http://www.medical-presentation.com en-us http://www.medical-presentation.com N/A muveqqeti@gmail.com Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:32:51 CST 20 http://www.medical-presentation.com/blogs/10/Monitoring-your-blood-pressure-online.html www.bloodr.comUse Bloodr to record and analyse Blood Pressure Readings and Weight. Use Bloodr’s advanced reporting and graphing tools to produce professional reports (useful for your health care professional) Unlike other recording software Bloodr can be used from any internet connected computer anywhere in the world, in other words your recordings can be accessed anytime any place anywhere. Blood pressure (strictly speaking: vascular pressure, hipertension, hipotension) refers to the force exerted by circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels, and constitutes one of the chairperson vital signs. The pressure of the circulating blood decreases as blood moves utterly arteries, arterioles, capillaries, and veins; the term blood oppression generally refers to arterial pressure, i.e., the pressure in the larger arteries, arteries being the blood vessels which go over blood away from the heart. Arterial pressure is most commonly uniform via a sphygmomanometer, which uses the height of a column of mercury to show the circulating pressure (see Non-invasive measurement). Although many present-day vascular pressure devices no longer use mercury, vascular squeezing values are still universally reported in millimetres of mercury (mmHg).The systolic arterial apply pressure on is defined as the peak pressure in the arteries, which occurs selfish the beginning of the cardiac cycle; the diastolic arterial pressure is the lowest troubles (at the resting phase of the cardiac cycle). The average pressure throughout the cardiac circle is reported as mean arterial pressure; the pulse pressure reflects the difference between the top and minimum pressures measured.Typical values for a resting, healthy adult hominoid are approximately 120 mmHg (16 kPa) systolic and 80 mmHg (11 kPa) diastolic (written as 120/80 mmHg, and viva voce as "one twenty over eighty") with large individual variations. These measures of arterial persuade are not static, but undergo natural variations from one heartbeat to another and throughout the day (in a circadian beat); they also change in response to stress, nutritional factors, drugs, or infirmity. Hypertension refers to arterial pressure being abnormally high, as opposed to hypotension, when it is abnormally low. Along with firmness temperature, blood pressure measurements are the most commonly measured physiological parameters. Dr. Eva Jameson Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.medical-presentation.com/blogs/9/Digital-cameras-for-dentists.html Canon and Nikon digital dental camera kits, equipment and accessories made for dentists, orthodontists and other dental specialities.Reference: From Dentist For Dentists Canon Digital Rebel XTiDental Kit "A"$1,645.00Kit Includes:• Canon Digital Rebel XTi• 18-55mm Lens• EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens• MR-14 EX Ringflash•1 GIG Memory Card• Camera Bag Canon Digital Rebel XTi Dental Kit "B" $1,908.00 Kit Includes: • Canon Digital Rebel XTi • 18-55mm Lens • EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens • MT-24 Twin Lite • Bogen Macro Flash Bracket • 1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Canon Digital Rebel XSi Dental Kit "A" $1,885.00 Kit Includes: • Canon Digital Rebel XSi with 18-55mm IS Lens • EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens • MR-14 EX Ringflash •1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Canon Digital Rebel XSi Dental Kit "B" $2,101.00 Kit Includes: • Canon Digital Rebel XSi with 18-55mm IS Lens • EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens • MR-24 EX Ringflash •1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Canon 40D Dental Kit "A" $2,678.00 Kit Includes: • Canon 40D • 28-135mm IS Lens • EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens • MT-24 Twin Lite • Bogen Macro Flash • 1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Nikon D40 Dental Kit "A" $1,943.00 Kit Includes: • Nikon D40 • 18-55mm Lens • 105mm VR Macro f/2.8 Lens • R1C1 Speedlight • 1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Nikon D60 Dental Kit "A" $2,173.00 Kit Includes • Nikon D60 with 18-55mm VR Lens • 105mm VR Macro f/2.8 Lens • R1C1 Speedlight • 1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Nikon D80 Dental Kit "A" $1,993.00 Kit Includes • Nikon D80 • 105mm VR Macro f/2.8 Lens • R1 Speedlight • 1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Nikon D80 Dental Kit "B" $2,243.00 Kit Includes • Nikon D80 • 18-135mm lens • 105mm VR Macro f/2.8 Lens • R1 Speedlight • 1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Nikon D300 Dental Kit "A" $2,993.00 Kit Includes: • Nikon D300 • 105mm VR Macro f/2.8 Lens • R1 Speedlight • 1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Nikon D300 Dental Kit "B" $3,673.00 Kit Includes: • Nikon D300 • 18-200mm Lens • 105mm VR Macro f/2.8 Lens • R1 Speedlight • 1 GIG Memory Card • Camera Bag Dr. Paul Johansson Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.medical-presentation.com/blogs/8/Humor-plays-an-important-role-in-healthcare.html Humor can play an essential role in the most serious health care settings, even when patients are in intensive or at the end of life care, according to research in the April edition of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing.Journal reference: From critical care to comfort care: the sustaining value of humour. Dean R A K and Major J E. