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Sales Secret: The Best Time to CloseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Want to close a sale? When choosing a time to meet with your customer, don’t just take the first appointment time offered to you. A recent study looked at decisions by judges, and revealed startling differences in outcomes at different times of day. Researchers at Columbia University and Ben Gurion University examined the decisions made [...] CommentsI don't doubt that a tipsy customer could be more pliable and ... by Roger Dooley“I’m not gonna suggest that we liquor a customer up and ... by Aman Basanti | Age of MarketingPlus 5 more...Related StoriesWhat’s Better Than an Excited Customer?Predict...
Source: Neuromarketing - August 31, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Roger Dooley Tags: Neuromarketing Neuroscience Research ben gurion university columbia university decision fatigue jonathan levav sales timing Source Type: blogs

The Multiple Sclerosis Spell-CheckerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The more I write about multiple sclerosis, the more I realize that I’m smarter than my computer about said topic. Sometimes I feel like my spell-checking software hasn’t caught up with the vernacular of our disease. Other times, I feel like we’re just making up words for stuff — oft, we are! Myelin, Cog-Fog, Assistive, PML, CCSVI… not something your everyday word processing program recognizes; and I need it too! In my current state, I find myself relying more and more on the brain under my fingertips more than I trust my own T-Cell infested gob but squiggly red, blue or green highlights (GREAT! Now I’m to u...
Source: Life with MS - August 30, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Diagnosis MS MS and fatigue MS blog MS diagnosis Multiple Sclerosis health brain cognitive ability with ms living with multiple sclerosis MS progression multiple scelrosis multiple sclerosis drugs Source Type: blogs

Can Decision Fatigue Lead To Medical Errors?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article adds to that understanding: Our decision-making abilities appear to be powerfully affected by the demands of repeated decision making as they interact with depleted blood glucose levels. That fatigue mounts over a day of making decisions and as blood glucose levels fall between meals. In response, we tend to either make increasingly impulsive decisions without considering the consequences or to make no decisions at all. Tierney describes a study analyzing 1,100 parole decisions by judges over the course of a year:  “Prisoners who appeared early in the morning received parole about 70 percent of the time, wh...
Source: Better Health - August 26, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jessie Gruman, Ph.D. Tags: Research Decision-Making Ability Duty hours fatigue Informed Medical Decision Making Jessie Gruman John Tierney Judgment Medical Errors Medical Residents NY Times Magazine Paul Levy Tired Well Rested Source Type: blogs

The ‘Mental Exacerbation’Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I promise I’ll read this post through an extra time or two — and have Rose comb it as well — as I’m experiencing something very new to me and my MS. I’m calling it a “mental exacerbation.” I have met a few people whose executive function, memory, and even general cognition have taken a direct hit from our old nemesis: multiple sclerosis. I can remember a few conversations in these pages having to do with increased difficulty with multitasking and attention, and I’ve lived with some of those issues for many years now. What I am now experiencing is beginning to frighten me quite a bit, but, as...
Source: Life with MS - August 19, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS MS and fatigue MS blog MS management MS money matters MS stress Multiple Sclerosis mobility ms and employment cognitive ability with ms cognitive issues fear MS in the workplace multiple scelrosis multiple scelrosis blog w Source Type: blogs

Why You Can’t Make a Good Decision at 5:00 pm: Decision FatigueEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We live in the most prosperous society on Earth at this moment. You can walk into any Gap or Target store and choose from more than 2 dozen different types of jeans (and in some cases, more than 3 dozen). All of that choice comes at a price, however. It’s called “decision fatigue” and its full impact is only starting to be fully understood by psychologists and researchers. Our brains can suffer from “mental fatigue,” just as our bodies can become physically fatigued after a long workout. What is so surprising about this phenomenon is just how little people appreciate the importance of mental f...
Source: World of Psychology - August 18, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Psychology Research Sleep Stress Brains Choice Decision Clothes Buy Different Ways Dozen Different Types Energy Saver fatigue Gap John Tierney Junk Food Lengthy Story Mental Energy Mental Fati Source Type: blogs

