Hearing loss falls into 2 categories: conductive or sensorineural. Conductive hearing loss (CHL) is caused by wax build-up, foreign bodies, middle ear fluid buildup or infection or trauma. Essentially there is something that is obstructing …
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Despite the early season, I’ve already had about a half dozen patients reporting tick bites. So just to review, here are the guidelines for treating with doxycycline 200mg, as a prophylactic measure:
All five criteria should be met to be given prophylactic treatment although ensuring that can be very difficult in some situations. At that point, the busy clinician will often go ahead and prescribe it even if there is no positive identification of the tick.
Just after I finished this article, I pulled a tick off me that had been attached no more than several hours. This, thankfully, has happened that often to me. Once I was flying over to Plymouth (I’m a private pilot) with a friend of mine, I scratched my neck only to discover a tick. I simply pulled it off, opened the little side window, and threw it out. It wasn’t quite the ride the tick had expected.
Chilblains
The origin of the word Chilblains comes from 2 words: chill and blains and originates in the the early 1500s. Blains is an old English word for “a sore, or swelling” so the two words …
I’ve recently purchased the course, Nutrition Made Clear, from The Teaching Company and so far, with the exception of the first 2 lectures in this course, I’ve been delighted with the content. LIke many of …
Despite the early season, I’ve already had about a half dozen patients reporting tick bites. So just to review, here are the guidelines for treating with doxycycline 200mg, as a prophylactic measure:
The tick must be …
Mercury containing products
The FDA is warning people to stay away from skin-lightening products manufactured overseas because they likely contain of high levels of mercury – up to tens of thousands times higher than the legal limit.
Mercury has …
Have you noticed that after a while of being exposed to an obnoxious smell, you stop smelling how bad it is? The brain quickly adapts to the bad smell – in fact in as little …
Now before you slather honey on your non-healing wound, you need to know that there are only 2 FDA approved honeys which are from the manuka bush in New Zealand (Leptospermum scoparium). Not all honeys …
One of three active bloodletting photographs known to exist; thanks to biomedicalephemera
The New England Journal of Medicine is celebrating its 200 year old birthday and one of the lead articles, written by Elizabeth Nabel, M.D. …
The afternoon cookie
The NY TImes Magazine section recently published an article that detailed how habits are formed and the efforts retailers use to get that information to sell us things. The whole article was interesting …
Recently I read an article about interval training in older adults and those who had coronary artery disease and I was trying to find the article when I came across this research reported on NPR …
Bone density testing
Screening for osteoporosis is recommended to begin for women at the age of 65. There is no consensus however on how often the bone mineral density testing (BMD) should be done. To this …
This is a great video but it really needs to be slower – so be sure to hit the pause button in order to read the material.
As we age, our respiratory tract becomes less elastic and more rigid including the tiny air sacs where oxygen exchange occurs. In addition, our chest wall becomes a little more rigid, not expanding in the …
