Posted by dapo on Oct 18, 2009 in
Good sites,
Medical I saw a worrying story on the BBC health site today. It concerns chlamydia screening in the UK. It seems the story is based on some research which can be found here. A provional PDF of the research can be found here (Note this link may break in the future). As the BBC article points out, chlamydia is a “silent infection”. You do not get any obvious signs of having caught the infection. With current rates are rising you would like to hope that promoting screening would be a higher proirity. It still seems that some things are still taboo.
Tags: BBC, chlamydia, screening
Posted by dapo on Jul 28, 2009 in
CPD,
Good sites,
Medical I am currently working on a series of lectures for the Medical Laboratory Assistants in our laboratory. The lecture series is designed to provide some background for the MLA on the various tests we perform and hopefully help them to understand some the clinical details they might see to help them in test requesting.
Xanthochromia is one of the lectures I am currently working on. Whilst performing some research, I found a Youtube clip on performing a Lumbar puncture which I thought might be useful for other people to use. It did make think that this is a really good way of using Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2_0gOI8uV0
Posted by dapo on Jun 28, 2009 in
CPD,
Chemistry,
Good sites I have finally got some time to write a review for the Vitamin D podcast from Clinical Chemistry.
The interview isn’t too long and does not go into great technical depth but is a great listen and I certainly learned a few things from listening to it. I knew that there are two different sources of vitamin D, diet and production by the body due to exposure to sunlight. I didn’t realise that animal and sunlight derived vitamin D is Vitamin D3 and invertebrate and plant derived vitamin d is Vitamin D2.
Read more…
Tags: Clinical Chemistry, Graham Beastall, Podcast, Vitamin D
Posted by dapo on Jun 13, 2009 in
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NHS I have been re-examining the content of the training site and realised I could add some extra RSS feeds to the front page. I have added feeds from the Department of Health and the NHS. I hope these extra feeds prove to be a good resource. If any one can suggest other suitable feeds, I am willing to add more.
Tags: Department of Health, NHS, RSS
Posted by dapo on Jun 12, 2009 in
CPD,
Good sites,
Journals,
Talking point I have been looking at my training site and updating a few things and in the process I have found several sources of podcasts! The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has an audio podcast as well as some vidoes.
Also, I found the the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, the people behind the Clinical Chemistry journal, provide a podcast.
I think its great that these heavy journals are providing this kind of content. I have download a few episodes and will aim to listen whilst going to and from work next week. Hope to provide some feedback soon.
Tags: AACC, BMJ, Clinical Chemistry, moodle, mp3, Podcast
Posted by dapo on Jul 27, 2008 in
Good sites Too much water can be a bad thing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7521137.stm
Tags: BBC, detox, water
Posted by dapo on Apr 27, 2008 in
CPD,
Good sites Whilst playing around with Google Ads for the site, it came up with a CPD site from the BMJ which I thought I would have a look at. It can be found here if you want a look too.
Tags: BMJ, CPD
Posted by dapo on Mar 4, 2008 in
Good sites BBC Health are reporting that waiting times under labour are up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7271772.stm
Tags: labour, NHS, waiting times
Posted by dapo on Nov 4, 2007 in
Good sites Been looking at the BBC Health website and found some news items which I would like to bring to your attention.
The first story is a protest about the NHS refroms. As someone who works in the NHS, I do feel that we should focus on primary role of patient care rther than all of these targets. Taking care of this will take care of the rest. If we spend time working out which patient is getting close the the 4 hour A&E limit, it means less time is spent on actually treating the patients. This links to a story about making the NHS independent, removing the political tinkering. I do have reservations as this could mean an opening for more private sector involvement. My objection to greater private sector involvement is that they will do the same job and making a profit, why can’t the public sector perform to the same standards?
My second story is about the Papworth Hospital stopping transplants due to high mortality rates. It is sad to see such famous hospital suffer like this, I take heart from the fact that are brave enough to stand up and say this is not good enough. The pressure on the hospital most have been immense, equally, the pressure on them for their success rate. It was a tough decision but I think it was the right one.
Tags: A&E, BBC, mortality, NHS, papworth, politics, private sector, waiting times