How Your T-Shirt Can Make a Difference - National Geographic: Did you know that the t-shirt on your back has a major impact on the planet? Producing it took 2,700 liters of water, plus it takes a lot of energy to get it from the cotton fields to your closet. But some of your t-shirt's biggest impacts are in how you care for it. Here's how you can help reduce its effect on the environment.
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Are you washing your hands long enough to kill germs? Mayo Clinic video
Running your hands under the faucet with some soap for a few seconds isn't enough to kill germs. To help avoid catching the flu and other illnesses, wash your hands thoroughly and frequently with soap and warm water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer, particularly before leaving a restroom, eating or touching your face. Wash your hands for about 20 seconds, about as long as it takes to sing "Happy Birthday" twice. When visiting a public restroom, use a paper towel to turn off the faucet and open the door when leaving.
Poor hygiene in the U.S. hospitals may contribute to 103,000 deaths per year. Source: http://bit.ly/1khytqS
Automatic tracker may be needed to ensure your doctor washed their hands: The University of Illinois Medical Center has installed a system called HyGreen (Hand Hygiene Recording and Reminding System) which acts as a reminder to health care workers before they ever enter a patient's room.
The provider begins by cleaning his hands, then placing them under a sensor that recognizes the cleaning, and transmits a signal to a badge the provider is wearing. When they walk into the patient's room, that badge transmits an "all clean" signal to a sensor above the bed.
If a caregiver walks into a room without washing their hands, the sensor won't get that all clean signal and the badge will start buzzing.
Source: Tech Ensures Your Doc Washed Their Hands. NBC Chicago.
Poor hygiene in the U.S. hospitals may contribute to 103,000 deaths per year. Source: http://bit.ly/1khytqS
Automatic tracker may be needed to ensure your doctor washed their hands: The University of Illinois Medical Center has installed a system called HyGreen (Hand Hygiene Recording and Reminding System) which acts as a reminder to health care workers before they ever enter a patient's room.
The provider begins by cleaning his hands, then placing them under a sensor that recognizes the cleaning, and transmits a signal to a badge the provider is wearing. When they walk into the patient's room, that badge transmits an "all clean" signal to a sensor above the bed.
If a caregiver walks into a room without washing their hands, the sensor won't get that all clean signal and the badge will start buzzing.
Source: Tech Ensures Your Doc Washed Their Hands. NBC Chicago.
Chronic sleep loss decreases performance - One night of good sleep is not enough to recover from chronic sleep deficit
On average, a person needs about eight hours a night to preserve performance.Acute sleep loss is being awake for more than 24 hours in a row and chronic sleep loss is getting only about four to seven hours of sleep per night.
While most people caught up on acute sleep loss with a single night of 10 hours sleep, those with chronic sleep loss showed deteriorating performance for each hour spent awake.
People are largely unaware that they are chronically sleep-deprived but they are more vulnerable to sudden sleepiness, inattentiveness, and potentially, accidents and errors.
Three days is not enough to recover from chronic sleep loss, but they still do not know how many days or weeks may be needed.
References:
Chronic sleep loss hampers performance. Reuters, 2010.
Image source: Sleeping kitten. Wikipedia, Tilman Piesk, public domain.
Are doctors ready for virtual visits? Telemedicine may not be accurate enough
Are Doctors Ready for Virtual Visits? Many fear telemedicine will jeopardize the doctor-patient bond. NYT http://bit.ly/7c2RA8Telemedicine has a place for second opinion when initiated by a physician but primary assessment is more problematic. One successful example of telemedicine is Cleveland Clinic's second opinion service for physicians abroad. For reference, please see our blog post from a few years ago: Cleveland Clinic Offers a Second Opinion Online for $565 http://bit.ly/4NQyer
The accuracy of teledermatology was inferior to real-life clinic dermatology for melanoma diagnosis http://bit.ly/8A4oiu.
CNN Video: Doctor will see you now -- on Webcam. Telemedicine takes a new turn. Now you can see the doctor while you shop, as CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Related:
Melanoma - JAMA Patient Page illustrates the ABCDE of diagnosis, 2011.
