Public Health | Diabetes and Alzheimer’s-

As a person who has Diabetes II, myself, I am sensitive to news about the chronic disease.  As an owner of a home care company, Support For Home, with many clients suffering from the same disease, I am even more interested.  So, when I read two stories, recently, linking Diabetes and Alzheimer’s you know I [...]

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Healthy tweeting

Siobhan Champ-Blackwell found the following information on tweeting – and posted on her BHIC Blog.   Misleading Medical Tweets Could Cause Harm http://bit.ly/oVsxrH July 14th, 2011 by GarySchwitzer This is not a lesson about the limitations of 140-ch. Rather, it is a warning about careless Tweets that mischaracterize the real meat of the message in [...]

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ObamaCare: Public Health Workforce Funding Not Adequate.

A new report published today from the American Public Health Association has detailed the failures of Obama Care to properly fund public health issues. The Affordable Care Act had intended that these areas specifically be addressed and now moving forward the funding for such areas of importance are either not being funded or are substant [...]

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Psychosis, symptoms or strategies 2: The history of ‘psychosis’

It’s easy to assume that the modern understanding of psychosis is the same as it has always been but this would be wrong. Actually the way we think of hallucinations, delusions and thought disorders in the modern world represents a very real departure from the assumptions of most of our predecessors. I say ‘most’ because, [...]

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Apples Top Most Pesticide Contaminated List; Onions Are Least Contaminated.

Oldspeak:"In this age of preservative/pesticide – laden industrialized food production, an apple a day could give you cancer. A recent Environmental Working Group report found that 92% of apples contained two or more pesticides. Even after washing and peeling apples are found to have a high amount of pesticide residue. 'Pesticides are known to be toxic [...]

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Germany Faces Criticism Over E. COLI OUTBREAK – NYTimes.com

Germany Faces Criticism Over E. Coli Outbreak By ALAN COWELL Published: June 7, 2011 PARIS — The German government came under increased attack on Tuesday by critics at home and abroad, accusing it of mismanaging the E. coli crisis that has killed at least 22 people. German officials, however, reported a slight fall in the [...]

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The WHO Says That the E. COLI Bacterium Causing a European OUTBREAK Is a Novel and Dangerous Strain -TIME.

Why Health Authorities Are So Worried About Europe's Mutant E. Coli Outbreak By BRYAN WALSH Thursday, June 2, 2011 | 72 Comments Related Topics:bacteria, E. coli, Europe, food, food safety, foodborne illness, genomics, Germany, Infectious Disease, infectious disease, Medicine, outbreak, russia Health officials were worried enough about an unusually virulent outbreak of food-borne illness from [...]

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Measuring Quality of Life for Elders (via Support For Home In-Home Care)

I want to thank Craig Fukushima (@ctffox on Twitter), of The Fox Group — healthcare industry consultants — for pointing me to a very interesting study on creating an objective method for measuring quality of life for seniors. For those of us involved in elder care, including Support For Home, whether it is on the medical [...]

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