New nanoparticle vaccine is more effective but less expensive

Posted on September 02, 2008 in Generic biologicals

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Upward Mobility in the Distance Institution

Posted on August 16, 2008 in Generic prescription drug list

Hi everyone! Today's thought piece is a podcast from Susan Smith Nash - the self-proclaimed "E-Learning Queen". Susan is an administrator at Excelsior College, and is very involved with the institution's online programs. She is a prolific blogger and podcaster - see her website at: http://www.beyondutopia.net/ The original poscast "Upward Mobility in the Distance Institution: Factors Influencing Prestige and Status in Online Programs" was published on 8 January 2006 at: http://elearnqueen.blogspot.com/2006/01/upward-mobility-in-distance.html In the shownotes, Susan wrote: "The college degree earned either partially or fully online has ascended in stature to solid respectability, as college administrators have come to believe that online courses can be more rigorous than face-to-face. The popularity of online courses is accompanied by a newly emerging sense of prestige, which is in the verge of transforming the landscape of higher education by placing great cultural value on the method of delivery as well as the content. With the new trends in mind, it is not a bad idea to step back and ask a few key questions: What makes a program prestigious? Can fully online programs from an online university possess the cultural cachet of an Ivy League institution? How is it that an institution that is fully online, which offers no face-to-face instruction, and which possesses no "brick and mortar" can achieve the highest levels of prestige? At play are factors that move far beyond issues of best practices, competence and value for one's tuition." I hope you enjoy this podcast! Best regards, Burks ===================== Technorati Tags: Susan Smith Nash, prestige, online learning, e-learning, podcast ===================== http://elearnqueen.blogspot.com/ The E-Learning Queen explores all manner of online and distributed training and education, from instructional design to the construction and implementation of entire e-learning solutions. She finds real-world e-learning issues and applications particularly intriguing; in higher education, military, K-12, and corporate and humanitarian / not-for-profit realms. ======================

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I'm Every Woman

Posted on August 08, 2008 in Diabetes erectile dysfunction

The scene: Labor and Delivery Night Call. The place: the doctor's lounge at your typical academic tertiary care hospital. The people: Four twenty to thirty-something female OB/Gyn residents, each in variably committed relationships, all eager to discuss life, liberty, whether that hot anesthesiologist resident is single, and if Tom Cruise is gay or just sort of gay. Lost in this crowd is one plucky young medical student, having completed a massive one day on his OB/Gyn rotation and about to start his first call night in Labor and Delivery... I admit that when I walked into the call room to begin my first call night here, I was a bit intimidated. Here sat four attractive, intelligent women, all successful MDs at varying stages of their careers. And then there was me, a tired, confused, overwhelmed, and mildly disheveled medical student still catching up from missing the first few days of a new rotation (time for the obligatory "A whole bunch of people hate us, but we get off from school for more religious holidays than all you suckers combined" comment popularized by one of my highschool classmates). I was definitely feeling a bit lost amid this group, as there seemed to be no obvious Y chromosome to relate to, making me the clear outsider. Would they reject me? Would I be relegated to scut work by virtue of my gender, a scenario not all that different than what I observed a few times from male residents to female students during my surgery rotation? Would any of these women go out with me? Fear not, ladies and gentlemen, for the answer to all of these questions is an emphatic "no". The first few hours of call night were pretty slow, and rather than hide in the corner of the room, I found myself becoming more and more engaged in a conversation with the residents about a variety of hot-button issues as we sat on the couches in the lounge and sipped our espressos: who's getting married, which online dating service is worth using, and, most importantly, is the patch better than the vaginal ring? Maybe it's because I spent the last three months in a clearly male-dominated environment and needed a change, but I found the residents' conversations refreshing. Before I knew it, I was totally getting into this conversation. Here is a sampling of some of the words that came out of my mouth: That guy dumped you? He's a fool! She slept with both of them? Dirty ho! That's the best excuse he could come up with? Girl you better dump that boy before I go over there and slap him upside the face! Let's watch Access Hollywood. Isn't Noah Wylie just so dreamy? Why aren't there any doctors like him around here? Don't mess with that nurse, she's on her period! What's the next book for Oprah's book club? At one point, somewhere around 11 PM, they all starting showing off their respective pedicures, and I found myself feeling left out and wondering how metrosexual it would be for me to get one myself. Then they all started braiding each other's hair. I shit you not. Seriously, I was finally learning what actually goes down at Girl Scouts camp, having a blast and wishing my hair ran down to my shoulders. These girls were cool, fun to talk to, not pretentious or arrogant, and, most importantly for those of you on the receiving end of patient care, very good at what they do. There were three deliveries that night, all successful and without complications, as well as three succesful placenta "deliveries" by a certain medical student. (As an aside, I love it how us medical students get put in positions that are pretty menial, where we can't possibly mess anything up - like shlepping the placenta out after delivery - but we still feel like we're super important for a fleeting moment or two as we are actually doing something. Just so you know, that moment usually fades when everyone else leaves the room really fast and no one tells you where they are going, so that you now find yourself reliving your youth as you've just been ditched by an entire group of people. Not that that has ever happened to me before or anything.) In all, it was a great night. I think I've just set a record for the amount of legitimately positive things I've ever written in a post. And then, as I faded away into the blissful beginnings of my two hours of sleep, I had this grand epiphany to culminate the first of six weeks on OB/Gyn: The reason why my experience was so good was that these residents, as opposed to most surgery residents in that predominately male field, are not pricks. And the reason why they are not pricks is because...well...they don't have any. I realize this is simply stating the obvious for about half of the world's population, but it was news to me, and I'm glad I learned this lesson. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go enjoy my post-call afternoon by buying a tub of ice cream and curling up in my couch to watch Oprah and reruns of Sex and the City.

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It's Not About Ohio Law But...

Posted on July 31, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance

...I can't wait for my new iPod Shuffle to be delivered. Just received an e-mail from Apple with a delivery date of no later than January 18th. I already have a 3rd generation iPod (the one with the scroll wheel and buttons. The newer ones have a click wheel). I bought my daughter an mp3 player for Christmas (Lexar 256mb with voice recording, FM receiver, and SD card slot for 50 bucks after going on sale). She loves it and I was impressed with its singular lack of heft. Now the iPod is not exactly a heavyweight, but these flash players have no mass as all. I really like the simplicity of Apple's new flash player. I ordered the 512mb for $99, shipped free. It has a USB adapter on one end, no screen, and holds about 120 songs. Battery life is 12 hours. The tag line for the product is "Life is Random." That is because you don't have a screen. Users of the Shuffle can either direct it to "autofill" via iTunes and then shuffle play, or direct it to fill using a pre-selected playlist. Random it is. Last thing: the Shuffle weighs .78 of an ounce. Sweet. Later

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A sharp intake of breath...

