Fact or Fiction? Debunking Exercise & Nutrition Myths for Preventing Heart Disease
Mayo Clinic cardiologist discusses controversial nutrition and exercise topics on lowering risk and prevention of heart disease:
Proven heart risk reduction strategies include:
- Physical activity
- Nutrition
- Exercise training
- Weight loss
- Preventive medications
- Smoking cessation
- behavioral and lifestyle changes
- Stress management training
- assessments and treatments for co-existing conditions (joint and muscle pain, diabetes, depression, etc.), if indicated
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - November 4, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Mayo Clinic Video Cardiology Source Type: news
In your neighborhood? WSJ lists locations of Cold War-era nuclear manufacturing and research sites
WSJ's John Emshwiller and Jeremy Singer-Vine detail their year-long investigation into the fate of hundreds of Cold War-era nuclear manufacturing and research sites. some of them near homes, parks and malls:
During the build-up to the Cold War, the U.S. government called upon hundreds of factories and research centers to help develop nuclear weapons and other forms of atomic energy. At many sites, this work left behind residual radioactive contamination requiring government cleanups, some of which are still going on.
The Department of Energy says it has protected the public health, and studies about radiation harm aren...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - October 30, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Environment Source Type: news
Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:
Study: depression, anxiety and insomnia predicted Facebook addiction http://buff.ly/1haIIbS
Using social media to quantify nature-based tourism: number of photos on Flickr approximate visitation rates http://buff.ly/1abwTx8
Social Media in Radiology: Markedly increased use of the Twitter during the largest international radiology meeting http://buff.ly/1abwsmz
Facebook dependence was found in 8.6% of undergraduate students in Peru, associated with poor sleep quality http://buff.ly/1abx23L
People at ri...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - October 29, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: #HCSM Source Type: news
Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 4 weeks:
YouTube as a source of information on rhinosinusitis: 55% of videos contained no useful facts, 27% misleading info http://buff.ly/138NPPy
How to Use Twitter for Public Health Monitoring? Only 5 to 20% of signals were "relevant" http://buff.ly/16gHswJ
Social media increases dissemination of original articles - but the effect is lost after 1 year http://buff.ly/13JJwP2
Social Media Adoption by Local Health Departments in the US: 24% are on Facebook, 8% on Twitter http://buff.ly/16gI2KS
A practical approac...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - September 24, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: #HCSM Source Type: news
Vedolizumab (anti-integrin) is effective for treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
The integrin superfamily consists of 30 proteins that promote cell-cell or cell-matrix interactions. The name integrins derives from the idea that they coordinate (i.e., "integrate") signals.
All integrins are cell surface proteins composed of 2 polypeptide chains, α and β. Integrins are classified into several subfamilies based on the β chains.
Lymphocyte Trafficking. This video describes how lymphocytes travel through the blood stream and into a lymph node. This video is from: Janeway's Immunobiology, 7th Edition, Murphy, Travers, & Walport. Source: Garland Science.
7 Integrin, a cell adhesion molecule, is p...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - September 16, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Small Steps to a Healthy You: 5-2-1-0
Small steps can help you be healthy. 5-2-1-0 helps you remember to eat healthy, limit screen time, get physical activity and exercise, and avoid sugary drinks. This Mayo Clinic video is intended for children but applies to anyone.
Share the healthy habits of “5 2 1 0” everyday:
5 – fruits and veggies
2 – hours or less of recreational screen time*
1 – hour or more of physical activity
0 – sugary drinks, more water and low-fat milk
* Keep TV/computer out of bedroom. No screen time under the age of 2
Source: http://www.letsgo.org
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - August 29, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Diet Children Pediatrics Exercise Lifestyle Source Type: news
Pulmonary Rehabilitation with a Harmonica (video)
From Mayo Clinic YouTube channel: Two-time lung transplant recipient shares the power of music in his harmonica class with a Heart and Lung Transplant Support Group. He teaches his peers how music can both mentally and physically impact a patient's healing process.
