The ‘How Fat Are You?’ Flowchart
Id like to say that most people are relatively self aware when it comes to their physical appearance. As in, they know whether theyre out of shape and need some work. What lies below is a little visual help for those that arent in tune with reality. Or for those that just want a laugh because frankly, I was bored and wanted an excuse to doodle. Enjoy.
Preventing a Second Stroke
A large, nationwide clinical trial found that patients at a high risk for a second stroke who received intensive medical treatment had fewer strokes and deaths than patients who received a brain stent in addition to the medical treatment.
Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Intracranial stenosis, a blockage or narrowing of small arteries in the brain, accounts for more than 50,000 strokes annually. Patients with severe stenosis are at great risk for a second stroke.
Can I sue the NHS?
Medical negligence occurs when various medical procedures are done incorrectly. Medical negligence can also be a result of an incorrect diagnosis or perhaps even overlooking a serious medical condition. Incorrect prescriptions can also fall under the medical negligence umbrella. In some situations the medical negligence comes as a result of the practitioner failing to get consent in order to perform a particular treatment. Regardless of the reason for the medical negligence you are entitled to some sort of compensation. In many situations you can file a suit against the National Health Care System. In order to have a legitimate claim you must make sure that you have followed five essential steps.
First you should express your concern to the practitioner providing you with the medical treatment. Read full post…
Another Multi-City Study Finds No Link Between Smoking Bans and Heart Attack Rates
Two weeks ago (while I was camping in Colorado), Michael Siegel highlighted a study presented at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting that further undermines widely publicized claims that smoking bans lead to immediate, dramatic reductions in heart attack rates. As I have been saying since anti-tobacco activists began making these claims in 2003, hundreds of jurisdictions have smoking bans, and you would expect heart attack rates to decline in some of them purely by chance while rising or remaining essentially unchanged in others. If you focus only on the jurisdictions where heart attacks happen to fall substantially—such as Helena, Montana, or Pueblo, Colorado—it is not hard to create a misleading impression. But as
7 Reasons Why Stevia is Better Than Refined Sugar
What Is Stevia?
Maybe youve heard of stevia already, maybe you havent. But if not, then its time you did! Stevia is a natural sweetener, derived from the stevia rebaudiana plant that was first discovered centuries ago in Paraguay by the native population. But it wasnt until the late 19th century that a Swiss botanist working in South America documented the so-called sweet leaf, and brought it back with him.
These days you can buy stevia in many forms. The most popular is white extract powder, but you can also buy dried stevia leaves, stevia liquid extract, or as small pellets to sweeten your coffee with. Read full post…
Predicting genetic risk for disease
A lot has been written about the potential for genomic information to revolutionize medicine. Much of the excitement centers around the idea that if we know an individual’s genome we can use this information to predict risk of a particular disease and then give specific treatment. In a research article published in the latest issue of Genome Medicine, Cecile Janssens, Muin Khoury and colleagues improve current models of genetic risk, taking us one step nearer to this aim.
Genetic risk prediction is a very active area of research, boosted by the number of genetic variants associated with common diseases that have been recently discovered through genome-wide association studies. Pr