Eating Healthy on a Budget, from John La Puma, MD, author of ChefMD.
Health News of the Day
Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in bullet-point format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:Spending on health care in US is 17.3% of GDP, up from 16.2% in 2008 - largest percentage increase in 5 decades http://goo.gl/IZE4
People who drank 2 or more soft drinks a week had an 87% increased risk of pancreatic cancer http://goo.gl/DcXd
Thirdhand Smoke (tobacco smoke residue) Creates Indoor Cancer Risk. Nicotine reacts with indoor air pollutant to form carcinogenic compounds called tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) http://bit.ly/cRpb4r
Mediterranean diet may help prevent dementia - CNN http://bit.ly/a9lGLb
Latrepirdine (Dimebon) - oral medication developed for Alzheimer's - may also help patients with Huntington's chorea http://bit.ly/aAs3Uo
Paroxetine use during tamoxifen treatment is associated with an increased risk of death from breast cancer - BMJ http://goo.gl/9hHn
Crestor (rosuvastatin) Wins Approval as a Drug to Prevent Heart Disease in People with Normal Cholesterol Levels. Cheaper generic versions of Lipitor are expected in late 2011 http://goo.gl/2LLO
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Cleveland Clinic Adoption of Web 2.0 - Slideshow by John Sharp
References:
Interview on Social Media by John Sharp.
Faces of America - PBS Series
Faces of America premieres nationally Wednesdays, February 10 - March 3, 2010 on PBS: "What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. who turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans."
Health News of the Day
Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in bullet-point format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:Procalcitonin-guided strategy to treat suspected bacterial infections reduced antibiotic exposure in ICU by 2.7 days http://goo.gl/mws0
Both low and high HbA1c associated with increased mortality in diabetes. Guidelines for minimum HbA1c value may be needed. Survival as a function of HbA1c in type 2 diabetes: U-shaped association, with the lowest hazard ratio at HbA1c of 7·5% http://goo.gl/Lywx
No sedation vs. interrupted sedation in mechanical ventilation was associated with fewer days on the ventilator. Lancet http://goo.gl/OYoe
One Bowl = 2 Servings. Puzzled? F.D.A. Weighs Update to Standard Serving Sizes. http://goo.gl/GQuo
Cymbalta (duloxetine), used to treat depression, fibromyalgia, diabetic nerve pain, may also help low back pain. http://bit.ly/b2Z0Xq
Doctors were 30% more likely to recommend boys for growth hormone treatment compared with girls. http://goo.gl/ngSE
Can Foods Contribute to Infertility? Infertility seems to be more common in people with untreated celiac disease. http://goo.gl/iD27
UTI therapy: backup antibiotics as delayed prescription can help to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use. http://goo.gl/qL14
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Atul Gawande: "Doctors are human. We miss stuff" - Checklists can help
Atul Gawande on NPR:
Doctors are human, and that their profession is like any other.
"We miss stuff. We are inconsistent and unreliable because of the complexity of care," Gawande says. "I got a chance to visit Boeing and see how they make things work, and over and over again they fall back on checklists. The pilot's checklist is a crucial component, not just for how you handle takeoff and landing in normal circumstances, but even how you handle a crisis emergency when you only have a couple of minutes to make a critical decision."
References:
Atul Gawande's 'Checklist' For Surgery Success. NPR.
Related:
Perioperative Practice: Time to Throttle Back?
From the Annals of Internal Medicine:The United States spends more on health care than other nations, yet our health outcomes remain inferior to those of many countries.
Many "accepted" perioperative practices conflict with the evidence, for example:
- Routine perioperative stress testing provides no diagnostic yield in patients at low risk for cardiac events
- Indiscriminate perioperative therapy with β-blockers can increase mortality in otherwise stable patients
Perioperative tests and treatments improve outcomes only when targeted at specific patient subsets. Implementation of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association perioperative guidelines ensures cost-effective management and promises the greatest benefit for patients.
References:
Perioperative Practice: Time to Throttle Back. Chopra, V., Flanders, S. A., Froehlich, J. B., Lau, W. C., Eagle, K. A. Ann of Int Med, 2009.
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