Being A Doctor Is A Lot Like Being A Parent: You Can’t Tap OutEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The American College of Graduate Medical Education has enacted further restrictions on resident work hours.  No more than 80 hours per week of work for resident physicians, averaged over one month.  And no more than 16 hours of continuous work for first year residents (24 after that), which includes patient care, academic lectures, etc. Whenever they do this sort of thing, everyone seems excited that it will make everyone safer.  After all, residents won’t be working as much, so they’ll be more rested and make much better decisions.  It’s all ‘win-win,’ as physicians in training and patients alike are safer. ...
Source: Better Health - August 11, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Edwin Leap, M.D. Tags: Health Policy Opinion ACGME College of Graduate Medical Education Continuous Work Doctors Emergency Medicine Family fatigue Hours Medical Mistakes Overtime Parenting Physicians Public Health Residency Residents Rest Res Source Type: blogs

Everything Takes Longer With MSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As I make final preparations for our annual camping trip to the San Juan Islands, I find myself behind the 8-ball. No matter how well I make lists, how ardently I schedule things and how prepared I think I’ve made myself; EVERYTHING just takes longer these days. I’m going to have to keep this post short, as I’m further behind this morning than when I went to sleep last night. This week has seen me muck up two meetings because I’d written them on next week’s schedule. I’ve needed at least as much time (sometimes more) to get tasks completed than I had expected — and I gave myself extra time! Physical ‘st...
Source: Life with MS - August 11, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS MS and fatigue MS blog MS management MS stress Multiple Sclerosis healthcare life with multiple sclerosis ms and movement multiple scelrosis multiple scleroris Source Type: blogs

Why Women Are More Tired Than MenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We all want to be that woman–you know, the one who never lets a day pass without posting about her five zillion accomplishments on Facebook. The woman who got up at 5am, did a two-hour workout, dressed in her perfectly-pressed suit, worked all day (in heels, no less), stopped at the bank, the grocery store and Target on her way home, did a quickie change of clothes, met friends out for dinner and made it home just in time to pay some bills, do the laundry and read three more chapters of her favorite book before getting up the next day to do it all over again. If this doesn’t sound like your day—or your energy...
Source: Healthbolt - August 8, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Deborah Dunham Tags: energy FEEL fatigue feeling-tired health concerns sleep-deprivation Source Type: blogs

Standing Up With Multiple SclerosisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It’s not uncommon for me to use alliterations and metaphor when I write about MS. Today, however, I write about the actual difficulties of “standing up” when you have multiple sclerosis. Difficulties with the vertical posture come in many colors, shades, and tones for those of us on different places on the MS rainbow. When I was first diagnosed, and trying to keep my jet-set, full-time employment, my boss in Germany told me of a dear friend of his with MS. Your man had apparently had MS for years and the only way you might notice anything is that he couldn’t stand for very long at a cocktail party. If that is the �...
Source: Life with MS - August 1, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: How's your MS today MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS balance MS blog MS community MS lifestyle MS management MS support MS symptoms Multiple Sclerosis mobility everyday health blog MS diagnosis ms mobility Source Type: blogs

Some Days, MS Makes It Hard to Get Out of My Own WayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Because of the Life With MS Blog community, I know that I am not alone. I am not alone in the way that heat can affect my multiple sclerosis. I am not alone in the occasional question whether or not I really have MS. I am not alone in trying (and sometimes failing) to lead a “normal” life; MS or not. I know, also, that I am not alone when I say that some days I just can’t seem to get out of my own way! This past weekend (or really nearly a week now), as you might have gathered from my lack of posts on both this blog and our companion Facebook page I’ve been under something of an MS blanket. I wake in the mo...
Source: Life with MS - July 25, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS and fatigue MS and pain MS balance Source Type: blogs

Why Only Some People Experience High Altitude SicknessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hi! Greetings from Breckenridge, Colorado. At 10,000 feet, I am told it is the highest resort town in North America. The Rocky Mountain scenery is breathtaking. But there’s a problem for about one in four of us who visit here, especially people like me who live at sea level. We can get hit with high altitude sickness and a few days ago, I was one of the unlucky ones. What happens is your body isn’t used to the thin air and your blood has difficulty getting enough oxygen to your body. It usually happens at altitudes over 8,500 feet. You get an ongoing headache, you feel tired, you have insomnia (I was sleepless for two...
Source: Better Health - June 26, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: AndrewSchorr Tags: Health Tips True Stories 8500 Feet Altitude Colorado Diamox fatigue headache High Altitude High Altitude Sickness Hydration Insomnia Mountains Nausea Oxygen Bar Source Type: blogs

