Good News Network · Over-the-Counter Ibuprofen Can Speed Up Recovery From Concussion By 20%, Shows StudyOver-the-counter painkillers such as ibuprofen speed up the recovery from concussion by 20%, according to a new study.
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Over-the-counter pain relievers linked to improved recovery from concussion
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-counter-pain-relievers-linked-recovery.html
Medical Xpress · Over-the-counter pain relievers linked to improved recovery from concussion
Newborn babies have been exposed to measles at a Texas hospital and are receiving antibodies to protect them, NBC reports. The virus was brought into the University Medical Center Children's Hospital by a mother in labor — doctors didn't realize until after her admission that she was infected, and it's unclear when she tested positive. The immunoglobulin injections have been given to babies as young as three days old. A 2021 study found this therapy is highly effective in protecting exposed newborns who are too young to be vaccinated. Emergency masking procedures have also been implemented.
NBC News · As Texas measles outbreak grows, newborn babies were exposed to the virus in Lubbock hospital
I am feeling cold and icky for non-scary reasons, and Niko has leapt into action with his neck-warming damp breath treatment
This is an appreciation post for my doctor. She's the best. (I have hypertension that so far has not really responded to any treatment. I've had it off and on since I was a teenager but these days it's more on than off.) I see her quite regularly and she just got back from maternity leave! It was nice to see her and she takes such great care of me that I feel like I needed to send that appreciation into the universe.
#doctor #health #medicine #hypertension #highbloodpressure #appreciationpost
Back in med school, the molecular machinery in skeletal muscle units or sarcomeres fascinated me. From a certain pov the mechanism seems obvious, yet it is exquisitely intricate. Ratchet like myosin heads drag along actin filaments to cause contraction using ATP and calcium to regulate its cyclical movement.
"The whole system of finding, diagnosing and treating #tuberculosis has collapsed in dozens of countries across #Africa and #Asia since President #Trump ordered the aid freeze on Jan. 20.
The United States contributed about half of international donor funding to TB last year...
While some of the TB programs may ultimately survive, none have received any money for months."
NY Times article. Try proreader.io to remove the paywall:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/health/tuberculosis-kenya-us-cuts.html
The New York Times · Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally
Gutless #PostalService chief [appointed by #trump] bends to #DOGE with 10,000 job cuts #USPS #mail #ballots #democracy #medicine #healthcare #disabled https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/14/2310170/-Gutless-Postal-Service-chief-bends-to-DOGE-with-10-000-job-cuts #mail #prescriptions #government #corruption
Daily KosGutless Postal Service chief bends to DOGE with 10,000 job cutsThe head of the U.S. Postal Service announced in a letter to Congress Thursday that the agency would cut 10,000 workers as part of an agreement with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government ...
Police say CEO ran away, tried to hide evidence after boy's hyperbaric chamber death
Detroit Free Press · Police say CEO ran away, tried to hide evidence after boy's hyperbaric chamber death
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When Spanish colonizers established a town in the mountains of Bolivia in the 1500s, they might have expected to expand their communities by having babies, but they could not. While Indigenous folks raised families, not a single child of European descent was born for decades. It was all down to the lack of oxygen at altitude, which the settlers were not genetically adapted to deal with. @KnowableMag reports on how scientists are now studying this to see if they can help pregnant people whose bodies are struggling to provide enough oxygen to their fetuses, at any altitude.
Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsBorn in thin air: Overcoming the challenges of pregnancy at high elevationIn people not adapted to life at altitude, the sparse oxygen can impair fetal growth, causing problems that can last a lifetime. Researchers are searching for remedies.
Distribution of People Ages 0-64 with #Medicaid by Race/Ethnicity
White: ~40%
Black: ~19%
Hispanic: ~30%
AANHPI: ~5%
AI/AN: ~1%
Other/Multiple: ~6%
#healthcare #medicine #health #disease #veterans #disabled #maga #GOP #republicans #elderly #retirement
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-distribution-people-0-64-by-raceethnicity/
KFFDistribution of People Ages 0-64 with Medicaid by Race/Ethnicity | KFFdisparity, Disparities
Individual studies that purport to reveal a particular #health or #medicine benefit or drawback are often overhyped by bloggers, YouTubers, podcasters and even well-meaning mainstream media publications. Peel back the scientific onion, and the new findings may be humdrum or even suspect, in light of a deeper body of work. So it goes with two recent #pain med claims. https://medium.com/wise-well/unintended-consequences-of-over-the-counter-pain-meds-1c09fe52762d ?sk=16fbdc5cc573b04e94b99f5689ea22f9
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Wise & Well · Unintended Consequences of Over-the-Counter Pain Meds
Individual studies that purport to reveal a particular #health or #medicine benefit or drawback are often overhyped by bloggers, YouTubers, podcasters and even well-meaning mainstream media publications. Peel back the scientific onion, and the new findings may be humdrum or even suspect, in light of a deeper body of work. So it goes with two recent #pain med claims.