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - August 13, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Mayo Clinic Pulmonology Source Type: news
Goitre - patient information video by NHS
From NHS Choices YouTube channel:
In this video, a consultant endocrinologist describes possible causes of a goitre, an abnormal swelling of the thyroid gland that causes a lump in the neck. She also explains why it is important to get any lump in the neck or throat checked out by a GP and treatments available (the U.S. spelling is "goiter").
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - July 26, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Endocrinology Source Type: news
4% of oil supply is used to make plastic bags - each bag is in use for just 25 minutes
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - July 2, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Physician: "I think it's time to put the blogging down"
My good Twitter friend, and probably the most famous orthopedic surgeon using social media, @hjluks recently wrote: "Think it's time to put the blogging down...."
Is it time? Does blogging still have some place in the busy day of a practicing physician?
It really depends on what you use the blogging for. Here are just three examples:
- My blogs are my personal archive. I often post brief summaries of interesting articles with my personal comments. When I need to retrieve those during discussions with residents, students or patients, finding them is just a click away by using the custom search engine of the blog. Depend...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - June 28, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Blogging Social Media Twitter Source Type: news
"Attention span halved in a decade, from 12 to 5 minutes, spelling trouble for doctors and patients"
From the WSJ:
Our average attention span halved in a decade, from 12 to five minutes. To combat this, a "museum intervention" is now mandatory at Yale's School of Medicine for all first-year medical students. Called Enhancing Observational Skills, the program asks students to look at and then describe paintings—not Pollocks and Picassos but Victorian pieces, with whole people in them. The aim? To improve diagnostic knack.
The Waterseller of Seville, 1618-1622, Oil on canvas. This is not considered an example of the "Victorian pieces" mentioned in the WSJ article. Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.
Each student ...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - May 15, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: WSJ Source Type: news
What is HDL? Videos for patient education by Cleveland Clinic
Watch and learn how high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol can protect the body from heart disease in this whiteboard session lead by Cleveland Clinic Cardiologist Michael Rocco, MD.
Here are more videos from the same series:
What is LDL? - YouTube http://bit.ly/18cuEay
What is a lipid profile? - YouTube http://bit.ly/18cuFLE
What is cholesterol? - YouTube http://bit.ly/18cuHmX
What are the types of cholesterol? - YouTube http://bit.ly/18cuKPA
Time to treat your cholesterol numbers - YouTube http://bit.ly/18cuLmD
Know your cholesterol numbers - YouTube http://bit.ly/18cuMa7
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - May 14, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Cleveland Clinic Cardiology Education Source Type: news
Brain networking among musicians
From Deutsche Welle:
When musicians play, what is happening inside their brains? Scientists at Berlin's Max Planck Institute for Human Development have discovered that while performing together, their neurological activity goes into a kind of synchronization mode - almost as though they were connected by a wireless network.
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - April 22, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Music Neurology Source Type: news
Empathy and patient experience - video from Cleveland Clinic
CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, shared this video, titled "Empathy," with the Cleveland Clinic staff during his 2013 State of the Clinic address on Feb. 27, 2013. The video relates to any person - not only patients and physicians. It's so worth it 4 minutes of your time:
Physician Communication PEARLS from Cleveland Clinic
- Establish rapport and plan an encounter with the patient
- Elicit the patient perspective using FIFE (function, ideas, fears and
expectations)
- Apply PEARLS (partnership, empathy, acknowledgment, respect,
legitimation and support) to convey empathy
- Incorporate the patient into decision making and educ...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - March 1, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Tags: Patients Cleveland Clinic Source Type: news
As good as pills: Mediterranean diet prohibits nothing that was recognized as food by your great-grandmother
From NYTimes: The Times's Gina Kolata talks about a new study, published on The New England Journal of Medicine's Web site, focusing on the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet.
When Diet Meets Delicious - The Mediterranean Approach http://buff.ly/XCsvTJ -- Mediterranean diet prohibits nothing that was recognized as food by your great-grandmother.
Here is the original research from NEJM:
In a multicenter trial in Spain, 7447 participants who were at high cardiovascular risk, but with no cardiovascular disease at enrollment (age range, 55 to 80 years, 57% were women), were randomly assigned to one of three...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - February 28, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: NYTimes Video Diet Source Type: news
