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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
10 Health Benefits of Daily Exercise
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” – A. A. Milne
You don’t need to knock yourself out at the gym each day to reap the many health benefits of daily exercise. With simple planning and a determination to engage in a healthier lifestyle, you can add easy stints of exercise to your schedule without breaking too much of a sweat. Best of all, you may realize some of these 10 health benefits of daily exercise.
Exercise elevates your mood
When you are physically active, it stimulates brain chemicals that make you feel better and lifts your mood. Some experts say that exercise of any intensity, s...
Source: World of Psychology - March 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Habits Health-related LifeHelper Self-Help Source Type: blogs
Knowing when to screen … and when to quit
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Let us sing the praises of good medical screening tests.
These are the tests that can detect medical problems before they become untreatable and before they cause complications or even death. Even better are those screening tests that detect “predisease” — abnormalities that aren’t dangerous on their own but can lead to problems later.
According to the US Preventive Services Task Force, relatively few screening tests are considered good enough to routinely recommend for adults, including
mammography for breast cancer (women)
Pap smear for cervical cancer (women)
bone density test...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 1, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Cancer Health Prevention Screening Source Type: blogs
That Darned Foreskin
I was a practicing pediatrician before I did a residency in emergency medicine. One of the most common and sometimes most stressful decisions parents had to make in the neonatal nursery was whether to circumcise their newborn son. I have to admit that the hullabaloo about the foreskin has always intrigued me. The American Academy of Pediatrics has gone back and forth over the years on the topic of circumcision and its benefits, but the current evidence clearly establishes a benefit from this procedure (Pediatrics 2012;130[3]:e756) that is performed approximately 1.4 million times each year in the United States. (May...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - February 28, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
The Luxury to Choose
By TRAVIS BIAS, MD
The 80 year-old woman lay on her mat, her legs powerless, looking up at the small group that had come to visit her. There were no more treatment options left. The oral liquid morphine we had brought in the small plastic bottle had blunted her pain. But, she would be dead in the coming days. The cervical cancer that was slowly taking her life is a notoriously horrible disease if left undetected and untreated and that is exactly what had happened in this case.
We had traveled hours by van along dirt roads to this village with a team of health workers from Hospice Africa Uganda, the country’s authority o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Gardasil Hospice Africa Uganda vaccines Source Type: blogs
It Looks Like The Telstra Health Developed National Cancer Registry Is Almost There!
This popped up a few days ago:
Major component of Australia's cancer register still without go-live By Justin Hendry on Feb 14, 2018 1:37PM
Planning will recommence after delivery of first phase.The replacement of Australia ’s outdated bowel screening register remains without a go-live date almost a year after a complex data migration process stalled the original launch.
Australia ’s new Telstra-built cancer screening register is a single platform that will replace the paper-based national bowel screening register as well as the eight separate cervical cancer screening registers operated by the states and te...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - February 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Death by Gardasil? Not so fast … (2018 edition)
There is a type of “vaccine injury” story promoted by the antivaccine movement that is particularly pernicious, a narrative I call “death by Gardasil.” The stories, which use tenuous connections between vaccination against HPV to prevent cervical cancer and the unexpected death of a teen or young adult, are always tragic, and you can’t help but feel incredible empathy for the parents. However, none of these stories constitute compelling evidence that Gardasil kills young people. Basically, antivaxers exploit the grief of these parents and their understandable desire to find a cause for their child’s demise to d...
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 12, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine Movies Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Annabelle Morin Cervarix Chloe Brookes-Holder Christina Tarsell Christopher Shaw Colton Berrett featured Gardasil hpv human pap Source Type: blogs
Precision Medicine and Public Health (from Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease)
Excerpted fromPrecision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human DiseaseDespite having the most advanced healthcare technology on the planet, life expectancy in the United States is not particularly high. Citizens from most of the European countries and the highly industrialized Asian countries enjoy longer life expectancies than the United States. According to the World Health Organization, the United States ranks 31st among nations, trailing behind Greece, Chile, and Costa Rica, and barely edging out Cuba [42]. Similar rankings are reported by the US Central Intelligence Agency [43]. These findings lead us to infer that acc...