Staying Hydrated While FlyingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dehydration is a common problem for passengers when flying, due to the lack of humidity in the air within the plane. Besides the uncomfortable thirsty feeling dehydration brings, it can increase your feelings of travel fatigue and your risk of catching a cold. 1Above is a new product billing itself as “the world’s first aerotonic flight beverage.” In non-marketing speak, that means “drink to keep you hydrated while flying” (seriously, aerotonic is not even a real word, guys). The New Zealand-based company claims 1Above will deliver “electrolyte-enhanced hypotonic hydration, GRAPELO (a unique blend of circulat...
Source: Healthbolt - June 13, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Elizabeth Nolan Brown Tags: FEEL stress relief airplane travel dehydration fatigue health and travel hints and tips jet lag water Source Type: blogs

To Retract or Not to Retract… That’s the QuestionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the previous post I discussed [1] that editors of Science asked for the retraction of a paper linking XMRV retrovirus to ME/CFS. The decision of the editors was based on the failure of at least 10 other studies to confirm these findings and on growing support that the results were caused by contamination. When the authors refused [...]
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - June 7, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Publications Research CFS Chronic fatigue Syndrome Committee on Publication Ethics Guidelines issue of concern ME/CFS Paper Publishing retraction retractions Scientific misconduct Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus Source Type: blogs

TWiV 136: Exit XMRVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Stephen Goff Retrovirologist Stephen Goff joins Vincent, Rich, and Alan for a discussion of recent papers on the retrovirus XMRV and its association with chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #136 (61 MB .mp3, 84 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Links for this episode: Recombinant origin of XMRV (Science Express) No evidence of gammaretroviruses in XMRV-positive CFS pa...
Source: virology blog - June 5, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology CFS chronic fatigue syndrome gammaretrovirus mecfs viral xmrv Source Type: blogs

Science Asks to Retract the XMRV-CFS Paper, it Should Never Have Accepted in the First Place.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Wow! Breaking! As reported in WSJ earlier this week [1], editors of the journal Science asked Mikovits and her co-authors to voluntary retract their 2009 Science paper [2]. In this paper Mikovits and colleagues of the Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) and the Cleveland Clinic, reported the presence of xenotropic murine leukemia virus–related virus (XMRV) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells [...]
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - June 2, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Infectious Diseases Publications Research CFS CFS/ME Chronic fatigue Syndrome Health retraction Whittemore Peterson Institute Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus XMRV XMRV-virus Source Type: blogs

XMRV is a recombinant virus from miceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The novel human retrovirus XMRV has been associated with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. The nucleotide sequence of XMRV isolated from humans indicates that the virus is nearly identical with XMRV produced from a human prostate tumor cell line called 22Rv1. This cell line was derived by passage of human prostate tumor tissue in nude mice. Sequence analyses reveal that the genomes of these mouse strains contain two different proviral DNAs related to XMRV. These viral genomes recombined to produce XMRV that has been isolated from humans. XMRV was originally isolated from a human prostate cancer in 2006, and sub...
Source: virology blog - May 31, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Information CFS chronic fatigue syndrome integration mice provirus recombinant retrovirus viral virology xmrv Source Type: blogs

A Stress-Relieving Article for ProfessionalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I was trying to do it all on my own: I know how to meditate. I know how to do my job. I am an addictions counselor. I arrived at the UVA mindfulness meditation meeting because something inside me told me that I wasn’t OK. I was in a lot of internal pain — otherwise known as being extremely stressed. I take my life experiences very seriously. I try not to let them get by without noticing. I don’t always know how to ask for help, or know if I even need help at times. I didn’t consciously know what I was asking for that night, I just showed up, along with a few others, both meditation teachers showed up… an...
Source: World of Psychology - May 7, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Lauren M. Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Self-Help Stress Acknowledgment Attitude Cloak Counselor Deep Water Emotional Weight Evenings fatigue Fear Frustration Health Care Professionals Heavy Boots Intensity Medita Source Type: blogs

