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The 50-year Failure of American Health Care

Sensible Medicine

we’ve poisoned the food supply, engineered highly-addictive additives, and coated food with pesticides. Emerging research is shedding light on where we need to turn our attention. We need to pivot our nation’s research priorities to examine our nation’s food supply. Could it be that adults have made them sick?

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“We Are Electric” by Sally Adee: Medgadget Interviews the Author

Medagadget

The book covers over 200 years of research, from Luigi Galvani’s experiments on frog legs in the late 1700’s to the popularity of “ electroceuticals ” in the last decade. Scott Jung, Medgadget: Can you share a little bit about your background and how you ended up writing about the body’s electric code?

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Digital Health: A Guide for Future Clinicians

Mind The Bleep

At medical school, we learn that the digitalis genus of flowering plants (better known as foxgloves, with their finger or thimble-like flowers) have a useful medical application in the drug digoxin (and also as a poison if you enjoy crime fiction). To get to the modern meaning of digital, we need to visit the world of electronic technology.

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Case Report: Toxic Hypoglycemic Syndrome

ACEP Now

4 The association between ackee ingestion and the illness was initially recognized in 1875 and officially documented in 1904. 5 Despite being endemic to Jamaica, cases of THS have been reported across the world, with the first case in the United States documented in 1993. The rest of her workup was notable for hypokalemia of 3.3

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SGEM#316: What A Difference An A.P.P. Makes? Diagnostic Testing Differences Between A.P.P.s and Physicians

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

She is the cofounder of FOAMcast and a pulmonary embolism and implementation science researcher. Dr. Westafer serves as the Social Media Editor and research methodology editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine […] The post SGEM#316: What A Difference An A.P.P. Diagnostic Testing Differences Between A.P.P.s Reference: Pines et al.

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Toxicology Answer: Milkweed (Asclepias)

ACEP Now

5 Symptoms of milkweed poisoning may include abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, lethargy, and confusion, progressing to seizures, heart rhythm changes, and bradycardia. Dr. Hack is chief of the division of medical toxicology and vice chair for research at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

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Carbon Dioxide As A Resuscitative Gas

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Even after no longer having a role in resuscitation, CO2 was advocated for accelerating clearance of carbon monoxide poisoning into the 1950s and 1960s. This is a cased kit of a Sparklet Resuscitator (J size), with pressure chamber, regulator, tubing, reservoir bag, flow stopcock, and funnel mask, with associated documents.