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How To Diagnose Sleep Disorders: Obstructive Apnea Sleep Treatment

Obstructive sleep apnea, even mild sleep apnea, can be dangerous to one’s heart. This presentation offers tips for assessing and treating obstructive sleep apnea from an expert in the field.

Here is our Top Blog Post for today, brought to you by MedReader:

• Open Letter To Sen. Baucus on Health IT

An open letter blog to Senator Baucus addressing improvement toward health reform. A defective healthcare system cannot itself be reformed or improved via defective health IT. Interesting facts are brought to light with regards to the current health IT status and where it is headed.

Here is our Top News Post for today, brought to you by MedReader:

• Blood Transfusions Increase Clot Risk In Hospitalized Cancer Patients

Blood transfusions used to treat anemia in patients with cancer are associated with an increased risk of life-threatening blood clots, at a similar rate as other treatments for cancer-induced anemia, according to scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Here is our Top Medical Video for today, brought to you by ScrubTV:

Two Authorities Discuss Resistant Hypertension and Spironolactone

This video discusses how clinicians do- or should-define, recognize, and treat the resistant hypertensive patient.

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• I Thought I Was Bad At Reading X-Rays!

It turns out that Dr. Michael Kelley, who had been reading asbestos related x-rays for 15 years, has found 7,323 cases. Dr. Kelley got paid $500.00 for every case he screened. Coincidentally, when the x-rays were re-read, 88% of them were normal. OOPS!

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• New Type 2 Diabetes Risk?

According to new research from the U.S. eating too many eggs may increase the risk of a person developing type 2 diabetes - and this applies to both men and women. Personally, I am beginning to wonder what DOESN’T increase your risk of Type 2 diabetes.

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Advances in Treatment of Intra-Cranial Aneurysm Cardiology

Intracranial aneurysms represent a significant public health problem. In the case of a ruptured brain aneurysm, the emergent care for the cerebrovascular lesion itself, as well as the major complications caused by the rupture, represents a significant medical challenge for physicians, an outsized financial burden shouldered by the insurance payer, and a daunting personal trial for the patient and family members. In the past, fully two-thirds of those stricken with a ruptured aneurysm would suffer either death or disability. This video will discuss the medical advances that have begun to improve these historic rates.

Here is our Top Blog Post for today, brought to you by MedReader:

• Yummy. Undercooked Pork

A blog about a woman with neurocystercosis, or worms in the brain. Previously, a healthy young woman who presented with progressive numbness and difficulty walking – diagnosis: tumor in the Medulla. This blog contains an actual video of the worms being removed from her brain. This is a medical blog first!

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• Targeted Nanoparticles Boost Platinum-Based Anti-Cancer Therapy

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Harvard Center for Nanotechnology Excellence has custom-designed nanoparticles that can deliver the anticancer drug cisplatin specifically to prostate cancer cells.