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3D Printed Model of Cervix to Train Doctors to Spot Cervical Cancer, Deliver Treatment
In many resource poor areas of the world cervical cancer screenings and related therapeutic procedures are rare due to a lack of training. Students at Rice University, with help from Rice 360° Institute for Global Health and the University of Texas...
Source: Medgadget - April 18, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Ob/Gyn Source Type: blogs
Suicide: From the Edge and Back Again
About ten years ago, when I was teaching public speaking at a school in Canton, Ohio, I had a female student I’ll never forget. She was going through a deep depression and was suicidal. She told me that she’d attempted suicide twice by throwing herself under a bus. Both attempts had obviously failed. I advised her to see a psychologist as soon as possible. The memory of the 18-year-old girl was permanently etched into my mind because of the strangeness of her suicide attempts.
Last week, I ran into the girl. I recognized her face, but did not connect her to those sad circumstances right away.
“Hello,” I said.
“Do...
Source: World of Psychology - April 15, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Depression Inspiration & Hope Personal Students Suicide Cancer Diagnosis Depressive Episode Mood Disorder Perspective Recovery Suicidal Thoughts Source Type: blogs
Ad hominem attacks on scientists can be as damaging as critiques of their evidence
Any allegations of past bad behavior, whether directly relevant or not, made a researcher’s claims appear suspect
By Alex Fradera
To punch holes in a scientific claim, it’s legitimate to critique the supporting evidence, or query the way the evidence has been interpreted. More questionable is to throw dirt on the character or capability of the researcher making the claim. New research in PLOS One explores the effectiveness of ad hominem attacks against scientists and shows that some are more damaging than others.
Ralph Barnes of Montana State University and his team asked around 500 undergraduate students to review...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Social Source Type: blogs
Trauma-informed care: What it is, and why it ’s important
Many years ago, when I was a trainee, I helped take care of patients at a family medicine clinic.* One day, a school-aged brother and sister came in for their annual physicals. They were due for vaccines. Neither wanted any shots, and they were both quite upset. “You’ll do what the doctor tells you, is that clear?” ordered the mother. She and the nurse worked together to hold the sister’s arm down. But just as the nurse was about to deliver the injection, the young girl jerked her arm away and ran to the opposite corner of the room, crying. The brother then ran over and stood in front of her, his arm outstretched, ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Behavioral Health Health care Managing your health care Source Type: blogs
Test Debriefing Boosts Student Learning | TAPP Radio 11
Has anew organ been discovered?(4 min) Students benefit fromdebriefing after each test. (18.5 min)If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!Interstitium.Illustration by Jill Gregory.Printed with permission fromMount Sinai Health System,licensed under CC-BY-ND. (0:46) Has a new human organ discovered? Or is this news mostly hype? Or is the answer somewhere in the middle?Structure and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitium in Human Tissues (original research report)Newly-discovered human organ may help ...
Source: The A and P Professor - April 2, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
The Myth That Refuses to Die: All Health Care is Local
By PAUL KECKLEY
In 1980, industry healthcare planners imagined a system where the centerpiece was a hospital in every community and a complement of physicians. Demand forecasting was fairly straightforward: based on the population’s growth and age, the need was 4 beds per thousand and 140 docs per 100,000, give or take a few.
In 1996, the Dartmouth Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences published the Dartmouth Atlas on Health Care quantifying variability in the intensity of services provided Medicare enrollees in each U.S. zip code. They defined 306 hospital referral regions (HRRs) that remain today as the basis for...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 28, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Paul Keckley Source Type: blogs
Genomic Gymnastics of a Single-Celled Ciliate and How It Relates to Humans
Credit: Denise Applewhite.
