Donde comentamos noticias de actualidad con nuestras múltiples personalidades: una pizquita de RECURSOS HUMANOS, un pellizquito de GESTIÓN SANITARIA, unas gotitas de CALIDAD, y mucho, mucho humor, aunque a veces, nadie me entienda.
The researchers found that three months of pumping iron seemed to help curb cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms, while lessening the weight gain that sometimes accompanies quitting. Overall, men and women who completed the resistance training program were twice as likely to kick the habit as smokers who didn't lift weights.I'm not an expert, but I understand that any form of exercise, not just lifting weights can help you quit smoking.
However, despite "promising" results, the study authors noted that more research is needed on resistance training before it can be considered a clinical treatment for smoking cessation.The song of the week: Iron Man - Black Sabath
Primary care physicians in particular are under tremendous pressure to produce. Just imagine…physicians in small primary care practices spend about 3.5 hours/week just on dealing with insurance-related paperwork. Then there’s keeping up with recommended treatment guidelines, journals, and IT issues and routine staffing issues…not to mention routine patient care, much of which they in fact do not get paid for. Physicians do have it rough right now.And I thought that this problem occurred only in Spain ... and it's going to be a universal problem. The solution is so difficult that no one, neither here nor there, can find the remedy for the situation.
Misinformation about venomous spiders and spider bites often leads emergency department and primary care physicians to falsely blame the eight-legged creatures for "necrotic" skin lesions, new research indicates.The report pointed out that necrotic lesions on the skin are typically not the result of spider bites and often have more common causes, such as staph infections or Lyme disease, which is caused by bacteria carried by deer ticks.
The conventional wisdom is that doctors should focus on patient care, and managers with a business or administrative background are better suited to running the day-to-day operations of a hospital. Among the nearly 6,500 hospitals in the United States, only 235 are run by physician administrators, according to a 2009 study in the journal Academic Medicine.But now new research suggests that having a doctor in charge at the top is connected to overall better patient care and a better hospital. The study found that overall hospital quality scores were about 25 percent higher when doctors ran the hospital, compared with other hospitals. For cancer care, doctor-run hospitals posted scores 33 percent higher.
City dwellers tend to be more stressed and have higher levels of mood disorders and psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia than those living in rural or suburban areas. And now researchers say they have uncovered certain changes in brain activity that could potentially help explain why.
A generalized headache from spending many hours reading an unusually long volume such as one of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. The pain resolves one to two days after the patient finishes the book. The term was coined by Dr. Howard J. Bennett in a Letter to the Editor of The New England Journal of Medicine on October 30, 2003. Dr. Bennett's letter was entitled "Hogwarts Headaches - Misery for Muggles." Hogwarts refers to Harry's alma mater -- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.Curious, indeed.
"La suposición general es que el desafío tiene algo que aumenta la atracción", apuntó la autora del estudio, Erin Whitchurch, que llevó a cabo la investigación mientras era estudiante de postgrado del departamento de psicología de la Universidad de Virginia. "Sin embargo, atribuyo el efecto a pensar más sobre la persona".Investigaciones anteriores han demostrado que la incertidumbre aumenta los pensamientos sobre la situación incierta, poniendonos el ejemplo de pensar en lo difícil que es no pensar sobre los resultados de un examen médico, o ultimamente nuestros amigos del #MIR, cuando los está esperando.
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Finally some good news for families about gaming: girls who play video games with their parents behave better, have stronger mental health and feel more connected to their families, according to a new study. While gaming with their parents had little influence on behavior, aggression, family connection or mental health among the boys, the investigators found that among girls, the activity accounted for as much as 20 percent of the variation in these areas.This is the excuse I was expecting to game PlayStation with my little princess in a few years in the same way that I've been doing with spiderboy.
A 2007 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that younger people with head and neck cancers who tested positive for oral HPV infection were more likely to have had multiple vaginal and oral sex partners in their lifetime. Having six or more oral sex partners over a lifetime was associated with a 3.4 times higher risk for oropharyngeal cancer — cancers of the base of the tongue, back of the throat, or tonsils. Having 26 or more vaginal-sex partners tripled the risk. The association continued to increase as the number of partners in either category increased.There you have it.
