Over 9 years, those who had diabetes had significantly worse cognitive decline on two separate tests compared with those who didn’t have the disease (P=0.008 and P=0.001), Kristine Yaffe, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues reported online in the Archives of Neurology.
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PodMed – Medical News Roundup from Johns Hopkins 06.22.2012
Can It Get Any Worse?
32 applicants so far…for $10k a year!
Scary Chart of the Day – 06.21.12
Yikes!
ADHD Drugs Top Rx for Kids
Prescription drug use in the pediatric population fell from 2002 to 2010, but the use of birth control and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications rose, the FDA reported.
Outpatient contraceptive prescriptions jumped 93% from 2002 to 2010 among kids 17 and younger, Grace Chai, PharmD, of the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in Silver Spring, Md., and colleagues found.
ADHD drug scripts rose 46% over the same period in the national analysis of prescription databases reported in the July issue of Pediatrics.
via Medical News: FDA: ADHD Drugs Top Rx for Kids – in Pediatrics, General Pediatrics from MedPage Today.
Birth control and chronic sedation have replaced traditional parenting.
Liver Risk Found with Arthritis Supplement
Causality was called very likely due to flavocoxid in three patients and possibly due to the agent in one patient, as that case was complicated by exposure to several other agents that may have caused the injury, including pregabalin (Lyrica), duloxetine (Cymbalta), and tizanidine (Zanaflex).
Fishing Spear in Skull
Oops.
Image courtesy of University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Go Do – How Hard Can It Be?
Change This – Go Do: How Hard Can It Be?.
If you work hard and love what you do you will find success. Common sense tells us we all become pretty skilled at things we love to do. Conversely, you will never get good at things you hate to do.
Hard work alone is not a guarantee of success. The lack of hard work guarantees failure.
Failure leads to success. You must fail to learn how to succeed.
Do or not do. There is no try.
Yoda
MIB Life Index May 2012 +1.3%
Helmet Use Among Motorcyclists Who Died in Crashes US 2008–2010
During 2008–2010, a total of 14,283 motorcyclists were killed in crashes, among whom 6,057 (42%) were not wearing a helmet. In the 20 states with a universal helmet law, 739 (12%) fatally injured motorcyclists were not wearing a helmet, compared with 4,814 motorcyclists (64%) in the 27 states with partial helmet laws and 504 (79%) motorcyclists in the three states without a helmet law
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