January 2010
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“RT @lsaldanamd The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to...”
– lsaldanamd
John S. Billings recruited William Osler in 1888 to be physician-in-chief of the soon-to-open Johns Hopkins Hospital and professor of medicine at the planned school of medicine. Osler was the second appointed member of the original four medical faculty, following William H....
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WatchTED TALK: Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a way to use fMRI to show brain activity — thoughts, emotions, pain — while it is happening. You can actually see how you feel.
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Power of the Mind can Lessen Chronic Pain
You move your arm, your brain lights up. You feel pain, your brain lights up on a rtfMRI, “real-time functional MRI.” A fMRI shows brain activity while it is happening — emotion, body movement, pain. You can literally see how you feel.
To help treat chronic pain, the fMRI is used like a kind of biofeedback. Being able to visualize pain can help patients control it. Christopher...
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Natural Pain Killers
The body’s natural painkillers are the most promising pain relievers. The brain can trigger the release of painkillers in the spinal cord: serotonin, norepinephrine, endorphins and enkephalins.
Peptides, compounds that make up proteins in the body, play a role in pain responses. Two peptides called tachykinins-neurokinin A and substance P are involved in the production of pain sensations,...
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The Transmission of Pain
The body’s chemicals act in the transmission of pain messages by stimulating neurotransmitter receptors found on the surface of cells; each receptor has a corresponding neurotransmitter. Receptors function much like gates or ports and enable pain messages to pass through and on to neighboring cells.
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Pain is
an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with a list of mental, physical and spiritual causes. Each person has a different experience because pain is personal and individual.
If researchers don’t fully understand it, my telling you physicians underestimate the level of pain and under treat it will come as NO surprise.
However, being a doc who has been badgered by...
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“Pain is complex and defies our ability to establish a clear definition.”
– Kathryn Weiner, director of the American Academy of Pain Management.
I guess that bit of information helps!? But it’s true…
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Take the Healthline Pain Quiz!
Do you know what’s the most sensitive part of your body? Are women less sensitive to pain than men? Does everyone feel pain? Get answers to these questions and more by taking the Healthline pain quiz.
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“My father lives with chronic pain. It’s amazing he even gets out of bed...”
– drDonna
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“The disproportionate focus on certain illnesses has also meant that resources...”
– The $10 billion donation is being lauded by the international community, but a 2007 investigation by the Los Angeles Times concluded that the Gates’ international medical aid was actually putting children at risk.
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Laughter is the Best Medicine
A study done at the University of Maryland Medical Center suggests that a good sense of humor and the ability to laugh at stressful situations helps mitigate the damaging physical effects of distressing emotions. The study, which is the first to indicate that laughter may help prevent heart disease, found that people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh in a variety of...
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“A laugh is a smile that bursts.”
– Mary H. Waldrip
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“Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said...”
– King David (Psalm 126:1-6 KJV)
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“The power of anger can rage
inside until it tears us apart
But the power of a...”
– “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” page 81 by Tupac Shakur
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The Power of a Smile
Can smiling make you happy? Yes! Facial expression alone, without first feeling the corresponding emotion, is enough to create discernible changes in your autonomic nervous system. Research confirms that your physiology changes and you feel better.
The changes in your facial muscles cue your brain and this motor act provides the foundation for your emotions. There are an unlimited number...
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“I smiled because I was free — I smiled because I was alive. said 7-year-old Kiki...”
– Kiki was rescued from beneath the rubble of his apartment in Haiti along with his sister Sabrina on Tuesday, 20 January 2010, but their brothers and sister — Yeye, 9; Titite, 3; and 18-month-old Didine — didn’t make it.
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“I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It...”
– Conan O’Brien 22 January 2010
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“The question for Democrats is whether there is anything that will wake them up...”
– January 23, 2010 NYTIMES Op-Ed Columnist They Still Don’t Get It By BOB HERBERT
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Women are the #1 Healthcare Decision-Makers
Women are responsible for more than 80% of healthcare purchasing decisions. Not only that, but women are now making decisions for more people in more generations.
Mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, and friends, women are often providers of care for those around them, and play a significant role in encouraging their loved ones to seek medical attention.
Ref:Keitel C., Manag Care Interface....
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“As every woman knows (and most men seem clueless about), there’s a big...”
– Jeannie Ralston Ladies Home Journal
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“Our findings confirm what many women have long suspected and claimed – that men...”
– Researchers at the University of Rochester (2008, October 28). Red Enhances Men’s Attraction To Women
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Men Red Women Attraction & Sex
Researchers say that men have an attraction and respond to the color of red. It probably stems from biological roots not just societal conditioning. For example the study of nonhuman male primates reveals that males are particularly attracted to females displaying red. Female baboons and chimpanzees redden when nearing ovulation. This is a sexual signal designed to attract males.
Through five...
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“Women are the center of the universe of life, living and love. Women make the...”
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
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– Martin Luther King (via julie911) (via quote-book)
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Inspiration
Change is not easy. Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a man that inspired change with a voice that motivated people to endure and to suffer and to sacrifce for change.
Who are the voices of inspiration for health? Who can lift the heart, steady the nerves and seal the determination? These are needed for “true” health reform.
Health status is more than a matter of equal...
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“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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8 Health Truths
Disease rarely comes without a cause. The way is prepared, and disease invited, by disregard of 8 basic health truths.
nutrition
exercise
water
sunshine
moderation
air
rest
trust
Nature’s process of healing and upbuilding is gradual, requires sacrifice, and patience, but in the end her work is done wisely and well.
The reward: health of heart, body and soul. (hbs)
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