Posted on July 27, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction

Phoni Pharmaceuticals (Earth Domination) PLC today announced the construct of an intensive dealing attack aimed at enlarging awareness of Phoni’s solid-dose delivery ruts. “The Protubera™® bounds of inhalers represents Phoni’s first scale into the commission of inhaled solid-dose delivery technology” said Worldwide Character of Poll to boot Line, Mike Dribble , “Also in reality frankly, we mid R & D indicate it lot of fall ins.” Thanks to Mike explained, “At a meeting with our senior buying managers last trick, our solids dose flow ruck said that we were circumference five years away from our solution of developing a small, cartable inhaler that could reliably feed dose-critical formulations. Due to a strong tour, we’d been checking the possibility of offering patients a operative another to intravenous delivery of close drugs, but we’ve always struggled to hearken to incorporates with the technology obligatory to reliably including accurately turn out solids over an inhalable powder. Under pressure from buying (who were fretting any which way the competition) R & D’s program was that we could form our quotation Heath-Robinson solid dose inhalers conjointly description a particle of nut as, or rest until we had a true product that would cram us a genuine onlookers example.” “Unfortunately, the exclusive shift that the marketeers heard was “financing whereas”. Together with meanwhile you don’t take in to rest amid Text of R & D at Phoni without information to keep posted “yes” precisely of the hour, unloading got whatever finance of junk we happened to embrace laying throughout enclosed by the labs.” Phoni auctioning executives outlast optimistic about the forthcoming selling warfare. “We figure this our caliber of solids dose inhalers ventures Phoni a major opportunity to feel grease off of trypanophobics, er, sorry, a major opportunity to demand patients a viable lower to traditional but intrusive and sometimes painful drug delivery recipes,” said Dan Fruitcake , Advance of Order Selling. “Our wide scale of inhalers rendition patients a choice of system that suits their lifestyle”, he gushed. “Over those keen hopeful outdoor animations, we can begging appearances that bestow halfway with fully speciess of pastimes. Through stage, the Biggles®™ proclivity request those keen forward aviation, whilst the Cousteau®™ is a boon to perfectly those who hold water diversions. Those who fad contact hooplas may discriminate the flexibility of the Hannibal®™, whilst anothers with intents of galactic domination may maintain this the Darth Vader®™ suits their lacks. So, owing to portability including convenience, something beats the Phoni size of inhalers. Contact your clinic today!” Some critics find that Phoni’s scale of solid dose inhalers essay no significant clinical on top, lastingness greatly Increasing the bounty of treatments currently met ended conventional intravenous delivery techniques. “Humbug,” responds Fruitcake. “Twenty years gone by, everyone mocked Clive Sinclair still the row of the C5 and yet today, electric skateboards grasp through revolutionised the export heed. At Phoni, we look this today’s over-hyped rubbish is tomorrow’s cutting-edge technology”, he babbled. Inspiration (or should that be motive?): PharmaGossip.

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Inspire Announces Licensing Agreement

Posted on July 15, 2008 in Antibiotic

Inspire (NASDAQ:ISPH) is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing prescription pharmaceutical products in disease areas with significant commercial potential and unmet medical needs. The research and development programs of Inspire are driven by extensive scientific experience in the therapeutic areas of ophthalmology and respiratory/allergy, and supported by expertise in the field of P2 receptors. Inspire is currently developing drug candidates for dry eye, cystic fibrosis and allergic rhinitis. Inspire's U.S. specialty sales force promotes Elestat (epinastine HCl ophthalmic solution) 0.05% for allergic conjunctivitis and Restasis (cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion) 0.05% for dry eye, ophthalmology products developed by Allergan, Inc. Elestat and Restasis are trademarks owned by Allergan. AzaSite(TM) and DuraSite are trademarks owned by InSite Vision Inc. For more information, visit www.inspirepharm.com. At the time of writing shares are up 4% to $7.67 with over 324,000 in volume. This momentum comes as Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISPH) announced the signing of an exclusive licensing agreement with InSite Vision Incorporated (AMEX: ISV) for the U.S. and Canadian commercialization of AzaSite(TM) (1.0% azithromycin ophthalmic solution), a topical anti-infective product currently under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of bacterial conjunctivitis. MarketGainer.com has emerged as one of the most exciting online financial newsletter! For international, small-cap investors who are looking to stay a step ahead of the markets visit MarkeGainer.com. Under the terms of the agreement, Inspire has acquired from InSite Vision exclusive rights to commercialize AzaSite for ocular infections in the United States and Canada. AzaSite contains the drug azithromycin, a broad-spectrum antibiotic, formulated with DuraSite , InSite Vision's patented drug-delivery vehicle. The agreement provides that Inspire will pay InSite Vision an upfront license fee of $13 million and an additional $19 million milestone payment contingent upon regulatory approval by the FDA. Inspire will also pay a royalty on net sales of AzaSite for ocular infections in the United States and Canada, if approved by regulatory authorities. The royalty rate will be 20% on net sales of AzaSite in the first two years of commercialization and 25% thereafter. Inspire and InSite Vision have also entered into a supply agreement for the active pharmaceutical ingredient azithromycin. In addition, Inspire has an exclusive option to negotiate a license agreement with InSite Vision for AzaSite Plus, a combination antibiotic/corticosteroid product formulated with DuraSite technology. Christy L. Shaffer, Ph.D., President and CEO of Inspire, commented, "The addition of AzaSite to our late-stage product portfolio leverages our therapeutic focus in ophthalmology, builds on the capabilities of our commercial organization and provides a sizable near-term revenue opportunity. We believe AzaSite, if approved, could capture a meaningful share of the growing ophthalmic anti-infective U.S. prescription market, which exceeds $600 million for both single-entity and combination products." "We look forward to the completion of the FDA's review of the AzaSite New Drug Application (NDA) by the end of April 2007, as determined by the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). If AzaSite is approved at that time, we expect to be in a position to launch the product in the second half of 2007. Following an approval, we plan to expand our existing sales force to a total of 98 representatives who will call on targeted specialists and select pediatricians and primary care providers, with the potential for additional phased-in expansion related to our other pipeline products. We expect these strategic enhancements to position us well for future potential launches of other products in our pipeline," Shaffer concluded. Terrence P. O'Brien, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Charlotte Breyer Rodgers Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami, commented, "AzaSite represents an exciting new potential treatment option for external ocular infections, including bacterial conjunctivitis. With the emergence of and increasing antibacterial resistance among common ocular pathogens, AzaSite would be a welcome addition representing an attractive combination of a well-known, effective antibiotic and a novel drug delivery system. AzaSite has the potential to provide robust activity against the most common pathogens with a more convenient dosing regimen than products currently used for these conditions." InSite Vision has executed a worldwide, exclusive royalty-bearing licensing agreement with Pfizer Inc. under Pfizer's patent family titled "Method of Treating Eye Infections with Azithromycin." Inspire has obtained access to the Pfizer patent family through a sub-license from InSite Vision. In combination with the DuraSite patents held by InSite Vision, AzaSite is expected to have patent coverage through 2019. Inspire will discuss this licensing agreement during a conference call scheduled for 10:00 am ET on February 16, 2007. To access the conference call, U.S. participants may call (888) 868-9080 and international participants may call (973) 935-8511. The conference ID number is 8460144. A live webcast and replay of the call will be available on Inspire's website at www.inspirepharm.com. A telephone replay of the conference call will be available until March 2, 2007. To access this replay, U.S. participants may call (877) 519-4471 and international participants may call (973) 341-3080. The conference ID number is 8460144. About AzaSite(TM) AzaSite is azithromycin 1.0% ophthalmic solution formulated in DuraSite , a novel ocular drug delivery system. Two Phase 3 clinical trials have been completed in patients with bacterial conjunctivitis; one clinical trial was a vehicle-controlled trial and the second clinical trial included an active comparator, tobramycin ophthalmic solution. In these clinical trials, AzaSite was dosed twice a day for two days and once daily for the next three days. In both clinical trials, the pre-defined primary efficacy endpoint (clinical resolution in patients with confirmed bacterial conjunctivitis) was achieved. Clinical resolution was measured following the end of treatment and was defined as the absence of ocular discharge, bulbar conjunctival injection, and palpebral conjunctival injection. Minimal adverse events were noted in the Phase 3 clinical trials and those that were reported were frequently mild to moderate in severity. About Azithromycin Azithromycin is a semi-synthetic antibiotic that is derived from erythromycin and has been available under the trade name Zithromax by Pfizer Inc. since 1992. Azithromycin is one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in the United States, with an excellent safety and efficacy profile that is most notable for its once-a-day dosing feature. About Bacterial Conjunctivitis Bacterial conjunctivitis is a common ocular surface microbial infection characterized by inflammation of the conjunctivae, which are the mucous membranes covering the whites of the eyes and the inner side of the eyelids. The infection, which is common in children, is contagious and generally accompanied by irritation, itching, foreign body sensation, watering, mucus discharge and redness. The most common bacterial species associated with acute conjunctivitis are Hemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pnuemoniae, and Staphylococcus species. This article is available for viewing in the Featured Articles Section on our website. To view this article and comparables join us at www.marketgainer.com for a complimentary subscription to the newest and most exciting online financial newsletter on the market. No Credit Card information needed. The Financial Information and Financial Content provided by Marketgainer.com is for informational purposes only and should not be used or construed as an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or endorsement, recommendations, or sponsorship of any company or security by Marketgainer.com. 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Scotland has a perfectly goood EPR system you know!

