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New surgical approach for lazy-eye in children
There is an experimental surgical approach using an implantable lens to prevent lazy eye or amblyopia in children. These particular children have either been diagnosed too late or their lazy eye was too severe for standard treatment. Dr. Paul Dougherty, M.D., medical director of Dougherty Laser Vision, Clinical Instructor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein…
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Fewer Canadian children are being vaccinated
Ontario’s Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) reported recently that fewer Canadian children are getting the immunizations they need, putting themselves and others at much greater risk of contracting and spreading vaccine-preventable diseases. Interestingly immigrant children’s vaccination rates are better. The study, Immunization Coverage Among Young Children of Urban Immigrant Mothers: Findings from a Universal…
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Salmonella's molecular trick to make you sick
Undercooked chicken, eggs sandwiches that have gone bad, contaminated water sources while on vacation and just plain poor sanitation and agricultural practices, all the factors and more can lead to salmonella transmission and infection. What has begged the question for some time is why this particular bacterium can cause so fierce an infection while the…
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Fast food hospitals
So you have a hankering for a quick lunch or dinner. The greasy spoon or fast food joint down the street will hit the spot. Its close by and is bustling with people. But there is some competition in the Wild West that wants your business as well to run some of its operations, your…
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Interview with CMA President Dr. Brian Day
Although public health care advocates decried the election of Dr. Brian Day to the presidency of the Canadian Medical Association citing the beginning-of-the-end of our public health-care system, none of the foreboding happened. In fact, the next president of the CMA, Dr. Robert Ouellet, will be following a similar program and recommendations for change to…
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Sleep apnea's effects on memory storage
Sleep apnea is a common condition that up to now has been associated with a myriad of health problems including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, depression, and fatigue among others. A new study published by UCLA researchers in the June 27 edition of the journal Neuroscience Letters showed that for people with sleep apnea showed tissue…
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Artificial blood
We hear the commercials on radio and TV asking people to donate blood. It is sometimes followed by a brief notice or announcement that they are looking for blood of a particular type. This ongoing public canvassing for blood donations illustrates the issue of blood product shortages. There is always a need for blood products…
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Diabetes control studies at odds with heach other
New results from the world’s largest ever study of diabetes treatments show that intensive blood glucose (sugar) control protects patients against serious complications of the disease. This in contrast to another study recently published, the ACCORD study, that indicated the opposite for certain patients. The results of the new study called ADVANCE was presented at…
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How clinical studies should report their findings for the real world
What questions should we be asking when presented with the myriad of results from clinical studies? Are they presenting information that is important to patients? For example, in diabetes research, how often are quality of life outcomes and risk of death used as primary outcomes of the research? A report published in the June 4th…
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