Greed, Grief, and The Choices of a LifetimeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As most of you already know, my daughter, Beth and I have just returned from a working trip to the high desert region of California. My sweet mother-in-law passed away last May and due to other family matters it has taken us a year to make it down there to clean out her home. The weather is also a factor because I cannot tolerate heat or sun. When we left home it was drizzling here in beautiful, green yet soggy Oregon. The contrast to the high desert is startling. Yucca trees, a few evergreens and lots of brown greeted us. It was also 90 degrees. I got out the sunscreen but still have many fever blisters. You all know I ha...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - May 6, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Elderly Emotional Health death death and dying faith fatigue grief loss of a loved one A Life With Chronic Pain chronic pain blog family grieving process neighbors Source Type: blogs

Ila Singh finds no XMRV in patients with chronic fatigue syndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Since the first association of the retrovirus XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome in 2009 in the US, subsequent studies have failed to detect evidence of infection in patients from the US, Europe, and China. These studies were potentially compromised by a number of factors, such as differences in patient characterization, geographic locations, clinical samples used, and methods used to detect the virus. These and other potentially confounding conditions have been addressed in the most comprehensive study to date on the association of XMRV with CFS. In the introduction to their paper, published in the Journal of Virology, ...
Source: virology blog - May 4, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Information CFS chronic fatigue syndrome ila singh mecfs retrovirus viral virology xmrv Source Type: blogs

Fight Fatigue and Up Your Energy -- But Not By Finding BalanceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you’re tired of feeling tired all the time (both physically and mentally), as well as particularly stressed out with no energy level to speak of, I may just have the answer for you. Or rather, Linda Hawes Clever, M.D., author of the new book The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Healthy, and Life may just have the answer for you. (And guess what? The answer is not balance!) This book is no pretentious meditation on the concept of fatigue: It’s a practical, no-nonsense guide filled with concrete tips on how to make your life better. And what could be better than that? (Besides feeling ...
Source: Healthbolt - May 2, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christine Egan Tags: emotional health FEEL fatigue sleep issues work life balance Source Type: blogs

The Assologist is EvolvingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After writing this blog for almost five years, I find I have few secrets. My life is an open book. I’m one of those irritating women who talk to you in line at the market, have total strangers pick me out of a crowd to ask directions and always pet friendly, furry dogs at street fairs. I’ve always had a tongue that had a life of it’s own but now I’m far worse. My life changed about half-way through when, over a period of a few months, I developed two strange symptoms. Those two irritating and eventually painful problems changed my life forever. When I look back on the last 20+ years, I no longer recognize the woman...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - April 28, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Chronic pain community Chronic pain lifestyle balance faith fatigue grief health chronic pain blog Emotional Health health issues life with chronic pain pain coping mechanisms physical pain Source Type: blogs

7 Tips for Coping with FinalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It’s that time again if you’re a college or graduate student — time for finals. It’s also time to self-sabotage, to get in your own way in terms of effective studying. We stress out more than usual, even when we’re on top of the material, because of the anxiety surrounding test-taking. But you don’t have to stress out about final exams. You can actually do better (and feel better about your performance) if you keep the stress at bay and focus on simple study skills over the next few weeks. Here’s a few tips for coping with finals to get you started. None of these are going to be ey...
Source: World of Psychology - April 26, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Motivation and Inspiration Psychology Self-Help Sleep Stress Students Adequate Sleep anxiety Brain Cells coping with finals Downside False Belief fatigue final exams finals week Friends goals Source Type: blogs

Sue’s Official Rules for WhiningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When you’ve had chronic pain for many years whining becomes an art form, a sacred ritual while also becoming a bit repetitive. That’s why you have to jazz it a bit by coming up with new ways to whine. Sure, it sounds easy. If you’re new to all this you might think all you have to do is be the victim, I mean patient, then spot another victim, also known as the listener and you’re all set to go. It’s much more complex than that. Let me see if I can sum it up for you. You know I love a list so let’s try, shall we? Never whine when you’re with someone sicker than you are. They don’t give a rat’s ass and you ...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - April 21, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Chronic pain community Chronic pain lifestyle Depression Emotional Health doctor-patient relationship fatigue funny remedies laughter life with chronic pain life with chronic pain blog pain and depression pets Source Type: blogs

MS Didn’t Give Us Nuttin’ — We Took It!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The funeral mass for the first person I ever knew to have multiple sclerosis took place today. She lived a good life, a happy life, a full life. She’s remembered today for her love of family, of friends, and of travel. Goldine’s life with MS taught me much — likely far more than she would have ever known. Her love of travel in particular (oft with one of her daughters to help) made me look at my life with MS differently from the start. And today, in her honor, I state plainly that MS didn’t “give” us anything. If there is goodness in our life after MS that wasn’t there before; we took it! MS is a sly and ...
Source: Life with MS - April 20, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Accessibility Diagnosis Grief Lifestyle MS MS 150 MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS balance MS blog MS community MS diagnosis MS hug MS lifestyle MS management MS stress MS support MS symptoms MS trea Source Type: blogs

MS News From the AAN Meetings: Significant Risks From Tysabri IdentifiedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The world’s largest gathering of neurological professionals took place in Honolulu, Hawaii last week. Unlike when the American Academy of Neurology meeting took place on my back doorstep in 2009, I did not attend the meetings in order to report back “live” (but it wasn’t for lack of trying…). Then, when I tracked the news as it rolled out from the meetings and was kept abreast in their virtual press room, I waited until the meetings were over so I could digest the skeins of data before relaying information via the Life With MS Blog. Once again this year, multiple sclerosis information, seminars, posters, and stud...
Source: Life with MS - April 18, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS MS 150 MS Politics MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS blog MS community MS management MS research MS stress MS support MS treatment Multiple Sclerosis National MS Society PML Pain and MS Progressive MS Source Type: blogs

GoneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Life is filled with constant change As we grow, mature and learn Unfortunately it’s not all mental as Our bodies sometime take a turn. Yet, each of us is amazed Because life doesn’t stay the same; Relationships, jobs and health In a flash can rearrange. Each time the hand of fate comes down We face surprise and shock Because we want it all to stay the same We learn early how to pitch a squawk. Accidents, bad planning and stupidity Can throw us into a spin; It seems we’re always trying to cope, To adjust, never dreaming we could win. As we struggle to adjust our Rubik’s cube We blame ourselves when struck by f...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - April 15, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Chronic pain community Emotional Health faith fatigue grief chronic pain and emotions chronic pain poem life with chronic pain life with chronic pain blog Source Type: blogs

Medical Fatigue: Hitting “The Wall”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How is it that a person with an illness forgets to take their medicine, or refuses to get a treatment, or forgoes important monitoring? I’ve been thinking about that because someone close to me has hit that “medical fatigue” wall. There has been no effective treatment for their digestive system illness and they are tired of the prods, pokes, and special exams. They just want to live their life and “cope.” One can understand – especially in a child or teenager. Imagine someone with diabetes. Diet, exercise, monitoring, medication. It can be so tiring. If only the illness – the boogieman or what some call “th...
Source: Better Health - April 13, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: AndrewSchorr Tags: Opinion Patient Interviews Breast Cancer fatigue Kathy Sparks Medical fatigue melanoma Source Type: blogs

The Medical History of a Life Coach – Part 2Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you didn’t read my last post ‘You’re Depressed! – The Medical History of a Life Coach‘, this is going to make zero sense to you, so go and check it out now and I’ll be waiting for you to return. It was cool to know that my latest lump wasn’t about to eat half my face away and that it was connected to my hemochromatosis. Even so it still sucked knowing that there was nothing I could do to stop the recurring abscesses other than maintain a regime of phlebotomies. I suggested a course of leaches to my oncologist and Helen added that she’d be happy to vacuum them up when they got full and fell off me...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - April 10, 2011 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Uncategorized adrenal fatigue health leaky gut stress Source Type: blogs

TUBERCULOSIS – A CONTAGIOUS KILLER?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
   Tuberculosis Bacteria           Is tuberculosis a contagious killer?  Well, it depends on which type of tuberculosis (commonly called TB) we are talking about, active or inactive.  Active tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease.  Just like the common cold, it spreads through the air, but only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious.  This type of TB means the bacteria are active in the body and the immune system is unable to stop them from causing illness.  People with active tuberculosis in their lungs can pass the bacteria on to anyone they come into close contact with.  When a per...
Source: Nursing Comments - April 9, 2011 Category: Nurses Authors: Stephanie Jewett, RN Tags: Advice/Education General Public Home/Articles Nursing/Nursing Students active tuberculosis chills contagious killer fatigue fever HIV horrific cough latent tuberculosis Mantoux test night sweats PPD skin test pulmonary TB Source Type: blogs

