Sunday, April 2, 2017

GPs sent obese patients to hospital more than half a million times last year

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‘Shameful’ figures show GPs sent obese patients to hospital more than half a million times last year Thousands of under 16s were sent to...

"The city of Coral Gables became the first city to ban plastic bags, with fines up to $500..."

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PC police vs. free cookies at Publix: Central Florida 100 Ric Keller, lawyer, former member of Congress "NO MORE FREE COOKIES? Las...

Fr. Pius Pietrzyk: Calls To Defund The LSC Are Based On Outdated Information

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Call s To Defund The LSC Are Based On Outdated Information FR. PIUS PIETRZYK "Most imp ortantly, we have seen increased coo ...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Acute Lung Injury: A Clinical and Molecular Review

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Arch Pathol Lab Med.  2016 Apr;140(4):345-50. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2015-0519-RA. Acute Lung Injury: A Clinical and Molecular Review. Butt ...

The Indian Army Is Coming Down Hard On Obese Officials

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The Indian Army Is Coming Down Hard On Obese Officials & We Couldn't Agree More With The Ruling By Andrew Lu Even promo...

Oxford explains disco

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Evol Hum Behav.  2016 Sep;37(5):343-349. Epub 2016 Feb 24. Silent  disco : dancing in synchrony leads to elevated pain thresholds and soc...

"Trust and the therapeutic alliance are critical to the provider-patient relationship and quality healthcare services."

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Camb Q Healthc Ethics.  2017 Apr;26(2):337-341. doi: 10.1017/S0963180116000931. Safeguarding Confidentiality in Electronic Health Records...

Airmen of Note - "I Want To Be Happy"

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Airmen of Note - "I Want To Be Happy"

One O'Clock Lab Band - Cherokee

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One O'Clock Lab Band: Ray Noble - Cherokee

From the NY Times: Therapists Offer Strategies for Postelection Stress

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Therapists Offer Strategies for Postelection Stress By  LESLEY ALDERMAN MARCH 29, 2017 She advises patients to talk to people on...

“About 60% of [physicians] exhibit some form of explicit [weight] bias.”

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Managing obesity starts with addressing behavioral factors April 1, 2017 “The most prevalent bias in health care currently is...

Biomarker Testing in Lung Carcinoma Cytology Specimens: A Perspective From Members of the Pulmonary Pathology Society

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Arch Pathol Lab Med.  2016 Apr 15. [Epub ahead of print] Biomarker Testing in Lung Carcinoma Cytology Specimens: A Perspective From Membe...

"We're being driven toward a kind of national bankruptcy..."

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The Runaway Entitlement Train "The CBO's numbers are persuasive — and  more than a little scary . Right now, debt...

"To be honest, though, I doubt if any young person will read this blog this far."

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Fed Up With Obesity? Me Too, But We Have To Keep Fighting The Fight Professor Mark Hanson British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiov...

Washington Post: The last thing on ‘privilege’ you’ll ever need to read

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The last thing on ‘privilege’ you’ll ever need to read A new book argues that accusing people of unearned advantages does nothing to a...
Friday, March 31, 2017

2017 Pulmonary Pathology Society Biennial Meeting, June 13-16, 2017, at the Gleacher Center, Chicago

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2017 Pulmonary Pathology Society Biennial Meeting June 13-16, 2017 Gleacher Center, University of Chicago 450 North Cityfront Plaza Dr...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

The Age of Offence

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The Age of Offence The politics of outrage, and the crisis of free speech on campus IRA WELLS "The unavoidable corollary is that...

What Should Guide Health Policy? A Perspective Beyond Politics

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Acad Med.  2017 Mar 28. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001665. [Epub ahead of print] What Should Guide Health Policy? A Perspective Beyond  P...

"The smartphone simplifies interprofessional communication, and smartphone applications can facilitate telemedicine activity."

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Telemed J E Health.  2017 Mar 29. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2016.0155. [Epub ahead of print] Being Spontaneous: The Future of Telehealth Implement...

"obesogenic environments"

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Obesity has DOUBLED in the last 20 years – with one in four people now dangerously fat Some 58 per cent of women and 68 per cent of men ...

"Twenty years ago almost no one went home from the hospital with a prescription for opioids. Today if you stub your toe it seems to be the first line of treatment."

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Why Is Life Expectancy Going Down In The U.S.? "Heart disease is once again on the rise, causing four times as many deaths as the re...

Development and Validation of Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Panels for Detection of Germline Variants in Inherited Diseases

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Avni Santani ,  Jill Murrell ,  Birgit Funke ,  Zhenming Yu ,  Madhuri Hegde ,  Rong Mao ,  Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez ,  Karl V. Voelkerding...

Medicare's New Quality Payment Program Has Started—Are You Ready?

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Diana M. Cardona ,  Stephen Black-Schaffer ,  Fay Shamanski , and  Jonathan L. Myles  (2017) Medicare's New Quality Payment Program Has...

Acquired Cystic Disease–Associated Renal Cell Carcinoma

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Michelle Foshat  and  Eduardo Eyzaguirre  ( 2017 ) Acquired Cystic Disease–Associated Renal Cell Carcinoma: Review of Pathogenesis, Morphol...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Egad

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Chocolate bars may shrink in drive to tackle obesity Public Health England says changes to nine food groups could lead to 200,000 tons of s...
Monday, March 27, 2017

B.C.

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Before Cellphones

"...obesity was less common when meals were eaten with the television off and when meals were cooked at home..."

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Want to reduce your risk of obesity? Cooking at home and avoiding TV during meals will help! "Researchers found the lowest odds...