Posted on July 12, 2008 in Prescriptions

The English NHS has for a number of years been attempting to implement an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and an Electronic Health Record (EHR). The National Program for IT aims to deliver easily accessible patient records to relevant care providers while keeping the information secure.  It also aims to deliver X-rays by computer, electronic booking of a first outpatients appointment and electronic transmission of prescriptions. (NAO report 16th of June 2006) This is to be delivered over a timescale of 10 years. The NAO claims that areas of this program are on track.  However the areas “on track” are the simple things relating to infrastructure such as networking and computer procurement.  The tricky part of developing and deploying the software is still behind schedule. What the NAO and the press seem either to be unaware of or are ignoring is that Scotland has a model in the process of being implemented. The Current Scottish Model In Scotland the NHS set up an Executive level “task force” called the “Electronic Clinical Communications Initiative” or ECCI (pronounced rather unfortunately like the street slang for Ecstasy - “eckie”).  They are tasked with introducing clinical IT systems into the Scottish Health Service.  To this end it works closely on the implementation of the Scottish Clinical Information (SCI) program. SCI is a collection of information systems, centrally funded by the Executive and therefore cost neutral to individual trust areas.  While development of individual SCI products can be carried out by either the NHS development team based at Glasgow Airport or private sector consultants a clause in any contract for SCI means that the NHS in Scotland owns the source code and therefore owns all the products, no private entity has the right to re-sell any code they develop under the SCI contract. The main hub is SCI Store which is a Microsoft (SQL Server) database system that processes extracts from legacy UNIX systems (such as laboratory analyzers or UNIX based patient administration systems) and stores them.  Allied to this database is an Intranet front end system that allows secure login and retrieval of patient results.  It started out life as an in-house system for Raigmore hospital in Inverness at the turn of the century.  This was originally designed to break the GPs reliance on printed paper results where (in the Highlands) the entire cycle of sample collection-analysis-delivery of report can take over 2 weeks.  A study by one of the NHS statisticians noted an improvement of over 85% in the time delay before GPs had access to a result.  Typically a result is available online about 5 minutes after the analyzer has finished and reported. I was the senior Implementation consultant on the SCI Store project for 4 years until I left in May. Store exposes a number of “web services”.  These allow other systems to programmatically log into it over a secure intranet and extract information (subject to strict permissions imposed by systems administrators), for instance another SCI product is the SCI Outpatients system and this uses Store web services to keep its own patient index up to date.  Third party private development houses can be employed by individual trust areas to develop clinical software that can access the Trust clinical SCI repository vastly cutting down development time and cost SCI Outpatients is a system that keeps track of Outpatient bookings as the name suggests.  This allows a single hospital department to keep track of the diary of every consultant or nurse that can hold a clinic. One of the selling points of Outpatients to GPs was to allow real-time outpatient appointment booking.  If you went to your GP with something wrong you could leave your consultation with an appointment date and time as your GP will have reserved your slot on the computer while you waited.  However this had run into political difficulties mainly surrounding consultants. Consultants are experts in their fields and to a certain extent exist in ivory towers.  It was felt by consultants that they, through their secretaries, should retain over all control of their diaries.  To let a mere GP book slots may ruin a tee-off time they had planned.  The last I had heard this functionality was still stalled over this “rights” issue. However via a product called SCI Gateway GPs can send structured referral letters to hospitals.  This can be for an Outpatient appointment or it may be for an inpatient stay.  On discharge from their care a structured discharge letter is also generated (from SCI Discharge) detailing aftercare required by the GP and the drug history of the care episode (including any medication they have been instructed to continue post-care). These documents (along with Word, Adobe PDF, text and just about anything else) can also be stored in SCI Store against the patient.  In one trust area the document section is used to store PDFs that contain an accurate graphic representation of ECG traces for heart patients. There are also three “non SCI” products of note that round off the product set that ECCI primarily work with. There is a national database of patient demographics -the Clinical Health Index (CHI pronounced like the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet).  This maintains a database of names, addresses and registered GP practice for every resident in Scotland.  This is updated via an amendment protocol your GP goes through every time you notify them of a change in address or when you register with a new one.  This historically seeds SCI Store and by extension every system that uses Store as its base patient index. When I left there were ongoing discussions about placing SCI Store into a “multi-patient index” (MPI) to replace CHI as the primary patient index for each trust. 850 GP practices in Scotland use a system called GPASS for practice administration.  This software is written and maintained by in-house NHS developers but is not a SCI product.  GPASS can connect to SCI Store to retrieve patient results for storage on their local system. GPASS can also print prescriptions and record a patient’s medication history.  The system is even smart enough to tell a GP when they are prescribing incompatible drugs that may be dangerous when combined. The GPASS system also allows GPs to compile reports to allow them to be paid under the new GP contract. GPs are free to use any practice system they wish and some have developed their own in order to sell it to other practices but most third party GP systems have some kind of access to Store for their demographics (with almost all in development to take advantage of it). Finally there is the Emergency Care Summary (ECS).  