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Foods That Fight…Illness, That Is
By Amy Campbell That time of the year is upon us: the "holidays." It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but the stores are already filled with Christmas decorations and gifts. Holiday music is playing on radio stations. Holidays are fun, but this season can come with side effects, including colds and flu, heartburn, upset stomach, headaches, muscle aches, and fatigue. Medicine is often needed to treat these maladies, but if you're looking for something a little more natural and gentle, think, instead, about food. Food is medicine, too, and what better way to remedy your maladies and nourish your body at the same time? Colds and ...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - November 25, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs

Why Big Pharma is bad for your health
Just take one and you’ll feel better. Promise (Image from shutterstock).On Wednesday I came down with a stinking cold. Loaded up with all the cold and ‘flu medication I could find on the pharmacist’s shelves I headed into the office where I found on my desk a pre-ordered copy of Ben Goldacre’s new book Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients.I had read and enjoyed Goldacre’s previous book ‘Bad Science‘, an accessible and entertaining exploration of the world of medicine. I have not touched a homeopathic sugar pill or written an ill-informed scientific article since. Not that...
Source: PharmaGossip - September 22, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Book of Nurses: Collette.
Collette lives in Adelaide, and has been nursing since 1986. She trained in the hospital system, working through the time of “nursing changing from a vocation to a profession”. She has worked in Emergency departments, trauma units, operating theaters, anaesthetics and recovery. And – She is currently a patient. In the last 10 weeks I have been a patient in 2 public hospitals I have been employed, one I currently work at. I have spent 6 weeks in a private hospital. As a nurse I have been saddened by the many of the nurses in the private hospital. And a few in the public hospital. My admitting doctor men...
Source: impactEDnurse - September 3, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: ectopics Source Type: blogs

Psychiatrist Appt, and the Cycle Continues
I saw my psychiatrist last night - she was SO nice, she fit me in, the same day, at 8:00p.  She increased my Latuda and we went over what she wanted me to take as far as the Lamictal increase.  I have no idea why, but it was very hard for me to understand.  She was telling it to me, but I couldn't comprehend it.  She wrote it down for me, and I read it, and I still wasn't getting it.  She had written it down two different ways, so she crossed out one of the ways and had me read it back to her, and then I thought I understood.  Something so simple, reading the dosage amounts of medications to t...
Source: bipolar.and.me - June 28, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Lamictal - What a Hell
I wrote half of this last night, and finished up the other half this morning.  So part of it I am feeling better than the first half...I'm slowly improving from my Lamictal withdrawal symptoms.  I think my body went through a lot today, it does NOT feel well at ALL.  It feels like it went through hell, I feel like I'm getting over the flu or something, I feel pretty awful.  I thought it was completely mental, but apparently my mental anguish was so extreme that it overwhelmed whatever was going on with my physical body because my body sure does feel like it went through something rough.I'm just now noti...
Source: bipolar.and.me - June 18, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Pharmalot... Pharmalittle... Good Morning
Hello, everyone, and nice to see you again. We hope you enjoyed the long weekend - at least on this side of the pond - and feel somewhat refreshed and reinvigorated. After all, that familiar routine of meetings and deadlines has returned. To fortify ourselves, yes, we are turning to our ritualistic cup of stimulation. We need all the help we can get. As always, we invite you to join us. While you do so, here are some tidbits. Have a great day and do stay in touch... AstraZeneca To Buy Omthera Pharma For Up To $433 Million (Reuters) Is Amarin Valued At Less Thanks To Astra Deal To Buy Omthera? (The Street) FDA Rejects Valea...
Source: Pharmalot - May 28, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs

Bringing trial data out of the shadows
All sectors have their own mood music, unobtrusive much of the time, but occasionally brought to startling effect into the foreground, dominating all else. The pharmaceutical industry is no different, and at present there is one insistent theme: transparency.And if there is one area of this debate behind which chords are starting to swell loudly it is the availability of clinical trial data. Unflattering or disappointing trial outcomes have been routinely unpublished, pharma's critics claim, which means patients taking part in trials can be exposed to ineffective or even dangerous products because previous negative researc...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 13, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

All Alone
I'm down today, I felt like if I started to cry I might not be able to stop so I took a couple of klonipin.  I'm don't really think that is why they are prescribed as I believe I was given them for panic and anxiety.  I've usually been very good at taking my psychiatric medications as prescribed except perhaps I don't always take AS MUCH of everything as is prescribed, but maybe I'm living under false assumptions and am not facing reality.I may have already been down, I don't recall, but I was reading a forum that is *supposed* to encourage students in my future industry, and it is usually incredibly encouraging....
Source: bipolar.and.me - April 12, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Pharmalot... Pharmalittle... Good Morning
Hello, everyone, and nice to see you again. Once again, we apologize for the recent inability to access the site. As you might imagine, we have not been happy either with the way the redesign was handled, but we are moving forward, as always, and quaffing another cup of stimulation to help us along. Please join us. After all, there is much to do. With that said, here are some tidbits to get you started. Meanwhile, thanks for your patience and please do stay in touch, especially if you hear something interesting... China Reports Its Eight Bird Flu Death (Reuters) Pfizer R&D Building Demolition May Be Delayed (The Day...
Source: Pharmalot - April 9, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Update — 03-25-2013
This study showed that in more than 4 of 5 obese children, the subcutaneous fat layer was too thick for an IM injection one quarter of the way down the thigh. In nearly 1 of 5 obese children, the subcutaneous fat layer was too thick three quarters of the way down the thigh. In those patients, the study suggested injecting the calf. I suppose the manufacturer could be forced to make autoinjectors with longer needles, but then non-obese patients would theoretically risk getting a bone marrow injection of epinephrine. How good are emergency physicians at dispositioning psychiatric patients when compared to psychiatrists? Not ...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - March 25, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs

The Mifl Report – February
* MIFL = Month In Focused Living Back in January I chose “focus” as my Word of The Year, a way to set a theme and intention. I’m doing regular MIFL Reports to keep me on the straight and narrow. Ol’ Carnegie catching the last rays, during Up & Running 5K Workout 1.2 today. . . . 1. Bandwagon Muesli A friend of mine in Canberra declared it “porridge weather” the other day so geographically that must mean it’s time for me to commence yogurt season. It’s 4′C/39′F so not exactly toasty but, feck it, I’m sick of porridge. I ransacked the pantry for scraps of...
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - March 13, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: shauna Tags: Monthly Check-Ins Source Type: blogs

Which bit of All and Trials don't Roche understand?
Drug firm Roche pledges greater access to trials data 26 February 2013 Last updated at 18:00 Research suggests half of all clinical trials have never been published The pharmaceutical company Roche has announced that it will make more of the data from its clinical trials available to researchers. The company says it will appoint a panel of experts to evaluate and approve requests to access anonymised patient data. We understand and support calls for our industry to be more transparent” Daniel O'Day Roche But the announcement has been dismissed as "pathetic" by campaigners arguing for greater transparency from the ph...
Source: PharmaGossip - February 27, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Ben Goldacre in the NYT
Health Care’s Trick Coin THIS month, Johnson & Johnson is facing more than 10,000 lawsuits over an artificial hip that has been recalled because of a 40 percent failure rate within five years. Mistakes happen in medicine, but internal documents showed that executives had known of flaws with the device for some time, but had failed to make them public. It would be nice to imagine that this kind of behavior is exceptional, but in reality, the entire evidence base for medicine has been undermined by a casual lack of transparency. Sometimes this is through a failure to report concerns raised by doctors and internal analyse...
Source: PharmaGossip - February 2, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 092
Welcome to the mind-blowing  92nd edition! The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week The Short Coat Top Spot this week is a ripper By Lauren looking at hypertension in the ED. Check our M...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 23, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care LITFL review Trauma LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs