Doctors now must provide patients their health data, online and on demand
Last summer, Anna Ramsey suffered a flare-up of juvenile dermatomyositis, a rare autoimmune condition, posing a terrifying prospect for the Los Angeles resident: She might have to undergo chemotherapy, further compromising her immune system during a pandemic. After an agonizing three-day wait, the results of a blood test came back in her online patient portalRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sarah-kwon" rel="tag" > Sarah Kwon < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Health IT Source Type: blogs
Autoimmune lung disease: Early recognition and treatment helps
A man who was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) five years ago sees his rheumatologist for a follow-up visit. Fortunately, his arthritis is well controlled through medication. He can walk and do all his daily activities without pain. But over the past six months, he’s been feeling short of breath when climbing stairs. He has an annoying dry cough, too. COVID-19? That’s ruled out quickly. But a CT scan of his chest reveals early fibrosis (scarring) of the lungs, most likely related to rheumatoid arthritis. “I can finally walk normally, and now I can’t breathe when I walk!” says the frustrated patient, whose...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Paul F. Dellaripa, MD Tags: Arthritis Autoimmune diseases Health Inflammation Lung disease Source Type: blogs
Dermatomyositis with and without anti Mi2 autoantibodies
Pinal-Hernandez I, Mecoli CA, Casal-Dominguez Mvar gaJsHost = (( " https: " == document.location.protocol) ? " https://ssl. " : " http://www. " ); document.write(unescape( " %3Cscript src= ' " + gaJsHost + " google-analytics.com/ga.js ' type= ' text/javascript ' %3E%3C/script%3E " )); . More prominent muscle involvement with dermatomyositis with anti Mi2 autoantibodies. Neurology; 2019; 93e1768-1777(John Hopkins)58 patients with antiMi2 positive DM143 patient with anti Mi2 negative DM162 patients with antisynthetase syndrome170 patients with immune mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM).Features of patients with a...
Source: neurologyminutiae - November 13, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: blogs
The inflammatory myopathies rap video you didn ’t know you needed
Learn about the differences between polymyositis and dermatomyositis the Medcomic way. Illustrated by Jorge Muniz and music by Neil Bobenhouse. Image credit: Medcomic.comFind jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 17, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jorge-muniz-and-neil-bobenhouse" rel="tag" > Jorge Muniz, PA-C and Neil Bobenhouse, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Video Rheumatology Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 194
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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 194.
Question 1
As mythology goes, what did the Amazon women not have?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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A right breast.
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 22, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Amazon angina cheerleaders cheerleading Dermatomyositis Gottren's papule heliotrope rash Nauru overweight right breast shawl sign William Heberden Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly: Self-Directed Health?
Director chair, film slate and load horn.
Here’s a proposal for you: If, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, a long list of conditions are reduced or reversed at no risk, almost no cost, reversing even chronic and potentially fatal conditions . . . does that mean that the notion of self-directed health might be on the horizon, i.e., putting control over health back in our own hands?
I think it does. No, we will never implant our own defibrillators or take out our own gallbladders. But so many chronic health conditions afflicting modern humans recede that I believe that it is entirely reasonable to start talking a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 16, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle arthritis autoimmune diabetes eating disorder gluten grains Inflammation joint Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Specialised Services clinical commissioning policies and service specification: consultation
NHS England - This consultation seeks feedback and comments on four clinical commissioning policies and service specifications for cystic fibrosis, dermatomyositis, polymyositis and congenital abnormalities of the auditory nerves or cochleae. This consultation closes on 13 March 2016.
Consultation
Press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 15, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Consultations Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 184
Welcome to the 184th 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 chuck of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Here’s an awesome new echo resource from the Nepean Hospital ICU in Penrith, NSW, Australia, containing basic and advanced physics and scanning resources. [SO]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
Boring EM reviews the relevance of IN...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 31, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Duke Docs say: Don't ignore microvasculature in evaluating muscle biopsies
Dr. Anne BuckleyDrs. Anne Buckley and Edward Bossen of Duke University have a nice review article in the current issue of Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology entitled Skeletal Muscle Microvasculature in the Diagnosis of Neuromuscular Disease. Buckley and Bossen bring attention to the often overlooked blood vessels in skeletal muscle biopsies. They state that "there are many vascular features in skeletal muscle biopsies that, when interpreted in the context of other histologic patterns and clinical history, provide useful information that allows muscle pathologists to narrow their differential diagnoses ...
Source: neuropathology blog - October 16, 2013 Category: Pathologists Tags: neuromuscular disease Source Type: blogs
Gliadin: The Universal Human Poison
Autoimmunity is the process describing an immune response waged against our own organs. The complex collection of mechanisms consisting of T and B lymphocytes, antibodies, and others, meant to provide protection against viruses, bacteria, and other body invaders, is misdirected against proteins of the body’s organs, such as liver, pancreas, thyroid, or brain. Autoimmune conditions now affect 8% of the American population–it is increasingly looking like diseases of autoimmunity are out of control.
Dr Alessio Fasano was recently awarded the Linus Pauling Award, the highest award from the Institute for Functional...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 7, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Autoimmunity Gliadin Source Type: blogs