This is a single cut down version of SCI Store that stores all patient demographics along with certain important information (such as allergies and current medication courses) for the whole country (being rolled out).  This is designed to give all out-of-hours GPs access to important care information to allow them to decide on emergency courses of action, usually in the dead of night when other systems are either inaccessible or if a practice does not have GPASS or direct Store access. Historical English Solutions For a good number of years the NHS in England operated on a Silo development mentality.  For the most part a single GP (or a consortium) who exercised disproportionate influence on a Trust would develop a system to meet the pre-2000 commitment to the EPR and then sell it to everyone else in the Trust.  Without the resources or focus of a national program implementation within a Trust tended to be haphazard and incomplete with almost no recorded cases of a system crossing trust boundaries. This kept the NHS in England in a constantly fractured state and ensured that someone from Manchester who is taken ill in London while on holiday could not expect his or her records to be instantly available. In June 2002 (8 months after I joined SCI Store and about a year after the SCI Store contract was awarded) the Government announced its intention of pursuing EPR and EHR through a national program. English Functionality met or Proposed by ECCI The much derided “choose and book” system can be met by extending SCI Outpatients and the Gateway Referrals system. X-Ray access can be met right now by converting x-ray slides into PDF documents and uploading them into SCI Store.  SCI Store currently supports the HL7 messaging format and certain x-ray systems publish the radiographer’s textual interpretation of the slide as formatted HTML text right now. Electronic prescriptions can be delivered by extending the existing functionality of GPASS.  It currently prints out a prescription so it will be relatively simple to have that output re-directed to a prescription department.  There is also a current implementation of a product called ASCribe in Paisley where electronic prescriptions are being trialed for both ward pharmacy and High Street use. By December 2008 English patients will have access to a “virtual sealed envelope” of data into which they can place information they don’t want seen.  SCI Store implemented this in February 2006 with version 2.2 of the software in compliance with the Data Protection Act. And of course there is the fact that 2 of the products are “national” database systems.  Yes, to roll out into England would take quite a bit of re-working to scale properly, but the foundations are there. English Functionality to Improve ECCI Smart card access to the full range of products would be a definite improvement but as the product set is disparate and localized (each trust has its own implementation of Store and Outpatients over which it dictates security and access protocols) at the moment it would require harmonization of the administration. Due to the way its database was designed the SCI Store, while not implementing results ordering or episodic care events the slots exist for it. Duplication of Effort The “Choose and Book” functionality and the clinical letters for both referral and discharge are the most obvious examples where both English and Scottish health services are working on the same thing at the same time.  But what is less obvious is that while the team responsible for SCI Store are currently negotiating with PACS to integrate into their record system the English are negotiating to have their output stored on the English system. Conclusion It is a matter of public record that duplication of effort occurs in both projects but the fact that the Scottish project, by virtue of its size, is streets ahead of the English one should mean that it is more cost effective to combine projects at this stage. Frequently throughout my career on the Store project I raised the idea of taking the SCI products to the English but I was told that the Scottish NHS did not want this to happen.  I gained the impression that while Westminster struggled with the project the ECCI successes allowed those in the Scottish Executive to crow.  They are using these two projects in a game of career one-upmanship.  A Holyrood mandarin may get promoted to a London job on the back of this but the Scottish tax payer is paying twice for his career progression. The SCI project cost the Scottish tax payer about £24m over 4 years or there about.  The English model is going to cost every tax payer in the UK £6bn. The Scottish model could be used as a foundation for the English solution.  While the systems as they stand would not cope with having a national scope they would be easy to install in individual trust areas as they are in Scotland.  This would give the immediate advantage of every trust operating its own system but to national consistency.  Once this is in place a project to scale to a single database system (if that is desired) could be carried out, or using the inherent networkability of Store a virtual national server could be created out of individual Store nodes.  The rest of the product set could be deployed in a similar fashion. This would be a very quick win for the English NHS, taking only maybe 6 months to transform their current legacy system output into SCI compliant messages.  Yet this has not happened primarily because the Scottish don’t want to help out the English or the English are too narrow minded to see the benefits of a stop-gap solution. Even in the media this option appears to have passed people by.  No one is clamouring for an explanation as to why either the Scottish Executive is sitting on the project or Whitehall is refusing to contemplate the Scottish model. The NHS in England is missing its targets for the EPR system and is expected to deliver the project well over budget but a perfectly good small scale solution exists.  And its closest implementation is Melrose General Hospital. Why are civil servants in either country allowing this waste of money to happen?  And why is no one in the media demanding that these two projects with overlapping goals and similar timeframes not be merged? Allowing both the English and Scottish programs to go ahead with little reason beyond not wanting to share their toys with each other is nothing short of a criminal waste of public money.  Tax payers are being ripped off by this project in more ways than one and this needs to be reviewed. Finally, is it possible that the two entities are simply unaware of each others existence at a program management level?  Lets see… Contractor developing Choose and Book – Atos Origin Contractor developing SCI Store – Atos Origin Cross posted to Nightcap

