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    Johnson & Johnson Health Channel

  • Resiliency -- Human Performance Institute

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:39 am
    Resiliency -- Human Performance Institute Human Performance Institute Co-founders Drs. Jack Groppel and Jim Loehr offer their insights into what resiliency really means and the impact it can have on your business and life. From: JNJhealth Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:34 More in Education

  • Energy vs. Time -- Human Performance Institute

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:35 am
    Energy vs. Time -- Human Performance Institute Human Performance Institute Co-founders Drs. Jim Loehr and Jack Groppel discuss why managing energy, not time, plays a critical role in greater engagement and high performance. From: JNJhealth Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:29 More in Education

  • Energy Crisis - Human Performance Institute

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:30 am
    Energy Crisis - Human Performance Institute Human Performance Institute Co-founders Drs. Jim Loehr and Jack Groppel discuss the implications of the Human Energy Crisis and what it means to your business. From: JNJhealth Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:38 More in Education

  • Prostate Cancer Roadmap - with Arnold Palmer

    27 Aug 2010 | 1:33 pm
    Prostate Cancer Roadmap - with Arnold Palmer World-renowned golf champion and prostate cancer survivor Arnold Palmer has teamed up with Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. and the non-profit organization Us TOO International Prostate Cancer Education & Support Network to launch My Prostate Cancer Roadmap (www.MyProstateCancerRoadmap.com), an educational program that provides resources and information specific to advanced prostate cancer patients and those who love them. From: JNJhealth Views: 240 1 ratings Time: 03:18 More in Education

  • Economic Improvement - Investing in your employees

    27 Aug 2010 | 11:11 am
    Economic Improvement - Investing in your employees Human Performance Institute Co-founders Drs. Jim Loehr and Jack Groppel discuss why the time to invest in your employees is now. Here's why. From: JNJhealth Views: 45 1 ratings Time: 01:48 More in Education
 
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    Medpagetoday

  • Rapid TB Test Shows High Accuracy (CME/CE)

    2 Sep 2010 | 9:39 am
    (MedPage Today) -- A two-hour molecular diagnostic test detected tuberculosis bacteria, including rifampin-resistant strains, with sensitivity and specificity well over 90%, researchers found.

  • Attitudes More than Growth Response Drive Growth Hormone Therapy (CME/CE)

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:44 am
    (MedPage Today) -- While a physician's decision to start a child on growth hormone is usually consistent with evidence-based guidelines, continuation or intensification of therapy is strongly influenced by factors other than treatment response, according to a new survey.

  • ESC: Novel Agent Blocks Hyperkalemia in Heart Failure (CME/CE)

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:59 am
    STOCKHOLM (MedPage Today) -- An investigational potassium binder prevented hyperkalemia in at-risk patients with heart failure, a randomized, placebo-controlled trial showed.

  • Increased Cardiac Events Seen With Sibutramine (CME/CE)

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:59 am
    (MedPage Today) -- Overweight patients with cardiovascular risks who took the weight-loss drug sibutramine had an increased likelihood of experiencing a cardiac event, a large randomized trial found.

  • Few Conn. Physicians Treat Chronic Lyme Disease

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    (MedPage Today) -- Only a very small number of physicians in Connecticut -- the epicenter of Lyme disease -- diagnose and treat patients with the controversial chronic form of this tick-borne infection, a survey found.
 
 
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    CNN: Health

  • In mine's confines, survival instincts prevail

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:40 am
    The health of 33 trapped Chilean miners is authorities' top priority as crews this week began drilling in an effort to free them.

  • West Nile virus kills 13 in Greece

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:33 am
    West Nile Virus has killed 13 people in northern Greece and sickened another 143, the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

  • Flu 2010: 5 things you should know

    2 Sep 2010 | 5:18 am
    Ohio State offensive lineman Andrew Miller wants to be first in line for a vaccine this year. Here are five things you should know.

  • FDA agents visit Iowa farms that recalled eggs

    1 Sep 2010 | 6:50 pm
    Federal agents visited Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg, which have recalled more than half a billion eggs in the wake of the salmonella outbreak, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said Wednesday.

  • Weight-loss drug boosts heart, stroke risks for some

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:40 pm
    Overweight people with a history of heart disease who take the prescription weight-loss drug Meridia may be at increased risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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    Paging Dr. Gupta

  • Americans' RX drug use on the rise

    youngsa
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:30 am
    Americans are using more prescription drugs than ever before. New data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that over the last 10 years the number of Americans taking one prescription drug increased 10 percent, those taking multiple prescriptions rose 20 percent and the number of folks using five or more prescription drugs jumped 70 percent. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) monitors health and nutrition of the U.S. population. Participants were asked about their prescription drug use in the past month. The survey found for the year…

  • TEDMED: Here's music from Sobule, Hancock

    elandau
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:19 am
    Musicians Jill Sobule and Herbie Hancock brought a more artistic message to the TEDMED audience. Sobule performs "Where is Bobbie Gentry?" from her 2009 album "California Years" and Hancock accompanies on piano. There's a singalong portion at the end to celebrate TEDMED. TEDMED is an annual event that brings together dozens of luminaries from a variety of fields to "demonstrate the intersection and connections between all things medical and health care related: from personal health to public health, devices to design and Hollywood to the hospital." TEDMED…

  • Douglas: I have stage 4 cancer

    mattsloane
    1 Sep 2010 | 3:23 pm
    Actor Michael Douglas revealed he is suffering from stage 4 throat cancer in an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" Tuesday night. Douglas, who has not released any details of his cancer since the initial announcement last month - said he has a tumor at the base of his tongue, and has just completed his first week of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. He also told Letterman that while the cancer has spread to his lymph nodes, it has not spread below his neck. "This is probably considered stage 4A because it hasn't spread below the neck," said…

  • Cancer drug may offer clue to Alzheimer's cure

    fabval
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:34 pm
    Treatments modeled on the blockbuster cancer drug Gleevec may be the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's, suggest new data reported in the journal Nature. Scientists theorize that a protein that accumulates in the brain, called beta-amyloid, develops plaque that weakens certain nerve cells, causing them to die. This creates the breakdown of cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients. The key for scientists is to find a way to eliminate this plaque. Although there are drugs on the market that work at ridding the brain of beta-amyloid, the treatments can also destroy healthy brain…

  • Brain exercises delay, speed up dementia?

    elandau
    1 Sep 2010 | 1:15 pm
    A study of more than 1,100 participants aged 65 and older, none of whom had dementia when the research began, finds that people who regularly engage in mentally stimulating activities such as reading, doing puzzles, and going to museums  may stave off the onset of dementia longer than people who don't. This has been shown in several other studies in the past. But here's the flip side: Those who are cognitively active also decline more rapidly when they do develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, the new study in the journal Neurology found. That's not necessarily a bad…
 
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    Medical News Today

  • Several West Nile Virus Infections And Deaths In Greece, Other Parts Of Europe Also Affected

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am
    Cases of human infection of West Nile virus (WNV) have been reported in Greece where 13 people have died and at least 140 have become ill, according to the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Greek authorities say 32 patients are currently hospitalized. Several other countries in Europe are also affected, especially Central Europe and the Mediterranean area, according to the latest issue of Eurosurveillance. The publication adds that numerous animal cases have also been documented. A "single probable case" was reported in Portugal in July this year...

  • BARDA Funds Development Of New Way To Treat Illness From Acute Radiation

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) today awarded a $153 million contract to Cellerant Therapeutics, Inc. of San Carlos, Calif., to continue developing a new way to treat an illness caused by exposure to high levels of ionizing radiation which can damage the body's cells - the type of radiation that would come from a nuclear blast. Under the contract, the company will continue development of a medication called CLT-008 that uses a special kind of cells called myeloid progenitor cells...

  • Dr. Tom Tooma Purchases Interest In All 12 Southern California TLC Laser Eye Centers, Changing Name To NVISION Laser Eye Centers

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    All 12 TLC Laser Eye Centers in Southern California are changing their names to NVISION Laser Eye Centers. The name change accompanies the sale of TLC Vision's interest in the 12 centers to Medical Director Dr. Tom Tooma to become a separate LASIK brand. The new brand will operate as NVISION Laser Eye Centers and will have the same 12 Southern California locations, same surgeons and staff. In fact, the only thing that will change is the name to reflect additional eye care services now available for Southern California residents...

  • RPSGB And No Smoking Day Announce Alliance, UK

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is working in partnership with the charity No Smoking Day to help thousands of smokers to kick the habit and stop smoking on Wednesday, 9th March 2011. This year's "Time to Quit?" campaign will encourage and support smokers across the UK to start counting down to the 9th March, to quit smoking and start a healthier and wealthier life...

  • Macmillan Responds To The New Energy Bill Announced In The Queen's Speech, UK

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    Responding to the new energy bill announced in the Queen's Speech, Mike Hobday, Head of Campaigns at Macmillan Cancer Support said: 'Whilst the mandatory support from energy companies will help some vulnerable people struggling with their fuel bills, it is vital that cancer patients are not left out in the cold. Cancer patients undergoing treatment are twice as likely to fall into fuel poverty as the general population and must be included in any new support schemes...
 
 
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    Washington Post

  • New workout programs show that pools can attract exercisers of all ages

    Vicky Hallett
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Sean Stephens hasn't told his friends he does water aerobics. "I guess until now," the 36-year-old joked last week as we wiggled into the pool at LivingWell, the health club at the Washington Hilton. United States - Recreation - Camps - Day - Health

  • Physicians use photos from patients' cellphones to deliver 'mobile health'

    Leslie Tamura
    30 Aug 2010 | 9:00 pm
    In May, an emergency physician at George Washington University Hospital began a six-month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images. Medicine - Health - Mobile - Facilities - Health Systems

  • Be skeptical of health-care credit cards

    Michelle Andrews
    30 Aug 2010 | 9:00 pm
    These days, you may leave your dentist's office with more than a toothbrush and dental floss in your bag. Thousands of dentists are offering patients health-care credit cards to cover the work that needs to be done, with seemingly hard-to-resist repayment terms. If you need care and don't have in... Credit card - United States - Business - Credit - Financial services

  • Even with malpractice insurance, doctors opt for expensive, defensive medicine

    Manoj Jain
    30 Aug 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Some months ago, the receptionist in my clinic handed me a registered letter. The name of the sender seemed familiar. "Dear Sir," the letter read. "Please be advised that this letter serves as official notice that I am considering a potential claim against you in a medical Malpractice claim in re... Insurance - Business - Financial Services - Agents and Marketers - United States

  • Inspectors find unsanitary conditions at egg farms

    Lyndsey Layton
    30 Aug 2010 | 6:49 pm
    Federal investigators found piles of manure up to eight feet tall, live mice, pigeons and other birds inside the hen houses at two egg farms suspected of causing a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness, officials said Monday. Business - Poultry - Meat and Seafood - Food and Related Products - Associations
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    digg.com: Top News

  • 7 Ways To Ruin Your Relationship Without Realizing You’re Doing It

    2 Sep 2010 | 5:37 am
    Relationships are a pretty difficult thing to wrap your head around. It’s almost too easy to scare a woman off sometimes. Fortunately, we’re here to help. Here are seven ways you can ruin your relationship without realizing you’re doing it.

  • IdeaPaint

    27 Aug 2010 | 2:31 pm
    Screw putting up a dry erase board in your home office turn a whole wall into one with IdeaPaint ($30-$175). This ingenious paint turns anything you can paint into...

  • The Craziest Hair Commercials Of All Time

    27 Aug 2010 | 10:11 am
    A round-up of the most hair-raising commercials ever made. From Bumpits to spray on hair, there's no denying the long and storied history of weird hair product commercials. Oh, how our younger selves yearned for a Topsy Tail and glitter hair gel. Now we're just bewildered. But then? That marketing worked wonders. The fear factor hit just as far one Head & Shoulders spot scarred us for life. And whether or not we believed Herbal Essences would give us "a totally organic experience" we are willing to give props for creativity. Could Don Draper have handled spray on

  • Steak Station

    25 Aug 2010 | 3:24 pm
    Grilling your own steaks but need to serve up rare, medium rare, medium, and burnt well done cuts all at the same time? Let the Steak Station ($23) help you...

  • Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere man

    25 Aug 2010 | 9:12 am
    Leo Laporte arrived Thursday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. On Friday morning he arrived at the office of KFI AM 640, the radio station that airs his syndicated "The Tech Guy" program. At 3:42 p.m., he was back at the airport, ready to fly home to Petaluma, Calif. I don't stalk Laporte. Not in the traditional sense, anyway. Every time the tech-savvy broadcaster checks into a nearby place using a service called Foursquare, an alert pops up on my phone. Location-centric social networking is one of the hottest Internet technologies today. Last week Facebook announced four partnerships and a…
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    ABC News: Political Radar

  • WATCH: Can Breastfeeding Reduce Diabetes Risk?

    2 Sep 2010 | 10:20 am
    Study shows breastfeeding can reduce your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Breastfeeding - Diabetes mellitus type 2 - Health - Pancreas - Conditions and Diseases

  • Edgy Cancer Bracelets Rankle Schools

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:35 am
    Language on a cancer support bracelet stirs controversy on campuses. Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Support Groups - Organizations

  • Allergan Pleads Guilty, Settles Botox Probe

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:21 am
    Pharmaceutical manufacturer Allergan pleads guilty for its off-label promotion of Botox and will pay $600 million to settle a longstanding federal investigation into whether the company's marketing of the drug's use misled physicians. Allergan - Off-label use - Business - United States - Marketing

  • Piece of Brain Removed to Stop Single Mom's Seizures

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:13 am
    Surgery to Remove Piece of Brain Is Hoped to Cure Single Mother's Epileptic Seizures Epilepsy - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Neurological Disorders - Epileptic seizure

  • Baby Gets New Life After Facial Reconstruction

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:12 am
    Surgical team operates on newborn's forehead. Children - Business - Surgery - Medicine - Surgical Products
 
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    The Fit Shack

  • Get It Now While You Still Can!

    JoLynn Braley
    19 Aug 2010 | 4:16 pm
    For over a year now I’ve been offering a bonus just for subscribing to my complimentary email newsletter here at The Fit Shack. That’s the bonus of the 7-day e-course I created, “How To Create a Weight Loss Mindset ”. Thousands have already registered and received their bonus and I thought you’d like to know that if you aren’t on my email list that NOW is the time to sign up for a complimentary subscription…if you want that bonus of my e-course. Between now and August 26, 2010, that e-course will be coming down and will no longer be offered as a bonus…

  • Drop The Fat by Dropping the Struggle – Fun!

    JoLynn Braley
    21 Apr 2010 | 5:14 pm
    Do you know what it’s like to struggle and battle with your weight? You know, constantly thinking about how you look in your clothes, how you think others think you look in your clothes, how you say you want to lose weight but your actions don’t match your words?  Instead of taking action that will bring you closer to your goal of your ideal body, you give in to your inner battle and eat all of those foods that you know are keeping you fat. And then you tell yourself, “I’ll do it tomorrow”. (!) But…when does “tomorrow” ever come? What if it…

  • How Long Have You Been Sidetracked?

    JoLynn Braley
    14 Apr 2010 | 11:51 am
    How long have you been keeping yourself sidetracked from your goal of getting fit, healthy, and sexy? 2 days, 2 weeks, 4 months, 5 years? Or longer? Have you ever noticed how quickly time passes in your life? One moment you’re here, and the next moment it’s 4 or 5 years later!  And what about this fact: every step you take today is either leading you closer to your outcome of a fit, healthy, sexy body, or taking you further from it. Your Results Never Lie If you aren’t clear on whether or not you’ve sidetracked yourself from your ultimate desire to create a fit,…

  • What’s NOT Funny About Your Desire to Get Fit, Healthy, & Sexy

    JoLynn Braley
    1 Apr 2010 | 8:58 pm
    I’m really not into April Fool’s jokes, are you? In honor of the day I decided to take a look at a more serious issue, something that is not to be taken lightly: your deep desire to lose weight, to drop the fat, so that you can get fit, healthy, and sexy. Nope, this isn’t a joke. Do you think it’s funny? I don’t. I don’t find any humor in the fact that you have a burning desire to get fit, healthy, and sexy. What’s even less funny are the results you are getting – TODAY – if you are not where you want to be. Are You 13 – 26 Pounds…

  • Effortless Weight Loss – What it Feels Like

    JoLynn Braley
    15 Feb 2010 | 1:34 pm
    There was a time when I struggled endlessly with food and my body. In fact when I started The Fit Shack almost 3 years ago in March, 2007, I was struggling then! I was making food the problem and would get quite anxious if I did not eat “perfectly” at all times. Today it is getting harder to remember what it was like to struggle and while I’m in the process now of creating my ideal body, my very own fit, healthy, sexy body, I’m totally enjoying the process and I’m having fun today…while I’m getting healthy weight loss results. Yes, that’s…
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    Live Well 360

  • Comparison Versus Appreciation: What’s the Difference?

    Sheila
    31 Aug 2010 | 4:09 pm
    There's a big difference between looking at someone's body to compare yourself to them versus looking at someone's body to appreciate for the sake of clarifying your own desires. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Controlling the Uncontrollable

    Sheila
    28 Aug 2010 | 2:29 pm
    Our lives are FULL of things we have no control over. But the one thing we do have control over is our own action or reaction. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Win a Core Bag with the dailySpark

    Sheila
    20 Aug 2010 | 6:42 pm
    That’s right! In honor of the dailySpark’s 2nd Anniversary, we have offered to give away the Core bag to one lucky reader. Head over to the dailySpark before next Friday, August 27 (5PM... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Raise Your Hand If You’ve Felt Like This – Part 2

    Sheila
    18 Aug 2010 | 7:59 pm
    In Part 1 I shared an email from a reader, where she asked for help with learning how to lead a healthy life, without letting it consume her. Instead of feeling inspired by health and fitness, I feel... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • A Whirlwind of Healthy Living

    Sheila
    16 Aug 2010 | 3:43 pm
    I had a fantastic time this weekend at the Healthy Living Summit in Chicago, getting to know a group of incredibly inspiring bloggers. Big thanks to Caitlin, Kath, Tina, Meghann, and Heather for all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
 
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    MSNBC

  • 1 in 7 home kitchens would flunk inspection

    2 Sep 2010 | 10:38 am
    A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants.

  • Some cities sink boozy parties on public waters

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:44 am
    Floatopia, beer floating, float-a-palooza — there are many names, but the key ingredients stay the same: Sun, a public body of water, inflatable rafts — and booze. In some cases, lots of booze.

  • Tall order: Brazilian teen girl stands at nearly 7 feet

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:58 am
    At nearly 7 feet tall, Elisany Silva of Brazil is one of the world’s tallest teenagers. The 14-year-old says she had to quit school after she grew too large to ride the bus.

  • Health care credit cards may add to your pain

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:55 am
    These days, you may leave your dentist's office with more than a toothbrush and dental floss in your bag. Thousands of dentists are offering patients health-care credit cards to cover the work that needs to be done, with seemingly hard-to-resist repayment terms. If you need care and don't have insurance to cover it or cash in hand, it's tempting to sign up.

  • Trapped, but still sane: Survivors speak out

    1 Sep 2010 | 3:53 pm
    Randy Knapp was a teenager when he spent 13 nights trapped in a whiteout on Oregon's Mount Hood. Thirty-three years later, he's still climbing.
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    Canadian Medicine

  • Obama crashes CMA annual meeting

    20 Aug 2010 | 12:31 pm
    Well, not really. But with the CMA’s annual meeting set to begin this weekend, the long shadow of the US president is definitely looming over the coming debate on the future of Canada’s healthcare system.It’s become a tradition in recent years for the CMA to release a discussion document prior to their annual shindig, laying out the leadership’s thoughts on weighty matters of health policy. And it’s also become traditional that this document should be a thinly-veiled call for more privatization, hidden under a few unconvincing nostrums about patient welfare.But not this year. This…

  • Ask pregnant women if they’d like a drink

    13 Aug 2010 | 1:26 pm
    But be sure to ask nicelyCanada may be a little short of babies, but it’s got plenty of alcohol. Keeping the two separate has mostly been the task of GPs. But the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada says they’re falling short. Many pregnant women who drink are missed, says the SOGC, often because physicians are unwilling to ask questions about alcohol.Doctors who don’t make alcohol use a routine question on all visits may be particularly unwilling to suddenly raise the issue during pregnancy, given the stigma associated with mothers who drink. And even those who do…

  • Listening in to brain chatter

    12 Aug 2010 | 12:55 pm
    A microchip will soon be wedded to human neuronsIt looks like Canadian researchers are at the threshold of a scientific breakthrough that may pave the way to better meds and superior control of artificial limbs.Dr. Naweed Syed, a neurobiologist at the University of Calgary, was part of the team that wowed the international scientific world six years ago by successfully fusing mollusc brain cells (in this case pond snails) with a one-millimeter square silicon chip. Now he’s at it again. Dr. Syed, who heads cell biology and anatomy at the U of C, intends to marry human neurons this time…

  • Relistor may weaken the GI wall

    4 Aug 2010 | 3:08 pm
    When to bewareAs all meds do, mythylnaltrexone bromide (Relistor) has its share of possible side effects, the most common being dizziness, flatulence, mild diarrhea, nausea, stomach pain, vomiting, and hyperhidrosis. Severe reactions include a serious case of any already mentioned, or allergic reactions.Today, Health Canada and Wyeth Canada added a new possible adverse reaction to the list: a heightened risk of gastrointestinal perforation, especially in those with GI cancers and other conditions that could weaken the gastrointestinal wall.When Relistor came onto the scene – it was approved…

  • MS and the powers that be

    30 Jul 2010 | 9:39 am
    At least 55,000 Canadians have multiple sclerosis, 3,500 of whom live in Saskatchewan. No one’s sure why our country is home to so many MS sufferers. Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan, has taken a bold move in promising to help finance clinical trials on an unproven but promising new treatment – the “liberation procedure.” He’d like other premiers to follow suit. However, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty isn’t convinced the controversial treatment is ready for testing. So, afflicted Canadians are traveling to Bulgaria, Poland, Costa Rica, Italy and India, where the procedure is…
 
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    WHO news

  • WHO urges countries to take measures to combat antimicrobial resistance

    20 Aug 2010 | 2:00 am
    20 August 2010 -- WHO suggests that countries should be prepared to implement hospital infection control measures to limit the spread of multi-drug resistant strains and to reinforce national policy on prudent use of antibiotics, reducing the generation of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

  • H1N1 in post-pandemic period

    10 Aug 2010 | 8:00 am
    10 August 2010 -- The new H1N1 virus has largely run its course and the world is no longer in phase 6 of influenza pandemic alert, but in the post-pandemic period.

  • WHO responds to health needs in Pakistan floods

    3 Aug 2010 | 2:00 am
    3 August 2010 -- The worst floods on record in Pakistan are placing the health of hundreds of thousands of people at risk, with a high threat of water-borne disease outbreaks and immense damage to health facilities. WHO is coordinating the response of health partners and supporting Pakistani authorities by sending medicines and related health supplies capable of treating more than 200 000 people.

  • Breastfeeding key to saving children’s lives

    30 Jul 2010 | 2:00 am
    30 July 2010 -- Malnutrition is responsible for one-third of the 8.8 million deaths annually among children under five. Breastfeeding is a key to improve infant and young child nutrition. The "Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding" ensure right start for every infant and the necessary support for mothers to breastfeed.

  • WHO and the International Olympic Committee sign agreement to improve healthy lifestyles

    21 Jul 2010 | 2:00 am
    21 July 2010 -- In addition to promoting healthy lifestyle choices the agreement aims to support physical activity, sports for all, Tobacco Free Olympic Games, and the prevention of childhood obesity.
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    Fox News

  • The Biggest Celebrity Sex Scandals: Lessons Learned

    2 Sep 2010 | 9:06 am
    We can all learn valuable lessons from these classic celeb sex scandals

  • 40-Cigarette-a-Day Toddler Kicks Smoking Habit

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:45 am
    A 2-year-old Indonesian boy who used to smoke approximately two packs of cigarettes a day has finally kicked the habit after receiving intensive therapy, Agence France-Presse reported.

  • New Test Seen as Big Advance in Diagnosing TB

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:09 am
    Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it.

  • U.S. Broadens Investigation Into Egg Recall

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:02 am
    The criminal division of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Justice Department have joined the probe of the Iowa farm at the heart of the recent egg recall linked to an outbreak of salmonella, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said Wednesday.

  • Medical Journal Says Diet Pill Meridia Is 'Flawed'

    2 Sep 2010 | 5:48 am
    Editors of a top medical journal call Meridia "another flawed diet pill" and question whether it should stay on the market as a study shows it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart problems.
 
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    Calorielab

  • Weight Discrimination or Legitimate Precaution: Sometimes It’s Tough as Nails to Tell the Difference

    robert
    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    A Troubling News Item That May Make You Wish You Were in the Business of Chair Repairing Just when you think that every commercial business that could be accused of weight discrimination probably has been accused of weight discrimination, up pops a new entry on the list. In this case, welcome to Dekalb County, Georgia, where a woman we won’t name was hit with a $5 “overweight” surcharge by a nail salon we also won’t name, on the grounds that the salon chairs have a capacity of 200 pounds, and when damaged by persons weighing more than that, cost $2,500 to fix. When the…

  • Lab Notes: Black Rice Is a Healthy Alternative to Blueberries; Smokers on Metformin Decrease Lung Cancer Risk

    labnotes
    2 Sep 2010 | 2:10 am
    On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of yesterday’s (September 1, 2010) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes. 1. Black Rice Is a Healthy Alternative to Blueberries Black rice is loaded with antioxidants and is an economical alternative to pricey blackberries and blueberries, researchers report. 2. Smokers on Metformin Decrease Lung Cancer Risk Smokers who take the antidiabetes drug metformin may be at a…

  • Graphic Visuals: Four Depressing U.S. Fat Maps, and a Bike Path With an Attitude

    robert
    1 Sep 2010 | 6:35 pm
    Courtesy of Tree Hugger These two maps depict adult obesity trends in the U.S. from 1991 to the 2007-2009 period, as reported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Here’s the color key: White — no data. Light blue — less than 10 percent obesity; medium blue — 10-15 percent obesity; dark blue — 15-20 percent obesity; purple — 20-25 percent obesity; red — 25-30 percent obesity; orange — 30-35 percent obesity. Remarkably, Colorado is not merely the last state still colored blue in the second map, but has actually lowered its obesity rate into the…

  • Lab Notes: Dead Plants Can Be Fire Hazard; Many Parents Make Medicine Dosing Errors

    labnotes
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:20 am
    On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of yesterday’s (August 31, 2010) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes. 1. Dead Plants Can Be Fire Hazard Dead plants sitting around in plastic pots can spontaneously combust as happened at a house in Arkansas. 2. Many Parents Make Medicine Dosing Errors Many parents aren’t so skilled at giving the correct dosages of liquid medicine to their children, say…

  • Five Unhealthy Temptations We Can’t Seem to Resist

    robert
    31 Aug 2010 | 6:00 pm
    And We’re Not Even Counting Beverages I am indebted to Trent Lorcher, a contributing writer for KIRO TV in Seattle, for his presentation on the station’s website titled “5 Disgustingly Bad Foods We Love.” I don’t personally love them all, or find them all disgusting, but it’s an excellent list nonetheless. These are food items with almost no redeeming nutritional virtues, and we evidently cannot get enough of them. They are, as he notes, “junk foods (that) keep us coming back.” Here they are, with my own wholly subjective remarks: Twinkies: As…
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    Diet Blog

  • 10 Staggering Facts About Childhood Obesity

    contactus@diet-blog.com
    2 Sep 2010 | 3:00 am
    In a recent poll, almost 40% of adults rated childhood obesity as the number 1 health concern amongst youth. If we haven't hit the panic button yet, it's time to do so. Here are some sobering statistics about childhood obesity that really underscore the need to act.Continue reading...

  • Suggestions to Help Me Lose Weight? [Forum]

    contactus@diet-blog.com
    1 Sep 2010 | 6:10 am
    My name is Tyler. I am 19 years old. I should weigh about 145 lbs, but I weigh 180 lbs. I've tried everything, excluding surgery. I am just now getting back into the exercising and running, but I blew my knee out 3 years ago. What can you suggest for me, to help me lose this weight before my fiancée comes back from Iraq in March?

  • Mobile Apps for Foods [Forum]

    contactus@diet-blog.com
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:28 am
    I was thinking of getting an app, hopefully one that shows nutrients in food, then using that to filter out food with a lot of extras. I see a lot of people struggling with weight loss. I dropped 10 but not am having trouble. Has anyone tried mobile apps for foods? Can you recommend?

  • World's Longest Pizza: Record Attempt in Poland

    contactus@diet-blog.com
    1 Sep 2010 | 3:02 am
    When it comes to food, it seems like we're obsessed with records and giant feats. From the New Jersey woman aiming to be the world's fattest, to the Chinese engineers building a great wall of chocolate, we've seen a lot of bizarre stories. Now, Polish enthusiasts are attempting to break the world record for the longest pizza.Continue reading...

  • Poll: A Vegan Diet Almost "Killed" Angelina Jolie

    contactus@diet-blog.com
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:38 pm
    During a recent Interview "Salt" star, Angelina Jolie, said the secret to her beauty was a big juicy steak. She didn't always eat red meat and at one time followed a strict vegan diet until she said it almost killed her.Continue reading...
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    Starling Fitness

  • Aerobikata: The Workout Craze That Never Was

    Laura Moncur
    1 Sep 2010 | 10:00 am
    I was looking through my old Seventeen magazines from the 80’s and I found this article in the November 1987 issue about Aerobikata. Actress, Christine Harnos, demonstrates the cool new workout craze from New York that was supposed to be a mixture of aerobics and karate. Christine Harnos was best known for her part playing Jennifer Greene, the wife of Mark Greene on ER. The only thing I’ve seen her in was a guest spot on Star Trek: Voyager. It’s good to know that she went on to bigger and better things than Aerobikata. The “workout craze” however doesn’t…

  • Ten Ways Walking Can Land You In Jail

    Laura Moncur
    31 Aug 2010 | 10:00 am
    The brilliant Wendy Bumgardner at About.com has another article that really got me thinking. 10 Ways Walking Can Land You in Prison There are things I didn’t even think about on that list: Jaywalking Trespassing Weapons Violations Destruction of Public Property Theft Public Urination/Indecent Exposure Assault Battery Leash and Scooper Laws Loitering When you list them out like this, it seems like a no-brainer, but when Wendy goes into detail about all the ways you could accidentally break the law, I had a whole new appreciation for my daily walks through the neighborhood. From ground…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-31

    Laura Moncur
    31 Aug 2010 | 1:32 am
    Just completed a 2.98 mi bike ride with @runkeeper. Check it out! http://rnkpr.com/a98aeu #RunKeeper # Just completed a 0.54 mi bike ride with @runkeeper. Check it out! http://rnkpr.com/a98a2z #RunKeeper # Just completed a 2.49 mi walk with @runkeeper. Check it out! http://rnkpr.com/a918wi #RunKeeper #

  • Eat Your Broccoli

    Laura Moncur
    30 Aug 2010 | 10:00 am
    I love this video of this little hamster just chowing down on the tiniest piece of broccoli. The next time you’re dreading adding vegetables to your meal, remember this little guy and eagerly get some broccoli into your cheek pouches. Video via: Check the Feet Flail at 1:05 — Cute Overload

  • TrimJeans: Why Laugh At 1971 When We Take 2010 So Seriously?

    Laura Moncur
    29 Aug 2010 | 10:00 am
    I saw this advertisement from 1971 and I immediately smiled to myself. It’s an advertisement for the hilariously styled, TrimJeans. The ad says: Trim-Jeans with the Fabulous New Sauna Belt Guaranteed to reduce your waist, abdomen, hips and thighs a total of from 6 to 9 inches in just 3 days or your money refunded I laugh at this ad because I KNOW that TrimJeans didn’t reduce ANY part of my grandma’s body when she wore them. I know from experience that they just made her look silly when she wore them. On the other hand, these sorts of products are still around today. Take the…
 
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    Fat Man Unleashed

  • Another Day, Another Nutrisystem Meal

    Israel Lagares
    31 Aug 2010 | 4:55 pm
    Nutrisystem, Chicken Pasta Parmesan W/ Extra VeggiesI’m sitting down having my lunch when someone asks me, “Nutrisystem? How is it going?” This is one of the main reasons I don’t like eating in the break room. I don’t like people being all up in my foodness (did you see what I just did there? business + food = foodness). I respond with a cold, “Good”. I’m not sure what they expect to hear when they ask that. Everyone has their own preconceived notion about what Nutrisystem is and how it tastes, so I keep it simple. I’ve also noticed that…

  • What Have We Done to our Women?

    Elizabeth Perez
    27 Aug 2010 | 10:30 am
    Photo Courtesy Rodrigo BasuareBeing a woman isn’t always an easy job. On top of taking care of kids, managing a household and working a full-time job there is great pressure to have a look that society finds acceptable. At times, women may not only feel the pressure from the opposite sex, but from other women as well. It can be a constant competition to fit in and be better than the rest. Putting vanity aside, there are positive aspects to having a good self image. Thinking of yourself in a positive light gives you the ability to carry yourself through your daily tasks and allows you to do…

  • I Eat Five Star Meals Five Times a Day from BistroMD

    Frank Cruz
    26 Aug 2010 | 7:15 am
    Click here to view the embedded video. So it’s been a week since I got my package and I have to say I love the “Five Star Life.” These meals are so delicious and there is so much of it! I am not exaggerating! While eating some of the meals, I almost feel as if I am eating too much. Then I look at the nutrition facts, and none are more than 450 calories. They say I can add a salad to my meals but I find myself asking why? Stuffed French Toast from BistroMDFor breakfast I had the “Stuffed French Toast” with mixed berries, two turkey sausage patties, and chopped up sweet potatoes. This…

  • The First Lady of Fitness

    Dennis Rosato
    25 Aug 2010 | 2:10 pm
    Kathy Kaehler, Fitness ExpertKathy Kaehler has become somewhat of a legend in the fitness and wellness circles. The 14 year veteran of the Today Show granted me an interview while she was in New York. The first thing that strikes you when you speak to the Michigan native is her “realness” no cream puff filling here folks. She is all she claims to be and more. Kathy lives the life and hates diets, preferring instead to instill Lifestyle choices not trendy, temporary head spinning fads. Kathy practices what she preaches and preaches from the heart drawing from a wealth of experience…

  • Nutrisystem… a Month in Review… 10 lbs Down

    Israel Lagares
    23 Aug 2010 | 2:43 pm
    I’ve been eating Nutrisystem food for almost a month now. Things are going very smoothly, but it didn’t start out that way. When I first received my box of Nutrisystem, I was about to go on vacation and decided to not start eating the food until after I got back. That pushed me back a couple of weeks from when I was originally supposed to start. Upon arriving from my vacation, I was all over the place. I’d eat Nutrisystem for breakfast and lunch but not dinner. It took me about a week to get used to eating Nutrisystem. Once I got on track, I was set. Their food is delicious,…
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    EcoSalon: Green Fashion, Culture, News and Lifestyle

  • Eco Love in the September Issues

    Rowena Ritchie
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:11 am
    Leaf through the pages of this year’s September issues — traditionally the biggest of the year for fashion magazines — and you might think,  “What double-dip recession?” or even, “What global environmental crisis?” The 2010 editions of Vogue, Elle and Harpers Bazaarare ad-solutely thicker than last year’s and, naturally, conspire to create a cacophony of acquisitive desire within females everywhere. You might decide you and the planet are better off focusing on your booklist. And you might be right, but… All style-loving gals love fashion magazines. Love them. We love the…

  • Care of Hummingbirds: To Dye or Not to Dye

    Caitlin Fitzsimmons
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Since moving to California, I have become besotted with hummingbirds. These graceful little birds are found only in the Americas and until a year ago I had only seen them in photographs and wildlife documentaries. I’d seen slow-motion video footage of the figure-eight beating of their wings but never an actual live bird. They seemed as exotic to me as a kangaroo would to an American. Now I see them every day. In fact, as I type these words, there is one drinking sugar water from my feeder hanging on my balcony right outside the dining room. It’s perched on the rim rather than…

  • 7 Bizarre Beauty Treatments That Need to Go

    Katherine Butler
    1 Sep 2010 | 3:52 pm
    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? So that means beauty treatments are also in the eyes of the participant. But sometimes, these eyes are smeared with snail ooze. Or maybe they’re splashed by a ramen noodle spa or slithered across by snakes during a massage. Some beauty treatments around the world seem the stuff of Willy Wonka’s factory, without the ensuing sugar coma. But hey, we don’t judge. After all, we live in a world where people make a practice of injecting botulism into their foreheads and silicone into their lips. If someone wants to put bull semen in our hair, we say…

  • Credit Where It’s Due: Attributing Weather Events to the People Responsible

    Scott Adelson
    1 Sep 2010 | 3:39 pm
    The weather this summer in the Bay Area has been nothing short of awful. And with me being what my friend calls a “High Priest of Ra,” it’s been posited that my missing a sacrifice or committing some other ungodly affront has resulted in this madness. We’re talking stretches of frigid weeks in July, a sunless, cold anti-summer, followed by sudden August temperature spikes reaching 104 degrees and literally melting the candles in my apartment. 104? I mean, this is San Francisco. Are you kidding me? Dear Lord, could it really be my fault? Do the weather gods care about us humans and…

  • Bondage Ropes and Coastal Bliss

    Leigha Oaks
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 am
    I wish I could tie August around my wrists, carrying the satisfaction of whimsical sunsets and anticipation of impending fall with me year round. There is something about natural rope that insinuates the nautical splash of coastal bliss that only summer can nurture. Go ahead, get tied up and roped into these gorgeous commodities. Clockwise from top left: Haus Interior Rope & Nickel Accessories, SHINE Rope Artwork, Tanya Aguiniga Unraveled Cotton Rope Necklace, Simplemente Blanco Sisal Knitted Pillow, Anthropologie Coiled Rope Knob, and Tanya Aguiniga Jersey Knot Bracelet. (Top images from…
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    MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com

  • When Physical Therapy Becomes the Purple Cow

    Selena Horner
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:59 am
    The whole of a profession is dependent upon the sum of its parts, isn't it?  Success of a profession is dependent upon the actions and behaviors of those within the profession, isn't it?  I agree with Rob - we do need a "tipping point" to have the world at large realize physical therapy has value and can be a solution in the musculoskeletal world.  Data doesn't always drive decisions, but instead emotions play a large role in change.  Data, it would seem, would be the motivator for change - but if you read another book (Switch) written by Heath & Heath, you quickly learn through a…

  • Echoes of a Conflict of Interest

    Tim Richardson
    31 Aug 2010 | 11:38 am
    I usually try to make nice when guest posting on someone else's blog but I have to call 'em when I see 'em... Larry, you pulled your punches in "Isn't it a Conflict of Interest?"  The Annals of Internal Medicine article was at least the SECOND major policy statement this year that verifies my suspicions that our government is biased against small business in general and small healthcare providers in particular. The oft-quoted March Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (Ch. 2) implies that only large firms with scale economies, access to capital markets and administrative staff…

  • I am a Physical Therapist that works for a Noun

    Larry Benz
    29 Aug 2010 | 8:01 am
    What looks to be an additional release from the blockbuster hit Who's on Group?, the 6th major film starring a physical therapist.  Can also be shared here.

  • Isn't it Conflict of Interest?

    Larry Benz
    28 Aug 2010 | 8:21 am
    When 2 Government officials and an ex-official publish an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine that essentially says "Docs, get with it and embrace change.  You all will and should be working as employees of hospitals or very large practices since they are the only groups that can improve outcomes, care productivity and patient experience-that's what the Affordable Care Act and American Reinvestment Act is all about". And all this time I thought it was about providing more universal access and lowering the cost of healthcare for Americans? We are already seeing some backlash by…

  • Comparative Effectiveness and Physical Therapy

    Selena Horner
    24 Aug 2010 | 5:08 am
    The new buzzword in health politics: Comparative Effectiveness.  Comparative effectiveness, often seen as CE, is not to be confused with continuing education.I can understand the concern that CE will be an obstacle for cancer research and oncologists and pharmaceutical companies.  Will CE pose the same sort of issues in the musculoskeletal world?Will CE actually create a burden for change?  Readily available data conveys conflict of interest situations, such as referral for profit, have costly consequences of high utilization.  Current research studies seem to indicate surgery may not be…
 
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    Stirrup Queens

  • Firsts

    Lollipopgoldstein
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:53 am
    I followed a thread yesterday on Twitter about whether or not to call teachers by their first names.  I’m a firm believer in first names for everyone — kids and adults alike, with the exception to that rule being “call the person what they wish to be called.” When I was a teacher, I went [...]

  • IComLeavWe: September 2010

    Lollipopgoldstein
    31 Aug 2010 | 10:27 am
    Welcome back to IComLeavWe. It stands for International Comment Leaving Week, but if you say it aloud, doesn’t it sounds like “I come; [but] leave [as a] we”? And that’s sort of the point. Blogging is a conversation and comments should be honoured and encouraged. I like to say that comments are the new hug–a [...]

  • The Comfort of Small Things

    Lollipopgoldstein
    30 Aug 2010 | 11:40 am
    I have been having kindergarten nightmares. I know I’m supposed to leave those types of dreams to the kids and instead have more adult-themed nightmares.  You know, like how they get to be chased by furry monsters in their nightmares and I get to be chased by axe-murderers in my nightmares.  Grown-up nightmares about grown-up [...]

  • Why “Just Relax” is Still Not Helpful Advice in the World of Infertility

    Lollipopgoldstein
    29 Aug 2010 | 4:08 am
    You know, infertile women and men of America, the whole reason you’re not having a baby isn’t because you have a uterine malformation or clotting disorder. It’s not because you have a non-existent sperm count because you were born without vas deferens. The real reason you’re infertile is because you’re not relaxing enough. You can [...]

  • 303rd Friday Blog Roundup

    Lollipopgoldstein
    27 Aug 2010 | 4:19 am
    Thank you for your support this week with the twins heading off soon for kindergarten.  Please indulge me in some more weeping?  I would promise that these will be the last thoughts, though I know they’re not because I haven’t even begun to unpack our 6 hour excursion to purchase a backpack. And yes, I’m [...]
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    medLine Plus

  • Vitamin E and Your Brain

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:14 am
    Source: HealthDay - Related MedlinePlus Pages: Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Seniors' Health, Vitamin E

  • Mental 'Exercise' May Only Hide Signs of Alzheimer's

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Games, reading help mask trouble in brain, study suggests, making later progress of disease seem quicker Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia

  • Double-Dose Plavix Benefits Certain Patients

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:00 pm
    And higher-dose aspirin is no more effective than low dose, researchers say Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Blood Thinners, Heart Attack, Pain Relievers

  • Diet Pill Meridia Ups Heart Attack Risk

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:00 pm
    While researchers saw no rise in deaths, some experts wonder if this drug has a future Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Drug Safety, Heart Attack, Weight Control

  • Lower Blood Pressure May Help Sicker Kidney Patients

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Standard goal may not be low enough for those with protein in their urine, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: African-American Health, High Blood Pressure, Kidney Diseases
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    Mizfit Online

  • Struggling… (guest post)

    MizFit
    2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am
    Hello I’m Cynthia, I blog over at It All Changes and I’m not perfect. As a kid I loved playing with Barbie because she had no problems. Always able to fit into the perfect pair of high heels (her feet were sloped after all), she had the most amazing wardrobe for any job, party, or sporting event.  There were days I really wanted to be Barbie because she seemed to have it all. But then I grew up and realized Barbie is not human but plastic. As human beings we all struggle with imperfections from time to time.  I’m sure you can make a mile long list of things you have struggled with and…

  • The bloggers behind the blogs.

    MizFit
    1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am
    Subtitle: A new Two Fit Chicks podcast! We’ve been talking a bunch around here about bloggers being role models (or not) & the importance of giveaways when blogging (or lack thereof). On this episode of Two Fit Chicks & a Microphone we are, in fact, three fit chicks. Caitlin of Operation Beautiful joins us at the mike as we talk blogging, commenting, & post-it notes. As always, Shauna & I shout out to YOU in blogger/Facebook/whatever news & bore the pants off you delight and inspire with whats happening in our corners of the globe as well. Click on the image below to…

  • Working out…not blogging about fitness.

    MizFit
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:12 am
    Today Im neither writing about a new fitness trend nor cajoling others to GIT TO IT! Today Im neither fretting about giveaways & nor yammering lovingly about setting an example for our children. Today. This morning. Right now. Im bring my excuse-laden arse to the kitchen and choosing to do an exercise I love…to hate. Im lunging. Please to join me? I’ll save you a hand towel… (Later in our morning) UPDATE. Mimicking? Mocking? It’s such a fine fine line.

  • Heartrate monitors & reader email backlog.

    MizFit
    30 Aug 2010 | 1:00 am
    Disclaimer: Ive sucked lately been remiss in answering reader emails.  Not sure what else to say except you’ll have that sometimes… Hi MizFit, I saw you tweet that you dont use a heart rate monitor. what do you do instead? thanks!!! I’m slowly realizing Im just not a fan of gadgets. I weigh once a year at the doctor, dont run with an ipod and I dont use a heart rate monitor. Ever. I didnt when I was working to lose weight either (oooh how was THAT for heading off additional questions?) Even then I knew I needed to set myself up for success. I know me. Im less likely to do…

  • Silent Sunday.

    MizFit
    29 Aug 2010 | 3:23 am
    She’s my unknowing cheerleader. Until she can read…
 
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    A Trail Runner's Blog

  • Jez Bragg, Lizzy Hawker Win Truncated 2010 Ultra Trail de Mont Blanc

    Scott Dunlap
    29 Aug 2010 | 7:39 am
    (Lizzy Hawker on her way to a win)Severe rain and fog forced organizers of the 2010 Ultra Trail de Mont Blanc to cancel the full event, choosing to instead race a 100km version the following day. British runners Jez Bragg (10:30:37) and Lizzy Hawker (11:47:30) won that event which traced the Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix course. Fellow North Face athlete Mike Wolfe followed Bragg by 7 minutes. The Grough has a press recap. (Jez Bragg wins the UTMB)Top results (full results here):1 Jez BRAGG 10:30:37 Royaume-Uni2 Mike WOLFE 10:37:38 Etats-Unis3 Zigor ITURRIETA 10:49:18 Espagne4 Julien CHORIER…

  • Profiling HURT (DVD Review)

    Scott Dunlap
    20 Aug 2010 | 8:06 am
    Profiling HURT is a new documentary DVD that follows ultrarunners through Hawaii's grueling HURT 100, arguably one of the world's most difficult 100-milers. It's a great taste of the people, spirit, and challenge behind this monumental challenge, and it's already become a staple in my DVD library (now getting plenty of 5am cycling trainer use). I would highly recommend it.Profiling HURT (FINAL) from Barry Walton on Vimeo.Ultrarunner Mark Gilligan (known to many as the co-founder of ultrasignup.com) is the energetic and self-professed bordeline-attention-deficit-disorder athlete at the center…

  • Products I Want to See - 2XU Ice Recovery Pants

    Scott Dunlap
    8 Aug 2010 | 8:51 am
    In my on-going attempt to give product feedback/ideas to our favorite outdoor manufacturers (see the iPod t-shirt, brush guards, and the ever-popular Nut-Tsak), here's a new one that I would love to have. Let me know what you think!If you like the idea, please link to it from your blog and feel free to add any thoughts on design or use. My hope is that if 2XU, Sugoi, Brooks, North Face, etc., see a thousand bloggers linking to it, the market demand will be clear. My goal is simply this - get some new cool toys on the market!Product Idea - 2XU Ice Recovery PantsI'm a big fan of ice baths for…

  • PR at the Burning River 100-Miler

    Scott Dunlap
    2 Aug 2010 | 4:27 pm
    Last Saturday, I had the great pleasure of joining 260 fellow ultrarunners for the 5th running of the Burning River 100-Mile Endurance Run in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. This spectacular point-to-point course introduced me to the unique beauty of this great state, and combined with the a well-timed break in the weather, it made for a perfect venue for the 2010 USATF 100-Mile National Championships. I toed the line hoping for what any 100-miler does - 24+ hours of adventure, a renewal of spirit, a few new friends, and maybe, just maybe, a breakthrough day. Scott, my friend, be careful what you wish…

  • Montrail Doubles Down for 2010-11 Ultra Cup, Extends Western States Entries

    Scott Dunlap
    29 Jul 2010 | 4:27 am
    The Montrail Ultra Cup, arguably the most competitive ultra series out there, announced that the prize purses will be doubled for the 2010-11 season along with some new races and rule changes. Very nice! Good news for Glen Redpath and Meghan Arbogast, who picked up the wins for 2009-2010.The highlights:Prize purse doubled to $16,000, with $5k to the winnerNew 50-miler added in ColoradoSame point structure as last year, with an additional 15 point bonus for race winnersThe first "slide down" option for Western States entries; if 1st or 2nd place finishers already have a Western States entry,…
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    Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog

  • Michael Douglas on Having Throat Cancer - Late Show with David Letterman (video)

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:08 am
    Oropharyngeal cancer is increasing at a "dramatic" rate, particularly in the male population http://goo.gl/JAkoRelated:Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In. WebMD.Catherine Zeta-Jones's fury at the doctors who missed her husband Michael Douglas's throat cancer. Daily Mail. Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, follow us on Twitter and connect on Facebook.

  • Caffeine (C8H10N4O2) is the natural pesticide of coffee beans, paralyzing and killing insects that try to feed on them

    2 Sep 2010 | 5:35 am
    According to Forbes.com:Caffeine is a drug of abuse, like alcohol or cocaine, because it meets these two criteria: "reinforcing efforts" and "adverse effects which can cause harm to self or society." Reinforcing effects is science talk for "addictive": The more you have, the higher your tolerance levels and the more you need. Take it away, and you experience withdrawal symptoms.C8H10N4O2 is a chemical compound found in beans, leaves and fruits of some plants. It's a natural pesticide for them, paralyzing and killing insects that try to feed on them. On humans it acts as a stimulant on the…

  • U.S. May Face Shortage of 150,000 Doctors in 15 Years

    1 Sep 2010 | 7:55 pm
    As ranks of insured patients expand, the U.S. may face shortage of 150,000 doctors in 15 years, according to the WSJ. That shortfall is predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now totals about 954,000.The greatest demand will be for primary-care physicians. These general practitioners, internists, family physicians and pediatricians will have a larger role under the new law, coordinating care for each patient.Comments from Twitter:@doctorwes Foreign docs are lining up. @jmphillips Once I get into medical school, I should be…

  • For people with congestive heart failure, a hot dog can trigger a trip to the hospital due to excessive salt

    31 Aug 2010 | 5:27 am
    The average daily salt intake in America is one and 1/2 teaspoon a day. This is 3,400 milligrams of sodium a day, or 1,100 milligrams more then the recommended maximum.For people with congestive heart failure, a salty hot dog can trigger a trip to the hospital.The experts say the new target for sodium intake should be set at 1,500 milligrams daily.In a previous study, reducing dietary salt by 3 gm per day (1200 mg of sodium per day) was projected to reduce the annual number of new cases of coronary heart disease by 60,000 to 120,000, stroke by 32,000 to 66,000, and myocardial infarction by…

  • Doctors blends cardiology and country music

    30 Aug 2010 | 7:23 am
    Listen to the Doctor: Cleve Francis, cardiologist and country singer.Dr. Francis, who recently turned 65, is a genteel singer of country and pop songs. He favors vintage ballads.A man inching up the line in a walker can't believe it. "You want his autograph? I get it on a prescription every three weeks," he says.References:Listen to the Doctor: Cleve Francis, cardiologist and country singer. Washington Post.Dr. Wes: Working the Backup Plan Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, follow us on Twitter and connect on Facebook.
 
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    Postpartum Progress

  • Words Have Power: How Being Supportive Can Transform A Life

    Katherine Stone/Postpartum Progress
    2 Sep 2010 | 5:38 am
    Words have so much power. It blows my mind, really. Say something negative or minimizing to a pregnant or new mother struggling with depression or anxiety and you can plunge her so much deeper into despair. Tell her that you understand and that you know she can get through it, on the other hand, and you raise her up and help her see the light at the end of the tunnel. Just look at the transformation of Iman, who blogs at Glamour Girl and is suffering from postpartum depression and anxiety: I'm TOTALLY going to talk now. Because there are some amazing women out there TALKING about it, naming…

  • Need Someone To Talk To?

    Katherine Stone/Postpartum Progress
    2 Sep 2010 | 5:11 am
    Just a reminder that Postpartum Progress has a Facebook Fan Page where you can write on the Wall and talk to the other 600+ Warrior Moms who are there. Check it out!

  • Upcoming Event to Raise Funds for Postpartum Education & Support in Research Triangle Area

    Katherine Stone/Postpartum Progress
    2 Sep 2010 | 5:08 am
    Postpartum Education and Support, a great organization in North Carolina, will host Strollerthon 2010 on Saturday, October 2nd, to raise money for it's signature program Moms Supporting Moms. This program offers weekly support groups and a telephone support line to women in the Research Triangle Area who are struggling with emotional issues around pregnancy, delivery and early motherhood. Frances Scott of ABC11 News will host the event, which will be held at Fred G. Bond Metro Park in Cary, NC. Strollerthon 2010 features 1 mile, 2 mile and 3-mile walk courses with games for kids, prizes,…

  • PPD Medications & Their Impact On Your Libido (The S-E-X Talk)

    Katherine Stone/Postpartum Progress
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:08 am
    Have you ever read the warning label on a bottle of Tylenol? It warns that a common side effect of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, may cause headaches. The first time I read this, I was popping open a bottle of the alleged pain killer to combat a monster...headache. The irony would have amused me if I hadn’t been so irritated. A little talked-about symptom of depression is a decrease in sexual appetite. Some people might discount this as among the least of their worries, but in truth, sex is an essential cog in the machine of any relationship. When the sex goes, it’s not…

  • How Recovery From Postpartum Depression Is Like Playing Chutes & Ladders

    Katherine Stone/Postpartum Progress
    31 Aug 2010 | 5:45 am
    Have you ever played the children's board game Chutes & Ladders? As players move through the game, they advance along the board, sometimes skipping ahead several spaces by landing on a ladder and sometimes falling behind several spaces by landing on a chute. I like to describe recovery from postpartum depression and anxiety as being like a game of Chutes & Ladders. For a while you'll be moving along nicely, maybe even having such a great day that you feel you've shot forward to the end. You've reached out for treatment, you've been doing what you're supposed to do and you are starting…
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    Medgadget

  • Intraosseous FASTx Burrs Into Manubrium Bone Marrow When All Else Fails

    Michael
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:10 am
    Pyng Medical out of Richmond, British Columbia has received US regulatory approval to market the FASTx Sternal Intraosseous Device that provides quick vascular access via bone marrow. Features of the device from the product page: Vascular access within 10 seconds; fluids and medications to the heart in 30 seconds Automatic depth control prevents over-penetration Delivers fluids and medications as quickly as a central line, with shorter access time Can be inserted during other resuscitation procedures Can deliver any fluids or medications that can be delivered via IV For use in adolescents…

  • Researchers Working on Continuous Remote Monitoring of Epileptic Patients

    Smit
    2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am
    A team of researchers at the University of Chicago Hospitals' Pediatric Epilepsy Center are working on a system which can monitor epileptic sufferers around the clock. Patients will be able to use their smartphones to record and send data to their doctor for review. The system, being developed in collaboration with Chicago based Wave Technology Group, can provide text message alerts to the patient or caregivers about potential upcoming seizures. Additionally, the system will be cheaper and more portable than current EEG monitoring solutions. Wave hopes to attain FDA approval for the system by…

  • LipiScan Intravascular Plaque Imaging System Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance

    jhbarad
    2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am
    InfraReDx of Burlington, Mass just announced FDA clearance of their LipiScan IVUS Coronary Imaging System. Coronary angioplasty used to be based on the premise that areas of arterial narrowing seen on angiography were the most critical zones to stent, believing them to be the cause of heart attacks. Thinking has changed, however, and there is some research showing that plaques that may not cause much narrowing of the arteries may be the ones prone to rupture and thrombosis. This has led to a plethora of innovation in coronary imaging systems and technologies. We reported in 2008 about…

  • AngioDynamics Adds New Access Kit to its VenaCure EVLT System

    Smit
    1 Sep 2010 | 10:07 am
    AngioDynamics of Latham, NY has announced a new access kit for its VenaCure EVLT system, which provides a minimally invasive method for treating varicose veins using laser ablation via fiber. The company states that the new .018" access kit reduces the number of parts in the system, speeds up treatment times, and will result in greater patient comfort. From AngioDynamics' press release: The new .018-inch system for the VenaCure EVLT access kit reduces the number of components involved in gaining access for the procedure. The new kit provides a longer .018 inch nitinol long-access wire. The…

  • Instant Heart Rate Turns Your Android Phone Into a Heart Rate Monitor

    Smit
    1 Sep 2010 | 8:39 am
    The developers of Instant Heart Rate, a new Android app, claim that they can use your phone's camera to measure your heart rate. When a user places their index finger over the camera lens, the app will supposedly be able to detect slight changes in skin color as oxygenated blood passes through with each heart beat, and can use this color change to determine heart rate. Although commenters at Android and Me report fairly accurate results, we were unable to get consistent readings with the app. Readers who wish to try Instant Heart Rate for themselves can install it using the QR code to the…
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  • Preparing for gastric bypass surgery by eating more

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:00 am
    by Douglas Perednia, MDThinking is hard work.  This is why so few people bother.  At least voluntarily.  So whenever it seems like the threat of brainwork looms in modern American medicine, we can thank our lucky stars for the geniuses behind healthcare reform and guidelines of care.This comes up as a result of a conversation that I had with a patient the other day.  A pleasant, obese gentleman.  He had been struggling with his weight and type 2 diabetes for some time, and there were now some early indications of some potentially serious long-term complications.  He mentioned to me that…

  • MKSAP: 62-year-old man is evaluated for an asymptomatic nodule

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:53 am
    Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.A 62-year-old man is evaluated for an asymptomatic nodule on his shoulder that has been present for more than 1 year. Skin findings are shown. MKSAP image © 2010, American College of Physicians, Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP® 15)Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?A) Basal cell carcinoma B) Pyogenic granuloma C) Seborrheic keratosis D) Squamous cell carcinoma(...)Read the rest of MKSAP: 62-year-old man is evaluated for an asymptomatic noduleNo…

  • Medical school is hard, and other medical student thoughts

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:00 am
    by Josh Herigon, MPHSome reflections on my first semester of medical school.1.  Medical school is hard. Yes, it’s true — medical school is as hard as people who have been through it make it out to be.I was skeptical when I started mostly because I felt I had challenged myself while doing my undergrad degree and in graduate school.  I had taken heavy loads of difficult classes in both of my degrees.  My last semester of graduate school I took 18 hours of the highest level epidemiology classes at one of the top programs in the country.  I didn’t see much daylight that semester and…

  • Hospitalist: Long hospital stays are often due to poor planning

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    by S. Irfan Ali, MDBeing a hospitalist, I often see patients sitting in the hospital for days at length for no reason other than poor planning.Sometimes I feel that physicians who are involved in patient care are oblivious of each other. Everyone is in their own domain rather than working as a team. An increased length of stay in the hospital not only increases the cost of health care but also adds to the risk of medical complications like infections and medical errors.(...)Read the rest of Hospitalist: Long hospital stays are often due to poor planning2 comments | Tags: Hospital, Hospitalist…

  • An advocate for patients might save your life in the hospital

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 4:00 am
    by Dennis GraceSo, you have to go to the hospital. You’ve had an accident and the doctor wants to keep an eye on you for a few days. Maybe you need major surgery. Whatever the reason for the stay, a lot a people think you should have an advocate with you.Why? In my life, I’ve had lots of hospital stays. Why is this suddenly a big deal? I didn’t have an advocate when I was in for observation after a concussion at age eight or when I had my tonsils out at age ten or when I had pneumonia at age twelve. Hospitals were supposed to be the safest place to be when you were hurt or sick. Of…
 
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    The Red Dress Diary

  • Boniva's Big Oops: Osteoporosis Advice Not Sound

    Colette Bouchez
    24 Aug 2010 | 1:10 pm
    In a recent TV commercial for the osteoporosis drug Boniva, actress Sally Field tells us to boost bone health by eating more calcium-rich spinach.  But experts say that may be some very wrong advice. Here's what you  need to know. By Colette Bouchez You can hardly miss the commercials featuring award winning actress Sally Field. The product is Boniva, the once-monthly  bone enhancing  prescription drug for osteoporosis, a bone thinning disorder that affects mostly women over age 50. But what many of you may miss – or worse still pay attention to – is the big…

  • Eat, Pray, Love ....SHOP ???

