December 17th, 2009 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, News, Research
Tags: Bionic Fingers, Fingers, Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation, ProDigits, Prosthesis, Touch Bionics
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Touch Bionics, a company out of Livingston, UK and Hilliard, Ohio known for its i-LIMB device, is making available a new finger prosthesis system. ProDigits, a customizable platform that can be adapted to the needs of individual patients, provides electronically powered artificial fingers that can grasp and manipulate objects. The new hand can also be used for more advanced tasks such as typing on a keyboard. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
December 17th, 2009 by RamonaBatesMD in Better Health Network, Research
Tags: Lymph, Lymphatic Malformations, Microcystic Lymphatic Malformations, Otolaryngology, Plastic Surgery, Tongue
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I stumbled across this article while previewing JAMA & Archives CME articles (full reference below). The article gives an overview of lymphatic malformations, noting that both sexes are equally affected, and there is no predilection for any race.
Lymphatic malformations are vascular malformations with an unknown cause. They are estimated to make up 6% of all benign soft-tissue tumors in children. While they may be rare, 50% of all lymphatic malformations are already obvious at the time of birth. Most (90%) are diagnosed by the end of the second year of life owing to clinical symptoms.
About 60% of all lymphatic malformations are found in the head and neck region. Regarding the mouth, the tongue is most commonly affected.
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*This blog post was originally published at Suture for a Living*
December 17th, 2009 by Harriet Hall, M.D. in Better Health Network, News, Quackery Exposed, Research
Tags: Chiropractic, Chiropractic and Osteopathy, Chiropractic Theory, Evidence Based Medicine, False, Journal, Pseudoscience, Science, Subluxation
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An article written by 4 chiropractors and published on December 2, 2009 in the journal Chiropractic and Osteopathy may have sounded the death knell for chiropractic.
The chiropractic subluxation is the essential basis of chiropractic theory. A true subluxation is a partial dislocation: chiropractors originally believed bones were actually out of place. When x-rays proved this was not true, they were forced to re-define the chiropractic subluxation as “a complex of functional and/or structural and/or pathological articular changes that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health.” Yet most chiropractors are still telling patients their spine is out of alignment and they are going to fix it. Early chiropractors believed that 100% of disease was caused by subluxation. Today most chiropractors still claim that subluxations cause interference with the nervous system, leading to suboptimal health and causing disease. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Science-Based Medicine*
December 15th, 2009 by Dr. Val Jones in Opinion, Research
Tags: Congress, Guidelines, Mammogram, Post-Mortem, USPSTF
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Steve Novella whimsically opined on a recent phone call that irrationality must convey a survival advantage for humans. I’m afraid he has a point.
It’s much easier to scare people than to reassure them, and we have a difficult time with objectivity in the face of a good story. In fact, our brains seem to be hard wired for bias – and we’re great at drawing subtle inferences from interactions, and making our observations fit preconceived notions. A few of us try to fight that urge, and we call ourselves scientists. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Science-Based Medicine*
December 15th, 2009 by Nicholas Genes, M.D., Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Humor, Research
Tags: Adjectives, Doctors, Google Suggest, Negative, Physicians, Search
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The Efficient MD’s eyes are opened by the nasty thoughts Google Suggest offers up when someone starts typing “Doctors are…” Since Google Suggest lists only common results with which to complete your queries, it seems that the most common thing people think about doctors online is that we’re “overpaid” or “jerks” or “dangerous” or, most commonly, “sadists who like to play god.”
Surveys show people consider doctors to be among the most respected professions. So what gives? Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Blogborygmi*