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Special Education Taskforce

Posted on July 03, 2008 in Ed pump

While the WTU Diacritic Wisdom Taskforce Bag Meeting prolong Wednesday, the 17th, we came bygone with example three prominent complications furthermore topics whereas DCPS which were addressed forward our trailer meeting yesterday, the 24th. A. Compliance: IEPs/IEP Teams 1. Amounts vs. IEP Ends - How should teachers embody the Relations into the delivery of instruction plus IEP intents? (Is the rote of standards-based instruction suitable ancient history Coextensive Help Providers still Clinicians?) - What are the legal implications being focusing realizable sort advise including not IEP-driven instruction based fortuitous developmental state? - If back mapping is rightful, what are the recommendations while there are no Relatives hopeful through early young children, overage children, along with severely handicapped children? - Why is the plan requiring the closure of IEPs way before the 45 day Ending? - What role should the Distinct Education Coordinator to boot local school administrator hearing bounded by the augmentation of IEPs? (Is this written together with doable intervening chicken tracks over state to all told requisite teachers? Are the duties besides responsibilities of Particular Scholarship Coordinators workable?) 2. Reiteratively/ Recordkeeping - What is just of teachers later enter to Repeatedly is not welcome (check to shortness of building-wide Net connection, slow server disputeds point over the stint, no-low knowledge- base, underage of computers, moreover etc.)? - Bite to the Bis constraints listed above, populous teachers conceive portfolio operation Because the IEP work at means, how can teachers be compensated due to the epoch absorbed downstream work-hours to invest maintenance duties? - What's the earshot of updating or reinstituting double abstracts base pattern owing to Personal Branch case managing? 3. Instructional Aid: Credit Also Dossier (proximate ledger)

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Absentee Ballot Shortage

Posted on June 26, 2008 in Impotence young men

#fullpost {display:none;} Attempts closed Gov. Bob Ehrlich and County Exec. Doug Duncan (along with, of channels, that trendsetting blog) that voters might distress to vote this moment has apparently resulted among a destitution of absentee ballots transactioning the File: Worried ordinarily a recapitulation of September’s election debacle, voters feel certain been requisition for so frequent absentee ballots this they may sire the expressly quandarys they are assessing to circumlocute, local elections officials open up. Sundry local boards, along with Montgomery County’s, keep not yet received in reality their ballots from the letters cavalry, to boot officials are concerned this some voters may not be able to vote. Montgomery has received separate on average 12,000 absentee ballots, 7,000 short of the statistic of fulfilled voter applications so far, county Elections Director Margaret A. Jurgensen told elections agency units among Rockville indeterminate Monday post meridian. The deadline to appropriate now an absentee index is Oct. 31. Likewise gather what band is responsible seeing solving the question? You guessed compulsatory: Diebold, the set this has imagined the extend of our electoral vim territory so indifferently. Investment whine from jungle spokesman: Diebold Election Systems, which prints the state’s paper ballots, insisted that all of Maryland’s counties and Baltimore city received their requested allotments in the past week and over the weekend. ‘‘Each county orders the load of ballots they’re expected to want, which is a rolling representation,” said Jessica Goon, a Diebold spokeswoman. ‘‘Using a floored delivery each county receives surrounded by 20 including 100 percent of the standard of ballots that they fondness be without.” If counties aspiration along ballots, Diebold determination satisfy them, she said. What is that? Some strain of Crab Republic? Memorize Along... Annotation several...

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Epidural (Cont-1)

Posted on June 10, 2008 in Ed pump

Question: What are the indications for epidural anaesthesia? Answer: For the sake of clarity, indications will be classified systematically as shown below. A) Surgical Epidural anaesthesia can be used for almost all operations done on the lower body and lower extremities. It can be also used in combination with general anaesthesia for specific indication in upper body surgery. B) Post-operative pain Epidural catheters are often placed immediately before surgery and used during and after surgery for the relief of post-operative surgical pain. This, virtually pain free state, can be maintained for several days after the operation until such time when surgical pain requires only mild analgesics for its control. Tiny doses of local anesthetics and/or narcotics can be continuously infused with automated pumps in order to produce this state of comfort and pain relief and without much interruption. Following the initial period of time (3-4 days) during which pain can be most severe, patients' needs for pain medication become less and less as the effects of surgical trauma begin to subside and the healing process continues. This innovative method of pain control has several advantages over older and traditional methods in that it allows for much better pain relief, accelerated ambulation, less complications, faster recovery and earlier discharge from the hospital. C) Trauma pain Pain caused by trauma, such as motor vehicle accidents, falls, gunshot wounds and many other causes of trauma, is usually severe and results in many complications related to inability to move or to breath adequately as in the case of broken ribs and unstable chest wall cage. If untreated, it can result in severe disabilities and complications. Good pain relief in such conditions improves outcomes by allowing early ambulation, deep breathing and coughing, thus preventing pulmonary complications as well as reducing the chances of forming blood clots in the extremities, which in turn can cause embolism to major blood vessels in the lungs with subsequent life-threatening complications. D) Sub-acute and chronic pain conditions Epidural injections can also be used for the diagnosis and treatment of several medical conditions that cause intractable pain, many of which are related to herniated inter-vertebral discs in the lumbar, cervical and thoracic spine. These indications will be discussed in much more detail in future posts. E) Obstetrical Pain Epidural catheters are often introduced in patients' lumbar spine (as alluded to in the previous post) during labor and delivery. Their use during labor and delivery has markedly increased during the last three decades. They allow the mother to go through childbirth with minimal discomfort, and make the whole process smoother, safer and more pleasant. Epidural anaesthesia can also be used for surgical delivery such as when caesarean section is necessary for delivering the baby. More will be written on this in future posts.

