MedBlog Power 86/18/2008 - 6/25/2008
Next revision: 6/25/2008
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1) Rural Doctoring (3), Rural's Schedule: How to Have a Life
2) Health Beat (2), Do We Need to Ration End-of-Life Care? There Is a Better Way (Part I)
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The purpose of this post is to help a non-technical audience untangle some of the confusion regarding health data exchange standards, and particularly come to a better understanding of the similarities and differences between the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard and the CDA Continuity of Care Document (CCD). But what I'm most interested in is getting beyond the technical, political, or economic positions and interests of the proponents of any particular standard to arrive at some principles that demonstrate in plain language what we are trying to achieve by using such standards in the first place.
Today I am going to make a post based on an email I received from one of our visitors, in relation to alternative health.
The reason I started this site was mainly to help people. So it would be great if medical marijuana community could help this person in need.
The following is the almost the exact email I received:
My father had a heart attack yesterday. He is only sixty. He has smoked doobies for the past 45 years, and he has also smoked cigarettes, although the latter he has tried quitting numerous times. I'm sure that this time it will stick, since he has really no other choice.
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Call for Contributions to essay collection: Prescribing Gender in Medicine and Narrative.
The collection, under contract with a scholarly press, investigates gendered perceptions and representations of healers and patients in fiction, popular literature, poetry, film, television, and visual art.
To round out the collection, we are seeking additional papers on the following topics:
gender in non-western healingmen’s health issuesreproductive healthgender and healing in medieval culture/narrative responses to gender in medicine in the visual arts
Surgery AbroadNeil Osterweil, Senior Associate Editor for Medpage today, takes an in-depth look at the scope o medical tourism, experimental medical procedures, organ transplants, risks involved in having surgery abroad, and his article also features extensive comments from Maggi Grace ( see interview ), whom he calls (more...)
Clinton has quit, Obama has three times McCain's resources, and the country is fed up with the Republicans' war, corruption and toadying to corporations. Democrats have won three "safe" Republican house seats in recent months. It's their election to lose, and assuming that the fences between rivals really are mended, it might be a landslide.
I've written previously that I don't think Obama is serious about pursuing health care reform. But this week he changed his tune and said categorically that by the end of his first term, there would be universal healthcare.
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Herbal vaporizers provide a healthy way for users to inhale marijuana. Vapor is proven to be far less harsh on your throat and lungs, compared to smoking. Hence it is much healthier to use a vaporizer.
There are now hundreds of different vaporizers on the market. Some are brilliant and others just dont work well enough.
What your thoughts on herbal vaporizers, please make specific mention to the different vaporizer models?
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Jeff Goldsmith is President of Health Futures, Inc, and a professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia. His new book, "The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation," will be released shortly, and Johns Hopkins University Press granted THCB permission to print the introduction in full.
Fresh from liberating the world from the Axis powers, America's Greatest Generation came home from World War II and brought forth a baby boom. Seventy-six million children emerged from this remarkable postwar celebration, almost four children per family. American society has not been the same since.
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) -- a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), recently launched an educational campaign to encourage patients (particularly those 50 years of age or older) to speak openly with their primary care providers about complementary and alternative medicines. The campaign, known as Time to Talk, focuses on medical practices and products that aren't presently considered to be conventional medicine -- items such as herbal supplements, meditation and acupuncture.