Doc Tweets
Getting a 'Handle' on Doc Tweets By Kristina Fiore, Published: October 19, 2012 More doctors are using Twitter now than ever before, and a new database puts 1,400 of them -- along with 400,000 of their tweets -- at your fingertips. It’s an unprecedented data set – the literature on clinician Twitter use thus far has relied on small surveys and anecdotes -- developed by Greg Matthews (@chimoose) and colleagues at the communications consulting firm WCG./.../
Health Disparities
Pediatric Meeting Opens with Focus on Health Disparities By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: October 19, 2012 NEW ORLEANS -- The American Academy of Pediatrics is kicking off its annual meeting with a half day devoted to health disparities in the nation's youngest patients. Those who attend the session will hear about ways to improve cultural sensitivity, how to better work with community agencies to meet the various needs of children, and how to face some of the social problems affecting children, including hunger, homelessness, and poverty, according to Robe... mais »
Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center - BY STEVEN LEVYEMAIL AUTHOR - 10.17.12 - 7:30 AM A central cooling plant in Google’s Douglas County, Georgia, data center. *Photo: Google/Connie Zhou**If you’re looking for the beating heart of the digital age —* a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you could do a lot worse than Lenoir, North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture factories. Now it’s the home of a Google data center./.../
Creativity and Mental Illness
More Evidence Linking Creativity, Mental Illness Are new approaches needed to safeguard benefits of psychiatric disorders? By Robert Preidt Wednesday, October 17, 2012 [image: HealthDay news image] The findings also suggest that to safeguard the positive traits associated with mental illness, new approaches to treatment might be considered, the researchers said.WEDNESDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A large new study adds to evidence linking creativity and mental illness. The investigators looked at long-term data from nearly 1.2 million Swedish psychiatric patients and their relative... mais »
Baby's formula and Leukeimia Risk
Longer Baby's on Formula, Higher the Leukemia Risk By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: October 17, 2012 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Prolonged formula feeding may increase the odds for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), investigators in a case-control study concluded. Each additional month of formula feeding was associated with a 16% increase in the relative risk of ALL compared with a control group. Every additional month of delay in the start of solid foods increas... mais »
Education
Reinventing College[image: Photograph by Ilona Szwarc for TIME] The TIME Summit on Higher Education, co-sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is gathering experts today to discuss solutions to the critical problems of cost, access and quality in higher education. Join us on Twitter at #RethinkCollege. By Rick StengelRead more: http://nation.time.com/reinventing-college/#ixzz29eogQ8Y4
Dia do Médico
18 de outubro de 2012 | N° 17226 ARTIGOSPensando Medicina, por Aloyzio Achutti * Cada vez mais se fala em saúde, longevidade, remédios, prevenção de doenças, diagnósticos, curas, aparelhos, custo-benefício, acesso a serviços e planos de saúde e hospitais. Fala-se pouco do operador de tudo isso. Só é percebido quando falha, ou não atende às fantasias da clientela. Muito do milagre, e pouco do santo... De fato, por iniciativa dos próprios médicos, descobriram-se muitos meios, ciência, técnicas, instrumentos, profissões auxiliares, com os quais se impõe compartilhar os resultados. Tud... mais »
Check-up?
Routine Physicals Don't Save Lives By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: October 16, 2012 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston Click the bottom right corner of the video player for full screen. Action Points - A Cochrane systematic review identified no benefit for general health checkups for adults in terms of decreasing overall morbidity and mortality. - Note that there was also no demonstrated benefit to checkups for reducing cardiovascular- or cancer-related mortality. Patients w... mais »
APOE genotyping x Amyloid Load
Amyloid Load Predicts Cognitive Decline Better Than APOE Genotype Megan Brooks October 16, 2012 — In older cognitively healthy adults, the amount of β-amyloid (Aβ) in the brain is a more important factor in determining risk for future memory decline than is the APOE ε4 allele, a study from Australia shows. "Amyloid-related deterioration in memory occurs in cognitively normal healthy older adults with high Aβ and who carry the APOE ε4 allele," lead author Yen Ying Lim, MPsych, and PhD candidate, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, in Parkville, Victoria, Australia, tol... mais »
Human Lifespan
Big, Rapid Gains Made in Human Lifespan: Study Researchers say 72 is the new 30 Monday, October 15, 2012 [image: HealthDay news image] Most of the decline in early mortality has occurred in the past century, or four generations, a finding that calls into question traditional theories about aging, the study authors noted.MONDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- It's said that life is short. But people living in developed countries typically survive more than twice as long as their hunter-gatherer ancestors did, making 72 the new 30, according to new research. "I still can't believe how rec...mais »
LYL Cancer
Life-Years Lost to Cancer More than 150 Million By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today Published: October 15, 2012 Worldwide, nearly 170 million years of healthy life were lost in 2008 because of cancer, researchers reported. In the developing world, early death was the main impact of cancer, according to Isabelle Soerjomataram, MD, of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, and colleagues. But in the developed world, better prognosis and treatment led to a higher rate of years living with the after-effects of cancer, Soerjomataram and c... mais »
obesity
Anticonvulsant Aids Weight Loss By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today Published: October 15, 2012 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston The anticonvulsant drug zonisamide (Zonegran), in combination with dietary and lifestyle changes, can help obese people lose weight, researchers reported. In a 1-year controlled trial, patients taking 400 mg daily of the drug lost significantly more weight than those on placebo, according to Kishore Gadde, MD, of Duke University Medical Center, and colleagues.... mais »
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