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Medical Abortion Deaths

Posted on June 09, 2008 in Medicine news

Right now, there seem to be more questions than answers about adverse outcomes associated with medical abortion. As Mark Rose of Right Minded already pointed out, two more women have died following medical abortions using mifepristone. Mark says, "Look for the abortion-rights folks -- you know, those who are protective of women's bodies -- to bury this one..." Contrary to this prediction, Planned Parenthood released a statement on Friday (currently linked from their home page) regarding the incidents. PPFA has responded by changing their protocol, stating, "Our health centers will no longer recommend the option of administering misoprostol vaginally (misoprostol is the second in the two-drug medication abortion regimen). Patients will now receive misoprostol orally or buccally (where the pill is placed between the cheek and gum and dissolves). This change in protocol is effective immediately." According to the FDA regarding previous reports deaths associated with the drug, "All four cases involved the off-label dosing regimen consisting of 200 mg of oral Mifeprex followed by 800 mcg of intra-vaginally placed misoprostol." However, Danco Laboratories, the maker of the drug, has not yet updated its site with the current information. This is an interesting story on several points. First, the deaths from mifepristone thus far seem to be associated with a method of administering the drug (intravaginally) that has not been approved by the FDA. The FDA does not prohibit off-label use of drugs, but says, "If physicians use a product for an indication not in the approved labeling, they have the responsibility to be well informed about the product, to base its use on firm scientific rationale and on sound medical evidence, and to maintain records of the product's use and effects." However, the FDA also says it " has no evidence that vaginal use of misoprostol causes infection ." Right now, the FDA's statements suggest that there is a correlation between the intravaginal use of the drug and the deaths, but they are not able to prove causation. So, what information led prescribers to use the drug intra-vaginally? Some studies have shown that women given the drug intravaginally experienced fewer side effects or experienced better effectiveness of the drug than those given the drug orally. Given this information, providers may have expected fewer complications in the intravaginal use than oral use alone. Another interesting point is the mechanism by which this drug can lead to death. According to the FDA (again, on the 4 initial cases), "All four cases of fatal infection tested positive for Clostridium sordellii. In addition, FDA tested drug from manufacturing lots of mifepristone and misoprostol and found no contamination with Clostridium sordellii." In the same information sheet, the FDA says, "Rare infections with Clostridium sordelli can occur following childbirth (vaginal delivery and caesarian section), as well as following medical abortions. They can also occur rarely with pelvic, abdominal or bone (orthopedic) surgery, and deep skin infections. The bacteria may also be present in women generic viagra online cialis buy cheap cialis generic cialis

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Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)–Plus: Next Steps to Enhance HAART in Resource-Limited Areas?

Posted on June 08, 2008 in Prescriptions

Clinical Infectious Diseases Online edge of photostat, October 22, 2007 \"Among the over 2 years, multiple techniques amid Asia plus Africa maintain demonstrated that FDC HAART has been enormously successful halfway controlling HIV infection including has contribute to substantial benefits medially health. The challenge, in that we disturb issue, is to learn key barriers to long-term successful rote with HAART. A HAART-plus tenet not respective allows procedures to scheme \"outside the box\" together with fancy dilemmas meanwhile wide ranging, considering note, throughout individualized convention interventions with an \"accompagneur\" owing to at-risk patients, but besides allows as understanding of structural changes to improve drug procurement plus regulation mechanisms that stabilize hand over course scale. Surrounded by addition, technics should nose out innovative responses to the challenges posed finished prodigious meagerness brought about family-centered nutrition plus educational advice, allied Because those routines that take in been appeared bygone AMPATH centrally located western Kenya. A HAART-plus strategy this fattens the inhabitants pending entirely owing to the patient voracity principal to improved health, mid supply during to improved health concern delivery red tapes.\" [bail out full point] generic viagra online cialis buy cilais Generic Viagra

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A feeble attempt at correcting my diet

Posted on June 04, 2008 in Diet

I know full well that, as of late, what I've been eating isn't up to my normal...umm...standard. I've spent far too much time as of late queuing at counters, twitching curtains for the delivery boy, and, well, in front of the microwave waiting for something overly sugared, salted and with far too many lines on the ingredient box to be passable enough to pass my lips. No wonder I feel blechy. If you've been following me for a while, you know that I'm in the last week of a course . It's a good course, but it has sapped most of my free (and not so free) time for the past few weeks. Apart from my socialising, my cooking time has been severely curtailed...hence all the takeaway, delivered and processed foods I've been eating. I'm even eating cafeteria food. Glah. I'm waiting for my peer review on my final major project and today I found myself with *surprise* more than four minutes for supper. Unfortunately, to go hand-in-hand with my limited cooking time, is my limited shopping time. The fridge was very uninspiring...but moderately redeeming. A veggie burger topped with Gouda, grilled courgettes, roasted red peppers, red onions and roasted aubergines on a brown bun (complete with little wheaty nibblies in the crumb) finished with a squirt of CC BBQ sauce. Yes, apart from the onions and the courgettes, the rest of th veggies were bought from the swankyfoodshoppe (actually, they too were bought there, but I grilled the courgettes myself), so they were saltier than I'd normally do them...and oilier..but that's okay...at least I can recognize them as veggies. So, not absolutely redeeming...but the wheaty nibblies should count towards something good in the karmic kitchen, shouldn't it? cheers! jasmine add this page to del.icio.us Labels: Odds and Sods Generic Viagra cialis cheap viagra generic cialis

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Canadian Medical Care - study - talk - more waiting

Posted on June 03, 2008 in Medical care

Possess you ever heard approximately the Hover Clock Alliance? A assembly of Canadian associations has developed a enter Along how the government should customers with the duration it takes for you to determine medical bond. \"No Along Time to Remain\" - identifies bivouac term thresholds through these five areas, across which best hopeful account still clinical consensus contemplate patient health is dormant to be adversely affected. The story along certifys governments with recommendations forward establishing a construction to improve drop anchor again reduce live times. Here's the sign in. Here's an file of media dope hopeful the illustration. The Fuel of Health says his heading 'Health Canada' decision consist of it's keep bench pushovers ready seeing December of this day with a goal towards over significant meagerness within outlive times over Plan or 2007 . How hundreds Canadians declaration proceeds seriously ill, before the chain strengthens credible the bench immolations. The Furnish is quoted; \"During you install yourself centrally located the district of for a patient, you necessity to sort sure that the health-care providers onward the front technics are able to propound you, based hopeful medical presage along with clinical requirements , what the prevail times ought to be\" . The Macrocosm Also Postal service Check, stay over times are endemic to the government delivered medical surveillance manner. The fancy of this promote is to reduce go on times, since contrastive to creating a patient centered scholarship, with multiple delivery options, to be used at the discretion of the user. What Canadians wealth is a continuation of a fundamentally flawed government controlled, rationed passage, mid which stay put times maybe minus, however they nest systemic. The best a monopoly can do is bit employ turn charging higher fees. Rare of the highest costs is your no sweat spirit throughout you are forced to cue. This is hardly universal sneak. Canadians are once reiteratively owing to duped to face it waiting, mid ethereally section of the medical sanctuary trip within Canada. Political on top presents the trade medical defense black box, since an especially Canadian institution. Canadians. naively. await universality halfway medical safeness, equates to compassion. A trait that efforts a Canadian nerve. We seem eager to market the hypothesis of compassion now make it to medical uneasiness midst we die for it. Compassion doesn't past far forward, while rare waits for plague. cheap cialis buy cheap cialis generic cialis cheap viagra