Laura Landweber
Grew up in: Princeton, New Jersey
Job site: Columbia University, New York City
Favorite food: Dark chocolate and dark leafy greens
Favorite music: 1940’s style big band jazz
Favorite hobby: Swing dancing
If I weren’t a scientist I would be a: Chocolatier (see “Experiments in Chocolate” sidebar at bottom of story)
One day last fall, molecular biologist Laura Landweber surveyed the Princeton University lab where she’d worked for 22 years. She and her team members had spent many hours that day laboriously affixing yellow Post-it notes to the laboratory e...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 28, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Chris Palmer Tags: Being a Scientist Genetics Cells Cellular Processes Cool Creatures DNA Genomics Research Organisms RNA Source Type: blogs
Library Phishers
I just read the post “Silent Librarian: More to the Story of the Iranian Mabna Institute Indictment” and it was very eye opening. The United States Justice Department, FBI, New York FBI, and US Treasury announced charges against nine Iranians for conducting a huge cyber theft campaign. Prosecutors state the nine Iranians worked for the Mabna Institute and stole more than 30 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from universities, companies, and governments around the world. That is roughly the equivalent to 8 billion double sided pages.
There were more than 750 phishing attacks identified t...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - March 27, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A high school senior determines that chemically modified curcumin can inhibit pancreatic cell growth
Just read an interesting tidbit. But first, I have to remark that this generation of U.S. high school students is really something…(and I’m not referring solely to their science projects…)…
At any rate, a senior at Hampton Bays High School came in third place at the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair in mid March for her discovery that chemically modified curcumin blocked pancreatic cancer cells from growing…and killed them (apoptosis). Based on her project, perhaps someday (!) this modified curcumin could be used to strengthen conventional treatments for pancreatic cancer. You can read ...
Source: Margaret's Corner - March 26, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Sydney Caldwell; Long Island Science and Engineering Fair; chemically modified curcumin Source Type: blogs
New findings contradict headline-grabbing paper that suggested excessive small talk makes us miserable
By Emma Young
If you want to feel happier, avoid small talk and aim instead for profound conversations. That was the message the mainstream media took from a well-publicised paper published in Psychological Science in 2010 (e.g. Talk Deeply, Be Happy? asked the New York Times). But now an extension of that study, in press at the same journal (available as a pre-print), and involving two of the psychologists behind the original work, has found no evidence that how much – or little – time you spend chatting about the weather or what you’re having for dinner will affect your life satisfaction. “The failure to repl...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Replications Social Source Type: blogs
Can excessive small talk really make us miserable?
By Emma Young
If you want to feel happier, avoid small talk and aim instead for profound conversations. That was the message the mainstream media took from a well-publicised paper published in Psychological Science in 2010 (e.g. Talk Deeply, Be Happy? asked the New York Times). But now an extension of that study, in press at the same journal (available as a pre-print), and involving two of the psychologists behind the original work, has found no evidence that how much – or little – time you spend chatting about the weather or what you’re having for dinner will affect your life satisfaction. “The failure to repl...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Replications Social Source Type: blogs
The Barbershop Study: How an Unorthodox Study on Black Men ’ s Health Brought Down the House
This study essentially shows that a health care system that moves itself into barbershops is effective in one third of men found to have poorly controlled blood pressure. I’m also fairly sure a pharmacist in my living room will improve my lipid profile. And it bears repeating, that despite this herculean effort, two-thirds of black men chose not to connect with a healthcare system that was in their barbershop. You can go ahead and put money on the odds that Harry White remains out of reach – its one you’ll win 66% of the time. I’ll also point out the study duration was six months – Harry had sho...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Barbershop Study: How an Unorthodox Study on Black Men ’ s Health Brought Down the House and Where It Went Wrong
This study essentially shows that a health care system that moves itself into barbershops is effective in one third of men found to have poorly controlled blood pressure. I’m also fairly sure a pharmacist in my living room will improve my lipid profile. And it bears repeating, that despite this herculean effort, two-thirds of black men chose not to connect with a healthcare system that was in their barbershop. You can go ahead and put money on the odds that Harry White remains out of reach – its one you’ll win 66% of the time. I’ll also point out the study duration was six months – Harry had sho...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Uncontrollable itching – the denouement
The emergency department ordered a CT scan that showed a dilated common bile duct, no pancreatic masses, a mass in the duct – stone versus other.
Twelve hours after admission, he developed a temperature of 101 and a repeat CBC showed an elevated WBC with left shift.
Therefore, GI did an ERCP the next day – revealing a large gallstone – not easily removable. The placed a stent and drained pus.
So this man had painless jaundice from a common duct stone.
As an intern in 1976 I had a patient with ascending cholangitis. His internist told me that he had pancreatic cancer, but had declined surgery. In 197...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - March 21, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