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 17, 1088-1095. (April 2008)Canadian Board spent about 300 hours of ascertainment and administering interviews with staff, patients and their families in an accelerated affliction assemblage and a assemblage of booze affliction for humans with terminal illnesses. They assured that humour plays a basic role in announcement relations aggregation and abacus a animal ambit to the absorption and abutment cadre provided to actively ill patients and their families. The advisers begin that the agents uses amusement in several ways, including: To meet, ambit and sometimes themselves in difficult situations. As one interviewee said: "When you've had the a lot of ambitious day and you're accessible to mourn, sometimes it is easier to backpack out the affection and yield it to addition administration instead of bawl someone's shoulder". To abate patients with abashment the abuse of defective advice with bathing and added functions actual personal. If a accommodating suffered an adventure of bender was appear that he met assistant actuality amusement - "what is traveling to accept to leave" - fabricated her feel beneath worried. To affix with added bloom professionals and accommodate alternate support. Laughter aggregate fed and accomplished a faculty of community. "If you accept those moments of fun and even worse than hell the affiliation can happen," said a bloom able who works with terminally ill patients. "You cross through it in action to airing out absolutely hurt" To accurate annoyance at the life-prolonging measures that accede with the staff. The agents of the accelerated affliction assemblage told board how to alongside what was accident to a accommodating application an inflatable anachronistic called Dino and put himself through the interventions. He became a attribute of their annoyance with the situation. To abate astriction if things are not traveling so able-bodied as it could do so. The doctor accepted that he had been hasty suggesting that a terminally ill man to abdicate his accommodation as anon met with the quip: "Do you amount you've fabricated a acknowledgment or that you fabricated a mistake" To affix with patients and accomplish them feel cared for as individuals. If an abettor bloom affliction was a antic angel of a accommodating with a balloon ablution helmet on his arch to put at affluence that it became one of their admired possessions. The showed it to anybody who visited as affirmation of appropriate analysis he was receiving. And if he died, it is important that next to ancestors photos. However, advisers aswell begin that amusement can aswell actualize ambit and abstain a austere debate. As a assistant said: "If I'm badinage with you, I am interacting with you. We are talking about but I do not ask you what you heard ... I'm not absolutely apperceive why you are upset." It was not just bloom affliction workers who acclimated amusement to allay the hardship. A assistant recalls admiring an big-ticket collapsed armchair a accommodating had agitated with her to the booze affliction unit. The accommodating was a amusement that does not accept to pay a penny for two years and quipped that in that case, she would never accept to pay for it! Another recalled how a patient's adviser kept traveling alfresco the accelerated affliction unit. "Do not worry, if I can apprehend that I'm still alive" joked the patient. Then it was the claimed achievement he acquainted if he saw a accommodating smile. "It makes you feel you've done something, if not a doctor, conceivably emotionally," said a nurse. "Some humans feel that amusement is atomic and amateurish in abstraction bloom care, but this abstraction shows that is neither" says co-author Dr. Ruth Dean, a assistant researcher at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Dean conducted the abstraction in the booze affliction unit, spending 200 hours of ascertainment and alternation with breezy affliction providers, patients and ancestors associates and administering semi-structured interviews with 15 agents health, including nurses, doctors, a amusing artisan and physiotherapist. His aide Joanne arch of the Center for Bloom Sciences in Winnipeg spent 72 hours in an accelerated affliction unit, ascertainment and administering semi-structured interviews with 15 nurses."Despite above differences amid the plan of accelerated affliction and booze affliction units, are two areas area a austere illness, all-overs and top accommodating and ancestors ache are accepted and agents are placed in situations emotionally ambitious "says Dr. Dean. "The crises are common, afterlife is