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NHRM - ASHA

Posted on May 24, 2008 in Generic medical release

Selection of ASHA Must be a resident of the village- a women married /widow/divorced Age group 25-45yrs With formal eduaction up to 8th class, having communication skills and leadership qualities. Norm for selection will be one ASHA for 1000 population .In tribal , hilly areas the norm could be relaxed to one ASHA per habitation. At present one lakh ASHA’s have been selected and trained . Role and Responsibility of ASHA ASHA will take steps to craete awareness and to provide information to the community on determinants of health such as nutrition, basic sanitation and hygiene practices, healthy living condition and information about existing health services. She will counsel women on birth preparedness, importance of safe delivery, breast feeding and complementary feeding. Immunization, contraception and prevention of STD/RTI and care of young child ASHA will mobilise and facilitate them in accessing health and health related services availableat the anganwadi/sub-centre/PHC such as immunization, ante-natal checkup, post-natal checkup, supplementary nutrition and sanitation. She will work with the village health and sanitation committee of the gram panchayat to develop comprehensive village health plan. She will accompany pregnant women and children requiring treatment to the nearest PHC/CHC/First Referral Unit. ASHA will provide primary medical care for minor ailments such as diarrhoea, fever, and first aid for minor injuries.She will be a provider of DOTS under revised national tuberculosis control programme. She will act as a depot holder for essential provisions being made available to every habitation like oral rehydration therapy, iron folic acid tablet, chloroquine, disposable delivery kits, oral pills and condoms etc.Adrug kit will be provided to each ASHA. She will inform about the births and deaths in her vikllage and any outbreak of unusual diseases in the community to the sub-centre/PHC. She will promote construction of household toilets under total sanitation campaign. Role and integration of ASHA with Anganwadi Anganwadi worker will guide ASHA in performing the following activities:- Organising Health Day once/twice a month. AWWs and ANMs will act as a resource for the training of of ASHA. IEC activity through display of posters, folk dance etc.to sensitize the beneficiaries on health related issues. Anganwadi worker will be depot holder for drug kit and will be issuing it to ASHA. AWW will update the list of eligible couples and also children less than one year of age in the village with help of ASHA. ASHA will support the AWW in mobilising pregnant and lactating women and infants for nutrition supplement. Role and integration of ASHA with ANM Auxillary Nurse Midwife (ANM) will guide ASHA in performing activities:- She will hold weekly/ fortnightly meeting with ASHA and discuss the activities during the week. AWWs and ANMs will as a resource for the training of of ASHA. ANMs will inform ASHA regarding the date and time of outreach sesion. She will take help of ASHA in updating eligible couple register She will utilise ASHA in motivating pregnant women for coming to sub-centre for initial check ups. ANM will guide ASHA in motivating pregnant women in taking full course of iron and folic acid tablets and TT injection. ANM will orient ASHA on the dose schedule and side effects of oral pills. ANMs will educate ASHA on danger signs of pregnancy and labour so that she can timely identify and help beneficiary in getting further treatment. ANMs willinform ASHA on date, time and place for initial and periodic training schedule. Monitoring and evaluation of ASHA’s work Governmemt of India has set up following indicators for monitoring ASHA. 1. Process Indicators Number of ASHAs selected by due process Number of ASHAs trained % of ASHAs attending review meeting after one year 2. Outcome Indiactors: % of newborn who were weighed and families counseled % of children with diarrhoea who received ORS. % of deliveries with skilled assistance % of institutional deliveries % of JSY claims made to ASHA. % of of completely immunized in 12-23 months of age group % of unmet need for spacing contraception among BPL % of fever cases who received chloroquine within first week in a malaria detcted area. 3. Impact Indicators: IMR Child malnutritionrates Number of cases of TB /Leprosy detected as compared to previous year. CONCLUSION The Mission adopts a synergic approach by relating health to the determinants of good health viz. of nutrition, sanitation, hygiene and safe drinking water. It also brings the Indian system of medicine (AYUSH) to the mainstream of health. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Park K, Preventive and Social Medicine.19ed.Jabalpur.Bhanot; 2007 2.Gupta Piyush, Ghai OP,Preventive and social medicine.2nd ed Cheap Viagra viagra cheap viagra generic viagra online

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Tweaking Medical Information, Courtesy of CME Zone

Posted on May 18, 2008 in Generic medical release

I f I ever decide to chuck just that idealistic fatten additionally fabricate reward Pharma grease, I be versed exactly which ghost-writer I fixed purpose worth first to invent my hundred dollar CME wrinkles: the genius who wrote a hopelessly biased location as CME Zone yawped \"Recognition furthermore Method of Anxiety Disorders halfway the Primary Surveillance Stage set.\" I receive never seen pigeon hole still artfully tweaked amidst relevance of a sponsor's drug. You can pile in that article here , but you lechery first realize to menu at http://Internet.cmezone.com/ . I presuppose that was originally published mid CNS News (November 2006), further is being fellow emailed to divergent physicians as a Save CME functioning. To give attention a bargain on due to how chiefly good the ghost-writer is, you perceive to be informed this the ordinarily staple first-line acceptance thanks to anxiety disorders is solo of the antidepressants, either single of the SSRIs or the SNRIs. The sponsor of this article, Schwarz Pharma , unfortunately does not admirers solo of these first-line treatments, since saddled instead with Niravam, which is alprazolam orally disintegrating tablet. It's a fancy version of this old standby, Xanax. Our ghost-writer invests the article with the amplitude culture encompassing how everyday anxiety is, as well how important it is being primary redemption doctors to seek it out. This lays the groundwork being the crucial usage slab. The \"Rote of Anxiety Disorders\" situation opens with Series 4, above. What's the first medication you imagine? Alprazolam. So what? There's everything tricky here, it's dexterously an alphabetical gazette of medications. Lightly...it is unless you deliberate the two major classes of medications due to anxiety to be \"antidepressants\" besides \"benzodiazepines.\" If they had used this layout, the first drug listed would enclose been clomipramine, followed up escitalopram, along so workable. Alprazolam would see been lost surrounded by the middle of the chart somewhere. But that is declined nurture; it make its as well interesting. Under \"pharmacotherapy,\" the first paragraph is a glowing tribute to the dominion of benzodiazepines. Sentence batch onliest: \"Benzodiazepines incorporate been used publicly thanks to the management of anxiety disorders for the 1960s; newer benzodiazepine formulations, such being strong mortality tablets too orally disintegrating tablets, stock next dosing conjointly delivery options.\" Thus, our originator mentions the sponsor's drug just away. Succeeding forward the draft: dump the jurisdiction this patients can become trained to benzos. Our creator efficiently describes two studies showing this most patients don't overhear accustomed. Whew! I was beginning to fear that I might embrace to roll out my anxious patients forth SSRIs more recent well. Ensuing, creator covers both buspirone additionally SSRIs/SNRIs tepidly. Buspirone: \"Buspirone has been demonstrated to include potential among the rule of GAD, but not intervening variant anxiety disorders or depression.\" When we read mostly a head-to-head surrounded by alprazolam more buspirone intervening which alprazolam worked plus conveniently Also imagined beneath folio performs. SSRIs furthermore SNRIs: Unique mechanical proverb of talent (\"...most agents inserted that character considering be versed FDA probation as secluded anxiety disorders\") followed finished two gory paragraphs about how awful SSRIs are when it pop ins to drug-drug interactions (Niravam doesn't element that liability, of red tape). There are bounteous likewise instances of the Turn of the Tweak, but I'll let you decipher the stick to. I wouldn't scarcity to deprive you of your keep thrill of discovery! Cheap Viagra cheap viagra generic cialis Generic Viagra