Pipe dreamsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Thyroid cancer is a long-term commitment. I remember being told, "This is something you will live with for the rest of your life." But those words don't soak in at 29 when you are holding your 8-week-old baby, nursing him, trying to picture what having surgery will look like. You simply can't fast-forward years into the future to imagine the rest of your life. And today the forever part is here, and I am wasted-exhausted, the wrung out dirty dish rag hanging limp over the lip of the stainless steel sink. I am the dead grass, the wilted weed, the dry and curly leaf hopelessly clinging. Hyperthyroid because spring is here, a...
Source: Turquoise Gates - April 4, 2011 Category: Cancer Tags: dreams joy mycancerstory fatigue bittersweet exhaustion Source Type: blogs

Attitude is Everything in a Life of Chronic PainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I frequently run into individuals — as I did in my past as an RN — who thought they were the only ones who were suffering. What is this whole living with pain business, some morbid contest to see who’s suffered the most? It’s far too easy to slide down into that hole of depression and self-pity and think you’re the most unfortunate, the most tortured, and the most miserable of them all. If that’s your approach you’ll get a prize for certain; all you have to do is win. Your prize is a life of darkness engulfed in pain and suffering. Your attitude will stink. Your friends and family will eventually res...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - March 24, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Arthritis Chronic pain Chronic pain community Chronic pain lifestyle Chronic pain therapy Chronic pain treatment Depression Elderly Emotional Health Rheumatoid Arthritis anti inflammatory medicine fatigue fibromyalgia happiness Source Type: blogs

MS Awareness Week, Day 4: St Patrick’s DayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is MY day; Patrick’s Day! I usually try to rise before 5:00am so that the scones will be hot when Caryn wakes. Then, in goes the wheaten bread (a whole wheat soda bread from the North of Ireland). Then, I pack it all up and begin deliveries to a few local haunts before tucking in for some fine music, a Guinness or so and some good craic! Today when the alarm rang, my MS had been at work all night. New symptoms of right arm/hand spasticity and pain came from nowhere. I couldn’t roust myself until well after 8:00. Things are much slower around here this morning. The baking will get done (I prepared everything last n...
Source: Life with MS - March 17, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS MS and fatigue MS and pain MS blog MS management MS symptoms Multiple Sclerosis Pain and MS health holiday stress holidays adaptation to MS lilvng with multiple sclerosis ms and holidays multiple scelrosis blog multiple sc Source Type: blogs

MS Awareness Week, Day 3: Care PartnersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Multiple sclerosis is a family disease. Even if you are the only one in your family living with a diagnosis of MS — like I was for the first decade after my diagnosis — your family lives with MS as well. Some people live well with MS, some struggle and suffer (in their own ways). The same holds true for family members and friends of people with MS. Today, as part of our week-long series dedicated to MS Awareness Week, I’d like to call out our care partners. It’s not easy to live with someone with MS. It’s not possible to read our minds. It’s not always pleasant to be around us when we require (and sometimes don...
Source: Life with MS - March 16, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Diagnosis How's your MS today Lifestyle MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS and sex MS balance MS blog MS community MS diagnosis MS hug MS lifestyle MS management MS pills MS stress MS support MS symptoms Source Type: blogs

Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, Day 2: MS =Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It’s Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week in the United States. There are television adverts for the National MS Society, billboards, Facebook pages are bubbling with chat, and people are wearing orange and taking part in awareness activities across the country. I’ve decided to try to post a little something every day this week, starting out year six at a sprint! Today, I’m focusing on MS =. The National MS Society has created this page so that all of us who live with MS — patients, families, friends, co-workers, etc — can go there and type a headline (no more than 60 characters) explaining what MS equa...
Source: Life with MS - March 15, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Celebrities with MS How's your MS today MS 150 MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS balance MS blog MS community MS diagnosis MS lifestyle MS management MS research MS stress MS support Multiple Sclerosis NMSS Source Type: blogs