    Colette Bouchez
    15 Aug 2010 | 11:11 pm
    For women over 40 the mantra of Eat, Pray, Love might represent the guts to shed your inhibitions and start life again.  Or not .... By Colette Bouchez DESPITE Oprah Winfrey’s endorsements, despite the fact that a zillion women bought into the premise, despite author Elizabeth Gilbert telling us ad nauseum that  Eat,Pray, Love was just a simple little story chronicling the inner struggles we all share … for me, almost from page one,  it seemed  nothing more than a well written temper tantrum of a  spoiled, selfish, over indulged, immature little whiner,  with…

  • New Benefits to HRT - And Some New Cautions

    Colette Bouchez
    3 Aug 2010 | 12:27 pm
    Research shows a new benefit to using HRT - but it's still not right for every woman. Here's what you need to know ... By Colette BouchezIf you’re  still on the fence about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or considering it now for hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, there is some interesting news to consider. New research suggests that HRT  as well as the use of oral contraceptives -  may help protect against the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms in women.  In a first-of-its-kind study by experts from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Dr.

  • Food Fight: Don't Rely on Will Power To Lose Weight!

    Colette Bouchez
    16 Jul 2010 | 11:04 pm
    For decades we blamed a lack of will power for our diet failures. Now some experts say your will has little to do with whittling your waistline.By Colette BouchezIf you’re always blaming that mystical “ lack of will power” for failing off your weight loss wagon, there's something you should know: The very newest weight loss theories say will power has nothing to do with it!Indeed, while it was long believed that having a “weak will” was the number one reason that folks just couldn’t say “ no” to that plate of cupcakes or bowl of chips, today a growing number of experts believe…

  • A Baby At Last : Common Sense Wisdom for Getting Pregnant after 40!

    Colette Bouchez
    15 Jun 2010 | 2:04 pm
    A Baby At Last for singer Celine Dion , age 42 - after a reported six IVF failures at a New York fertility center. But experts say regardless of your age, the secret to fertility success is to stay focused, recognize your feelings, and make sure you communicate those feelings to your partner and your doctor! Here's how to do it all!By Colette Bouchez " A BABY AT LAST! " These are the words that warm our hearts - particularly when they come from a woman over 40! Why? Because everyone knows that having a baby is one of life's greatest joys - and when you've gone through a long struggle just to…
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  • Update: Know Thyself, Know How Your Brain Works

    SharpBrains
    31 Aug 2010 | 9:23 am
    What is working memory, and why it matters? Can we multi-task as good as we seem to assume? What should we all know about how our brains work, and why? We hope you enjoy this August eNewsletter, featuring six distinguished contributors who answer those questions, and more. Please remember that you can subscribe to receive this free Brain Fitness eNewsletter by email, using the box in the right column. Know Thyself Why working memory matters in the knowledge age: As Dr. Tracy Alloway points out, one way to visualize working memory is as the brain’s “Post-it Notes” — we make mental…

  • Test your attentional focus: is multi-tasking a good thing?

    Dr. Pascale Michelon
    26 Aug 2010 | 6:28 am
    How often do you listen to the office gossip while filling in forms? Or read a document while talking on the phone with a client? Or think about your problems at work while helping your child with his homework? We are constantly assaulted by lots of information and often required to perform several tasks at once. It is not easy to stay focused. However being able to stay focused is crucial to achieve success. Indeed, if you are listening to the office gossip while filling in forms, you will probably make mistakes. If you try to read a document while talking on the phone with a client, you…

  • Why working memory matters in the knowledge age: study

    Dr. Tracy Alloway
    21 Aug 2010 | 8:09 am
    Do you ever have days when you wake up and everything seems wrong with the world? Hopefully for most of these types of days are not the norm but the exception. However, there are some people who see everything as ‘half-empty’ instead of ‘half-full. Using cutting-edge psychological research, I am interested in finding out if it really matters–Does it matter if we see the glass as half-empty? We are on the cusp of a new revolution in intelligence that affects every aspect of our lives from work and relationships, to our childhood, education, and old age. Working Memory, the ability to…

  • The Brain in Science Education: What Should Everyone Learn?

    Dana Foundation
    17 Aug 2010 | 8:48 am
    Courtesy of the University of California, Davis, Center for Neuroscience What should everyone learn about the brain?  At the national level, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) describes what adults should know in its seminal work Science for All Americans.[1] AAAS also recommends learning goals for K-12 students in its Benchmarks for Science Literacy[2,3], and Atlas of Science Literacy[4,5], and the National Research Council (NRC) offers a similar set of goals in its National Science Education Standards.[6] States and school districts use the AAAS and NRC…

  • Pooling data to accelerate Alzheimer’s research

    Alvaro Fernandez
    13 Aug 2010 | 9:05 am
    Very interesting article in the New York Times on the reasons behind growing research of how to detect Alzheimer’s Disease: Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s (New York Times) (Situation before) Scientists were looking for biomarkers, but they were not getting very far. “The problem in the field was that you had many different scientists in many different universities doing their own research with their own patients and with their own methods,” said Dr. Michael W. Weiner of the San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs, who directs ADNI. “Different people…
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  • If Food Isn’t the Answer to Everything – What Is? Part 4

    Melissa McCreery
    2 Sep 2010 | 2:26 am
    My intent in this blog series has been to show that finding peace with food can be the mean to make lasting changes in your life…changes that have, until now, been frustrating and very difficult to achieve. 4.     Peace With Food Takes Support We live in a food-intensive culture and you may be living your life at a mile-a-minute pace. Food isn’t something you can take or leave—you have to negotiate your relationship with food all day long, every day—in the midst of everything else. Your relationship with food runs long and deep. Many people keep their struggles with food very…

  • If Food Isn’t the Answer to Everything – What Is? Part 3

    Melissa McCreery
    30 Aug 2010 | 2:37 am
    Last post, I introduced the concept of making peace with food and discussed how this happens when you can move past the food struggles and toward more satisfying solutions. 2.     Peace With Food Takes Courage (and it takes you new places) A client told me recently that she’d never have predicted where she’d be now, seven months after she began coaching with me to transform her relationship with food. She’s thrilled with where she is. She’s made changes in her life that feel really good. She’s created more time for herself and she is addressing some needs she’d been trying to…

  • If Food Isn’t the Answer to Everything – What Is? Part 2

    Melissa McCreery
    27 Aug 2010 | 2:28 am
    To summarize my last post:  If you are eating for the wrong reasons, the only way to make a change that is satisfying and lasting is to find other answers, solutions or strategies that address those reasons. Real Change Means Making Peace With Food In the Emotional Eating Toolbox™ program, I teach a process for making peace with food. Peace with food is different from losing weight (although people who make peace with food often lose weight), enduring a diet or food plan (peace with food is not about doing something with food you don’t want to do), depriving yourself and going…

  • If Food Isn’t the Answer to Everything – What Is? Part 1

    Melissa McCreery
    25 Aug 2010 | 2:18 am
    Does it sometimes seem like food can be an answer to everything?  Had a hard day at work? Why not relax with some creamy pasta? Have something to celebrate? A dinner out is always nice. A heartbreak or disappointment isn’t fixed, but might be comforted with a bowl of ice cream in front of the TV. If you’re tired, sugar is easy to reach for, and munching on candy is a great way to distract yourself or just get through the work you don’t want to be doing.  Got stress? You might not even realize that you reached for the snacks until the bowl or the bag is almost empty. Yep, for many…

  • Are You Tired of Riding on the Diet Rollercoaster? Free Teleseminar

    Melissa McCreery
    24 Aug 2010 | 3:11 pm
    Are you one of the many smart, successful, high-achieving women who is BEYOND tired of struggling with food, weight, and overeating—sick-to-death of diets and plans that don’t work out–and are you feeling like you “should” have gotten a handle on this by now? You are not alone. Heck, look at Oprah (and I mean this with complete compassion). The truth is that these struggles—which often have their roots in emotional eating and overeating—are major issues for success-oriented women, and unfortunately, they don’t get talked about nearly enough. This means that too…
 
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    Bad Science

  • The power of anecdotes

    Ben Goldacre
    27 Aug 2010 | 4:01 pm
    Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 28 August 2010 For simpletons and amateurs, there are good research methods, and bad research methods. In reality, different tools are valuable in different situations, and sometimes, even very tiny numbers of people can give you a meaningful piece of information: even an anecdote can be informative. For example, if [...]

  • “Exams are getting easier”

    Ben Goldacre
    20 Aug 2010 | 4:01 pm
    Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 21 August 2010 Pass rates are at 98%. A quarter of grades are higher than an A. This week every newspaper in the country was filled with people asserting that exams are definitely getting easier, and then other people asserting that exams are definitely not getting easier. The question for [...]

  • Give us the trial data

    Ben Goldacre
    13 Aug 2010 | 4:40 pm
    Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 14 August 2010 This week the drug company AstraZeneca paid out £125m to settle a class action. Over 17,500 patients claim the company withheld information showing that schizophrenia drug quetiapine (tradename Seroquel) might cause diabetes. Why do companies pay out money before cases get to court? One interesting feature of [...]

  • More than 60 children saved from abuse – small update

    Ben Goldacre
    6 Aug 2010 | 6:34 pm
    Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 7 August 2010 According to the Home Office this week, Sarah’s law – where any parent can find out if any adult in contact with their child has a record of violent or sexual crimes – has “already protected more than 60 children from abuse during its pilot“. This fact [...]

  • Boris Johnson and his innovative trial methodology

    Ben Goldacre
    30 Jul 2010 | 4:03 pm
    Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 31 July 2010 It’s the near misses that really make you want to shoot your own face off. This week the Centre for Policy Studies has published a pamphlet on education which has been covered by the Mirror, the Mail, the BBC, the Telegraph, the Express, the Guardian, and more. [...]
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    Healthy Reader

  • Drinking Diet Soda While Pregnant Could Lead To Premature Delivery

    Conner Flynn
    25 Aug 2010 | 6:52 pm
    According to Denmark scientists, pregnant women should stay away from daily diet soda intake, because it could cause premature births. The soda-drinking patterns of almost 60,000 Danish women were followed by researchers for six years. Results suggest a link between diet carbonated and noncarbonated drinks and premature births. In the study, the researchers found that 4.6 percent of study participants delivered babies early and one-third of those premature births were medically induced. One or more drinks a day was associated with a 38 percent increased risk of premature delivery. [AOL]

  • Top Bedbug-Infested Cities in U.S.

    Conner Flynn
    25 Aug 2010 | 8:24 am
    Here’s a story that will make you cringe and itch. Using its own data, Terminix has ranked the top bedbug-infested cities in the U.S. and New York City topped the list. Terminix compiled its top 15 list anecdotally by analyzing call volume about bedbugs to the 350 Terminix service centers throughout the country. 1. New York 2. Philadelphia 3. Detroit 4. Cincinnati 5. Chicago 6. Denver 7. Columbus, Ohio 8. Dayton, Ohio 9. Washington, D.C. 10. Los Angeles 11. Boston 12. Indianapolis 13. Louisville, Ky. 14. Cleveland 15. Minneapolis, Minn. Are you itchy? Are any of those your cities?

  • 380,000 Lbs. of Deli Meat Recalled

    Conner Flynn
    25 Aug 2010 | 8:16 am
    Roast beef and ham that was distributed to Walmart delicatessens nationwide and sold in sandwiches has been recalled because it might be tainted with potentially harmful bacteria. No illnesses have been reported yet from the 380,000 pounds of meat that was made by Zemco Industries in Buffalo and may contain Listeria. It’s not clear how many stores sold the meat products. A retail sample collected in Georgia tested positive for Listeria, which can cause serious and sometimes even fatal infections in the young, frail or elderly, or those with weakened immune systems. [AOL]

  • Teens Smokers Who Are Overweight More Likely to Have Migraines

    Conner Flynn
    19 Aug 2010 | 9:05 am
    Teens who smoke, get little exercise and are overweight are more likely to have another problem: frequent headaches, according to a new study published online in the journal Neurology. Teenagers with all three negative lifestyle factors are 3.4 times more likely to suffer from persistent headaches and migraines than those with none of them. About 55 percent of those in all three categories had chronic headaches compared to 25 percent without any of those behaviors. Of course bad nutrition and weight gain also have physiological effects that can lead to health problems like migraines. If you…

  • Several Deaths in Florida Linked to Mosquito-Borne Virus

    Conner Flynn
    19 Aug 2010 | 8:46 am
    As Florida enters peak mosquito season, four deaths have already been reported from a mosquito-borne illness. One that rarely infects humans. Eastern equine encephalitis, a viral disease that causes inflammation in the brain, typically effects horses, but a few cases of human deaths are reported annually. Officials say that the deaths of two Tampa-area residents were a result of EEE disease. Human survivors suffer some significant impairments too. Sadly there is no vaccine for it. [AOL]
 
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    Respectful Insolence

  • Acupuncture quackademic medicine infiltrates PLoS ONE

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    Nearly a month ago, I expressed my dismay and displeasure at the infiltration fo quackademic medicine into what is arguably the premier medical journal in the world, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in the form of a highly credulous review on the use of acupuncture for low back pain that brought eternal shame on the hallowed pages of a once-great journal. As Mark Crislip put it, trust, once damaged or lost, is very hard to restore, and I definitely lost a lot of trust for the NEJM compared to what I had for it a month ago. Since then, I've been keeping my eyes out for other examples…

  • Vaccine injury and compensation

    1 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    The comment thread for my post last week about how philosophical vaccine exemptions in California are endangering herd immunity is rapidly approaching 500 comments as I write this and may well surpass that number by the time this post "goes live" in the morning. I mention this because buried in the comment thread are a number of comments by our old "friend," that anti-vaccine-sympathetic pediatrician to the stars, Dr. Jay Gordon doing what Dr. Jay does best and basically making a fool of himself on matters of vaccine science through his preference for anecdote over sound epidemiology and…

  • When homeopaths fight back

    31 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    I love it when my fans notice me. After all, of what use is my having taken so many hours over so many years laying down on a nearly daily basis if my words don't have an impact? Surely I couldn't be so egotistical that I'd do it anyway even if my readership was what it was when I first started out and had not increased to the point where I'm the (alleged) force that I've become in the medical and skeptical blogosphere, would I? Wait, on second thought, don't answer that. In any case, back in the day I'd write my best snarky skeptical deconstruction of some bit of pseudoscience or another and…

  • Mike Adams on Vaccines: Orac's Corollary to Poe's Law strikes again

    30 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    A frequent lament of members of the anti-vaccine movement is that they are not "anti-vaccine" but rather "pro-safe vaccine." they like to claim that they are not opposed to vaccines in general. Of course, in many, if not most or even all cases, that denial is either a lie or self-delusion. After all, even the most die-hard anti-vaccine zealot realizes that being anti-vaccine is quite correctly viewed by the vast majority of people as not rational. That's why, in a perverse way, I'm thankful for loons like Mike Adams. Yes, Mike Adams. He lays the crazy out in a way that no one else does. But…

  • Another idiotic poll: Do you think vaccines are safe?

    29 Aug 2010 | 2:05 pm
    A friend of mine sent me a link to one of my hometown news stations because he saw something that irritated him. On the front page, there is a poll of such epic burning stupid that it requires an immediate crash. I may not be P.Z., but I have in some instances overcome my previous dislike of poll crashing, especially when it's a poll this stupid: Do you think immunizations are safe? Yes No As if an Internet poll has any bearing whatsoever on whether vaccines are safe or even on whether people believe vaccines are safe. The poll is located on the webpage of the Detroit FOX affiliate in the…
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    World of Psychology

  • Statistics About College Depression

    Therese J. Borchard
    2 Sep 2010 | 3:42 am
    Since it is going back-to-school season, I thought I’d educate you on some alarming statistics about depression among college students. Here are the facts, just the facts: One out of every five young people and one out of ever four college students or adults suffers from some form of diagnosable mental illness. About 19 precent of young people contemplate or attempt suicide each year. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among people ages 15-24, and the second leading cause of death in college students ages 20-24. Over 66 percent of young people with a substance use disorder have…

  • 9 Tips for Coping with a Hurricane

    John M Grohol PsyD
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:30 am
    With another hurricane on the warpath up the East Coast of the U.S. this week, many people are scrambling for shelter and safety. Evacuations are taking place, and while everyone is rightfully focused on their physical safety, our emotional health is at risk during times of increased stress too. There are ways you can better cope emotionally with an impending hurricane — to brace yourself emotionally from the significant amounts of stress you’re about to endure. One of the most important things to keep in mind is that a hurricane is a fairly short natural event. For most people,…

  • The R Word: Sticks, Stones, and Rosa’s Law

    Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D.
    1 Sep 2010 | 8:55 am
    “What you call people is how you treat them. What you call my sister is how you will treat her. If you believe she’s ‘retarded’ it invites taunting, stigma. It invites bullying and it also invites the slammed doors of being treated with respect and dignity.” –14-year-old Nick Marcellino, Rosa’s brother, in testimony to the Maryland General Assembly Say what you will about New Jersey. Yeah, we are called the Soprano state, and, yeah, everyone in Jersey is rumored to have an attitude. You got a problem with that? But I couldn’t be more proud of its recent legislation. The…

  • Remembering Together: Are 2 Heads Better than One?

    Michael Fenichel, Ph.D.
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:46 am
    Are two heads better than one? Maybe. Perhaps this doesn’t come as a surprise, because we all know on some level that even one “head” can be better than others in terms of memory. New research into “group memory,” or “social memory” sheds some light on how remembering together can be more or less effective. In part, it depends on the group’s “executive functioning”. Memory research has come a long ways since the early research many of us learned in psychology classes. There is the famous Bell Laboratories research into short-term memory which resulted in the…

  • Introducing an Epidemic of Addiction

    John M Grohol PsyD
    31 Aug 2010 | 10:27 am
    I’m pleased today to introduce our newest blog, Epidemic of Addiction, with Dr. Jeffrey Junig. Addictions to substances — like alcohol, cocaine, opioids, prescription drugs and other kinds of drugs — remain a serious problem in modern society. It’s a telling sign that society pays little attention to drug addicts, believing that theirs is a self-made bed in which to lie upon. But like any mental illness, addiction is not something a person ever asks for. Addiction often creeps up on a person as they’re living their everyday lives, starting out not so much as a…
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    Blue Marble Feed | Mother Jones

  • This Is Supposed to Make Us Feel Better?

    Kate Sheppard
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:47 am
    With news of yet another oil rig exploding breaking this morning, an admission from the federal incident commander that the response to the BP disaster may have been bungled is not at all reassuring. The Press-Register reports: In hindsight, if BP had removed the 5,000-foot-long tangle of riser pipe from its damaged Gulf well in the early days of the spill, a new blowout preventer or cap could have been installed, shutting down the well perhaps within weeks instead of months, according to both the federal incident commander and petroleum engineers. "I think that is one thing we will look…

  • Another Oil Rig Explodes

    Kate Sheppard
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:47 am
    News on this is just trickling in, but apparently there's been another oil rig explosion off the Louisiana coast. The New Orleans station WDSU reports that the Coast Guard has been called in, and the 13 workers on the rig have been accounted for. The explosion happened 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay at around 9 a.m., on a rig owned by Mariner Energy. There aren't a whole lot of details yet; will update as they come in. The Houston Chronicle has more.    

  • What Sustainable Seafood?

    Julia Whitty
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:07 pm
    The world's foremost certifier of safe and sustainable fisheries has just been slapped down in a new op-ed by a top-shelf collection of scientists in the latest issue of Nature. The problem is that the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is ignoring science in favor of bureaucracy, write the authors, researchers from the University of British Columbia, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and elsewhere. The idea behind the MSC, which was established in 1997 by the World Wildlife Fund and Unilever (one of the world's largest fish retailers), was to help consumers eat fish…

  • Sorry, Drilling Regulators: No More Oil Orgies

    Kate Sheppard
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:50 pm
    Last night, Michael Bromwich, the new director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (formerly known as the Minerals Management Service), circulated an email to staffers outlining new ethics policies for employees who deal with offshore drilling, an attempt to reform his run amuck division's rep for being too cozy with oil and gas interests. Most of the new rules seem like a no-brainer, but given MMS' history, perhaps we should be grateful they're now on paper. Here's how Bromwich's memo begins: District employees must perform their duties…

  • What's Missing From Interior's New Scientific Integrity Policy?

    Kate Sheppard
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:18 pm
    The Department of Interior issued a new draft policy on scientific integrity on Tuesday, a long overdue addition to the agency's manual outlining the rules and regulations for employees when it comes to ensuring that their decisions are based on sound science. It's certainly a step in the right direction, given such a policy didn't even exist previously. But there are still concerns that the policy doesn't go far enough in reforming an agency known for ignoring (or outright manipulating) scientific findings. In the wake of the BP disaster, Interior has come under increased scrutiny when it…
 
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  • "Reasonable" $600 MILLION Fine for Misbranding BOTOX: I Guess Allergan's Suit Against FDA Paid Off!

    John Mack
    2 Sep 2010 | 5:52 am
    Allergan -- the company that markets Botox legally for wrinkles and illegally for other things -- agreed to pay $600 million in fines, including $375 million to the government as part of a Botox “misbranding” charge. Allergan admitted that its marketing of Botox from 2000 to 2005 led to intended use in treating headache, pain, muscle stiffness and juvenile cerebral palsy. Read the media stories and press releases here.Considering that Eli Lilly paid $1.41 billion to settle charges that it had improperly marketed  Zyprexa for elderly patients with dementia and that Pfizer paid $2.3…

  • Pharma Email Spam: Three Degrees of Separation for Merck, Pfizer, and Genentech

    John Mack
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:35 am
    Soon after I posted a blog entry and tweeted about cholesterol-lowering drugs (see here), I "coincidentally" received the following e-mail message (click for an enlarged, readable view):I do not remember opting in to receive email from Insyst Media -- the company that sent me this email. But, who knows, it may be one of those "third-party partners" of a website where I signed up to learn more about cholesterol.So, naturally, I clicked on the "GET THE FACTS" button and was delivered to this intriguing Web page (click on image for an enlarged, more readable view):Again,I don't recall opting in…

  • Until All of Us Have This "Blue Button," the Online Health Revolution Has Not Even Begun!

    John Mack
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:34 am
    Today I will listen to the BlogTalkRadio show "E-patients, Cyberchondriacs, and Why We Should Stop Calling Names," which promises to be an "open, honest and stimulating discussion" about the "potential implications of the use of the term e-Patient and why some argue that it should be reconsidered." As background to that discussion, see this blog post by Susannah Fox (@SusannahFox) who leads the Pew Internet & American Life Project's health research. Susannah will be a guest on the BlogTalkRadio show today and will be speaking at the e-Patient Connections 2010 conference next month in…

  • YouTube Fixes Problem I Pointed Out Months Ago: Update on YAZ Case Study

    John Mack
    31 Aug 2010 | 7:25 am
    In January, I pointed out that drug companies that place product videos on YouTube leave themselves open to association with other videos that poke fun at them, or worse, encourage consumers to join class action lawsuits against the company. The case that I pointed out was the YAZ Birth Control Channel (see "The Trouble with YouTube: YAZ Case Study"). The problem is that you cannot control what other videos may be highlighted by YouTube when your video is played OUTSIDE the channel. In the case of YAZ, for example, when you click on "related videos," what you see are many videos from law…

  • OTC Drugs and Children

    John Mack
    31 Aug 2010 | 5:27 am
    Recently, the news media and Congress focused our attention on the recall of contaminated over-the-counter (OTC) children's medication manufactured by McNeil Consumer, a division of Johnson & Johnson (see "Despite Its Social Media Expertise, J&J Fails to Use It Effectively to Communicate to Consumers").But there's an even more dangerous problem than contamination relating to OTC medication for children: incorrect dosing."There is an urgent need to review the use of children's over-the-counter medicines by parents," said Dr Rebekah Moles, University of Sydney, as part of her research,…
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  • Tom gives a Reason to Ride

    Paul Levy
    1 Sep 2010 | 7:18 pm
    Tom DesFosses is a grateful cancer survivor who has organized a biking event to raise funds for cancer research. It will be held on September 12, in Danvers, MA. See here for scenes from last year's ride.You can register now, here.Here's Tom making a pitch for the ride. If you can't see the video, click here.

  • W(h)ither health insurers?

    Paul Levy
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:48 am
    The talk around the country among health insurance companies is that their insurance business is dying.What is happening? First, the consolidations in other industries, resulting in large, multistate corporations, already mean that many companies self insure their employees. Even many local firms have large enough work forces that they can be self-contained risk pools. (One source I found says that in 2008, 89 percent of workers employed in firms with 5000 or more employees were in self-insured plans.) There is no sense compensating insurance companies for actuarial risk when your employee…

  • Unanswered questions on payment reform

    Paul Levy
    30 Aug 2010 | 7:01 pm
    Here is a story by Robert Gavin in the Boston Globe about the deteriorating financial condition of Massachusetts hospitals. This is another in the now all-too-familiar type of story about layoffs of health care workers in our state, something some of us predicted several months ago.While there are some who suggest that a move from fee-for-service to global, or capitated,* payments is the key element in solving rising health care costs, some questions need to be answered as part of the payment reform movement in Massachusetts. If the wrong answers are given, the movement will result in a…

  • I hate it when I have to give this kind of news

    Paul Levy
    29 Aug 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Sometimes an expression that would be appropriate and kind in normal circumstances can add pain or anxiety in a clinical setting.A friend recently went to the Emergency Room because of some bad symptoms. After a few tests, the attending returned to give the diagnosis. He started out by saying, "I hate it when I have to give this kind of news" and then proceeded to summarize the test results and finally to tell my friend that she likely had a very serious, probably terminal form of cancer.I think what happened here was that the doctor thought that his introductory clause displayed empathy. But…

  • More on the blue whale

    Paul Levy
    29 Aug 2010 | 3:45 am
    Apparently, this is a very rare event. See here. An excerpt:“It has happened in this country before, but not in recent decades”. Blue whales are the biggest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. They can grow up to 30 metres and weigh up to 150 tonnes.
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  • Change of Shift: Vol. 5, Number 4

    Kim
    20 Aug 2010 | 4:42 pm
    Welcome to Change of Shift – a day late, but hopefully not a dollar short! We have some old friends and some new additions.  Our submissions cover the best of nursing and the most difficult moments. Some share successes and others could use some collegial support. So, grab a latte, put your feet up and enjoy.. Change of Shift. I love adding nursing blogs to my blogroll! This week, thanks to his CoS submission, I’ve found Stephen at  A Nurse Practitioner’s View, where he   presents  Team Work. When it comes to patient care, check our egos at the door. Some teams we chose…

  • BlogWorld/New Media Expo 2010: Medbloggers + Las Vegas, Part Deux!

    Kim
    13 Aug 2010 | 12:57 pm
    We did it before, and we’re doing it again! The medblogger track (aka: Social Health) is on for this year’s BlogWorld/New Media Expo! WHO should attend? You! Doctors, nurses, patients physician assistants, dentists, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, paramedics medical students, nursing students health care administrators, health care company employees and executives… In other words….YOU! WHY should you attend? If you have any interest in social media on a personal or professional level (blogs, podcasting, Blog Talk Radio, Facebook, Twitter, vlogging), this is the…

  • Change of Shift – Vol. 5, Number 3

    Kim
    6 Aug 2010 | 2:11 pm
    Wow – another two weeks has flown by, which means it’s time for another edition of Change of Shift! Once again, my nurse blogging colleagues have written an interesting, thoughtful group of posts for your perusal! So ready…set…peruse! Keith Carlson is the fantastic writer behind Digital Doorway, and a regular contributor to Change of Shift. This week’s post left me angry and appalled. It is also wins this week’s “Editor’s Choice”. Check out  In the ER……. See if your blood pressure doesn’t rise….. Okay, so Keith…

  • Change of Shift – Coming ASAP

    Kim
    5 Aug 2010 | 8:36 am
    Hi everyone! Just a quick note to let you know I’m hard at work on Change of Shift and it will up….. As soon as get to my hotel in Las Vegas. I am participating in a highly educational pursuit, sure to elicit a profound professional growth… I’m meeting Donny Osmond. Seriously. My mature adult self is highly looking forward to this event, however my 14-year-old inner child is, like, dying! So look for Change of Shift in this spot later today! Change of Shift – Coming ASAP

  • That Does It……

    Kim
    26 Jul 2010 | 12:35 pm
    This is me, laptop firmly attached at the hip! Okay, I don’t wear white dresses (anymore) and I don’t have a 10 inch waist, either. But my laptop might as well be surgically implanted; my life is pretty much pixelated! I make travel decisions based on whether or not wireless is available. Most people sleep, I “re-boot”. In response to a funny story this week,  I said “LOL!”. As in the letters, not the words. But I knew I had gone over the edge when my nursing notes started looking like tweets: “Amb 2 BR s diff; no able 2 p; abd dist; 16F cath 4 lg…
 
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  • WHO urges countries to take measures to combat antimicrobial resistance

    20 Aug 2010 | 2:00 am
    20 August 2010 -- WHO suggests that countries should be prepared to implement hospital infection control measures to limit the spread of multi-drug resistant strains and to reinforce national policy on prudent use of antibiotics, reducing the generation of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

  • H1N1 in post-pandemic period

    10 Aug 2010 | 8:00 am
    10 August 2010 -- The new H1N1 virus has largely run its course and the world is no longer in phase 6 of influenza pandemic alert, but in the post-pandemic period.

  • WHO responds to health needs in Pakistan floods

    3 Aug 2010 | 2:00 am
    3 August 2010 -- The worst floods on record in Pakistan are placing the health of hundreds of thousands of people at risk, with a high threat of water-borne disease outbreaks and immense damage to health facilities. WHO is coordinating the response of health partners and supporting Pakistani authorities by sending medicines and related health supplies capable of treating more than 200 000 people.

  • Breastfeeding key to saving children’s lives

    30 Jul 2010 | 2:00 am
    30 July 2010 -- Malnutrition is responsible for one-third of the 8.8 million deaths annually among children under five. Breastfeeding is a key to improve infant and young child nutrition. The "Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding" ensure right start for every infant and the necessary support for mothers to breastfeed.

  • WHO and the International Olympic Committee sign agreement to improve healthy lifestyles

    21 Jul 2010 | 2:00 am
    21 July 2010 -- In addition to promoting healthy lifestyle choices the agreement aims to support physical activity, sports for all, Tobacco Free Olympic Games, and the prevention of childhood obesity.
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    PharmaGossip

  • Child’s Ordeal Shows Dangers of Antipsychotic Drugs - NYTimes.com

    2 Sep 2010 | 2:37 am
    Child’s Ordeal Shows Dangers of Antipsychotic Drugs - NYTimes.com:"The boy’s daily pill regimen multiplied: the antipsychotic Risperdal, the antidepressant Prozac, two sleeping medicines and one for attention-deficit disorder.All by the time he was 3.

  • Introducing Dr David Bransford's blog

    1 Sep 2010 | 10:58 pm
    http://davidbransford.com/A psychiatrist. When not seeing patients directly, he has a strong interest in teaching and promoting continuing medical education to family practitioners, nursing staff, case managers, and psychologists. He has a strong interest is in the field of Psychopharmacology, and many of his weekends are spent meeting with other psychopharmacologists and continually being updated in the field of Neuroscience. Most recent passion has been networking via Twitter.com/ThinkShrink & FaceBook.Extremely skeptical of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Managed Care.Hat tip: Stephany

  • 21 Drugs Facing FDA Approval Decisions - TheStreet

    1 Sep 2010 | 9:39 am
    >via thestreet.com Posted via email from Jack's posterous

  • First and second generation antipsychotics in early psychosis – no differences in efficacy or discontinuation rates « NPCi blog

    1 Sep 2010 | 8:51 am
    This meta-analysis found no significant differences between first generation (typical) antipsychotics (FGAs) and second generation (atypical) antipsychotics (SGAs) with regard to their effects on symptoms or discontinuation rates, when used to treat early psychosis. Patients taking SGAs gained more weight than those taking FGAs, whereas FGAs were associated with more extrapyramidal side effects than SGAs. via npci.org.uk Posted via email from Jack's posterous

  • Allergan Will Pay Fine, Plead Guilty to Misdemeanor in Botox Case - Bloomberg

    1 Sep 2010 | 7:04 am
    Allergan Inc., maker of the wrinkle smoother Botox, said it agreed to pay $600 million and plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge in settling a U.S. investigation of its marketing practices. Allergan will pay $375 million to the government as part of a “misbranding” charge that the marketing of Botox from 2000 to 2005 led to intended use in treating headache, pain, muscle stiffness and juvenile cerebral palsy, which weren’t approved by the Food and Drug Administration during that time. Allergan will also pay $225 million to resolve civil claims from the Justice Department, the…
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  • Government Report Outlines Health Status of “Older Americans”

    Rachel
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:58 am
    I missed this earlier in the summer, but wanted to let you know about a government report, Older Americans 2010: Key Indicators of Well-Being, which provides information on the health status of Americans aged 65 years and older, including life expectancy, chronic health conditions, symptoms of depression, prescription drug costs, obesity, physical activity, mammograms, and more. Several of the topics are split into male and female data, such as the percentage of women and men who have heart disease, hypertension, and other conditions, so this could be a good quick reference source for…

  • Study: Conversation Can Help Reduce Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive Coercion

    Christine C.
    1 Sep 2010 | 8:34 am
    A new study in the journal Contraception reveals the power of a simple conversation: When trained counselors at family planning clinics ask young women if they have experienced reproductive coercion, it reduces the odds of their male partners forcing them to become pregnant. The Family Violence Prevention Fund responded enthusiastically to the results of the study: A brief intervention was associated with a 70 percent reduction in the odds of male partner pregnancy coercion among women who recently had experienced intimate partner violence. Study participants who were asked about reproductive…

  • Multidisciplinary Abortion Conference at Princeton This Fall

    Rachel
    30 Aug 2010 | 12:41 pm
    Princeton University is hosting a conference this fall (October 15 & 16), “Open Hearts, Open Minds and Fair Minded Words,” featuring speakers from around the country on the topic of abortion. The stated goals of the conference are to: Explore new ways to think and speak about abortion. Approach issues related to abortion with open hearts and open minds. Define more precisely areas of disagreement and work together on areas of common ground. Get to know those on multiple sides of the issues more personally. Speakers will include experts in law, bioethics, medicine, theology,…

  • Quick Hit: American College of Nurse-Midwives Responds to ACOG’s VBAC Recommendations

    Rachel
    26 Aug 2010 | 1:42 pm
    The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) issued a press release [PDF] today responding to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) recently revised recommendation on vaginal birth after cesarean. The ACNM calls  for “concerted efforts to expand access to vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) in the U.S.” (for background, see our previous post). The ACNM release is accompanied by a more complete statement [PDF] that reviews the ACOG recommendation and outlines ACNM’s response. It includes a discussion of how the ACOG’s specific…

  • Restricting Access, Any Way Possible

    Rachel
    25 Aug 2010 | 1:38 pm
    Last night, talk show host Rachel Maddow discussed tactics used by anti-choice activities to restrict women’s access to abortion. She focused on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, who has issued an opinion [PDF] indicating that the state may impose additional restrictions on providers of first trimester abortions, including allowing the Board of Health to regulate them as “hospitals.” An article in the Roanoke Times explains: Cuccinelli’s opinion notes that health centers specializing in reproductive services are characterized as physicians’ offices…
 
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  • South Korean firm to develop healthier kimchi

    1 Sep 2010 | 10:58 am

  • How to Deal with Pesky Hiccups, Nosebleeds And Shivers

    1 Sep 2010 | 10:58 am
    Hiccups, nosebleeds and the occasional twitch or shiver _ they're annoying, embarrassing, all too common and rarely serious enough to warrant a trip to the doctor. Every now and then, they can indicate something serious, though. How can you tell the difference? Before you go to the doctor, what home remedies are safe to try? For advice we consulted several experts on staff at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, Texas. HICCUPS What they are: Involuntary, intermittent, spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm, followed by a sudden closure of the epiglottis (the cartilage protecting the…

  • 'Kangaroo' cuddle saves Australian baby: report

    1 Sep 2010 | 10:58 am

  • TV chef 'Food Dude' helps college students learn to eat healthy

    1 Sep 2010 | 10:58 am
    Sept. 01--ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS -- "Food Dude" Kevin Roberts extolled the benefits of antioxidants and fiber and warned college students about some foods to avoid: soda, sugar, processed cheese and fast-food french fries and hamburgers. The charismatic Roberts, host of TLC's BBQ PitMasters, presented "How to Survive College by Staying Healthy" on Tuesday in O'Shaughnessy dining room at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. He provided fun facts on healthy eating and plenty of samples. "Help yourself," he told the lunchtime crowd as he passed out everything from breakfast bagel sandwiches, to "shots"…

  • Child success comes from parental boost

    1 Sep 2010 | 10:58 am
    Sept. 01--Dawne Simpson wears a couple of hats. She's an eighth-grade math teacher at Jane Macon Middle School and a mother of three. "My oldest is Andy, who is a junior at Brunswick High this year. He is 16. Carleigh is my middle child and only girl. She is 11 and is in the sixth grade at Jane Macon Middle," she said. "Clay is the youngest. He is 8 and is in third grade at C.B. Greer." At the beginning of a new school year, the family takes a moment to focus. "We make sure that all three of our
 
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  • Change ONE Thing: Big meals

    FatFighter
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:43 pm
    Get your FREE copy of "Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals" Download e-book here. Related posts Portobello “Philly Cheese Steak” Sandwich Portion explosion! Food for Thought: Smaller plates Food for Thought: Plan ahead Food for Thought: Dining out

  • Revenge of the baby carrots

    FatFighter
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:28 pm
    Question: What did one baby carrot say to a Cheeto? Answer: Orange-cha scared we’re gonna crush you? Game on! As kids head back to school, Bolthouse Farms and about 50 other carrot growers are launching a $25 million marketing campaign to take on salty snack foods with the hopes of landing in some school lunch boxes. The strategy includes packaging baby carrots in Doritos-like bags, selling them in school vending machines, and promoting them with slogans like “The original orange doodles.” Will kids pick the hip packaged carrots over junk food? Who will win the battle of…

  • News Nugget: Brazil puts on weight

    FatFighter
    31 Aug 2010 | 7:08 pm
    Images of buff sun worshippers in Brazil are fading into those of bulging waistlines. A new report shows nearly half of adult Brazilians are overweight and about 15 percent are obese. Brazil’s Health Minister calls it “a situation of absolute red alert.” Get your FREE copy of "Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals" Download e-book here. Related posts Small changes = fewer overweight kids in Philadelphia schools Refuse to Regain winner! Refuse to Regain – How to keep the weight off (listen up, Oprah!) and win the new book! Obesity rates leveling off – but…

  • How a “slightly rude” 11-year-old sparked one woman’s weight loss journey

    FatFighter
    30 Aug 2010 | 2:49 pm
    Today,  I am happy to bring you a guest post from Carmen Staicer  – Chief Mom at Diets In Review, a site which provides the tools and information needed to shape a healthier you. Carmen recently lost 80 pounds, is raising six loud, opinionated kids, and training for her black belt in Muay Thai Boxing. Ten years ago, I gave birth to my fourth child. At that time, I was a comfortable size 14. Not too big, not too small – just the size that a mom of four might expect to be, yes? And then I had another baby. And 17 months later, a sixth. And suddenly I’d bloomed from a…

  • Dreyer’s/Edy’s new Fruit Bars giveaway

    FatFighter
    29 Aug 2010 | 9:22 pm
    [Disclosure: I received a complimentary sample of this product. My policy is to only post giveaways about products I honestly like, or those I think FatFighterTV members would enjoy.] How about one last burst of frozen treats before the official end of summer? Not that you can’t have frozen goodies after Labor Day or anything. But if you want a frozen fruity way to cool off while it’s still warm out, Dreyer’s/Edy’s new Antioxidant Fruit Bars in Pomegranate and Açai Blueberry may do the trick. The bars are made with real fruit and are a little bit of tart, tangy, and…
 
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  • This is Intolerable

    Rachel
    29 Aug 2010 | 9:00 am
    Some of you reading from outside of Tennessee have probably seen that we have our own intolerant folks making a scene about a proposed new Islamic center in Murfreesboro, TN (where I lived for two years before moving into Nashville). It has been skewered on The Daily Show this week and previously. Yesterday, construction equipment for the center was apparently doused in gasoline and set on fire. I don’t think I need to spell out how intolerable and sad and hateful that is, but I just wanted to say something to clearly oppose this type of action, and to say how disappointed I am that…

  • An Election Update – Pro-Choice Candidates *Can* (Almost) Win in Tennessee

    Rachel
    29 Aug 2010 | 8:19 am
    In July, I wrote about why I planned to vote for Tennessee state senate candidate Jeff Yarbro – because of his explicitly pro-choice position, a rarity around here – over long-time incumbent Doug Henry in the Democratic primary. I did, and others did too, as Yarbro very nearly won. On election night, Yarbo was behind by two(!) votes. And there were two provisional ballots left to count. Those two votes went to Yarbo, but then absentee ballots were recounted, puttin Henry back up by 13 votes. And then there was a recount, and Henry was declared the winner by 17 votes. The point is,…

  • Weekly News Round-Up, 8/22

    Rachel
    22 Aug 2010 | 9:13 am
    NPR’s Shots blog points to some foreign body stories. I love foreign body stories. The New York Times has an overview of non-pill contraception. Krafty is talking about PubMed Health and the confusion (and duplication of effort?) it may cause. ScienceBlogging.org is newly helping me to keep up with science-oriented blog posts from around the web. Dave Munger explains it a bit here. In short, they’re displaying headlines from places like ScienceBlogs (from where several bloggers recently vacated due to the Pepsi scandal), Nature, Wired Science, and others in one central location.

  • A Side Trip To Libraryland, By Way of Harry Potter and Political Television

    Rachel
    18 Aug 2010 | 4:49 pm
    Harry Potter's World letterhead with owlLast night, the Rachel Maddow Show included one of its “Just Enough” pop culture segments, this time featuring the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park, as well as the exhibit, Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine. What wasn’t readily apparent from the Maddow segment is that the featured exhibit is a traveling exhibit of the National Library of Medicine, copies of which may be coming to a library near you. From the exhibit site: Although a fantasy story, the magic in the Harry Potter books is…

  • Sunday News Round-Up, Hot Tomato Edition

    Rachel
    15 Aug 2010 | 1:29 pm
    Yesterday I went to the Tomato Art Fest here in Nashville. It was almost 100 degrees out, and I was coated head to toe in sunscreen (good thing, because there was practically no shade). I really enjoyed much of the tomato art at the Art & Invention Gallery, especially the handful of pieces that made me laugh out loud. I got to see Whit Hill & the Postcards perform. I love them, and didn’t realize until their show that they have relocated from Detroit to Nashville. I also had the cantelope popsicle from Las Paletas. Yum. On to items of interest from the week: This past week was…
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    ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News

  • Ancient brew masters tapped antibiotic secrets

    2 Sep 2010 | 2:00 pm
    A chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians shows that they were regularly consuming tetracycline, most likely in their beer. The finding is the strongest evidence yet that the art of making antibiotics, which officially dates to the discovery of penicillin in 1928, was common practice nearly 2,000 years ago. The study finds that it's likely this prehistoric population was using empirical evidence to develop therapeutic agents.

  • New evidence that fat cells are not just dormant storage depots for calories

    2 Sep 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Scientists are reporting new evidence that the fat tissue in those lower belly pooches -- far from being a dormant storage depot for surplus calories -- is an active organ that sends chemical signals to other parts of the body, perhaps increasing the risk of heart attacks, cancer, and other diseases. They are reporting discovery of 20 new hormones and other substances not previously known to be secreted into the blood by human fat cells and verification that fat secretes dozens of hormones and other chemical messengers.

  • Success stops drug trial: Apixaban prevents stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation who are unsuitable for warfarin

    2 Sep 2010 | 2:00 pm
    The data monitoring committee of the AVERROES study, seeing overwhelming evidence of the success of apixaban in the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation who are unsuitable for the conventional treatment of warfarin, has recommended early termination of this study. The decision came after repeated review and careful consideration of all efficacy and safety data.

  • Risk of marijuana's 'gateway effect' overblown, new research shows

    2 Sep 2010 | 2:00 pm
    New research shows that the "gateway effect" of marijuana -- that teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to move on to harder illicit drugs as young adults -- may be overblown.

  • New infrared light may open new frontier in fighting cancer, Tay Sachs

    2 Sep 2010 | 11:00 am
    A "game-changing" technique using near infrared light enables scientists to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fights against cancer and many other diseases.
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  • Marijuana gateway risk overblown: study

    2 Sep 2010 | 10:21 am
    Long-held fears that the use of marijuana will lead to harder drugs are overblown, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire.

  • West Nile virus kills 13 in Greece

    2 Sep 2010 | 9:49 am
    West Nile virus has killed 13 people in Greece, health authorities say.

  • JAMA editor to leave

    2 Sep 2010 | 9:44 am
    Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is leaving the post next year to return to Johns Hopkins medical school.

  • E. coli leads to beef recall in Toronto

    2 Sep 2010 | 9:08 am
    The Canadian Food Inspection agency is warning Toronto-area consumers about a recall of beef from the Kabul Farms retail store in North York.

  • Leaving N.L. for pregnancy care an ordeal: patient

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:36 am
    A woman who is one of 11 in the past month to have been sent out of Newfoundland and Labrador for medical care because the province's hospitals couldn't handle her high-risk pregnancy says her experience was horrible.
 
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    Environmental Health News

  • Feds fail to use land for solar power.

    jpmyers@ehsic.org
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am
    Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.

  • Climate panel must adapt to survive,

    jpmyers@ehsic.org
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am
    A long-awaited report has recommended an overhaul of the IPCC. The proposals were met with a largely favourable response from climate researchers who are eager to move on after the media scandals and credibility challenges that have rocked the UN body during the past nine months.

  • Climate change puts China harvests at risk.

    jpmyers@ehsic.org
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am
    Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.

  • Climate change report says a meter of water would completely over Jamestown Island.

    jpmyers@ehsic.org
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am
    As Virginia braces for a possible bashing by Hurricane Earl, two environmental groups on Wednesday released a report that suggests things may only get worse for low-lying areas in Hampton Roads, especially area National Parks.

  • Facebook faces campaign to switch to renewable energy.

    jpmyers@ehsic.org
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am
    In one of the web's fastest-growing environmental campaigns, Greenpeace international says at least 500,000 people have now protested Facebook's intention to run its giant new data centre mainly on electricity produced by burning coal power.
 
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    Public Health News Headlines from Johns Hopkins

  • Overweight American Children and Adolescents Becoming Fatter

    18 Aug 2010 | 1:30 pm
    Overweight American children and adolescents have become fatter over the last decade, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and National Institute on Aging (NIA). They examined adiposity shifts across socio-demographic groups over time and found U.S. children and adolescents had significantly increased adiposity measures such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and triceps skinfold thickness (TST). The increases in adiposity were more pronounced in some sex-ethnic groups such as black girls. In addition, these groups gained more…

  • Study Examines Pro-Anorexia and Pro-Bulimia Websites

    17 Jun 2010 | 2:00 pm
    A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the content and messages presented by websites that appear to support or encourage eating disorders. These websites use images, text and interactive applications to further knowledge, attitudes and behaviors to achieve dangerously low body weights. The study is the largest and most rigorous analysis of pro-eating disorder websites and it is available online in advance of print in the June 17 edition of the American Journal of Public Health.

  • Researchers Discover Additional Benefit of Vitamin A

    12 May 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Vitamin A is critical to maternal health and child survival, yet in most developing countries Vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of blindness and increased child mortality. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has long been a leader in vitamin A research, and scientists at the School recently discovered a link between offspring lung function and maternal vitamin A supplementation. The results are published in the May 13, 2010, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

  • Bloomberg School Receives $100K Grand Challenges Explorations Grant

    11 May 2010 | 8:00 am
    The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health announced today that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Jason Rasgon, PhD, an assistant professor with the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, and his research to develop an evolution-proof pesticide for eliminating mosquitoes that transmit malaria to humans.

  • Hardship and Human Rights Violations Continue among Burma Cyclone Survivors

    10 May 2010 | 1:30 pm
    The survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which struck Burma (also known as Myanmar) in May 2008, continue to face challenges in rebuilding their lives, in lack of access to relief and reconstruction efforts, and in violations of basic rights more than one year after the storm, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Emergency Assistance Team--Burma.
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    Medical News Today: Pediatrics

  • Childhood Obesity May Be Underreported

    2 Sep 2010 | 3:00 am
    As the U.S. launches its first-ever National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month today, scientists say the problem may be even more widespread than was thought. Researchers have found that parents tend to underreport their children's weight. Estimates of obesity and body mass index (BMI) based on parent-supplied data may miss one in five obese children...

  • Going Back To School Met With Mixed Emotions

    2 Sep 2010 | 3:00 am
    Millions of students at all grade levels, from elementary to high school to college, will head back to school and many times this is met with mixed emotions. Not because the "summer fun" has ended, but because school adds new pressures into the mix, with many kids focusing on trying to be popular, and some just to even fit in...

  • "There Is No Childhood Obesity Epidemic"

    2 Sep 2010 | 3:00 am
    Nearly one out of every three American children is clinically overweight or obese. The health and well-being of future generations is undeniably at risk. And yet the fastest-growing fitness club chain in the world is about to launch a nationwide campaign featuring TV commercials and full-page ads in USA Today and People magazine which declare "There is no childhood obesity epidemic...

  • National Leaders Pick Fight Against Childhood Obesity

    2 Sep 2010 | 3:00 am
    Those Picked Last, a foundation created to educate and bring together parents, children, clinicians, educators, politicians and businesses to combat childhood obesity, is announcing its first ever conference in honor of Childhood Obesity Month. The conference, "Weaving The Threads of Hope for Change" is being held on Tuesday, September 7 from 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. at Hilton Columbus at Easton...

  • There Is Still Too Much Aluminium In Infant Formulas

    2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am
    The aluminium content of a range of the most popular brands of infant formulas remains high, and particularly so for a product designed for preterm infants and a soya-based product designed for infants with cow's milk intolerances and allergies, researchers have found...
 
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    Men's health News From Medical News Today

  • Chronic Insomnia With Objectively Measured Short Sleep Duration Is Associated With Increased Mortality In Men

    2 Sep 2010 | 12:00 am
    A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP found an elevated risk of death in men with a complaint of chronic insomnia and an objectively measured short sleep duration. The results suggest that public health policy should emphasize the diagnosis and appropriate treatment of chronic insomnia...

  • InSightec Treats First Prostate Cancer Patients In Clinical Trials

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:00 am
    nSightec Ltd., the global leader in MR guided focused ultrasound technology and the only company to receive FDA approval for its ExAblate(R) system for treating uterine fibroids, announced that its ExAblate(R) system has been used for the first time for the treatment of prostate cancer patients. Seven patients with localized low-risk prostate cancer were treated worldwide so far...

  • Elbit Imaging Announces Insightec Treats First Prostate Cancer Patients In Clinical Trials

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:00 am
    Elbit Imaging Ltd. (NASDAQ: EMITF) ("Elbit" "Company") that it's subsidiary, InSightec Ltd., the global leader in MR guided focused ultrasound technology and the only company to receive FDA approval for its ExAblate(R) system for treating uterine fibroids, announced that its ExAblate(R) system has been used for the first time for the treatment of prostate cancer patients...

  • Oesophageal Cancer Rates In Men Up 50 Per Cent In A Generation, UK

    30 Aug 2010 | 3:00 am
    Oesophageal cancer rates in men have risen by 50 per cent over the last 25 years, according to new figures published by Cancer Research UK today. In 1983 around 2,600 men were diagnosed with oesophageal cancer - cancer of the food pipe - and according to the latest figures around 5,100 men were diagnosed with the disease...

  • To Reduce HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Better Interventions Are Needed

    27 Aug 2010 | 12:00 am
    Although a cognitive-behavioral intervention to encourage men who have sex with men to reduce their substance use and sexual risk behavior (as both are linked) was partially successful, a similar reduction was achieved in comparison groups who did not receive the intervention suggesting that better methods for changing behaviors are needed...
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    Blisstree

  • 2 Sep 2010 | 10:30 am

    Blisstree Staff
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:30 am
    Oil Rig Explodes: Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded this morning. It’s not certain if there will be a leak. (via Inhabitat) Post from: BlissTree

  • Pet Health: A Salad for Your Dog

    Caroline Sloan
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:21 am
    photo: Thinkstock We know that eating greens reduces the risk of cancer, but a recent Huffington Post article suggests that feeding your dogs organic kale could cut their risk as well. The article describes a dog with a tumor. Its owner added kale to the dog’s diet, and after four weeks, the tumor had disappeared. When I think about feeding an animal a salad, I just have visions of lots of green poop. Would you consider feeding your dog kale? via Huffington Post Post from: BlissTree Pet Health: A Salad for Your Dog

  • September Is National Yoga Month – Get a Free Week of Yoga

    Briana Rognlin
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:12 am
    September is National Yoga Month, which means lots of free events throughout the country, and our personal favorite: A week of free yoga at over 1,200 participating yoga centers in the country. The pass is good for any week this month, at any participating studio that you haven’t already visited. Check out the Yoga Month website to find a studio near you, or at the very least, go to a yoga class, any yoga class. Post from: BlissTree September Is National Yoga Month – Get a Free Week of Yoga

  • Delish Raw and Vegan Burger Recipe? With Chef Douglas McNish, Anything's Possible

    Guest Blogger
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:04 am
    Douglas McNish is back from summer vacation! Our friend Doug, head chef at Toronto’s Raw Aura organic and raw food restaurant, made his Blisstree debut sharing his original recipe for carrot and parsnip ‘fettuccine’. Then it was peppercorn-crusted tempeh steaks, massaged kale salad, quinoa pomegranate pilaf, quinoa and lentil burgers, a killer raw pizza crust recipe, plus a wicked marinara sauce and vegan cheese topping for your pie, cauliflower tabouli, and pumpkin seed refried beans for your dipping pleasure, an original summer Caesar salad, and avocado “fries” and…

  • World's Healthiest Human Listens to NPR Health on Doublespeed

    Briana Rognlin
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:34 am
    A.J. Jacobs, editor-at-large at Esquire and author of several books, including The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, gave the folks at Social Workout a few pointers on health-conscious living. This guy should know, given that his upcoming book, The Healthiest Human Being in the World, is all about his year of being as healthy as humanly possible. One of his favorite ways to get through a treadmill workout? He listens to NPR’s Your Health. “…I listen to it on doublespeed. It’s great. The only problem is that when you talk to people, they seem to be talking…
 
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    MSNBC: More Health

  • When bedbugs attack, homeowners get desperate

    30 Aug 2010 | 5:41 pm
    A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators.

  • First genetic link found to common migraine

    29 Aug 2010 | 11:49 am
    An international scientific team has identified for the first time a genetic risk factor associated with common migraines and say their research could open the way for new treatments to prevent migraine attacks.

  • J&J warned for illegal product sales

    26 Aug 2010 | 4:11 pm
    The Food and Drug Administration says Johnson & Johnson is selling a hip implant for unapproved uses and marketing an unapproved, high-tech system to guide doctors in implanting knee replacements.

  • New weapon against anthrax? Tears

    26 Aug 2010 | 1:21 pm
    Don't cry, Brett Favre, your tears can help protect against anthrax, according to a new study. And you won't believe what your other bodily fluids can do.

  • Scientists create liver cells from patients' skin

    25 Aug 2010 | 2:17 pm
    Scientists have created liver cells in a lab for the first time using reprogrammed cells from human skin, paving the way for the potential development of new treatments for liver diseases that kill thousands each year.
 
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    Reuters: Health News

  • Starting periods early tied to greater asthma risk

    2 Sep 2010 | 10:19 am
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who start menstruating early may be at increased risk of asthma and poor lung function, new research shows.

  • Workers see higher health costs, less care

    2 Sep 2010 | 9:21 am
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies are cutting healthcare costs further amid a continuing sour economy, scaling back benefits and shifting a greater share of the expense to employees.

  • Soy may ease sleep problems in older women

    2 Sep 2010 | 9:14 am
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The estrogen-like compounds found in soy could help postmenopausal women get a better night's sleep, according to a small study.

  • Mental "exercise" linked to faster dementia progression

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:10 am
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While staying mentally active in old age has been linked to a delayed onset of dementia, seniors who engage in such brain "exercise" may actually have a faster rate of decline once Alzheimer's is diagnosed, researchers reported Wednesday.

  • Too little sleep bad for teenagers' diets: study

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:07 am
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Teenagers who sleep less than eight hours a night on weeknights eat more fatty foods and snacks than those who get more than eight hours of sleep a night, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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    National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases

  • Lower blood pressure goal benefits African-Americans with chronic kidney disease, protein in the urine

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:46 am
    On average, a lower blood pressure goal was no better than the standard blood pressure goal at slowing progression of kidney disease among African-Americans who had chronic kidney disease resulting from high blood pressure, according to results of the African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK), the largest and longest study of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in African-Americans. However, the blood pressure goal did benefit people who also had protein in the urine, which is a sign of kidney damage. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, appears in the Sept.

  • New TB Diagnostic Proves Effective, Expedient, Study Finds

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:41 am
    A molecular test designed to easily diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and detect a drug-resistant form of the bacterium that causes TB can provide much more specific, sensitive and rapid results than currently available TB diagnostics, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In a test involving 1,730 patients with suspected drug-sensitive or multidrug-resistant pulmonary TB, the Xpert MTB/RIF TB test successfully identified 98 percent of all confirmed TB cases and 98 percent of patients with rifampin-resistant bacteria in less than two hours.

  • NIH awards grants to support biomedical research in space

    1 Sep 2010 | 1:41 pm
    The National Institutes of Health announced today that it has awarded the first new grants under the Biomedical Research on the International Space Station (BioMed-ISS) initiative, a collaborative effort between NIH and NASA. Using a special microgravity environment that Earth-based laboratories cannot replicate, researchers will explore fundamental questions about important health issues, such as how bones and the immune system get weak.

  • Association between elevated levels of lead, cadmium and delayed puberty in girls

    1 Sep 2010 | 1:36 pm
    Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have found that exposure to lead in childhood may delay the onset of puberty in young girls, with higher doses increasing the chance for later maturation.

  • Third generation map of human genetic variation published

    1 Sep 2010 | 11:31 am
    An international consortium today published a third-generation map of human genetic variation, called the HapMap, which includes data from an additional seven global populations, increasing the total number to 11 populations. The improved resolution will help researchers interpret current genome studies aimed at finding common and rarer genetic variants associated with complex diseases.
 
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    THE MEDICAL NEWS

  • Biologists find daily exercise as a heritable trait

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:37 am
    Biologists at the University of California, Riverside have found that voluntary activity, such as daily exercise, is a highly heritable trait that can be passed down genetically to successive generations.

  • New antibacterial peptide effective against infections in burn or blast wounds

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:31 am
    An antibacterial peptide developed by Laszlo Otvos, a research professor of biology in Temple's College of Science and Technology, looks to be a highly-effective therapy against infections in burn or blast wounds suffered by soldiers.

  • Japanese plate and screw market to grow to over $170 million by 2014

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:27 am
    According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the Japanese plate and screw market will be driven by strong surgeon acceptance and adoption, driving this market to over $170 million by 2014.

  • Researchers discover protein that stimulates production of beta-amyloid

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:23 am
    Researchers at the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research laboratory today published "Gamma-secretase Activating Protein is a Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer's Disease" in Nature online. Drs. Gen He (lead author) and Paul Greengard have discovered a protein that stimulates the production of beta-amyloid, and therefore represents a major new advance in Alzheimer's disease research.

  • Short sleep duration increases risk of psychological distress

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:16 am
    Young adults who get fewer than eight hours of sleep per night have greater risks of psychological distress, a combination of high levels of depressive and anxious symptoms, according to a study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP.
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    Iowa Avenue

  • Adding Fish Oil to Low-Fat/High-Carb Diet May Improve Cholesterol

    David
    From Medline:Strategy helped those with cluster of unhealthy heart risk factors, study found FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) -- For people with the metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure, high levels of blood fats or triglycerides and high blood sugar -- adding a little fish oil to a diet low in saturated fats and high in complex carbohydrates might be just the ticket, a new study suggests. "When you add omega-3 to a high carbohydrate, low-fat diet, you can prevent the long-term adverse effect that a high-carbohydrate diet induces on [blood…

  • Tomatoes Pack a Nutritional Punch

    David
    From the New York Times: Tomatoes receive a lot of attention from nutritionists largely because of a phytonutrient called lycopene. Studies have long suggested that lycopene, which is contained in the red pigment, has antioxidant properties. Now growers are raising and marketing “high-lycopene” tomatoes. Indeed, a company based in Israel has developed a dried cherrytomato, which it is calling a “raisin tomato,” that contains almost 100 times the amount of lycopene in a regular cherry tomato. Unfortunately, the high-lycopene tomatoes I found at the supermarket did not taste as sweet as…

  • Mrs. Idaho International Pageant

    Jill
    I had the biggest pay off last night when I handed the award for being Miss Teen Idaho International 2nd runner up. I took it as a wonderful compliment!! I had a good laugh. I owe it to all of those years of staying out of the sun and the use of microdermabrasion and my wonderful sponsor Bella Royale Skin Care.It was a fun night and now I am ready to put my pageant shoes away and get back to business bringing awareness to type 2 diabetes. With upcoming meetings with government officials and interview to be featured in a diabetes magazine, NNU's health fair along with being the key note…

  • A Review of 6 Months Running

    Andrew Scott
    The time has flown in very fast but I guess that’s because I have been running I go into running when my personal trainer (Jenniffer Almiento) suggested we add it into my workouts. I had always been worried about running due to it being a weight-bearing exercise and my ever aching left hip (I had hip surgery in my youth, due to a dislocated hip), so I always avoided running. The first time out with Jennifer was tough to say the least; I struggled with a jog-walk-jog-walk pattern for most of the times we met up for a run. But this is the best way to start getting into running with the hope…

  • First for Women Magazine!

    Jill
    My story of losing 100 pounds is featured in First for Women Magazine. It's on newsstands now in most stores. I feel so blessed that I made the cover. My story is on page 26. I really am truly blessed. Pick up your copy today.Thanks as always for your support! :-)"Get Up and Get Moving"
 
 
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    BioMed Radio - Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

  • Concussion recommendations

    Jim Dryden, Associate Director of Broadcast Services
    1 Sep 2010 | 12:58 pm
    Young athletes are especially vulnerable to the effects of a concussion because their brains are still developing, but as recently as 10 years ago, a child with a low-grade concussion may have been allowed to return to competition in as little as 15 minutes after symptoms had subsided. Now, a team of concussion experts led by a Washington University sports medicine specialist has issued recommendations for how to handle concussions in athletes between 8 and 13 years of age. The official guidelines, published in the journal Pediatrics, recommend that no athlete be allowed back into competition…

  • Concussion recommendations (1:00)

    Jim Dryden, Associate Director of Broadcast Services
    1 Sep 2010 | 12:57 pm
    BETWEEN 1997 AND 2007, EMERGENCY ROOMS IN THE U.S. SAW TWICE AS MANY KIDS BETWEEN 8 AND 13 WITH SPORTS-RELATED CONCUSSIONS. A WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SPORTS MEDICINE SPECIALIST SAYS THAT’S MAINLY DUE TO INCREASED AWARENESS OF HOW SERIOUS CONCUSSIONS CAN BE. THAT SPECIALIST HAS PUBLISHED NEW RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TREATING CONCUSSIONS IN YOUNG ATHLETES, AND JIM DRYDEN HAS THE STORY… SPORTS MEDICINE SPECIALIST MARK HALSTEAD DIRECTS WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY’S SPORTS CONCUSSION PROGRAM. HE’S ALSO THE FIRST AUTHOR OF A REPORT IN THE JOURNAL PEDIATRICS CONTAINING NEW GUIDELINES FOR MANAGING…

  • Energy, activity and SIRT1 protein (1:00)

    Jim Dryden, Associate Director of Broadcast Services
    19 Aug 2010 | 2:06 pm
    WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND THAT WHEN MICE HAVE EXTRA AMOUNTS OF A PROTEIN IN THE BRAIN THAT’S LINKED TO AGING AND LONGEVITY, THEY ARE MORE ACTIVE IN RESPONSE TO LOW-CALORIE CONDITIONS. THE FINDING CONTINUES TO SHED LIGHT ON HOW CALORIE RESTRICTION AND AGING ARE CONNECTED. JIM DRYDEN REPORTS… WHEN A MOUSE’S CALORIE INTAKE IS CUT, THE ANIMAL MAKES LARGER QUANTITIES OF A PROTEIN CALLED SIRT1 IN SPECIFIC PARTS OF A BRAIN STRUCTURE CALLED THE HYPOTHALAMUS. SO TO STUDY WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE BRAINS OF CALORIE-RESTRICTED MICE, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS ENGINEERED A…

  • Energy, activity and SIRT1 protein

    Jim Dryden, Associate Director of Broadcast Services
    19 Aug 2010 | 2:05 pm
    The protein SIRT1 in the brain is tied into a mechanism that allows animals to survive when food is scarce, according to a new study from investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The study suggests SIRT1 may be involved with the lifespan-increasing effects of low-calorie diets. The researchers engineered mice that make increased amounts of the protein in their brains, and those mice appeared to possess internal mechanisms that helped them use energy more efficiently. The researchers believe this increased energy efficiency may help delay aging and extend…

  • Age and severity of colitis

    Jim Dryden, Associate Director of Broadcast Services
    2 Aug 2010 | 8:44 am
    Ulcerative colitis tends to strike either young patients – between 18 and 30 – or older patients who are 50 and older. Doctors believe when the condition strikes younger people, it’s more likely to have a genetic component. In older patients, it’s believed to be related to changes in the immune system that come with aging. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found that both of those assertions may be true. More than one in five of the younger patients had a family history of the illness. In addition, a higher percentage of older patients achieved remission…
 
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    Chiropractic News

  • Back to the Chiropractor Every Week

    31 Aug 2010 | 1:55 am
    By Dr. P. Andrew Richetto, DC Why does the Chiropractor have me go back every week or two when he has already fixed me? The very same reason why your MD prescribes you Physical Therapy for 3 visits per week for 4-6 weeks. The same reason why your dentist wants you to brush your teeth three times daily. The same reason you exercise three or four... This is a planetchiropractic content summary feed. Visit www.planetchiropractic.com for complete content, links, and related media. - Cheers!

  • Parker College Awards $12,000 in Chiropractic Research Grants

    26 Aug 2010 | 2:11 am
    Parker Chiropractic News DALLAS -- Parker College of Chiropractic has awarded three chiropractic research grants of $4,000 each. The grant recipients include Cleveland Chiropractic College, University of Kansas Medical Center, Southern California University of Health Sciences, and Osher Clinical Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital. For the... This is a planetchiropractic content summary feed. Visit www.planetchiropractic.com for complete content, links, and related media. - Cheers!

  • Life Chiropractic Hosts Summer Rugby Camp

    17 Aug 2010 | 2:41 am
    Life University News MARIETTA, GA -- – Life University, rated by USA Rugby as the top rugby program in the country, recently hosted a four-day intensive rugby camp for high school students. Sixty-five rising ninth through rising twelfth graders came to the Marietta campus July 13-16, from as far away as Korea to learn technique and strategy from... This is a planetchiropractic content summary feed. Visit www.planetchiropractic.com for complete content, links, and related media. - Cheers!

  • Life West College President Completes Long-Term Service To World Federation of Chiropractic

    31 Jul 2010 | 12:48 am
    Life West Chiropractic News HAYWARD, California -- Dr. Gerard Clum, president of Life Chiropractic College West, completed 10 years of service as an active member in the executive committee of the council to the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC). During that time, he served in various capacities including secretary treasurer, second vice... This is a planetchiropractic content summary feed. Visit www.planetchiropractic.com for complete content, links, and related media. - Cheers!

  • Parker College Opens New Family Chiropractic Wellness Center

    13 Jul 2010 | 1:38 am
    Parker Chiropractic News (Flower Mound, TX) -- Parker College of Chiropractic announces the opening of a new chiropractic center in Flower Mound, Texas. The center will contribute to educating students in a real world experience and will continue the development of students transitioning from a college internship to a chiropractic field... This is a planetchiropractic content summary feed. Visit www.planetchiropractic.com for complete content, links, and related media. - Cheers!
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    Mercola newsletters

  • Feeling Fatigued or Irritable? There's a 1 in 4 Chance You Suffer From This Disease...

    Doctor Mercola
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:26 pm
    Mercola Newsletter Please use this link if you are having problems reading this newsletter: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/current.aspx September 2, 2010 - Issue 1518 HOME  |  PRODUCTS  |  NEWSLETTER  |   HEALTH BLOG   |  PETS  |  FITNESS  |  VIDEOS  |  MY CLINIC  |   CONTACT US ARTICLES Feeling Fatigued or Irritable? There's a 1 in 4 Chance You Suffer From This Disease... Here're 8 other symptoms to watch out for and why following…

  • Could This be the Key Factor Spiking the Rise in ADHD?

    Doctor Mercola
    1 Sep 2010 | 1:39 am
    Mercola Newsletter Please use this link if you are having problems reading this newsletter: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/current.aspx September 1, 2010 - Issue 1517 HOME  |  PRODUCTS  |  NEWSLETTER  |  HEALTH BLOG  |  PETS  |  FITNESS  |  VIDEOS  |  MY CLINIC  |  CONTACT US Sale on Everything -- In Honor of ALL Your Labor... * EXPIRES on September 8th * Dedicated to all your economic achievements since last year's Labor Day... and…

  • Eight Foods that Could be Disastrous for Your Health

    Doctor Mercola
    29 Aug 2010 | 10:51 pm
    Mercola Newsletter Please use this link if you are having problems reading this newsletter: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/current.aspx August 30, 2010 - Issue 1515 HOME  |  PRODUCTS  |  NEWSLETTER  |  HEALTH BLOG  |  PETS  |  FITNESS  |  VIDEOS  |  MY CLINIC  |  CONTACT US ONLY 1 DAY REMAINING The Missing Ingredient for Energy and Focus for School (or Work)*    Many readers ask how I can eat healthy when rushing…

  • The Great Supplement Hoax: Is There Anyone Left We Can Trust?

    Doctor Mercola
    27 Aug 2010 | 10:09 pm
    Mercola Newsletter Please use this link if you are having problems reading this newsletter: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/current.aspx August 28, 2010 - Issue 1514 HOME  |  PRODUCTS  |  NEWSLETTER  |  HEALTH BLOG  |  PETS  |  FITNESS  |  VIDEOS  |  MY CLINIC  |  CONTACT US ONLY 3 DAYS REMAINING The Missing Ingredient for Energy and Focus for School (or Work)*    Many readers ask how I can eat healthy when rushing…

  • he Great Supplement Hoax: Is There Anyone Left We Can Trust?

    Doctor Mercola
    27 Aug 2010 | 10:08 pm
    Mercola Newsletter Please use this link if you are having problems reading this newsletter: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/current.aspx August 28, 2010 - Issue 1514 HOME  |  PRODUCTS  |  NEWSLETTER  |  HEALTH BLOG  |  PETS  |  FITNESS  |  VIDEOS  |  MY CLINIC  |  CONTACT US ONLY 3 DAYS REMAINING The Missing Ingredient for Energy and Focus for School (or Work)*    Many readers ask how I can eat healthy when rushing…
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    NaturalNews.com

  • Another offshore oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico

    2 Sep 2010 | 12:00 am
    (NaturalNews) It's a war zone out there! ... if you're an oil platform worker, anyway. Another oil rig, the Vermilion Oil Rig 380, has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, just a few miles from the infamous Deepwater Horizon that started the massive volcano of oil that poisoned the Gulf this summer.U.S. Coast Guard helicopters were immediately dispatched to the scene, where 13 workers were found floating (alive) in the water around the rig. The rig is reportedly on fire, but it is being reported by ABC News that the rig wasn't drilling for oil at the time of the explosion. No information…

  • Antibiotic tainted beef illegally sold for human consumption

    2 Sep 2010 | 12:00 am
    (NaturalNews) The conventional U.S. food supply is no stranger to chemicals, pesticides, growth hormones and antibiotics. But a Michigan dairy has violated what minimal restrictions do exist concerning these additives by illegally selling antibiotic-ridden dairy cows to be processed for human consumption over the last eight years.Scenic View Dairy of Hamilton, Mich., is currently the subject of a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for selling beef that tested positive for illegal levels of neomycin, penicillin and…

  • Popular OTC medicines so dangerous that only doctors should prescribe them, says FDA

    2 Sep 2010 | 12:00 am
    (NaturalNews) Some popular cough medicines and pain relievers could become available by prescription only if an independent panel determines that such action should be taken. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a report about the dangers of dextromethorphan, a popular drug ingredient in many non-prescription cough and flu medicines, and is considering banning the drug from store shelves.According to the report, dextromethorphan "is sought after by those seeking to alter their mental state" because it exerts a psychoactive effect on its users. Though the drug is abused…
 
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    The Renegade Health Show – Vegetarian, Raw Food and Vegan Diet Friendly TV

  • Raw Food Recipe for Gooey Cinnamon Buns : The Renegade Health Show Episode #647

    Kevin Gianni
    1 Sep 2010 | 7:40 pm
    Today, we are making another of your requests… You all asked for a raw food recipe for gooey cinnamon buns, so here it is! Beware, these could make you scream out in pleasure… LOL! Take a look… Your question of the day: Do you like cinnamon buns! Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page and leave your comments now! Here’s the raw food recipe: Raw Gooey Cinnamon Buns Ingredients: 1 1/4 cup almond meal 1 cup ground flax seed 1 1/4 cup soft pitted dates 1/4 cup water or more if needed 1/4 cup softened coconut oil 1/4 cup raisins 1/4 cup chopped pecans 2…

  • What Are the Health Effects of Eating GMO Foods : The Renegade Health Show Episode #646

    Kevin Gianni
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:22 pm
    Since meeting Jeffrey Smith, we’ve learned a lot about GMO foods… There is a lot of back and forth, but in this episode, I’m going to review some of the health issues with eating GMO foods as well as a great resource to do more research. I also cover what to do with a dry, flaky scalp and how to figure out if your Vitamin C is GMO. Take a look… Your question of the day: What is it going to take to get you the ultimate freedom you deserve? Are you there already? Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page and leave your comments now! Live Awesome! Kev

  • Is Vinegar a Healthy Food : The Renegade Health Show Episode #645

    Kevin Gianni
    30 Aug 2010 | 7:46 pm
    Today, I’m back to questions… In this episode, I address if vinegar is a health food. I also realize that I need a serious hair cut. LOL! I also answer questions about fasting with water and juice as well as questions about metabolism while fasting. Take a look… Your question of the day: Do you use vinegar? Do you agree with me? Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page and leave your comments now! Live Awesome! Ke

  • Sexy Leg and Thigh Bodyweight Exercise Routine (All You Need is a Set of Stairs) : The Renegade Health Show Episode #644

    Kevin Gianni
    27 Aug 2010 | 3:13 pm
    As you’ve learned this week, you don’t need much to put together a great workout… Today, Annmarie and I demonstrate a leg and thigh bodyweight exercise routine you can do on a set of stairs. There’s something for everyone here, so be sure to watch and give them a try. It’s one of the fastest ways to sexy and firm legs and thighs! We promise… Take a look… Your question of the day: Have you started a workout routine since we started Exercise Week? Have you tried any of the workouts? Let us know! Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page and…

  • Workout for Toning Your Arms (And the Jiggly Skin Underneath) : The Renegade Health Show Episode #643

    Kevin Gianni
    26 Aug 2010 | 3:44 pm
    A lot of people ask how Annmarie gets her arms to look so nice… Today, we’re going to give away her secret. It’s bodyweight exercises. Up until about a month ago, Ann hadn’t done a curl, shoulder press or any other boring gym routine. Annmarie’s bodyweight workout for toning your arms will not only get your upper body strong, it will also get them looking great for a dress or cut off t-shirt. Check it out… Your question of the day: Would you rather have Annmarie’s arms or Arnold Schwarzenegger’s? Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page…
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    In the Pipeline

  • Posters and Pickiness

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:27 am
    Blogging time is short today, since I'm on a deadline to produce a couple of posters for presentation. These are for an internal hoe-down, unfortunately, so I won't be able to share the fruits of my labors with everyone out there in the readership. With any luck, though, they'll turn into public presentations/publications eventually, though. As far as I'm concerned, posters are quite a bit harder to work up than a talk. They really should stand by themselves, for one thing, so you can't fill in any holes verbally. And narrative flow is harder: there's no chance to go back and re-emphasize or…

  • How Long Would It Take - If Everything Worked?

    1 Sep 2010 | 8:48 am
    Over at BoingBoing, they're investigating the question: "How long would your PhD have taken if everything worked the first time?" I have to admit, it took me a few minutes to adjust my head to that idea, since God knows, nothing in my PhD ever looked like working the first time. And it's a hard one to answer, because I had to do some backtracking, as so often happens in total synthesis. This was of the "Dang it all, turns out I can't install that carbon at that step, so I'm going to have to go back, put it in earlier, and hope the downstream stuff still works" variety. (Not all of it did, of…

  • Scientia Est Experientia

    1 Sep 2010 | 4:37 am
    Chad Orzel has a post up on the two halves of physics, and about how people tend to forget one of them: the experimentalists. I think he's right, and the problem is the glamorous coating that began to stick to theoretical physics in the early 20th century (and has never completely flaked away). Several things led to that split: the startling predictions of relativity and quantum mechanics, borne out by experimentalists right down to the most unlikely-sounding results, for one. The Manhattan Project, which was a triumph of engineering, but was seen, I'd say, by many in the general public as…

  • Nanopowders?

    31 Aug 2010 | 5:33 am
    Here's a lab question for everyone. I have a bottle of Aldrich copper oxide nanopowder on my lab bench; I've been meaning to try it out for some Ullmann reactions. I note that Aldrich (and others) are now selling a variety of such nanopowders, mostly metals and insoluble metal compounds. And that makes sense, because these are the things that tend to react at their surfaces, and you'd have to think that a real nanopowder would have a tremendous surface area. My question is: does this really work out? Has anyone noticed a difference between the nanopowder form of a particular reagent and its…

  • Avastin For Metastatic Breast Cancer: The Whole Story

    30 Aug 2010 | 9:34 am
    Here's an excellent roundup of the Avastin story, referenced in an earlier post here. I have to say, I've been disappointed in some of the commentary on this issue (which that article goes into as well). Too many people have jumped right to the conclusion that yep, here's what the new health care plan is going to do to us, yank life-saving medicines out of our hands because they cost too much. Well, I think that the health care bill was a disastrous idea, myself, and at the same time I still think that Avastin doesn't deserve approval for metastatic breast cancer. The best evidence we have is…
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  • Sponsored Post: Okay, So I'm Taking the Activia 14-Day Challenge

    Christine Egan
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:53 am
    Like you, I’ve seen those Activia yogurt commercials featuring Jamie Lee Curtis about a million times. And every time, while I’m singing along to the jingle, I wonder: Could eating that stuff (with Bifidus Regularis!) for two weeks actually help my inner-workings behave better, or is this whole thing just a genius marketing scam? See, I’ve always prided myself on having a fairly high-functioning digestive system: For the most part, everybody down there seems to know what floor they need to be on at any given point, and when they need to take the elevator a few floors south,…

  • 1 Sep 2010 | 11:25 am

    Blisstree Staff
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:25 am
    Don’t Believe In Self-Help Books? Lisa Unger suggests three that might make you reconsider. (NPR) Post from: BlissTree

  • A Nap at Work: Coming to an Office Near You?

    Caroline Sloan
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:12 am
    If you’re feeling a little sleepy at work, you grab a cup of coffee. But employees at a Scottsdale, Arizona software company can take a little rest in either a meditation room equipped with a couch, or a futuristic sleep pod. Company leaders say that employees are happier and more productive since they’ve started taking 20-minute naps when they’re feeling tired. More and more companies are adding nap areas for worn out employees. Does your company have a quiet room for employees to rest? If so, can we use it? via Wall Street Journal Post from: BlissTree A Nap at Work: Coming…

  • 1 Sep 2010 | 11:06 am

    Blisstree Staff
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:06 am
    Not Necessarily: New research shows that women scheduled for gynecological surgery will probably have unnecessary tests prior to their procedure. (via Reuters) Post from: BlissTree

  • 1 Sep 2010 | 8:47 am

    Blisstree Staff
    1 Sep 2010 | 8:47 am
    Women Survive Trauma Better Than Men – Something to do with estrogen… Or maybe more experience with suffering? (via ScienceDaily) Post from: BlissTree
 
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    Sleep Doctor Michael Breus, PhD | The Insomnia Blog

  • Does Your Dog Steal Your Sleep?

    Dr. Michael Breus
    25 Aug 2010 | 10:58 am
    We all love our pets. We treat them like family members, and in many ways we treat them better than people. But can they cause you misery where you least expect it? Indeed: snoring pooches in our bed can wreak havoc on our sleep. And we’re not always as inclined to kick them out as we would a snoring spouse. I was reminded about the trials of sleeping with a snoring dog when I read an amusing blog on petmed.com. The author, Dr. Patty Khuly, brought up a few interesting points: If you suffer from insomnia aside from your snoring bed partner, then your problems finding sleep are even more…

  • Sleep Disorder Linked to Risk of Dementia

    Dr. Michael Breus
    23 Aug 2010 | 7:57 am
    Anyone who has a family member suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s knows how difficult and heartbreaking these illnesses are. And it’s often anyone’s guess as to what ultimately causes dementia in a given person. What about sleep habits? Well, it turns out that we may have clues now to a link between the development of dementia and a sleep disorder known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (let’s call it RBD for short). The facts: With RBD, the paralysis that normally occurs during REM sleep is incomplete or absent, allowing you to "act out" your dreams.

  • The Boys of Summer: Sleeping, Pitching (and Winning)

    Dr. Michael Breus
    18 Aug 2010 | 9:42 am
    It’s the bottom of the ninth.  The bases are loaded with two outs.  Your favorite MLB team is pitching. Who do you want on the mound? A recent research study would indicate that you should take his sleep habits into account before answering! The study, presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Society, was interested in answering just this question. The results indicate that there appear to be two big factors for that pitcher on the mound: Is he a morning lark or a night owl? Is it a day or night game? The researchers found that pitchers who were morning…
 
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    Simply Fitness

  • Seated Row Exercise

    GuestPoster
    25 Aug 2010 | 5:45 pm
    Men's Health The Body You Want in the Time You Have: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Leaner and Building Muscle with Workouts that Fit Any Schedule A seated row exercise will work the muscles of the upper back, biceps and forearms. It is a fairly simple workout, and can be done in a variety of ways, performed either at home or at the gym. A basic seated row exercise is done with a cable resistance system. Most gyms have these. At the end of the cable there will be either a straight bar or a V bar. There will also be a stability block for the feet. Grasp the bar with both hands, with the palms…

  • Body Solid G9S

    GuestPoster
    17 Aug 2010 | 7:32 pm
    Body Solid G9S Home Gym(CLICK IMAGE FOR DETAILS AND BIG DISCOUNT) Hate going to the gym? Is the hassle of sharing public gym equipment stopping you from working out? Maybe you just like to work out in the privacy of your own home? If you said yes to any of those, you’re probably looking for work out equipment for your home, something that is affordable, not too bulky and does the job of getting you in shape. Equipment that will allow you to stay fit and healthy. We all know that’s very important. There’s one name to look at the Body Solid g9s – one of the best names in…

  • Tennis Ball Machines

    GuestPoster
    17 Aug 2010 | 9:23 am
    Tennis Twist Ball Machine CLICK IMAGE FOR DETAILS When playing tennis, it is important to regularly practice to help improve your skills. However, there is not always a partner available for you to practice with. Using tennis ball machines is a great way to practice without needing an additional player. There are many different kinds of tennis ball machines so you will need to find the right one that properly fits your training. When comparing machines, you should pay attention to general features like warranty, dimensions, and price. Specific features like power, oscillation, and propulsion…

  • Resistance Tubes

    GuestPoster
    16 Aug 2010 | 10:15 pm
    Set of 5 NEW Premium Latex Resistance Bands with free Door Anchor and Exercise Manual. Perfect for use with any home exercise or physical therapyCLICK IMAGE FOR DETAILS Resistance tubes or bands may seem too good to be true: they’re very simple, small, light in weight, affordable, and you can buy them just about anywhere. So what’s the big deal? Why do so many people not only use resistance bands, but rave about their effectiveness? And how can such a simple and lightweight object actually help you build any significant amount of muscle? Here’s a look into (and answer to) all of these…

  • Running Headphones

    GuestPoster
    13 Aug 2010 | 6:53 pm
    Sennheiser PMX80 Eco Friendly Sport Headphones (CLICK IMAGE FOR DETAILS) Running headphones aren’t made just for runners. They are also a perfect fit for people in need of a longer, tougher work-out, fitting perfectly with their work-out regime. The music coming from those running headphones help drive people to work harder and it makes exercise a more enjoyable experience. The music alone is beneficial to a work-out regime, but so are good quality headphones that won’t fly off the head with every movement. It may be the music that spurs people to work hard in a work-out, but not…
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    Whole Food And More

  • Sparboe Egg Recall - Minnesota 2010

    Robin Plan
    30 Aug 2010 | 11:00 am
    Sparboe Farms Initiated Voluntary Recall Fresh Shell Eggs Company Contact: Egg Safety Media Hotline 404/367-2761 info@eggsafety.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 27, 2010 – Litchfield, Minn - Sparboe Farms is voluntarily recalling shell eggs produced by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms which were packaged by Sparboe Farms, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected…

  • NuCal Recalls Eggs - Aug 2010

    Robin Plan
    24 Aug 2010 | 9:25 am
    NuCal Foods Conducts Recall of Shell Eggs Supplied from Hillandale Farms of Iowa Because of Possible Health Risk Company Contact: Tel: 1-877-249-8224 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 20, 2010 - RIPON, CALIFORNIA – The following statement was released by officials of NuCal Foods of Ripon, California regarding the voluntary recall of shell eggs supplied from Hillandale Farms of Iowa. NuCal Foods is voluntarily recalling specific Julian dates of shell eggs produced by Hillandale Farms of Iowa and packaged by NuCal Foods because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Eggs…

  • More Egg Recalls From Iowa Supplier - Aug 24, 2010

    Robin Plan
    24 Aug 2010 | 9:23 am
    Moark, LLC, of Fontana, California, Recalls Shell Eggs Supplied From Hillandale Farms of Iowa Because of Possible Health Risk Company Contact: Jeanne Forbis, Tel Phone: 651-481-2071 Cell Phone: 612-308-5441 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 23, 2010 - Moark, LLC, is voluntarily recalling specific lots of shell eggs produced by Hillandale Farms of Iowa and packaged by Moark, LLC, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.Potentially affected eggs that were received by Moark total approximately 24,300 dozen. Moark repackaged the eggs for retail customers (under the…

  • How Did We Start Eating Chemicals?

    Robin Plan
    20 Aug 2010 | 3:44 pm
    There are over 14,000 man-made chemicals added to our American food supply today.  As an example, take a look at the listed ingredients of Subway products which are heavily advertised as a healthy alternative to burger fast food: Chicken type flavor, artificial colors FD&C red 40 lake, yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 2 lake, red 40, blue 1 lake, blue 1, blue 2, yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake, thiamin mononitrate, hydrogenated vegetable shortening, acetylated tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides, ammonium sulfate, calcium sulfate, azodicarbonamide, potassium iodate, sodium…

  • Pistachio Recall Due to Salmonella - Aug 2010

    Robin Plan
    20 Aug 2010 | 3:27 pm
    Austinuts Wholesale, Inc. Announces Voluntary Recall of Pistachio Kernel Products FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 19, 2010 - Manor, Texas - AustiNuts Wholesale, Inc. is issuing this voluntary recall of pistachio kernel products due to a recall that was issued by it's supplier California Delights, Inc. California Delights, Inc issued a recall for two shipments of pistachio kernels received by AustiNuts Wholesale, Inc. in July 2010 due to the possibility of contamination with Salmonella. AustiNuts Wholesale, Inc. has issued a voluntary recall for the following products with the corresponding lot…
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  • Are Carbohydrates Necessary for Good Health?

    1 Sep 2010 | 9:09 pm
    In their book, Protein Power, Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades write, "The actual amount of carbohydrates required by humans for health is zero." In other words, there is no such thing as a necessary carbohydrate for good health. They go on to say that every cell in the human body has the ability to create its own sugar or energy. Therefore, carbohydrates, especially in the quantities generally consumed today, serves only to damage the internal environment of the human body. So what do you think? Are carbohydrates necessary for good health?© 2008 Thanks for subscribing to my feed. Please…

  • Twenty-Four Hour BOGO Special on The Pops™

    31 Aug 2010 | 5:22 am
    The Pops™ For people who love The Pops™. Guess what? We're doing our annual BOGO on The Pops™, shipped anywhere in the USA. If you are on the email list, a link will be sent out just before the event starts this Wednesday, September 1st, at 12:00 noon EST, 9:00 a.m. PST. It all end at the next day, Thursday, September 2nd, at 12:00 noon EST, 9:00 a.m. PST. For anyone who first guesses what BOGO means, we'll give you an extra box of The Pops™ with your order. On the house. To have your guess counted, make sure you are on the email list. Again, this Wednesday, September 1st, at 12:00…

  • Are Cereal Grains Humanity’s Double Edge Sword?

    30 Aug 2010 | 5:03 am
    "Cereal grains as a staple food are a relatively recent addition to the human diet and represent a dramatic departure from those foods to which we are genetically adapted. Discordance between humanity's genetically determined dietary needs and his (sic) present day diet is responsible for many of the degenerative diseases which plague industrial man . . . There is a significant body of evidence which suggests that cereal grains are less than optimal foods for humans and that the human genetic makeup and physiology may not be fully adapted to high levels of cereal grain consumption." - Lierre…

  • Weekend Link Love

    29 Aug 2010 | 3:03 pm
    Being cheap can be expensive. Saving a dollar at the grocery store can cost you three at the pharmacy. Have you seen the new skin sandwich from KFC? Yuck! If you like body weight exercises, here are a few variations of the standard plank exercise. According to a new survey, weight control is more important than sex for some women. If you've decided to give up corn, a grain, then what are you gonna do with all of those cobs? And is the the truth in advertising?© 2008 Thanks for subscribing to my feed. Please visit my blog for more great content.My Other Websites: Are Your Vitamins…

  • Good Carbs verses Bad Carbs

    28 Aug 2010 | 6:55 am
    © 2008 Thanks for subscribing to my feed. Please visit my blog for more great content.My Other Websites: Are Your Vitamins Safe?  Whole Food Nation  Whole Food Nation Affiliate Link
 
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    Hospital Impact

  • Why robot empathy won't go far

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:17 pm
    By Anthony Cirillo I'm insulted and you should be too. I knew when I read this FierceHealthcare blurb that there was a blog lurking. But right after I read it I had to leave my desk for a doctor's appointment. Well that appointment sealed the deal. When you arrive at your 2 p.m. appointment and are not seen until 3 p.m. that is an insult. [More:] When you fly a certain airline and their idea of offering a better experience is to charge you thirty bucks to "upgrade" to, get this, "Economy Plus" that is an insult. (Sorry, I do a lot of flying in my consulting!) And then this: The featured…

  • How to prevent your competition from stealing your health IT staff

    31 Aug 2010 | 4:37 pm
    by Gwen Darling As hospitals continue to focus on demonstrating "meaningful use," one thing has become clear: The hunt for experienced Healthcare IT professionals is on, and the competition is fierce. Fortunately many excellent educational programs are in full swing, working to produce the workforce of tomorrow. But in the meantime, any hospital employee who has played an integral part in a successful EMR implementation is one hot commodity. And if that employee happens to be certified in one or more key vendors' software modules? That employee isn't just hot, but on fire. [More:] If you're a…

  • How to right size your purchasing and inventory practices when patient days drop

    25 Aug 2010 | 3:43 pm
    By John Cunningham Colleagues across the country tell me that their patient volumes are soft which is driving their expenses out of line with expectations when adjusted for volume. This is a growing issue as inpatient volumes continue to be flat or down for lower acuity patients while many hospitals are experiencing growth and stronger volumes in some of their more complex patient populations, who need implantable devices such as stents, pacemakers, and total joint replacements. When the expense of high cost, complex volume is spread across a smaller base of adjusted patient days, the…

  • A push for patient-specific preventive medicine to fight obesity

    25 Aug 2010 | 1:27 pm
    by Thomas Dahlborg It's no secret that Americans are getting fatter and that more Americans can expect to get sick and die from obesity-related complications, such as heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. But while it is great news that people are universally acknowledging that obesity is a huge health issue, the current healthcare system does not position physicians (and other practitioners) to best leverage their skills, wisdom, heart and energy to help individual patients understand and address the root causes of their obesity. [More:] In an editorial in the journal American Family…

  • Is your back office on the back burner?

    25 Aug 2010 | 9:37 am
    Back-office automation and process improvements have rarely been a high priority for U.S. hospitals, writes Jim McDowell, senior director for healthcare insight and industry strategy at Oracle Corp. in Phoenix. Over the past dozen years alone, hospitals and integrated delivery networks (IDNs) have focused on everything from the Y2K problem to primary medical records system overhauls, and now the push for health information exchanges and meaningful use threatens to keep back-office systems squarely on the back burner. FierceHealthFinance
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    A Splintered Mind

  • Off to a Typical Start

    1 Sep 2010 | 6:18 pm
      Download now or listen on posterous Off to a Typical Start.m4a (365 KB) █████ is mad at me for not eating. Alas, I feasted on news instead of food, and got busy doing sundry things. I then brilliantly decided to also go shopping without eating. Is it a surprise that I started ticking? As I munch on roast beef, I hope my mind kicks into gear before she has to pick me up from the store and drive me home. Embarrassing. And completely not how I envisioned this first momentous day as a dedicated writer. Sent from my iPhone, proving definitively that I am all thumbs. Posted…

  • ADDaboy! Roundup - Heeyaw!

    28 Aug 2010 | 12:07 am
    Although activity on this blog has been very quiet over the past few months, I've been an antsy ant over at HealthyPlace. Each week I have posted two shiny, tingly ADHD blog entries of such extreme excitement that I'm tuckered out just thinking about them. Never mind the two audio clips a month of me talking while doing something at 3am. Is there no better way to define "excitement"?! I can't think of any. Well, maybe running around the top of Mount Timpanogas with a lightning rod during a thunderstorm while screaming "Missed me!" might be just a bit more exciting, but not by much. Hey, I…

  • iBooks Story Comes to an End

    25 Aug 2010 | 2:49 am
    The Story So Far: Part One - iBooks Buyer Beware Part Two - iBook buyers beware – no refund or exchange even if your book has been updated! (www.Teleread.com) Part Three - Close, But No Cigar - I Get a Reply from Tor I'd like to officially close this sordid tale with a happy ending. My OCD fixation with eBook OCR errors has been sated. When compared to man's struggle against the cosmos, my battle here has been a small insignificant thing. Yet, as silly as it has seemed at times, I like to get what I pay for. On Thursday, August 5th, Apple contacted me via email with instructions on how…

  • Close, But No Cigar - I Get a Reply from Tor

    25 Aug 2010 | 2:47 am
    Since I wrote about my copy of "Ender's Game" with OCR errors galore, I have seen the story picked up by Teleread.com and even received a response from a TOR editor. That's progress, right? Unfortunately, it all amounted to me still being left with an error filled copy of an eBook with no replacement or refund. I respond to Tor below. I emailed Apple and requested escalation, but received no word from them. I emailed Scott Card and received no word from him. I did, however, receive a reply from Tor on both this site and over at Teleread.com. That was unexpected progress. If you didn't see the…

  • New Picture Book Fresh Out of the Kiln

    17 Aug 2010 | 11:55 pm
    Last Monday, I was ticking so badly that I had to inform my editor over at HealthyPlace that I would be unable to write my blog in time. And so I spent my night in a mental limbo of tickiness. I usually end up watching Netflix with my head perched on my neck in a way that the eyes are directed towards the monitor. As long as images of interest flicker by, I can ride out the ticking episode until the storm passes. Unfortunately, there is no creative output during this time—not while the storm rages across my lobes.  Sometime during that limbo when it was not Monday but Tuesday yet still…
 
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    Cancer Research UK - Science Update

  • Finland removes displays of tobacco in shops as evidence mounts for UK action

    Robin Hewings
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:39 am
    Smoking is responsible for a quarter of all cancer deaths In August, the Finnish President signed a new law to end the display of tobacco products in the country’s shops. It’s a timely move and one that’s being mirrored across the world. Scotland, for example, is pressing ahead with its own law. The Coalition Government in Westminster is considering whether to take this step, given the strong evidence that advertising encourages the take-up and use of tobacco, and that displays are a loophole in the tobacco advertising ban. Two recent research papers by Cancer Research UK…

  • A step forward in understanding the BRCA2 ‘cancer gene’

    Kat Arney
    27 Aug 2010 | 2:49 am
    Reconstructing proteins in the lab is a challenging task Imagine you’ve entered a contest to cook the world’s biggest ball of spaghetti. You have to meet the following criteria: the ball has to be made of a single spaghetti strand; the strand has to be entwined in a very exact way; and you have to be able to pick up the ball without the entire thing falling apart. It may sound odd but cancer researchers have been struggling with a similar problem for years – one that has just been solved. The cause of the problem is a protein called BRCA2, which plays a vital role in protecting people…

  • More good progress for experimental cancer drug

    Henry Scowcroft
    26 Aug 2010 | 9:22 am
    New results for PLX4032 are promising Last September, we covered results from a small trial of an experimental drug called PLX4032, which has been developed to treat patients whose cancers are caused by a faulty version of a gene called BRAF. Today, yet more encouraging results were announced in the New England Journal of Medicine, which were reported widely in the media. The trial was very small and carried out in two stages. The first stage involved 55 patients, and was simply to find the most suitable dose. In the second stage, 32 patients whose cancers were caused by BRAF mutations were…

  • DNA scan reveals secret of melanoma’s ‘self-healing’ powers

    Kat Arney
    25 Aug 2010 | 9:52 am
    Professor Julia Newton Bishop and her team are making progress in understanding melanoma. Malignant melanoma – the most dangerous form of skin cancer – is a cunning adversary. Once it has started spreading through the body, the disease is difficult to treat effectively. The cancer cells seem to shrug off the effects of DNA-damaging chemotherapy drugs, repairing themselves, and continuing to multiply as before. As a result, many melanomas remain stubbornly resistant to chemotherapy.  Fewer than one in five patients receiving chemo show any response to the treatment, and it is currently…

  • Palliative care isn’t ‘giving up’ – it improves quality of life and dignity, and maybe even survival

    Martin Ledwick
    23 Aug 2010 | 8:52 am
    Palliative care should be integrated into standard treatment The UK  led the world in developing hospices and effective palliative care.  People like Dame Cicely Saunders were trailblazers in showing how important it is to make sure that, when people can’t be cured and are approaching the end of their lives, it’s important to focus on the things that make what time they have left as comfortable and fulfilling as possible. So it was heartening to see new US research recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine that supported palliative care and showed it might actually…
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    MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

  • The Importance of Proper Dosing of Antidepressants during Pregnancy

    MGH Center for Women's Mental Health
    30 Aug 2010 | 12:40 pm
    Pregnancy and the postpartum period is a time of increased risk for depression.  Therefore, women who are treated with antidepressant medications must consider whether or not to stay on medication during pregnancy.  Despite reassuring data regarding the reproductive safety of various antidepressants, a woman may prefer not to continue medication during pregnancy due to concerns [...]

  • Massage Therapy for Depression

    MGH Center for Women's Mental Health
    23 Aug 2010 | 8:29 am
    There are currently 100 clinical trials registered on clinicaltrials.gov using massage as a treatment.  Six are listed for the indication of depression.  A small minority are focused specifically on treating depression or anxiety, while in many the effects of massage for patients with serious medical conditions are being explored.  Infant massage is also under study [...]

  • Non-Pharmacologic Options for the Treatment of Antenatal Depression: A Quick Review

    MGH Center for Women's Mental Health
    27 Jul 2010 | 7:37 am
    About 15% of women suffer from depression during pregnancy, and the rate of depressive illness is greater in women with pre-existing histories of depression.  While there are data to support the use of certain antidepressants during pregnancy, many women are reluctant to seek pharmacologic treatment during pregnancy and may benefit from efficacious non-pharmacologic options.  In [...]

  • Anxiety During Pregnancy Predicts Worse Outcomes

    MGH Center for Women's Mental Health
    14 Jul 2010 | 6:43 am
    In treating pregnant women with mood or anxiety disorders, we tend to focus primarily on the reproductive safety of psychotropic medications; however, it must be recognized that withholding or withdrawing pharmacologic treatment for depression or anxiety during pregnancy may carry some degree of risk. Untreated psychiatric illness in the mother cannot be considered a benign [...]

  • Depression and Anxiety: Do They Impact Infertility Treatment?

    MGH Center for Women's Mental Health
    30 Jun 2010 | 8:02 am
    Infertility affects an estimated 10-15% of couples of reproductive age.  Several studies have indicated that patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) experience high levels of stress, depression, and anxiety.  Multiple risk factors for anxiety and depression during infertility treatment have been identified; these include being female, age over 30, lower level of education, lack of [...]
 
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    Healthy Eating Ideas

  • How to Say NO to a Food Pusher!

    Melanie
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:10 am
    You know how it goes, your favourite aunt Bessy means well, she really does, but her food pushing does little for your healthy diet plan… “Just a little piece,” she’ll say, wafting her delicious, freshly baked brownies under your nose. “You can’t live on lettuce forever” — you’re feeling tempted — “How about a little of my apple pie?” she says looking a little downheartened. “Come on, it’s your favourite!” You’ve been there, right? But, what should you do? You don’t want to offend, but you’ve…

  • 5 Lifestyle Changes to Increase Your Success

    Melanie
    30 Aug 2010 | 4:15 am
    sxc.hu: mattox So, you want to make progress with your health goals — but, how can you do that effectively? The main areas to think about are always going to be healthy eating and sticking with your workouts — these are extremely important. However, there are other important lifestyle changes which will help take your progress to a whole new level. Here are 5 lifestyle changes to increase your success dramatically: 1. Improve your sleep quality Your sleep quality is essential for success… maybe that sounds O.T.T., but that’s what I’ve found, and research suggests this,…

  • I Need Your Help…

    Melanie
    25 Aug 2010 | 3:31 pm
    Flickr: margilevin In the three years I’ve been running Dietriffic, I’ve managed to attract a certain type of person — those who wish to live a healthy lifestyle, in a convenient manner, which fits with them and their family. During this time, you’ve told me about the particular challenges you face in trying to achieve a healthy lifestyle. Lately, however, there’s been a rise in the number of people who find good, nutritious food, beyond their budget. I’m going to try to address this issue for you very soon, but what I want to know from you today is: What…

  • Food Additives to Make You Scream!

    Melanie
    24 Aug 2010 | 2:00 am
    sxc.hu: duchesssa So, you’re trying to eat healthy or lose weight. That’s great! But, eating healthy can be complicated at times. Some of the foods available at the grocery store contains all sorts of additives. These additives are supposed to enhance the flavour and appearance of our foods. But, at what cost? I don’t want to sound “alarmist,” but some food additives have been linked with cancer, ADHD, nerve cell damage, high cholesterol, and so on. Admittedly, we need more research to confirm a definite link for some of these. But, in the meantime what are we to…

  • 3 Ways to Avoid Eating When Not Hungry

    Melanie
    17 Aug 2010 | 7:34 am
    sxc.hu: mattox Knowing when you’re hungry may seem simple, but have you really got it sorted? If you’re going to be successful with your diet, you need to be able to recognise when you are truly hungry. Perhaps you often eat for reasons other than hunger. If that’s the case, it begins to get very difficult to maintain a healthy calorie intake. Eating when you are hungry, and only then, means you’ll be listening to your body’s hunger cues, and fuelling it when it’s time to eat. Here are 3 ways to avoid eating when not hungry: 1. Keep a hunger journal This is…
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    Weight Loss Journal

  • Ultimate Weight Loss Solution Review

    Weight Ladder
    2 Sep 2010 | 4:29 pm
    Pros: Some dieters felt that it fit well with their busy and hectic schedules. Some dieters felt that it was simple to understand. Some dieters felt that it was relatively easy to stick to. Some dieters felt that the results were quick or timely. Some dieters felt that eating out was simple. Cons: Some dieters felt like they were frequently hungry. Some dieters regretted that fast food was restricted. Some dieters thought that the results were slower than they could have been. Some dieters felt that it was difficult to eat out. Some dieters did not feel that they could eat what they wanted…

  • 10 Essential Elements of Weight Loss Success pt 2

    Weight Ladder
    2 Sep 2010 | 4:18 am
    Continued from part 1, we are looking at the ten essential elements for weight loss success. 6 - Exercise - Daily activity is a really important part of the equation, along with including periods of structured, intense activity, or 'working out'. This should cover resistance training to build long, lean and strong muscles, and also cardio training to strengthen the heart and promote weight loss. Ideally you should aim to be spending 45 to 60 minutes exercising, at least 3 times a week. 7 - Stress Management and Time Management - You are going to need to prioritize your health if you want to…

  • The Pritikin Weight Loss Breakthrough by Nathan Pritikin

    Weight Ladder
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:08 pm
    When Nathan Pritikin found out that he had heart disease, back in the 1950’s, most dietary concepts were pretty basic. He was one of the first to try out a low fat, high fiber diet to improve heart health and his results were pretty amazing. Fast forward to today and we now have the Pritikin Longevity Foundation and this book. For those looking not only to lose weight but also to get healthy, this is a great book to start with.Before we get started, our absolute favorite part of this book was that it stressed exercise. So many diet books claim that you can lose tons of weight without ever…

  • Is Swimming The Ultimate Exercise?

    Weight Ladder
    1 Sep 2010 | 3:53 am
    When it comes to finding the right workout plan, it may be a good idea to consider giving swimming a try. As the nation watched Mark Phelps make history in 8 swimming events, more people started getting interested in just how good swimming can be for your body. As you can see from the shape that professional swimmers are in, it certainly can do a body good, especially when you take it seriously. Let’s take a look at why many consider swimming to be the ultimate exercise. First, it is one of the few exercises that truly works every part of your body, arms, legs, neck, lungs, heart,…

  • How to Eat Right When No One Else Will

    Weight Ladder
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:38 pm
    For many dieters, the biggest problem they face isn’t necessarily their own lifestyle change, but rather the fact that the people around them refuse to go along with the idea. It can be nearly impossible to focus on eating the right way when you eat out or are sitting across from other people that are relishing the food you can’t have. This is a frustrating issue that kills many diets, but it doesn’t have to. Here are some great tips to stay the course even when your own family won’t help you. First, you may want to consider eating in another room. It sounds horribly anti social, but…
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  • 2 Sep 2010 | 10:30 am

    Blisstree Staff
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:30 am
    Oil Rig Explodes: Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded this morning. It’s not certain if there will be a leak. (via Inhabitat) Post from: BlissTree

  • Pet Health: A Salad for Your Dog

    Caroline Sloan
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:21 am
    photo: Thinkstock We know that eating greens reduces the risk of cancer, but a recent Huffington Post article suggests that feeding your dogs organic kale could cut their risk as well. The article describes a dog with a tumor. Its owner added kale to the dog’s diet, and after four weeks, the tumor had disappeared. When I think about feeding an animal a salad, I just have visions of lots of green poop. Would you consider feeding your dog kale? via Huffington Post Post from: BlissTree Pet Health: A Salad for Your Dog

  • September Is National Yoga Month – Get a Free Week of Yoga

    Briana Rognlin
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:12 am
    September is National Yoga Month, which means lots of free events throughout the country, and our personal favorite: A week of free yoga at over 1,200 participating yoga centers in the country. The pass is good for any week this month, at any participating studio that you haven’t already visited. Check out the Yoga Month website to find a studio near you, or at the very least, go to a yoga class, any yoga class. Post from: BlissTree September Is National Yoga Month – Get a Free Week of Yoga

  • Delish Raw and Vegan Burger Recipe? With Chef Douglas McNish, Anything's Possible

    Guest Blogger
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:04 am
    Douglas McNish is back from summer vacation! Our friend Doug, head chef at Toronto’s Raw Aura organic and raw food restaurant, made his Blisstree debut sharing his original recipe for carrot and parsnip ‘fettuccine’. Then it was peppercorn-crusted tempeh steaks, massaged kale salad, quinoa pomegranate pilaf, quinoa and lentil burgers, a killer raw pizza crust recipe, plus a wicked marinara sauce and vegan cheese topping for your pie, cauliflower tabouli, and pumpkin seed refried beans for your dipping pleasure, an original summer Caesar salad, and avocado “fries” and…

  • World's Healthiest Human Listens to NPR Health on Doublespeed

    Briana Rognlin
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:34 am
    A.J. Jacobs, editor-at-large at Esquire and author of several books, including The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, gave the folks at Social Workout a few pointers on health-conscious living. This guy should know, given that his upcoming book, The Healthiest Human Being in the World, is all about his year of being as healthy as humanly possible. One of his favorite ways to get through a treadmill workout? He listens to NPR’s Your Health. “…I listen to it on doublespeed. It’s great. The only problem is that when you talk to people, they seem to be talking…
 
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    Fitness Black Book

  • Are Brief Workouts Effective for Fat Loss as You Get Older?

    admin
    30 Aug 2010 | 3:36 pm
    There is something to be said for brief workouts. Back in the 80's, when I joined my first gym, it was common for workouts to last over 90 minutes. In college I would train up to 2 hours per day with a group of friends. We would spend 90 minutes lifting and 30 minutes on cardio. The routine was "3 days on and 1 day off". Although that was WAY too much time in the gym, each of us was in great condition. With that much time sweating and burning calories, it was bound to work. The problem was that our workouts weren't time efficient. With a few less beers per week and less…

  • Are Push Ups Necessary if You Have Access to Free Weights?

    admin
    2 Aug 2010 | 8:38 am
    People who have trained in the gym for years often look at something like the simple push up as a beginner's exercise. I mean, why would they want to perform push ups when they can get a "real" chest workout with heavy sets of bench presses. This is a big mistake, and one that I have been guilty of. It is easy to look at the simple push up as working the exact same muscles as the bench press, but with less resistance. I would like to talk about why you should include the push up in your routine, even if you are someone who trains with free weights. [Here are a few guys…

  • Brief Exercise Found to Be Much More Effective for "Fit" People

    admin
    26 Jul 2010 | 6:10 pm
    Back in June, USA Today released a story that confirmed what I have suspected for a few years: The more fit someone is, the more fat they will burn after a workout session. Fit people produce much more glycerol after a workout than someone who is not in as good of shape. Glycerol levels are an indicator of fat breakdown. Fit people burn much more fat after a brief workout than people who are not as fit (even when doing an identical workout). [Perhaps all that it will take to break through your fat burning plateau is to reach a higher level of fitness. I will examine how that is done in this…

  • Fat Loss Head Games – When Your Mind Makes Fat Loss Near Impossible.

    admin
    13 Jul 2010 | 4:18 pm
    Fat loss should be easy. It certainly looks easy on paper. What makes it tough is the fact that we tend to over complicate things. The human mind comes up with all sorts of ideas that seem legitimate at the time, but are really just excuses to avoid change. My goal in this post is to call out the common lame excuses that get in the way of hitting fat loss goals. I don't want this to be some generic bland post. Let's dig deep into excuses. I'll list some ones that I see consistently, but would love for you guys to continue in the comment section. I love digging into the…

  • 10 Questions With One of the World's Top Special Forces Trainers

    admin
    5 Jul 2010 | 6:42 pm
    So I am extremely excited to introduce you to a whole new view of training and a paradigm shift when it comes to being fit. I know some of you reading this will have heard of Scott Sonnon, but I bet you haven't read too many interviews with the guy. The reason for this is that he is one of the premier special forces trainers in the world right now. He is in serious demand right now, training counter-terrorism unit, Navy SEALS, police forces, SWAT teams, etc. He spent 6 years traveling all around Russia and masterminded with former USSR Olympic Coaches and trainers of Russian Special…
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    Evolving Wellness

  • Evolving Wellness in Action: Alejandro Arce-Gonzalez

    Evita Ochel
    31 Aug 2010 | 10:01 pm
    A new month is here, and I have a new inspiring Evolving Wellness in Action story for you. September’s Evolving Wellness in Action story comes to us from Alejandro Arce-Gonzalez. I was acquainted with Alejandro through his site The Fittest...

  • Month in Review: August 2010

    Evita Ochel
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:18 pm
    As we bid farewell to August, we say goodbye to the last full month of summer. But before summer is over, there is still plenty of time for all of us in the Northern hemisphere to enjoy lots of...

  • Review: Nutiva Organic Cold Pressed Hemp Oil

    Evita Ochel
    29 Aug 2010 | 7:30 am
    A highly nutritional, healthy and great tasting oil to be used raw in salads, smoothies and other dishes....

  • Review: Nutiva Raw Organic Coconut Oil

    Evita Ochel
    28 Aug 2010 | 9:08 am
    An excellent raw, organic and unrefined coconut oil, with a mild taste and aroma....

  • Review: Nutiva Organic Shelled Hempseed

    Evita Ochel
    25 Aug 2010 | 9:16 am
    An organic, fresh and nutritionally packed hempseed from a great company....
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    HowStuffWorks Daily Feed

  • Top 5 Speeds Clocked on the Autobahn

    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 am
    Did you know that about half of the autobahn has posted speed limits, and there's always a posted "recommended speed" everywhere else? Even so, the autobahn remains a tempting informal speed track for drivers. How fast have the fastest of them gone?

  • 5 Reasons Why You Dream

    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 am
    From infancy until our last days, our minds constantly produce dreams while our bodies are at rest. But, what exactly are dreams, and why do we have them?

  • Top 10 Survival Tools

    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 am
    Let's say your vacation tour group ditches you in the outback. Or your car slips off an icy road in the middle of nowhere. Will you have the tools to save your life?

  • What the Ancients Knew Videos

    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 am
    Ancient Egyptians believed that without an intact body there was no afterlife. Learn more about Ancient Egyptian burial practices on The Science Channel's "What The Ancients Knew."

  • Can you really escape an alligator if you run in a zigzag?

    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 am
    You've heard this adage a million times, and perhaps it even brings you comfort when you're in gator territory. But is it really helpful advice?
 
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    Fitarella

  • Support your local farmers!

    Fitarella
    24 Aug 2010 | 10:32 am
    Do you subscribe to a Community Supported Agriculture program? Tell us about it in the comments below! Don’t yet, but want to? Check out LocalHarvest.org for a CSA near you! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Mixx Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Post on Google Buzz Add this to Mister Wong Add this to Google Bookmarks Submit this to Script & Style Buzz up! Submit this to DesignFloat Email this to a friend?

  • What keeps you motivated?

    Fitarella
    20 Aug 2010 | 7:12 am
    What keeps YOU motivated?? Tell us in the comments below!! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Mixx Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Post on Google Buzz Add this to Mister Wong Add this to Google Bookmarks Submit this to Script & Style Buzz up! Submit this to DesignFloat Email this to a friend? Share this on LinkedIn Add this to Google Reader Add this to Izeby

  • The movie pass winner is…

    Fitarella
    13 Aug 2010 | 2:37 am
    Cassie!  Yay! The correct answer is Calvin & Hobbes. Congrats Cassie! Email me your mailing address ASAP so I can Fedex you the pass HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13th TO ALL! (I believe its a day of GOOD luck!) Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Mixx Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Post on Google Buzz Add this to Mister Wong Add this to Google Bookmarks Submit this to Script & Style Buzz up! Submit this to DesignFloat…

  • Healthworks Giveaway!

    Fitarella
    12 Aug 2010 | 5:58 am
    THANK YOU for an AWESOME picnic! @FionaFit -  Click here for Healthworks 3 day Pass for Fitarella readers! @WFM_FreshPond @MixBakery @OrganicJoos The winner will be chosen tonight at 11:59 pm EST and I will fedex you the pass so you have it in time. (Mom & Cody (the artist that painted it) please do NOT give out the answer) Good Luck! And think ALL cartoon characters, not just TV Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Mixx Share this on Facebook Tweet This!

  • Totally random BlogHer’10 pics & thoughts

    Fitarella
    9 Aug 2010 | 6:28 am
    It wasn’t until I checked in that I realized how big this conference really was.  In my mind’s eye I had pictured checking in at a single “check in table”, but as you can see below it was like checking in at a marathon event!  Holy moly,  BlogHer’10 was massive! At the Unilever event at the posh Royalton Hotel Penthouse I got a custom blended Vaseline lip gloss made.  Ya’ll know how much I *LOVE* lip gloss, so this was definitely a highlight for me.  I’m all about the glossy lips! In another suite down the hall ladies were able to get their hair…
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    Pulse + Signal

  • A New Chapter and a Change of Heart

    Andre
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:22 am
    I must admit, these past few years of my life have been a whirlwind of personal growth, personal loss, professional achievements and a constant journey toward my place in the world. Meeting people whose ideas challenge and strengthen my own, reading books that not only broaden my passions but also encourage my creativity, and finally making strides to understanding what is important in life. All those things I believe have and will continue to prepare me for some new things happening in my life – namely joining the American Heart Association’s Mid-Atlantic affiliate as their brand new…

  • Healthy Discussions: Chris Hall/HealthCentral

    Andre
    24 Aug 2010 | 8:06 pm
    I recently got a chance to catch up with Chris Hall, formerly of Humana’s Innovation team and now at HealthCentral. Chris and I got to know each other after I began covering the Humana health games initiatives last year. I wanted to find out what his new plans were all about. P/S:  Tell us a little bit about your background and what you did before joining HealthCentral. You bet, Andre. So I grew up in Southern California, attended the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and served as an Acquisition Officer in the Air Force in exotic locations such as Germany, Alabama,…

  • Day One: Health Communications, Marketing and Media Conference 2010

    Andre
    17 Aug 2010 | 7:41 pm
    Well the first day of the CDC Health Communication, Marketing and Media conference has come to fantastic close with a great reception at the Georgia Aquarium. What a great venue to relax in and catch up with folks that you only saw in passing throughout the day. The theme of this year for the conference is “Convergence: Purpose, Programs and Partners”. I really saw how that was true with the various tracks that were available, including: To Advance Science To Bridge Divides To Explore Innovations To Improve Practice The opening session consisted of industry leaders such as Dr. Jay…

  • CDC Health Communications, Marketing and Media Conference 2010

    Andre
    17 Aug 2010 | 6:47 am
    I’m getting really excited for one of the conferences that pretty much sums up my interests and passions around public health – CDC’s Health Comm/Marketing/Media gathering. With health professionals from all over the country getting together to discuss best practices on affecting behavior change, using new media and technology and evaluating campaigns – it’s sure to be chock full of great information. I’m in Atlanta now getting my notebooks ready and my mind focused on capturing the essence of the conference via my mobile Twitter app and then putting more thought into a meatier…

  • Giving Health a Big Platform: SXSW Health

    Andre
    12 Aug 2010 | 7:51 am
    For those of you who regularly stay updated on things going on in the forward moving world of Health 2.0, health/social media, etc. you are undoubtedly aware of the exciting addition to next year’s South by Southwest Interactive (known to many as SXSW) event. There will be a one-day track devoted to health, giving opportunity for innovative ideas and thoughts to be shared at one of the largest gatherings I know of for all things interactive (technology, media, design, etc.). Check out the Social Health event blog post for more information. For those of you not familiar with SXSW and its…
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    Weighty Matters

  • Is the childhood obesity epidemic just a myth?

    2 Sep 2010 | 2:30 am
    That's basically the case that Anytime Fitness is making with their new "Coalition of Angry Kids" campaign.They're suggesting that all the blame for childhood obesity be laid at parental feet.The point of the campaign of course is to shock.The argument has some merit. After all, kids don't shop for household food, kids don't generally pack their own lunches and kids don't decide how often their families ought to eat out.Of course kids also don't pay for billions of dollars of advertisements that entice them to eat junk food. They don't build drive thrus on every corner or put junk food…

  • Who's going to launch Ontario's first lawsuit over access to bariatric surgery?

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:30 am
    Note the question is, "who's" going to launch, not, "will someone" launch a suit.I think it's inevitable.Why?Because Ontario, with much fanfare, over the course of the past year has revamped the process which used to allow for a 4-6 month start to finish process for the provision of bariatric surgery resulting in 2 year waits and lengthening wait lists.The reason a lawsuit's inevitable isn't the simple fact that Ontario's new process has more than quadrupled the wait time for surgery, the reason a lawsuit's inevitable is because Ontario announced that the purpose of its revisions were,…

  • If your kids hate apples, should you feed them apple pie?

    31 Aug 2010 | 2:30 am
    What a great line! Credit goes to Ann Cooper of Chef Ann, and it was included in the New York Times' recent piece on the controversy surrounding schools and chocolate milk.You know where I stand.Chocolate milk's a liquid chocolate bar and should be consumed as a treat, not as a staple.The "milk's got magical nutrients that make the calories and added sugars not scary" camp thinks that calcium and vitamin D are so important and kids are in such dire bone straits that they need to be coerced by sugar into drinking a beverage that we adults used to drink without a fight (probably because…

  • Nutrition policy in Britain hits bottom and digs.

    30 Aug 2010 | 2:30 am
    Good lord.First they abolished their national school lunch program.Next they killed their front of package labeling plan.Then they turned over control of their anti-obesity public health campaign to the food industry. Then they promised them they wouldn't regulate them.After that they stripped their Food Standards Agency of their labeling oversight.Then the British parliamentary under-secretary of state for health recommended that GPs start calling their obese patients, "fat".Now?Now they've recommended that basically anything that has a fruit or vegetable in it be counted towards the goal of…

  • Saturday Stories

    28 Aug 2010 | 2:30 am
    An evidence based discussion on whether or not high fructose corn syrup is inherently evil.How much do I love Skeptic North's new feature - Health Canada Approved? A lot!My friend Arya on a new study that wonders whether or not diabetes and pre-diabetes in pregnancy has a role to play in a heightened susceptibility to obesity in children?David Katz takes on that ridiculous editorial that called for the dispensation of cholesterol lowering medications with your fast food meals.A nut allergy skeptic learns about nut allergies the very hard way.
 
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    Patient Safety Focus

  • Missouri Purges Data From Infection Records

    Arrowsight
    17 Aug 2010 | 9:22 am
    An article by Jim Doyle exposes the fact that the State of Missouri has deleted hospital infection data from their records citing that it is too costly to maintain and too sensitive for the public to review for more than a year.  Doyle writes:  "Without access to infection data from previous years, consumers won't be able to adequately assess a hospital's performance in preventing infections, consumer advocates say. Specifically, the policy of the Department of Health and Senior Services makes it difficult to review how hospitals have performed over time and whether…

  • Health Reform Exerts New Pressure on Hospitals

    Arrowsight
    30 Apr 2010 | 10:42 am
    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates unprecedented pressure for hospitals to improve the quality and efficiency of the care they provide to their patients.   The Medicare program, which also serves as the model for private health insurance, will begin to hold providers at increased financial risk for errors they make in the course of providing care, including when patients acquire preventable infections or have to be readmitted to the hospital due to poor care during the initial stay.   There will also be a host of quality measures for which hospitals will be…

  • NQF Releases Updated Safe Practices with Help of Dennis Quaid

    Arrowsight
    13 Apr 2010 | 1:11 pm
    Yesterday, at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., the National Quality Forum released an updated manual on Safe Practices for Better Healthcare.  Dennis Quaid, the well-known Hollywood actor, participated in the release by sharing his personal story of a medication error experienced by his newborn twins in 2007.  He cited his partnership with the Texas Medical Institute for Technology, a key contributor to the report, and underscored leadership, safe practices and technology as the most important pillars of improvement. The updated report, replete with tools to…

  • More Research Needed on Patient Handoffs

    Arrowsight
    7 Apr 2010 | 11:53 am
    According to a study released today in the American Journal of Nursing, more research is needed to create an evidence base of how best to handle handoffs of patients between nurses as they come and go with shift changes.  Two-thirds of sentinel events in hospitals are thought to happen because of poor communication (Joint Commission), and inadequate nursing handoffs are widely believed to increase the chances of negative consequences for patients.  However, this systematic review of nursing handoff literature from the 1987-2008 discovered that little research has been done to…

  • No Reduction in Patient Safety Incidents at Hospitals

    Arrowsight
    31 Mar 2010 | 10:58 pm
    According to a new HealthGrades, Inc. study released today, there were at least one million patient safety incidents at hospitals between the years 2006-2008.  This figure is unchanged since last year's study.  Together, these incidents cost the nation almost $9 billion.  Even more tragic than the costs is the fact that one in ten of these incidents ended in death.  HealthGrades uses measures called patient safety indicators from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to analyze hospital safety.
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    Highlight HEALTH

  • The Link Between Positive Psychology and Cancer Survival

    Faith Martin
    31 Aug 2010 | 7:18 pm
    Have you ever heard a person in poor health being told “Well, you’ve got to stay positive, that will help”? This seemingly common idea is currently under significant scientific investigation. Indeed, the debate about the degree to which psychological processes can directly influence physical health has received special attention recently. A special supplement of the Annals of Behavioural Medicine directly addressed this topic in February this year and a recent article in the Lancet explored this issue, cautioning us that the relationship between a positive psychological…

  • The Truth About Organ Donation

    Guest Writer
    26 Aug 2010 | 5:55 pm
    This article was written by Rebekah Apple. Right now, more than 107,000 Americans wait for a life-saving organ transplant. The list grows with another name every 11 minutes, and every day, 18 people on that list die. One organ donor can save eight people’s lives and a tissue donor can help up to 50 others. The fact remains, however, that there simply aren’t enough organs to save everyone on the waiting list. Signing up to become a donor is easy — most Americans can designate themselves as donors when they get their drivers license and, in many states, that designation transfers…

  • Social Media in Health and Medicine: Medlibs Round 2.7

    Walter Jessen
    11 Aug 2010 | 7:00 am
    Welcome to Medlib’s Round, edition 2.7, the monthly blog carnival highlighting excellent blog posts in the field of medical information. Just under a year ago, we hosted MedLibs Round 1.8: Finding Credible Health Information Online. For this edition, we wanted to focus on how social media is being used to promote health information online. There’s a revolution occurring on the Web: those “authoritative” articles written on traditional, static websites are being replaced with blogs, wikis and online social networks. In the sphere of health, medicine and information…

  • The Quick Guide to Healthy Living

    Walter Jessen
    4 Aug 2010 | 8:39 pm
    Earlier this year, we reported on the National Health Observances Toolkit, a resource at healthfinder.gov to help promote certain health observances. Late last month, they released another really useful tool: the Quick Guide to Healthy Living. Your job, friends, the kids — we’re all on tight schedules these days. You try to stay up-to-date with prevention and wellness tips, but often there isn’t time to search through all the complex health information on the Web. The Quick Guide to Healthy Living now makes it easier — and faster — to find actionable…

  • MedLibs Round 2.7 Call for Submissions

    Walter Jessen
    25 Jul 2010 | 10:08 pm
    Highlight HEALTH will be hosting the next edition of MedLib’s Round, edition 2.7, on Tuesday, August 10th. As host, I invite you to send your submissions. Here at Highlight HEALTH, we promote advances in biomedical research to encourage health literacy. To assist in that promotion, we have a page on Facebook (fan us!) and a presence on both Twitter (@HighlightHEALTH) and FriendFeed (HighlightHEALTH). However, from a strategy standpoint, there’s much more that can be done with social media. Like what? You tell us! The theme for this month’s edition of MedLib’s Round…
 
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    BASIL & SPICE--HEALING & WELLNESS

  • 2010-2011 Flu Season: Vaccine Info From The Pediatrician

    At Basil & Spice
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Ari Brown, M.D.--   Medical offices and pharmacies usually receive their flu vaccine shipments in October. This year, we got a pleasant surprise: early shipments of flu vaccine are here and ready to go. My office already has plenty of the nasal spray version (Flumist)—we are still waiting on the flu shots. So, here are 10 things you need to know about flu vaccine: Q. Who should get flu vaccine? Everyone over six months of age. The flu vaccine is not approved for use in babies under six months. If you have a baby under six months of age living in your home, he relies on those around…

  • (9/2010) Bedwetting: It Runs In Families

    At Basil & Spice
    1 Sep 2010 | 3:49 am
    Ari Brown, M.D.-- Question: My 6 year old son has been toilet trained since he was 3, but he still wears pull-ups at night. We've tried to limit how much he drinks at night and all kinds of bribes, but nothing has worked. I'm considering taking the pull-up away to see if this will motivate him. Any suggestions? Answer: This is a common misconception about toilet training. Daytime and Nighttime skills are completely independent of each other. A child may toilet train during the day and then it may be years before he is dry at night. Each milestone requires a certain level of both brain and…

  • (8/2010) Nature: Reminding Us Of Delivery Needs

    At Basil & Spice
    25 Aug 2010 | 5:58 pm
        Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D.-- The cultures of indigenous people teach us how to respect the earth and obey the laws of Nature. Nature can teach us so much about life if we only had the wisdom to listen. A first-time pregnant mom was understandably nervous at the beginning of her pregnancy. After a few prenatal visits, she became calm and was obviously enjoying her journey. However, as she got closer to her due date, she began to express some concerns and during her last prenatal visit, she asked me if I could tell how much her baby weighed. It’s a common question, however…

  • (8/2010) Healing Herbs: Dispel Mosquitoes With Basil

    At Basil & Spice
    18 Aug 2010 | 5:50 am
    James Geiger, M.D.-- Everyone wants to feel happy and healthy and if something is proven to be safe and it works, then they are willing to try it. Consider plants and foods as medicinal. Why or how we’ve rediscovered our natural, ancient methods of achieving those goals is a longer story. Think of it this way, you and your doctor should really only have the first true goal in mind – prevention, aimed at keeping you well and healthy so you can live a long life. We are living at the beginning of a very necessary revolution in personal wellness. Although in a way, it really is more…

  • (8/2010) Vitamin D Before And After Pregnancy

    At Basil & Spice
    17 Aug 2010 | 4:29 am
        Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D.-- The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published an article in the May 2010 edition that is noteworthy of discussion. Although vitamin D has been around since time immemorial, recent studies have suggested that the American intake is insufficient. Although the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) originally suggested a daily intake of 200 International Units (IU) until age 50 and 400 IU thereafter, these recommendations might change in the near future. Vitamin D is fat soluble and is important in the metabolism of calcium. For pregnant…
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    MyKidney.com

  • My Kidney in 2010

    Krissi
    5 Aug 2010 | 4:10 pm
    It continues to surprise and humble me that MyKidney.com has continued to do well long after my departure from the site and sparse non-existent presence for nearly two years. To this day, I regularly receive email from kidney patients and their friends and families asking for advice and, more often than not, also expressing their concern for me and inquiring about my well-being. Thank you so much for all of your emails, Tweets, and Facebook contacts - they have not gone unnoticed. On that note... read more

  • Thank you - It's Good to Have You as My Friend

    Krissi
    4 Aug 2009 | 9:00 pm
    It means so much to me that all of you took the time to send me hugs and good wishes on Facebook, Twitter and Tokbox and in all the other ways we stay close as friends. This is such a scary thing for me. It feels like I'm re-living the entire experience as a young teenager when I first found out I had a serious chronic illness... the only difference is that I now know EXACTLY what road lies ahead. read more

  • A (very brief) Explanation of the Results of MyKidney Biopsy

    Krissi
    4 Aug 2009 | 5:00 am
    #MyKidney biopsy results = I've physically lost 25% of healthy kidney tissue in my transplanted graft due to scarring from an as yet still unidentified cause. The only knowns are that 1) my original kidney disease (FSGS) does not appear to be re-occurring at this time; 2) there is no evidence of acute rejection, but 3) the damage could be the result of an on-going "chronic rejection". read more

  • What's up with #MyKidney... (my transplant, not this blog!)

    Krissi
    27 Jul 2009 | 8:00 pm
    I'm 2 years post-renal transplant. I've had no kidney complications, but I get bloodwork and see my doctor routinely every 1-2 months to monitor my health. Three weeks ago during routine bloodwork, my serum (blood) creatinine level (a measure of kidney function) went from a very stable 1.0 (normal for me) to 1.4-1.5 (abnormal for me) indicating a problem. read more

  • Happy Kidney Day - My Two Year Kidneyversary!

    Krissi
    11 Jun 2009 | 8:04 am
    On June 11, 2007 around 10:30 am my brother and I were in adjacent operating rooms. He was giving me the gift of life: one of his kidneys. Two years have certainly flown by quite quickly - many changes, yet life still remains as mysterious and confusing as ever. Having a functioning kidney has allowed me much more freedom to LIVE, but I'm still figuring out my place in the world... then again, aren't we all? read more
 
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    But You Dont Look Sick?

  • Please take a moment and vote for us for best health blog in the 2010 Blogger’s Choice Awards!

    Christine
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:27 am
    Please take a moment and vote for us for best health blog in the 2010 Blogger’s Choice Awards!  It doesn’t take much time and it is easy to vote.  Thank you!!!  Click the widget above, or go directly to this link: http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/21651?load=comments Thank you for your time!!

  • Win an Authentic Epiphone Les Paul Jr. Autographed Guitar Autographed by Lady Gaga!

    Christine
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:03 am
     What a great fundraiser!     The Lupus Alliance of America, Long Island Queens Affiliate is Raffling off tickets to win an autographed guitar by Lady Gaga, to help raise funds to care for those living with lupus and to fund research into the cause and cure.he Lupus Alliance of America, Long Island Queens Affiliate is [...]

  • FDA Priority Review Designation for BENLYSTA® First Drug for Lupus in 50 years

    Christine
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:09 am
    ROCKVILLE, Md.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:HGSI) and GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a priority review designation to BENLYSTA® (belimumab) as a potential treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A priority review designation is granted to drugs that, if approved, offer major advances [...]

  • September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Do You Know The Symptoms?

    Christine
    1 Sep 2010 | 6:57 am
    It is expected that over 21,000 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 15,000 women will lose their lives from the disease this year alone in the United States. Women usually do not talk about gynecological issues, but we need to stop the silence. Ask questions. Get informed. Talk to you doctor. Ovarian cancer [...]

  • Today’s Tip: An Apple A Day….

    Stephanie
    31 Aug 2010 | 7:45 pm
    The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention recognize September as “5 a Day” Month to promote at least 5 servings of the daily diet include fruits and vegetables.  The good news for Spoonies is that  some fruits and veggies contain natural anti-inflammatories!  Stock up on those apples, apricots, carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, spinach, kale, and [...]
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    HealthNewsBlog.com

  • Colorado Teen Struck by Lightning While Washing Car

    18 Aug 2010 | 7:00 pm
    A 14-year-old Colorado girl survived a lightning strike. She was washing the family car when a lightning bolt hit the ground nearby and traveled through the water she was standing in. The girl said she felt "tingling" and a pain in her elbow. She said it felt like her bones were crunching. She checked out okay at the local hospital and just has "minor nerve stuff" still bothering her. Washing the car when thunderstorms are around is obviously something to avoid. Take a look: Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds

  • Study Finds Women Who Drink Beer are More Likely to Develop Psoriasis

    16 Aug 2010 | 1:00 pm
    BBC News reports that a new study in the Archives of Dermatology links women beer drinkers with an increased psoriasis risk. The study followed 82,000 female nurses. The study found women who drank five or more beers a week doubled their risk of psoriasis. In the study, researchers said they observed a 72% increased risk of psoriasis in women who drank more than 2.3 alcoholic drinks per week compared with non-drinkers. For women who drank five glasses of beer per week their risk of developing psoriasis was 1.8 times higher again. This was a large study so the connection between women beer…

  • Teenage Boy Had a Maggot Inside His Eye

    3 Aug 2010 | 12:00 pm
    A teenage boy had a maggot inside his eye that was eating his retina. The event happened five years ago and is being documented an Animal Network show called Monsters Inside Me. A gnat landed in the boy's eye when he was walking to school and doctors believe the gnat must have laid an egg, which grew into a maggot. Doctors killed the maggot by cutting it in half with a laser. This seems like a very rare event. Take a look: Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds

  • Calcium Supplements Linked to Increased Heart Attack Risk

    30 Jul 2010 | 6:00 am
    CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports on a study that suggests taking calcium supplements can increase a person's risk of having a heart attack. The study found taking the supplements can give a person a 30% increase risk of having a heart attack. Take a look: Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds

  • Man Who Underwent Full Face Transplant Thanks Doctors

    27 Jul 2010 | 7:00 pm
    A Spanish man who underwent the first full face transplant in the world appeared before TV cameras for the first time today. The man thanked his doctors and the family of the face donor. The man is described as a 31-year-old man. The Guardian reports that the had the surgery after accidentally shooting himself in the face several years ago. The surgery last 24 hours. During the 24-hour surgery, doctors lifted an entire face, including jaw, nose, cheekbones, muscles, teeth and eyelids, and placed it mask-like on to the man. He has been described as a farmer who was unable to breathe or eat on…
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    Dr. Mommy Health Tips

  • Healthy Tips Podcast 42: Chocolate is Healthy!

    Dr. Mommy Health Tips
    26 Aug 2010 | 5:31 am
    Welcome to Episode 42 of Healthy Tips Podcast. This weekly podcast will provide you with quick on the go information for better health and living. I am very excited to bring this podcast to you and I promise the episodes will not be long at all but you will learn a great deal about taking [...]

  • {Guest Post} My Sinking Ship

    Dr. Mommy Health Tips
    25 Aug 2010 | 5:00 am
    As women, we have to learn to listen to our gut. {Even when it’s telling us something we don’t want to hear.} And in March 2010 my gut was telling me one thing – loud & clear – “You must turn this ship around or it’s going to sink!” I know, right? Clearly, something I [...]

  • Back 2 School Healthy Tips

    Dr. Mommy Health Tips
    23 Aug 2010 | 2:11 pm
    With the start of a new school year also comes the question of what to include in your child’s lunch box.  Wait do they still have those? Oh yeah, they have nifty insulated bags which actually makes it easier for parents.  {Don’t tell my kids I used the word – nifty} Below I will share [...]

  • Healthy Tips Podcast 41: The Invisible Nasties

    Dr. Mommy Health Tips
    19 Aug 2010 | 5:00 am
    Welcome to Episode 41 of Healthy Tips Podcast. This weekly podcast will provide you with quick on the go information for better health and living. I am very excited to bring this podcast to you and I promise the episodes will not be long at all but you will learn a great deal about taking [...]

  • Are You Listening?

    Dr. Mommy Health Tips
    11 Aug 2010 | 5:06 am
    It’s time we ask this question.  Are you listening? More importantly are you aware of the signals your body is sending you? Too often folks will go to their doctor for answers when quite honestly the answers are being shared on a daily basis, we just need to stop and listen. Now, don’t get me [...]
 
 
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  • The cost of a QALY

    Kirkdale, R., Krell, J., O'Hanlon Brown, C., Tuthill, M., Waxman, J.
    18 Aug 2010 | 8:31 am
    Background: Current regulation of drug approvals has caused considerable controversy as entrusted to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, and has led to a lack of availability of modern medicines on the basis of calculations made of ‘value’. Aim: We have examined the assessment tool used by National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) to establish the cost of drugs in order to assess whether it is a reasonable and objective evaluation methodology. Design: A review of the methods of analysis. Methods: An objective assessment of the value of the Quality Adjusted Life…

  • Health care reforms in America: perspectives, comparisons and realities

    Glassock, R. J.
    18 Aug 2010 | 8:31 am
    Health care reforms are now a reality in America after a long and tortuous debate. President Obama has achieved a 'victory' unlike anything seen since the term of President Lyndon Johnson, over 40 years ago. The new law brings America closer to universal coverage and access to affordable health care for its citizens, but the cost of the program and its impact on individuals, physicians, hospitals, the pharmaceutical and device industry and insurance companies is not yet fully known. The debate preceding the enactment of health care reform brought up numerous comparisons (often invidious and…

  • Medical reductionism: lessons from the great philosophers

    Beresford, M. J.
    18 Aug 2010 | 8:31 am

  • Myelomatous pleural effusion

    Huang, T.- C., Chao, T.- Y.
    18 Aug 2010 | 8:31 am

  • An early sign of superior vena cava syndrome

    Wieser, S., Kohler, M.
    18 Aug 2010 | 8:31 am
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    The American Journal of Medicine

  • Clinical Features of Sarcoid Rhinosinusitis

    Jo Reed, Richard D. deShazo, Timothy T. Houle, Scott Stringer, Leigh Wright, Joseph Samuel Moak
    31 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Abstract: Objective: We asked if certain clinical features were useful predictors of sarcoid rhinosinusitis in general populations of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis.Methods: Our patients with sarcoid rhinosinusitis and those from the literature formed the study group. A group of 21 randomly selected patients from The University of Mississippi Medical Center Allergy Clinic with chronic rhinosinusitis composed the control group.Results: Our literature search identified 73 patients with sarcoid rhinosinusitis reported since 1999. Twenty patients met inclusion criteria and were added to 16…

  • Lactation and Maternal Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-based Study

    Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, Jeanette S. Brown, Jennifer M. Creasman, Alison Stuebe, Candace K. McClure, Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, David Thom
    31 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Abstract: Background: Lactation has been associated with improvements in maternal glucose metabolism.Methods: We explored the relationships between lactation and risk of type 2 diabetes in a well-characterized, population-representative cohort of women, aged 40-78 years, who were members of a large integrated health care delivery organization in California and enrolled in the Reproductive Risk factors for Incontinence Study at Kaiser (RRISK), between 2003 and 2008. Multivariable logistic regression was used to control for age, parity, race, education, hysterectomy, physical activity, tobacco…

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    31 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm

  • Hyponatremia and Pseudohyponatremia: First, Do No Harm

    Giuseppe Lippi, Rosalia Aloe
    31 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    We read with interest the article of Waikar et al, who concluded that patients with hyponatremia had an increased risk of death in hospital at both 1 and 5 years. Remarkably, the increased risk of death was evident even in those with mild hyponatremia. Although the timely recognition of the high risk associated with this electrolyte abnormality should stimulate preventive measures, unnecessary treatment of pseudohyponatremia also can cause significant morbidity and mortality.

  • Office Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease

    Wilbert S. Aronow
    31 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Abstract: Patients with peripheral arterial disease are at increased risk for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and mortality from coronary artery disease. Smoking should be stopped, and hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia should be treated. Statins reduce the incidence of intermittent claudication and increase exercise duration until the onset of intermittent claudication in patients with peripheral arterial disease and hypercholesterolemia. Antiplatelet drugs, such as aspirin or clopidogrel, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, and statins, should be given to…
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    AAFP News Now

  • News Briefs: Week of Aug. 30-Sept. 3

    1 Sep 2010 | 3:50 pm
    This roundup includes the following news briefs: CMS Launches Official Site Detailing EHR Incentive Programs, Illinois Creates State-run Health Information Exchange, AHRQ Report Outlines Quality Measures for Medicaid Services, and New Web Tool Makes Searching for Coverage Options Easier.

  • Federal Agency Names First Two EHR Testing, Certification Bodies

    1 Sep 2010 | 3:45 pm
    The Office of the National Coordinator for Information Technology, or ONC, has announced that two initial companies have been authorized to test and certify electronic health record, or EHR, systems for compliance with the standards and certification criteria that were issued by HHS earlier this year.

  • Health Insurance Exchanges Create Opportunities for Primary Care, Says AAFP President

    1 Sep 2010 | 3:40 pm
    The creation of state-based health insurance exchanges under the recently enacted health care reform act will give federal and state governments the opportunity to move from a volume-based to a value-based health care system by putting in place measures to better reward the provision of primary care services. That was one of the main messages delivered by AAFP President Lori Heim, M.D., of Vass, N.C., and other speakers who participated in an HHS panel on Aug. 30.

  • Medical Journal Editors Update Universal Author Disclosure Form

    1 Sep 2010 | 3:35 pm
    The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, or ICMJE, has updated its uniform disclosure form, which journal article authors use to report potential conflicts of interest.

  • HHS Expands Medicare Coverage of Tobacco Cessation Counseling

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:05 pm
    Beginning next year, Medicare will pay for tobacco cessation counseling for all tobacco users covered by the federal benefit program. Under the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, certain preventive care services, such as tobacco cessation counseling, will be covered by Medicare at no cost to beneficiaries. The new benefits, which also include annual physical exams and certain screenings, take effect Jan. 1.
 
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    Everyone's Blog Posts - DoctorsHangout.com

  • little things ....bigger effects

    sara mahmood
    i wonder why sometimes little things hurt us soooo much.........a little joke ...a harmless taunt...is so painful at times.why sometimes we forget to ignore it....thinking about small misunderstandings again n again untill we are really down n depressed.....but on the other hand sometimes a tiny smiley at the end of a message makes us feel good............

  • Friendship

    YasmineN
    I have many friends from online. Maybe not 100+ but enough to keep me busy usually if I want to talk to someone. However, I am finding that everyone has a different idea of what friendship means. I get into so much trouble because I am not so quick to reply to emails or sometimes I just want a week or two to myself without having to say hello to anyone. Is it too much to ask for? Sometimes I say something as a joke and its taken seriously. Sometimes I apparently just say the wrong thing and when I try to explain that its not what I meant, I dont always get understanding in return. I wonder if…

  • Round 2

    YasmineN
    No studying. My USMLE World questions will run its course in about two and a half weeks and then I will have to pay again and I havent even completed 50% of the questions yet. I will have to take time off studying other subjects just to do the questions and I think I should try to complete them. I can always hit the books at any time. It might not be such a bad idea since I still havent gotten around to studying lately. I've been doing everything but studying. Mostly talking to friends online. Countless hours that make me feel better from a social standpoint but the guilt still lingers. The…

  • Preventing diabetes complications: are we too glucocentric?

    Doctors Hangout Team
    The prevention of macrovascular complications is a major goal of diabetes management. Control of hypertension and hyperlipidemia is a well supported means for preventing macrovascular events in people with and without diabetes. Data from large trials have questioned the macrovascular benefits of aggressive glucose control. Nevertheless, diabetes management has become increasingly focused on achieving tight glycemic control. New research highlights the growing concern that this 'glucocentric' approach may be coming at the expense of controlling other cardiovascular risk factors such as…

  • Hydrochloric Acid-Fire

    Elisabeth Blount
    How would you treat a pt that has been exposed to Hydrochloric Acid fire bomb? The pt slept in a house while the Hydrochloric Acid bomb burned in the house. The pt lungs filled with the fumes from the acid. The pt then ran out of the house vomiting white foam? How would this pt be affected? What treatment should be given?At this time the pt has lung-breathing issues- Asthma also Mitral Vavle Prolapse-and Irritable bowel syndrome. Anyone have an idea?
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    DoctorWorld.NET: Upcoming stories

  • Q&A With a Child Psychiatrist About Treating Troubled Children

    doctorworld
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:49 am
    Are drugs appropriate for toddlers to take when they exhibit troubled behavior? Read more... | Original Medical News | Votes so far: 1 / 0

  • Rapid TB Test Shows High Accuracy (CME/CE)

    doctorworld
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:49 am
    (MedPage Today) -- A two-hour molecular diagnostic test detected tuberculosis bacteria, including rifampin-resistant strains, with sensitivity and specificity well over 90%, researchers found. Read more... | Original Medical News | Votes so far: 1 / 0

  • Study: 1 in 7 home kitchens would flunk inspection (AP)

    doctorworld
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:49 am
    AP - A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants. Read more... | Original Medical News | Votes so far: 1 / 0

  • Warfarin and Cranberry Juice: Time to Lose the Warnings?

    doctorworld
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:49 am
    In this expert interview, Jack Ansell, MD, talks to Medscape about whether there is any basis for the interaction between warfarin and cranberry juice. Medscape Cardiology Read more... | Original Medical News | Votes so far: 1 / 0

  • Workers see higher health costs, less care

    doctorworld
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:49 am
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies are cutting healthcare costs further amid a continuing sour economy, scaling back benefits and shifting a greater share of the expense to employees. Read more... | Original Medical News | Votes so far: 1 / 0
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  • Ask Matt Labash Vol. XXVII: An anti-tattoo manifesto, letting kids be kids, and playing the deaf card | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

    GruntDoc
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:16 pm
    Here’s a tattoo rule of thumb: Only get one if your job entails shooting people, if you’re an ultimate fighter, or as a safety issue, if you find yourself wrongly incarcerated, and displaying your affiliation with the Aryan Brotherhood will help make prison showers less eventful. Otherwise, let your skin go commando. via Ask Matt Labash Vol. XXVII: An anti-tattoo manifesto, letting kids be kids, and playing the deaf card | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment. As I cannot express myself this well, ‘quoted plagiarism (Fair Use!)’ will…

  • Cops: Calif doctor gets stuck in chimney, dies | KOMO News | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News – Seattle, Washington | National & World News

    GruntDoc
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:40 pm
    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) – A doctor involved in an “on-again, off-again” relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend’s home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later. via Cops: Calif doctor gets stuck in chimney, dies | KOMO News | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News – Seattle, Washington | National & World News. Awful. Related posts:Local News | Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16 | Seattle Times Newspaper Seattle, Washington: Effective April 16,…

  • Last Day: FREE Epocrates Essentials for Medical Students

    GruntDoc
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:35 pm
    We are giving you Epocrates® Essentials $159 value FREE. Our #1 premium mobile application offers the drug, disease, and diagnostic tools you need at the point-of-care. Act fast and tell your friends – it’s free for the rest of August only! via FREE Epocrates Essentials for Medical Students. If you’re a student, this is a heck of a good deal. Related posts:Money for Nothing, Healthcare for Free : PANDA BEAR, MD Panda has roused himself to post again. Money for Nothing,... iMedicalApps.com iMedicalApps.com is the new home for the former iphonemdeicalappreview.com I... Free…

  • iowahawk: Help a Brother Out

    GruntDoc
    29 Aug 2010 | 9:20 pm
    Longtime Iowahawk readers will recall my old Ozark hotrodding medico friend Darren “Doc” Lee from Operation Dumb-Vee, where we successfully conspired to plaster Doc’s Army unit’s vehicles with morale-boosting refridgerator magnets from home, during his stint in Iraq. You also may recall that Doc is my go-to supplier of, um, “Ozark hair tonic.”I am sad to report that Doc was recently the victim of a terrible garage accident… via iowahawk: Help a Brother Out. Read, and if you wish, give.  Your money could go to worse uses. Related posts:iowahawk:…

  • Estimate of Deaths in Typical Flu Season Is Lowered – NYTimes.com

    GruntDoc
    26 Aug 2010 | 11:26 pm
    In presenting the new numbers on Thursday, the centers urged journalists to stop using annual averages like 36,000 or 24,000 and to use more vague estimates like “tens of thousands of people may die.” via Estimate of Deaths in Typical Flu Season Is Lowered – NYTimes.com. Well, good.  That’s good news, and being able to scale the threat against you personally is a good thing. This doesn’t mean, by the way, that you don’t need a flu shot.  You Do.  (I get mine). Related posts:Data Used to Justify Health Savings Effort Is Sometimes Shaky – NYTimes.com Critics…
 
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  • Vitamin Water is NOT Good For You or Your Kids

    gabby
    7 Aug 2010 | 9:54 am
    Were you fooled by Vitamin Water? Did you fall for the advertising? Were the ‘ads that emphatically state that these products are a healthy way for consumers to hydrate’ convince you to try Vitamin Water? If you did fall for the hype, you were not alone.  Thousands of well intentioned Americans have been buying the [...]

  • Free At Last Workshop

    gabby
    24 Jul 2010 | 9:26 pm
    Post from: Weight Loss Blog

  • Healthy Body Cleanse Diet Tips

    gabby
    23 Jul 2010 | 2:03 pm
    Isagenix is the Master of Cleanse Programs and offers a healthy alternative to Fasting and other ‘starvation’ diets that can leaving you feeling drained and cranky. Still, you may experience some cleansing symptoms with the Isagenix Cleansing Programs. Most problems associated with cleansing can be traced back to one main issue… are you Drinking Enough [...]

  • Starting Your Own Home Business

    gabby
    22 Jul 2010 | 1:02 pm
    Isagenix is a great OPPORTUNITY for anyone looking to start their own Home Business! If you are interest in starting a home business, you should know that Isagenix is an opportunity that you can earn real money with while helping people get real results! Results are what will drive your business and keep your income [...]

  • Is Isagenix Body Cleansing Safe for People with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes?

    gabby
    22 Jul 2010 | 11:12 am
    Isagenix is Cleansing and Fat burning Nutrition system that is safe and effective for most people.  If you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, then there are a few things of which you should be aware if deciding to use the Isagenix Cleansing and Fat Burning System. Doctor Dennis Harper is member of the Isagenix Scientific Advisory Board.  He [...]
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    Healthy Child Healthy World Blog

  • Not a Fish Tale: EPA to Regulate Mercury Emissions

    Guest Blogger
    2 Sep 2010 | 3:38 am
    Jennifer Grayson, The Red, White, and Green: As a child, I loved tuna fish sandwiches; so much so that my mom made them for my school lunches at least twice a week. They’re still one of my favorite comfort foods (topped with potato chips and pickles for extra crunch, please), but I don’t enjoy them all that often: That’s because mercury pollution has turned tuna and other large predatory fish like swordfish and orange roughy into a veritable health hazard, putting partakers (especially young ones) at risk for neurological damage and mental retardation. Most of us have come…

  • September Blog Carnival: Safe House: Healthy Home Improvements

    Healthy Child
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:30 am
    In an effort to help build the movement to protect children from harmful chemicals, we’ll be hosting a monthly Carnival highlighting the many ways each and every one of you are creating healthy environments for children. Last month, we featured: Clean Water and Air Solutions. What is a Blog Carnival? and Where Do I Sign Up?! With so much out there on the web, finding the good stuff on certain topics can be a challenge. A blog carnival is a collection of community blogs on a particular subject—sort of a potpourri of individual voices all in one arena. Each month a topic is…

  • Making Non-Toxic Lip Gloss is Easy, but We Need Your Help with the Rest!

    Guest Blogger
    1 Sep 2010 | 3:10 am
      Susie Frank, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families: Most of the time, attempting to protect my child from chemicals that could alter her hormones, blunt her ability to learn, and make her susceptible to cancer is a big fat drag. And then, sometimes, it’s pretty fun! My daughter Hazel has kindly agreed to demonstrate just how fun and simple it is to make lip gloss at home using easy-to-find natural ingredients. Turns out you don’t need phthalates, lead, or any other toxic chemicals to produce a great tub of gloss. If only there was a way to use beeswax, almond oil, and a touch…

  • Top 5 Reasons Your School Should Go PVC-Free

    Guest Blogger
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:17 am
    Alicia, The Soft Landing: Did you watch CNN’s “Toxic America” a little while ago? If so, you got an unsettling look at the world of PVC manufacturing and its effects on the surrounding neighborhoods. It was exciting to see the underbelly of PVC production exposed to the general public after years of searching for safer alternatives. For many of you, Toxic Towns was a realization that sent you reeling back a bit. Where is PVC found and is it really that unsafe? Doesn’t the removal of phthalates mean it’s fine to use? Those are great questions, and my favorite…

  • A Sane Home: In A Plywood and Particleboard World

    Healthy Child
    30 Aug 2010 | 4:55 am
    The French have a word, sain, which literally means sane, but also healthy and "at-home" in its chosen place. Not everyone can design their own eco-home from the ground up, but we can take steps when renovating our houses or apartments, to make our homes more sane. The following alternatives to potentially toxic or polluting building materials – plywood, particleboard and pressure-treated wood – will allow for "de-toxifying" your living space at your own pace. Plywood & Particleboard While new building materials are generally lighter and more resource…
 
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    Losing It & Loving It

  • SELF Magazine Online: Reach Your Goals

    Angie
    1 Sep 2010 | 10:10 am
    SELF magazine online has a Reach Your Goals program that I love.  Choose from the at home or at the gym fitness guides OR both and get a lot of goodies like meal plans, food/exercise logs, awesome prizes and more. I thought their 20 Ways to Burn 200 Calories article is great too. My favorite ways to burn calories in the article were: Build Your Own Bootcamp Be Rakish (although I prefer to mow the lawn ha ha) Plunge Right In (of course hubby would love for me to say yes to diving in Jamaica but snorkeling is just as good right?) Late Night Make-Out Challenge OH YEA There are a lot more so be…

  • Do you keep a workout journal?

    Angie
    29 Aug 2010 | 5:49 pm
    Do you keep a workout journal to keep track of your daily workouts? I have a ton of journals for various things and I carry around a cute little notebook with me at the gym to keep track of everything I do.  This week I also started mind mapping my workouts and LOVE it.  I’ll show you sometime what that is all about. Do you keep a workout journal? Sorry I missed posting last weeks workouts.  I had one personal training session and one spin class before I left on my business trip. And I didn’t workout AT ALL while I was traveling unless of course you count dragging my almost 50…

  • Mat Pilates workouts here I come

    Angie
    27 Aug 2010 | 3:47 pm
    I can’t believe I will be subjecting myself to this because a while back I took a Pilates class or two with Kevin (hubby) and I did not like it at all.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the instructor but I didn’t care for mat Pilates workouts.  I would much rather be standing more like you do in Yogalates (another class I took a long time ago).  So starting Tuesday I’ll be back at it because I really want to see a difference in my body over the next 6 months.  I know I need this class and once a week won’t hurt me right? or will it?  HA! Some of you may not be…

  • Monthly Check In for August

    Angie
    15 Aug 2010 | 7:48 pm
    My monthly check in stats are down below under Friday’s workouts.  It was a pretty good month but I sure hope to blow those numbers out of the water with my Sept. check in.  I have a long way to go but I am starting to feel really good and know that I can do it.  This weeks workouts were decent but I know I can do better. Monday- *Elliptical Time: 10 min. Miles: .82 *Personal training (legs/core) Time: 30 min. *Spin class Time: 60 min. Tuesday- Day off Wednesday- *Spin class Time: 60 min. Thursday- Day off Friday- *Elliptical Time: 7 min. *Personal training (upper body) Time: 30 min.

  • Healthy Living Conferences, Sports Bras, Low Carb Cooking & more

    Angie
    14 Aug 2010 | 9:06 am
    Happy Weekend! Here are some of my favorite links that I came across this week…… Nelson over at The Breakfast Cook has a low carb cooking challenge this week. I have never done low carb so I don’t really know anything about it so check it out. There are two healthy living/fitness conferences that I would love for Kevin (hubby) and I to attend one day.  There are mostly women attendees from what I have seen but I’m sure he wouldn’t mind. Ha! You might be familiar with the conferences Fit Bloggin ’11 & Healthy Living Summit.  They are both on my future…
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    EurakAlert!: Medicine and Health

  • Hip dysplasia susceptibility in dogs may be underreported, according to Penn Vet comparative study

    1 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (University of Pennsylvania) A study comparing a University of Pennsylvania method for evaluating a dog's susceptibility to hip dysplasia to the traditional American method has shown that 80 percent of dogs judged to be normal by the traditional method are actually at risk for developing osteoarthritis and hip dysplasia, according to the Penn method.

  • SRNL, Chernobyl Laboratory collaborate on research initiatives

    1 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (DOE/Savannah River National Laboratory) Under a recently signed agreement, the US Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory and the Ukraine's International Radioecology Laboratory will collaborate on radiation ecology research, including projects in the region impacted by the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 24 years ago.

  • The secret to fish oil's anti-inflammatory properties

    1 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (Cell Press) Fish oil is touted for its anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic benefits, but scientist weren't sure how the omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil work. Now, according to a report in the Sept. 3 issue of the journal Cell, scientists have nailed how omega-3 fatty acids both shut down inflammation and reverse diabetes in obese mice.

  • Edible nanostructures

    1 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (Northwestern University) Sugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led Northwestern University researchers to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds are edible. The porous crystals are the first known all-natural metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that are simple to make. Most other MOFs are made from petroleum-based ingredients, but the Northwestern MOFs you can pop into your mouth and eat, and the researchers have.

  • Risk of marijuana's 'gateway effect' overblown, new UNH research shows

    1 Sep 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (University of New Hampshire) New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that the "gateway effect" of marijuana -- that teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to move on to harder illicit drugs as young adults -- is overblown.
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    HarvardScience

  • Major moral decisions use general-purpose brain circuits to manage uncertainty

    404132862
    26 Aug 2010 | 9:58 am
    Harvard researchers have found that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used in more mundane choices related to money and food. These circuits, also found in other animals, put together two critical pieces of information:  How good or bad are the things that might happen?  What are the odds that they will happen, depending on one's choice?  The results suggest that complex moral decisions need not rely on a specific "moral sense."read more

  • Health leaders push for better cancer care in developing countries

    404132862
    18 Aug 2010 | 5:21 am
    Once thought to be a problem primarily in the developed world, cancer is now a leading cause of death and disability in poorer countries.  Almost two-thirds of the 7.6 million cancer deaths in the world occur in low- and middle-income countries.According to a paper published online in the Lancet, the international community must discard the notion that cancer is a “disease of the rich” and instead approach it as a global health priority.read more

  • Competing for a mate can shorten lifespan

    404132862
    9 Aug 2010 | 8:19 am
    “Love stinks!” the J. Geils band told the world in 1980, and while you can certainly argue whether or not this tender and ineffable spirit of affection has a downside, working hard to find it does.  It may even shorten your life.read more

  • Excess maternal weight gain increases birth weight, study finds

    404132862
    5 Aug 2010 | 11:47 am
    Expectant mothers who gain large amounts of weight tend to give birth to heavier infants who are at higher risk for obesity later in life. But it's never been proven that this tendency results from the weight gain itself, rather than genetic or other factors that mother and baby share. A large population-based study from Harvard researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, looking at two or more pregnancies in the same mother, now provides evidence that excess maternal weight gain is a strong, independent predictor of high birth weight. read more

  • Researchers demonstrate highly directional terahertz laser rays

    404132862
    5 Aug 2010 | 8:39 am
    A collaborative team of scientists at Harvard and the University of Leeds have demonstrated a new terahertz (THz) semiconductor laser that emits beams with a much smaller divergence than conventional THz laser sources.  The advance, published inNatureMaterials, opens the door to a wide range of applications in terahertz science and technology.  Harvard has filed a broad patent on the invention.read more
 
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    Covering Health

  • Myths obscure lack of health care for some Asians

    A focus on "ethnic disparities" can obscure the fact that racial designations are so broad that the disparities within them are just as great as those without. The latest example? The paper "Barriers to healthcare among Asian Americans," [press release] by two SUNY Buffalo sociologists. The paper takes on the myth ...

  • Indiana numbers show preventable errors down

    The Indianapolis Star's Daniel Lee reports that, according to the state's newly released 2009 numbers, preventable medical errors are down in Indiana. There were 94 reported errors last year, down from 105 each in 2007 and 2008. Part of the decline can be attributed to the health department's Indiana Pressure ...

  • Is California’s prison health system really fixed?

    After years of failing to prevent preventable inmate deaths, the California Department of Corrections health system was placed under a federal receivership in 2005. Soon after, state officials claimed that the system had reached an "acceptable standard," and that they were ready to take control back from the feds. Over the ...

  • Conflicts of interest + off-label use = Blockbuster

    Medtronic is back at the FDA, asking for approval of another spine fusion product. Not coincidentally, the Journal Sentinel's John Fauber is also hard at work, this time exposing the conflicts of interest and off-label applications which helped make Medtronic's first spine fuser, Infuse, into a dubious blockbuster. First approved for ...

  • ‘Main Street’ informed, skeptical on health reform

    In her blog on CJR.org, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman updates what is becoming an annual franchise: Her summer man-on-the-street column gauging popular opinion on health reform. Just like last year, Lieberman found her subjects on the streets of Columbia, Mo., a town that's about as close to ...
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    Lifescript

  • 7 Eggless Breakfast Recipes

    5 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pm
    With the recent FDA recall of more than half a billion eggs – due to a salmonella outbreak linked to almost 2,400 illnesses since May 1 – you may find breakfast options limited. But don’t skip this important meal. Here are 7 healthy, egg-free options to jumpstart your morning... Kale & Potato HashWhat makes kale a superfood? This leafy green vegetable is packed with vitamins (including E, A, C, K, B6), protein, iron, calcium and magnesium. Plus, it’s low in saturated fat and cholesterol.Paired with potatoes, it makes a hearty breakfast.Serves: 4Preparation time: 35…

  • Why Can’t You Talk to Your Doctor?

    29 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Mari Cartel, Lifescript Entertainment Editor Are you keeping health secrets from your doctor? Not speaking up – or forgetting to ask – could cost your life. In this exclusive interview, gynecologist Judith Reichman, M.D., tells what information your physician must know to keep you healthy… Does this sound familiar? You've prepared for your annual check-up with lots of questions for the doctor. As they begin to answer, however, your head goes blank. You’re lost in lingo and forget those all-important questions.You’re not alone. “A lot of women don’t want to stop…

  • Want Healthy Skin? A Top Dermatologist Shares Her Secrets

    26 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Winnie Yu, Special to Lifescript Ready to enjoy these last weeks of summer outside? Before you do, read on for a dermatologist’s answers to women’s top concerns about sun safety, skin cancer and how to keep skin looking young… When it comes to our skin, women are demanding. We want a glowing complexion free of acne, rashes and blemishes. We want to erase laugh lines, crow’s feet and unsightly wrinkles – and, of course, avoid skin cancer.To find out how to stay skin-safe and young looking, we consulted Diane Berson, a New York City-based dermatologist and an assistant clinical…

  • 7 Hidden Dangers in Your Home

    11 Jun 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Michele Bender, Special to Lifescript Home is where the heart is, but it’s also where health hazards dwell. What you breathe and touch could actually be making you sick. In recognition of Home Safety Month, learn what the top 7 hazards are and how to protect yourself... Out of sight, out of mind, right? Not when it comes to the hidden health dangers in your home. Odorless gases, fumes from your carpet, even the innocent-looking cleaners in your cabinet can harm you and your family. So what can you do? Lifescript talked with top experts to find out what’s lurking in your…

  • Doctor-Recommended Tips for Anxiety

    5 May 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Dorothy Foltz-Gray, Special to Lifescript Does worry about your job, family and health control your life? It’s no surprise: More women than men report anxious feelings. Fortunately, there are ways to keep your cool. In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, check out these tips from experts... Anxiety’s a drag – and it’s supposed to be, says Simon Rego, Psy.D., director of clinical training at the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City.That’s because it mobilizes us to act, says clinical psychologist Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D., professor of psychology at…
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  • Fibromyalgia: What New Research Means for You

    25 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Linda Melone, Special to Lifescript Not even doctors completely understand fibromyalgia. But new research has uncovered better diagnosis and treatment. Read on to learn how the latest fibromyalgia discoveries can help you… Fibromyalgia is frustrating for doctors and patients alike; the condition is hard to diagnose and treat – and many physicians don’t even believe it’s real. But new research on brain chemistry, better diagnosis methods and mind-based therapies, such as cognitive behavior therapy, are changing doctors’ attitudes and offering renewed hope for relief…

  • Painful Periods? It May Be Endometriosis

    25 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Robin Miller, M.D. and Janet Horn, M.D., Lifescript Women’s Health Experts Feeling abdominal pain, especially around your period? Endometriosis could be the culprit. We'll explain who’s at risk, what the most effective treatments are and how it affects fertility... 1. What is endometriosis?It's a condition in which the same cells that make up the uterus lining (known as endometrial cells) grow outside the uterus too. No one’s sure what causes this.These cells are most commonly found in the ovaries, fallopian tubes, ligaments holding the uterus in place, and the pelvic…

  • Taking Control in the Restaurant

    25 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By The LifeScript Editorial StaffWhen you’re on a strict diabetes diet, stepping into an aroma-filled restaurant may be almost physically painful: Can you have any of that bread? Is the chicken fried or grilled? Do those “steamed” veggies have butter on them? The key is to be prepared and feel comfortable asking for what you need, says the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Here are a few restaurant tips: Select restaurants that offer lower-fat (or vegetarian) choices on the menu. Decide what you will eat before you arrive. You can call the restaurant, have a menu faxed to you, or…

  • In Search of Drier Ground

    25 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Edward C. Geehr, M.D., LifeScript Chief Medical Officer For most people, sweat is no problem. But 2% of us are real drips, suffering from hyperhidrosis. If you struggle with excessive perspiration, here’s a guide to the right antidote. 1. Clinical-Strength AntiperspirantHow it works: These contain aluminum chloride concentrations of up to 15%, and higher concentrations of other aluminum salts, such as aluminum zirconium compounds. Concerned about a possible aluminum and cancer link? Check out Are Antiperspirants Safe? Look on drugstore shelves for Degree Clinical Protection, Certain…

  • 10 Symptoms Women Shouldn't Ignore

    22 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Alice Daniel, Special to Lifescript You work hard taking care of your family, friends and work. But are you taking care of yourself? Too often we ignore symptoms because we’re just too busy to bother getting checked out. That can be a big – possibly fatal – mistake. Find out the 10 symptoms you shouldn’t ignore… More often than not, it’s the smart, educated women who put off going to the doctor, even when it should be a top priority, says Judy Kinzy, M.D., an internal medicine specialist in Knoxville, Tenn. It’s not unusual for a woman to come in long after a symptom has…
 
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  • Is Low Fat Really Better Than Low Carb?

    26 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Edward C. Geehr, M.D., Lifescript Chief Medical OfficerIn the ongoing debate between low fat versus low carbohydrate, it looks like low carb is pulling ahead. Both are comparable at shedding pounds. But the claim that low-carb diets may lead to an elevated risk of heart disease is false. According to a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, low-carb diets may actually reduce cardiac risk factors. Low-carb diets have been popular for years. Previous studies reported that they led to more early weight loss than low-fat diets. However, the results after one year are mixed.

  • FDA Approves New Emergency Contraceptive

    18 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Edward C. Geehr, M.D., Lifescript Chief Medical OfficerThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved ella (ulipristal acetate) tablets for emergency contraception. Ella is reported to be more effective than the currently available Plan B contraceptive. Available in Europe since May 2009 under the brand name ellaOne, the prescription-only product prevents pregnancy when taken orally within five days after unprotected intercourse or contraceptive failure. Using emergency contraception in the first few days after unprotected intercourse or contraceptive failure, such as a…

  • Do Girls’ Sports Injuries Differ From Boys’?

    12 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Edward C. Geehr, M.D., Lifescript Chief Medical OfficerCan you guess which sports cause the most injuries to high school girls and boys? According to the Center for Injury Research and Policy at National Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, girls get hurt most in basketball and soccer generate, and guys in football and wrestling.High school girl hoops players suffered 34 severe injuries per 10,000 athletic exposures (practice sessions or games) and 33 per 10,000 for soccer. Football had the highest severe injury rate at 69 per 10,000 athletic exposures, followed by wrestling at 52 per…

  • Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis Could Be Wrong

    5 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Edward C. Geehr, M.D., Lifescript Chief Medical OfficerAn early cancer diagnosis often means an improved outcome. But not always. Every year, approximately 50,000 women are diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast. Often called non-invasive or Stage 0 breast cancer, DCIS responds well to treatment. Unfortunately, approximately 20% of cases may be misdiagnosed. In DCIS, abnormal cells are contained in the lining of the milk ducts. In situ, which means “in place,” the cancer cells haven’t left the ducts to invade nearby breast tissue. Although DCIS is…

  • Fish Oil May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk

    29 Jul 2010 | 5:00 pm
    By Edward C. Geehr, M.D., Lifescript Chief Medical OfficerA study of post-menopausal women found that taking fish oil supplements significantly reduced the incidence of breast cancer. While fish oil supplements and fish consumption have shown positive benefits for cardiovascular disease, the current study is the first to suggest a link to a lower risk of breast cancer.The popularity of non-vitamin, non-mineral specialty supplements has grown substantially during recent decades. In addition to fish oil, these include glucosamine, chondroitin, grapeseed, black cohosh, soy, ginkgo biloba,…
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    Healthy Food & Healthy Living

  • Does pressuring kids to eat right really work?

    Dr. Ayala
    30 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    Well-meaning parents try through soft coercion to increase the consumption of foods they think are important to their child’s health. Yet, because of the interpersonal conflict and negative experience, they often get the opposite result. A child may never give a certain food a chance if it has negative memories attached to it. There are better ways to get your kid to eat he foods that are important to their health.

  • Avoiding artificial colors and preservatives for health

    Dr. Ayala
    23 Aug 2010 | 3:30 am
    An excellent study in the prestigious Lancet found that children in general, and not just those suffering from Attention deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), can become more impulsive, inattentive and hyperactive from the cocktail of artificial extras found in drinks, sweets and processed foods. Eliminating artificial colorings in food is in everyone's interest--food coloring serves no real function in food. Preservatives are a more complicated issue.

  • Healthy summer frozen treats and the dreaded brain freeze

    Dr. Ayala
    16 Aug 2010 | 5:39 am
    When making frozen desserts at home you’ll be using pure fresh ingredients, and none of the stabilizers, gums, colors and preservatives that are often found in the in prepared versions from the frozen food section of your supermarket. I'm sharing a few recipes, and also the explanation for the dreaded brain freeze.

  • NYC's latest effort to wean New Yorkers from sugary beverages

    Dr. Ayala
    9 Aug 2010 | 3:10 am
    Following last year's "Pouring on the Pounds" campaign, NYC's health Department debuted a new series of subway billboards that urge New Yorkers to consider what goes into a large serving of sweetened soda. The answer: a shocking 26 packets of sugar. Who knew?

  • Celebrating Summer's Produce: Zucchini, Potato and Fresh Herbs Gratin

    Dr. Ayala
    2 Aug 2010 | 5:48 am
    This week (August 1st through 7th) is National Farmers Market Week, a great time to celebrate our farmers and great produce. I'm reposting this flavorful recipe, which uses summer's best: Lovely zucchini, new potatoes,complex herbs, and makes for a nice presentation in no time.
 
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    Forensic Healthcare Online

  • Sexual Assault Exams in Deceased Patients

    Jenifer
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:07 pm
    IAFN‘s 4th webinar of the year will take place September 21st from 2-3pm ET: Sexual Assault Examinations in Deceased Patients. The always fantastic Tara Henry will be teaching this one, so I highly recommend registering. Cost of the session is $40 for members ($50 for non-members, and really, are you still not a member?), which [...] Related posts:Investigating Infant Deaths HIV Post Exposure Prophylaxis & Sexual Assault Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners & Victim Sensitive Evidence Collection

  • Providing Health Services in Domestic Violence Programs

    Jenifer
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:11 pm
    Another good webinar in the FVPF‘s healthcare series: Providing Health Services to Survivors in Domestic Violence Programs. The session will be held October 6th from 11-12:30 PT. This series is free, but preregistration is required. The speakers have not yet been announced at this time. From the site: “This webinar will examine innovative and emerging [...] Related posts:Systems Advocacy Approach to Addressing Domestic Violence in Health Care Building Domestic Violence Health Care Responses in Indian Country Building DV Health Care Responses in Indian Country

  • How SART Teams Discuss Sexual Assault Cases

    Jenifer
    30 Aug 2010 | 9:54 pm
    Lots of SART webinars happening right now. Next up: MNCASA’s Sexual Violence Justice Institute and their offering on how SARTs discuss sexual assault cases. The session will take place Wednesday, September 8th from 12-1:30pm CT. Registration is free. From the site: “Protocols or not, the complexity of responding to incidents of sexual assault ensures that [...] Related posts:How SARTs Discuss Cases New SART Webinars SART Case Review

  • Weekend Extra: WTF???

    Jenifer
    28 Aug 2010 | 3:09 pm
    Enough of you sent this to me that I just had to post it: Those tricky vaginas: they can make or break a deal. Thank god for these pearls of wisdom… For excellent commentary on the ad, check out The Daily Kos: Want a Raise? Wash Your Vagina. Related posts:Weekend Extra: Workplace Violence Holiday Weekend [...] Related posts:Weekend Extra: Workplace Violence Holiday Weekend Wrap-Up An FHO Extra: Plan B & the FDA in Fed Court

  • Weekly Wrap-Up & NSAC

    Jenifer
    27 Aug 2010 | 7:53 am
    Next week the National Sexual Assault Conference will be going on in Los Angeles. Sadly, I won’t be there this time (I’ll be with the Navy in Newport), but I’ll be able to catch up on all of the fantastic things happening there, because CALCASA’s going to be tweeting updates in real time (as will [...] Related posts:Weekly Wrap-Up @ the Sustainability Site Weekly Wrap-Up & New Report on Anti-LGBTQ Hate Violence Physician Expert Testimony
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    Healthier Talk

  • The Link Between Protein and Digestion

    iHealthTube
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:30 am
    Kevin Gianni interviews Donna Gates on the importance protein and how a country that eats such large amounts of protein can still be protein malnourished. Embed video:  <object id='ihealthplayer' width='440' height='315' data='http://www.ihealthtube.com/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf' type='application/x-shockwave-flash'><param name='movie' value='http://www.ihealthtube.com/player/player.swf' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param…

  • Antioxidant superstar earns its stripes for disease prevention

    aspreen
    2 Sep 2010 | 4:00 am
    I'm a research junkie. I'll admit it. So I just about jumped out of my seat when I read that someone had finally tested resveratrol--the antioxidant superstar found in red wine and grapes--on actual human beings! read more

  • Can Heartburn + Acid Indigestion = Cancer?

    Layne Lowery
    2 Sep 2010 | 3:30 am
    Heartburn is associated with a stomach acid deficiency, indigestion and chronic illness. Studies and doctors alike have recognized that what happens in your intestines can affect other parts of your body as well. read more

  • Be a Label Detective: How to read and understand pet food labels

    Kim Bloomer
    2 Sep 2010 | 3:00 am
    Chicken by-product meal…wheat gluten…preserved with BHA/BHT….” If you’ve ever taken a close look at the list of ingredients on a commercial pet food package, you’ve probably found yourself wondering what all these things really are. read more

  • Non-Diabetics and High Blood Sugar Causing Foods

    mirkin
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:30 am
    Dear Dr. Mirkin: Should people who do not have diabetes restrict foods that cause a high rise in blood sugar levels? read more
 
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    Walker Tea Review

  • Tea Review 254: Safa Himalaya’s Himalayan Summer 2nd Flush

    Jason
    2 Sep 2010 | 4:00 am
    Note: checked out the Tea Map lately? see the Jun Chiyabari area. Score = 88 Price (as of post) 55 = $20 CAD Compare teas with others on the Scoresheet. Walker Tea Review- a tea blog with tea reviews and tea tastings. Operated by Jason Walker. Sample provided by Safa Himalaya. Subscribe in a reader or by email Share/Save

  • Tea Outdoors with Pierre Sernet

    Jason
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:00 am
    The Association of Tea Bloggers (ATB) this month presents outdoor tea experiences. See Black Dragon Tea Bar for the complete listing of articles. I trolled my mind for the memory of a personal experience that would match the grace and artistry of anything close to what Pierre Sernet has done. Of course, I found none. Pierre Sernet performed The Guerilla Tearoom all over the world- from Times Square to the Great Wall. Using 12 pieces of wood, he created a virtual tearoom with no real walls. Inside these transparent walls, Pierre invited people to join him in a Japanese tea ceremony. One of the…

  • Tea Review 253: Naivetea’s Formosa Oolong

    Jason
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:00 am
    Note: a great tea- well balanced, and extended aftertaste. Score = 92 Price (as of post) 1 oz = $22 Compare teas with others on the Scoresheet. Walker Tea Review- a tea blog with tea reviews and tea tastings. Operated by Jason Walker. Sample provided by Naivetea. Subscribe in a reader or by email Share/Save

  • Tea Review 252: Wendell’s Mao Feng Tranquility

    Jason
    31 Aug 2010 | 4:00 am
    Note: not without its charms, this green brings a rich sweetness. Score = 86 Price (as of post) 1/4 = $9.25 Compare teas with others on the Scoresheet. Walker Tea Review- a tea blog with tea reviews and tea tastings. Operated by Jason Walker. Sample provided by Mark T. Wendell Tea Company. Subscribe in a reader or by email Share/Save

  • The Art of Drinking Tea In

    Jason
    30 Aug 2010 | 4:00 am
    I’m a fan of Cathy Erway for several reasons. She has a ready supply of Chinese dumplings in her freezer. Her philosophy toward trying new food and making the most of each ingredient is culinary adventure. And, if you’re not eating out in New York, you’ve got plenty of opportunity to enjoy some great teas with those meals. As my eyes glided across her blog, I noticed her featured recipes and began dreaming of tea and food pairings. With the saliva already beginning to pool on my tongue, I could taste the blend of asparagus and seaweed with a salty soy sesame coating.
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  • Is mHealth at the Peak of Inflated Expectations?