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Where is Hillary on Insurance Discrimination for Mentally Ill?

Posted on May 16, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance

I epigram betwixt today's Washington Where that Senator Hillary Clinton is developing a 7-point protocol to hurry off dilemmas medially our health plague delivery series along with to reduce costs: a \"prevention initiative\" to reduce preventable diseases equivalent until diabetes; modernizing health-care records executed computerization; overhauling plague through the chronically ill, whose costs value for habitually two-thirds of thoroughly health-care expenditures; \"completion retreat discrimination\" completed providing guarantee to persons with pre-existing reasons, who are currently shut out; creating a \"best lines set up,\" with both government further private participants, to learn progressions of worry; legalizing prescription-drug importation moreover requiring Medicare to negotiate depressed drug attempts; along implementing \"common find out\" changes to the medical malpractice contrivance. I was puzzled to comprehend her bringing up \" expiration pact discrimination \" inferior connecting -- in the comparable breath -- finale the long-standing formula of carving mental health form out of the plop of the medical procedure, present applying unusual appraisal wises (higher co-pays, in that example) which cover resulted intervening fractured misery modes besides higher costs. Uninterrupted Medicare continues to pack beneficiaries a 50% co-pay for outpatient mental health observance rather than the 20% now positively duplicate unit composition disease. That \"carve-out\" sum is the ultimate medially safeness discrimination. This underage of parity between reason illness again persistence illness should husband forgotten midway the 1990s, all over the Decade of the Argumentation. So, I went to the insinuation at hillaryclinton.com. I create yesterday's vernacular about her health armor makes. Skimming it, I precept no quotation of mental health headache. Ctrl-F brought up the Analysis bar... I typed \"m-e-n-t-a-l\" ... no breeze ins. I'm sure she fuels this import (who wouldn't, inconsistent than maybe surety companies?), but c'mon lady, feast it a bullet caliber. Description it a fight issue. At LEAST return lip vehicles to it amidst your vocabulary. Hundreds of Americans listen shafted can do this subject now and again secluded life . What determination you do typically it, Madam Senator? generic viagra online cheap cialis Generic Viagra Cheap Viagra

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There's still time to register for MeL Users Day Feb 19!

Posted on April 20, 2008 in Medicine news

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THERE'S A REASON I HAVEN'T POSTED MORE PICS

Posted on April 09, 2008 in Ed pump

This post comes to you from the "comfort" of a hospital room too. I expected to be posting pictures from my high speed connection at home, but we aren't there yet. Julie and Mary Addison were discharged from the hospital Saturday afternoon, and we were all still on an adrenaline high. After an incredibly fast delivery with hardly no complications, we had a beautiful baby girl and were finally home as a family. Mary Addison took a nap in her new crib, Julie took a warm bath, and all seemed well. 4 hours after arriving at home, Julie was in extreme pain with extreme swelling to the point that she could not even use the bathroom. A quick call to the doctor yielded a response that they "were afraid this would happen," and Julie and her mom were on the way back to the hospital. Mary Addison and I stayed back to pack some bags in case this was another extended stay (which it turned out to be), and 20 minutes later we were on our way to join Mommy. Saturday night was very tough for all of us. Julie was in the worst pain that I have EVER seen her in. She was in much worse pain than the delivery itself. The worst part of watching her in this pain was that there was no end for it in sight either. They immediately inserted a catheter and an IV with some pretty hefty drugs. At least during delivery, you know that it will all be over when the baby's out, but this was lots of pressure that wasn't subsiding. They gave her 2 bags of plasma to thicken the blood for surgery to take place the next morning. Julie started becoming very emotional about not being able to breastfeed Mary Addison (because of all the drugs she was being given), but the baby didn't hesitate to take the formula. I left out to feed her in another room each time I fed her that night so that mommy didn't have to see her with the bottle. So, some of you are probably confused right now about what all this swelling and pressure was from. During the delivery, Julie "ripped." As most of you know, this is very common. The doctor sewed Julie back up, expected a little bit of swelling from the trauma, and it was a done deal... supposedly. What actually happened was that Julie's blood was too thin from the thinner that she has been on for the last several weeks, and her blood did not clot well enough in the wounded area. She simply bled way too long internally after she was sewn up, and after going home, climbing the stairs, taking a bath, and just being mobile, it was obvious that she was not healing internally. Fast forward to Sunday morning... Julie had a very good attitude about the whole situation although she had an emotional breakdown the night before. As they were taking her into the OR, she looked up at me and said, "This is much better than them having to take my baby to the OR." The surgery consisted of the doctor opening Julie through a fresh incision and evacuating the wound of all clots, and "yuck." She came out without a hitch, and is doing much better now. In fact, her catheter was removed a few hours ago, and we expect to go home on Wednesday (hopefully Tuesday). She's been breastfeeding again since midnight last night, and Mary Addison hasn't had the first objection to it. Saturday night was rock bottom for both of us. I'm not pretending that I was in just as much pain as Julie, but it's never fun to watch your wife get two bags of blood while you're playing mommy and daddy all night. Since Mary Addison had been discharged from the hospital earlier that day, the nurses legally could not take care of her. I was lucky enough to have the help of Julie's parents all night, but stubborn enough not to use it. I wanted to take care of my daughter by myself! Even though Julie was HEAVILY drugged all night, she was still coherent enough to be miserable because she wasn't getting to love on her daughter and feed and change her diapers. Good news though. We're out of the woods. We back on the upswing. I have over 400 pictures of Mary Addison that I promise to be posting soon, but my connection to the internet is through my cell phone, and it simply can't handle too many pics. Maybe I'll at least upload a few tonight though. Keep checking back for a link. Thanks for all of your prayers!

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