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Health Affairs Briefing: Advanced Illness and End-of-Life Care
Few areas of health care are as personal, or as fraught, as care for people with serious illnesses who are approaching death. At a point in their lives when their needs are often as much social and spiritual as they are medical, people are confronted with a fragmented, rescue-driven health care system that produces miraculous results but also disastrous failures.
As the nation’s population of individuals over the age of 65 is expected to reach 84 million by 2050, addressing these challenges becomes increasingly important, requiring coordination across multiple sectors and levels of government. Innovations are needed to p...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured Advanced Illness End-of-Life Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Fainting: Frightening, but seldom serious
One minute you’re feeling a bit woozy; the next thing you know, you’re flat on your back wondering what happened. No matter what you call it — swooning, passing out, or fainting —the experience is surprisingly common. About a third of people say they’ve fainted at least once.
Although often harmless, fainting can cause injuries and sometimes signals a problem with the heart or circulatory system.
“Witnessing a faint can be scary, because it can look like the person has died,” says Harvard professor Dr. Lewis A. Lipsitz, director of the Division of Gerontology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the In...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: First Aid Heart Health Injuries Safety Source Type: blogs
Hotshot. A supplement scam with a difference?
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The "supplement" industry is a scam that dwarfs all other forms of alternative medicine. Sales are worth over $100 billion a year, a staggering sum. But the claims they make are largely untrue: plain fraudulent. Although the industry’s advertisements like to claim "naturalness". in fact most of the synthetic vitamins are manufactured by big pharma companies. The pharmaceutical industry has not been slow to cash in on an industry in which unverified claims can be made with impunity.
When I saw advertised Hotshot, "a proprietary formulation of organic ingredients" that is...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 25, 2016 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia supplements Bruce Bean cramp dietary supplements DSHEA Harvard Hotshot Muscle cramp Rockefeller university Rod MacKinnon TRP receptors Source Type: blogs
World Polio Day
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As a virologist who has worked on poliovirus since 1979, I would be remiss if I did not note that today, 24 October, is World Polio Day. World Polio Day was established by Rotary International over a decade ago to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis.
The polio eradication effort has made impressive progress towards eliminating polio from the planet. In 1988 it was estimated that there were a total of 350,000 cases of poliomyelitis (probably an underestimate); as of this writing there have been 301 cases in 2013, which is unfortu...
Source: virology blog - October 24, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information eradication IPV Israel OPV poliovirus Sabin Salk Syria viral world polio day Source Type: blogs
TEDMED Israel: Glowing Trees, Using Gold to Fight Cancer, and Medical Nanorobots
A few days ago the Peres Center for Peace in Tel-Aviv hosted a simulcast of TEDMED, but augmented it with a bit of local fare. Although the sessions were short, only three talks, they highlighted the innovation and vision apparent within the Israeli...
Source: Medgadget - April 23, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Shiri Yaniv Tags: Medgadget Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Transcript of Dr. Bihari Video
00:00 to 02.26—Dr. Bihari gives his background and credentials.
Dr. Bihari: My medical training started at Harvard Medical School. I graduated in 1957. Then I trained in Internal Medicine at one of the Harvard teaching hospitals in Boston, Beth Israel, and then in Neurology at Massachusetts General in Boston. Then I went to the National Institutes of Health for two years doing brain physiology—brain research. I did another residency training in Psychiatry in New York, at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and then, over the following five or six years, I got very involved in working in Drug Addiction. By 1974, I was...
Source: HONEST MEDICINE: My Dream for the Future - May 16, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JuliaS1573 at aol.com (Julia Schopick) Tags: Anecdotal Treatments HONEST MEDICINE Integrative Medicine Low Dose Naltrexone Obituaries Source Type: blogs