    Brian Dolan
    2 Sep 2010 | 4:31 am
    At the beginning of the summer, the American Telemedicine Association’s President Jon Linkous wrote a somewhat scathing critique of the hype that surrounded (and continues to surround) all things mHealth. This past week Eric Dishman, an Intel Fellow and director of health innovation and policy for Intel’s Digital Health Group, argued convincingly that right now [...]

  • Kvedar: Three “wild cards” for connected health

    Brian Dolan
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:56 pm
    Dr. Joseph Kvedar, the head of the Center for Connected Health, a part of the Partners Health Care system in Boston outlined three “wildcards” that face the connected health industry over the next ten years. Here’s a quick redux: How far will The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) push “true” payment reform? Health reform [...]

  • Alere to market a second wireless fetal monitor

    Brian Dolan
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:41 pm
    Déjà vu all over again? Alere Health, formerly known as Inverness Medical Innovations inked a distribution deal with a wireless remote fetal monitoring company. In March Alere signed on to promote UK-based Monica Healthcare’s wireless fetal monitoring system. This week, it’s AirStripOB. AirStrip Technologies, which is known for having one of the very first FDA approved iPhone apps [...]

  • UK red tape bars iPhone medical devices

    Brian Dolan
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:54 am
    Is wireless health regulation just as grey in the UK and other parts of Europe as it is in the US? “It’s much easier to develop technology than it is to get permission to use it,” Peter Bentley, the inventor of an iPhone app that supposedly turns the device into a stethoscope, told the UK’s Guardian [...]

  • Amazon Kindle for MDs and more mHealth news

    Brian Dolan
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:27 am
    Kindle for MDs: Sussing out whether the Amazon Kindle eBook reader is a good tool for physicians. Less distractions than an iPad? Meaningful Uses Text4Baby Update: Text4Baby, a one-way, free text message service for new and expecting moms timed to their due date or baby’s date of birth is still picking up new subscribers across the US: 72,000 [...]
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    Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley

  • Parking Garage Entrance Closed

    Cassandra Clark
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:36 pm
    Traffic Alert! The Lake Chabot Road entrance to the hospital’s parking garage was closed today to accommodate work on the underground utilities. Workers began early this morning to remove the driveway and dig the trench to reach the work areas. The access to and from Lake Chabot Road from this site will remain closed the entire month of September. Employees, physicians and visitors may access the garage from the hospital’s main campus driveway, adjacent to the Emergency Department. Visitors may still park in the parking lots on the hospital campus, or in the parking garage with a…

  • Photos of the Week

    Cassandra Clark
    25 Aug 2010 | 5:42 pm
    Courtesy of DPR Construction Taking a closer look on the work inside the structure . . . The future site of the Neuroscience surgical suite for brain surgery. For now, it is a stainless steel rebar floor. Why stainless steel? Because this surgical suite will be equipped with a dedicated MRI for brain surgery. Regular steel and a giant magnet just can't coexist here! JW Mcclenahan piping installation on the lower level of the Podium The drywall metal framing arrives, another step closer to interior walls! A view from the top. The elevator penthouse on the main patient tower.

  • The Cost of Care

    Cassandra Clark
    20 Aug 2010 | 4:11 pm
    Some health insurance executives claim, and some news media have recently reported, that large provider systems like Sutter Health make health care more expensive by demanding higher-than-average reimbursement from insurers.  To clarify Sutter Health’s position and shed more light on Sutter’s priorities, we’re posting this recent Q&A with Sutter Health’s leadership. What is Sutter Health’s perspective on claims that hospitals’ demands for higher reimbursement from insurers drive up the cost of health care? Sutter Health believes its reimbursements from…

  • Trauma Room In Progress

    Cassandra Clark
    18 Aug 2010 | 4:06 pm
    Photo of the Week courtesy of DPR Construction The future Trauma Center is taking shape on the first floor of the new hospital.  Here, the rebar and concrete blockouts are laid out. Crews have been making tremendous progress on the concrete work, which is expected to continue through the middle of September.

  • Photos of the Week

    Cassandra Clark
    4 Aug 2010 | 10:48 am
    Courtesy of DPR Construction This week the DPR crews  are really “pouring it on” at several locations in the project site, continuing their intensive installation of the shear walls, slab on deck (level 3), slab on grade (ground level) and the electrical pad on the ground level. While the concrete is flowing — and in some cases curing — the rebar installation continued in several different areas. Meanwhile, the mechanical, electrical and plumbing layouts, insertions and installations continue! Here are a few photos from this past week’s rebar and concrete work.
 
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    Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley News

  • Parking Garage Entrance Closed

    Cassandra Clark
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:36 pm
    Traffic Alert! The Lake Chabot Road entrance to the hospital’s parking garage was closed today to accommodate work on the underground utilities. Workers began early this morning to remove the driveway and dig the trench to reach the work areas. The access to and from Lake Chabot Road from this site will remain closed the entire month of September. Employees, physicians and visitors may access the garage from the hospital’s main campus driveway, adjacent to the Emergency Department. Visitors may still park in the parking lots on the hospital campus, or in the parking garage with a…

  • Alameda County Court Dismisses Lawsuit

    Cassandra Clark
    16 Jul 2010 | 2:16 pm
    by George Bischalaney, President & CEO, Eden Medical Center Nearly a year after the California Nurses Association filed a challenge to prevent Sutter Health from rebuilding Eden Medical Center, the petition has been denied. The judgment by Alameda County Superior Court was entered on July 7, 2010, and the Order Denying the Petition is now on the court’s website case # RG09462329. You can also view a PDF version of the judge’s order. For all of us at Eden Medical Center, and more importantly, residents of Alameda County, this is very good news. We have always believed that this…

  • Rain Doesn’t Dampen Spirits

    Cassandra Clark
    28 Apr 2010 | 3:27 pm
    Topping Off Ceremony Celebrates the Achievements of the Construction Teams Workers shake hands at teh top of the structural steel following placement of the signed beam For the past week, the sun was shining brightly as Eden Medical Center employees, physicians, volunteers, patients and community members stopped at the construction site to sign the celebratory steel beam. The construction teams were on site working in perfect weather to keep the construction project on pace. At the end of each day, many took the opportunity to add their signatures to the crossbeam that would be hoisted to fit…

  • “Beam” a Part of History in the Making

    Cassandra Clark
    22 Apr 2010 | 5:27 pm
    Topping Off Ceremony on April 27 The construction of the new Sutter hospital is quickly reaching another major milestone. On Tuesday, April 27, we will have our Topping Off Ceremony at the site at 10:00 a.m. We invite our employees, physicians, volunteers, neighbors and friends to join us for this special event. The topping off ceremony is a tradition within the construction industry that marks the moment when the highest structural point in the building construction has been attained. The last steel beam is signed and hoisted into place. An evergreen tree and US flag are placed on the beam…

  • Tracking California Quakes

    Cassandra Clark
    24 Mar 2010 | 3:43 pm
    Cassandra Clark, Project Communications Director While California earthquake safety legislation is the driving force behind new hospital construction such as ours, earthquake safety doesn’t begin or end with new construction. For many years, Eden Medical Center has participated in the California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (CSMIP) by placing seismic motion sensors in the building to gather vital information when an earthquake strikes. Recently, the Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley project team reached agreement with the California Department of Conservation to place sensors in…
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    Diets In Review Diet Column

  • Get in Shape Like the Stars of the Emmys

    Carmen
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:20 am
    While watching the Emmys this year, I was impressed by how fit and polished the stars looked as they walked the red carpet. Wearing Versace, Carolina Herrera or Donna Karan, walking in front of thousands of cameras, there’s no room for an unfit body to hide. How do they guarantee that every part of their image is smooth and flat, toned and fit and showing to their greatest advantage? Celebrity trainer Jarett Del Bene, whose clients include Audrina Patridge, The Hills alum Lauren Conrad and Lindsay Lohan, shared many of the secrets that he uses to help whip bodies into shape fast. Del…

  • How to Choose the Right Professional to Help Meet Your Goals

    Brooke
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 pm
    Lifestyle change is difficult work and often requires the support of others. When undertaking a major life change, it is generally important to seek the assistance and guidance of professionals to encourage you and equip you with new tools and information to help. When trying to lose weight, change eating habits, or increase exercise, you may need a coach, therapist, trainer, and/or a nutritionist, all of whom can help you in different ways. Even better, you can assemble a team of professionals that surround you with support, information, tools, and techniques to get your best results. Coach:…

  • Try Fitbook for Food Journaling

    Shay
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 pm
    One of the first things I figured out when I got home from the Biggest Loser ranch is that it all happened so fast it was hard to remember it all. Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels had done so many awesome workouts with us, but amidst the sweat, tears and pain I had forgotten exactly how they went. I also realized that journaling my food intake on the ranch was always the sure way to predict my weight loss for the week. I searched high and low for something that could help me in this area and what I found was short of amazing… the Fitbook! It’s a goal setting, journaling, reminder,…

  • Baby Carrots Getting Junk Food Marketing Makeover

    Jason
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 pm
    If you are a food company that sells baby carrots, how do you get kids interested in your healthy product, when what they really want are those Fruit Roll-Ups, or some other snack with a flashy cartoon character and brightly colored logos? As they say, if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em. It’s back-to-school time, so there’s no better time than now to make a bold move to be the choice snack for kids’ brown bag lunches. So, basically the entire baby carrot industry is making radical changes to their presentation, mimicking the junk food packaging that is so…

  • Calorie Count App Makes Food Journaling Easy on Your iPhone

    Health Buzz
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:16 pm
    One of the biggest challenges of keeping a food journal is trying to figure out how many calories are in many of the foods we eat everyday. We know fruits and veggies are good for us, but how many calories are really in a serving? The new Calorie Count iPhone app, created by CalorieCount.com, makes food journaling super easy. It even gives each food a grade, so you can feel good about eating that “A” salad. Once you download the free app, set up an account that has your vital stats, such as age and weight. Then search for the food you eat and them select how much, and Calorie…
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    Medical Education

  • Working with the "Difficult" Student: Part 1

    Deirdre
    9 Aug 2010 | 9:01 am
    Step 1- Define Difficult For the purposes of the next two blog posts, we are going to look at two different definitions of difficult: 1. Students who are experiencing academic difficulty 2. Students who you are uncomfortable working with. There are other definitions but making this distinction allows us to approach this issue with two very different solutions. This Blog will examine definition #1. Students who are Experiencing Academic Difficulty Step 2 – Diagnose the Difficulty This step requires knowledge about the Learning Cycle developed in 1962 by P.Dubin. Everyone who is learning…

  • Surgical Information Site

    Deirdre
    27 Jan 2010 | 1:35 pm
    I recently found a new site called Pre-OP, which describes itself as: "This is an information resource designed to help you understand the nature of a medical condition and the surgical procedure most commonly used to treat it. Our hope is that we will help you to: • gain a better understanding of your medical condition, • know your treatment options, • understand the risks of surgery - as well as the risk should you decide not to have the treatment your doctor recommends. • You should also know what to expect on the day of surgery • and know how to care of yourself during…

  • A cautionary tale of 2 e-patients

    Deirdre
    30 Dec 2009 | 10:09 am
    Warning this video has images that may disturb non-medical people

  • Best Practices in Simulation Planning

    Deirdre
    29 Sep 2009 | 8:30 pm
    At the recent International Conference on Residency Education, several speakers emphasized the importance of planning when using expensive simulation labs. Residents who train exclusively on high fidelity simulators frequently complain about the complexity and confusion of learning in this manner. I decided to write an article about the best way to plan the use of 4-step progressive simulations. Preplanning a. Begin by analyzing what competencies should be taught in this manner. Dangerous, painful, rare and embarrassing procedures make the best candidates. Determine what level of competency…

  • Making the IMPLICIT (Unconscious) EXPLICIT (Conscious)

    Deirdre
    27 Aug 2009 | 1:11 pm
    I have been thinking about how we help students become aware of the thinking processes (pattern making, creative analysis) that we use everyday to solve problems. These processes have become habits that we rarely think about but students who see us travel from A-H see something magical or worse think we are taking shortcuts because we don't show them the underlying knowledge we use. The picture below comes from the article Role Modelling by Cruess and Steinert. I think its a great way to think about helping our students become aware of the implicit. Before the student arrives 1. Pick two or…
 
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    Blogged Arteries

  • Lace Up Your Sneakers for Medicine

    31 Aug 2010 | 9:24 am
    Want to improve health care in America? Want to be a catalyst for change? Want to help elect politicians who will put patients and physicians first? Participate in the upcoming TEXPAC Alliance... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Big Health Law Changes Start Sept. 23

    31 Aug 2010 | 9:24 am
    Several provisions of the new health system reform law take effect Sept. 23.http://feeds.feedburner.com/bloggedarteries [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Health Care Workers, Get Your Flu Shots

    30 Aug 2010 | 11:51 am
    TMA’s Be Wise — ImmunizeSM program is launching a new initiative to encourage health care workers to get immunized against the flu.http://feeds.feedburner.com/bloggedarteries [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • TMLT Cuts Rates Again, Declares Dividend Again

    30 Aug 2010 | 7:58 am
    Tort reforms that TMA and its allies worked so hard to achieve in 2003 continue to pay off for physicians as the Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) cut liability insurance premiums by 1 percent,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • CAUTION: Six Things You Need to Know About ACOs

    23 Aug 2010 | 1:15 pm
    The health system reform law establishes a new breed of health care delivery system called accountable care organizations (ACO). Be wary and be informed. TMA strongly suggests that you take the time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Safer States

  • Maine moving toward a BPA ban, but needs your help!

    Safer States
    26 Aug 2010 | 2:36 pm
    The state of Maine is looking to ban bisphenol-A (BPA) as the first "priority chemical" in their Kids-Safe Product Act (a law that was passed in 2008). BPA bans are already in place in Vermont, Maryland, Minnesota, Connecticut, Wisconsin and Washington as well as several counties and cities in the United States. This toxic chemical is being banned in many places because of its health effects which harm vulnerable populations like pregnant women, babies and children. This month, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) is holding public hearings about whether to ban BPA from…

  • California Update: The Green Chemistry Initiative

    Safer States
    23 Aug 2010 | 1:42 pm
    Green chemistry is a complicated idea with a simple goal: to protect our families and children from harmful chemicals. The philosophy of green chemistry is to do this by encouraging innovation and creation of chemicals that are not harmful to us or the environment. Governments do this by phasing out the use of the most harmful chemicals and encourage the development and use of safer chemicals, implementing tax incentives, and creating chemical clearinghouses (databases of the “worst of the worst” chemicals that should be avoided). The state of California has had a Green Chemistry…

  • PVC: From our bounce houses to our back-to-school supplies

    Safer States
    16 Aug 2010 | 11:55 am
    Polyvinyl chloride, commonly known as PVC or vinyl, is a plastic that is ubiquitous in children's products including lunch bags, backpacks, binders, commercial cling wrap and plastic food storage containers. The problem with PVC is that it has chemical additives including phthalates, lead and cadmium. These chemicals are harmful to children even at low levels. Just last week, Attorney General Jerry Brown of California sued manufacturers of nine "bounce houses" because the PVC in the houses contained unsafe amounts of lead. You got that right: the bounce houses that our kids jump…

  • MA update: Business opposition halts progress on efforts

    Safer States
    5 Aug 2010 | 11:43 am
    Originally published at The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow. At midnight on Saturday night, July 31st, the buzzer went off on the "formal session" part of the 2009-2010 legislative session in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, the Safer Alternatives Bill was not among the lineup of bills that were passed this time around. Anyone who has been watching or reading the news in Massachusetts in recent weeks has heard about the stalemate in the legislature as the House, the Senate and the Governor debate casino gambling. It's tempting to take the easy way out and grumble about how the…

  • New York BPA Bill Passed!

    Safer States
    3 Aug 2010 | 9:52 am
    Originally published at The JustGreen Partnership site. Advocates applauded Governor Paterson today for signing into law the Bisphenol A-Free Children and Babies Act to end the sale of bisphenol-a-based baby bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers and straws as of December 1st of this year. Both houses of the New York State Legislature unanimously passed at the end of June. Today was the last day for the Governor to sign the measure. New York is now the seventh state—and by far the largest in both population and economy—to pass phase out of BPA in young children's products, joining Connecticut,…
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    Healthin30.com

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship: How Patients Can Help Enhance Communication

    admin
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:03 am
    By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA From Kevin Pho’s medical blog, KevinMD, a post archived from 2004, Pho talks about the struggles of communication between doctor and patient during the 15 minute office visit. Pho sites a NY Times article that explains that more than two decades ago, research shows that patients were interrupted 18 seconds into explaining their problem (on average) and less than 2 percent got to finish their explanations. Pho sites that he sometimes falls into the “interruption trap.” “I think this is a natural progression to our managed care environment. Physicians…

  • AHCJ Invites Qualified Health Journalists and Broadcasters to Possibly Connect

    admin
    31 Aug 2010 | 9:16 am
    By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA In a recent post I wrote about the unfortunate disbandment of NAMC and provided information about the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) as a possible alternative for former members to continue in health journalism. “NAMC folds, qualified members invited to AHCJ” by Pia Christensen, AHCJ member writes about the disbandment and the new membership guidelines that could offer former members the possibility for professional or associate membership. Additionally, for those health and medical professionals who write and broadcast health news…

  • Legacy of NAMC Comes to a Halt, Founding Member Bill Crounse, MD Bids Farewell and AHCJ Open its Doors

    admin
    25 Aug 2010 | 10:17 am
    By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA First, I’d like to say with a very heavy heart how saddened I am by the news of the disbandment of NAMC… The National Association of Medical Communicators (NAMC) closes its doors after more than two decades of inspiring health professionals to accurately communicate health and medical information to the public. NAMC has been spearheading its members in broadcast journalism, but succumbs to the pressures to stay vibrant and says farewell. Amid cutbacks from pharmaceutical sponsors and the changing landscape of broadcast journalism, NAMC shuts its doors,…

  • Egg Recall Tied to Salmonella, List of Recalled Eggs, How to Read Carton and What to do to Stay Safe

    admin
    22 Aug 2010 | 12:19 pm
    By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Latest egg recall update Health officials urge consumers to throw away contaminated eggs or return them to the retailer. Salmonella, the name of a group of bacteria, is the most common cause of food poisoning in the United States. Usually, symptoms last 4-7 days and most people get better without treatment. But, salmonella can be more serious in older adults, infants, and persons with chronic illnesses. [Source] Wright County Egg conducted a nationwide voluntary recall of shell eggs on August 13, 2010.   The eggs were packaged under 13 different brand names…

  • Health 2.0 in San Francisco to Offer the Latest in Innovative Health IT, Oct 7-8

    admin
    20 Aug 2010 | 1:19 pm
    Health 2.0 Fall Agenda Announced, Oct 7-8 Guest Post by Matthew Holt This week we’ve announced the line up (or the first chunk of it) for the 4th annual Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco Oct 7-8. The conference is the climax of  Health Innovation Week — a week long series of conferences, meetings, and events highlighting innovation in health care information technology. Health 2.0 will focus on Search & Content, Communities, the Data Utility Layer, Tools and Unplatforms, case studies of Health 2.0-enhanced delivery reform, and the wider (and unmentionable) context for…
 
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    Cathy's Natural Remedies

  • Safer Screening Options for Breast Cancer

    heardling
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:34 am
    This is the second part of how our government and big corporations are wreaking havoc with us. Read here about much safer options to mammograms! Cancer Society Has Financial Ties to Mammography Is There a Safer Screening Option? The revised U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations discourage doctors from teaching breast self-examination (BSE), even though they have long been recommended as a simple way for women to keep track of anything unusual in their breasts. While BSEs are certainly not inherently harmful, the problem they pose is that it typically forces women into a…

  • The Cancer Test That’s a Death Trap – Mammograms!!

    heardling
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:30 am
    I am so sick of corporations and governments making money by making us sick!!! This is horrific!! This time it is The American Cancer Society. Imagine, this so called good deeder, using us to make more money! “There is a safer option for breast screening, however, that you may not have heard of because it is not financially tied to ACS or other public health agencies.” It’s called thermographic breast screening. Please DON”T have mammograms!! This is the first part. As it is so important to read the whole thing, that I will put the alternatives in a new blog. Cancer…

  • Next major Toxic Hazard that Can Ruin You and Your Children’s Health, Part 2

    heardling
    31 Aug 2010 | 11:32 am
    This is the second part about the dispersants they are using and how it will affect our health as well as what we can all do about it. Please take the time to sign the petition. Read on…… Next Major Toxic Hazard that Can Ruin You and Your Children’s Health Toxic Dispersants: The Oil Spill Tragedy You Probably Haven’t Heard About BP is using two dispersants: Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527A. Corexit is on the EPA’s list of approved chemical dispersants, and BP could have chosen any one from the list. Instead, they chose Corexit, which is among the most toxic and least…

  • Next Major Toxic Hazard that Can Ruin You and Your Children’s Health

    heardling
    31 Aug 2010 | 11:27 am
    And the government said it was mostly gone! This is the first of a 2 part article. Read on for your health and well being…. Next Major Toxic Hazard that Can Ruin You and Your Children’s Health The BP oil leak has reportedly been plugged, but the devastation caused by the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that poured into the Gulf, coupled with a reckless use of toxic dispersants to “clean it up,” is just beginning. And the sad truth is, even highly trained toxicologists can only guess what the full extent of the damage will be. This is, by far, the worst oil spill in…

  • A Cancer- Causing Radiation Antenna You Wouldn’t Know – Box Springs and Mattresses of BEDS!

    heardling
    30 Aug 2010 | 8:58 am
    It seems we cannot get away from all the things that cause cancer. Back to the futon! A Cancer-Causing Radiation Antenna You Wouldn’t Know The rate of breast cancer in Western countries is 10 percent higher in the left breast than in the right. This also is true for the skin cancer melanoma. Researchers have suggested a surprising explanation for this — and for the dramatic increase in rates of breast cancer and melanoma over the past three decades. In Japan, there is no correlation between the rates of melanoma and breast cancer, and there is no left-side prevalence for either…
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    Musings of a Distractible Mind

  • EMR and Email in Action

    Rob
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:03 pm
    If you don’t know by now, I am an EMR evangelist.  A poorly implemented EMR is a nightmare – slowing people down and increasing frustration.  A well-implemented product, however, will give a huge improvement to workflow in the office, benefitting both doctor and patient. Here is our EMR in action (with HIPAA censorship present).  I am checking labs on a patient and evaluate their lipids using a Framingham risk calculator that takes the variables from the patient data.  I then generate an email and send it to the patient.  The whole process takes me about a minute (under 30…

  • Getting Social

    Rob
    30 Aug 2010 | 10:59 am
    15% offscrub jackets with code “jackets_save” Moving to the south is an eye-opening experience.  First, there’s the friendliness of everyone; I remember the first time a stranger talked to me in the grocery store, it made me nervous.  In Philadelphia, where I went to med school, anyone talking to you in the grocery store was either hitting on you or crazy.  Add to that list: “or from the south.” Then there’s the politeness factor.  Kids are expected to say “yes sir” and “yes ma’am” when answering questions asked by adults.

  • Running Behind

    Rob
    26 Aug 2010 | 7:30 am
    I walk into the exam room and the patient looks up at me with a surprised expression.  ”Wow!  I didn’t expect to see you so quickly!” I smile and turn around to walk out of the door, saying: “Sorry!  I’ll leave then and come back later.” “No, no!”  They respond, smiling.  ”I’m happy to see you so soon.  It’s just a surprise.” I walk back into the room with a smirk.  ”I just don’t want to offend you by being on time.  I’ll try to do better next time.” I am not sure if I should be happy or…

  • The System Goes Flat

    Rob
    24 Aug 2010 | 9:49 am
    I got a flat tire this weekend.  There were clues that I chose to ignore – the alignment going out suddenly, the steering wheel jiggling when I drove – but the sudden thwacking sound as I sped down I-20 was a clue I couldn’t ignore.  I pulled off, then unknowingly stood in a fire ant bed while I changed my tire.  It still itches.  That’s not the point of this post, but I just needed to gripe a little. Yesterday we went to the tire shop and found out that not only were both of my front tires worn out, but my rear tires were old and cracked – at least that is…

  • To Med Students Considering Primary Care

    Rob
    22 Aug 2010 | 12:08 pm
    Dear Student: Thank you for your consideration of my profession for your career.  I am a primary care physician and have practiced for the past 16 years in a privately-owned practice.  (At some point I intend to stop practicing and start doing the real thing.  It amazes me at how many patients let me practice on them.) Anyhow, I thought I’d give you some advice as you go through what is perhaps your biggest decision regarding your career.  Like me, you probably once thought that choosing to become a doctor was the biggest decision, but within medicine there are many options, giving…
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    Turbulence Training

  • You are not washed up at 27

    Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:45 am
    Another day, another email from some guy who is 27 years old and thinks he is too old to lose fat. Listen, you are definitely not too old to transform your body if you are 27. Seriously, I get emails all the time from guys who think they are "too old to lose fat at 27". Can you believe that? What would YOU say to these guys? One thing I'd tell them is that they need to plan and prepare.

  • Big Arms with Vinny D

    Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
    1 Sep 2010 | 6:42 pm
    One of the biggest "concerns" folks have about TT is that there are not enough arm exercises in the program. So I went to Vince Del Monte for some eye-opening arm exercise tips. First, here are Vince's 3 Rules for Training Arms: 1. Generally to grow your arms about 1-2 inches you need at least 10 pounds of total body muscle. If you're legs, back, chest and shoulders are getting bigger, your

  • Meatheads 4x4

    Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
    1 Sep 2010 | 7:45 am
    4 days. 4 exercises. The TT Meatheads 4x4 program to build muscle and burn fat at the same time. Ah yes, another Meathead Workout. This time my “Meathead” client requested shorter workouts (because it was the summer time and he wanted to strut his meathead stuff on the party scene). So I gave him just 4 exercises per workout (sticking with the best basics) and I added in the option for him to do

  • Transformation Tuesdays

    Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
    31 Aug 2010 | 9:20 am
    On my TT Facebook page, I'm starting a new feature - Transformation Tuesdays. Every Tuesday I'll share a powerful Transformation Success Story with you. Today, I want you to meet my friend Molly from South Carolina, who I met last January at Transformation Domination. Molly changed her life and because of her success is now a Personal Trainer helping others. => Click here to read Molly's

  • New Workout Program Begins

    Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
    30 Aug 2010 | 8:41 am
    I've started a new 4-week training program today. Here's the first squat workout.  1) Overhead squat 2) Depth Jumps 3) box squats 4A) Good mornings 4B) Ball plank 4C) Prisoner lunges Today's resource is a new Facebook Contest. I asked YOU for your favorite fat loss tip, and the winning entry will get a copy of the TT for Abs DVDS. You can enter here until midnight tonight: => Enter
 
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    Best Allergy Sites

  • Food Allergy and Gluten Free Blog Carnival

    Ruth LovettSmith
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:05 am
    Try out some new food allergy and gluten free friendly recipes from our August Blog Carnival. [...]Food Allergy and Gluten Free Blog Carnival is a post from: Best Allergy Sites

  • Food Allergy Walk Giveaway – FAAN

    Ruth LovettSmith
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:26 am
    On September 26th, Best Allergy Sites and family will be participating in the Boston FAAN Walk. This month's giveaway is in honor of the walk and those who have supported us in various and numerous ways. [...]Food Allergy Walk Giveaway – FAAN is a post from: Best Allergy Sites

  • Kids Lunch and Snack Ideas for School and Home

    Ruth LovettSmith
    24 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    We've rounded up some of our favorite back to school snacks and lunches that can be enjoyed at home as well as in school. [...]Kids Lunch and Snack Ideas for School and Home is a post from: Best Allergy Sites

  • Lunch Insulated

    Ruth LovettSmith
    23 Aug 2010 | 10:55 am
    Following is a review and round up of our favorite lunch boxes and containers for school. [...]Lunch Insulated is a post from: Best Allergy Sites

  • Allergy Assist

    Ruth LovettSmith
    17 Aug 2010 | 6:41 pm
    Site Supporter Site Description: Shop online for Allergy Free Foods & Products for Allergies and Food Intolerances. We're a team of compassionate, dedicated Dietitians who genuinely care and have a "can do" attitude. Julie Albrecht - Accredited Practising Dietian and site owner [...]Allergy Assist is a post from: Best Allergy Sites
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    Anxiety and OCD Exposed

  • Anxiety about Mexico

    Laura L. Smith, Ph.D.
    31 Aug 2010 | 2:03 pm
    Some people that I care about are supposed to be returning from a trip to Mexico. They found a house close to the beach just a little south of a resort area. The cost was reasonable and they were looking forward to the break. I am a bit nervous today waiting for news of their return. In fact, right now when I’m thinking about it—it feels pretty scary. So, a few minutes ago I went to one of the online news sites and searched for Mexico. I saw that Saturday, one of their airlines went out of business and stopped flying. Last week there was a horrible massacre of 72 people trying to find a…

  • Back to School: The Cursive Controversy

    Laura L. Smith, Ph.D.
    17 Aug 2010 | 10:06 am
    A small article about the Belmont College Mindset List appeared in the morning paper today. Each year the college puts together a list of interesting bits of information about the incoming freshman class. I was surprised by one of the items. Apparently, most of this year’s incoming freshmen do not know how to write in cursive. This fact led me to my computer where I have spent the last few hours researching cursive handwriting (of course I am supposed to be working on a book project today so the topic of handwriting had great appeal as a way to delay the inevitable). It appears that…

  • Money, Worry, Woes, Anxiety and Happiness

    Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D.
    10 Aug 2010 | 2:11 pm
    Especially since the advent of the Great Recession a couple of years ago, many people have assumed if they just had a little more money, all would be well in their worlds. Of course in the decades before this economic meltdown, we’d seen huge rises in people’s income, wealth and purchases. During the economic boom times we also saw alarming increases in rates of addiction, depression and anxiety. So, what’s going on? In truth, researchers have consistently seen very small connections between wealth and happiness. Poverty and destitution are something else; they do appear to contribute…

  • Free From OCD: A Review

    Laura L. Smith, Ph.D.
    3 Aug 2010 | 12:31 pm
    One of our favorite topics to write about is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD presents in a fascinating variety of symptoms and the literature on treatment is extensive. So, when we were contacted by New Harbinger Publications to review a new book on OCD for teens we were delighted. Free From OCD: A Workbook for Teens with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Timothy A. Sisemore, Ph.D. has been released this month. It’s worth a look. The book contains 40 activities that are designed to help the teen reader overcome OCD. These activities are based on cognitive-behavioral principles that…

  • Predicting the Unpredictable

    Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D.
    27 Jul 2010 | 5:30 pm
    People who suffer from anxiety tend to worry a lot, especially those who suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) which is a common type of anxiety involving excessive worry on an almost daily basis. It is generally accompanied by various physical symptoms such as fatigue, restlessness, and tension. Those with GAD often seem to believe that worrying can protect them from harm–as though their worry will help them see and avoid any number of potential calamities that may lie ahead. Unfortunately, worry has a terrible cost/benefit ratio. In other words, worry costs a lot in terms of…
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  • Health Wonk Review - upcoming hosts

    2 Sep 2010 | 2:34 am
    Submit entries to Blog Carnival September 16, 2010 - Louise Norris at Colorado Health Insurance Insider Deadline: 9 am Wednesday September 15, 2010 September 30, 2010 - Peggy Salvatore at Healthcare Talent Transformation Deadline: 9 am Wednesday October September 29, 2010 October 14, 2010 - Jason Shafrin at Healthcare Economist Deadline: 9 am Wednesday October 13, 2010 October 28, 2010 - Allison Levy and Meredith Hughes of The New Health Dialogue Deadline: 9 am Wednesday October 27, 2010 November 11, 2010 - Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters Deadline: 9 am Wednesday November 10, 2010 November…

  • New Health Wonk Review at InsureBlog

    2 Sep 2010 | 2:29 am
    Hank Stern of InsureBlog hosts Health Wonk Review: In the Here and Now.

  • New Health Wonk Review at Managed Care Matters

    19 Aug 2010 | 8:15 am
    Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters hosts the "implementing health reform" edition of Health Wonk Review.

  • New Health Wonk Review at Disease Management Care Blog

    4 Aug 2010 | 11:45 pm
    Jaan Sidorov of Disease Management Care Blog hostsan air-travel themed edition of Health Wonk Review.

  • Health Wonk Review Archives: 2006-2010

    4 Aug 2010 | 10:07 am
    September 2, 2010 - Hank Stern at InsureBlog August 19, 2010 - Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters August 5, 2010 - Jaan Sidorov of Disease Management Care Blog July 22, 2010 - Julie Ferguson at Workers Comp Insider June 24, 2010 - Brad Wright at Wright on Health June 10, 2010 - Tinker Ready at Boston Health News May 27, 2010 - David Williams at Health Business Blog May 13, 2010 - Hank Stern hosts at InsureBlog April 29, 2010 - Jason Shafrin at Healthcare Economist April 15, 2020 - David Harlow at Health Blawg April 1, 2010 - Rich Elmore at Healthcare Technology News March 18, 2010 - Minna…
 
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  • Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Draw Fire

    admin
    2 Sep 2010 | 5:56 am
    Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Draw Fire So-called pay-for-delay settlements involving generic and branded drug makers are becoming more common and costing consumers $3.5 billion each year, according to FTC Chairman John Liebowitz, who testified before Congress that he wanted to eliminate such agreements altogether. These deals allow branded drug makers to sell their expensive products without generic competition for a period longer than the duration of the patents they hold on their drugs. In the first 9 months of fiscal 2010, drug makers entered into 21 patent litigation settlements. …

  • A Simulated Mission to Mars

    admin
    1 Sep 2010 | 6:19 am
    A Simulated Mission to Mars Recently, 5 scientists clambered into a steel capsule and shut the door behind them, unceremoniously beginning a scientific experiment designed to simulate a 520-day flight to Mars. Their mission is to help space crews of the future understand the stresses of interplanetary travel. The all-male crew includes 3 Russians, a Chinese man, a Frenchman and an Italian-Colombian. They will execute a rigorous series of experiments and exercises, while being video-monitored the whole time by researchers from the European Space Agency, Russia’s Institute of Medical and…

  • Paying People to Prevent STDs

    admin
    30 Aug 2010 | 6:07 am
    Paying People to Prevent STDs Paying people to avoid sexually transmitted diseases effectively reduces their spread, according to a proof-of-concept study carried out by scientists at UC Berkeley, the Development Research Group at the World Bank and the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania. The study involved young adults in southwestern Tanzania. Subjects were randomly assigned to a high-payment group, a low-payment group and no-payment control group. Participants in the high payment group received $20 every 4 months–up to $60–if they tested negative for STDs. Those in the low-payment…

  • Condom Maker Sold for a Boatload

    admin
    27 Aug 2010 | 5:53 am
    Condom Maker Sold for a Boatload UK-based consumer-products giant Reckitt Benckiser Group has entered the bedroom by acquiring SSL International, the maker of Durex, for $3.9 billion. Durex is the world’s best-selling condom brand. Before purchasing the condom-maker, Reckitt had accumulated a ménage of decidedly unsexy products including d-Con mousetraps, Clearasil acne cream, Veet hair remover, Mucinex decongestant, Lysol disinfectants and Harpic toilet-bowl cleaner. In marketing Durex, SSL had recently moved from a “safe sex” message to “better sex.”  It introduced a line of…

  • Can Recurring Nightmares be Treated?

    admin
    25 Aug 2010 | 6:37 am
    Can Recurring Nightmares be Treated? In Victorian times, dreams were believed to represent repressed sexual desires or random brain activity. Now scientists believe they reflect an attempt by the unconscious mind to process and store emotion-laced events from the day. “We take our problems to sleep and work through them during the night,” Rosalind Cartwright, a neuroscience professor at Rush University Medical Center told the Wall Street Journal. According to Cartwright, during dreams the mind juxtaposes unprocessed emotions encountered during waking hours with older, related…
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  • Privacy and security of patient records: The lesson of the weakest link

    David Harlow
    13 Aug 2010 | 9:49 am
    The Queen of Soul famously wailed about being a link in a chain of fools.  Today's lead story in the Boston Globe tells us about another sort of link in the chain -- the weakest link in the chain of custody of patient records.  In brief, a pathology billing service bought out by another service apparently dumped all records more that a year old in a town dump; a Globe photographer taking out his own trash noticed that the paper records (which he was looking at because he thought they ought to be recycled rather than dumped) had identifiable patient data and represented at least four…

  • Pan Mass Challenge 2010 - photos and tweets from the road

    David Harlow
    12 Aug 2010 | 7:50 pm
    This past weekend, I biked 200 miles in the granddaddy of all athletic fundraisers, the Pan-Mass Challenge, or PMC, which benefits the Dana Farber Cancer Center's Jimmy Fund.  If you didn't follow my tweets from the road, you can read them below.  Many include links to photos.  If you prefer, you can just take a look at my slideshow of photos from the PMC weekend, or the raw video footage from my helmetcam (in addition to the clip above, there's more PMC2010 video here).  The tweetstream of all PMC 2010 riders is archived here.  The weather was beautiful this year -- considerably cooler…

  • Pan Mass Challenge 2010 - Follow along on HealthBlawg

    David Harlow
    4 Aug 2010 | 7:21 am
    This weekend, I will be part of a village on wheels: one of 5200 cyclists riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge.  This will be my seventh year riding in the two-day 200-mile bicycle fundraiser for the Jimmy Fund at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  With your help, I have raised nearly $45,000 for the cause over the years. As a group, PMC riders and sponsors have raised more than $165 million over the past six years.  If you haven't yet contributed this year, it's not too late; please go to my PMC profile page and donate to the cause now, or through September.  This year's fundraising goal is…

  • Pan Mass Challenge - Less Than Three Weeks Away

    David Harlow
    19 Jul 2010 | 9:03 pm
    I always feel most fit and healthy this time of year.  Why?  Because I've been training for the Pan-Mass Challenge, the annual two-day, 200-mile, bicycle fundraiser for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute that takes place the first weekend in August every year.  It's the granddaddy of all athletic fundraisers, and 100% of all contributions made to sponsor my ride will go directly to the Dana Farber.  Generous event sponsors and rider registration fees underwrite all of the administrative expenses.  This is my seventh year riding in the PMC ... but my first on a recumbent bicycle.  The…

  • Meaningful Use: The Final Rule

    David Harlow
    14 Jul 2010 | 12:27 pm
    Meaningful use was given its final definition yesterday, in the meaningful use final rule released by HHS.  Secretary Sebelius, CMS Adminsitrator Berwick, ONC chief Blumenthal and the two Reginas spoke -- U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, and Regina Holliday, whose late husband's last days were complicated by the failure of health care facilities to release and share health records.  Berwick, in his first full day on the job as CMS Adminstrator, waxed rhapsodic about the pleasures of practicing as a pediatrician at Harvard Community Health Plan using its pioneering electronic health…
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  • Health Wonk Review: In the Here and Now

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    I continue to be impressed with the quality of wonkery displayed by the folks whose submissions you'll see below. Looking back at the first 'Review I ever hosted, I was struck by how many wonk-bloggers [ed: is that even a word?] have left the 'sphere, but quite pleased to see names I recognize as still active: the Health Business Blog's David Williams, my favorite econ-blogger Jason Shafrin, and Workers Comp guru Jon Coppelman (all of whom appear in this edition, as well). I also noticed how short that review really was. I'm all for brevity when appropriate, but there's also no shame in…

  • Mid-Week ObamaCare© Implementation Update

    1 Sep 2010 | 1:14 pm
    First up (and as previously noted but now confirmed), Aetna will no longer write so-called "child-only" plans. These have been useful in, for example, divorce situations and some group-based scenarios, and are now off the table insofar as Aetna's individual medical plans are concerned. While this may not seem to be a big deal, it's a further erosion in the choices available in the (previously) open market.This change is effective October 1st for Kentucky and Indiana, and November 1st for Ohio.If you're tuning in late, these changes are a direct result of ObamaCare©'s careless and destructive…

  • Health Insurance Bridge to Nowhere

    1 Sep 2010 | 6:30 am
    The folks in Washington that gave us the "bridge to nowhere" have done it again, this time with health insurance. ERRP (Early Retirement Reinsurance Program) as announced by HHS is supposed to make it easier for employers to provide health insurance to early retirees. Congress authorized $5 billion of money they did not have to fund this program until 2014.Most expect that will not be enough to support the program, but then, what else is new? According to Sunshine News: Sixty-nine Florida businesses and government entities have been accepted into a new federal program designed to…

  • Oh No She Din't!

    31 Aug 2010 | 12:29 pm
    (That's not a typo - it's yours truly trying to be "hip")Maybe she just can't help it, but HHS Secretary Shecantbeserious just doesn't quite "get" why those of us who oppose the train-wreck that is ObamaCare© might take some slight umbrage at this:"So, we have a lot of reeducation to do" [emphasis added]For those historically-challenged readers, here's why it's so offensive, and telling:"The re-education camp remained the predominant device of social "control" in the late 1980s. It was used to incarcerate members of certain social classes in order to coerce them to accept and conform to the…

  • BlogRoll Update

    31 Aug 2010 | 10:31 am
    I've been meaning to add Andrew Garland's entertaining and enlightening blog for some time, and am pleased as punch to have finally done so. You'll see the Easy Opinions link about 5 spots down from the top (look for the "NEW!" tag), and I heartily recommend clicking through.You'll be glad you did.
 
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  • Rerun: There goes the bride

    David E. Williams of the Health business blog
    2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 am
    The Health Business Blog is on summer vacation until Labor Day, and will be re-running some classic posts from now till then. This item originally ran on April 6, 2009. It’s one of a number of posts I’ve run in favor of a liberal immigration policy. If you’d like to comment, please do so on the original post. Immigration of skilled workers has been a key driver of economic growth and innovation in the US in health care and throughout the economy. However, we are in real danger of losing that edge. The US has made immigration more difficult by restricting visa availability;…

  • Rerun: Are prescription drugs going the way of Napster, YouTube and iTunes?

    David E. Williams of the Health business blog
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:00 am
    The Health Business Blog is on summer vacation until Labor Day, and will be re-running some classic posts from now till then. This item originally ran on August 27, 2008.  If you’d like to comment, please do so on the original post. The distribution of prescription pharmaceuticals is beginning to take on some of the characteristics of online videos and music. Traditionally, access to prescriptions works as follows: Patient has a problem Patients sees his/her physician Physician diagnoses problem and writes prescription Patient takes prescription to traditional pharmacy or PBM-owned…

  • Rerun: Understanding the appeal of Mini-Meds

    David E. Williams of the Health business blog
    31 Aug 2010 | 5:00 am
    The Health Business Blog is on summer vacation until Labor Day, and will be re-running some classic posts from now till then. This item originally ran on April 18, 2007.  Mini-meds look dead due to health reform, but depending on how things goe they may come back. If you’d like to comment, please do so on the original post. I’m not enthusiastic about Mini-Med plans –the policies that offer limited coverage, often capped at $25,000 to $50,000 per year. In some ways they are the opposite of insurance because they pay for routine expenses but don’t cover catastrophic ones. In fact,…

  • Rerun: Welcoming immigrants and robots to fill the nursing shortage

    David E. Williams of the Health business blog
    30 Aug 2010 | 5:00 am
    The Health Business Blog is on summer vacation until Labor Day, and will be re-running some classic posts from now till then. This item originally ran on December 23, 2009. I took a lot of undeserved flak for this one. Maybe people thought I was being disrespectful toward nurses. If you’d like to comment, please do so on the original post. In Nursing crisis looms as baby boomers age, CNN Money repeats a well-known story: there are unlikely to be enough nurses to take care of people as they age. Nursing schools can’t keep up with the demand and trouble awaits. We’ll face a shortage…

  • Rerun: What questions should health plans and employers be asking about medical tourism?

    David E. Williams of the Health business blog
    27 Aug 2010 | 5:00 am
    The Health Business Blog is on summer vacation until Labor Day, and will be re-running some classic posts from now till then. This item originally ran on August 9, 2007. I was into medical tourism at the time, traveling to Singapore and South Korea to check it out for myself. If you’d like to comment, please do so on the original post. Until now, medical tourism has mainly been a self-pay phenomenon. But over time the patient base has expanded from the plastic surgery crowd to the uninsured and underinsured. Now health plans and employers have started to ask what role medical tourism…
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    Disease Management Care Blog

  • The Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up!

    2 Sep 2010 | 7:57 am
    Hank Stern. Here and Now. Insure Blog. Good stuff. Enjoy.

  • Dog Whistle Politics and the Repeal of the ACA: The Endgame is the Privatization of Medicare?

    1 Sep 2010 | 7:23 am
    Emboldened by the further erosion of pubic support for health reform, it seems opponents have become more brazen in their plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act. As the politically naive Disease Management Care Blog understands it, they're planning a two step roll-back. Step 1 is to take control of Congress at the midterm, followed by Step 2, when Mr. Obama is replaced in 2012 with a politician sympathetic to their cause. In the meantime, the DMCB expects the opposition to pursue a scorched earth policy and do everything it can to hobble the ACA. This includes defunding the bill, meddling in…

  • Disease Management and the Patient Centered Medical Home: Moving the Entire Curve

    31 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    With all the usual reservations, the Disease Management Care Blog basically buys into the prevailing Dartmouth Atlas belief that the United States has a problem with both over and underutilization of health care services. So do the Feds. For years, Washington has been pursuing areas of underutilization, for example, with programs to reduce disparities and support critical access hospitals. And thanks to the insights of Dartmouth Atlas, overutilization is now being tackled with programs that, for example, bundle payments and deny coverage of unnecessary services.Both approaches, however, can…

  • The Non-Linearity of Risk and Disease Burden: A Role for Disease Management

    31 Aug 2010 | 10:38 am
    The Disease Management Care Blog has always been taken by the non-linear relationship between disease burden and risk. For a telling example of just how curvy this can be, check out this graph from JAMA. It shows the relationship between blood pressure and the risk of a cardiovascular event (such as heart attack). While there are two risk factors at play (24-hour blood pressure and the ratio of nighttime to daytime measurements), note how risk rapidly curves upward at the higher measures. Decreasing a blood pressure from 196 to 165 carries greater risk reduction than decreasing it from 165 to…

  • Taglines for the Patient Centered Medical Home

    29 Aug 2010 | 5:10 am
    The Patient Centered Medical Home has achieved another stepping stone in its journey to mainstream respectability: it was featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. With that remarkable achievement, it's just a matter of time until this darling of health reform is into primary care thicker than meaningful on use. Knowing that the PCMH will also need to marketed to a grumpy public, the Disease Management Care Blog is pleased to help out by offering these taglines.Your [insert name of chronic condition] is worse? Call our nurse!Getting both you and your doctor home by 4 PM.This…
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  • Digital Medical Office of the Future Conference. Las Vegas, Sept. 9-10

    Vince Kuraitis
    29 Aug 2010 | 1:41 pm
    CLICK HERE FOR THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE Healthcare providers face critical choices in selecting and implementing Electronic Health Records (EHRs). In addition, physicians and hospitals will need to develop the capacity to exchange clinical information in order to meet Meaningful Use requirements. This program will offer detailed and practical information on EHR selection and implementation, as well as strategies for creating a sustainable health information exchange (HIE). The program also features sessions on legal/regulatory issues, clinical platforms and applications as well as strategies…

  • 91% of Citizens Want All Their Healthcare Data Stored in One Place, in an EHR…

    Vince Kuraitis
    4 Aug 2010 | 11:52 am
    …Australian citizens, that is…not U.S. citizens.  See Dr. David Moore’s writeup in Australian Health Information Technology. Of course, you’d never see this type broad support for centralized EHRs in the U.S. Is this good or bad? You can decide for yourself…but at the very least this caught my attention as illustrating communitarian vs. individualistic tendencies in different world nations.   No tag for this post.

  • A Manifesto for Healthcare’s Disruptive Innovation of the Decade: Open EHR Technology Platform(s) and Ecosystem

    Vince Kuraitis
    19 Jul 2010 | 11:29 am
    fyi, here’s a copy of my PowerPoint presentation at today’s Healthcare Unbound conference. The Twitter hashtag for the event is #HCU10. No tag for this post.

  • Medicare MAPCP Medical Home Demo: CMS Kicks Sands in the States’ Faces

    Vince Kuraitis
    30 Jun 2010 | 9:11 am
    by Jaan Sidorov, MD and Vince Kuraitis The Medicare MAPCP (Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Practice) demo promised to be Medicare’s Biggest Change in 40 Years… …but the emerging reality isn’t living up to the promise. In this post, we’ll discuss: The Promise An Overview of the MAPCP Demo Our Main Takeaway: Emerging Reality Suggests Medicare Will Be a “Difficult” Partner Conclusion: Think Twice Before Signing Up 1) The Promise The sandbox metaphor was first used by the National Academy for State Health Policy: For the 10 or more states that are active stakeholders in…

  • 16 Capabilities Physicians Will Need to Implement New Payment Models

    Vince Kuraitis
    13 Jun 2010 | 11:08 am
    (click on the graphic to download the document) Depending on the nature of the payment changes which are made, physicians may need to enhance their capabilities in some or all of the following sixteen areas: 1. Achieving sufficient patient volume to support a new or improved service. 2. Having sufficient upfront capital to design and implement a new or improved service. 3. Having the skills/experience to efficiently/effectively implement a new/improved service. 4. Having the ability to obtain and analyze data on the quality of services. 5. Having the skills/experience to improve the quality…
 
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    Colorado Health Insurance Insider

  • Money For Health Insurance Premium Increase Reviews

    Louise
    1 Sep 2010 | 10:45 am
    Back in March, the Colorado Division of Insurance launched a review of the rate increase they had previously approved for Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield individual policies.  It was a process that was supposed to be finished in just a couple months, but might end up taking the rest of the year as analysts consider all of the data involved in determining what rates were appropriate for 2010.  Anthem is so far the only Colorado carrier that has been subjected to such protracted scrutiny by the Division of Insurance, but as we noted when the issue first came up, Anthem’s 2010 rates were…

  • Early Retiree Reinsurance Program Proving Very Popular

    Louise
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:46 pm
    Earlier this summer, HHS announced that businesses could begin submitting applications to the newly-created Early Retiree Reinsurance Program in order to receive federal funding to help pay for retirees’ health insurance until they become eligible for Medicare.  To date, 2000 businesses have been approved for the program, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says that this is just the beginning.  Businesses have shown great interest in the reinsurance program, and Sebelius notes that they have received applications from “… more than 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies, all…

  • Amendment 63 On The Ballot In Colorado

    Louise
    27 Aug 2010 | 3:34 pm
    Throughout this year, the Independence Institute has been working to get a measure on the ballot in Colorado to block the health care reform legislation that would require everyone to have health insurance starting in 2014.  Yesterday, the Colorado Secretary of State confirmed that the amendment supporters have gathered enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot, so it will be up for a vote in November. Interestingly, the amendment wording does not make any attempt to reverse the provisions in the PPACA that require health insurance carriers to accept all applicants as of 2014. If I…

  • Deciphering Medical Loss Ratio Rules

    Louise
    25 Aug 2010 | 4:40 pm
    Jaan Sidorov of the Disease Management Care Blog has started deciphering the specifics of the Medical Loss Ratio requirements, and it looks like the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is taking a rather inclusive view of medicine in their interpretation of the law.  Ever since the MLR minimums were laid out in the PPACA, there has been much debate over what would be considered administrative costs.  It’s heartening to see the NAIC giving so much leeway in terms of what will be considered medical expenses. On page 8 of the proposal, it’s noted that community…

  • Why Medicare For All Might Not Be So Great

    Louise
    23 Aug 2010 | 12:38 pm
    Maggie Mahar’s articles are typically well worth reading, and her take on why a single payer health care system is not a practical or affordable idea for the near future is no exception.  The idea stems from the hope of some liberals that conservatives will overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA), disaster will ensue in the health care system, and this will pave the way for a single payer system. But Maggie points out that this isn’t likely to be the case (instead, we’d just end up with continuing unchecked price increases for health care services, and correlated increases…
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  • Health Wonk Review: In the Here and Now Edition

    Jason Shafrin
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:49 am
    The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review is up at Hank Stern’s always interesting InsureBlog.

  • Are All Readmissions Bad Readmissions?

    Jason Shafrin
    1 Sep 2010 | 7:36 am
    Currently, Medicare and private insurers are attempting to put in place incentives to reduce the number of readmissions. Visits to the hospital are costly and reducing the frequency of hospital visits is the best means to reduce medical costs. In particular, if readmissions are the fault of the care the patients receive during the initial admissions, hospitals should be liable for subsequent care. On the other hand, a recent letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, argues that high readmission rates may in fact indicate high quality care. “A higher occurrence of readmissions…

  • Tuesday Links

    Jason Shafrin
    31 Aug 2010 | 2:04 pm
    California Workers Comp: Parts I and II. Decriminalizing drugs in the Czech Republic. Bad news for Alzheimer’s Treatment The solution to obesity: school playgrounds? An interview with a nurse practitioner. Homo economicus in Paris.

  • Econometric Methods for Fractional Response Variables

    Jason Shafrin
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:29 am
    Oftentimes, people use the following rule of thumb: if the dependent variable is continuous, use OLS; if binary use a logit or probit.  But what should you do if your dependent variable is fraction between 0 and 1.  To use a logit or probit one would have to unnecessarily transform the dependent variable into binary form.  If one would use OLS, the estimation of the coefficients would likely be incorrect.  Because the dependent variable is bounded between 0 and 1, the effenct of any explanatory variably xj cannot be constant through its entire range. Additionally, the predicted values…

  • Detailing the Provisions of the Health Reform Law

    Jason Shafrin
    29 Aug 2010 | 11:32 pm
    Stephen Zuckerman has a nice summary of the key provisions in the Health Reform law (i.e., PPACA).  There are six broad changes: i) the creation of health insurance exchanges, ii) an excise tax on high-cost health plans, iii) creating the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), iv) Medicare policy changes v) additional emphasis on prevention and wellness, and vi) increased efforts to reduce waste fraud and abuse.  The following sections will discuss each of these changes in more detail. Health Insurance Exchanges The creation of health insurance exchanges is intended to provide…
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  • It's fresh Health Wonk Review and news roundup day

    Julie Ferguson
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:47 am
    Grab a coffee and head on over to Hank Stern's InsureBlog, where he's posted Health Wonk Review: In the Here and Now. He describes it as a "minimalist" style, which means more meat, less potatoes! And in other noteworthy news this week: Twittering insurers - Terry Golesworthy features an interesting post about how insurers are using Twitter, along with lists...

  • ADA and Fitness for Duty Exams: No Fear

    Jon Coppelman
    31 Aug 2010 | 11:36 am
    Today we examine an interesting case where the ADA runs up against OSHA's general duty clause, where the individual's right to "reasonable accommodation" collides with the need to ensure the safety of the general public. In 1999 Oscar Brownfield became a policemen in Yakima, Washington. By all accounts, he was a good cop. In 2000 he suffered a head injury...

  • Remembering Katrina

    Julie Ferguson
    30 Aug 2010 | 1:26 pm
    If you haven't discovered the gem that is the Boston Globe's "Big Picture" yet, you are missing a wonderful feature. Billed as "news stories in photographs" it is a themed news essay curated by Alan Taylor. From the BP oil disaster to the floods in Pakistan, the photos add a visual narrative to breaking stories of the day. This past...

  • Massachusetts Comp: The Power of "Any 3 Persons"

    Jon Coppelman
    26 Aug 2010 | 10:37 am
    Massachusetts has been in the forefront of the independent contractor issue. The state has narrowed the definition of "independent contractor" to the point where almost anybody can be defined as an employee. But how do you enforce this? Where is the leverage to confront employers who are avoiding comp premiums by misclassifying their employees as independent contractors? Under the direct...

  • Cavalcade of Risk #112 and various workers comp news briefs

    Julie Ferguson
    25 Aug 2010 | 7:15 am
    The Notwithstanding Blog puts a medical spin on things in hosting Cavalcade of Risk #112: Medical School Edition. This is an excellent showing for a new host and a relatively new blogger, self described as an "economics-trained fledgling first-year medical student." After you've perused this week's edition, why not poke around his blog a bit to kick the tires? Workplace...
 
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  • On CVD, the Prevention Paradox, and Inequities

    Daniel Goldberg
    28 Aug 2010 | 3:05 pm
    Simon Capewell and Hilary Graham have an important new article out in PLoS Medicine (full-text open access) entitled Will Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Widen Health Inequalities? Here are the summary points: The primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is dependent on the effective reduction of the major risk factors for CVD, particularly tobacco control and a healthier diet. The high-risk approach to prevent CVD typically involves population screening. Those exceeding a risk threshold are then given lifestyle advice and/or tablets to reduce blood cholesterol and blood…

  • Call for Papers: Fat Studies and Masculinity

    Daniel Goldberg
    25 Aug 2010 | 6:23 am
    Call for Papers: Fat Studies & Masculinity As an interdisciplinary field, fat studies has drawn from significant roots of feminist and women’s literature. The socio-historic norms and policing of women’s embodiment and power continue to be important areas study, but the cultural influence upon and experience of men and masculine-identified individuals offers a rich opportunity for investigation and dialogue. This special issue seeks to establish an interdisciplinary academic discussion of fat manhood and masculinities. Concerns about obesity and health have entered the national…

  • On the History of Intellectual Disability (and Paul Longmore)

    Daniel Goldberg
    20 Aug 2010 | 10:59 am
    Disability historian Paul Longmore, who died on August 9, penned this erudite review of Alison Carey's new history of intellectual disability in the U.S., entitled On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America Here is an excerpt from the review: [Carey's] argument is rich and complex, too complicated to be summarized simply.  She shows that in every era ideas about intellectual disability and the experience of people with intellectual disabilities have challenged, conflicted with, or operated in tension…

  • On Victorian Disability

    Daniel Goldberg
    20 Aug 2010 | 7:46 am
    Speaking of disability history, the Victorian Review has a theme issue out on disability history.  There look to be a number of excellent articles.  Here is the TOC: Forum: Victorian Prostheses Genie BabbThe Prosthetic Body Gregory BrophyThe Sphygmograph Fiona CollThe Victorian Automaton as Imaginary Prosthetic Nadja DurbachBaby Incubators and the Prosthetic Womb Anna HenchmanThe Telescope Tamara KetabgianCalculating Divinity: Babbage’s Engine, Spiritual Intelligence, and the Senses Ivan KreilkampAnthroprosthesis, or Prosthetic Dogs Don RandallThe Imperial Boy as…

  • On the Death of Paul Longmore

    Daniel Goldberg
    10 Aug 2010 | 8:08 pm
    Historian, disability studies scholar, and disability rights activist Paul Longmore died on 8.9.10.  His death is a great loss to all three areas of activity; he was instrumental in the rise of disability history as a distinctive sub-history, and is the author of numerous erudite and provocative pieces.  I regularly use this one in my teaching, and find his amazing blend of advocacy, truly righteous indignation, and scholarship both amazing and singular. His death is a loss, but his life and work will and should be honored. Stephen Drake at Not Dead Yet offers some thoughts…
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    Health Beat

  • A Longer-Term Fix For Medicaid?

