if we were in the United States, your disease is incurable.” He nodded slowly in understanding. Jean Dominique was only in his 40s and had teenagers at home. “We can treat your pain and other symptoms, but we can’t do anything to treat the cancer,” I offer. At least once a week, I sit down next to a patient and tell them they have an incurable cancer or kidney failure or heart failure. The range of responses varies, but usually the patient is stone-faced and quiet. They rarely ask questions about how long they have...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 5, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Palliative care Source Type: blogs

Pediatric palliative care: We must do more
How is it that, in this day and age, a talented teenager treated for lymphoma emerges cured but with a life-threatening eating disorder? How is it that, in our nation’s capital, a boy dying at home from neuroblastoma experiences excruciating pain in his final moments? How is that, when we develop new drugs to treat children with cancer, we do not, at the same time, routinely and in a standardized manner ask them how they are feeling? As a pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician, I was alarmed by stories like these at the recent Institute of Medicine Workshop on Comprehensive Care for Children with Cancer...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 14, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Palliative care Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

Health DataPalooza 2015: The Download
By STEVE FINDLAY Health Datapalooza once again lived up to its reputation as the liveliest and most eclectic health IT confabs of the year.  Energetic and sleek young entrepreneurs mingled with government bureaucrats, academic types, consultants, current and former ONCers, a smattering of providers, app developers, data geeks, and patient advocates at this year’s conference, held in Washington D.C. June 1 to 3 with about 2,000 in attendance. Although the speeches, app demonstrations, and panel sessions broke little new ground, that’s not the point.  The point is to maintain the excitement, optimism and commitment, t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Consumer Reports Data Health Datapalooza ONC Source Type: blogs

Government backs down on some requirements for digital medical records
EHR utopian dreams have taken some pronounced hits in recent years.In recent months, the hyper-enthusiasts and their government allies have had to eat significant dirt, and scale back their grandiose but risible - to those who actually have the expertise and competence to understand the true challenges of computerization in medicine, and think critically - plans.(At this point I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and not call the utopians and hyper-enthusiasts corrupt, just stupid.) USA Today published this article today outlining the retreat:Government backs down on some requirements for digital medical recordshttp://w...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 27, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Bob Wachter David Blumenthal healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT dissatisfaction Healthcare IT experiment Jayne O ' Donnell Sally Murphy USA Today Source Type: blogs

Making an informed choice about indoor tanning
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event today co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy! I am so pleased to have the opportunity present on behalf of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) during  “The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses” event co-hosted by Disruptive Women in Health Care and Congressional Families for Cancer Pre...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

Say no to Indoor Tanning Beds. Know More. Do Better.
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event today co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy! I CONFESS… I went to a tanning bed before attending a destination wedding, thinking I was getting a “base coat” that would prevent me from getting a sunburn. I used a sun lamp in high school, thinking it would clear my blemished skin. I used to wrap a vinyl record a...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer prevent cancer foundation skin cancer Tanning bed Source Type: blogs

Why Don’t We Take Tanning As Seriously As Tobacco?
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event Wednesday co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy! In 2009, upon review of the science on tanning beds and cancer, the International Agency for Research on Cancer assigned tanning beds a class 1 carcinogen, joining tobacco and asbestos in the highest classification of harm. In spite of this development, skin cancer rates ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer prevent cancer foundation Source Type: blogs

Michigan Baby Dies, Pathologists Confirm Vaccines Responsible
Conclusion It is very clear that vaccine-related deaths and injuries are being intentionally hidden. Parents of vaccine-injured children are doing their own investigations and coming forward more, seeking the truth denied to them by health officials. Inform your friends, family and neighbors that this is going on, that children are dying from the vaccines. Be brave. Help preserve your fundamental right to choose what gets injected into you or your child’s body. Making good medical decisions can only be done when you are informed. Our hearts go out to Danny and his family and all of the other precious children who have su...
Source: vactruth.com - May 14, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories cytokine storm DTaP vaccine Elijah Daniel French L.J. Dragovic M.D. MMR vaccine Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs

Primate Study Evidence for the Harm Caused by CMV
Cytomegalovirus, CMV, is a prime suspect in one of the characteristic malfunctions seen in the aging human adaptive immune system. CMV is a very prevalent form of herpesvirus, and something like 90% of individuals test positive for exposure by the time old age rolls around. Most people have no noticeable symptoms of infection, and CMV is usually only a topic in clinical practice when it comes to immune compromised patients or transmission to unborn children, both situations in which infections largely harmless to everyone else can become a threat. While it is indeed largely harmless in the short term, like all herpesviruse...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 14, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

E-Cigarette Opponent Claims that E-Cigarettes are Causing Permanent Brain Damage among Youth Experimenters
According to an article on the Voice of America web site, e-cigarette use among youth can lead to permanent brain damage.According to the article:"Dr. Jonathan Winickoff, at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and Harvard Medical School, compared teens' experimenting with any nicotine product, including electronic cigarettes, to "playing Russian roulette with the brain." Winickoff works with the American Academy of Pediatrics to protect children from tobacco and secondhand smoke. "Essentially, this drug creates a biologic need that can be permanent,” he told VOA. He said the effects include decreased working memo...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - May 5, 2015 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs