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This Seems To Be A Useful Contribution To Melanoma Detection and Treatment.
This appeared in The Conversation last week.New online tool can predict your melanoma risk March 12, 2018 6.04am AEDT People who are unable to tan and who have moles on their skin are among those at heightened risk of developing melanoma. from shutterstock.com AuthorsPhoebe Roth Editorial Intern Sasha Petrova Deputy Editor: Health + Medicine InterviewedDavid Whiteman Professor and Group Leader at the Cancer Control Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute H. Peter Soyer Professor of Dermatology, The University of Queensland Hassan Vally Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, La Trobe University Australians over the ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Are physicians ready for single-payer health care?
Single payer health care is enjoying a boomlet in public opinion. A Pew Research Center poll released in June 2017 found that, “Overall, 33 percent of the public now favors such a ‘single payer’ approach to health insurance, up 5 percentage points since January and 12 points since 2014.”  58 percent of those surveyed by Pew said that the government has a responsibility to ensure health for all, with a third saying it should be through a single national government program and 25 percent through a mix of government and private programs.  Another 33 percent said the government is not responsible to ensure health...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/bob-doherty" rel="tag" > Bob Doherty < /a > Tags: Policy Public Health & Washington Watch Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 12th 2018
This study identifies the missing link between Lewy bodies and the type of damage that's been observed in neurons affected by Parkinson's. Parkinson's is a disorder of the mitochondria, and we discovered how Lewy bodies are releasing a partial break-down product that has a high tropism for the mitochondria and destroys their ability to produce energy." Lewy bodies were described a century ago, but it was not until 1997 that scientists discovered they were made of clumps of a misfolded protein called α-synuclein. When it's not misfolded, α-synuclein is believed to carry out functions related to the transmission of...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 11, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 229
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 229 – musical medial conditions from http://www.songfacts.com. Question 1 “I stare into Some great abyss And calculate The things I’d miss If I could only Make some sense of this.” Sheryl Crow is singing about her experience undergoing treatmen...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 9, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five ACDC breast cancer cardiac arrest gonorrhoea heart attack heroin Leonard Cohen Madness radiation song Sheryl Crow Spiderbite The Flaming Lips The Jack Source Type: blogs

How to Plan and Carry Out a Simple Self-Experiment, a Single Person Trial of Senolytic Peptide FOXO4-DRI
The objective is to wind up with the right amount of FOXO4-DRI dissolved in phosphate buffered saline in a sealed vial, ready to be used with the injection system, and with as little contamination as possible from the environment. Depending on the size of the vial, it might contain doses for multiple injections - in fact it is much easier to set things up this way. FOXO4-DRI dissolves very readily in saline, so placing a single human dose into 0.5ml or 1ml is quite feasible. A 3ml vial can hold three doses for the treatment without issue. One approach is to measure out FOXO4-DRI by weight using a suitable microscale...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 5, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Self-Experimentation Source Type: blogs

Tropical Travel Trouble 002 Rabies
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog aka Tropical Travel Trouble 002 A 19 year old gap year student has returned from India to your emergency department reporting she was bitten by a monkey at a temple. A selfie gone wrong but it scored 1000+ likes on Facebook… She is concerned because one of the Facebook comments suggested she may have rabies! A quick Google search suggested 60,000 people a year DIE from rabies. Should she be worried? Should you be worried? Questions Q1. What other questions should yo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 27, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine rabies Source Type: blogs

Sunquest Signs Contract to Provide LIS Support for 124 Hospitals in Australia
Sunquest Information Systems is embarking on a project that has the potential to change the face of lab computing. It has signed a contract to provide lab computing support for all of the hospitals in the state of Queensland, Australia, which has a population of about 4.5 million people (see:Queensland Health partners with Sunquest for Laboratory Information System). Below is an excerpt from the press release:The contemporary enterprise laboratory information system (LIS) and services will support improved care responsiveness, safety and healthcare outcomes for the millions of Queenslanders served by the state's 124 ho...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 22, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Digital Imaging in Pathology Genomic Testing Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Lab Industry Trends LIS Definitions and Strategy LIS Vendor News Pathology Informatics 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

LITFL Review 318
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Welcome to the 318th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking month. Listen to this insightful podcast fro...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 11, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 12th 2018
In conclusion, most experimental data on immune changes with aging show a decline in many immune parameters when compared to young healthy subjects. The bulk of these changes is termed immunosenescence. Immunosenescence has been considered for some time as detrimental because it often leads to subclinical accumulation of pro-inflammatory factors and inflammaging. Together, immunosenescence and inflammaging are suggested to stand at the origin of most of the diseases of the elderly, such as infections, cancer, autoimmune disorders, and chronic inflammatory diseases. However, an increasing number of gerontologists have chall...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 11, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

This Looks Like Really Good News To Me. Nobel Prize Winning Stuff If Proven Up I Reckon.
This appeared duding last week:Blood tests deliver cancer breakthroughThe Australian6:00AM January 19, 2018John RossScientists have created a blood test that can detect eight of the most common cancers long before they turn lethal, in a breakthrough that could save millions of people from premature death.The “liquid biopsy” identifies early-stage tumours from proteins and genetic mutations circulating in the blood.Trials have found that it can uncover fledgling cancers in about 70 per cent of cases, and up to 98 per cent for some types, long before they become detectable by other means. They include deadly conditions s...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 24, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

New Electronic Pill Monitors Gas Contents of Guts
The goings on deep inside our guts are still very much shrouded in mystery. The mystery arises partially from the fact that it’s hard to sample the gasses that exist inside our bowels. Much of our knowledge about the gaseous content of the GI s...
Source: Medgadget - January 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: GI News Source Type: blogs

When tears turn into pearls: Post-traumatic growth following childhood and adolescent cancer
By guest blogger Tomasz Witkowski It’s hard to imagine a crueller fate than when a child receives a diagnosis of an illness as difficult as cancer. A young human being, still not fully formed, is suddenly and irrevocably thrown into a situation that many adults are unable to cope with. Each year, around 160,000 children and youngsters worldwide are diagnosed with cancer, and this trend is growing in industrialised societies. Faced with such facts, it is particularly important to understand how children cope. What traces of the experience remain in their psyche if they manage to survive? Partial answers to these question...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cancer guest blogger Source Type: blogs

Holly Butcher: her letter goes viral after she dies at age 27
Many thanks to Cynthia for posting about a letter written by a young Australian woman, Holly Butcher, who died on January 4.  She had Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer that usually affects young people and children. I was quite touched by parts of it, so I decided to write a quick post. Before I forget, here’s the link to an Australian news article about Holly (and you can get to and read her full letter there, too): goo.gl/sLEYd8 In Holly’s letter, I recognized some of the feelings I myself have/have had…For instance, the irritation that I feel at times because my girlfriends don’t wa...
Source: Margaret's Corner - January 12, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Holly Butcher Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 221
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 220. Question 1 The Adverts, a UK punk band in the 1970s wrote the song “Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes”. Who is Gary Gilmore and why would two people be looking through his eyes? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aspergillum Ayahuasca basket case cornea transplant garlic gary gilmore lone star tick meat allergy otomycosis paul simon shaman swimmers ear Source Type: blogs