    Naomi Freundlich
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:40 pm
    The news on Monday that one in six Americans are now enrolled in government poverty programs (Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance and welfare) was an unsettling reminder of the economic fix we currently are in. Medicaid, as I’ve written before is now serving 50 million Americans, up at least 17% from when the recession began in 2007.With a short-term, but ultimately inadequate, fix coming in the guise of Congress' $26 billion grant to states that extends federal increases in Medicaid funding that were part of the stimulus package, imminent disaster may have been averted. But…

  • Rick Scott: A Great Makeover, But Still the Same Guy – Part 2

    Maggie Mahar
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:21 pm
    Summary: Rick Scott, the former hospital executive who is now a candidate to become Governor of Florida epitomizes the power that concentrated  wealth now has to influence American politics—and, perhaps, buy elections. As Jane Mayer explains in her superb New Yorker piece about the multi-billionaire Koch brothers: “they are trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own [libertarian] politics… They are out to destroy progressives.” Of course there are real questions as to whether the “populist uprising” of tea-baggers is a genuine grass-roots…

  • Implementing Health Care Reform: The Health Wonk Review Highlights Posts that Raise Questions

    Maggie Mahar
    28 Aug 2010 | 7:06 pm
    The most recent Health Wonk Review, hosted by Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters, raises provocative questions about making health care reform a reality. You’ll find Paduda’s round-up of some of the meatiest health care posts that have appeared on the blogosphere in recent weeks here:  http://www.joepaduda.com/archives/001888.html Below, a summary of just a few posts, with my thoughts on the topics.  If I had more time, I would write about all of them. I urge you to check out the entire Review.

  • I Remember Rick Scott: A Great Makeover, but Still the Same Guy Part-1

    Maggie Mahar
    26 Aug 2010 | 2:13 pm
    Summary: When I wrote Money-Driven Medicine, the Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (Harper Collins, 2006),  Rick Scott stood out as one of the more memorable characters in a  rogues’ gallery of CEOs who helped create the stock market bubble of the 1990s.This week, Rick Scott beat Florida Attorney General Bill McCollumn to win the Republican party’s nomination for governor, shattering campaign spending records by investing $50 million of his own money in the race.  Yesterday, in an interview with CNN, Scott said there is no limit on how much of his own money he would…

  • Rick Scott’s “Inner Voice”

    Maggie Mahar
    26 Aug 2010 | 2:03 pm
    Below, an excerpt from an imaginary dialogue between Rick Scott and Rick Scott’s “inner voice”  from Warren Langer’s blog “Still liberal at 83” http://stillliberalat83.net/2010/06/28/rick-scott-republican-candidate-for-florida-governor-talks-to-rick-scott/ It seems, to me, to capture Scott’s inner spirit in an important way Rick Scott, Republican Candidate for Florida Governor, talks to Rick Scott Inner voice: What’s happening handsome? Scott:         I’ve been thinking of taking over Florida. It’s broken and broke and…
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    Health Care Renewal

  • American Board of Medical Specialties to "incorporate tools to promote meaningful use of health IT into its maintenance-of-certification program"

    1 Sep 2010 | 7:09 am
    From an Aug. 16 article "Industry pushes meaningful use through incentives" in Modern Healthcare (signup unfortunately required):... Physicians will also be feeling the pressure to be IT savvy in order to maintain their professional certification. The American Board of Medical Specialties said that it would incorporate tools to promote meaningful use of health IT into its maintenance-of-certification program.More than 750,000 U.S. physicians are certified by an American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) member board, “so it’s readily apparent” [really? - ed.] that building meaningful…

  • More Hospital CEOs Join the Millionaire's Club, This Time in Baltimore

    31 Aug 2010 | 8:09 am
    As we predicted, more stringent requirements by the US Internal Revenue Service for financial reporting by not-for-profit organizations, including hospitals and hospital systems, have produced an enlarging parade of revelations of obese pay packages for hospital leaders.  The latest report came out courtesy the Baltimore Sun:Baltimore-area hospital CEOs and presidents boast seven-figure salaries, club and gym memberships, and paid financial planning and tax services as part of compensation packages from their nonprofit employers.According to a survey of Baltimore-area hospitals, the…

  • "Trouble Coming Every Day" as Discussed by our Fellow Health Care Skeptics

    30 Aug 2010 | 3:58 pm
    With apologies to the late Frank Zappa... even though we are going through the dog days of summer, the parade of health care troubles in the news is never ending, so I thought I would recap some of the more interesting issues discussed by some of my fellow health care skeptic bloggers.We have discussed the ongoing decline of primary care. On DB's Medical Rants, Dr Robert Centor takes on the topic: "The system has, without consciously meaning to, held primary care in contempt." The result is a "quiet rebellion: of primary doctors.We have discussed whether the currently fashionable idea of…

  • Health IT Personnel - Aliens in Healthcare?

    30 Aug 2010 | 7:16 am
    --------------------------------Sept. 1Important note - it appears the survey results referenced below were contaminated by activists who could not allow this survey to occur unmolested. From HIStalk, the source of the survey, a site ordinarily read by a relatively narrow health IT-involved audience:If you’ve been following the current poll and comments on Ed Marx’s Blessing of the Hands post, you may wonder why the comments suddenly turned ugly. An atheist blogger linked to it and his followers dropped by to vote and opine. Since the point was to find out what industry people think,…

  • Similar Conclusions on Health IT Via Observation and Via Research: Is HIT 'Mission Impossible'?

    29 Aug 2010 | 7:08 pm
    The Wall Street Journal reported on a study in Health Affairs entitled "A Progress Report On Electronic Health Records In U.S. Hospitals" by Harvard researcher Ashish Jha and colleagues.An Aug. 27 WSJ Health Blog post was entitled "Only 2% of Hospitals Could Have Met ‘Meaningful Use’ in 2009."While the topic of this Healthcare Renewal post is not about Jha's new article per se, I will provide the article's summary:Despite all the talk about digitizing the health-care world, only 11.9% of U.S. hospitals had adopted at least basic electronic medical records by last year, and only about 2%…
 
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  • FDA/FCC on Wireless Medical Devices

    William Hyman
    6 Aug 2010 | 11:01 am
    A public meeting on Converged Communications and Healthcare Devices Impact on Regulation (see here) was convened by the FDA and FCC on July 26-27, 2010. The major topics addressed by panels were (1) Current State of Wireless Health & Lessons Learned, (2) Innovator Perspective, (3) Healthcare Provider, Clinician & Patient perspective, (4) Investor and Research & Development perspective, (5) Reliability - How to Define Quality of Service, and (6) Electromagnetic Compatibility - How to Promote EMC. A complete transcript of the meeting will be forthcoming at the conference link given…

  • Progress (?) on Clinical Decision Support

    William Hyman
    21 Apr 2010 | 10:52 am
    The AHRQ has released a report (available here) on the implementation of clinical decision support (CDS) software within the context of an EMR. This report reviews the work to date of two AHRQ demonstration grant recipients, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine. In each of these projects the intent was, at least in part, to implement two or more existing practice guidelines as on line and integrated component of the EMR. In the context of these projects CDS means the provision of clinical knowledge and patient-specific information to help make decisions…

  • The 25 Elements of “Meaningful Use”

    William Hyman
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am
    The Recovery Act that initiated the process of providing incentive payments for the adoption and use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) included the provision that such systems support “meaningful use” if they are to be certified and funded. Of course if you have to have meaningful use, then meaningful use has to be defined, and them measured. After a round or two of proposals and comments, CMS issued an Interim Final Rule on December 30, 2009. (The idea that a Final Rule can be Interim is itself a masterwork of government speak.) The governments discussion of this process is…

  • Medical Device Interoperability Workshop

    Tim Gee
    17 Jan 2010 | 3:59 pm
    There is a FDA (CDRH) Workshop on Medical Device Interoperability scheduled for January 25 - 27 at the FDA’s White Oak Campus in Silver Springs, MD. Here’s a link to the meeting’s official web site, which includes a number of downloadable files on the agenda, meeting logistics and background. There is little question the workflow automation and intelligence offered by interconnecting medical devices can improve patient safety. There’s also little doubt that there is significant market demand for such solutions.  For example, if hospitals could purchase PCA pumps and…

  • Tim Gee Affiliates with Santa Rosa Consulting for Provider Consulting

    Tim Gee
    30 Dec 2009 | 9:01 pm
    This month marks the end my 5th year as an independent consultant. Over that time, I’ve had the opportunity to complete many great projects for a variety of clients, large and small. A basic objective has always been to provide services to both  manufacturers and health care providers. The general knowledge gained — both current trends and the depths of complex issues — from working with providers has always benefited my manufacturer clients, the same holds true for providers based on the perspectives gained working for manufacturers. While I’ve done projects for some…
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    Monday Morning

  • Mea culpa: An apology to people who have written comments

    Dean Barbara K. Rimer
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:14 pm
    I apologize to everyone who has written comments to which I did not respond. I put a lot of thought into writing blog posts. I have not been as diligent in checking for comments (which sometimes appear on prior blogs) back in time. I am guilty of one of the errors I dislike in others — non-responsiveness. So, if you have written before, and I did not reply, please try me again if you feel moved to comment. If you haven’t commented, please let me know what you think. I am grateful for both regular and occasional readers and want to hear from you. Thank you! Barbara

  • Chapel Hill welcomes new students, traffic snarls and all

    Dean Barbara K. Rimer
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:14 pm
    Our SPH Feels Their Energy Each fall, when the new group of students arrives, energetic, enthusiastic and optimistic, it’s a major adrenaline boost for everyone here, me included. Last week was non-stop orientations. Our all-School orientation, which I wrote about last week, was the best one I’ve seen in my time here. Felicia Mebane and her team did a great job, and what a terrific group of students! I especially enjoyed our session with undergraduates. While they are fewer in number than our graduate students, they are no less important. We are better, because we have undergraduate…

  • Welcome students

    Dean Barbara K. Rimer
    25 Aug 2010 | 9:41 am
    Welcome back to our returning students! We look forward to seeing you and hearing about your summer experiences. Welcome to our new students! We were so excited to meet with you Monday morning. Chapel Hill is swarming with people, excitement and lots of animated conversations. Whatever happened to all the parking places! Saturday, I joined a number of other people from around campus to welcome some of our new students to our annual Diversity Orientation. It seemed like the best turnout yet. We so appreciate that senior UNC-Chapel Hill leaders like Archie Ervin, Terri Phoenix and Roy Charles…

  • Massacre in Afghanistan

    Dean Barbara K. Rimer
    10 Aug 2010 | 10:13 am
    Medical/dental workers slain in Afghanistan The massacre of medical and dental volunteers in the Badakhshan region of Afghanistan is horrifying and appalling. As I read stories about the dedicated individuals who donated their time to improving the health of people in Afghanistan, their loss feels very personal. I can imagine people from UNC who easily could have been in that position. Surgeon Karen Woo’s blog detailed her preparations for the trip and the wedding that was to have taken place after she returned. See also: Guardian article Wall Street Journal article It doesn’t make sense…

  • School leads on oil spill issues, diversity

    Dean Barbara K. Rimer
    4 Aug 2010 | 9:57 am
    School and partners convened on oil spill I’m proud of the way Bill Gentry (Director, Certificate Programs and Lecturer, Health Policy and Management) from our School, mobilized people across UNC-Chapel Hill and beyond to talk about potential consequences of the Gulf oil spill for N.C. The public health, veterinary and preparedness communities were well-represented along with experts from key fields. It’s really important that we not just sit back and wait for the future to happen, but that we anticipate what might happen and determine how we can intervene. Bill created an excellent…
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    Healthin30.com

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship: How Patients Can Help Enhance Communication

    admin
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:03 am
    By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA From Kevin Pho’s medical blog, KevinMD, a post archived from 2004, Pho talks about the struggles of communication between doctor and patient during the 15 minute office visit. Pho sites a NY Times article that explains that more than two decades ago, research shows that patients were interrupted 18 seconds into explaining their problem (on average) and less than 2 percent got to finish their explanations. Pho sites that he sometimes falls into the “interruption trap.” “I think this is a natural progression to our managed care environment. Physicians…

  • AHCJ Invites Qualified Health Journalists and Broadcasters to Possibly Connect

    admin
    31 Aug 2010 | 9:16 am
    By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA In a recent post I wrote about the unfortunate disbandment of NAMC and provided information about the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) as a possible alternative for former members to continue in health journalism. “NAMC folds, qualified members invited to AHCJ” by Pia Christensen, AHCJ member writes about the disbandment and the new membership guidelines that could offer former members the possibility for professional or associate membership. Additionally, for those health and medical professionals who write and broadcast health news…

  • Legacy of NAMC Comes to a Halt, Founding Member Bill Crounse, MD Bids Farewell and AHCJ Open its Doors

    admin
    25 Aug 2010 | 10:17 am
    By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA First, I’d like to say with a very heavy heart how saddened I am by the news of the disbandment of NAMC… The National Association of Medical Communicators (NAMC) closes its doors after more than two decades of inspiring health professionals to accurately communicate health and medical information to the public. NAMC has been spearheading its members in broadcast journalism, but succumbs to the pressures to stay vibrant and says farewell. Amid cutbacks from pharmaceutical sponsors and the changing landscape of broadcast journalism, NAMC shuts its doors,…

  • Egg Recall Tied to Salmonella, List of Recalled Eggs, How to Read Carton and What to do to Stay Safe

    admin
    22 Aug 2010 | 12:19 pm
    By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Latest egg recall update Health officials urge consumers to throw away contaminated eggs or return them to the retailer. Salmonella, the name of a group of bacteria, is the most common cause of food poisoning in the United States. Usually, symptoms last 4-7 days and most people get better without treatment. But, salmonella can be more serious in older adults, infants, and persons with chronic illnesses. [Source] Wright County Egg conducted a nationwide voluntary recall of shell eggs on August 13, 2010.   The eggs were packaged under 13 different brand names…

  • Health 2.0 in San Francisco to Offer the Latest in Innovative Health IT, Oct 7-8

    admin
    20 Aug 2010 | 1:19 pm
    Health 2.0 Fall Agenda Announced, Oct 7-8 Guest Post by Matthew Holt This week we’ve announced the line up (or the first chunk of it) for the 4th annual Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco Oct 7-8. The conference is the climax of  Health Innovation Week — a week long series of conferences, meetings, and events highlighting innovation in health care information technology. Health 2.0 will focus on Search & Content, Communities, the Data Utility Layer, Tools and Unplatforms, case studies of Health 2.0-enhanced delivery reform, and the wider (and unmentionable) context for…
 
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    Global Health Watch | PBS NewsHour | PBS

  • Slideshow: Long Road for Pakistan Flood Victims

    27 Aug 2010 | 12:01 pm
    NewsHour Special Correspondent Jeffrey Kaye is in Pakistan this week, reporting on the aftermath of devastating monsoon flooding that left at least 8 million people in need of aid. In the audio slideshow below, Kaye narrates photos he took in the field with his impressions from the ground and what's ahead for Pakistan's flood victims. For more of Kaye's reporting from the disaster zone, watch his piece on the threat of waterborne illness, or read his reporter's notebooks on the scale of the flooding, and surveying the damage with the head of USAID.

  • Waterborne Disease Threat Overwhelming Medical Workers in Pakistan

    26 Aug 2010 | 3:05 pm
    PBS NewsHourWatch This SegmentListen to the AudioMedical personnel in Pakistan are working to control the spread of flood-related waterborne disease, but they face a monumental task as the humanitarian crisis worsens. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye reports. JIM LEHRER: In Northern Pakistan, disease is overwhelming the local health care systems.We have a report from there by special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye.JEFFREY KAYE: More than a month of heavy monsoon rains are continuing to trigger epic floods throughout a major swathe of Pakistan.But even in areas where floodwaters are receding,…

  • Judge Blocks Stem Cell Research

    23 Aug 2010 | 3:52 pm
    A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration's guidelines expanding embryonic stem cell research.U.S. Chief District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that government funding of embryonic stem-cell research violates a law -- known as the Dickey Wicker Amendment-- that bans using federal money for research in which an embryo is destroyed."The Dickey-Wicker Amendment unambiguously prohibits the use of federal funds for all research in which a human embryo is destroyed," Lamberth wrote. "It is not limited to prohibit federal funding of only the 'piece of research' in which an…

  • Pakistani Aid Effort Hurt by Scale, Terrain, Instability

    23 Aug 2010 | 3:23 pm
    PBS NewsHourWatch This SegmentListen to the AudioAs millions of Pakistanis struggle to meet their basic needs due to widespread flooding, aid groups are running into significant challenges trying to help them. Judy Woodruff talks to Daniel Wordsworth, CEO of the American Refugee Committee, about the myriad challenges aid groups face as they work to help Pakistanis. JEFFREY BROWN: Judy Woodruff takes the story from there.JUDY WOODRUFF: For more on the problems that aid groups are facing with relief efforts, we're joined now by Daniel Wordsworth. He's the president and CEO of the American…

  • In Pakistan, Years of Future Hardship in Water's Wake

    23 Aug 2010 | 3:17 pm
    PBS NewsHourWatch This SegmentListen to the AudioFloodwaters are moving south in Pakistan but trouble is possibly brewing in the unstable north as well. Special correspondent Saima Mohsin reports on the ongoing humanitarian crisis. GWEN IFILL: Now the Pakistan floods.The waters continue to spread south, while the damage left in the waters' wake to the north create new challenges for an area still coping with fallout from the fighting between the Taliban and Pakistani government.Special correspondent Saima Mohsin reports from the town of Nowshera.SAIMA MOHSIN: These scenes speak volumes about…
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    Sensei Talks

  • Grilled Peaches & Ice Cream

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:43 am
    Grilling seasonal fruit is the perfect way to end a Labor Day celebration! This recipe is super simple, but sure to please. Grilled Peaches & Ice CreamServes 63 large peaches, cut in half and pits removed (peaches should be ripe but still firm)¼ cup brown sugar½ tsp cinnamon2 Tbsp water3 cups low-fat vanilla or peach ice creamPreheat the grill to high. Brush and oil the grate. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, and water in a small bowl. Place peach halves over direct heat and grill until nicely browned, 3 to 4 minutes per side, basting with the brown sugar glaze. Put a ½ cup scoop of ice…

  • Are Super-Sized Portions Super-Sizing You?

    1 Sep 2010 | 7:51 am
    We all know that typical portion sizes in restaurants have increased significantly over the past few decades. Add to that the fact that people don’t really know how much food they should be eating and you have yourself a recipe for diet disaster. A recent report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) published in the September issue of Nutrition Action finds that even what would be considered a “regular” portion at many popular chain restaurants is actually 2-3 times bigger than what the government defines as healthy. Let’s look at a few examples. A dinner size…

  • Master Procrastinator

    31 Aug 2010 | 6:44 am
    I am a master of selective procrastination. Why figure out something today you can wait to deal with tomorrow? It is not something I would have admitted, admired, or addressed until very recently. But now that I know, I see how easy it is to fool yourself; and when you believe your own excuses, it’s very easy to fool other people as well.Now that I’m getting comfortable with it, I’m beginning to like almost everything about it. Especially the name. Pro-crastinator. Like Professor, or Professional, it sounds important, like not just anyone can do it. Someday it may even be licensed. Who…

  • Do You Know Gilad?

    30 Aug 2010 | 7:10 am
    Few people can be recognized by just one name. In the fitness community, Gilad is one of them. Gilad Janklowic has been an expert in the fitness industry for many years. He was one of the first personal trainers/aerobic instructors to be featured on a television show. I remember watching his first show on ESPN back in 1985 when I was just 13. I was always interesting in exercising and I loved watching his show. I think he deserves partial credit for me being a personal trainer and owning a gym!Since he’s been on TV for 25 years, you may have seen his show. He calls it Bodies in Motion and…

  • Obesity: Let’s Focus on the Cure

    27 Aug 2010 | 7:32 am
    Something struck me as funny (odd, not ha ha) while scanning headlines in health and weight earlier this week:“Does Driving Cause Obesity?”“Beverages and Weight Gain: You Are What You Drink”“Are Parents of Obese Children Guilty of Abuse?”“Defending the Anti-Obesity Movement”“Salon Charges Overweight Customers Extra”The governmental focus on obesity makes it a VERY hot topic. Being so ‘hot’ everyone is looking for a way to capitalize; some with prevention, some by making strange associations, and others by taking advantage of the overweight.I have to wonder. How, as a…
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    TradePub: Healthcare

  • Finding a Cure for Downtime

    1 Sep 2010 | 2:50 pm
    Whether you're a local community hospital or national health network, this paper outlines seven key tips that every healthcare organization should consider to protect the availability of healthcare information systems. From reducing human error, to understanding the key differences between high availability and disaster recovery, to selecting the right hardware and storage components, this paper provides an overview of the key steps necessary to ensure the availability and integrity of your healthcare information systems.Request Free!

  • MobiHealthNews

    1 Sep 2010 | 12:20 am
    MobiHealthNews is the leading trade publication for the wireless healthcare industry. MobiHealthNews offers a combination of breaking news, exclusive interviews, live event coverage and industry commentary to its growing readership of hospital administrators, healthcare service providers, physicians, nurses and the industry players designing, developing and deploying the wireless services that are transforming healthcare today. Discover why thousands of healthcare executives rely on MobiHealthNews to track innovations and to define sustainable business models for this emerging wireless health…

  • American Laboratory

    1 Sep 2010 | 12:20 am
    American Laboratory is a practical resource for analytical chemistry laboratory solutions for chemists and life scientists with interest in the application of modern scientific instrumentation for the practice of analytical/bioanalytical chemistry, basic research, applied spectroscopy, petrochemicals, and material science.Request Free!

  • Nutritional Outlook

    1 Sep 2010 | 12:20 am
    Published nine times per year, each issue analyzes developments in regulations, ingredients, quality control, manufacturing technology, packaging, marketing and new products.Request Free!

  • Biotechnology Healthcare

    1 Sep 2010 | 12:20 am
    Its editorial mission is to articulate biomedical business and clinical applications to healthcare decision makers and stakeholders. A strict fact-checking and peer review process assures the accuracy and relevance of editorial content.Request Free!
 
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    Ann Pietrangelo - Care2 Reform Health Policy

  • HHS Unveils Interactive Insurance-Finder Widget

    Past Member
    25 Aug 2010 | 1:11 pm
    The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has announced a new interactive widget to assist consumers in figuring out their health care coverage options. The widget embed code is available to anyone who wishes to post it on their own website or b...

  • Embryonic Stem Cell Ruling Halts March Toward Cures

    Past Member
    24 Aug 2010 | 3:05 pm
    For people waiting for cures, the wait just got longer as embryonic stem cell research in the United States takes a step backward. Researchers value embryonic stem cells for their ability to morph into any cell of the body, with the potential for be...

  • The 'Granny Pod' Alternative

    Past Member
    23 Aug 2010 | 10:30 pm
    The MEDCottage, or so called “Granny Pod,” is being marketed as “family managed health care as an alternative to long-term care facilities.” The 12 foot by 24 foot portable, modular “medical home,” unveiled this pa...

  • Fast Food-Statin Combo Meal

    Past Member
    20 Aug 2010 | 8:00 pm
    One burger, a large order of fries, and some free statins. What if you could bypass the doctor and the pharmacist and get your statins directly from your fast-food provider? Talk about cutting out the middle-man. At least that’s what researcher...

  • Bills Push Access to Technology for Disabled

    Past Member
    19 Aug 2010 | 11:30 pm
    Legislation to make consumer electronics more accessible to vision and hearing-impaired people is winding its way through Congress. Some of the key provisions of the legislation would provide a larger selection of cell phones with speech software ...
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    DermTV

  • Medium Depth Peels

    Doctor
    2 Sep 2010 | 3:59 am
    Most at-home peels range in strength from 0.5 - 2% (salicylic) and 8 - 15% (glycolic), but what about higher strength peels? What's the difference between low and medium strength peels? In this episode of DermTV.com, Dr. Schultz compares and contrasts low and medium depth peels, and specifically explains what medium strength peels can do.

  • Abnormal Hair Loss in Women

    Doctor
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:59 am
    There is normal hair loss, but when does it become abnormal? In this episode of DermTV, Dr. Schultz explains how to identify abnormal hair loss in women as well as how to treat it.

  • Normal Hair Growth and Hair Loss in Women

    Doctor
    29 Aug 2010 | 3:59 am
    The first time you start to see your hair falling down the shower drain or sticking to a hair brush can be a scary experience. But just because you're loosing hair doesn't mean it's abnormal. In fact, there's such a thing as normal hair loss. In this episode of DermTV, Dr. Schultz discusses normal hair loss and hair growth in women, and in another abnormal, so you can learn whether those few strands of hair floating around are a normal occurrence or something to look into.

  • Do Topical Antihistamines Relieve Itching

    Doctor
    26 Aug 2010 | 3:59 am
    Most people assume that topical antihistamines relieve itching. However, that isn't always the case. In this episode of DermTV.com, Dr. Schultz shares which topical antihistamines actually relieve itching as well as some other effective treatments.

  • Is It Safe to Exfoliate with Broken Capillaries

    Doctor
    24 Aug 2010 | 3:59 am
    Dr. Schultz believes that exfoliation is one of the most important and beneficial treatments for your skin. However, is it safe to exfoliate if you have broken capillaries? In this episode of DermTV, Dr. Schultz answers this question.
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    CAM Watcher

  • Environmental Health Perspectives is offering 3 FREE Issues

    Sabra Way
    6 Aug 2010 | 4:28 am
    EHP is pleased to announce the launch of its new Digital Edition! As an introduction to the newest member of the EHP family, we are offering readers free access to the April, May, and June issues of our Digital Edition. EHP Digital Edition blends the best of our print and online formats, offering an enhanced way to read EHP. And, if you've never seen EHP in print, this is the perfect opportunity to discover what you've been missing. Enjoy EHP's spectacular and informative print layouts with all the convenience of live linking and digital sharability—it's the complete EHP…

  • Free Articles for the Month of August- Journal of Breastfeeding Medicine

    Sabra Way
    6 Aug 2010 | 3:59 am
    The Journal, Breastfeeding Medicine is offering all its articles for free online access this month. Sure it will take a little time to scan through them and read what catches your eye. Unless you subscribe to the journal each article is usually about $30US. So take this opportunity to read some articles.In recognition of World Breastfeeding Week, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. will provide free online access to Breastfeeding Medicine for the entire month of August. Breastfeeding Medicine, celebrating its 5th anniversary, is an international peer-reviewed journal providing physicians and other…

  • The Story of Cosmetics

    Sabra Way
    29 Jul 2010 | 1:18 pm
    Brought to you by The Story of Stuff Folks and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics:  The Story of CosmeticsI really like how they quickly explain label laws and how words like 'natural' mean nothing when it comes to your shampoo. This video explains why you should take a little care in selecting your toiletries.  To check out the toiletries in your bathroom right now check out Skin DeepThe Story of Cosmetics, released on July 21st, 2010 at storyofcosmetics.org, examines the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products, from lipstick to baby shampoo. Produced…

  • Greening Your Pregnancy

    Sabra Way
    20 Jul 2010 | 10:26 am
    Your Green Guide to Pregnancy is an educational DVD for women to learn about how to reduce exposure to environmental toxins during pregnancy through cosmetics, home cleaning products and food via simple methods. It can be purchased via Amazon or at Vida Health CommunicationsYou Tube PreviewYour Green Guide to Pregnancy is designed to help prenatal healthcare providers and educators teach women how to reduce their risk of exposure to environmental toxins during pregnancy. The Your Green Guide to Pregnancy video on DVD provides safe, practical strategies to reduce exposures across these primary…

  • Herbs in Pregnancy? You bet

    Sabra Way
    14 Jul 2010 | 9:11 am
    I know that herb use in pregnancy is not suggested generally and there is a pervasive attitude of fear about it. However, as a Medical Herbalist I don't have the fear but even among some herbalists I hear it. That is why I like this article so much. It is from Alternative and Complementary Therapies 2002. It confidently discusses herbal tonics for pre-conception, pregnancy, and postpartum.  It addresses teratogenicity and dosages.Herbal medicine has become very popular and accessible but it is a herbal medicine I am not familiar with nor do I think it is effective. Single herb medicine…
 
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    Vitals Spotlight - Where Doctors are Examined

  • Dr. Lewis Yocum To Perform Tommy John Surgery On Stephen Strasburg

    Margarita
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:20 am
    Stephen Strasburg (abcnews.com) According to the Washington Post, rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg will undergo Tommy John surgery Friday. The operation will be performed by Dr. Lewis Yocum with Nationals team doctor Wiemi Douoguih assisting. The top pick in the 2009 amateur draft has gone through two arthrograms, both revealing a significant tear in the ulnar collateral ligament. Following the surgery, Strasburg will rehab at the Scripps Clinic outside San Diego and is scheduled to be able to throw again in four months. (leeinks.weei.com) Dr. Lewis Yocum is an Orthopaedic Surgeon…

  • Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac Found Dead in Fireplace Flue

    Margarita
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:00 am
    Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac (bakersfield.com) Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac’s body was found wedged in the fireplace flue of her boyfriend’s home in Bakersfield, CA. Dr. Kotarac was a board-certified Internist, seeing up to 200 patients weekly. “She was a very good doctor, a wonderful person,” doctor’s boyfriend, William Moodie said. “She just had her problems.”  (kget.com) As strange as the circumstances were, the investigation found no foul play. “The Bakersfield Police Department has been investigating the death as suspicious from the onset and there is…

  • Dr. Patricia Quinlisk Suggests a Third Dose of the Mumps MMR Vaccine

    Irving
    25 Aug 2010 | 1:53 pm
    My son just found out his absent teacher just contacted mumps on the first day of school. It seems like every day someone else has come down with the mumps. A new study in the Sept. 1, 2010 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases measured the U.S. population’s immunity to mumps. Dr. Preeta Kutty, MD, MPH, and other researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 90 percent of the participants tested had antibodies to mumps; this is on the lower end of what is needed to protect the overall population through “herd immunity,” the proportion of…

  • Federal Judge Blocks Obama’s Expanded Stem Cell Research Initiative

    Kyle
    24 Aug 2010 | 8:50 am
    Stem Cell Harvest (rso.cornell.edu) Judge Royce C. Lamberth, chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled yesterday to temporarily block the Obama administration’s expanded efforts toward further stem cell research. After a former MIT scientist opposing stem cell research brought the case to court, the judge decided that Obama’s plans violated a law protecting embryos from destruction for research purposes. Dr. Leonard Zon of the Children’s Hospital in Boston said the ruling was a “step backward” and that “it throws things into a confused state.”…

  • Dr. Joe Haraszti on Misdiagnosis That Led to Lindsay Lohan’s Demise

    Margarita
    20 Aug 2010 | 1:42 pm
    Lindsay Lohan's condition misdiagnosed (celebrityandworld) Another day, another update from the Lindsay Lohan camp of legal and medical experts. As it turns out, doctors at the UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Westwood believe that Lohan was misdiagnosed originally for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder, and as a result addiction to methamphethamine. As part of the rehab detoxification process, she’s been off medications like Dilaudid, Ambien, Adderall, Zoloft, Trazodone, Nexium, as well as alcohol, and did not even show a trace of…
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    Change.org's Human Rights Blog

  • Miners Vs. Farmers: Zambia's Ongoing Battle

    Huascar Robles
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:10 am
    Should the livelihoods of a few be compromised in the name of progress? For Zambians this is more than a rhetorical question. This week the IRINNEWS reported that miners in the Luapula Province in northern Zambia were purportedly evicting farmers. According to villagers, miners violently forced them out of the lands where they grow small-scale crops. The land that these farmers claim has belonged to their families for generations is located in mineral-rich regions, attractive to foreign investment. But Zambia officials see it another way and argue those lands lack proper titles and have been…

  • The Naked Emperor: Obama, Iraq and Afghanistan

    Antony Adolf
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:05 pm
    Wars don't have causes, people have causes and turn them into wars. As those causes change, so do the ways in which people engage in war to bring those causes into actuality. At one point in this apparently magical process, because almost everyone goes along as if under a spell, the cause is called peace by war leaders themselves, even as war continues. At that moment, a powerful opportunity to cast off the spell presents itself, and a choice for those no longer enchanted. That moment happened last night, during President Obama's declaration about the Iraq War and his foretelling of what is…

  • Waving Goodbye To Iraq

    Jennifer Rawlings
    1 Sep 2010 | 10:15 am
    Soldiers in Iraq are packing up their rucksacks, turning in their Kevlar and helmets, cleaning their guns, and piling into C-130 aircraft to fly home. On the long flight home many of the soldiers will pass the time on the flight talking about all the things they are going to do when they get home. Some will get married, many will start a family, go back to school, lay on the beach. Soldiers will salivate talking about grilling a steak with corn on the cob and washing it down with an ice-cold beer. There will be as many “when I get back home plans” as there are soldiers. Some of the…

  • Land Grabs in Africa: Good for the Natives?

    Yemisrach Kifle
    1 Sep 2010 | 7:51 am
    With one billion people around the world hungry, can we really afford to let perfectly fertile land lie fallow? Over at the Guardian, Kate Allen asks some hard questions about the growing land grab trend in Africa. Financiers are coming from wide and far to invest their money in dirt cheap farmland. In addition to the usual suspects -- China, Gulf states, bio-fuel producers -- pension funds burned by Wall Street are glancing toward these same deals. After all, who could really beat the $1 per hectare, 99 year lease offers some of the continent’s desperate countries are putting up? Allen…

  • What is Obama Waiting for in Sudan?

    Corrie Hulse
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:15 pm
    As a perpetual optimist, even I am starting to become pessimistic about Sudan and the potential for the U.S. to step up and implement a successful Sudan policy. With the Obama administration still “mulling over” potential policy changes, tensions are definitely not dissipating in the country. Bashir continues to flaunt his ability to expel aid workers and travel to countries that are party to the Rome Statute without fear of consequence. In his recent column, Nicholas Kristof refers to this slow movement by the Obama administration as their first mistake in Sudan. According to Kristof,…
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    Ivor Kovic, M.D.

  • The Lazarus Effect

    Ivor
    9 Aug 2010 | 8:34 am
    It costs about 40 cents a day to provide a person with life-saving antiretroviral medication. Watch “The lazarus Effect”, a 30-minute documentary following the story of HIV positive people in Africa, and be sure to DONATE.

  • Super Sexy Abdominal Thrust

    Ivor
    8 Jun 2010 | 1:40 pm
    Here we go again….a new instruction video from Fortnight Lingerie. Hey girl, you choking

  • Super Sexy CPR

    Ivor
    19 May 2010 | 7:05 am
    Company called Fortnight Lingerie has launched an interesting campaign for their products. What they did was shoot a short educational CPR video. Some procedures in it aren’t exactly correct, but nevertheless it is very educational Hmmmm, let me see that again……

  • G for Geneva, G for Gold

    Ivor
    24 Apr 2010 | 2:19 pm
    I just came back home from 38th Exhibition of Inventions Geneva held in Geneva, Switzerland. Among around a thousand inventions, including 55 from class M (Medicine, Surgery, Hygiene, Orthopedics, Materials for the handicapped), I have demonstrated my CPR device (you can see it in my presentation from Amsterdam). The whole experience was truly fantastic and made even sweeter at the end, since my invention was awarded a gold medal from the international jury. Big thank you goes out to people from Noven, StivTrade, Croatian Association of Inventors, and Istrian Inventors. For a quick preview,…

  • Ladies of the night to use AEDs

    Ivor
    21 Feb 2010 | 9:44 am
    A well known Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, writes about an interesting initiative among prostitutes in the Ticino region of Switzerland. Lugano, a city in this region, is known to be somewhat of a sex capital with more than 38 sex clubs, which are frequently visited by man from neighboring Italy. Some of these man do not come home alive. Let’s just say they died happy, if you know what I mean However, this is in no way good for business, so lovely ladies who work in these clubs decided to do something about it. They want to get trained in CPR, as well as equip their work place…
 
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    The Search Principle

  • What’s old is new again – Web 3.0

    DG
    30 Aug 2010 | 10:12 am
    Allan and I have been working like madmen on a book chapter for CILIP and Facet publishers on the semantic web and web 3.0. We try to capture the wildly different views on the topic in our introduction which follows. Your comments or opinions are welcome. Dean Web 3.0 and health librarians: what does the future hold? by Allan Cho and Dean Giustini Introduction In a 2001 Scientific American article, Sir Tim Berners-Lee shares his vision for the World Wide Web which he believes will solve some of humankind’s “most complex problems”. (Berners-Lee et al. 2001) By way of introduction, we…

  • “Machinima”: machine-based ‘immersive’ cinema

    DG
    23 Aug 2010 | 4:40 pm
    Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah) is a blend of filmmaking, animation and game development that originated with video recordings of shooter games such as Quake and Doom. It is a popular form of filmmaking using 3D videogame technology to create movies of inworld action — literally on location in cyberspace. A convergence of filmmaking, animation and video in a virtual space, machinima pushes the frontier of audiovisual narratives and is created from the virtual environment – where computer-generated images do not require animation skills. Machinima is used to depict scenes with…

  • The rich, digital imprints of online learning

    DG
    19 Aug 2010 | 11:11 am
    In thinking about the end of LIBR559M, I have felt this iteration of it has been one of the more satisfying learning (and teaching) experiences I have had in some time. What is best practice in online learning, and how might I ensure a “repeat” of and even improve on the experience for future LIS students? There have been real surprises for me in this class. The reflective exercises in this course have surprised me most; the rich conversations on your  blogs, the sharing of frustrations and surprises in the forums, the collective sense of achievement in conquering our reluctance…

  • All librarians need web 2.0 skills

    DG
    16 Aug 2010 | 11:20 am
    All health librarians need basic web 2.0 skills View more documents from Dean Giustini.

  • Developing ‘transliteracy’ for a media age

    DG
    16 Aug 2010 | 9:28 am
    The transliteracy research group have defined transliteracy as: ‘the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.’ One of my favourite moments teaching LIBR559M this summer was debating what ‘the new media revolution’ means to librarians – and especially what skills are needed. Do we need new literacies to navigate multiple tools, media and aggregated platforms? You may remember that Marshall McLuhan, Henry Jenkins and Howard Rheingold…
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    Better Health

  • Responsible Vaccine Advocacy: How To Make A Difference

    DrJosephAlbietz
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:00 am
    I lost a patient this season, an infant, to whooping cough (pertussis). After falling ill, he lived for nearly a month in the intensive care unit on a ventilator, three weeks of which was spent on a heart/lung bypass machine (ECMO) due to the extent of the damage to his lungs. But all our efforts were in vain. The most aggressive and advanced care medicine has to offer couldn’t save his life. The only thing that could have saved him would have been to prevent him from contracting pertussis in the first place. He was unvaccinated, but that was because of his age. He was part of the…

  • Patient Bill Of Rights: What Ever Happened To It?

    BobDoherty
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am
    One of the more surprising twists and turns in the continuing debate over healthcare reform is that many physicians who now object to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were just a few years back advocates for more federal regulation. In fact, in the early 2000s, more than 200 “provider” and consumer groups — including many state medical and national medical specialty societies that now oppose the ACA because of concerns about “excessive regulation” — were among the fiercest champions of federal legislation to mandate that health insurers comply with a Patient…

  • FDA Actively Monitoring Medical And Healthcare Apps

    IltifatHusain
    2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 am
    Bradley Merrill Thompson, an attorney with expertise in the FDA approval process for medical devices, is stating that the FDA is actively monitoring app stores on various platforms. Regulating medical devices and health care-related applications falls under the FDA’s jurisdiction. James Kendrick from JkOnTheRun spoke with Thompson, where he stated the following: The FDA is actively engaged in surveillance of various app stores to see if apps should trigger their involvement. Applications where a smartphone is connected in any way to imaging are under scrutiny, in particular. Any app that…

  • Is Your Physician Patient-Centered? Five Ways To Tell

    StevenWilkinsMPH
    1 Sep 2010 | 1:00 pm
    Hint: Being Designated As A Patient-Centered Medical Home Is Not One We hear a lot about patient-centered care these days. In particular, a growing number of physicians across the country are now referring to their practices as a “Patient-Centered Medical Home.” But how can you tell if your physician’s practice really is patient-centered, no matter what he or she may call themself? More importantly, why should you care? What is patient-centered care, you ask? It’s quality care delivered in a manner where you feel that your provider: Knows who you are personally as well as…

  • Primary Care Crisis: Why The Patient-Centered Medical Home Will Fail

    DrDavisLiu
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:00 am
    Everyone understands the need for a robust primary care workforce in making healthcare more affordable and accessible while keeping those in our care healthy. With the aging of America and healthcare reform, even more Americans will need primary care doctors at precisely the same time doctors are leaving the specialty in droves and medical students shun the career choice. As a practicing primary care doctor, I’ve watched with great interest the solutions for the primary care crisis. And I’ve been utterly disappointed. Patients so far don’t like the patient-centered medical…
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    Medgadget

  • Intraosseous FASTx Burrs Into Manubrium Bone Marrow When All Else Fails

    Michael
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:10 am
    Pyng Medical out of Richmond, British Columbia has received US regulatory approval to market the FASTx Sternal Intraosseous Device that provides quick vascular access via bone marrow. Features of the device from the product page: Vascular access within 10 seconds; fluids and medications to the heart in 30 seconds Automatic depth control prevents over-penetration Delivers fluids and medications as quickly as a central line, with shorter access time Can be inserted during other resuscitation procedures Can deliver any fluids or medications that can be delivered via IV For use in adolescents…

  • Researchers Working on Continuous Remote Monitoring of Epileptic Patients

    Smit
    2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am
    A team of researchers at the University of Chicago Hospitals' Pediatric Epilepsy Center are working on a system which can monitor epileptic sufferers around the clock. Patients will be able to use their smartphones to record and send data to their doctor for review. The system, being developed in collaboration with Chicago based Wave Technology Group, can provide text message alerts to the patient or caregivers about potential upcoming seizures. Additionally, the system will be cheaper and more portable than current EEG monitoring solutions. Wave hopes to attain FDA approval for the system by…

  • LipiScan Intravascular Plaque Imaging System Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance

    jhbarad
    2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 am
    InfraReDx of Burlington, Mass just announced FDA clearance of their LipiScan IVUS Coronary Imaging System. Coronary angioplasty used to be based on the premise that areas of arterial narrowing seen on angiography were the most critical zones to stent, believing them to be the cause of heart attacks. Thinking has changed, however, and there is some research showing that plaques that may not cause much narrowing of the arteries may be the ones prone to rupture and thrombosis. This has led to a plethora of innovation in coronary imaging systems and technologies. We reported in 2008 about…

  • AngioDynamics Adds New Access Kit to its VenaCure EVLT System

    Smit
    1 Sep 2010 | 10:07 am
    AngioDynamics of Latham, NY has announced a new access kit for its VenaCure EVLT system, which provides a minimally invasive method for treating varicose veins using laser ablation via fiber. The company states that the new .018" access kit reduces the number of parts in the system, speeds up treatment times, and will result in greater patient comfort. From AngioDynamics' press release: The new .018-inch system for the VenaCure EVLT access kit reduces the number of components involved in gaining access for the procedure. The new kit provides a longer .018 inch nitinol long-access wire. The…

  • Instant Heart Rate Turns Your Android Phone Into a Heart Rate Monitor

    Smit
    1 Sep 2010 | 8:39 am
    The developers of Instant Heart Rate, a new Android app, claim that they can use your phone's camera to measure your heart rate. When a user places their index finger over the camera lens, the app will supposedly be able to detect slight changes in skin color as oxygenated blood passes through with each heart beat, and can use this color change to determine heart rate. Although commenters at Android and Me report fairly accurate results, we were unable to get consistent readings with the app. Readers who wish to try Instant Heart Rate for themselves can install it using the QR code to the…
 
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    Clinical Cases and Images

  • Michael Douglas on Having Throat Cancer - Late Show with David Letterman (video)

    2 Sep 2010 | 8:08 am
    Oropharyngeal cancer is increasing at a "dramatic" rate, particularly in the male population http://goo.gl/JAkoRelated:Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In. WebMD.Catherine Zeta-Jones's fury at the doctors who missed her husband Michael Douglas's throat cancer. Daily Mail. Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, follow us on Twitter and connect on Facebook.

  • Caffeine (C8H10N4O2) is the natural pesticide of coffee beans, paralyzing and killing insects that try to feed on them

    2 Sep 2010 | 5:35 am
    According to Forbes.com:Caffeine is a drug of abuse, like alcohol or cocaine, because it meets these two criteria: "reinforcing efforts" and "adverse effects which can cause harm to self or society." Reinforcing effects is science talk for "addictive": The more you have, the higher your tolerance levels and the more you need. Take it away, and you experience withdrawal symptoms.C8H10N4O2 is a chemical compound found in beans, leaves and fruits of some plants. It's a natural pesticide for them, paralyzing and killing insects that try to feed on them. On humans it acts as a stimulant on the…

  • U.S. May Face Shortage of 150,000 Doctors in 15 Years

    1 Sep 2010 | 7:55 pm
    As ranks of insured patients expand, the U.S. may face shortage of 150,000 doctors in 15 years, according to the WSJ. That shortfall is predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now totals about 954,000.The greatest demand will be for primary-care physicians. These general practitioners, internists, family physicians and pediatricians will have a larger role under the new law, coordinating care for each patient.Comments from Twitter:@doctorwes Foreign docs are lining up. @jmphillips Once I get into medical school, I should be…

  • For people with congestive heart failure, a hot dog can trigger a trip to the hospital due to excessive salt

    31 Aug 2010 | 5:27 am
    The average daily salt intake in America is one and 1/2 teaspoon a day. This is 3,400 milligrams of sodium a day, or 1,100 milligrams more then the recommended maximum.For people with congestive heart failure, a salty hot dog can trigger a trip to the hospital.The experts say the new target for sodium intake should be set at 1,500 milligrams daily.In a previous study, reducing dietary salt by 3 gm per day (1200 mg of sodium per day) was projected to reduce the annual number of new cases of coronary heart disease by 60,000 to 120,000, stroke by 32,000 to 66,000, and myocardial infarction by…

  • Doctors blends cardiology and country music

    30 Aug 2010 | 7:23 am
    Listen to the Doctor: Cleve Francis, cardiologist and country singer.Dr. Francis, who recently turned 65, is a genteel singer of country and pop songs. He favors vintage ballads.A man inching up the line in a walker can't believe it. "You want his autograph? I get it on a prescription every three weeks," he says.References:Listen to the Doctor: Cleve Francis, cardiologist and country singer. Washington Post.Dr. Wes: Working the Backup Plan Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, follow us on Twitter and connect on Facebook.
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    Scienceroll

  • MDLifeSucks: Share Your Story

    berci.mesko@gmail.com (Bertalan Meskó)
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:03 am
    Of course, there is a reason why doctors become doctors (I have my own – to become a geneticist), but sometimes MD life is really not like what we expected. MDLifeSucks collects these negative stories and encourages you to share yours. A few examples: I made the mistake of buying an MD license plate. Now, every time I go to the mechanic for a simple oil change, they find something new wrong with my car. I put back a patient’s gown in the scrub dispenser machine and now my scrub machine privileges are revoked and the security camera picture of me doing so is plastered on the wall…

  • Japanese Medical Resources in Social Media

    berci.mesko@gmail.com (Bertalan Meskó)
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:21 am
    We launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date easily. It is a simple, free medical information aggregator that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news about a medical specialty or condition in one personalized place. It is now available in 14 languages! The Japanese selection is the newest onein which the platform is in Japanese and the blogs, news, Twitter users and peer-reviewed journals are also the best ones in that language. Please let us know if you want to see PeRSSonalized Medicine in your language. Click on the…

  • Health 2.0 News: Doctors using Google, Hospital Blogs being Blocked

    berci.mesko@gmail.com (Bertalan Meskó)
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:47 am
    86% of MDs use Google on the the Job (Digital Pathology Blog) It’s not just patients who turn to Google or other search engines to research medical information. According to Google, 86 percent of doctors say they now use  Internet on the job. Of that group, the majority start at Google, which they use as a source to look for general information about diseases and drugs, writes pediatrician Dr. Rahul K. Parikh in a special piece for the Los Angeles Times. MAD MMX – Opening Title Sequence Doctors blends cardiology and country music (Clinicl Cases and Images) Is Your Hospital…

  • Personalized Genomics on Slideshows

    berci.mesko@gmail.com (Bertalan Meskó)
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:42 pm
    When preparing for this year’s Researchers’ Night (details below), I was trying to collect some information and updates about the consumer genomics market for my presentation and found great slideshows. Enjoy! If you thought that research was all about lab coats and Bunsen burners, think again. Like everyone else, researchers come from numerous backgrounds, have diverse interests and pursue a spectrum of hopes and dreams. One thing they all have in common is a passion for research – and they want to share it with you. The European Commission’s ‘Researchers in Europe’ (RIE)…

  • Parkinson’s Disease: Web 2.0 Resources

    berci.mesko@gmail.com (Bertalan Meskó)
    30 Aug 2010 | 8:07 am
    The world wide web is really rich in Parkinson’s disease related content such as blogs, podcasts, community sites, mobile applications, Twitter users, videos or slideshows, but selecting the most relevant resources takes time and effort. Fortunately, Webicina.com just published the newest, Parkinson’s disease and Web 2.0 collection. If you also want to follow easily these selected resources in a personalized way, here is PeRSSonalized Parkinson’s disease, the simplest medical information aggregator. Here is table of contents: News and Information on Parkinson’s Disease…
 
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    OrganicJar

  • Indoor Plants Could Save Your Life

    Jason Cairns
    20 Aug 2010 | 6:56 pm
    (OrganicJar) New research shows that ornamental plants can drastically reduce levels of stress, ill health and boost performance levels at work because they soak up harmful indoor air pollution. Researchers have now identified five “super ornamental plants” which every workplace should have to clean up indoor air. They include English ivy, waxy leaved plants and ferns (see a full list below). According to a World Health Organization report in 2002, harmful indoor pollutants represent a serious health problem that is responsible for more than 1.6 million deaths each year. Indoor…

  • Eating Pecans Protects Your Brain and Fights Disease

    Jason Cairns
    15 Jun 2010 | 7:37 pm
    Key Concepts A new study found pecans protect your brain from motor neuron degeneration. Vitamin E – a natural antioxidant found in pecans – may provide a key element to neurological protection. Pecans are one of the highest antioxidant-rich tree nuts. Antioxidants are nutrients found in foods that protect against cell damage, fight Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer and heart disease. Pecans provide more than 19 vitamins and minerals, including vitamin A, folic acid, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and several B vitamins. Pecans are naturally cholesterol-free and…

  • Oil Spill: Why is this 100% Organic Solution Being Ignored?

    Jason Cairns
    4 Jun 2010 | 11:40 am
    (OrganicJar) St Petersburg, Florida — With the disaster in the Gulf keeping everyone on edge looking for a solution, the answer might lay in material manufactured by a Colombian company with an office in Florida. The company, Global Environmental Technology, has a product that is 100 percent organic and was invented in 1998 by its president, Carlos Forero. He won science competitions in Switzerland and Austria for the product, which encapsulates oil and cleans the material up. Not only does the product clean up the oil, it can also be recycled for use afterwards. In addition, if birds…

  • Research Shows Monsanto Corn Causes Organ Damage in Mammals

    Jason Cairns
    21 Jan 2010 | 8:45 am
    In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto’s GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats. According to the study, which was summarized by Adam Shake at Twilight Earth, “Three varieties of Monsanto’s GM corn – Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup® herbicide-absorbing NK 603 – were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities.” Monsanto gathered…

  • Use Carrot Pulp to Make a Delicious Dessert – Beta Carotene Poppers

    Jason Cairns
    21 Jan 2010 | 7:32 am
    (OrganicJar) My friend Lisa Paris is back! Today she is going to show all of us how to transform our carrot pulp into a quick delicious dessert! Here’s what you’ll need to make this: Ingredients 2 Cups – Carrot Pulp 1 Cup – Pitted Medjool Dates 1/2 Cup – Dried Coconut Cinnamon Agave Nectar Sea Salt Equipment Food Processor Bowls and Measuring Cups Directions Place all ingredients in the Food Processor and grind for about 1 minute until everything is well mixed. In a separate bowl combine cinnamon and dried coconut (set aside) Take the newly mixed ingredients from…
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    Health Affairs Blog

  • New Ideas In Medicaid Financing

    Michael O’Grady
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:56 am
    The Medicaid program is facing major new challenges.  The new health care law puts both significant new responsibilities and financial burdens on the program.  At the same time, Medicaid, as one of the three major federal entitlement programs, is a top priority for policy makers trying to address the federal government’s staggering budget deficits.  Unfortunately, [...]

  • Health Affairs Briefing: Medical Liability And ER Use

    Chris Fleming
    31 Aug 2010 | 9:27 am
    The September 2010 issue of Health Affairs is devoted to two issues that arguably were insufficiently addressed by the Affordable Care Act:  medical liability and patient safety; and the growing nonemergency use of the nation’s hospital emergency rooms. The issue contains new estimates of how much medical liability costs the health care system overall; of [...]

  • Robert Butler’s Legacy

    Christine Cassel
    30 Aug 2010 | 12:01 pm
    Editor’s note: Earlier this summer, on July 7, Robert Butler died of leukemia. Butler was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and one of the nation’s leading authorities on aging and geriatrics. With the essay below by Christine Cassel, president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Health [...]

  • Revisiting ‘Witness To Disaster’: First-Person Accounts Of Katrina’s Aftermath

    Chris Fleming
    27 Aug 2010 | 9:06 am
    Gulf Coast residents have only recently been able to mark, in Churchill’s words, “the end of the beginning” of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This week, these Americans and the entire nation also mark the fifth anniversary of another disaster: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Several months after these devastating storms, in its March/April 2006 edition, [...]

  • Berwick To Speak AT AHIP Conference

    Chris Fleming
    27 Aug 2010 | 7:05 am
    Don Berwick, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will address Implementing Health Care Reform: The Administration’s Priorities, at AHIP’s 2010 Medicare Conference, September 12-14, in Washington, D.C.  Health Affairs is a media partner for the conference. Berwick will highlight the Administration’s health reform priorities, including changes under the Medicare program and [...]
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    Flesh and Stone

  • It's a hoot! Molly, the barn owl, has her own online show

    28 Aug 2010 | 4:10 am
    "The Molly Show" is the real life version of the movie "The Truman Show." In the film, Truman had cameras focused on him 24/365 and captured his every move from the time he was born. In "The Molly Show," a video cam complete with audio has been focused on Molly, a San Marcos, California, barn owl since she laid four eggs. Another camera is set up outside the owl house where Molly roosts when she's not foraging for food for her little brood of two surviving chicks. The hatchlings are now about four-weeks-old, fully feathered in downy baby fluff and have hearty appetites. A warning for the…

  • Finland, Sweden may suspend H1N1 vaccinations after observing tiny uptick in childhood narcolepsy following vaccination

    24 Aug 2010 | 9:39 am
    Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare yesterday said vaccination with Pandemrix, an H1N1 vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline, should be halted until a study of side effects including narcolepsy in children is completed. The government’s data showed a half dozen children who were known to have received the vaccine developed chronic sleeping disorders, which is a normal rate. However, nine other cases of childhood narcolepsy have emerged since the beginning of 2010 that might be linked to Pandemrix, the agency said. A cause-and-effect relationship between Pandemrix and…

  • Growing reports of cholera in Pakistan add urgency to funding appeals

    19 Aug 2010 | 8:15 pm
    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon called the flooding in Pakistan a “slow-motion tsunami” and the worst natural disaster he had ever witnessed. Ban today urged the United Nations General Assembly to speed up assistance to the war-ravaged country. According to the UN, about 47 percent of the $460 million in relief aid needed has been delivered. About 20 million people have been affected by the floods which has so far claimed at least 1,200 lives. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that said relief efforts have been stymied by monsoonal rains and flood waters that have…

  • Social networks can warn of disease after disasters

    19 Aug 2010 | 5:54 pm
    by James Wilson, SciDev.net When a natural disaster strikes and there is an imminent threat of a disease outbreak, existing public health surveillance systems often cannot hope to meet the emergency operational needs of healthcare teams working in challenging conditions.  This year's massive earthquake in Haiti, for example, killed up to 250,000 people and displaced another two million in the small, under-resourced Caribbean nation. Many of these displaced people continue to live in grossly unsanitary tents where diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, diarrheal illnesses, HIV/AIDS…

  • WHO posts list of pandemic flu advisors with industry ties

    12 Aug 2010 | 10:02 pm
    After months of criticism that threatened its credibility, the World Health Organisation has released a list of the 15 international members of the Emergency Committee that advised the WHO on last year’s H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic alerts. Five of the expert advisers had received financial support from the pharmaceuticals industry, including for flu vaccine research. The WHO posted the list on its website for the first time on Wednesday. Among those listed were Nancy Cox, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s Influenza Division, who disclosed financial support from the…
 
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  • Preparing for gastric bypass surgery by eating more

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:00 am
    by Douglas Perednia, MDThinking is hard work.  This is why so few people bother.  At least voluntarily.  So whenever it seems like the threat of brainwork looms in modern American medicine, we can thank our lucky stars for the geniuses behind healthcare reform and guidelines of care.This comes up as a result of a conversation that I had with a patient the other day.  A pleasant, obese gentleman.  He had been struggling with his weight and type 2 diabetes for some time, and there were now some early indications of some potentially serious long-term complications.  He mentioned to me that…

  • MKSAP: 62-year-old man is evaluated for an asymptomatic nodule

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:53 am
    Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.A 62-year-old man is evaluated for an asymptomatic nodule on his shoulder that has been present for more than 1 year. Skin findings are shown. MKSAP image © 2010, American College of Physicians, Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP® 15)Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?A) Basal cell carcinoma B) Pyogenic granuloma C) Seborrheic keratosis D) Squamous cell carcinoma(...)Read the rest of MKSAP: 62-year-old man is evaluated for an asymptomatic noduleNo…

  • Medical school is hard, and other medical student thoughts

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:00 am
    by Josh Herigon, MPHSome reflections on my first semester of medical school.1.  Medical school is hard. Yes, it’s true — medical school is as hard as people who have been through it make it out to be.I was skeptical when I started mostly because I felt I had challenged myself while doing my undergrad degree and in graduate school.  I had taken heavy loads of difficult classes in both of my degrees.  My last semester of graduate school I took 18 hours of the highest level epidemiology classes at one of the top programs in the country.  I didn’t see much daylight that semester and…

  • Hospitalist: Long hospital stays are often due to poor planning

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    by S. Irfan Ali, MDBeing a hospitalist, I often see patients sitting in the hospital for days at length for no reason other than poor planning.Sometimes I feel that physicians who are involved in patient care are oblivious of each other. Everyone is in their own domain rather than working as a team. An increased length of stay in the hospital not only increases the cost of health care but also adds to the risk of medical complications like infections and medical errors.(...)Read the rest of Hospitalist: Long hospital stays are often due to poor planning2 comments | Tags: Hospital, Hospitalist…

  • An advocate for patients might save your life in the hospital

    Kevin
    2 Sep 2010 | 4:00 am
    by Dennis GraceSo, you have to go to the hospital. You’ve had an accident and the doctor wants to keep an eye on you for a few days. Maybe you need major surgery. Whatever the reason for the stay, a lot a people think you should have an advocate with you.Why? In my life, I’ve had lots of hospital stays. Why is this suddenly a big deal? I didn’t have an advocate when I was in for observation after a concussion at age eight or when I had my tonsils out at age ten or when I had pneumonia at age twelve. Hospitals were supposed to be the safest place to be when you were hurt or sick. Of…
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  • EMR and Email in Action

    Rob
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:03 pm
    If you don’t know by now, I am an EMR evangelist.  A poorly implemented EMR is a nightmare – slowing people down and increasing frustration.  A well-implemented product, however, will give a huge improvement to workflow in the office, benefitting both doctor and patient. Here is our EMR in action (with HIPAA censorship present).  I am checking labs on a patient and evaluate their lipids using a Framingham risk calculator that takes the variables from the patient data.  I then generate an email and send it to the patient.  The whole process takes me about a minute (under 30…

  • Getting Social

    Rob
    30 Aug 2010 | 10:59 am
    15% offscrub jackets with code “jackets_save” Moving to the south is an eye-opening experience.  First, there’s the friendliness of everyone; I remember the first time a stranger talked to me in the grocery store, it made me nervous.  In Philadelphia, where I went to med school, anyone talking to you in the grocery store was either hitting on you or crazy.  Add to that list: “or from the south.” Then there’s the politeness factor.  Kids are expected to say “yes sir” and “yes ma’am” when answering questions asked by adults.

  • Running Behind

    Rob
    26 Aug 2010 | 7:30 am
    I walk into the exam room and the patient looks up at me with a surprised expression.  ”Wow!  I didn’t expect to see you so quickly!” I smile and turn around to walk out of the door, saying: “Sorry!  I’ll leave then and come back later.” “No, no!”  They respond, smiling.  ”I’m happy to see you so soon.  It’s just a surprise.” I walk back into the room with a smirk.  ”I just don’t want to offend you by being on time.  I’ll try to do better next time.” I am not sure if I should be happy or…

  • The System Goes Flat

    Rob
    24 Aug 2010 | 9:49 am
    I got a flat tire this weekend.  There were clues that I chose to ignore – the alignment going out suddenly, the steering wheel jiggling when I drove – but the sudden thwacking sound as I sped down I-20 was a clue I couldn’t ignore.  I pulled off, then unknowingly stood in a fire ant bed while I changed my tire.  It still itches.  That’s not the point of this post, but I just needed to gripe a little. Yesterday we went to the tire shop and found out that not only were both of my front tires worn out, but my rear tires were old and cracked – at least that is…

  • To Med Students Considering Primary Care

    Rob
    22 Aug 2010 | 12:08 pm
    Dear Student: Thank you for your consideration of my profession for your career.  I am a primary care physician and have practiced for the past 16 years in a privately-owned practice.  (At some point I intend to stop practicing and start doing the real thing.  It amazes me at how many patients let me practice on them.) Anyhow, I thought I’d give you some advice as you go through what is perhaps your biggest decision regarding your career.  Like me, you probably once thought that choosing to become a doctor was the biggest decision, but within medicine there are many options, giving…
 
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  • Closing the Health Disparities Gap Through Policy and Good Governance

    Sophie Fleck
    12 Aug 2010 | 8:42 am
    In her excellent graduation speech, MPH student Stephanie Reinhardt described Public Health as “an applied form of social justice.” In further defining what Public Health is, Reinhardt added: "Public Health is understanding that the spread of disease is not simply biological, but it is largely social, political, and economic.” Reinhardt’s statement is an excellent summary of why vast health disparities exist between developed and developing countries. In her forthcoming book, Global Health Disparities: Closing the Gap Through Good Governance, author Enku Kebede-Francis…

  • First Lady Michelle Obama on the Importance of The Child Nutrition Bill

    Jody Sullivan
    4 Aug 2010 | 9:02 am
    On Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post on the importance of the Child Nutrition Bill. Mrs. Obama wrote: “Right now, our country has a major opportunity to make our schools and our children healthier. It's an opportunity we haven't seen in years, and one that is too important to let pass by. The Child Nutrition Bill is a groundbreaking legislation that will bring fundamental change to schools and improve food options for children.” Fact: Our nation has been struggling with the epidemic of childhood obesity for years. Here are some alarming…

  • FDA And AACP Create A Groundbreaking Study To Improve Patient Health Outcomes

    Grace Richards
    29 Jul 2010 | 8:52 am
    FDA And AACP Create A Groundbreaking Study To Improve Patient Health Outcomes 28 Jul 2010   The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), in partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Office of Pharmacy Affairs in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), has completed a baseline evaluation of the integration of the "Science of Safety" into the curriculum of the Doctor of Pharmacy degree at accredited colleges and schools of pharmacy. The "Science of Safety" is defined as the systematic study of the intended and unintended impact…

  • J&B Author Nominated for International Images & Voices of Hope Award

    Jody Sullivan
    27 Jul 2010 | 9:00 am
    Dr. Brian Luke Seaward, author of J&B's suite of stress management titles, was recently nominated for an international award by Images & Voices of Hope. Dr. Seaward is nominated for his documentary, Earth Songs. "Planet Earth is filled with a rhythm of sounds, colors, scenic beauty and wildlife that culminates each day in a symphony of healing energies. Wisdom keepers the world over call these rhythms, "Earth Songs." For the past two years, Dr. Seaward has traveled the world capturing this visual symphony in such pristine locations as Iceland, Hawaii, Greenland, Peru, The…

  • The Nation's Top Business Schools Form Alliance to Improve MHA Programs

    Sophie Fleck
    16 Jul 2010 | 10:57 am
    Businessweek recently reported on a new alliance formed by many of the nation's top business schools including Harvard, Duke, Yale, and Northwestern to name a few. Their objective: to improve the quality of health care management masters degree programs. In the press release on the Yale School of Management website, the alliance is described as "a collaborative organization committed to improving healthcare by fostering management education in the health sector." The news comes on the heels of reports of booming enrollments in health care management: "Many MBAs are suddenly showing an…
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  • Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young

    1 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pm
    This same risk is also for teens, adults, and the elderly.  I have real concerns about these drugs because my mother was allowed to be over medicated in anti-psychotic drugs by my brother for the last six years of her life.  She had a closed head injury, she had expressive aphasia, and he refused to consider a drug profile I had obtained from a colleague at FDA.  She had no neurologist and no speech therapy.  Staff at the 5 star facility where she was housed laughed at her when I would call on the phone.  My brother ignored all of my concerns, as did the attorney (and…

  • More Dangers in FDA Approved Drug

    1 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pm
    The topic of problematic FDA approved drugs has been covered by Natural Health News for more than 20 years.  It seems as if there is no stopping this train. Many articles can be found here, using "search".Why Medication Can Be Dangerous to Your Health from Dr. Leo Galland Did you know that the majority of FDA approved drugs have serious potential side effects that were not detected before marketing approval? That about three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the U.S. because of adverse drug reactions, according to the CDC? That the number of…

  • Margarine Not Heart Healthy

    1 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Again, an important warning about a topic we have covered for years - margaine is not a health promoting food.  Further the use of GMO oils in these products is an unknown risk.  And recal that Unilever is known to do unnecessary animal testing on many of its produtcs. Unilever: Omega-3 margarine study will not affect usage adviceBy Shane Starling, 31-Aug-2010Related topics: Nutritional lipids and oils, Cardiovascular healthOmega-3 spread maker Unilever says a 40 month study that found omega-3 spreads don’t protect elderly heart attack sufferers from further cardiac events,…

  • I’ve Got the Magic In Me!

    1 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Do you know this song? It’s called Magic, by B.o.B. If that doesn’t turn your bad mood around, listen to this OTHER song also called Magic, by Selena Gomez, too. Sometimes when I’m in here on my PC working, I play Magic and bust out all my dance moves. (The ones that embarrass my kids.) Jump out of my chair and just kick it for a while. These songs are so awesome I can’t stand it. I’ve got the magic in me. It comes from whole plant foods. They make me glow, they make me dance, they make me bust out smiling for no reason, they help me see good things even in the hard times in life.

  • Sweet Comfort Milk

    31 Aug 2010 | 5:00 pm
    This recipe is the one I recommend to clients when they want something sweet and comforting. It's very simple but lovely and could easily be called a "hug in a glass" that we sometimes feel we need - especially when tea and coffee are a thing of the past! Being a vanilla-lover, vanilla in my recipe is never optional : ) Enjoy! Makes 1 large drink Ingredients: * 1 pint of pure water * 1 level Tbsp cashew butter OR 1/3 cup cashew nuts * 3 Medjool dates OR 1 Tbsp agave nectar * OPTIONAL: Small piece of vanilla bean...
 
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  • Stanley Cup for Cancer Project & family update

    Lady Vroom
    12 Aug 2010 | 10:35 pm
    Wowza. It's been such a jam-packed couple of weeks, I haven't had any time for a blogpost.The Flammable Stanley Cup for Cancer project is going really well! So far, there are 78 names for the list. These folks are all cancer survivors who's names will be written on the paper mache cup. Then it'll be burned at the Burning Man festival. Much of that success had to do w/ Greg Wyshynski & Crew at the hockey blog Puck Daddy. They featured my story in one of their blog posts. In a matter of days, my YouTube videos had hit over a few hundred views. In addition to only having 4 hours sleep for most…

  • Thoughts on Grief

    Lady Vroom
    11 Jul 2010 | 12:01 pm
    "Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We miscontstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return…

  • Last Weekend

    Lady Vroom
    8 Jun 2010 | 11:43 pm
    I spent last weekend in Denver, visiting my brother & his family. Coincidentally, my cousin was graduating from DU, and I was able to celebrate with him & my aunt's family also. The weekend went from start to finish without a hitch, til the very end. The entire time was a miracle, absolutely a gift from a Supreme Being.Highlights included: --spending the afternoon at the Botanic Gardens with my dad, laughing, smiling, contemplating, and simply enjoying each other's company--my brother asking his kids to skedaddle outside so he could have time to talk with me & Dad--my sister-in-law looking me…

  • Quick digression on the Blackhawks

    Lady Vroom
    2 Jun 2010 | 11:50 pm
    I've been following the Chicago Blackhawks season since January, when I was flat on my back with a whiplash. It's been a great distraction from all the emotional upheaval in my life. It rekindled my love for hockey, begun many years ago in college when our Tigers made the NCAA "Frozen Four" every year for what seemed eons.Needless to say, I've had several crushes/fantasies, etc. on various Blackhawks players. But this one has truly stolen my heart. Anyone with the chutzpah to do this ad, is a "real catch" as my Grandma would say:And when I meet the hunky, skillful puck-handler Brian Campbell,…

  • Mexico: the easy side

    Lady Vroom
    2 Jun 2010 | 12:24 am
    The good part about being with my mom in Mexico, was everybody rushed to our aid. They saw me & my aunt struggling to get Mom in & out of the car, and ran to help us. Mexican culture is all about family, and being respectful to elders. Along the way, many wonderful people got to know us, because of the way we stuck together & helped Mom along the way. The sing-along salsa dance teacher at the spa, was greatly touched by watching me help mom in & out of her chair, and help serve her food to her, for the mealtimes. This lovely gal had such a sparkling personality! She came to the spa to do some…
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  • The Scarlet Letter

    DrWes
    1 Sep 2010 | 6:10 pm
    ... if you need a pacemaker or defibrillator as of 1 September 2010 in Illinois:(Like UnitedHealthcare patients were so easily identifiable...)-WesPS: Who will have the first pacemaker or defibrillator denial? Share your stories in the comments!Musings of a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist.

  • The Realities of Comparative Effectiveness Research

    DrWes
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:52 pm
    If there was one place research should be easy to perform, it’s on a disease that’s incredibly common. Further, if there are two generally-accepted strategies to treating symptomatic patients with that ailment – one invasive and the other not – it should be pretty easy to compare which is best, right?Maybe. Maybe not.Welcome to the real life world of comparative effectiveness research, that politically and pundit-popular means to decide which treatment approach doctors should utilize and which, based on the results of these studies, our government will decide which approach they will…

  • EKG Du Jour #20 - The Wide and Fast Temptation

    DrWes
    31 Aug 2010 | 6:36 am
    And now, another in the "EKG Du Jour" educational series:He was just under 30 years of age and had the unfortunate circumstance of having a posterior myocardial infarction two weeks ago while on vacation out of state. Fortunately, it was properly diagnosed at the local hospital and he was rushed to the cath lab for stenting with relief of his symptoms. All went well and he was discharged shortly thereafter.A few days later he noted new palpitations, brief at first, then more frequent. He sought evaluation with the same local cardiologist that performed the stent procedure and a Holter monitor…

  • Medical Device Bracelets with Pacers and Defibrillators

    DrWes
    31 Aug 2010 | 4:40 am
    There was some interesting Wall Street Journal's coverage on medical bracelets this morning, but pacemaker and defibrillator patients should note the following:From the article's graphic that states:Jewelry With a PurposeMedical alert bracelets and other identification systems are important for notifying emergency responders about medical conditions. Here's what could go wrong in some situations if a patient isn't wearing one:If a patient has...Pacemaker or implanted defibrillatorMedics may mistakenly treat with drugs for heart arrhythmia or try to shock the patient....First, if the patient…

  • Our Not-So-Cheap Generic Drugs

    DrWes
    30 Aug 2010 | 11:05 am
    I received the following e-mail from a patient (paraphrased):"Dear Dr. Fisher,Thank you for trying to switch me from lisinopril to generic losartan (Cozaar) to help me with the irritating cough that has been nagging me since I was placed on lisinopril. I did not pick up my prescription, though. At nearly $200 for a three-month supply, I've decided to live with the cough, since the same amount of lisinopril costs me about $12.-Ms. PatientInteresting how the generic drug market for some drugs only marginally discounts prices.Since the companies that make generics did not have to absorb research…
 
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  • Is Your Calcium Supplement Working For You… or Against You?

    top admin
    15 Aug 2010 | 12:48 am
    With a digestive landscape that can prove tricky at best, it is difficult to get enough calcium from foods that agree with us alone, so most of us take calcium supplements regularly for decades with the hope of avoiding future fractures.  However, calcium is not like a pain reliever.  You don’t feel any dramatic difference, and you can’t see your bones improving from taking your calcium, so how do you know if your calcium is working?  Or a better question is how do you know it is working optimally?  Given the long term use, and the big risks of failed attempts, it makes sense…

  • Effective Treatment of Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

    top admin
    15 Jul 2010 | 7:55 pm
    Exhausted, achy, brain fog and insomnia? Chronic fatigue syndrome(CFS) and its painful cousin fibromyalgia(FMS) can be devastating!I hadCFS/FMS in 1975. It knocked me out of medical school and left me homeless. It also taught me how to effectively treat fatigue-even CFS/FMS!Ready to Get Well?Our placebo controlled study titled “Effective Treatment of CFS and Fibromyalgia” showed that 91% of patients improved with treatment, with an average improvement in quality of life of 90 percent. Many patients no longer even qualified for the diagnosis of CFS or fibromyalgia after treatment!To…

  • Detox Diets – Separating Fact from Hype

    Ronlad Uy
    5 Jul 2010 | 9:31 pm
    Alternative and conventional medical professionals have long debated about the use of detoxification diets. Conventional medicine has contested that the body possesses an excellent elimination system and does not require outside intervention for detoxifying itself. However, alternative medicine and some nutritionists contend that this system may have been adequate in the past but with today’s unhealthy habits and less than perfect environment, relying solely on the body’s elimination system may not be enough.Both parties have a point. It’s true that the body possesses a powerful…

  • Hemorrhoid Treatment A Top Hemorrhoid Surgeons View

    top admin
    26 Apr 2010 | 10:56 pm
    Hemorrhoids are dilated and congested vascular complex at the lower end of the anal canal, Think of them as varicose veins. They are highly vascular “cushions” or “pads” consisting of discrete masses of thick sub mucosa which contain blood vessels, smooth muscle, and elastic and connective tissues. Such cushions are present in everyone and the term “hemorrhoids” is confined to situations in which these cushions are enlarged, inflamed and cause symptoms.The Rectum is the 10-15 cm of the lower colon above the dentate line. In the rectal ampulla, a space above the dentate line, there…
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  • 100 Days of Weight Loss The Secret to Being Successful on Any Diet Plan

    eatsmart
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:21 am
    100 Days of Weight Loss The Secret to Being Successful on Any Diet Plan This personal growth diet companion encourages dieters–no matter what diet plan they are on–to stick to it by giving them the tools to address the issues behind their eating habits and to make t User Ratings and Reviews 5 Stars This could be your prince… (This may be lengthy, but it may be the turning point you need…) I firmly believe you have to be at “the right place” to achieve successful, long-term anything. That holds especially true for changing habits and addictions. Food is one…

  • The Abs Diet 6 Minute Meals for 6 Pack Abs More Than 150 Great Tasting Recipes to Melt Away Fat

    eatsmart
    2 Sep 2010 | 1:52 am
    The Abs Diet 6 Minute Meals for 6 Pack Abs More Than 150 Great Tasting Recipes to Melt Away Fat The best-selling Abs Diet series continues with the perfect cookbook for anyone who wants to eat sensibly to get a flat, sculpted set of abdominals —but doesn’t have a lot of time to cook Tens of thousands of Americans have changed their bodies—and their lives—with the help of The Abs Diet, the New York Times bestseller from David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men’s Health® magazine. A key factor in the diet’s success is the meal plan, with its healthy, great-tasting, easy…

  • Eat What You Love Love What You Eat How to Break Your Eat Repent Repeat Cycle

    eatsmart
    1 Sep 2010 | 6:53 pm
    Eat What You Love Love What You Eat How to Break Your Eat Repent Repeat Cycle Do you regularly deprive yourself, succumb to temptation, feel guilty, and then start the process all over again? If so, you need this book. Dr. Michelle May will guide you out of the food-focused, diet-driven downward spiral that leads you to eat, repent, and repeat. She offers a powerful alternative: stop being afraid of food and start eating mindfully and joyfully. No more rigid rules, strict exercise regimens, questionable drugs, or food substitutes. This book will soon have you eating the foods you love without…

  • The 90 10 Weight Loss Plan A Scientifically Designed Balance of Healthy Foods and Fun Foods

    eatsmart
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:27 am
    The 90 10 Weight Loss Plan A Scientifically Designed Balance of Healthy Foods and Fun Foods In just two weeks you’ll lose weight, be healthier, and you can still eat your favorite chips, cookies, and ice cream! The reason so many diets fail for so many people is that they force the dieter to cut out the foods they love and crave. With The 90/10 Weight-Loss Plan, dieters learn to balance their food intake by eating 90% healthy, nutritious food, with 10% “Fun Food”—whatever they want, whenever they want. Nutritionist Joy Bauer has created a phenomenon that has taken the nation by storm:…

  • Hungry Girl 200 Under 200 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories

    eatsmart
    1 Sep 2010 | 4:37 am
    Hungry Girl 200 Under 200 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories BRAND NEW NEVER USED IN STOCK 125,000+ HAPPY CUSTOMERS SHIP EVERY DAY WITH FREE TRACKING NUMBER User Ratings and Reviews 3 Stars Disappointed, everything with Fake Sugar The recipes are under 200 calories because of the fake sugar and other low-calorie substitutes. Not at all what I expected. 3 Stars Ingredients too specific I find that I never have the ingredients for these recipes. Also, if I were go to buy the ingredients, most would go to waste since the recipes call for very small amounts of each ingredient. Not very convenient or…
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  • Truth and Marketing: Why Sliced Bread Was Never A Great Invention

    Darya Pino
    1 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    Photo by mattburns.co.uk Food marketers have been at it for nearly a century. They’re saving us time, making it ever easier for us to consume their products, and all they ask in return is to charge us a little extra for the “convenience.” Bless their hearts. When pressed, most of us will acknowledge that the top priority of food marketers is not to make our lives easier or tastier, but to get us to eat (and spend) more. What’s truly remarkable is that despite knowing this, we still parrot and defend their ideas as ardently as if we’d thought of them ourselves. Do…

  • Mindful Eating and Portion Control

    Darya Pino
    30 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    Red Flame Grapes Today’s guest post is by Jyoti Mishra Ramanathan, a fellow UCSF neuroscientist who studies attention and distraction in the human mind. In her article Jyoti reveals how attention impacts our experience of food and how we can harness this power to help us eat less without feeling deprived. Learning to be a mindful eater will permanently change your relationship with food and is essential for upgrading your healthstyle. Mindful Eating and Portion Control by Jyoti Mishra Ramanathan I grew up in India where life revolves around food. One wakes up to plan breakfast and as…

  • Farmers Market Update: Seattle

    Darya Pino
    29 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    Blackberries I’ve wanted a Seattle market update for so long. Huge thanks to Aubrey for making it happen. Aubrey Bach is one of the co-founders of www.yay-today.com, a Seattle-based blog dedicated to sharing the best (and cheapest) things to do, see, buy and eat in the city. If you’re interested in finding out more about the deals the girls at yay-today are busy finding, visit their blog www.yay-today.com, like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter @yay_today. Farmers Market Update: Seattle’s University District by Aubrey Bach I am super excited to be representing…

  • For The Love Of Food

    Darya Pino
    27 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    For The Love of Food Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup. Really good reading this week. I love Marion Nestle’s commentary on meat substitutes, as well a bunch of well-designed studies linking nutrition and the brain. And definitely don’t miss Time magazine calling out the crappy Twitter streams of the culinary glitterati. Ha! Great news, the new Digg is finally open to the public. That means all of you can now see the stories I’m Digging throughout the week if you visit my profile or follow me: http://digg.com/daryapino. If…

  • How to raise your HDL cholesterol

    Darya Pino
    25 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    Olive Oil You’ve probably heard it is important to keep your cholesterol levels low, but if you want to protect yourself against heart disease you may be barking up the wrong tree. Total cholesterol is actually a fairly poor predictor of heart disease, and LDL  “bad” cholesterol is only slightly better. However, high levels of “good” HDL cholesterol are a reliable indicator of cardiovascular health and are known to be protective against heart disease and atherosclerosis. That’s right, you want higher HDL cholesterol. HDL cholesterol scavenges the blood and removes dangerous…
 
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  • This Just In – Margarine Does Not Decrease Cardiovascular Risk after Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)

    michelle
    1 Sep 2010 | 10:40 am
    by James O’Keefe, MD, FACC Headlines on the morning news TV shows, newspapers, etc. concerning a study published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine may have caused unnecessary concern about the effectiveness of omega-3 oils. Please be aware that this study did not involve typical DHA and EPA omega-3 supplements, but rather margarines. Researchers assigned 4,837 patients, aged 60-80 (78% men), who had had a myocardial infarction and were receiving state-of-the-art care, to four trial groups. Each group was given one of four margarines, one supplemented with 400 mg EPA and…

  • Teen and Adult Acne – You Are What You Eat

    michelle
    25 Aug 2010 | 3:26 pm
    It’s back to school time and nothing can ruin teens’ confidence (or adults for that matter) like acne can. We know that your diet affects your complexion. My teenage son is the perfect example. He is so sensitive to the wrong things in his diet that even a piece of bread shows up on his skin. He’s so acutely aware of this that he won’t even go near starches – and he’s a seventeen year old boy! Believe it or not, the same dietary issues we talk about as the roots of diabetes and heart disease also cause acne in our kids (and adults). When you eat junk, aka pop tarts, soda pop,…

  • Best Drinks, Worst Drinks. Avoid These, Drink These.

    michelle
    19 Aug 2010 | 1:22 pm
    Be honest. How many times have you or your children had one of these? This slide show may be enough to swear you off any of these so called “drinks” forever. Did you know that one Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water (1 bottle, 20 fl oz) has as much sugar as two Good Humor Chocolate Éclair bars? The word antioxidant in the name can easily trick people into thinking this “water” is healthy. Not so folks. The simple truth is, your body wants nothing more than just plain water. Think of a rain forest trying to survive without the rain. It would dry up and turn brown like the desert.

  • Let the Music Play – De-Stress and Get Moving – Dancing is GREAT Exercise

    michelle
    10 Aug 2010 | 9:33 am
    Let the Music Play – De-Stress and Get Moving It’s early afternoon and I’m getting ready for a small dinner party with some dear old friends. I love to entertain, but I’m just no good at it. I get stressed out about the house being messy, worry if the bath towels are folded, is there kid “stuff” all over the house, etc. Of course, my husband, who shares none of my worries, has eaten the avocados I had hidden in the back of the refrigerator for this evening and has mysteriously disappeared. These are very good friends and deep down I know that they could care less about how my…

  • Working out with spare tires can help you get rid of your spare tire – KansasCity.com

    michelle
    3 Aug 2010 | 9:33 am
    What kind of exercise does your cardiologist do? Exercise doesn’t have to involve a treadmill or weights. In fact, some of the best work outs are things you’d never consider “exercise.” Check out this article about a unique workout James O’Keefe, MD, Chief Medical Officer of CardioTabs loves. via Working out with spare tires can help you get rid of your spare tire – KansasCity.com.
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    Natural Thyroid Remedy

  • Natural Remedies for Thyroid Problems – What Foods You Should Eat and Which Ones to Avoid

    sona
    13 Aug 2010 | 10:19 am
    You might consider natural remedies for thyroid problems. It’s quite understandable, actually, since you must have heard the side effects of chemically-formulated drugs. Moreover, if you have been researching the web about thyroid problems, surely, you must have read somewhere that synthetic supplements may not even work as effectively as the non-synthetic ones. Synthetic supplements contain only one thyroid hormone, you see, while the latter covers several types, including T3 and T4 which are said to play key functions in controlling metabolism. So, indeed, why not give natural remedies a…

  • Discover the Natural Remedies for Hypothyroidism

    sona
    13 Aug 2010 | 10:15 am
    Hypothyroidism is a condition where the thyroid glands, which are located on the either side of the trachea, fail to produce adequate amount of thyroid hormones called as thyroxin. These hormones are critical for the body’s metabolic activities to function normally. If this gland becomes under active, then it slows down the body’s metabolism thus causing harm to our health. This disease affects both men and women but women are eight times more susceptible to it. Symptoms The symptoms of this disorder are weight gain, loss of appetite, constipation, fatigue, cramps, depression, low blood…

  • Cure For Thyroid- Getting The Facts

    sona
    5 Jun 2010 | 11:20 am
    If you are looking for a cure for thyroid problems then you are in luck. There are many things that you can do to help stabilize this disease so it is easier to manage. Concerning this disorder you will have one of two types: hyper -which is when the simulating hormone of this gland are producing below normal and the circulating hormones are too high. When you suffer from the hypo version this is when the hormone levels are low and the body is trying, in vain, to produce more on it's own. Testing for these ailments varies with some doctors under the impression that simple blood work tests…

  • Cure For Thyroid- There Is Hope

    sona
    5 Jun 2010 | 11:12 am
    Whether you have too little or too much hormone production there is a cure for thyroid problems, or at least treatment options that will give you a better quality of life. Since the symptoms are so closely related to other ailments your doctor will have to determine which type you have. If your gland is producing too little hormones then you suffer from the hypo version of the disease. Your body tries to compensate by producing more, but for various reasons is not able to keep up. If this is your case then the only option you have is a lifelong commitment to taking hormone supplements.

  • Natural Thyroid Remedy - Potent Herbs to Include in Your Formula

    sona
    1 Mar 2010 | 2:31 am
    Hypothyroid remedies are some of the few time proven and tested method that had been used for ages. Herbs considered as natural hypothyroid remedies are primarily used and chosen to help restore the healthy and proper function of the thyroid. Considered as the best natural thyroid remedy, Fucus vesiculosis is a vegetable that is exclusively harvested from the sea and simply one of the best sources of iodine. Alongside Fucus vesiculosis is Avena sativa, one of the foremost ingredients used in treatments used to correct a simple case of nerve disorder known as nerve tonic.Ayurvedic MedicineOne…
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    BodhiMed Home

  • Fighting Over Kale Chips Again?

    28 Aug 2010 | 3:46 pm
    I never thought I'd see my kids fight over kale.  Everytime I make these kale chips, however, I wish I had made a whole bunch more.  There's a million ways you can make them, and when I look around the Internet, I discover more combinations I'd never thought of.  If you're not already on this kale bandwagon that's sweeping the nation, get on board right now and go make some! Nutritional Benefits of Kale Kale is one of the most nutritious foods you can eat.  In only one cup of kale, you get 192% of your daily allowance of Vitamin A, and 88% of your daily Vitamin C.  It…

  • It's All In The Sauce

    20 Aug 2010 | 11:46 am
    These days it's trendy to sneak nutritious ingredients into kids' meals.  While I'd prefer that my kids willingly and happily enjoy vegetables in their natural state, I also appreciate the versatility and convenience of a protein-packed sauce.  I love sauces because they make everything taste better and can really complete a meal.  This Yumm! sauce recipe below was introduced to me by friends in Eugene, Oregon where, for obvious reasons, it is all the rage.  Try it over steamed veggies with rice, as a dip for raw carrots and cucumbers, or any other creative use you can…

  • I Know Too Many People With Cancer

    30 Jul 2010 | 12:02 pm
    All of a sudden I know too many people with cancer.  Years ago I worked in a cancer clinic supporting oncology patients with acupuncture and herbs.  They were patients of mine, not friends and family.  Prior to leaving for our summer road trip three weeks ago, five people close to me had cancer.  Sadly, now there are only four.  This is too many, and it leaves me sad and angry that our world has become so toxic that everyone from 6-month-old babies to 33-year-old women to 60-somethings can suffer from this epidemic.  What can we do if the dreaded diagnosis hits…

  • Sea Veggie Recipe For Summer

    25 Jun 2010 | 9:39 am
    Have you ever wanted to make sea vegetables a part of your family's diet but just didn't know how?  Sushi is a common way to get seaweed into a meal, but it can be pretty time consuming.  I love the following recipe because it's really easy to make and totally delicious.  Sea veggies should be a regular part of your diet because they are high in minerals, trace elements, and B vitamins.  The high iodine content in seaweed makes it the ideal choice for anyone with thyroid issues.  And from an Ayurvedic perspective, the cooling energy of vegetables from the sea balance…

  • 50,000 Ayurvedic Pulses

    18 Jun 2010 | 8:42 am
    It is said that it takes feeling 50,000 pulses to get really good at Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis.  After almost 20 years of practicing Ayurveda, I'm probably closing in on that huge number, but sometimes I still find myself doubting whether I'm really feeling what I think I'm feeling.  Driving back to Santa Fe from my recent weekend Ayurvedic pulse seminar with Dr. Vasant Lad at the Ayurvedic Institute, I remembered the profound truth that when we trust ourselves to listen to our intuition, we access a level of knowing that is usually hidden from our over-thinking, analytical mind.
 
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    Daily Health Bulletin

  • Excess Belly Fat Leads to Blood Vessel Disorders

    More evidence that excess belly fat is particularly bad for us. A study published in the August 17, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology finds that those who put on even a little weight around the middle hamper the workings of the ...

  • Excess Bad Stomach Bacteria Caused by Western Diet

    The bacteria of the digestive system, both good and bad, are much in the news. Researchers from the University of Florence have found the children in an African village, breast fed until the age of two and who ate a largely vegetarian diet (including the occasional termite for fiber) had ...

  • 4 Surprising Reasons For Not Losing Weight

    You can be doing all the right things and still have unexplained reasons for not losing weight... frustrating to be sure, but all too common for many women. Before you beat yourself up for your lack of success, consider these four hidden health conditions that might be ...

  • Natural Teeth Whitening Tips For a Healthy Smile

    We all know that brushing and flossing are the best way to keep your smile looking its best, but top natural teeth whitening tips include enjoying foods that are "tooth friendly", and avoiding ones that are trouble go a long way toward keeping your smile sparkling and ...

  • Carrying Hip Fat Can Lead to Impaired Memory Skills

    When it comes to staying sharp as you age, one body type might just have the edge on the others. A new U.S. study in the July 14, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatric Society finds that older obese women are more likely to ...
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    Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • Take a Stand for Your Health

    ZeroSpinePain
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:29 am
    We love all the comforts of technology, but for those of us that spend around 8 hours a day hunched over our monitors it can really take a toll on the back. Your body can only handle about 20-30 minutes in the same position. We’ve recommended the use of computer programs that can remind you to take regular breaks, but recently we came across a creative video that encourages office workers to join the upraising for standing up. The product is called the WorkFit-S Sit-Stand computer station from Ergotron. In the video below they show just how easy it is to transition from sitting at your desk…

  • 12 Health Myths, Busted or Trusted!

    ZeroSpinePain
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:05 am
    If you’ve ever worried about not eating the crust on your bread or forgot if you are supposed to starve or feed a cold, we’ve got a great article that you should read. Some adages about nutrition and home remedies need an update! For example, cancer fighting antioxidants are eight times more abundant in bread’s crust. Also, a handful of blueberries a day will keep the doctor away more effectively than an apple. Read about these and ten other health myths listed below. You Shouldn’t Cut Off the Bread’s Crust. It’s Full of Vitamins. If You Go Out With Wet…

  • Exercise is Essential for Back Pain Relief

    ZeroSpinePain
    30 Aug 2010 | 12:15 pm
    Spine-Health.com recently posted a short article discussing the link between back pain relief and exercise stating that exercise is a natural stimulus for the healing process. Even 15 minutes a day can help prevent back pain, as described in this Mayo Clinic presentation. No matter what type of environment you work in, there are simple steps you can take to curb your back pain. For example, these four simple office exercises. The topics discussed in the article are: Too much rest can worsen your pain. Aerobic conditioning as well as stretching and strengthening exercises are important.

  • The Danger in Masking The Pain

    ZeroSpinePain
    27 Aug 2010 | 7:57 am
    We frequently get questions from patients trying to decide whether a minimally invasive back or neck procedure is the right answer for them vs. just trying to control the pain through medication. Why we can certainly understand that some people are somewhat fearful of any kind of surgical procedure, masking the pain by taking daily ibuprofen or similar medication generally isn’t the answer. It’s true that taking over-the-counter or even prescription pain medication can lessen the pain and provide relief – for a short amount of time. Once the medication wears off, however, you’ll have…

  • Our Approach to Herniated Disc Repair

    ZeroSpinePain
    26 Aug 2010 | 11:33 am
    Traditional disc herniation surgery requires stripping away back muscles in order to expose the spine, which can cause extreme scarring and bleeding. At the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute, we are able to treat the herniation with just a laser and without stripping muscle at all. Because we do not use expandable retractors, like many others who claim to do minimally invasive surgery, we avoid cutting muscle altogether. And instead, we insert a tiny camera through a 3 or 7 mm incision, treating the disc with only a laser, so you can heal and get back to life as quickly as possible.
 
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    Leigh Peele

  • Lean Being Program – Weights Edition + New 60-day Challenge

    Leigh Peele
    31 Aug 2010 | 11:28 pm
    A new program and new challenge are here. I am going to try to keep it short so you can get as many details as possible. Sign up is at the bottom. If you are a subscriber or facebook member make sure to use the link I sent you.

  • New Challenge, New Program = One Awesome Deal

    Leigh Peele
    30 Aug 2010 | 10:43 pm
    Tomorrow I will be releasing the program and sign-up for the new challenge for members of LeighPeele.com.  In every challenge I have thrown, hundreds of pounds are lost, goals are met and lives are changed. This will be no exception. The question is – are you going to be apart of it? What are you going to do to make this a change for yourself?

  • Are Cheat Meals The Wrong Way To Go?

    Leigh Peele
    30 Aug 2010 | 1:03 am
    There are a tons of terms tossed around the health and fitness industry in which I am not a fan. All bad or wrong? No, not necessarily. Trust me, some very intelligent people use these types of terms. It isn’t about right or wrong. It is about analyzing what certain terms can do to your overall outlook and reactionary behavoir. OCD? Perhaps, but here it is anyway. If you haven’t guessed by now, I feel the term cheat meals is one of them. While I believe the intention is a good one, I feel we could do better to use a different outlook, or at least be very clear about what the term…

  • Survey and Chance to Win Free Books and Membership

    Leigh Peele
    25 Aug 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Hey Everyone. I have an article I am writing and need your help with it. I have a survey I want you to fill out and it only takes 2-3 mins. It is anonymous and free – no catch. To add a bonus, I am going to give away two free packages of my book collection and a free month membership to Leighpeele.com! Not to shabby eh? How to enter? Very simple, we are going to work on the honor system. Like I said, the survey is anonymous so I have no idea who did it or didn’t.  After you finish the survey, let me know you took the survey by saying “done.” You can tell me…

  • Quick and Easy – Spicy Pizza To Go

    Leigh Peele
    25 Aug 2010 | 12:36 am
    Sometimes you need a meal that is fast, easy, and you can make at home. While I do think it is important to use things like cooking as a way to get your NEAT in, most of you can’t spend all day in the kitchen. The Spicy Pizza to Go is a fast and filling recipe with 46 grams of protein. With stats like that you will definitely stay full long after you eat it. This delicious make and go recipe is in the Quick & Easy cookbook that is available now for members only. You can find out more about becoming a member and joining by going here.
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    Lose Belly Flab

  • Lose Belly Flab on 5 Easy Steps

    I bet you want to lose that belly flab and change the look of your body without joining a gym. Am I right? Well, maybe you should try this high energized cardiovascular fitness routine that that was developed by experts. No need to join a gym for this one.

  • Lose Belly Flab With 4 Easy Methods

    Many people dislike weight loss exercises simply because they hate sticking to a routine. You need to keep in mind that your lose belly flab exercise routine should be exigent, but also fun! That said, here’s four easy going exercises for your weekly activities. Work it, lose that fat.

  • Lose Belly Fat Fast - Wipe Out Belly Fat Now

    Here are some mesmerizing tips on how to lose belly fat fast so you can show off your lean body figure confidently anytime, any place!

  • How to Loose Belly Fat

    Common people do like to loose excess fat everywhere in their body. For a lot of folks, they want to lose fat and they want to loose it fast.
 
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    Small Business Growth Strategies

  • Why Running Multiple Businesses Could Be Your Smartest Business Decision

    Stephanie Chandler
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:19 am
    Last night I caught two different biographies on t.v.—one on Warren Buffett and another on comedian Steve Martin. Both offered a fascinating look at the successes of these two men. I learned that Warren Buffett’s strategy is to take the profits from one company and use them to purchase shares in another company. He has invested in all kinds of businesses—from insurance and finance companies to technology ventures and even a furniture store. And he doesn’t waste time micro-managing the operations. In fact, he owns businesses he’s never visited. He puts the right people in place to…

  • The most important marketing materials to have at your trade show booth

    Stephanie Chandler
    26 Aug 2010 | 11:30 am
    I’m writing today from Reno, Nevada. My friend Christine Giri (aka The Time Tamer) was the featured speaker at the eWomenNetwork meeting here last night, so a group of us decided to make the trip and schedule some additional meetings (and a little fun) while we’re here. Though I dread trade show booths (I don’t like feeling like a peddler!), I decided to purchase a display table at last night’s event to feature Authority Publishing since I figured there would be a great group of professionals there who need help with publishing their books. I was right about that, and…

  • How to Setup Your Business Listing on Yelp

    Stephanie Chandler
    18 Aug 2010 | 8:45 am
    Yelp has become one of the top providers of local business listings, making it essential for businesses to create and manage a presence here. This is especially important for businesses that serve a local community since your audience is quite likely to find you here. Yelp’s motto is “the power of word of mouth amplified” and its purpose is for users to find and rate businesses through this online directory. With that in mind, you need to create a profile (it’s free!) and then collect positive customer reviews. 1. Start here on Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/business 2. You will be…

  • How to Create a Business Listing on Google Places (including Google Maps, Web Search and More!)

    Stephanie Chandler
    16 Aug 2010 | 8:41 am
    While the internet may reach around the globe, there are many ways that local businesses can take advantage of the internet in their own backyards. One powerful tool for getting local business exposure online is via Google Places, a free service that makes it easy for users to find your business through Google Maps, Google Web Search, Google Earth, GOOG-411 (phone-based search directory), and Google Maps for Mobile. Your Google Places listing can include a description of your business, address, phone, website link, hours of operation, photos, coupons and more. Once your business listing is…

  • How to Prevent Business Growth and Stay on the Entrepreneurial Hamster Wheel

    Stephanie Chandler
    13 Aug 2010 | 11:26 am
    There is a special kind of camaraderie amongst entrepreneurs. It is a bit like belonging to an exclusive club, where members celebrate the freedom of business ownership. And while freedom may be the motto, only a small percentage of entrepreneurs are truly free. Instead of running their businesses, they let their businesses run them. It’s easy to do when the phone is ringing and there are bills to pay. Add to that the passion for what you do and a burning desire to succeed, and you have a recipe for anything but freedom. What you have is a cycle that is hard to break, which can be like…
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    Michelle's Run - Forever Young Diet

  • Birthday Cake – Birthday Zits

    Michelle Kruse
    25 Aug 2010 | 3:43 pm
    I am the perfect example of the old adage, you are what you eat. Have you read the O’Keefe’s blog this week? Unfortunately, I can attest to every word. I’ve been on Accutane twice in my life and wish so much I’d have known then what I know now. Unfortuantely, that was back in the day of fat-free diets being the rage and me not knowing any better. I used to live on fat-free sugar laden cereals and other junk – and I loved soda pop. And I paid the price. My skin looked awful! As a last resort, I took Accutane at 16 and again at 22. Accutane is a miserable…

  • Ow! That Hurts.

    Michelle Kruse
    3 Aug 2010 | 9:44 am
    I know, I know. I’ve neglected the advice I’ve received by so many people and now I’m paying the price. I’ve been using the “too busy” excuse for not fitting in as much core and weight training as I should. I have tried to do my running, biking and swimming workouts, but that leaves very little time for weights and core exercises. Lately, I’ve neglected them all together. My favorite triathlon of the season, The Win For KC Women’s Triathlon, was this Saturday. I did the Cameron, MO mini-triathlon as a warm-up the weekend before and that’s…

  • Swimmer’s Ear – Solutions from My 6 Year-Old

    Michelle Kruse
    6 Jul 2010 | 2:45 pm
    I’ve switched gears from marathon training to triathlon and with that comes lake swimming.  I love swimming, but I always seem to have trouble with swimmer’s ear and ear infections when I swim a lot.  I’ve tried ear plugs and they never seem to stay put through a long swim.  I’ve also tried keeping my cap over my ears and that alone doesn’t help either.  Enter my six year-old. During a recent visit to my daughter’s Ear Nose and Throat surgeon (she had ear tube surgery in May), we were advised to keep her ears completely dry for eight weeks.  Difficult…

  • My dog – the world’s best running partner

    Michelle Kruse
    8 Jun 2010 | 3:42 pm
    Running just isn’t the same lately. I’ve been slowed down by an injury, and it isn’t even my own. My faithful running companion of the past eight years who helps me feel safe and always pushes me to keep going is injured and I am suffering. I’m not talking about a human partner either. My favorite running companion is my dog, a 95-pound weimaraner that looks more horse than dog. My dog, Orion, injured his leg when running off leash in the woods by our house. The vet has ordered him (me) to rest for at least four weeks. We’re on week two and I’m as lonely as…

  • Kansas City Heart Walk a Success

    Michelle Kruse
    25 May 2010 | 12:48 pm
    Last Saturday employees of CardioTabs and Good Things Health made a strong showing at the Kansas City Start! Heart Walk benefitting the American Heart Association. As a frequent participant in charity runs and races of all lengths, I was absolutely inspired by the sheer number of people who came out just to walk or to show their support for friends/family with heart disease. There were no timing chips and no prizes for the first walker to the finish line, but still thousands of people came to the event. This is one event where setting a PR was out of the question. We simply walked and had a…
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    Spoonful of Medicine

  • (Don't) be still, my beating heart

    2 Sep 2010 | 9:25 am
    Since its inception in the 1970s, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become invaluable for an array of diagnostic procedures. And, since MRI uses an electromagnetic field to generate the image, rather than radiation, it's assumed to be safer than other techniques like CT scans. Until recently, creating the images required the patient to remain motionless, and it was impossible to get a clear picture of a constantly moving organ like the heart. In a report published in NMR in Biomedicine, scientists from Göttingen, Germany describe how they drastically reduced the amount of time needed to…

  • Dude, what happened to my pain resistance?

    1 Sep 2010 | 8:50 am
    Marijuana is known to dull the senses when you’re high. But smoking dope may have much longer effects on pain perception, according to a new study presented yesterday at the World Congress on Pain in Montreal. Laura Mitchell and her colleagues at the Glasgow Caledonian University recruited around 90 regular recreational cannabis users, most of whom were in their 20s or 30s, and studied their ability to withstand the pain of dipping their hands in ice cold water. They found that heavy male weed tokers had a significantly lower pain threshold than non-pot smokers, and these potheads kept…

  • Qi, shi, and the debate over acupuncture

    31 Aug 2010 | 3:43 pm
    Acupuncture has been used in China for millennia, but the study of sticking fine needles in the body to alleviate pain has only recently entered the realm of western medicine, although it is still often met with a fair share of skepticism by the scientific establishment. At the 13th meeting of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Ji-Sheng Han, a neurophysiologist at Peking University in Beijing, China, contended that the pain relief felt by people who undergo the procedure is real and reproducible. “On top of placebo, you have a real acupuncture effect,” Han told…

  • FDA limiting non-inferiority drug trials

    31 Aug 2010 | 12:32 pm
    This year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been tougher about approving new drugs based on non-inferiority trials &mdash and rightfully so, according to a report out this summer from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Non-inferiority trials pit an experimental drug against an established treatment in order to prove that the new drug does not perform any worse than its competitor. Some argue that, for conditions where there is already a drug available, this method is more ethical than placebo-controlled trials. But the GAO report highlights the concern that…

  • NIH stops its own human embryonic stem cell experiments

    31 Aug 2010 | 9:15 am
    Cross posted from Nature's The Great Beyond blog. In a move not unexpected, but still shocking, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday halted human embryonic stem cell experiments being conducted by researchers on its own campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The directive, communicated to researchers by Michael Gottesman (pictured), the agency's Deputy Director for Intramural Research, came one week after a federal judge issued an injunction temporarily halting federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research until a lawsuit challenging its legality is decided. Director Francis…
 
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    Respectful Insolence

  • Acupuncture quackademic medicine infiltrates PLoS ONE

    2 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    Nearly a month ago, I expressed my dismay and displeasure at the infiltration fo quackademic medicine into what is arguably the premier medical journal in the world, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in the form of a highly credulous review on the use of acupuncture for low back pain that brought eternal shame on the hallowed pages of a once-great journal. As Mark Crislip put it, trust, once damaged or lost, is very hard to restore, and I definitely lost a lot of trust for the NEJM compared to what I had for it a month ago. Since then, I've been keeping my eyes out for other examples…

  • Vaccine injury and compensation

    1 Sep 2010 | 6:00 am
    The comment thread for my post last week about how philosophical vaccine exemptions in California are endangering herd immunity is rapidly approaching 500 comments as I write this and may well surpass that number by the time this post "goes live" in the morning. I mention this because buried in the comment thread are a number of comments by our old "friend," that anti-vaccine-sympathetic pediatrician to the stars, Dr. Jay Gordon doing what Dr. Jay does best and basically making a fool of himself on matters of vaccine science through his preference for anecdote over sound epidemiology and…

  • When homeopaths fight back

    31 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    I love it when my fans notice me. After all, of what use is my having taken so many hours over so many years laying down on a nearly daily basis if my words don't have an impact? Surely I couldn't be so egotistical that I'd do it anyway even if my readership was what it was when I first started out and had not increased to the point where I'm the (alleged) force that I've become in the medical and skeptical blogosphere, would I? Wait, on second thought, don't answer that. In any case, back in the day I'd write my best snarky skeptical deconstruction of some bit of pseudoscience or another and…

  • Mike Adams on Vaccines: Orac's Corollary to Poe's Law strikes again

    30 Aug 2010 | 6:00 am
    A frequent lament of members of the anti-vaccine movement is that they are not "anti-vaccine" but rather "pro-safe vaccine." they like to claim that they are not opposed to vaccines in general. Of course, in many, if not most or even all cases, that denial is either a lie or self-delusion. After all, even the most die-hard anti-vaccine zealot realizes that being anti-vaccine is quite correctly viewed by the vast majority of people as not rational. That's why, in a perverse way, I'm thankful for loons like Mike Adams. Yes, Mike Adams. He lays the crazy out in a way that no one else does. But…

  • Another idiotic poll: Do you think vaccines are safe?

    29 Aug 2010 | 2:05 pm
    A friend of mine sent me a link to one of my hometown news stations because he saw something that irritated him. On the front page, there is a poll of such epic burning stupid that it requires an immediate crash. I may not be P.Z., but I have in some instances overcome my previous dislike of poll crashing, especially when it's a poll this stupid: Do you think immunizations are safe? Yes No As if an Internet poll has any bearing whatsoever on whether vaccines are safe or even on whether people believe vaccines are safe. The poll is located on the webpage of the Detroit FOX affiliate in the…
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    Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC

  • "If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold."

    2 Sep 2010 | 10:49 am
    “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” - (via mattlehrer) This is insurance-based medical care in America.

  • A young man plunged 39 stories Tuesday from a West Side...

    1 Sep 2010 | 1:27 pm
    A young man plunged 39 stories Tuesday from a West Side high-rise, crashed through the windshield of a sports car - and lived to tell about it. “My leg! My leg!” Thomas Magill, 22, screamed after an apparent suicide attempt ended with his landing in the red 2008 Dodge Charger, witnesses said. The things you learn throughout medical school, residency, and practicing is never say never…anything and everything can and will happen if it involves the human body. Reminds me of this. See also, How to save a friend from the brink.

  • A New Insurance Company for the New Workforce This is exactly...

    1 Sep 2010 | 12:03 pm
    A New Insurance Company for the New Workforce This is exactly why Grant and I at The Future Well are ridiculously excited to be working with The Freelancers Union to help them build and grow a health insurance company that’s effective and sustainable.  I’m honored to be working with Sara and her team. They’re remarkably smart and passionate people with a mission that can’t be beat.

  • Build the tools, then the community.

    1 Sep 2010 | 11:56 am
    Some thoughts regarding today’s Apple announcements… First, build tools that make solving real problems effortless and fun (like organizing and listening to music). Grow the user base by tweaking an amazing product. Then, add a community to those tools.  My problem with Facebook is that its tools suck. Tumblr started out for me as a stupid simple way to power my blog. And then a community grew up around it. Flickr was the same. I wanted a place to publish my photos. Then a community grew up around it. I’ve been a music lover all my life and iTunes enabled me to easily organize my…

  • From my post over at The Future Well: Did anyone ask us if we...

    1 Sep 2010 | 10:21 am
    From my post over at The Future Well: Did anyone ask us if we want the future? How do we understand the sequelae of a generation that’s getting married at an average age of 28? If people are getting married later and having children later, then those children will have parents that die sooner. How will children whose parents die when they are teenagers deal with having no parents as twenty and thirty-somethings? Will this make their lives less happy? Even more so, what will come of their kids who grow up with no grandparents?
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    ScienceRoll

  • MDLifeSucks: Share Your Story

    Dr. Bertalan Meskó
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:03 am
    Of course, there is a reason why doctors become doctors (I have my own – to become a geneticist), but sometimes MD life is really not like what we expected. MDLifeSucks collects these negative stories and encourages you to share yours. A few examples: I made the mistake of buying an MD license plate. Now, every time I go to the mechanic for a simple oil change, they find something new wrong with my car. I put back a patient’s gown in the scrub dispenser machine and now my scrub machine privileges are revoked and the security camera picture of me doing so is plastered on the wall…

  • Japanese Medical Resources in Social Media

    Dr. Bertalan Meskó
    2 Sep 2010 | 8:21 am
    We launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date easily. It is a simple, free medical information aggregator that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news about a medical specialty or condition in one personalized place. It is now available in 14 languages! The Japanese selection is the newest onein which the platform is in Japanese and the blogs, news, Twitter users and peer-reviewed journals are also the best ones in that language. Please let us know if you want to see PeRSSonalized Medicine in your language. Click on the…

  • Health 2.0 News: Doctors using Google, Hospital Blogs being Blocked

    Dr. Bertalan Meskó
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:47 am
    86% of MDs use Google on the the Job (Digital Pathology Blog) It’s not just patients who turn to Google or other search engines to research medical information. According to Google, 86 percent of doctors say they now use  Internet on the job. Of that group, the majority start at Google, which they use as a source to look for general information about diseases and drugs, writes pediatrician Dr. Rahul K. Parikh in a special piece for the Los Angeles Times. MAD MMX – Opening Title Sequence Doctors blends cardiology and country music (Clinicl Cases and Images) Is Your Hospital…

  • Personalized Genomics on Slideshows

    Dr. Bertalan Meskó
    31 Aug 2010 | 12:42 pm
    When preparing for this year’s Researchers’ Night (details below), I was trying to collect some information and updates about the consumer genomics market for my presentation and found great slideshows. Enjoy! If you thought that research was all about lab coats and Bunsen burners, think again. Like everyone else, researchers come from numerous backgrounds, have diverse interests and pursue a spectrum of hopes and dreams. One thing they all have in common is a passion for research – and they want to share it with you. The European Commission’s ‘Researchers in Europe’ (RIE)…

  • Parkinson’s Disease: Web 2.0 Resources

    Dr. Bertalan Meskó
    30 Aug 2010 | 8:07 am
    The world wide web is really rich in Parkinson’s disease related content such as blogs, podcasts, community sites, mobile applications, Twitter users, videos or slideshows, but selecting the most relevant resources takes time and effort. Fortunately, Webicina.com just published the newest, Parkinson’s disease and Web 2.0 collection. If you also want to follow easily these selected resources in a personalized way, here is PeRSSonalized Parkinson’s disease, the simplest medical information aggregator. Here is table of contents: News and Information on Parkinson’s Disease…
 
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  • Low Calorie Breakfast Ideas

    Tory McBroom
    30 Aug 2010 | 6:06 am
    You’ve probably heard that eating breakfast is important.  And for good reason as the majority of successful dieters report that they eat breakfast every day. One of the reason’s breakfast aids in weight loss is because those that skip this meal sometimes more than make up for it with “starvation eating” later on. So, it’s important to choose a healthy low calorie breakfast that will keep you full and not have you snacking a short a while later. By eating high fiber, water dense foods for breakfast you will be able to eat a lot more food without all the calories.  Plus, it will…

  • Shirataki Noodles

    Tory McBroom
    26 Aug 2010 | 4:14 pm
    These zero calorie noodles are made from the root of an Asian yam and can be used as an alternative to more traditional pasta or egg noodles.  While lacking flavor, these noodles will take on the flavor of whatever type of sauce you add to them.  They are high in a no-calorie soluble fiber called glucomannan.  Great addition to any weight loss or low calorie diet! Try them in soups, stir-fry and pasta dishes and vegetable salads. They do tend to have a fishy smell when you first open them, but after you rinse them off as the directions say the smell goes away. No calories Soy Free Gluten…

  • 15 Healthy Snack Ideas For Work

    Tory McBroom
    23 Aug 2010 | 5:43 am
    One important step to leading a healthy lifestyle is to make sure the majority of your snacks are healthy. Makes sense right? But, if most of your snacks come out of the vending machine at work or from fast food restaurants it makes it extremely difficult to adopt a healthy lifestyle. That’s where it pays off to do a little planning.  Instead of waiting till hunger strikes while at work, prepare some healthy snacks ahead of time and keep them on hand to help avoid the vending machines and drive-thru’s. Here’s what to look for in a snack: Foods that satisfy hunger. For example,…

  • All Natural Fuji Apple Crisps

    Tory McBroom
    20 Aug 2010 | 5:53 am
    Perfect for those times that fresh fruit just isn’t an option. Whether you are at work, in the car, or traveling these Fuji apple crisps make it easy to get your daily serving of fruits. Brothers-All-Natural Fruit Crisps are a 100% freeze-dried fruit snack that contains all the nutrients of its fresh counterpart with absolutely no added sugar, preservatives, or dies. The uniquely designed bags keep the apple crisps fresh for up to 1 year. Also available in variety pack containing Fuji apples, Asian pears, strawberries and bananas. ·  Each bag contains 2 fruit servings ·  Peanut/tree nut…

  • 10 Delicious Low Calorie Salad Ideas

    Tory McBroom
    16 Aug 2010 | 5:54 am
    A salad is a great addition to any diet.  It’s an easy (and tasty) way to get a good serving of leafy green vegetables and with the right toppings you can turn a simple salad into a complete meal. But, it’s extremely easy to go overboard with salad dressings, cheese and various other toppings.  This turns your once healthy meal into a dish loaded with fat, sugars and thousand’s of calories! So, to make sure your next salad increases your health and not your waistline, here’s 10 low calorie salad ideas that are as light as they are delicious! Lettuce & Orange Salad With Black…
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    Anne Samoilov

  • Your Abs Are Tight But What about the Rest of Your Life?

    admin
    1 Sep 2010 | 7:57 am
    Recently, I’ve had a lot of changes in my life…external and internal.  I’m never one to hold back and pretend everything’s peachy…even though sometimes I probably should zip it.  But if you know me…you know when I get going, I have a hard time shutting up. What I’ve noticed over that time is that I [...]

  • Why Letting Go Can Be The Best Way To Get Exactly What You Want

    admin
    13 Aug 2010 | 1:02 pm
    Sometimes I have a near out of body experience when I notice how hard I push everything in my life.  I take chances daily, dive into challenging projects, trying to find new things to create, and I am always pushing pushing pushing to live my life to the absolute fullest.  Most of the time this [...]

  • The 1 Thing Holding You Back From Achieving Your Weight Loss Goals

    admin
    8 Aug 2010 | 11:00 am
    It’s easy to think you are different from other people, to believe that what works for others won’t work for you, and to look at your busy life and think there’s simply no time to achieve what you want to achieve. Guess what, it’s all kind of BS. We all spin these myths about how [...]

  • Chocolate….Glorious Chocolate

    admin
    29 Jul 2010 | 1:31 pm
    Here’s a bonus Guest Post by Pippa Kendrick! This one’s a yummy treat! If you missed her last post, check out the Mind-Body Connection. Let’s face it, chocolate truffles are not the first thing that spring to mind when you think of cooking for allergies and intolerances, but I can guarantee that even the most [...]

  • The Real Mind Body Connection

    admin
    22 Jul 2010 | 8:47 pm
    Guest post by Pippa Kendrick I recently connected with an amazing writer & blogger who is passionate about eating well with food sensitivities.  Since I’m always looking for new ways to improve my eating and still enjoy food, I asked Pippa to do a guest post (my first one on annesamoilov.com).  LEAVE HER A COMMENT [...]
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    AstroNutrition

  • Ergonomic Desk

    AstroNutrition
    1 Sep 2010 | 5:09 pm
    If you spend large amounts of time sitting in a desk chair working at a desk you undoubtedly are familiar with the fatigue and back pain which often accompany such work. A proper setup at the workplace or at home is crucial to your health and comfort. erpic.jpg read more

  • Back to School Lunches

    AstroNutrition
    1 Sep 2010 | 11:19 am
    Sun-filled summer days are just about over and the resumption of school is right around the corner. It’s that time of the year folks - backpacks, books, and paper bag lunches!One tool that you can give your child to help her excel, stay energized, focused, and sharp throughout the day is with a nutritious lunch. Sound simple, right? Here’s where it can get tricky: childEating.jpg read more

  • Sneak Some Exercise into your Daily Life

    AstroNutrition
    31 Aug 2010 | 4:22 pm
    It takes time to exercise, and as our lives get busier and busier it becomes ever harder to get the exercise we need. This article therefore considers a few ways in which we can sneak some exercise into our busy lives by incorporating exercise into our daily activities. expic.jpeg read more

  • Fruits and Veggies May Cut Lung Cancer Risk

    AstroNutrition
    31 Aug 2010 | 1:52 pm
    If you smoke, you can decrease your chance of getting lung cancer by eating a variety of fruits and vegetables, according to new research released this week. images.jpg read more

  • The Right Light for Your Eyesight

    AstroNutrition
    30 Aug 2010 | 1:48 pm
    Getting a proper reading light is very important for your health because insufficient lighting can cause eye strain and headaches. Furthermore, bad lighting or noisy lighting can result in even worse symptoms over the long-run. eypic.jpeg read more
 
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    Dr. Barker's Blog

  • Making the Weight Loss Surgery Decision

    admin
    31 Aug 2010 | 10:32 am
    “Something is wrong. I’m going to the gym everyday, I’m following diets. I know how much I’m taking in, and I just can’t lose any weight.” Does this sound familiar? It’s the story of Karen, a valued patient of our Dallas, TX clinic. The results of Karen’s gastric bypass surgery are inspiring, but the decision wasn’t easy. If you’re on the fence about weight loss surgery, Dr. Barker and his staff can help. During your initial consultation, we’ll review your health history, discuss your previous weight loss strategies and…

  • Updates on Teen Obesity

    admin
    17 Aug 2010 | 11:50 am
    While physicians are pleased to see obesity rates declining (or plateauing) for many adolescent groups, research indicates that obesity is still increasing among some racial and ethnic groups. The recent study, conducted by the University of California San Francisco, will be published in the Sept. 2010 edition of Pediatrics. “While the decline and stabilization of obesity among certain groups is encouraging, we are seeing an increase in disparities that is troubling, especially among the most severely obese youth,” said the study’s first author, Kristine Madsen, MD,…

  • New Research Explores the Value of Mind Control in Weight Loss

    admin
    24 Jul 2010 | 7:07 pm
    New data presented at the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior annual meeting indicates that dieters may be able to control their food consumption by manipulating their minds. The study found that test subjects felt “fuller” and more satisfied after eating portions that seemed larger than they were. For example, in one experiment, participants were provided with a list of smoothie ingredients. 1/2 were shown pictures small fruit portions, while the others were shown images of larger fruit portion. Participants were then asked to rate their hunger before and after smoothie…

  • Neck Circumference Used to Screen for Childhood Obesity

    admin
    6 Jul 2010 | 1:51 pm
    While Body Mass Index (BMI), a ratio of height to weight, was the previous gold standard for determining child obesity, researchers assert that there’s now a more accurate way to measure dangerous body fat levels. According to the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, pediatricians should consider using neck circumference when assessing children for future weight problems. Published in the renowned journal, Pediatrics, this recent study indicates that measuring neck circumference is (1) faster than other BMI measurement methods, (2) more consistent than waist measurements, which may…

  • Inspirational Quote for the Week

    admin
    27 Jun 2010 | 7:59 pm
    “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” –Maria Robinson
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    inCapitalHealth

  • Melatonin Effective for Treating Insomnia (in the elderly)

    ICH Team
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:03 am
    If you keep nodding off while trying to read this article you probably won’t know that insomnia is a highly prevalent condition, with up to a third of all adults thought to suffer from insomnia at some time. Insomnia is debilitating and has been noted to have associations with a variety of psychiatric conditions. Melatonin, an endogenous sleep regulating hormone, has long been mooted as a potential therapy for this condition. Endogenous melatonin production is known to decrease as a person ages, therefore it has been hypothesised that treatment with this hormone may be efficacious in…

  • Obesity Surgical Experts Promote Bariatric Surgery

    ICH Team
    31 Aug 2010 | 9:34 am
    There are currently over one million people in the UK suffering with severe and complex obesity (defined by NICE as a BMI of over 40 or between 35 and 40 if suffering from other significant disease) and the management of this obesity epidemic is currently costing the NHS around £4.2 billion, with indirect healthcare and societal costs estimated at around £16 billion; figures which have been predicted to more than double by 2050. When the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) first reported on the benefits and value for money of obesity surgery eight years ago, less…

  • New Heart Drug Saves Lives

    ICH Team
    31 Aug 2010 | 9:23 am
    London Cardiology Expert shows a 26% reduction in hospitalisation and death from heart failure. Procoralan® (ivabradine), a drug costing less than £10 a week has been proven to improve survival of patients with heart failure according to new research presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting.  The new research (SHIfT sudy*) showed that the drug, ivabradine, significantly reduced the risk of death from heart failure by 26%, and the risk of hospitalisation was also significantly reduced by 26%. The benefits were seen even though the heart failure patients were already…

  • Importance of Screening in Pregnancy for Pre-Eclampsia and Proteinuria

    ICH Team
    24 Aug 2010 | 3:12 pm
    NICE have issued new guidance highlighting the importance of measuring high blood pressure in pregnant women. This follows news earlier in the year that compared the safety of child birth in different countries and pointed out that it was more dangerous to give birth in the United States than it was in Beirut, mostly due to the dangers of undetected and untreated high blood pressure (hypertension) and pre-eclampsia. About hypertension Hypertension includes the following conditions: Chronic hypertension. Hypertension that is present at the booking visit or before 20 weeks or if the woman is…

  • Herbs – Supplements or Medicine?

    ICH Team
    24 Aug 2010 | 6:55 am
    … Only if it is the right side of the ‘Directive’ UK Herbal Forum has warned that the European Union may find its pharmacy store shelves filled with illegal herbal products if companies don’t register their products under the Traditional Herbal Products Medicinal Directive (THMPD). The Directive become law in 2004, giving herbal products making medicinal claims across the EU bloc seven years to register their products by submitting a supporting dossier. With that deadline of April 30, 2011 less than a year away, concern is growing that a swathe of products that may be perfectly legal…
 
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    Global News

  • Miley Cyrus break up with Liam Hemsworth

    nisya
    29 Aug 2010 | 8:46 am
    The rumors spread about Miley Cyrus break up with Liam Hemsworth. So, it seems that Miley Cyrus had to bury her dream to get married young. Miley Cyrus love story with Liam Hemsworth only a memory. Their relationship has ended. The breakdown in relations between the two young artists that make Miley depressed. She felt unprepared [...]Miley Cyrus break up with Liam Hemsworth is a post from: Global News

  • Female Teacher send sexting pics to student

    nisya
    27 Jul 2010 | 8:14 am
    A female teacher in New Hampshire, United States to send sexting pics to student who was 15 years old. As a result she is now forced to undergo counseling for her actions are. Melinda Dennehy brought to court on a charge of obscene acts against minors. In court, the 41 year old woman pleaded guilty for [...]Female Teacher send sexting pics to student is a post from: Global News

  • Mario Medina, nephew of Governor-elect Cesar Duarte dies

    nisya
    16 Jul 2010 | 6:14 am
    Mario Medina, nephew of the governor-elect of Chihuahua Cesar Duarte dies after being shot in the back, on Wednesday 14 July. The incident occurred when Medina seeks to avoid the perpetrator who want to kidnap him. 42-year-old victim is currently located at his place of business when the actors wanted to kidnap him. Until now, the [...]Mario Medina, nephew of Governor-elect Cesar Duarte dies is a post from: Global News

  • Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies

    nisya
    13 Jul 2010 | 9:03 am
    George Steinbrenner, 80,  Yankees owner dies after suffering a massive heart attack. Before he died, he had rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital Tampa, Florida to get treatment. Steinbrenner is a great figure. As long as he has the Yankees, has recorded as many as seven times the team won the World Series trophies since 1973. These deaths [...]Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies is a post from: Global News

  • Roman Polanski Release From Prison!

    nisya
    13 Jul 2010 | 4:08 am
    Roman Polanski, now in release and no longer under house arrest in Switzerland. This decision has been declared by the authorities in Switzerland, Monday, July 12, 2010. Swiss reject the request for extradition of Polanski by the United States. For U.S. authorities, Polanski allegedly linked to cases of rape, which occurred 33 years ago. Thus, the [...]Roman Polanski Release From Prison! is a post from: Global News
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  • Treating allergy with acupuncture – acupuncture treatment for allergy

    Dr. Subba Rao
    31 Aug 2010 | 11:56 pm
    Treating allergy with acupuncture - acupuncture treatment for allergy Related posts:Aromatherapy pain relief – Therapeutic, Acupuncture, Herbal and natural pain managementre, Herbel and natural pain managementtypes of food allergies and how to take care of allergies naturallyHerbal Remedies for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Natural treatment for CFS

  • stop smoking medication – Natural ways to stop smoking

    Dr. Subba Rao
    30 Aug 2010 | 8:52 pm
    stop smoking medication - Natural ways to stop smoking Related posts:quit smoking tips – surgical Laser Treatment7 ways how to increase HDL levels of cholesterolHistory of cigars, story of cigarettes , alternative for tobacco cigars

  • why not getting enough sleep – sleeping problems

    Dr. Subba Rao
    30 Aug 2010 | 12:00 am
    why not getting enough sleep - sleeping problems Related posts:Why should you sleep well, side effects of sleeping lessGuide for healthy sleep and its importance and side effectsSimple Home remedy for Snoring

  • Effective Acne Treatments for oily skin

    Dr. Subba Rao
    29 Aug 2010 | 11:56 pm
    Effective Acne Treatments for oily skin Related posts:Acne treatment at home, easy ways to get rid of Acne at homeHome remedies for dry skin – natural dry skin remedyLatest treatments for Hair loss – Subliminals For Hair Loss treatment for men – new

  • quit smoking tips – surgical Laser Treatment

    Dr. Subba Rao
    29 Aug 2010 | 11:51 pm
    quit smoking tips - surgical Related posts:stop smoking medication – Natural ways to stop smokingSimple Home remedy for Snoring
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    How To Get Focused

  • The 4 Shocking Insights Researchers Reveal About Vacations and Why You Need More

    Scott
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:14 pm
    Tom was completely burnt out, yet he didn’t even know it. Whenever he felt tired or overworked, he simply responded by “grinding it out.” He was the best technician around. He worked for the local oil plant. And around there, he was “the man.” He developed profoundly complex systems and spent weekends at the plant. Shut-downs (times when workers were required to work over 20 hour days) were his favorite. Now, five years later, Tom is gone. He grinded himself into the ground. What makes people like Tom sacrifice themselves for their employer? It could be a number…

  • Productivity Applications: 5 That Rock, 5 That Don’t, and 5 That are Underrated

    Scott
    13 Aug 2010 | 9:58 am
    5 Productivity Applications That Rock: 1. MindMeister MindMeister acts like an online whiteboard. Ever find yourself knee-deep in a project to only forget the big picture? MindMeister solves this all-too-common dilemma. As described by Mindmeister, “MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can…

  • The To Do List Secret Everybody Ought to Know

    Scott
    31 Jul 2010 | 11:34 am
    I often receive emails from my readers that acknowledge that the lessons outlined in the book were profoundly helpful; yet, when it comes time to putting the the concepts into action, old habits and attitudes arise that prevent them from moving forth. We’re all guilty of this–including myself. We read a specific passage or lesson, yet when it comes time to putting concepts into action, we struggle with reality–the reality that life is busy, and filled with a seemingly endless number of tasks. For instance, one of my readers exclaimed that my article on the to do list…

  • An Update on the Book

    Scott
    30 May 2010 | 8:35 am
    What I’ve been up to lately Stephen King cranks out more smash-hit books than one could even think possible. During the process of writing this book, I read Stephen’s pseudo-memoir, “On Writing.” In his work, Stephen outlines his formula for writing meaningful, purposeful books. He suggests that one should make it a goal to finish the first draft within three months; and then let the book sit for about six weeks. That way, when the author picks up the book, it feels fresh and new. This allows the author to read their book without sentences and noise still echoing in…

  • Focus and Food

    Scott
    17 May 2010 | 7:41 am
    As you’re aware, I’ve embarked on writing a book in real-time online. As one writes and publishes their content, some listen, some don’t, and some really enjoy your work. That’s the beauty of the format in which I’m writing this book. This method, which I’ve termed for now as “Writing 2.0,” results in interacting with readers that are passionate about specific areas of focus–areas in which I, admittedly, am not as knowledgeable about. For this reason, I decided to invite Ashley Marie Smith write this chapter on the subject of Focus Foods.
 
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    Downtown Dharma

  • See the Light

    admin
    17 Aug 2010 | 8:02 pm
    I know I told you I was over astrologers, but I never said anything about clairvoyant healers. A friend of mine raved about Tori Quisling, so I had to meet her. Her readings supposedly guide and empower. What’s the harm in that? I figured she could teach me a few spiritual lessons, or at least explain what the heck an aura is. We met at the posh Cooper Hotel and sat outdoors, trying to find peace among nature…or the next best city option: high-end wooden outdoor furniture. The first thing Tori tells me is that she sees green energy all around me. In my mind, green means money, so I…

  • Finding Thinner Peace II

    admin
    12 Aug 2010 | 8:00 am
    I’m standing at the Whole Foods salad bar and I’ve no idea what to eat. Besides, that is, bread pudding, oily pasta and those tempting chicken wings. All the options leave me confused and hungry, which is a recipe for disaster. I just want to make healthy choices for lunch…and possibly slip in a spoonful of bread pudding for dessert! What’s a girl to do? My friend Donna Sonkin, a Certified Holistic Health Coach, was once a chubby girl, but now helps people eat right by setting them in harmony with nature. Isn’t it funny how some people turn their struggles into careers? I met…

  • The Problem with Thinking

    admin
    4 Aug 2010 | 8:45 am
    Sometimes I feel like the chatter in my head can fill Yankee Stadium. Friends and mentors have tried to help with the Snap Out of It! approach, instructing me in rather loud, startling tones to stop thinking so much. Love the concept, but it’s not so easy. I’ve always over analyzed situations growing up. I was a Psych major for that very reason. Well, that plus four years of free therapy. Women are infamous for over-thinking, obsessing about “Why didn’t he call?” Or “Should I buy these shoes?” Or “I hate these shoes I bought but all I can think about  is why…

  • Become a Piece of Work

    admin
    28 Jul 2010 | 10:19 am
    What do you do when your Jewish parents are in town? Simple. Take them to the Joan Rivers’ movie! We saw A Piece of Work the other day, which tells the story of one woman’s (albeit a loud and often obnoxious one!) tough journey to stardom. Not everyone is as sure as Joan was about their destiny. Heck, there are days I would love to make a career out of watching Real Housewives’ marathons while downing scoops of chocolate frozen yogurt. Joan knew her whole life that she loved to tell foul-mouthed jokes on stage and get paid well for it. Turns out, there’s nothing wrong with that.

  • Downtime with Monk Dave

    admin
    21 Jul 2010 | 9:26 am
    Not to be a “Debbie Downer” but a recent study said that by 2020 depression will be the second largest killer after heart disease. Could this be true? I spoke to Dave the Monk about this at our last coffee date. As you may remember, Monk Dave is an American who went to Korea after graduating from Cornell. He studied for so long, he eventually became a monk! Now he resides at this Upper West Side Brownstone/Temple where we met while I was checking out meditation spots. “So, Mr. Monk Dave, why is depression on the rise?” is the first thing that came out of my mouth.
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    Colon Cleanse

  • Colon Cleanse: 5 Ways to Reduce Weight Through a Natural Colon Cleanse Product

    admin
    30 Aug 2010 | 8:44 am
    A colon cleansing procedure is often performed to ensure that your body maintains its internal basic hygiene. If you are not aware, it is necessary to understand that a colon cleansing procedure is often considered an essential means for the washing of harmful toxic waste in your digestive tract. Did you also know that reducing weight? “If I can explain how this happens. Flush toxins Colon Cleansing One of the biggest advantages of a program of natural colon cleansing is the expulsion of harmful toxins within the body. When the need of the hour is to expel waste in your digestive tract,…

  • Are You Getting Your Colon Cleansed Regularly?

    admin
    24 Aug 2010 | 8:43 am
    In the U.K., more than anywhere else in the world, people are increasingly getting affected by colo-rectal cancer. Studies show that if one of person today survives until the age of 40 is almost certainly have, popularly known as the herniated bowel pockets. These facts are alarming and makes us more concerned for our health of the colon that often tends to be neglected. Therapists who advocate colon cleansing colon argue that is where all the waste accumulated in our body. If these issues are not properly remove waste, so they tend to stay there, being impacted in the walls of the colon and…

  • Colon Cleanse for IBS Symptoms

    admin
    21 Aug 2010 | 8:44 am
    If you have severe IBS symptoms, you may have success by taking laxatives and managing your fiber intake. Perhaps your body has gotten used to laxatives has been consuming and that they are losing their effect. There are, however, a treatment option that can be considered a colon cleanse. According to naturopathic practitioners, colon cleansing is very suitable for those who suffer from severe IBS symptoms. A colon cleansing is about cleaning the intestines. It is believed that colon cleansing is so important to clean other parts of the body. A dirty colon can become toxic and this may be why…

  • Risks Of Colon Cleansing Can Be Reduced By Varying Methods Of Cleansing

    admin
    15 Aug 2010 | 8:43 am
    When the risks of colon cleansing procedures are applied by individuals, indicating the injection of water in the creeks and streams in the large intestine so that toxins and waste are washed. Before cleaning the colon, would be better, when the safety of these methods and also considering the establishment of the actual risks. The undeniable fact is the preservation of the health of the colon. This is because no one wants that the accumulation of organic waste in their large intestine. Safe Administration of colon cleansing: To prevent the risk of colon cleansing, an individual needs to…

  • What are the Benefits of Colon Cleanse

    admin
    12 Aug 2010 | 8:47 am
    What are the benefits of colon cleansing? First let’s hear what the colon and the purpose is that it performs. The colon is an important part of our digestive system. Nutrients and water is absorbed as well as help in removing waste products from the body naturally. As a result of the digestive process, toxic substances accumulate in the colon. The best thing you can compare with the accumulation of rust, calcium and other impurities that accumulate on the walls of a galvanized water pipe over the years. Calcium oxide and form an impenetrable coating on the sides of the pipe, making it…
 
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  • Anxiety Attacks Causes And Treatment

    admin
    24 Aug 2010 | 1:55 pm
    Anxiety problems: Anxiety could be said to be part of human nature. That said, it’s obvious that anxiety levels differ by individuals. Some people get more anxious than others when something happened to them, in a situation or moment in life. It could be at the moment of uncertainty, expectation, trying something new or difficulty. Such anxiety is generally acceptable, and happens to everybody at one time or the other. But it becomes a problem, when one is in constant fear and worries, almost in every situation he or she encounters in life. In such circumstance, anxiety disorder might…

  • The Ageless Skin – Younger Looking Skin

    admin
    18 Jul 2010 | 6:00 am
    Everybody would like to have a younger looking skin. Some go to a great extent to see that their skin would look forever young. It is not just women this days, men equally do all they can, to see that they have younger looking skin. There nothing wrong with that. Nobody wants his or her skin look older than his grand father’s. I know, we can’t prevent aging, but we can slow it down. There are a lot of ways to do just that. There are a lot of products these days, in the market, that is claimed could make us look younger. There is no dispute about that. There is even a medical…

  • Knowing the Signs of Everyday Allergies

    admin
    16 Jul 2010 | 11:42 pm
    Whenever you have sneezing, rashes, itchiness, asthma, and problems of such nature, there is every likelihood that you might be allergic to something and don’t know it. allergy symptoms, a lot of times show up unannounced. You might have allergic reaction to some type of food, smell or animal. You need to carefully find out what they are, the triggers, and somehow avoid coming into contact with them. You have to be aware that some of the so called common allergies signs might cause some serious health complications. Kinds Of Allergy symptoms And Their Causes: Everyday allergies can be…

  • The Abundant Healing Benefits of Aloe Vera

    admin
    14 Jul 2010 | 3:00 pm
    It is amazing, the abundance of healing benefits of Aloe vera. They are so many to count. This plant is fully loaded with healing properties. It is great for the skin, indigestion, improving glucose levels in diabetics, boost energy, and so on. The list is almost endless. Aloe vera was originally found in North Africa, and now being planted in most warm climate regions of the world. It has been used for centuries by humans, in China and India due to its many health and healing benefits. Its written reference in Ancient Egypt dates back to 3500 BC. A lot of Japanese studies have given credence…

  • Taking Care of Diarrhea

    admin
    6 Jul 2010 | 6:00 am
    Diarrhea is simply defined as frequent passing of watery stools. Uncontrolled and acute diarrhea has been known to be one of the most common cause of death in developing countries. In most cases these diarrhea last for a prolonged period of time. Lasting between 7 to 12 days, depending on their severity. Based on World Health Organization (WHO) report, about 3.5 million deaths occur annually. These deaths are said to have been caused by diarrhea. The statistics show that about 80 percent of these deaths were children under the age of 5 years old. This indicates that children are more at risk,…
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    MAQUI BERRY SUPERFRUIT | MAQUI BERRY JUICE | BUY MAQUI BERRY

  • Maqui Berry

    Maqui Berry
    25 Aug 2010 | 2:08 am
    Maqui Berry is shiny deep-purple berries that grow wildly on pristine soils along the Andes Mountains of Southern Chile extending to Antarctica – one of the cleanest areas on Earth. Mapuche Indians of the region have long revered Maqui Berry for its astonishing healing power and as a food for stamina and strength. Scientific research has shown the antioxidant substance of Maqui Berry to be higher than any other known superfruit or berry on the planet! – with Eight to Twelve times higher ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) value compare to other berries and superfruits. Maqui…

  • Elur Worldwide Launching Maqui Berry Product Line

    Maqui Berry
    20 Jun 2010 | 10:03 am
    As of May 1st 2010, Synaura International was sold to a company out of Tampa, FL called Elur Worldwide. Elur is a new anti-aging and nutritional company owned by a software company (parent company). They will be launching their Maqui Berry product line after the soft launch in US on July 15th, 2010. Elur will initially launch with 4 main products: Cardio,  Immune, Mind and Multi-V. These 4 products are Doctor formulated based on the latest research and science with human clinically proven ingredients that address the most common issues facing our population today. You can find that in the…

  • Synaura AVIA & SYN40 are True Maqui Berry Supplements

    Maqui Berry
    11 Apr 2010 | 10:13 am
    Synaura Recorded Webinar on 10th April 2010, 1:00PM EST. Synaura Chief Science Officer Harvard MD Dr Kenneth Kroll and SVP of Sales and Marketing Travis Martin were sharing success of the AVIA & SYN40 formulas. Find out the ‘BUZZ’ words around these revolutionary Maqui Berry anti aging products. Learn why your body needs AVIA and SYN40 in today’s world. Contact Us to Order Maqui Berry products. Synaura AVIA from Maqui Berry Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Facebook Post on Google Buzz Add this to Mister Wong Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good?

  • Synaura AVIA – The ‘Mercedes Benz’ in Maqui Berry Supplement

    Maqui Berry
    15 Mar 2010 | 8:59 am
    AVIA is Synaura first product and it’s far from just a maqui juice. It’s an exotic formula (4 formulas). In fact AVIA has been called the ‘Mercedes Benz’ of formulas from liquid manufacturers in US. It’s more than a super fruit. A super formula. The branding is really top notch. The glass bottle is hot looking and the colors absolutely pop. Manufactured in Florida with freeze dried method. This TRUE anti-aging product was formulated by a Harvard Medical Doctor – The original Maqui supplement. Synaura International is the first company to ever come out with…

  • Synaura’s AVIA & SYN40 Maqui Products Blessing Lives

    Maqui Berry
    12 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Often we have spoken about the wonderful benefits of the Maqui Berry and the story of how it is changing lives. But where most companies end their story with just one benefit of a powerful fruit, this is where the Synaura difference really picks up. The formulation of AVIA contains the whole Maqui fruit and is the number one ingredient in the AVIA formula, but CoFormulator Harvard MD Ken Kroll formulated a product around this wildly harvested fruit to enhance and sustain your body on a daily basis. Not only is Synaura about this wonderful flagship product, but when taken synergistically with…
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    Health Matters

  • Tis the season – for flu shots

    karenbarr
    30 Aug 2010 | 7:32 am
    It’s a sure sign that summer is over when the “Flu Clinic” signs start popping up in front of pharmacies all over town. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued updated recommendations for the prevention and treatment of influenza in children. The policy statement will be published in the October 2010 print issue of Pediatrics. The AAP recommends annual trivalent seasonal influenza immunization for all children and adolescents 6 months of age and older. Special efforts should be made to immunize all family members, household contacts and out-of-home care providers…

  • A child can drown in two inches of water

    karenbarr
    23 Aug 2010 | 6:10 am
    There’s a downside to all the public relations campaigns about preventing child drownings. The publicity gets us so focused on the dangers of unfenced swimming pools that we often forget that’s just part of the problem. Even if you don’t own a pool, your small children are at risk of drowning. One of the most common locations for in-home drownings is the bath tub. It only takes two inches of water. That’s it. That’s enough to be a potentially fatal hazard for young children. Salt River Project and Valley fire departments are working to build public awareness of…

  • Free workshops on preventing teen drug use

    karenbarr
    19 Aug 2010 | 5:15 am
    The Arizona Affiliate of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America has announced the launch of AZ Parents Connect, a research-based community education program developed by the Partnership to raise awareness of teen alcohol, marijuana and prescription drug abuse in Arizona by targeting parents, health care professionals and military families. AZ Parents Connect will focus on prevention, intervention and treatment through parent workshops and in-person and online community trainings. The project is supported by a grant from the Governor’s Office for Children, Youth and Families. Beginning this…

  • Obesity rates still climbing for some girls

    karenbarr
    16 Aug 2010 | 4:00 am
    The prevalence of obesity continues to climb for black and Native American girls, according to a study that examined the health records of more than 8 million fifth-, seventh-, and ninth-grade students in California from 2001 through 2008. The study appears in the September issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Obesity rates for most boys and non-Hispanic white girls peaked in 2005 and then declined. Because that is not the case for black and Native American girls, the authors recommend that this knowledge be used to guide interventions and policies…

  • 10 tools to fight prescription drug abuse

    karenbarr
    12 Aug 2010 | 7:46 am
    Intentional misuse of prescription medications is the biggest teen substance abuse challenge today. According to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Arizona Affiliate, one out of four 12th graders has used a prescription painkiller without a doctor’s prescription. Even if your kids aren’t yet using, the chances are great they will be offered these and other substances. How you can fight back: Use your cell phone to stay in touch with your teens. Learn to communicate as they do, through texting. Create a secret phrase or code your teen can use if they need to call you for help to get…
 
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    Aromatherapy and Essential Oils Blog - AromaTalk

  • Reusing Essential Oil Bottles

    Wendy Robbins
    24 Aug 2010 | 7:02 pm
    I enjoy receiving questions and feedback from AromaWeb visitors. Yesterday, I received the following email: "I am looking for articles or tips/methods to clean glass bottles that have been previously used (storing oils, blends, etc.). Any information, links, tips, directions...

  • The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 May Be Hazardous To Your Health

    Wendy Robbins
    12 Aug 2010 | 6:30 pm
    I refuse to allow anyone to advertise on AromaWeb if I have concerns over their products or ethics, and I'm in favor of legislation that protects consumers against misleading claims and deceitful marketing. I'm also in favor of sensible legislation...

  • Sidebar Advertising Positions Available on AromaWeb

    Wendy Robbins
    8 Aug 2010 | 9:48 am
    AromaWeb presently has two sidebar banner advertising positions available. With over 3.6 million page views, 2.1 million visits and over 62 million hits during 2009, AromaWeb introduces aromatherapy to an extraordinary number of visitors each year. AromaWeb attracted over 340,000...

  • Remove Odors Naturally With Aromatherapy and Natural Ingredients

    Wendy Robbins
    25 Jul 2010 | 1:32 pm
    Here in Metro Detroit, this past weekend has been filled with a great deal of heavy rainfall. I'm blessed that my basement didn't flood, but it is slightly wet/damp and was beginning to smell rather musty already. This reminded me...

  • TOMORROW July 21: AIA Teleconference Featuring Marge Clark of Nature's Gift

    Wendy Robbins
    20 Jul 2010 | 5:51 pm
    A little birdie (Ann McIntire Wooledge, AIA's Central Regional Representative) recently shared the following: "Marge Clark of Nature's Gift with her vast amount of knowledge is going to be our speaker at the monthly Alliance of International Aromatherapist's teleconference on...
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    MommyMakeoverSurgeon.com

  • Newport Beach Breast Enhancement

    lyb42
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:21 am
    Breast augmentation is a surgical procedure to enhance the size and shape of a woman’s breast using implants filled with silicone gel or saline, a salt-water solution. Breast implants are inserted behind each breast, either above or below the muscle, depending on the particular patient. Women choose to have breast augmentation surgery for a variety of reasons. Some women wish to enhance their body contour because they feel that their breasts are too small. Other women seek to correct a reduction in breast volume after pregnancy and nursing, or to balance a difference in breast size. The…

  • Cosmetic Surgery in Palm Desert

    lyb42
    31 Aug 2010 | 5:26 pm
    Dr. Habash’s goal is for the patient to reflect on their experience with him as a pleasing one. His philosophy entails ensuring patient safety, integrating surgical expertise and advanced medical technology to obtain the highest standard in surgical results. He and his staff are committed to making you comfortable and helping you make a well-informed decision regarding your plastic surgery procedure. via www.drhabash.com Blepharoplasty, or eyelid lift surgery, is one of the lower profile procedures available from a plastic surgeon, but its effect can be significant. By selectively…

  • Hawaii Liposuction

    lyb42
    30 Aug 2010 | 3:15 pm
    Liposuction is a procedure that removes localized areas of excess fatty tissue. Liposuction can be performed on many area of the body to include: face, neck, chest, abdomen, back, arms, hips, and legs. Liposuction is not a weight loss procedure but rather a body contouring procedure. It is designed to address those areas of fatty tissue that are resistant to diet and exercise. The ideal candidate is at or near their ideal body weight and in good physical condition. via www.doctorhealy.com It is important to remember that, although liposuction surgery is generally safe and can be a very…

  • Oklahoma City – Breast Implant Surgery

    lyb42
    30 Aug 2010 | 11:58 am
    Cohesive gel implants are silicone implants that are filled with a thicker silicone gel that holds its shape and form like a “gummy bear.” If you cut into a standard gel implant, the liquid silicone gel escapes from the implant shell. In contrast, when you cut into a cohesive gel implant, the implant itself maintains its shape and integrity. These shaped implants are designed with a focus upon a natural look, rather than for enlargement. Furthermore, gummy bear implants maintain their shape in an upright position that decreases the incidence of folding of the implant shell or…

  • Breast Lift Surgery in Honolulu

    lyb42
    27 Aug 2010 | 10:38 am
    Breast enlargement, or augmentation mammoplasty, enhances the body contour of a woman who is unhappy with her breast size. It may also be used to correct volume loss after pregnancy, or to help balance breast size asymmetries, as well as a reconstructive technique following other breast surgery. The operation is carried out under general anesthesia and usually on an outpatient basis. An implant (prosthesis) may be placed through an incision, under the breast tissue or under the muscle or through an incision in the belly button region. The incision can be made under the breast, around the…
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    Fitness Over 50

  • Fourteen Days To The Start Of A New & Better You!

    Peter/FitnessOver50
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:58 am
    My very 1st eBook! It took me 5 days to write. At least 3 redrafts. It really outlines what the average Joe needs to do to improve their health and fitness. Doing that, virtually guarantees that you will live a little longer! The eBook is free to download. To request your copy, just complete the form on the left side of the blog. I consider Rhonda and myself as being average Joe's

  • Belly Fat – What You Don’t Know

    Peter/FitnessOver50
    1 Sep 2010 | 7:33 am
    Odds are, sooner or later you are going to being asking questions and doing a fair bit of reading. You are going to want to know more about belly fat. Specifically, you will want to know what you need to do to get rid of it. We have been there!

  • Lose Weight – Eliminate This Food Sweetener

    Peter/FitnessOver50
    31 Aug 2010 | 6:42 am
    The age of the person in the picture doesn't matter. The end result is the same when it comes to the consumption of High Fructose Corn Syrup. If you are looking to reduce your waist size, you will be doing yourself a huge favor by eliminating HFCS from your diet.

  • Stress – Learn To Control It

    Peter/FitnessOver50
    30 Aug 2010 | 6:03 am
    Stress, it can be a killer. Stress is a contributing factor in causing high blood pressure. The silent killer. It can cause strokes and heart attacks. One minute you are here, the next ...... This is serious stuff, so please take what you are about to read and watch seriously.

  • When Exercise & Diet Don’t Work.

    Peter/FitnessOver50
    28 Aug 2010 | 9:03 am
    Rita approached me & wanted to tell her story. She is an active person in her 30's who had been in great shape until something changed. Her body began to change. Not for the better. Exercise & diet didn't help. You need to read her story.
 
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  • That Painful Infection - How to tell if you have a UTI

    26 Aug 2010 | 4:31 am

  • Calorie-burning Underwear??!!

    12 Aug 2010 | 7:52 am
    Okay, I've tried just about everything to lose weight over the years.  Weight Watchers done that.  Joined a gym done that. Atkins done that.  Phen Fen hate to admit it... done that, too. But I'm really intrigued by a new weight loss product that's coming to the Read more...

  • 4 Breakfasts That Work When You're In a Mad Morning Dash

    12 Aug 2010 | 5:17 am
    Nutritionist Elisa Zied, MS, RD, CDN is a former spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association Read more...

  • 3 Ways to Fuel Your Kids for Sports

    10 Aug 2010 | 11:26 am
    By Elisa Zied, MS, RD, CDN When she works with professional athletes, registered dietitian Mitzi Dulan explains to them that their bodies are like well-tuned, high performance race cars that need proper maintenance to get the most out of their bodies when they’re out on the field or court.  Read more...

  • 5 Ways to Reduce Stubborn Belly Fat Fast

    6 Aug 2010 | 7:41 pm
    By Fitness Expert Andrea Metcalf Move it to lose You have to get that blood circulating in order to burn calories and utilize fat for fuel. Walking is a great way to get into shape and is the Read more...
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    A Little to the Left of Lanine

  • Raw Food.Yum

    2 Sep 2010 | 5:56 am
    One of the guys at work was talking about doing a 30 day raw food diet. Remember my office is a nice mix of Harvard MBA business types and blue collar tech guys. This particular guy sits on the phone all day and solves peoples tech issues. Lots of sitting around, not much time for exercise. Yesterday he was explaining the first week of the diet was horrific but the rest of the month wasn't too bad. He lost about 15 lbs. His girlfriend lost about five but from what I understand it was her last five and we all know just how hard that is to get off. I like the idea of a raw…

  • Were we separated at birth?

    1 Sep 2010 | 10:41 am
    I'm reading Jen Lancaster's Such a Pretty Fat right now. Oh, did this woman just reach inside my brain and pull out all the words for her book? Picturing people heads as doughnuts? check. Honestly considering a tapeworm as a viable dieting option? check. Would be a bulimic if it meant you didn't have to throw up? check. Needless to say, in between laughing my ass off (not literally) (although I wish) I'm nodding so hard I'm surprised I haven't burned an extra three hundred calories. Here are a few of my favorite snippets for your reading pleasure. "You know what it was like? It was like…

  • Sigh!

    31 Aug 2010 | 10:49 pm
    I had a perfect food day yesterday. Absolutely perfect. The exact mix of food. The exact right amount of water. A multi-vitamin. Perfect in every way. I packed a lunch and a dinner rather than dashing out of work as though the demons of hell were on my tail for the first sandwich joint I could find. Hmmm. Coincidence? I think not. Of course everything went to hell today. Poptart for breakfast, meeting pizza for lunch, three cups of coffee for snack,  birthday restaurant fajitas for dinner= not a happy, healthy tummy. Constantly amazes me just how quickly the…

  • Sunday Inspiration

    29 Aug 2010 | 7:56 am
    I know, I know I've been MIA. In more ways than one.

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    15 Aug 2010 | 7:30 am
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    Fitho

  • Reduce Bloating & Water Retention

    Fitho
    27 Aug 2010 | 3:45 am
    Most people experience water retention or bloating at some point or another. Eating certain foods or health conditions can increase it. It leads to increase water storage in your body, leading to increased weight, bloated feeling and overall feeling heavy. Wonder how you can avoid it or reduce it. We have tips for you, on how you can reduce your bloating belly. Note, that these won’t reduce the fat! For that, you need to get on a proper weight loss plan. Read below for tips to reduce the bloating Bloated belly (Mamo@flickr) Reduce salty foods- Salt contains sodium. Water molecules are…

  • Do you need 6 meals a day to lose weight?

    Fitho
    23 Aug 2010 | 2:43 am
    You’ve probably heard that you need to eat 5-8 meals per day to get fit and lose weight .. its everywhere: on TV, on the internet, in magazines, etc. Eating a large number of meals seems to be the secret behind the weight loss of many people. But is it really? Do you think they lost weight because of the number of meals that they ate? So, going from 3 meals per day to 6 meals per day will make you lose weight? Healthy fruits vegetables- grocery bag At Fitho, we believe that this multiple meals per day concept has become a bit of a fad, so let’s get real about this, and help you…

  • Fitness Equipment Buying Service

    Fitho
    17 Aug 2010 | 1:50 am
    Ever wanted to buy a treadmill, or a cycle, or even dumbbellls, but not sure how to decide, or what points to keep in mind, while buying any kind of fitness equipment. We’ll tell you how you can get the best deals on fitness equipment, and also what really matters when buying, whether its a resistance bands, or a multigym. Read below for more.. metallic-dumb-bells We have introduced an equipment buying service, where you tell us what you’re requirements are. Our fitness experts, will advise you on what features you should really look out for, and what’s just a frill (and not…

  • How to tone arms- exercises

    Fitho
    12 Aug 2010 | 9:16 pm
    Arms are the most exposed body part of most people- men and women. So, everyone wants toned arms. Women wonder how to lose arm flab. Men wonder how to get muscular arms. By doing a few simple exercises, you can easily get toned arms. Red Small Dumbbell Weights Note that there are two parts to your arms- biceps and triceps. So, the exercises listed below are both bicep exercises and tricep exercises, which as a combination give you great arms! Bicep Curl: A beginner’s exercise but most classic and effective of all for biceps. Biceps curls can be done using any of the following equipment:…

  • Run Training: From 0k to 7k for DHM

    Fitho
    11 Aug 2010 | 8:56 pm
    If you live in Delhi or actually India, you have probably heard about the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2010. Its an annual event, over the last 5-6 years, and each year it grows bigger. Each year, more people participate in the event. Wonder why people participate? First, because its a lot of fun, and many people use it to get fit! Now, there are 2 events- the 7 km fun run and the 21 km half marathon. Most people do the 7 km fun run. If you have never run 7 km, don’t worry about it. We can help you with that. Read below.. Tips to run better (omsel@flickr) At Fitho, we have a run training…
 
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    Lisa Johnson Fitness

  • Which Diets Work? “Just Be Yourself”

    Lisa Johnson
    2 Sep 2010 | 1:32 am
    Your friend drops 20 pounds like magic on the Zone diet.  You give it a shot and almost nothing happens.  You hear about Weight Watchers, decide to give that a go, and suddenly the weight falls off you.  But why did one diet work while another one failed? Because we’re all different The thing to remember when reading the latest research is that we’re not all made the same.  Just like our fingerprints, our metabolisms are unique to us.  So with low fat, low carb, low protein, etc., all of those diets will work well for some and not for others. The problem is figuring out which…

  • Fall Fitness Tune Up: 5 Things to Check

    Lisa Johnson
    1 Sep 2010 | 1:22 am
    The days are getting cooler.  The sun is setting earlier.  Time to make adjustments to your fitness routines so you can keep exercising through the fall foliage season and into early winter.  Here’s a check list of things to consider: A new health club membership. Maybe you’ve been at the same gym forever and the equipment isn’t cared for as well as it used to be or your favorite group exercise instructor has left. Time to check out some new gyms and see if it’s worth it to trade in your membership. Add a new fitness class. From acrobatics to Zumba, there are a slew…

  • Another Great Reason to Workout: You’ll Eat Less

    Lisa Johnson
    31 Aug 2010 | 1:12 am
    When people become overweight it’s because they eat more than their bodies need.  Duh, right?  Well, as we gradually overeat, we slowly lose the ability to tell when we’re “full” and our bodies have had enough food.  But researchers have discovered that exercise can help reset that button. A team of researchers in Brazil found that when obese rats exercised they showed “signals of restored satiety in hypothalmic neurons.”  This means the part of the brain that says “put down the fork” turned itself on.  The rats’ food consumption…

  • What’s Your September Resolution?

    Lisa Johnson
    30 Aug 2010 | 1:12 am
    Phooey on January; it’s got nothing on September.  Now is an excellent time of year to make a resolution.  It’s the end of summer, you’re relaxed, the weather is lovely.  There’s no peer pressure to “do something.”  School is beginning and a feeling of productivity is in the air. There are many reasons why New Year’s resolutions fail.  Making a resolution just because everyone else is doesn’t mean you’re actually ready to change.  Also, there’s a bit of the “post-holidays let down,” and it’s so easy to…

  • The Emmy Body: Stars Show New Lines for Fall

    Lisa Johnson
    29 Aug 2010 | 6:05 pm
    Eva Longoria Parker shows off sleek abs, shoulders and arms. The Hollywood woman is always svelte but trends in body lines change almost as much as the dresses.   Several women, such as Eva Longoria Parker, Claire Danes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Tina Fey were sporting column dresses. What does this mean for you at the gym? Decolletage Decolletage is still important; sleeveless gowns that hug the curves means we need to work our chest to keep the girls as perky as possible.   Think pushups, chest flys, kettle bells, and medicine ball work. Sculpted Arms Sculpted arms have been in for a while…
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    True Food Movement

  • What Is True Food Movement?

    Lisa Johnson
    29 Aug 2010 | 5:42 pm
    Hi there.  We’ve been here for a while now and I thought it might be a good idea to explain who we are. We’re Diane Mulholland and Lisa Johnson.  (Lisa is typing this.) We are twitter buddies who were surprised to discover there is no catch-all “healthy living” food site.  At least not one that turned up through a pretty extensive Google search. We believe … Omnivores and vegans can be friends That choosing food that’s healthy helps you The choosing food that’s sustainable helps the planet That organic is better than not-organic We try to focus on…

  • Discounts on Food Stamps for Healthier Food

    Lisa Johnson
    24 Aug 2010 | 4:31 pm
    I did a little happy dance when I saw this article in the Boston Globe.  Residents who receive food stamps in Western Massachusetts will be able to buy fruits and vegetables at a 30% discount. This is huge! People with tight budgets have every right to complain about the higher cost of healthier food.  I cringed when I watched a family of four in Food, Inc. try to sort out healthy food at the grocery store.  The daughter wanted to buy an apple but the family couldn’t afford it with the limited resources they had.  They bought junk food instead.  For the Mom calories were more…

  • Egg Recall is an Opportunity

    Lisa Johnson
    23 Aug 2010 | 4:49 pm
    I know the egg recall is scary.  There have been some very sick people out there.  Salmonella is nothing to toy with.  That being said we have a tremendous opportunity here. The eggs came from two primary suppliers.  I say suppliers and not “farmers” because they aren’t.  These are the factory farms discussed in Food, Inc. and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals.  These “layers” are overcrowded, kept in pens stacked several high, and doped up with anti-biotics to keep infections and disease (like salmonella) down. Local farmers are reporting a run…

  • Becoming a Family: A Challenge to Your Eating Habits

    Lisa Johnson
    22 Aug 2010 | 4:28 pm
    Editors Note:  Thanks to Amanda for contributing this post to True Food Movement.  This fabulous woman has twins, a full-time job, a blog, and still manages to eat (mostly) healthy! ~~~~~~~ Ten years ago the last thing on my mind was eating healthy. I was much more interested in partying, enjoying all kinds of un-healthy pursuits (including but not limited to smoking), and eating takeout too many nights a week. But out of nowhere I found myself settling down with Mr. Right and a couple years later, pregnant with twins. I cut out my vices before I got pregnant, but it wasn’t until I saw…

  • Home-made Shortbread

    Diane Mulholland
    5 Aug 2010 | 2:00 am
    Shortbread is one of my go-to recipes if I want to take something to share at a party, or I want an edible gift for someone. The recipe is really simple, I always have the ingredients on hand, and you can cut shapes that will hold up well after baking. Shortbread keeps well in an airtight tin, and it doesn’t need the trans fats and preservatives that commercial cookies often have. You could use vegetable margarine, but the texture won’t be quite the same, and it’s really the good quality butter that gives home-made shortbread its great taste. I’ve tried several…
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    Cooking Manager

  • Spicy Tongue with Garlic and Allspice

    Hannah
    1 Sep 2010 | 1:24 am
    Wednesday is Recipe Day at Cooking Manager. Long-time readers will realize that this recipe is unusual for Cooking Manager, where I tend to focus on more frugal ingredients. There’s a story behind my choice. It started when a local reader asked me how to handle a large package of sliced, frozen, cooked tongue. Her mother-in-law had made it for my friend’s husband and son, who loved it, but my friend couldn’t stand the thought of it. She wanted to transfer it to smaller portions for her family to eat, preferably when she was in another room. I told her that if she had too…

  • Ten Essential Tips for Preventing Kitchen Accidents

    Hannah
    29 Aug 2010 | 4:52 am
    Last Friday evening, after I lit the Sabbath candles, we heard a sudden deafening noise from the kitchen. I headed over to investigate despite my husband warning me away. He was sure the kitchen was about to explode. It turned out that the pressure cooker was leaking tomato sauce all over the hotplate, where I had placed the pot to keep warm until dinner. Large amounts of sauce spread from the hotplate to the counter, the dishwasher underneath,  and the floor. I adjusted the cooker to let out the steam and wiped up the mess as best I could. Like most kitchen accidents, this one could have…

  • Honey Cake in the Food Processor

    Hannah
    25 Aug 2010 | 2:30 am
    This traditional honey cake contains only two tablespoons of oil, but honey, coffee and spices make it satisfying and tasty. This recipe makes two generous loaves. I serve one on Rosh Hashanah, and freeze the second for dessert before the fast of Erev Yom Kippur. Wrap the cake carefully and it will keep well for a few days, depending on the climate. I’ve included instructions for mixing by hand, or in the food processor. From Jewish Cookery by Leah Leonard. Ingredients: 3 eggs 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons oil 3-1/2 cups flour (whole wheat is fine) 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon…

  • Rosh Hashanah Tips and Recipes

    Hannah
    23 Aug 2010 | 1:07 am
    If you’re celebrating the Jewish new year of Rosh Hashanah, you’ve probably started to plan. Traditional foods for Rosh Hashanah include anything sweet and round. Specific foods include round challahs, apples dipped in honey, fish, the head of a fish or lamb, fish in general, cabbage, carrots, black-eyed peas (apparently common in secular new year’s celebrations), pomegranates, dates, and beets. And I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few. I’ve collected some links for Rosh Hashanah, including some from my other website. I’ll be posting a low-oil honeycake…

  • Summer Ratatouille with Eggplant and Zucchini

    Hannah
    22 Aug 2010 | 7:33 am
    Ratatouille Cooking on the Stove In the summer, you don’t just want something light to eat. You want it to cook before your kitchen gets all heated up. Ratatouille cooks in 20-30 minutes on top of the stove, and it’s easy to make in the microwave too. (The vegetable pictured are raw.) The other day I made this recipe from the last of the vegetables in the refrigerator. I served it with cooked potatoes and cottage cheese, because I needed to use them up, but I would have preferred rice or bulgur wheat to soak up the sauce. Lentils with eggplant and garlic could finished up the…
 
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  • Where can I find free online sleep hypnosis? Preferably a woman’s voice….?

    admin
    2 Sep 2010 | 7:51 am
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  • Stop Smoking Hypnosis: Why Triggers Make Quitting So Hard

    admin
    1 Sep 2010 | 3:57 pm
    www.StopSmokingHypnosisGuaranteed.com – Stop Smoking Hypnosis Revealed Why “Triggers” Make Quitting Almost Impossible… and How To Crush Cravings With A Free $20.00 Stop Smoking Gift. Stop Smoking Hypnosis: Why Triggers Make Quitting So Hard is a post from: Stop Smoking Now Hypnosis

  • Subliminal Black Book

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    1 Sep 2010 | 10:33 am
    Make Subliminal messages and hypnosis recordings. Converts like crazy. Easy Sell. $25 per conversion Subliminal Black Book Subliminal Black Book is a post from: Stop Smoking Now Hypnosis

  • The Ultimate Relaxation Program

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    Highly popular stress and anxiety reduction tools that work fast. Help people get rid of stress and make 70% commission on a highly needed and searched Niche. Very, very low refund rate and high product satisfaction guaranteed The Ultimate Relaxation Program The Ultimate Relaxation Program is a post from: Stop Smoking Now Hypnosis

  • Post conference course.: An article from: Subconsciously Speaking

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    Product DescriptionThis digital document is an article from Subconsciously Speaking, published by Infinity Institute International, Inc. on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1184 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle:… More >> Post conference course.: An article from: Subconsciously Speaking Post conference course.: An article from: Subconsciously Speaking is a…
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  • Osteoarthritis is Not Your Destiny

    Mark Sisson
    2 Sep 2010 | 9:36 am
    Our concept of health only exists in opposition to its absence. Healthy is the default position. We’re not “supposed” to get strokes, coronary heart disease, diabetes, or cancer. Sure, a few people, here and there, are far more likely to suffer the ravages of the degenerative diseases of civilization, but the real numbers are inflated. For most of the population, we can avoid the worst of it, and if you spend a bit of time on MDA or any other ancestral online communities, you’ll see example after example of people taking charge of their health and experiencing newfound vibrancy.

  • Announcement: The Primal Blueprint 30-Day Challenge Begins September 7

    Mark Sisson
    1 Sep 2010 | 9:22 am
    Boy, oh, boy am I excited about what this next month holds for MDA readers. This year’s 30-Day Challenge (September 7 – October 6) will be all about aligning your lifestyle behaviors with each of the 10 Primal Blueprint Laws. There will be contests and giveaways each day. I’ve lined up some great sponsors this year. I’ll save most of the details for next Tuesday (come back from Labor Day weekend ready to get Primal!) but I will say this: I’ll be giving away an entire cow courtesy of U.S. Wellness, an assortment of unwieldy (and wieldy) Primal fitness gear, Primal…

  • Is Eating Local Best? Perhaps Not

    Mark Sisson
    31 Aug 2010 | 8:57 am
    There are many within the Primal community, I know, who also like to eat local. Some months, of course, allow for the confluence of these priorities more than others. Right now, we’re at the height of harvest season. Farmers’ markets are overflowing, CSA boxes are brimming, and backyard gardens are gratifyingly bountiful. Nonetheless, all good things must come to an end. In a few short months, farms and gardens will be snow-covered in many parts of the country. If you live in balmy Southern California like I do, that’s not much of an issue. If you live in Minnesota or Maine, it is.

  • WOW: Easy As 1, 2, 3

    Mark Sisson
    30 Aug 2010 | 8:14 am
    Max cycles in 20 minutes of: 1 Pullup/Chinup 2 Pushups 3 Full Squats Warmup: A couple rotations of the Grok Squat and Grok Hang. How-to: Execute 1 pullup. Drop down and perfom 2 pushups. Get up and do 3 full squats (bringing your hips to below your knees). That’s one cycle. Repeat, but this time do a chinup instead of a pullup. Variations: If you can’t do a proper pullup/chinup, pushup or full squat subsitute movements from Levels 1-3 of Primal Blueprint Fitness Lift Heavy Things (chapter 3). Hat Tip: This workout is a favorite of mine. It’s a minor variation on a workout…

  • Weekend Link Love

    Mark Sisson
    29 Aug 2010 | 8:00 am
    Update on the 30 Day Primal Challenge: The kickoff will officially be September 7, the day after Labor Day. This should give you a little time for some last minute weekend indulgences plus a chance to spread the word to relatives at the Labor Day barbecue. More info to come next week, but here’s a little teaser… I’m giving away a cow, courtesy of US Wellness. Tawfunguy from the forum is counting down to the day he’ll be loin cloth ready. And he’s vlogging about it on YouTube. Remember the Grok crawl? Ross Training dug up a few parkour strength training videos…
 
 
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  • Following Michael Douglas – Oropharyngeal Cancer – What Is It and How Can You Protect Yourself?

    Roy
    2 Sep 2010 | 10:03 am
    TweetMichael Douglas told a US television audience on Tuesday night that he has been diagnosed with and is receiving treatment for stage 4 throat cancer. There is more than one type of organ in the throat which can have cancer, and Douglas didn’t go into details. According to specialists, if the cancer started at the base of his tongue (as Douglas’ press representative described), he probably has a type of cancer called oropharyngeal cancer. Danger level: High What is it? Oropharyngeal cancer is a disease in which malignant cells form in the oropharynx. Who gets it? The average age of…

  • We’re Now On Digg

    Roy
    31 Aug 2010 | 11:23 am
    TweetWe’re happy to announce that you can now follow our updates on the new Digg. What is Digg? Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users. Once someone submits something to Digg, other people see it and Digg (vote up) what they like best. By looking at information through the lens of the collective community on Digg, you’ll always find something interesting and unique. What’s A Disease A Day got to do with it? We now have our own page…

  • Osteomyelitis – How Your Bones May Get Infected (As Seen on House MD)

    Roy
    30 Aug 2010 | 10:04 am
    TweetThis is part of our House MD Project series. Click here to read the connection to the episode (spoiler alert!) On episode 20 of season 1 (called “Love Hurts”)  a guy named Harvey Park comes to the clinic and suffers a stroke after House yells at him. His CT scan shows death of brain tissue. Deciding the stroke (which caused the brain death) was due to a blood clot, the team start to make assumptions as to where that clot came from . Turns out it came from an infection in his jaw, called osteomyelitis. Infected tissue from the jaw broke off, clogged an artery, and thereby blocked…

  • TTP Explained Again (As Seen on House MD)

    Roy
    18 Aug 2010 | 12:46 pm
    TweetThis is part of our House MD Project series. On episode 19 of season 1, called “Kids”, a young diver named Mary arrives at the hospital during a meningitis scare, but her symptoms don’t fit those of meningitis. What she does have is neck pain which only happens when she twists her neck side to side, and a sort of rash on her lower abdomen. Photo by Fox. Later internal bleeding and seizures caused by brain bleeding are added to the symptoms. The final straw comes when it’s found out she’s also pregnant. Combining it all together, her pregnancy has caused a disease called…

  • Lung Cancer – Why You May Be at Risk (As Seen on House MD)

    Roy
    18 Aug 2010 | 9:42 am
    TweetThis is part of our House MD Project series. Click here to read the connection to the episode (spoiler alert!) On episode 18, called “Babies & Bathwater”, a young pregnant woman named Naomi is having brain and kidney dysfunction. An x-ray shows a mass in her lung, which turns out to be a type of lung cancer, called small cell lung cancer. The problems she had with her kidney and brain are related to a phenomenon called paraneoplastic syndrome, which often comes with that type of lung cancer. Photo by Fox. Danger level: High What is it? Lung cancer is a disease in which malignant…
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  • Deciding Whether Or Not A Hair Drug Test Is Right For You

    admin
    1 Sep 2010 | 2:57 pm
    Hair drug testing is one of the latest techniques that are being used to test for the presence of drugs in the system. The technology has been used by parents, corporations, and courts to determine if someone is or has been on drugs. While there are other samples that can be used to detect drugs in the system such as blood, urine, saliva and sweat, using a hair follicle for testing drug presence has specific advantages. But let’s change things up a bit and first look at the criticism! The Main Criticism For Hair Drug Testing The one specific criticism for a hair drug test is that it is…

  • Spice: What Is It, And Can It Be Tested?

    admin
    30 Aug 2010 | 12:56 pm
    You may have heard of the newest drug phenomenon, known variously as “spice” or K2.  Sometimes called “Genie,” this drug has similar effects as marijuana, but unlike marijuana, it is (in most states) legal. Spice works like marijuana. A chemical in the spice mimics the activity THC has in the brain.  This results in a marijuana like high, with the same symptoms.  The potency of the drug varies across brand. Some states have banned the drug, including Iowa.  Kansas and Missouri are trying to categorize spice with marijuana in terms of legality and involved fines…

  • Why We Should Support Saliva Drug Testing

    admin
    24 Aug 2010 | 7:53 am
    Did you know that two thirds of prison inmates use illegal drugs? A third of the inmates also admit that they were under the influence of illegal drugs when they committed the crime. Estimates also show that two thirds of those involved in fatal highway accidents are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. With such high coincidence levels of drug use and illegal activity, it is only obvious that testing for drugs in prison is a regular routine. Current Drug Testing Saliva drug testing is still not as widespread as urine drug testing. In most cases the samples that are used are blood or…

  • New Reports on Lindsay Lohan Draw An Accurate Picture of Adderall’s Dangers

    admin
    20 Aug 2010 | 1:30 pm
    Although the wealth of reporting on Lindsay Lohan’s continuing struggle with addiction never seems entirely (or even half) true, it has brought to light a lot of interesting information on drugs and drug use.  Take Adderall for example. Adderall has seeped into public consciousness over the past 25 years.  As a drug to deal with ADHD, it has been very popular and is frequently prescribed.  There are two types – IR and XR (instant release and extended release, respectively). Its misuse is also well known.  It is a popular study aid at many colleges to help students stay up and…

  • How The US Government Recommends Drug Testing To Get An Addict’s Life Back On Track

    admin
    19 Aug 2010 | 9:25 am
    Fighting substance abuse is hard. For those with serious drug problems with methamphetamine, cocaine, and other stimulants, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has created a treatment program called the “Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People With Stimulant Use Disorders (IOP)”. Part of this program is regular drug testing. It’s an important way for a counselor to understand and keep track of a client’s progress in treatment. We highlight it here because it is such a well constructed drug testing program. The Philosophy Urine drug testing…
 
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    33 charts

  • Is the e-Patient Revolution Over?

    DrV
    1 Sep 2010 | 3:59 pm
    There’s a conversation brewing over use of the term ‘e e-patient.’  The online health revolution is over, it’s been suggested.  Web use, after all, has become so widely adopted  that the term ‘e-patient’ may have more historical meaning.  Dropping the ‘e’ might indicate that we’ve arrived. I’m not so sure. Perhaps the revolution we thought was going on never entirely took off.  Or maybe it’s all about how you define the revolution. Here’s what I see:  Day in and day out over weeks and months hundreds of patients visit my clinic.  I talk to them…

  • Foursquare’s Public Health Plunge

    DrV
    31 Aug 2010 | 3:52 pm
    This is something. Foursquare and MTV have joined forces in an effort to remove the stigma associated with getting screened for sexually transmitted diseases.  During the month of September Foursquare members who check in for STD screening will be awarded a special badge.  The badge is part of MTV’s “GYT: Get Yourself Tested” campaign, which is hoping to cultivate open communication with parents, partners and health care providers. Transparency truly is king when you wear your STD status on your public profile. While its unclear how the GYT campaign will ultimately affect…

  • Do We Need a Physician Tweetchat?

    DrV
    30 Aug 2010 | 7:38 am
    Lately there’s been talk of a tweetchat for doctors.  The issue has surfaced on Twitter over the past couple of weeks.  The idea is out there – the genie’s out of the bottle.  There will be a tweetchat for physicians. But I’m not sure we need it. We may want to think about why we need a Twitter discussion group and what we’d like to get out of it. I look at tweetchats like I look at medical meetings:  I go to see old friends in one place.  Most of what’s discussed was public long before the meeting.  The most interesting stuff happens in the hallway.  With that said I still…

  • 33 charts is on Alltop

    DrV
    28 Aug 2010 | 5:57 am
    This is cool:  33 charts made it onto Alltop (as my badge on the right says, I don’t know how I got there either).  If you don’t use Alltop you should check it out.  It’s a blog aggregator that has the look and feel of magazine rack.  Alltop is the brainchild of Guy Kawasaki. What’s remarkable about Alltop is its clean, simple feel coupled with real back-end functionality. 33 charts is listed under health and social media.  I’m hangin’ alongside such social health luminaries as Val Jones, Kevin Pho, Wes Fisher, Paul Levy and Kim McCallister to name just a few. You can check…

  • Twitter in the OR – No Longer News

    DrV
    26 Aug 2010 | 5:47 pm
    If it’s okay with everyone I’d like to declare the dog and pony show surrounding Twitter in the operating room as officially dead. Or perhaps it was never really alive to begin with. (And I’m not sure what’s more annoying:  the predictable press angles or the fact everyone within 6 degrees of separation sends me the link) A couple of thoughts on why I’m not riding the bandwagon: Twitter in the OR is a hammer looking for a nail. We’ve got a new tool … let’s find where it can fit.  And to get buy in lets connect it with the universal goal of ‘improving communication.’ …
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