August 12th, 2010 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, News, Research
Tags: Athlete's Health, Brain Activity Analysis, BrainScope, Concussion Effects, EEG, Electroencephalograph, Football Season, Medical Technology, Neurological Changes, Neurology, Portable Device, Post-Concussion Monitoring, Sideline Decision-Making Aide, Sports Medicine, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury
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It’s an August tradition: Football training camps open, and we’re treated to warnings about working out in the heat.
In the past few years, however, when it comes to football, there’s been a new emphasis on traumatic brain injury (TBI). This has caught our eyes here at MedGadget.
We’ve covered innovative impact-sensing helmet technology before (as well as smart helmets for temperature monitoring). But for the athlete with a concussion, what happens off the field? Unless a neurologist is involved, it’s up to the players and trainers to follow guidelines or make guesses about when to return to play.
Hopefully that will change, and a device like BrainScope will lead the way. When we first covered BrainScope, they were positioning their new device, based on controversial technology, as a sideline decision-making aide. Now their research seems to be focused on the weeks and months post-concussion. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
August 12th, 2010 by RamonaBatesMD in Better Health Network, Medical Art
Tags: Cosmetic Procedures, Cosmetic Surgery, Medical Art, Not Always Pretty, Obsession With Appearance, Overused Procedures, Plastic Surgery, Too Many Procedures, Unnecessary Procedures
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Hat tip to Berci who shared this article from Power of Data Visualization about Crazy Facts About Plastic Surgery:
[Via: Medical Coding]
*This blog post was originally published at Suture for a Living*
August 12th, 2010 by Berci in Better Health Network, Medical Art
Tags: Amusing Planet, Corpus Museum, Dutch, Educational Entertainment, Giant Model, How Organs Work, Human Anatomy, Human Body, Scientific Learning Space
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The Dutch Corpus Museum takes you into the human body and shows how our organs work. A fascinating idea and a great visualization. An excerpt from Amusing Planet:
The Corpus Museum takes you on a fantastic journey through a giant model of the human body during which you can see, feel and hear how the human body works and what roles healthy food, healthy life and plenty of exercise plays. The tour through the museum starts with an escalator ride into an open sore on your giant victim’s leg and ends among the pulsing neurons in his brain. Between those two points, you will watch cheese being digested in the intestines and explore the ventricles of the heart. Kids can bounce up and down on the rubber tongue (with burping noises in the background) while you take in various scents wafting through the giant nose. Perhaps the most unusual display is the hologram of sperm fertilizing an egg, viewed via 3D glasses.
Click here for more pictures.
*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*
August 12th, 2010 by David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Health Policy, News, Opinion, Quackery Exposed, Research
Tags: Acupuncture, Center for Integrative Medicine, Clinical Therapeutics, Dr. Brian Berman, Evidence Based Medicine, Homeopathy, Integrated Medicine, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Nature Journal, Naturopathy, NCCAM, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, Placebo Medicine, Pseudomedicine, Pseudoscience, Quackademic Medicine, Science Based Medicine
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One of the things that disturbs me the most about where medicine is going is the infiltration of quackery into academic medicine. So prevalent is this unfortunate phenomenon that Doctor RW even coined a truly apt term for it: Quackademic medicine.
In essence, pseudoscientific and even prescientific ideas are rapidly being “integrated” with science-based medicine, or, as I tend to view it, quackery is being “integrated” with scientific medicine, to the gradual erosion of scientific standards in medicine. No quackery is too quacky, it seems. Even homeopathy and naturopathy can seemingly find their way into academic medical centers. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Science-Based Medicine*
August 11th, 2010 by admin in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Opinion
Tags: ACP Internist, American College Of Physicians, Dr. John Henning Schumann, Family Medicine, GlassHospital, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare reform, Individualized Doctor-Patient Relationships, Internal Medicine, medicaid, New Primary Care Models, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Patient-Centered Medical Home, Patient-Centered Medicine, PCMH, Pediatrics, Primary Care, University of Chicago
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By John Henning Schumann, M.D.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “Health Care Reform”) signed by President Obama in March will revolutionize primary care in the United States. By 2014 tens of millions of uninsured people will “enter” the system by being granted insurance, either through expansion of the Medicaid program or through mandated purchasing of insurance via state pools or the private market.
This alone will have a profound impact, straining the capacity of our already frayed system. Therefore, embedded in the law are funds to encourage growth and improvement in primary care: Incentives to encourage graduates to enter primary care fields (family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics) and practice in underserved areas (through scholarships and loan forgiveness), and money to re-format the way that primary care is practiced and paid for. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at ACP Internist*
