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Grand Rounds 3.4
Emergiblog by Kim, is hosting this week’s edition of Grand Rounds.
She has a nice, huge and easy to read edition. With a coffee theme.
You did a great job as usual Kim, and I’m happy that you are not longer using blogger.
I am thankful to be included in your compilation, Kim. Great job.
Change of Shift 1.4
Change of Shift, the Nursing Blog Carnival is up at Its a Nursing Thing with a nice Tour edition.
Be sure to visit her site.
Dr. Jon Mikel Iñarritu
Top Ten causes of death in Mexico
Several times, some people have asked me what causes death to mexicans.
On the last mortality statistics (2004) of general population, the main causes of death were [independently of sex]:
Heart disease - 16.4%
Complications of Diabetes Mellitus - 13.1%
Cancer - 12.9%
Traumatic injuries - 7.4%
Liver disease (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) - 6.2%
Stroke - 5.7%
Perinatal complications - 3.5%
COPD - 3.0%
Pneumonia [...]
Grand Rounds 2:46
Enrico, from Mexico Medical Student hosts this week edition of Grand Rounds.
A nice theme with Culture Convergence and Music (embeded!).
Be sure to visit Enrico’s GR who came with this fancy edition.
Dr. Jon Mikel Iñarritu
State-Of-The-Art Surgery
From Medical News Today
Medical Center Accreditated by the American College of Surgeons:
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Carl J. Shapiro Simulation and Skills Center has been formally accredited as a Level 1 facility by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the first in Boston and New England - and one of only six inaugural certified [...]
Screening Measures for Cancer
Elisa Camahort wrote at Healthy Concerns a Frequently Asked Question: What are the best preventative screeinngs -of cancer- we all should do?
By now, there is evidence for three types of cancer, the recommendations of the US Preventive Services Task Force are the following:
Breast Cancer
Screening mammography, with or without clinical breast examination, every 1-2 years [...]
New ePOCRATeS
With new look, new content and new features appears the new ePOCRATeS Rx.
I’ve been trying this brand new version of ePOCRATeS and I think that it’s quite better than the previous version.
The main features are:
My Epocrates personalized homepage
Go straight to the drug monographs you recently viewed
Create shortcuts to get to your favorite applications faster
Launch MobileCME [...]
Mobile Data Visualization
At Quinn Lab, San Diego Supercomputer Center, doctor Quinn, has an outstanding project called Patient Notes with mobile devices.
The famous and enthusiastic project of Dr. Quinn and Dr. Wright, consists in the transmission of medical data to mobile devices such as PDAs and cell phones to enable medical workers in the field to instantaneously gain [...]
Grand Rounds 2.44 @ Medical Humanities
Grand Rounds is up this week at Medical Humanities.
This garden edition is great! Medicine is also art.
Regards,
Jon Mikel Iñarritu, M.D.
McGraw-Hill’s Access Surgery
With a “very cheap” subscription rate of $995 (OMG!!) you can have access to Access Surgery, inside you can find this stuff:
Surgical Videos: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Surgical
Animations: Adapted from Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations, 8th Edition
Textbook: Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery, 8th Edition
Textbook: CURRENT Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment, 12th Edition
Surgical Atlas: Zollinger’s [...]
Grand Rounds 2.43
Grand Rounds is up at Chronic Babe with a nice layout and great categorization.
Biomedical Image Awards
Via MAKE; from wellcome trust
In a lovely contest called Biomedical Image Awards 2006 I have found this image of human colon cancer cells in culture.
Look how beautiful, but how bad when a patient has it.
Regards,
Dr. Jon Mikel Iñarritu
Grand Rounds 2:26 @ HealthyConcerns
The best of this week on the Medical Blogsphere is up at HealthyConcers by Elisa.
This week Grand Rounds theme is called “Carnival of the Caregivers”
Take a look at her site, it worths it.
Regards,
Jon Mikel Iñarritu, M.D.
Getting NOT enough or TOO MUCH sleep increases risk of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Via Diabetes Care Journal.
A cohort study (made by Yaggi, Araujo and McKinlay) who enroll men from 1987-9 to 2004 showed the next results:
Men reporting short sleep duration (< =5 and 6 h of sleep per night) were twice as likely to develop diabetes, and men reporting long sleep duration (>8 h of sleep per [...]
Enteryx injection can cause death
Boston Scientific ENTERYX Procedure Kits and Injector Single Packs .
via FDA Safety I nformation Alerts:
For those who haven’t consider endoscopic procdedures for the treatment of GERD, well, at least, you shouldn’t think in Enteryx treatment.
FDA and Boston Scientific notified healthcare professionals and patients about serious adverse events, including death, occurring in patients treated with ENTERYX, [...]