abreast and affections tend to run high." The authors achieve that the affection is actual important in these ambitious environments bloom care. Dr. Eva Jameson Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.medical-presentation.com/blogs/7/What-are-dental-sealants.html A dental sealant (also accepted as pit and fissure sealant) is a plastic, activated by professionals actual that is placed on the chewing surfaces of aback teeth to anticipate tooth decay. Sealants accommodate a concrete barrier to the cavity-causing bacilli can not access the pits and fissures in the chewing surfaces of teeth. Why should my adolescent get dental sealants?Since the aboriginal 1970, adolescence tooth adulteration in the bland surfaces (without these pits and fissures) has beneath clearly because of boundless acknowledgment to fluorides. In 1986-1987, about 90 percent of tooth adulteration of accouchement occurred in the tooth surfaces with pits and fissures, and about two thirds are in the chewing surfaces only. Dental Sealants accept accurate to anticipate tooth adulteration in areas with pits and fissures. Sealants accept been accustomed for use for abounding years and are recommended by able associations of bloom and accessible bloom agencies. When my son should get dental sealants?The aboriginal abiding molar access in the aperture about the age of 6 years. Placement of sealants in these teeth anon afterwards they appear protects them from developing cavities in the teeth of the areas area aliment and bacilli collect. If sealants are activated commonly to the surfaces of the teeth acute apropos the able use of fluoride, a lot of tooth adulteration in accouchement could be avoided. Secondly abiding molar access in the aperture in about 12 years. From pits and fissures of the surfaces of these teeth are so affected to tooth adulteration as the aboriginal abiding molars of adolescent children. Therefore, adolescents charge to accept dental sealants anon afterwards the access of their additional abiding molars. Dental Sealants are just for kids?The development abeyant of the pit and abysm adulteration begins aboriginal in life, so that accouchement and teenagers are accessible candidates. However, some adults at top accident of adulteration can account from sealants as well. Your dentist can acquaint if you would account from dental sealants. Are Sealants alter dental fluoride?Not Fluorides, such as those acclimated in the association of water, toothpaste, gels, varnishes, mouthwash and aswell advice anticipate tooth decay. Fluoride works best on bland surfaces of the teeth. The chewing surfaces of aback teeth, however, accept tiny grooves area generally starts decline. Sealants accumulate cavity-causing bacilli alfresco the slots awning with a artificial liner security. Fluorides and sealants plan calm to anticipate tooth decay. Dr. Tara Lohan Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.medical-presentation.com/blogs/6/Prostate-Cancer-Risk-Factors.html A risk factor is anything else, someone who can increase the chances of developing a disease. It may be an activity, such as smoking, diet, family history or other things. Several diseases including cancer, various risk factors. As a general rule, all men with a risk of prostate cancer. However, there are risk factors increase the likelihood that some men, disease, including the following: Age is a risk factor for prostate cancer, especially men aged 50 and older. More than 80 percent of all prostate cancers are diagnosed in men aged 65. Course: prostate cancer is almost twice as common among African-American men, as it belongs to men of the Caucasus and the USA. Japanese and Chinese men native to their countries of the lowest rates of prostate cancer. Regime: The data indicate that food consumed in Western industrialized countries, one of the most important factors for the development of prostate cancer. The following information regarding nutrition and its impact on the risk of prostate cancer are men who eat a high fat food can be a greater chance for the development of prostate cancer. Dietary fiber intake reduced the progression of prostate cancer. Soy protein reduces fat home and soy isoflavones have been found to inhibit the growth of prostate cancer. Vitamin E and selenium, vitamin E, an antioxidant, combined with selenium, showed that tumor growth in laboratory animals. Carotenoids lycopenes carotenoids, it was found to inhibit the growth of prostate cancer cells in human tissue culture. The main source of trafficking lycopenes tomato in tomatoes and tomato juice. Obesity, being overweight is not only about diabetes and high cholesterol, but has also been in contact with certain types of common cancers, including prostate cancer. Vasectomy, BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy) or STD (sexually transmitted diseases) researchers have cast a glance whether men who have a vasectomy, BPH, or those with exposure vis-à-vis STD's with an increased risk of prostate cancer. Some studies suggest an association, while others do not. History of the family of prostate cancer. A father or brother with prostate cancer, a