Source: Specified Life - February 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer vaccines precision medicine prevention public health Source Type: blogs
HPV vaccines do not encourage risky sexual behavior
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines save lives by preventing lethal cervical and anogenital cancers. If Henrietta Lacks had received an HPV vaccine, she would not have succumbed to cervical cancer. Yet not enough young men and women receive the vaccine. An obstacle to more widespread adoption of the HPV vaccine is that some parents […]
Source: virology blog - January 24, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Uncategorized cervarix cervical cancer gardasil HPV human papillomavirus risk perception sexual behavior sexual promiscuity viral virology viruses Source Type: blogs
13 things every doctor wants their patients to know
1. We worry. We lie awake worried sick about you more often than you’d think. The stakes are so high, and we know it.
2. We wonder. I ran into a friend who’d met a patient I’d had sixteen years earlier. She gave me some follow-up, and it made my day — maybe my month. It was a year ago, and I’m still thinking about it. She’d had blood cancer. I referred her to oncology, residency was over, and I moved away. But I’d always wondered: What a gift to hear she’d survived and was doing well!
3. We forget. Don’t be embarrassed to see us out. I know exams like paps and hernia checks feel humiliating, bu...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 21, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/joanne-jarrett" rel="tag" > Joanne Jarrett, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Matthew Holt ’ s EOY 2017 letter (charities/issues/gossip)
Right at the end of every year I write a letter summarizing my issues and charities. And as I own the joint here, I post it on THCB! Please take a look–Matthew Holt
Well 2017 has been quite a year, and last year 2016 I failed to get my end-of-year letter out at all. This I would like to think was due to extreme business but it probably came down to me being totally lazy. On the other hand like many of you I may have just been depressed about the election–2016 was summed up by our cat vomiting on our bed at 11.55 on New Years Eve.
Having said that even though most of you will never comment on this letter and I ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Matthew Holt Charity Patient Activism Source Type: blogs
January is Cervical Health Awareness Month
Plan ahead to raise awareness and encourage women to protect themselves from human papillomavirus and cervical cancer. Minority women are disproportionately affected by cancer health disparities and may experience barriers to preventive and followup care based on socioeconomic status. Educational interventions can help address social determinants of health and ensure more screening and prevention. See Health.gov's ideas for promotion, education and interventions.
Source: BHIC - December 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Minority Health Concerns Source Type: blogs
The hidden work of primary care
It was nearing the end of my day at the mobile health clinic where I work as a nurse practitioner, providing free, comprehensive primary care to uninsured patients in central Florida. Clinic was officially over, and we were no longer taking patients; I was signing notes and finishing up some teaching points with a PA student when a woman walked up and asked me if she could “talk to me for a minute, just to ask a quick question.” After many years working in community health, I know these types of requests are rarely “quick,” but, understanding our patients’ limited opportunities access to care, I obliged.
As soon ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michelle-nall" rel="tag" > Michelle Nall, MPH, ANP-BC < /a > Tags: Policy Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Why your child should get the HPV vaccine
My young daughter will be entering middle school in another year. However, she still likes coloring books. If she watches a scary movie, I have to lay with her in bed until she falls asleep.
She is still just a kid. Should I really be worried about HPV? Is this something you should consider for your daughter?
As an OB/GYN doctor, I know about the HPV virus and have seen so many patients affected by this virus that can cause cervical cancer if left untreated. I have seen women die from cervical cancer caused by this virus. I have seen pregnant women who are newly diagnosed with cervical cancer have to decide wheth...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 20, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/valerie-a-jones" rel="tag" > Valerie A. Jones, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Why the cell-free fetal DNA test is a game-changer
As a practicing OB/GYN, I feel lucky to be working in a field so full of promise and with space for advancement of medical technology. Although prospects of improved fetal imaging, cervical cancer prevention, and techniques of minimally invasive surgery are game-changing, new discoveries in the genetics arena of our field strike me as simply incredible.
Prenatal genetic testing has only been reasonably available to mothers since about 1970, and at that time was limited to invasive testing using amniocentesis, which carried significant risks. Although “amnio” still has a place in obstetrics, the availability of ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 2, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/danielle-jones" rel="tag" > Danielle Jones, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