Skin cancer in the USA - follow Australia's successful "Slip Slop Slap Seek Slide" campaign - The Lancet, 2011.
Telemedicine boosting dermatology care: improved outcomes, with better diagnosis and disease management. AMA News, 2012.
Skin cancer in the USA - follow Australia's successful "Slip Slop Slap Seek Slide" campaign - The Lancet, 2011.
Telemedicine boosting dermatology care: improved outcomes, with better diagnosis and disease management. AMA News, 2012.
Why Twitter may not be good enough for scientific information and discussion
I appreciate the re-tweet below but I did not say anything remotely close to this sentence:@sevinfo Reading "top" journals only distorts your world - Argument for scrapping peer review at BMJ blogs via @DrVes & @KentBottles
http://twitter.com/sevinfo/status/10929698882
My original tweet:
@DrVes The naïve concept that the “top journals” publish the important stuff and the lesser journals the unimportant http://goo.gl/utJ5
http://twitter.com/DrVes/status/10892767666
My expanded citation on Google Buzz:
The false idea that only the “top journals” publish the important stuff
From the former Editor-in-Chief of BMJ:
The naïve concept that the “top journals” publish the important stuff and the lesser journals the unimportant is simply false. People who do systematic reviews know this well. Anybody reading only the “top journals” receives a distorted view of the world. Unfortunately many people, including most journalists, do pay most attention to the “top journals.”
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2010/03/22/richard-smith-scrap-peer-review-and-beware-of-%E2%80%9Ctop-journals%E2%80%9D/
http://www.google.com/buzz/110859855629071891085/TPmyVKjvZS9/The-false-idea-that-only-the-top-journals-publish
Please click the Buzz link above to see how much more "richer" the comments there are as compared to Twitter where the microblog updates (tweets) are limited to 140 characters.
This little example adds to the opitinion that many times Twitter is not good enough for scientific information and discussion.
Follow-up:
@sevinfo: yoicks! I was agreeing to need to read both "top" & less exciting ; not saying that reading science distorts your world! For record - @DrVes points out that text on last link open to misinterpretation - Keep reading science journals both top & less glamourous!
Comments from Google Buzz (March 23-24):
Kathy Mackey - Appreciate the followup Dr. Ves. I read the article yesterday on BMJ on scientific journals and felt I was missing something. It is true that 140 characters can be difficult to relay important information to the public
Brian Ahier - This is a problem that can not be adequately addressed because of the character limitation in Twitter. But it is an opportunity for a service like Buzz to be a bridge for longer commentary and discussion. I suggest we have more conversations in Buzz and then tweet a link to the post.
Ves Dimov, M.D. - Agree. Works very well with some posts. However, the Buzz adoption rate is significantly lower than Twitter and seems to have plateaued a few week after its launch.
Brian Ahier - Quality vs. Quantity?
I have found a much higher quality conversation seems to be happening on Buzz. Perhaps some of the adoption will not be missed. I have yet to be bothered by a spam account on Buzz and many of the followers on Twitter soon become inactive.
Ves Dimov, M.D. - True. People put more thought into Buzz comments - the accounts are often tied to their "real" identity after all. Participation fatigue is a common occurrence among all services.
Brian Ahier - I am also fortunate that many of my higher profile followers like Tim O'Reilly, Richard MacManus, and Robert Sconle are active on Buzz. As Buzz matures I think we will see some interesting applications. Then when Google buys Twitter we'll be all set ;-)
Ves Dimov, M.D. - Yes. Although Evan Williams keeps saying that Twitter is not for sale not matter what the price...
Brian Ahier - Yeah, Ev is an idealist :-D
Ves Dimov, M.D. - You have to respect the guy - he brought two very important services to popularity and success - Blogger and Twitter. Even one would be enough for the Internet history books... :)
Ves Dimov, M.D. - @Brian Ahier - I'm sorry I deleted your comment by mistake and there is no "Undo" in Buzz. "You" was meant in general not for you in person. And, yes, I share the same opinion.
Brian Ahier - Buzz does need an undo - but as I said, I admire people who old to their ideals. Ev has made some outstanding contributions and has an amazing talent.