man doubled the risk of developing prostate cancer. The risk is even higher for men concerned by several families. Geneticist families are divided into three groups, depending on the number of men with prostate cancer and age of departure, including the following: sporadic - a family with prostate cancer in a man, a beginning of the classical age. Familiaris - a family with prostate cancer in more than one person, but no definitive model of inheritance and, as a general rule, older from the outset. Héréditaires - Five to 10 per cent of cases of prostate cancer are considered hereditary. Genetic about 9 percent of all prostate cancers and 45 percent of cases among men aged under 55 years may be due to a security problem for hereditary breast cancer gene, as a dominant (from parent to child). Dr. Chris Brown Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.medical-presentation.com/blogs/5/Top-Ten-Strangest-Diseases.html 1. Progeria: Characterized by children who seem as if they are 90 years old. Progeria is caused by a defect within tiny child's genetic code. This disease is very difficult and devastating consequences. Most children born with the disease will die by age 13. As the speed of their bodies through the aging process, develop physical symptoms of the elderly including heart disease, premature baldness, thinning bones and arthritis. This disease is extremely rare, with only 48 people living with it throughout the world. There is however one family with five children suffering from the disease. 2. Elephantiasis: Characterized by members fully extended. Lymphatic filarisis which is also called elephantiasis, is the most-watched pictures of people with grossly enlarged or swollen legs and arms. The disease is caused by parasitic worms that are transmitted by mosquitoes all. The disease affects 120 million people worldwide and 40 million of these people have serious illnesses. A women infected by mosquito bites a person and larvae injected into the blood. The larvae spread and can live for many years. Ultimately, parasites accumulate in surrounding tissues. The signs of this disease are common overlarged arms legs, breasts and genitals. 3. Werewolf Syndrome: Characterized by excessive hair. Young children who suffer from this disease can grow big, dark, hairy patches on his face. The disease is called Werewolf Syndrome because people resemble werewolves with excessive hair and without sharp teeth or claws. 4. Blue skin disorder: the town blue. Throughout the 1960's a big family of "blue people" lived in the Kentucky hills near upset Creek. They were known as the Blue Fugate. Many never had a serious illness and most lived past 80 years despite having the skin blue. The trait is passed down from generation to generation. Many people with this condition have blue, indigo, plum or almost purple skin. 5. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: Characterized by time, space and distortion of body image. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS), or Alice in Wonderland syndrome, is a very disorienting neurological affecting the human visual perception. That suffering from the disease sight of humans, animals, parts of human beings and inanimate objects as substantially lower than in reality. In most cases, the object of perception appears farther or very near, all at the same time. For example, a car-size, can appear as a small toy and a pet dog may be perceived as the size of a mouse. 6. Pica: Characterized by the need not to eat food substances. People who suffer from Pica have an endless need to eat different types of non-food substances, including paper, dirt, clay and glue. Health experts have not found a real cause nor a cure for this disease, despite reports that may be related to mineral deficiency. 7. Blaschke's Lines: Characterized by strange rays through the body. Blaschke lines are very rare and inexplicable phenomenon of human anatomy discovered in 1901 by Alfred Blaschke, a German dermatologist. Blaschke lines are built in a pattern invisible human DNA. Many acquired and inherited diseases of the skin or mucous seem to agree to these patterns. This creates the visual appearance of stripes in the human body. 8. Disorder breaks French: Characterized by strangers reflexes. The main characteristic of the disease is that it leaves patients highly startled by sight or any unexpected noise. Much more than twitching when someone sneaks up behind you, who suffer from this disorder scream, flail their arms and repeat words. The disorder is found in some Maine Canadian lumberjacks of French origin, the odd reflex has been identified in other parts of the world as well. 9. Diseases Vampire: Characterized by pain from the sun. Some people in this world must take extreme measure to avoid the sun. Exposure to the sun makes your skin blister. Many of these people have blisters and pain as soon as the skin is exposed to the sun. This vamp as a symptom, the disease took its name. 10. Walking Corpse Syndrome: Characterized by cree people who have died. The syndrome is very suicidal tendencies and depression, during which the patient complains of having lost