British doctors seem to like making up funny names for things as much as the rest of us do, and they’ve gone and dubbed a collection of symptoms “Poshitis,” saying it’s caused by people carrying handbags like Victoria Beckham. More »
Doctors Named A Shoulder Injury ‘Poshitis’ After Victoria...
Counselling and treatment with naturopathic care as well as enhanced usual care reduced the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, a risk factor for heart disease, by 17% over a year for participants in a randomized controlled trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)...
It's not just your average Joes and Janes who have a hard time internalizing body positivity: A new study finds that doctors can also harbor hidden biases*toward the overweight—and it may be affecting the care they provide. More »
Overweight Patients Get No Love (Or Empathy) From Doctors is a...
Doctors 2.0 & You To Feature Best Practices For Social Media, Apps Per Medical Condit
The widely-acclaimed Doctors 2.0™ & You conference announces for its 3rd edition that: All Social Media and Web or Mobile Applications will be presented in light of specific disease conditions including a...
I went to the doctors, and they told me that I had a UTI. They gave me antibiotics that I was supposed to take 3 times a day for 2 weeks. I was only talking the pills 1 or 2 times a day, and sometimes skipping days all together. When i finally finished the antibiotic, the UTI came back a few...
I went to the doctors, and they told me that I had a UTI. They gave me antibiotics that I was supposed to take 3 times a day for 2 weeks. I was only talking the pills 1 or 2 times a day, and sometimes skipping days all together. When i finally finished the antibiotic, the UTI came back a few...
A survey of UK doctors found that 97% have prescribed placebo treatments to patients at least once in their career. Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Southampton in the UK discovered that 97% of doctors have used 'impure' placebo treatments, while 12% have used 'pure' placebos...
It's a little surreal how little conventional doctors spend talking with patients about nutrition. But nutrition science hasn't historically been a big part of med school, even if it is a big factor in chronic disease. More »
Sending Doctors To Culinary School is a post from Blisstree - Get...
In a study designed to see if doctors who are told the exact price of expensive medical tests like MRIs in advance would order fewer of them, Johns Hopkins researchers got their answer: No. In a report published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, the researchers found...
Breastfeeding can be a difficult time for both mother and baby, so using cabbage leaves and tea bags to ease pain or eating oatmeal to increase milk production are among the folk remedies that women pass along to new mothers seeking help. As experts in this field, lactations specialists were...
You know how you feel less-than-attractive when you're really tired? Well, there's some scientific reasoning behind that. Stress and fatigue actually affect our skin, making us look puffier, saggier and in some cases, wrinklier. Thanks for letting us know, science!! More »
Effects Of Stress...
A new imaging technique developed at MIT offers the first glimpse of the degeneration of two brain structures affected by Parkinson's disease. The technique, which combines several types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), could allow doctors to better monitor patients' progression and track...
Ok so this is kinda embarrassing but I need help..
I don't wanna ask my mom Kuz I don't want her to make a big deal about it.
Ok so I've only had my period 2 times and on the 3rd I forgot to keep track of the days So I could know when it's coming next month. So I'm pretty sure I haven't had my...
The cost of sequencing the entire human genome, or exome - the regions of the genome that are translated into proteins that affect cell behavior - has decreased significantly, to the point where the cost of looking at the majority of a patient's genomic data may be less expensive than...
A new study, published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), reveals that Cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is the most common virus to infect organ transplant patients, should not be treated immediately after surgery - and waiting until the patients reach a certain point of...
Nurse-centred care of HIV patients can be just as safe and effective as care delivered by doctors and has a number of specific health benefits, according to a new study led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the University of Cape Town (UCT). Published today in The Lancet, the research...
Researchers from Austria have determined that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their doctors differ on perception of RA disease activity. The study now available in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and published by Wiley, reports that RA...
Patients look up their illnesses online to become better informed and prepared to play an active role in their care - not because they mistrust their doctors, a new University of California, Davis, study suggests. The study surveyed more than 500 people who were members of online support...
Over the course of two weeks, four people visited the MGUH for medical treatment due to mushroom (amantin) poisoning. One Virginia man arrived at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH) in the early stages of liver failure after having mistakenly eaten poisonous mushrooms he handpicked...
I am of depacote for a preventive but I keep a migraine all the time. worse at times...The Doctors treat me like a joke. They won't listen to anything I have to say. I am so tired of the pain.