Thursday, December 27, 2018

Up To A Third Of Knee Replacements Pack Pain And Regret

Up To A Third Of Knee Replacements Pack Pain And Regret by Liz Szabo.  Kaiser Health News.  December 25, 2018. 

Possible Link Between Fiber And Autoimmune Disease

Impact Of Diet Intervention On Autoimmunity In Mice.  Yale University/Science Daily.  December 20, 2018. 

Theory About Why Fiber Helps Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases

How Dietary Fiber And Gut Bacteria Protect The Cardiovascular System.  Max Delbruck Center For Molecular Medicine In The Helmholtz Association/Science Daily.  December 21, 2018.

Five-Fold Difference In Lifetime Stroke Risk Depending On Where People Live

New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk Of Stroke.  Institute For Health Metrics And Evaluation/Science Daily.  December 19, 2018. 

Misdiagnosis: Physical Conditions Mistaked For Mental Conditions

'Widespread And Dangerous':  Facing Medical Uncertainty Some Doctors Tell Patients It's All In Their Heads by Elizabeth Cohen.  CNN.  December 25, 2018. 

High Levels Of Influenze-Like Illness In Georgia

Flu Activity Across Georgia On The Rise by Helena Oliviero.  AJC.  December 26, 2018. 

4 Ways To Be Happier In 2019

4 Ways To Be Happier In 2019 by New York Times.  December 2018. 

Matching Work Times With Internal Clocks

New Office Hours Aim For Well Rested, More Productive Workers by Emily Laber-Warren.  The New York Times.  December 24, 2018. 

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Correlation Between Obesity And Income Began 30 Years Ago: Why?

A Correlation Between Obesity And Income Has Only Developed In The Past 30 Years.  Springer/Science Daily.  December 11, 2018.

Older Americans Are Flocking To Medical Marijuana

Older Americans Are Flocking To Medical Marijuana by Paul Span.  The New York Times.  December 7, 2018.

How Exercise May Make Us Healthier

How Exercise May Make Us Healthier by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  December 19, 2018.

Shared Medical Data From Medical Devices

Your Medical Devices Are Not Keeping Your Health Data To Themselves by Derek Kravitz and Marshall Allen.  November 21, 2018.

The Most Stressful Medical Specialty

Physician Burnout:  It's Not You, It's Your Specialty by Sara Berg.  American Medical Association.  August 3, 2018.

40,000 Died From Guns: Highest In 50 Years

Nearly 40,000 People Died From Guns In U.S. Last Year, Highest In 50 Years by Sarah Mervosh.  The New York Times.  December 18, 2018. 

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Widely-Accepted Health Myths Used To Justify Policies of Exculsion Of Immigrants

Harmful, Unfounded Myths About Migration And Health Have Become Accepted, Used To Justify Policies Of Exclusion.  The Lancet/Science Daily.  December 5, 2018. 

Cultural Blindspots In The Diagnosis Of Mental Illness

How Culture Shapes Your Mind--And Your Mental Illness by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie.  Boston Globe.  November 28, 2018. 

Apple Has 40-50 Doctors On Staff And Spread Across Organization

Apple Now Has Dozens Of Doctors On Staff, Showing It's Serious About Health Tech by Christina Farr.  CNBC.  December 12, 2018. 

The Future Of Medical Education Is 360-Degree Immersive Virtual Reality

The Future Of Medical Education Looks A Lot Like Netflix:  Interview With Brian Conyer.  Medagadget.  December 12, 2018. 

Obesity Responsible For 4% Of Cancers Worldwide: Study

Excess Body Weight Responsible For 4% Of Cancers Worldwide, Study Says by Naomi Thomas.  CNN.  December 12, 2018. 

Eczema And Suicide Thoughts And Attempts: What's Behind The Association?

Eczema Patients At 36% Higher Risk Of Suicide Attempts,  Study Says by Susan Scutti.  CNN.  December 12, 2018. 

Animal Attacks--Costs And Causes; Relationship To Climate Change And Income

Animal Attacks Cost Us More Than $1 Billion A Year, And They're Becoming More Common by Naomi Thomas.  CNN.  December 11, 2018. 

Atlanta Has HIV Epidemic Comparable To Third World Countries; African-Americans With Limited Access To Health Care Most Susceptable

Atlanta's HIV 'Epidemic' Compared To Third World African Countries by Dave Huddleston.  WSB-TV.  November 308, 2018. 

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Why Is It So Hard To Get Into Medical School?

Why Is It So Hard To Get Into Medical School?  by Ilana Kowarski.  US News.  December 3, 2018. 

Accreditation Rules Impact Medical School Diversity

A Push For Diversity In Medical School Is Slowly Paying Off by Mara Gordon.  NPR.  December 4, 2018. 

Migrants Don't Pose A Threat To Public Health: Lancet Study

Migrants Don't Pose A Threat To Public Health.  That's Just Racism, Report Says by Nick Visser.  Huffington Post. December 6, 2018. 

What Raises Cholesterol? High-Cholesterol or High Saturated-Fat Foods

Do High-Cholesterol Foods Raise Your Cholesterol?  by Richard Klasco, M.D.  The New York Times.  November 2, 2018. 

Fewer Patients Are Winding Up In Nursing Homes--Why?

In The Nursing Home,  Empty Beds And Quiet Halls by Paula Span.  The New York Times.  September 28, 2018. 

More Humane Experience During Hospitalization: The Key To Recovery

The Hospitals Should Let You Sleep by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  December 3, 2018.

Advanced Directives For Mental Health Patients

Now Mental Health Patients Can Specify Their Care Before Hallucinations And Voices Overwhelm Them by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  December 4, 2018.