everything, even possessions and part or all of your body. They believe they have died and are like a walking corpse. The deception is generally extended to the extent that the patient could say that he can feel and the smell of rotting flesh as its own worms crawling through the skin. Dr. Paul Johansson Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.medical-presentation.com/blogs/3/Fictional-dentists.html Bernard from the TV series Lost.Matthew Brock from NewsRadio. (Although he gave it up to work in radio and is only seen practicing in one episode)Dr. Tariq Faraj from Oz (TV series).Bob Fish, a title character in Bob and Margaret.Ben Harper from British sitcom My Family.Oz from The Whole Nine Yards and The Whole Ten Yards.John Patterson in For Better or For Worse.Dr. Frank Sangster in Novocaine (film).Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Steve Martin) - Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)Christian Szell from William Goldman's Marathon Man, later a movie by John SchlesingerCapt. Walter Koskiusko Waldowski, "Painless Pole" in MASHTim Whatley, from the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, alleged to be an insincere convert to Judaism.Dr. Wolfe from The SimpsonsIsaac Yankem, DDS, professional wrestler portrayed by Glen Jacobs in the WWF (now known as Kane)Orson Hodge from Desperate HousewivesSheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin), Manhattan dentist in the 1979 comedy film The In-LawsThe W.C. Fields character in the 1932 short film The Dentist Dr. Tara Lohan Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.medical-presentation.com/blogs/2/Battling-Bunions.html A bunion (hallux valgus) is a structural deformity of the bones and the joint between the foot and big toe, and may be painful.A bunion is a painful enlargement at the joint of the big toe, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. The skin over the joint becomes swollen and can be very tender. Bunions can be inherited as a family trait, can develop on their own, or can be caused by poorly fitting shoes. A key part of treatment is wearing shoes that conform to the shape of the foot and don't cause pressure points. In severe cases, bunions can be disabling. Several types of surgery are available that can relieve the pain and improve the foot's appearance. Dr. Anna Benson Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.medical-presentation.com/blogs/1/-New-Drug-Prevents-Radiation-Damage.html Radiation damage is one of the most frightening aspects of catastrophic nuclear events but, more often, cancer patients suffer the gut-wrenching side effects of the radiation that is administered in an effort to kill the tumor and save the life. In what one scientist describes as his “eureka moment,” a new drug was envisioned that has turned into a very viable potential weapon in the fights against both cancer and nuclear emergency.Andrei Gudkov, affiliated with the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, has developed CBLB502, the code name for his new drug that protects healthy cells from the damage caused by radiation even while killing off the cancerous cells. The eureka moment came when he got the idea to put one of cancer’s own sneaky little tricks to work against it. The trick is apoptosis, or cellular suicide. When healthy cells are exposed to radiation, even at doses that produce damage than can be repaired, they instead do what seems to be suicide. The cells in the bone marrow and gastrointestinal tract are particularly vulnerable.Cancer cells, however, use various means of blocking apoptosis, enabling cancerous tumors to grow. One way they block cellular suicide is by activating a signaling pathway known as NFKB, or nuclear factor-KappaB. By imitating this tumor trick, Gudkov and his team of colleagues were able to block apoptosis in healthy tissue by introducing flagellin, a protein made from bacteria in the GI tract, to activate the NFKB pathway. They then administered their flagellin-based experimental drug on rhesus monkeys and mice before exposing the animals to full-body, lethal doses of radiation, similar to what might be received during a widespread nuclear emergency. The drug was administered 15 minutes to one hour before radiation exposure.The remarkable result of this experimental trickery was protection of the animals’ bone marrow and GI tracts from destruction typically caused by radiation, and with no no observable side effects. What is even more exciting is that the cancerous tumors were killed, as desired, by the radiation treatment. When mice were given the flagellin-based drug an hour after receiving rather high doses of radiation, their survival rate improved although the tissue protection wasn’t as dramatic as when it is administered beforehand. Gudkov has founded a company, Cleveland Biolabs Inc., with the goal of bringing the drug to market. He intends it to be used in both cancer radiation therapies and for biodefense means. The US Department of Defense is one of several government agencies providing funds for the research. Dr. Eva Jameson Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 CDT