Life With MS Blog: Five Years Old TodayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Life with MS blog may not be the oldest running blog about Multiple Sclerosis, but in an experiment I conducted this weekend, I found that it’s pretty damned popular! When I searched (with various search engines) “MS Blog,” “Multiple Sclerosis Blog,” and “Life with MS” our little community was the number one result, every time. (Ok, once MS Magazine’s blog and once an advert for Microsoft’s blog came on top of ours…but still!) If you would have searched those keywords five years ago, who knows what you would have found. I know that if you had searched my name back in 2005, the only thing you would h...
Source: Life with MS - March 14, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS MS Recipe for Success MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS and sex MS balance MS blog MS clinics MS community MS diagnosis MS lifestyle MS management MS pills MS research MS stress MS support MS symptoms Source Type: blogs

Emergency Preparedness and MS: Annette Funicello and the Japanese EarthquakeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
On a night when my multiple sclerosis was quiet and actually allowing for a good night’s sleep, I was awakened just after 5:00 am by a text message from my father in Florida. While he knows we live a couple of hundred feet above sea level, we aren’t far from the sea on the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States. News of the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan was racing around the news wires and internet and he, being fatherly and all, wanted to make sure our pack was safe. We are. As I searched the internet and surfed television channels I came across other alarming news… The first love of a...
Source: Life with MS - March 11, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Accessibility Celebrities with MS How's your MS today MS 150 MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS automobile MS balance MS blog MS cars MS community MS lifestyle MS management MS stress MS support MS symptoms Source Type: blogs

Your Charlie Sheen-Free Zone: How’s Your MS Today?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The response to my recent Facebook/Twitter chirpings about having had enough of Charlie Sheen prompted the addition to our monthly title. Let the Life With MS Blog be 100 percent Charlie-Free! We try to take the first Wednesday’s post each month to ask this question, but last week’s slot was taken by breaking news about the FDA’s rejection of the oral MS med, Clabridine. Now, let’s get back on track… MS changes our lives and it changes much of our day-to-day as well. These monthly check-ins give some reference and insight for us and for other members of the community. In our ”Frustrations” blog last week...
Source: Life with MS - March 9, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: How's your MS today MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS and sex MS balance MS blog MS community MS diagnosis MS lifestyle MS management MS pills MS stress MS support MS symptoms MS therapy MS treatment Mult Source Type: blogs

Overcoming Productivity HurdlesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Why haven’t you finished your novel? What happened to starting your own blog? Why haven’t you gotten around to working on that exciting project? We want to start many projects, but we can never find the time. Maybe we’re just too busy, overwhelmed by the scope of a project or simply exhausted after finishing up the day’s responsibilities. But there’s usually more to it than that, according to productivity coach and author Hillary Rettig. She shares her insight on overcoming anti-productivity traps, which can even stop people from pursuing the projects they’re most excited about. Get clear on your mission. P...
Source: World of Psychology - March 7, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Stress Definitive Guide fatigue Forthcoming Book Hillary Hurdles Impediments Journaling Knot Monolith Overcoming Procrastination Perfectionism Productiv Source Type: blogs

TWiV 123: Contaminated prostates, absolute truth, and bleached wormsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode #123 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about XMRV integration sites in prostate tumor DNA, the decline effect and scientific method, and the first virus of Caenorhabditis nematodes. Right click to download TWiV #123 (67 MB .mp3, 93 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Links for this episode: Analysis of XMRV integration sites from human prostate cancer (Retrovirology) Integration site preference of ...
Source: virology blog - March 6, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology caenorhabditis elegans chronic fatigue syndrome integration site mecfs nematode prostate cancer provirus retrovirus scientific method viral xmrv Source Type: blogs

You Can Still Count in a Life With Chronic PainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As many of you, I have those days when my thinking is fuzzy. That’s a kind and understated way of saying I feel my years of this compromised life, am distracted by daily pain and have done something to confuse myself. That something is often forgetting to eat, resulting in low blood sugar. Other days I run around in a fog for no reason at all, because I’m trying to do too much too fast or haven’t slept well the night before. Today, as I was refilling my medicine containers into those weekly plastic containers I realized how often I use basic counting to prevent mistakes and to promote many of the other forms of thera...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - March 4, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Arthritis Chronic pain Chronic pain community Chronic pain lifestyle Chronic pain therapy Chronic pain treatment Emotional Health Rheumatoid Arthritis Uncategorized anti inflammatory medicine fatigue fibromyalgia health care join Source Type: blogs