Neil Mehta - Some of my best online experiences have been on Buzz - feels like a civilized sit down dinner with a conversation. Twitter can leave one feeling like everyone is rushing around on a big field shouting "hello" to the world, hoping someone will reply and start a conversation - it is great when to find that stranger with whom you share an interest but that happens rarely and the conversation is usually very unsatisfactory. Understand the Twitter functionality was not designed for conversations......
Vamsi Balakrishnan - @Neil Mehta: It's exactly as Dr. Ves said though; Buzz is tied to your real identity more or less, which is especially true for those who have verified profiles. It's also easier to have conversations since there's no 140 character limit...and it goes to those who use twitter anyway if you've enabled it. So, for me at least, it was a seamless transition.
The only problem that exists though, which truth be told hasn't affected me yet, is that there's a 300 comment limit. 300 replies to a post can exist, no more.
How much exercise is enough? Cleveland Clinic video
Participation in sport is associated with a with a 20—40% reduction in all-cause mortality compared with non-participation. Exercise might also be considered as a fifth vital sign, according to the Lancet: http://goo.gl/gyxYf
Dr. Michael Roizen, Cleveland Clinic Chief Wellness Officer, answers the question "How much exercise is enough?" Three parts of exercise have been shown to be beneficial to health: 1. Moving the equivalent to 10,000 steps a day. 2. Resistance exercise for 30 minutes a week. 3. 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise. The videos are part of the Cleveland Clinic Let's Move It! program. See the CEO promoting it:
Dr. Michael Roizen, Cleveland Clinic Chief Wellness Officer, answers the question "How much exercise is enough?" Three parts of exercise have been shown to be beneficial to health: 1. Moving the equivalent to 10,000 steps a day. 2. Resistance exercise for 30 minutes a week. 3. 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise. The videos are part of the Cleveland Clinic Let's Move It! program. See the CEO promoting it:
30 minutes is not enough - middle-aged need full hour of exercise to avoid gaining weight as they age
Prticipation in sport is associated with a with a 20—40% reduction in all-cause mortality compared with non-participation. Exercise might also be considered as a fifth vital sign, according to the Lancet: http://goo.gl/gyxYf
Middle-aged women need to get at least an hour a day of moderate exercise if they hope to ward off the creep of extra pounds that comes with aging.
Middle-aged women need to get at least an hour a day of moderate exercise if they hope to ward off the creep of extra pounds that comes with aging.
According to JAMA, among women consuming a usual diet, physical activity was associated with less weight gain only among women whose BMI was lower than 25. Women successful in maintaining normal weight and gaining fewer than 2.3 kg over 13 years averaged approximately 60 minutes a day of moderate-intensity activity throughout the study.
Already, two-thirds of U.S. adults and nearly one in three children are overweight or obese.
Sheila Anderson, 50, works out at the fitness center three to four times a week, doing 45 minutes of cardiovascular training and a couple of hours a week of weight training.
"Does it strike me as too much?" she said of the finding. "Maybe. It sure is hard to fit in an hour each day. I could not come to the gym seven days a week," she said.
Already, two-thirds of U.S. adults and nearly one in three children are overweight or obese.
Sheila Anderson, 50, works out at the fitness center three to four times a week, doing 45 minutes of cardiovascular training and a couple of hours a week of weight training.
"Does it strike me as too much?" she said of the finding. "Maybe. It sure is hard to fit in an hour each day. I could not come to the gym seven days a week," she said.
One hour per day of exercise is difficult to achieve. However, even 30 minutes is better than no exercise at all.
Dr. Michael Roizen, Cleveland Clinic Chief Wellness Officer, answers the question "How much exercise is enough?"
Three parts of exercise have been shown to be beneficial to health:
1. Moving the equivalent to 10,000 steps a day.
2. Resistance exercise for 30 minutes a week.
3. 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise.
Dr. Michael Roizen, Cleveland Clinic Chief Wellness Officer, answers the question "How much exercise is enough?"
Three parts of exercise have been shown to be beneficial to health:
1. Moving the equivalent to 10,000 steps a day.
2. Resistance exercise for 30 minutes a week.
3. 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise.
References:
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