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Maria Dalamagka  Each January, most of us make a list of New Year’s resolutions , maybe we want to strengthen our bodies, or our resolve to eat better, or the determination to quit smoking. As it turns out, strengthening your social relationships may be an effort worth adding to your list of New Year’s resolutions for the good of your health. Social connections like these not only give us pleasure, they also influence our long-term health in ways every bit as powerful as adequate sleep, a good diet, and not smoking. Dozens of studies have shown that people who have satisfying relationships with family, friends, and their community are happier, have fewer health problems, and live longer. Conversely, a relative lack of social ties is associated with depression and later-life cognitive decline, as well as with increased mortality. One study, which examined data from more than 309,000 people, found that lack of strong relationships increased the risk of premature death from all c...

Maria Dalamagka  Are you eating cloned meat? You probably don’t know. It’s becoming common practice ... but the FDA doesn’t require labeling of cloned meat! Birth defects in clones are quite common. Cloning has been found to produce unhealthy animals who suffer tremendously. Clones often die young, suffer birth defects, and commonly need antibiotics. The Center for Food Safety says that as many as 50% of cow clones have what’s called “Large Offspring Syndrome.” Symptoms include unusually high birth weight that endangers the mother, and a long list of organ and systemic abnormalities, including heart problems and immature lung development. The report also states that there is evidence that clones are not always exact duplicates of their gene donors. Clearly, cloning remains an unpredictable science. And cloning scientists have warned that even small imbalances in these clones could result in hidden food safety problems in the cloned meat. A recent study found differences in...

Maria Dalamagka  January 18, 2011 — The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued a B recommendation to routinely screen for osteoporosis in women 65 years of age or older and in younger women at comparable or greater fracture risk to that of a 65-year-old white woman with no additional risk factors. Current evidence was found to be insufficient to make a recommendation for or against screening men at this time (I statement). This update to the 2002 USPSTF osteoporosis screening recommendation was published online January 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine and is the first final recommendation statement to be published since the USPSTF implemented a new process for recommendation statements in July 2010. In this process, all draft recommendation statements are posted for public comment on the USPSTF Web site, as this draft was from July 6 to August 3, 2010, before being issued in final form. "One half of all postmenopausal women will have an osteoporosis-related ...

Journal of Anesthesia & Pain Medicine ISSN: 2474-9206 J Anesth Pain Med, 2020, 5(1), 1-2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382428764_ebookpdf www.iator.gr Maria Dalamagka Chronic pain is not just a problem of incidence and pathophysiology; it is one of unique individual suffering. Chronic neuropathic pain (CNP) causes untoward amounts of suffering, and costs millions of dollars a year in lost work and healthcare costs. In terms of physiology, neuropathic pain is described by the International Association for the Study of Pain as, "pain initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous system," and has an annual incidence of 1% in the general population. Treatments for CNP Unfortunately, our current treatments for CNP are limited. Although polypharmacy is common in the treatment of neuropathic pain, few studies have evaluated combination therapies. The current treatments do help some patients, but many patients do not respond and their sufferi...

www.iator.gr Maria Dalamagka Το περιοδικό του Αμερικάνικου Ιατρικού συλλόγου ( JAMA ) πρόσφατα εξέφρασε τις ανησυχίες του σχετικά με το γονιδιακό test . Αυτό το test   δίνει τη δυνατότητα στον ενδιαφερόμενο να δει ένα χάρτη με τα χρωμοσώματα   του και με αυτό τον τρόπο και τις χρόνιες ασθένειες   , που έχει προδιάθεση να αναπτύξει αργότερα στη ζωή του. Τι είναι αυτό που τόσο τους   ανησυχεί;   Οι πληροφορίες. Πιστεύουν ότι οι πληροφορίες μπορεί να είναι επικίνδυνες. Οι γιατροί που γράφουν για το JAMA   φοβούνται ότι ίσως θα σπαταλάμε το πολύτιμο χρόνο του γιατρού και ότι θα θέσουμε σε δοκιμασία το σύστημα υγείας   , ζητώντας τους να ερμηνεύσουν τα αποτελέσματα του γονιδιακού test . Μπορεί   επίσης αυτό   να συνεπάγεται περιττές εξετάσεις και θεραπείες. Έτσι καταλήγουμε στο συμπέρασμα ότι   το ιατρικό σύστημα λέει ότι τα φάρμακα είναι ασφαλή και οι πληροφορίες επικίνδυνες. Πάνω από εκατό χιλιάδες Αμερικανοί πεθαίνουν από συνταγογραφ...

Maria Dalamagka  Patients at risk for multidrug-resistant pathogens whose physicians followed guidelines from the American Thoracic Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America to manage pneumonias with empirical antibiotic regimens had increased mortality compared with those patients receiving noncompliant therapy, new research suggests. Daniel H. Kett, MD, from the University of Miami, Florida, and colleagues with the Improving Medicine through Pathway Assessment of Critical Therapy of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia program published their findings online today in the Lancet Infectious Diseases . In 2005, the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America published updated guidelines for treating hospital-acquired pneumonia and related infections. These guidelines suggest that empirical treatment should be selected based on whether patients have recognized risk factors for multidrug-resistant pathogens. The current study sought to evaluate the ...