vaccines do save lives but put into perspective:
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Vaccines, medical experts say, save more lives than any public health measure other than clean water and sewage.
another Xangablog rant on the high rate of sexual and physical abuse of teens LINK...original study HERE.... a lot of kids below age 12 are sexually abused and no one wants to talk about it...
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Good news: Taliban attacks on schools continue, but have decreased in number.
but their attacks on health workers is the really bad news.
Of the 28 NGO workers (20 Afghans and eight foreigners) known to have been killed last year, armed opposition groups were deemed to have been responsible for 22, the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office said.
the unsung heroines in Afghanistan: Midwives Link2 Link3
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will prenatal DNA testing lead to aborting kids for trivial reasons? and will it lead to blaming the parents
--------------------------------------If a child is born with a condition that could have been detected, the presence of the test changes that outcome “from something that happened to you, to something that you participated in,” she says.
the Nose is the answer...for adult stem cells to regrow brain tissue.
this makes sense, since the olfactory cells that let you detect smells are actually brain cells.
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Seniors in the US are often discharged prematurely because of financial pressures that limit payment if they stay too long.
The answer? Don't pay the hospitals if they are readmitted.
and they'll send a "palliative care" team to the person involved and ask them if the really want to be hospitalized when they get sick next time, or just get cheaper and often substandard care at home or in a nursing home...
the article discusses the money saved and the decrease in readmissions, but not if there was a difference in patient outcome (e.g. how many died)
What's wrong with this picture?
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NYTimes article on caregivers.
been there, done that...The national Alzheimer’s Association reports that almost 10 million people provide unpaid care for someone with dementia and that these people are much more likely to reduce working hours or quit work than those who care for an elderly person with other problems.
One study found that 43 percent of caregivers were unemployed and two-thirds of those who were employed (either part time or full time) had to go in late, leave early or take time off.
And according to “Caregiving in the U.S.,” a 2009 study by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, when caregiving conflicts with work, “seven in 10 caregivers report making changes such as cutting back on their working hours, changing jobs, stopping work entirely, taking a leave of absence, or other such changes.”
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NYTimes editorial lambasting women doctors for working less than their male collegues because they work part time or take time off to care for families
Well, when I was in medical school in the 1960's, this was the excuse used to turn down qualified women applicants.
been there, done that too...
Her answer: Let the family suffer, patients come first.
Yes, but even with men, that has ruined a lot of marriages...
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NYTimes has recipes for healthy living, but fava bean soup shouldn't be one of them...the problem? Favism...
too many people have G6PD deficiency and could end up anemic and not only with these beans but also medicines like sulfonamides, Furadantin, and INH...
A side effect of this disease is that it confers protection against malaria,[12] in particular the form of malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly form of malaria.
medicine, infetiousdisease
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