Hey, check this out from CNN:
Too few docs tell patients they’re overweight http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/01/overweight.doctors.health/index.html?iphoneemail
Too few docs tell patients they’re overweight
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Write About It
Emotional writing may alleviate post-traumatic stress, and stress interferes with working memory. Therefore, investigators performed a multipart study to examine the effect of expressive writing on anxiety before test taking.
Read more about it on Journal Watch…
Epley’s
This exercise works great for BPPV, a kind of vertigo. Try it and see if it works for you.
Healing the Hurt
A nice article in TIME magazine about pain.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2053382_2053379_2053375,00.html
Ugly US medical experiments uncovered
A story from AP Mobile:
Cigarettes and Nicotine Addiction
U.S. Presses Tobacco Firms to Admit to Falsehoods About Light Cigarettes and Nicotine Addiction
The Justice Department has requested an ad campaign by tobacco companies stating that low tar and light cigarettes are as harmful as regular cigarettes.
Psychiatric cases and jails
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE: As Mental Health Cuts Mount, Psychiatric Cases Fill Jails
The Harris County Jail is the largest mental institution in Texas, and budget cuts by the Legislature may make an already bad situation much worse — and more expensive for taxpayers.
Diet: High Fiber to Combat Death and Disease
VITAL SIGNS: Diet: High Fiber to Combat Death and Disease
A large study showing a strong link between a high-fiber diet and a longer life attributed the benefit to whole grains.
A Third Judge Validates Health Care Overhaul Law
From The New York Times:
A Third Judge Validates Health Care Overhaul Law
A third federal judge upheld the constitutionality of the Obama health care law, which two other federal judges have ruled against.
When Alzheimer’s Waited Outside the Oval Office
THE DOCTOR’S WORLD: When Alzheimer’s Waited Outside the Oval Office
“My Father at 100,” Ron Reagan’s memoir, is a reminder of the difficulty of distinguishing the initial symptoms of Alzheimer’s from, say, simple forgetfulness.
Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP 