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How To Make Your Own Sugar-Free Gummy Worms

March 9th, 2010 by Nancy Brown, Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Health Tips

Tags: Diabetes, Diet, Gummy Worms, Jell-O, Jello, Nutrition, Pediatrics, Recipe, Sugar Free

OK, so this is not a medically brilliant post, but I thought I would share! For a low sugar snack, you can try making your own gummy worms! Thank you to whomever developed this fun treat!

Ingredients

• 2 packages sugar free Jell-O
• 2 packages plain gelatin
• 1 cup boiling water
• (optional) If you like sour gummies, you can add a packet of Kool-Aid to the ingredients

Directions Read more »

This post, How To Make Your Own Sugar-Free Gummy Worms, was originally published on Healthine.com by Nancy Brown, Ph.D..

Good Health Doesn’t Come From Good Insurance

March 9th, 2010 by Happy Hospitalist in Better Health Network, Opinion

Tags: Cardiology, CDC, Diet and Exercise, Health Insurance, Heart Disease, Interactive Map, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Preventive Health, Primary Care, States, Stroke

The CDC has put out an interactive map of heart disease and stroke so you can compare your state or even county with the rest of the country.  It offers data on mortality, hospitalizations and  even penetration of  generalist and subspecialist availability.

What I found interesting was the lack of definitive association between access to generalists or subspecialists and mortality.  While rural areas with a low penetration of physicians generally had a higher mortality than urban centers,  many urban centers with a high penetration of generalists and subspecialist also had a high mortality as well. One could presume that rural America has many factors separate and independent of health care that affects their mortality rate.  The same could be said for urban America. Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at The Happy Hospitalist*

New Device Detects Whether Or Not You’ve Washed Your Hands

March 9th, 2010 by RyanDuBosar in Better Health Network, News

Tags: Detection, Employee, Hand Hygiene, Hand Washing, healthcare, Infectious Disease, Sanitation, University of Florida

Doctors at the University of Florida invented a device that sniffs employees’ hands for soap residue to check whether they’ve washed them enough.

After employees wash their hands, they pass them under the sniffer and their badge activates. When they later approach a patient, a bed-side monitor reads the badge and flashes green if the person has clean hands. If the person didn’t wash or too much time has passed since they have, the badge vibrates to remind the employee.

We’d already covered bathing hands with plasma instead of soap. Don’t get those near the sniffer.

*This blog post was originally published at ACP Hospitalist*

What Distinguishes The Emergency Medicine Physician From Other Specialists?

March 9th, 2010 by Edwin Leap, M.D. in Better Health Network, Opinion

Tags: Career Choice, Distinguishing Factors, Emergency Medicine

‘Woof, I used to do some emergency medicine, too!’

Years and years in emergency medicine have given me a very enlightening look at the various specialties that make up the ‘house of medicine.’ I am constantly amazed by the other professionals I meet. It astounds me that pediatricians can manage the tiniest of humans, barely larger than my palm. I am fascinated by the way an orthopedic surgeon can look at a fracture and reconstruct it in her mind; a kind of spatial organization totally foreign to my cerebral hemispheres.

General surgeons can navigate the complex plumbing of the human body and leave it running smooth as silk after injury or cancer. And neurologists are at home with the awe-inspiring, labyrinthine pathways of the human brain. Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at edwinleap.com*

Coffee And The Heart – Researchers Are Getting Paid Way Too Much To Rehash Old Data

March 9th, 2010 by DrWes in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Research

Tags: AHA, Caffeine, Cardiology, Coffee, EKG, Heart, Klatsky, Questionnaire

This week, coffee seems to be good for the heart:

“People who are moderate coffee drinkers can be reassured that they are not doing harm because of their coffee drinking,” said Arthur Klatsky, the study’s lead investigator and a cardiologist at Kaiser’s Division of Research.

These “surprising” data are to be presented at the AHA meeting March 5th. (You’ll have to wait until then to get the REAL scoop, it seems.)

But a quick Google search on Dr. Klatsky’s earlier studies using the same questionaire database shows the problems with using questionaire data to make such sweeping conclusions. Take, for instance, these findings from 1973: Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Wes*