Wise & Well · Unintended Consequences of Over-the-Counter Pain Meds
Humans have only begun to scratch the surface of understanding what other parts of nature can teach us, such as the way animals use plants and other things to keep themselves healthy.
#nature #animals #plants #medicine #MotherEarth
Nautilus · Learning Medicine from AnimalsBiologist Jaap de Roode on his 3 greatest revelations while writing Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves
We've had a new contributor via our Open Collective page. Yay!
They chose to remain #anonymous, which is of course fine, but if you're on #Mastodon and reading this message, thank you very much. We appreciate it.
There's so much we could be buying, but the new contribution just about covers two tourniquets, which is potentially two lives saved.
opencollective.comBlack Flag Medical - Open CollectiveMedical aid for medics and medical field stations operating in conflict zones and other austere environments.
https://www.europesays.com/1911962/ Pope has restful night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital #Medicine&Health #News #PopeFrancis #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics
"Too many people focus on 'what is' rather than 'what could be'" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I'm in Georgia, where later today, I'll speak on behalf of a corporate group on the topic of the future of healthcare. (Before that, I'll be hard at work studying the nature of turf science, particularly concerning the actions of a small spherical object as it encounters the turf after being struck by a long object, particularly when the turf in question is quite dormant. There is much to learn.)
I digress.
The photo for today's image comes from my keynote for the American Association of Orthopedic Executives, and I'm speaking to them about the emerging reality of 3d printed body parts - knees on order via a Web site. A crazy idea? Not really - it's a fast-emerging reality. They needed not to just think about what is today, but would be tomorrow!
I'll walk through several slides having to do with the science of healthcare and medicine, the acceleration of new forms of treatment, and other issues. It's an interesting time to be covering this type of material from the stage, given that I'm doing so in a country where the very science of healthcare is under attack.
Even so, one of my jobs is to help the group - all involved in the health benefits community - understand the big sweeping trends and ideas that provide so much potential for society. Such as the statement, "What we did for heart health in the 20th century, we can do for brain health in the 21st century" from Dr. Deepak Chopra, an integrative medicine advocate
I've got several slides with these big, bold ideas or observations in my deck.
All around the idea of thinking big about tomorrow, not thinking small about where we are today.
Read more.
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**#Innovation** **#Healthcare** **#Future** **#Vision** **#Possibility** **#Science** **#Medicine** **#Technology** **#Perspective** **#Potential**
https://www.europesays.com/1911367/ The voice of Pope Francis and the magisterium of fragility #editorial #Medicine&Health #News #PapalMagisterium #PopeFrancis #TheSick #Vatican #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics
The Art Of Patient Communication With Dr Kritika Mehra
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-art-of-patient-communication-with-dr-kritika-mehra/
>The Fall
Some Things are Worth Losing for the Greater Things We Gain
Rupa Marya
"As I stand here at the precipice of a cliff that spells career suicide as an academic physician, I pause to wonder how I got here.
A professor of medicine at a university known for its excellence, with over two decades of service and awards for my work, some of which I accepted and others I rejected for their performativity, I never put “health equity” in my job title and never got paid to specifically work for it. I got the sense early on that any career branded with the label “health equity” would require an allegiance I would never be prepared to give. Health equity is a part of the landscape of being a physician committed to health for all, just like source control of an infection or pain management. These are expectations of our professional duty.
Used as a poster child for health and justice in the academy when it was politically convenient, I am now facing intense repression for speaking up for health justice. As institutions across the US pursue broad criminalization of dissent, the flow of weapons to Israel and the mass murder of Palestinians continue unimpeded. The point of this repression is to silence me, to make an example out of me and to cast me as out of favor, “unprofessional” and an outlier.
But my work is, always has been and always will be the moral center of gravity of medicine. What I did not realize when I embarked on this path that would lead me here to this point of no return was that this moral center was the most dangerous thing you could assert in academic medicine. Because what logically flows from this center is the following: the right of all people to have the opportunity to be healthy and the responsibility physicians carry to create the conditions for health to be possible–for all.
Of course, many people like to speak about these things, but no one actually likes to do anything about them. To act in accordance would require a reallocation of power from those who hold too much of it to those who hold very little. And when it comes to disease, the abundance or lack of power dictates who lives, who dies and how. To disrupt dynamics of power–or to even name them–would damage one’s personal aspirations, one’s reputation and one’s career.
As I shift my weight and peer over the edge of the cliff, squinting my eyes to try in vain to make out the distance to the bottom, I can hear the thousand shards of my shattered heart move. They poke me from the inside. The welling salt water stings my eyes. The images of doctors a half a world away pleading for humanity to care as their hospitals were bombed into oblivion. The sound of their voices as they sang their commitment, refusing to leave the bedside of their bedridden patients. We will remain. Their handwriting scrawled on the mangled white board was all that was left after Israeli forces bombed, shelled and raided their way through the sacred space of healing: We did what we could. Remember us. "
Rupa Marya--Deep Medicine · The Fall