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Snapchat spectacles worn by UK surgeon while operating
A UK surgeon has broadcast an operation using Snap spectacles in a world first.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - December 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Your Ideal Weight Isn't What You Think
When I was a dieter I always had a goal weight that I thought would change my life. I'd get on the scale (if I was brave enough) and would hold my breath as I watched the needle move, calculating in my mind how many pounds away I was from happiness. I don't know what I expected to happen at that magic number. In retrospect I don't know what I expected to happen at that magic number. If I had been less delusional I might have acknowledged that the few times I did manage to reach my goal, I instantly adjusted it a few pounds downward, the flicker of joy suppressed by the sudden realization that an even smaller pair of jeans...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Many Benefits Of Self-Compassion
Our sense of self is often a divided thing. Most of us have a side in us that is "on our own team." It encourages and supports us. It helps us fight for what we want and believes in what we can achieve. However, there is often an opposite force in each of us that is pretty much our worst enemy. It insults, critiques, questions, and undermines us. It keeps us from pursuing our goals and punishes us for our mistakes. This is the side of us that my father, Dr. Robert Firestone has called the "anti-self."
In my and my father's work, we often talk about how and why this anti-self emerges and how to challenge the negative line ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This Chain-Smoking Chimpanzee Is Trapped In A North Korean Zoo
A 19-year-old female chimpanzee named Azalea rose to internet fame on Wednesday after The Associated Press published photos that show her smoking in an exhibition in the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea.
In the photos, the chimp appears almost human as she puffs on a cigarette. The AP reported that Azalea could light the cigarettes herself, either with a lighter or another lit cigarette her trainers threw into the exhibit.
While it’s possible for humans to train primates how to smoke tobacco, primatologist Frans B.M. de Waal says it’s a form of animal cruelty.
“Of course, it is as...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 20, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Rare Photo Captures Sprites, Gravity Waves Over Hurricane Matthew
A series of extremely rare bursts of light lit up the night sky near Puerto Rico over the weekend, creating a spectacular display that one eagle-eyed photographer was fortunate to capture.
At least 28 of these electrical discharges called sprites flashed directly above thunderstorms brought by the barreling, category 4 Hurricane Matthew on Saturday, photographer Frankie Lucena told The Huffington Post.
In addition to the unique lights, one of his photos managed to capture gravity waves ― not to be confused with gravitational waves ― directly above the flashes as well. Steven Miller, an atmospheric researcher...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 4, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
A third of people with dementia have treatable vision problems
New data shows that around a third of people with dementia have serious vision problems, such as cataracts or short sightedness, more than the general population of that age. Levels are higher still for people with dementia in care homes – about half have vision problems.
Yet this study showed that many of the people with dementia and vision impairment had not received the right treatment. This often involves simple measures. For many, spectacles could have improved poor sight. A quarter had cataracts, which surgery could have cor rected. Quality of life is known to improve if visual impairment is corrected.
Failure to r...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - October 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fixing Our Food System Shouldn't Be A Partisan Issue
Whether it’s the massive amount of food we waste, the burden large agribusinesses places on our environment or the staggering number of children who go to bed hungry every night, the American food system is obviously quite far from perfect.
The question of how to address the above failures is, of course, a tough one. In fact, it’s a question so tough it’s gone mostly ignored, so far, in the presidential contest.
The answers that some call for involve the implementation of further regulations for farmers, food manufacturers and consumers alike, and advances in these areas are often touted as successes...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How physician input is changing MOC
With Maintenance of Certification (MOC) in its second decade, many changes are underway. Through conversations between physicians and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), these changes are intended to make the MOC process, including the Part III examination, more relevant to clinical practice and less burdensome.
In recent years, the AMA ’s Council on Medical Education (Council) has developed a constructive working relationship with the ABMS on these issues. Council work has been effective in contributing to moving the Boards to consider alternatives to high-stakes testing and other changes in MOC to mak...
Source: AMA Wire - September 23, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Timothy Smith Source Type: news
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editor@epmonthly.com
RE: Throwing stones
“We’re ignoring the 300 lb gorilla…”
Dear Editor, I enjoyed your article and agree with Hoffman’s conclusions. However, medicine is avoiding the 300 pound gorilla in the room. The main causes of over testing that I see are 1) the administration expects us to increase income, 2) There have been studies that show that patients assess the quality of care by the number of tests that are ordered- I have never met a Medicaid patient that did not relish tests, and 3) the incompetence of the physician ordering the test. I have seen poor physicians order tests because th...
Source: EPMonthly.com - September 19, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Matt McGahen Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
"Consent" issue in sex trafficking and evidence from Turkey - Coskun E.
In the light of feminist critiques, this paper examines how the United Nation's anti-trafficking protocol is materialized in Turkey with a focus on the issue of "consent" in determining victims of sex trafficking. Contrary to the Protocol, non-payment and ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 9, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
2017 Solar Eclipse Will Be The Most Awesome One In 99 Years
Millions of Americans will get the rare opportunity next summer to experience a total solar eclipse.
On August 21, 2017, the moon will pass in front of the sun and its shadow will sweep across the contiguous U.S., crossing 14 states from Oregon to South Carolina.
Total solar eclipses aren’t especially rare, despite what many people think. One occurs somewhere on Earth every 18 months on average, according to Sky & Telescope.
But this will be the first one since February 1979 ― back when Jimmy Carter was in the White House and Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” was atop the mu...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 7, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
People get better spectacles from optometrists than online providers
A study commissioned by the College of Optometrists found that, when comparing spectacles bought online and those bought and fitted in optometric practices, customers preferred shop bought spectacles.
Source: NHS Networks - August 29, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Eyejusters glasses enables the wearer to bring whatever they want to look at into focus
A British company based in Oxford has come up with an ingenious solution to get around the problem of struggling to see close-up objects - spectacles where the focus can be altered.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Integrative Scientist Pizzorno: "Toxicity is the Primary Driver of Disease"
Regular medicine is awakening to the dumbfounding reality that clinical care accounts for just 10%-20% of the factors contributing to health. But if research recently presented by a leader in the revitalization of the naturopathic medical profession - and of the movements for functional and integrative medicine - is correct, even the most aggressive adopters of the new thinking are still missing the boat.
The new thinking argues that if we want to create health, we need to address things like poverty, education, genetics and healthy behaviors. The figure describes these.
Yet according to best-selling author and resear...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Climate summaries ' for grownups, ' but not too difficult for policymakers
Offering a rare insider analysis of the climate assessment process, experts examined the writing and editing procedures by which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change creates summaries of their findings for policymakers. Despite recent critiques that these summaries are too difficult for non-experts, researchers found them comparable to reference texts in terms of reading comprehension level.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 5, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