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Can Psychotherapy And Exercise Help?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[Recently] in The New York Times, David Tuller [wrote] about a study published in The Lancet that shows that psychotherapy is an effective treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome. In his article ”Psychotherapy Eases Chronic Fatigue, Study Shows,” Tuller writes: The new study, conducted at clinics in Britain and financed by that country’s government, is expected to lend ammunition to those who think the disease is primarily psychological or related to stress. The authors note that the goal of cognitive behavioral therapy, the type of psychotherapy tested in the study, is to change the psychological factors �...
Source: Better Health - March 3, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrDinahMiller Tags: Opinion Research All In Your Head CBT CFS Chronic fatigue Syndrome Cognitive Behavioral Therapy David Tuller Dr. Dinah Miller Exercise Therapy My Three Shrinks New York Times Psychiatry and Psychology Psychological Factors Psyc Source Type: blogs

New Multiple Sclerosis Pill Shot Down by FDAEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The multiple sclerosis pill Cladribine has been dealt another blow by FDA pharmaceutical regulators. FDA’s Euro-Zone sister agency rejected Cladribine just over a month ago based on its unacceptable risk-benefit ratio for patients in drug trials. In its letter to Merck, FDA cited the same concerns. The agency didn’t question the drug’s efficacy in reducing multiple sclerosis relapse and progression. In fact, Merck officials claim encouragement in that the response letter verified the claims about Cladribine on those fronts. This leaves Cladribine (its planned brand name is “Movectro”) in the arsenal of people...
Source: Life with MS - March 2, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: How's your MS today Lifestyle MS Politics MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS balance MS blog MS clinics MS community MS diagnosis MS lifestyle MS management MS pills MS research MS stress MS symptoms MS th Source Type: blogs

On the Day After There’s a Cure for Multiple Sclerosis, I Will…Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nearing my one-decade mark post-diagnosis, I lay awake last night planning a fairly busy schedule (by my “new normal” standards) for today. I became keenly aware of the modifications which have become mundane and the extraordinary which has become every day. As I walked through today in my mind, I found myself stepping over MS at every turn, which got me to thinking about the day after a cure. Some with early stages of RRMS will say that most of their days are sans MS, so such a day is nearly routine. Many people with MS say they are experiencing such a day directly after being treated for CCSVI. There seemed, in my w...
Source: Life with MS - February 25, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: CCSVI Diagnosis Lifestyle MS MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS blog MS community MS diagnosis MS management MS research MS support MS treatment Multiple Sclerosis Pain and MS health healthcare living wi Source Type: blogs

Cog-Fog: Multiple Sclerosis ‘Cognitive Fog’Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’m told by those who have cared for someone with Alzheimer’s disease that the hardest part is when the patient emerges, momentarily, from their dementia and it is evident by the look on their face (or comments) that they know exactly what is happening to them. While we know that multiple sclerosis isn’t Alzheimer’s, many of us are cognizant of the fact that “cog-fog” is a part of MS too. The anecdotal reports of treatment for CCSVI (the narrowing of veins which is theorized to be a contributing factor in MS) include a lifting of cog-fog as a major benefit. This “brain fog,” as it’s sometimes called, is d...
Source: Life with MS - February 23, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: CCSVI Lifestyle MS MS and Your Feelings MS and fatigue MS and pain MS blog MS lifestyle MS management MS research MS symptoms Multiple Sclerosis health healthy lifestyle cognitive ability with ms cognitive issues emotional Source Type: blogs

30 Workaholic QuestionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Workaholism or Work Addict?Answer yes or no to each questionIs your work very important to you?Do you like things done ‘just right’?Do you tend to see things as black or white, not grey?Are you competitive and often determined to win?Is it important for you to be right?Are you overly critical of yourself if you make a mistake?Are you afraid of failing?Are you restless and impulsive and easily bored?Do you drive yourself, and have high levels of energy and stamina?Do you suffer periodic bouts of extreme fatigue?Do you take work home and work nights and/or weekends?Do you feel uneasy or guilty if there is nothing to do?D...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - February 23, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addictions Denial Disease Family Work Addictions determined to win extreme fatigue questions workaholic Source Type: blogs

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