We meet Sundays 7pm eastkost time/4pm leftkost, and we pub & republish diaries over the week: kosmail to one of our active admins (postmodernista or Darwinian Detritus or mettle fatigue) when you queue a diary, or to send us the link, so we can schedule each diary an uncrowded timespan at the top of our mainpage. UPCOMING SCHEDULES post between WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY. See our archive for diary examples & good reading & our logobox for more about Sundays. Click on ♥ FOLLOW at the top of the page if you'd like our posts in your stream.
October 5 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite pet peeve!
Oct 12 - "Memories of Dads & Daughters" by Steven Park
Oct 19 - Medscape Slideshow & Links on Foods Good & Bad for Brain, Cognition, Mood, & Dementia - by Darwinian Detritus
Oct 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . your diary here!
November 2 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite quote...other than yer sig line!
December 7 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite(?) household disaster!
December 14 - a MEDICAL MARIJUANA diary by side pocket, "co-produced" with the Kitchen Table Kibitzing group! :)
January 4 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bad joke!
February 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bumpersticker!
February 8 - “Never Again: Coming to Grips with Life After Stroke - Year 1...and 23” by Steven Park
March 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bumper sticker!
April 5 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite tshirt saying!
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FREE HEALTH-MED & RELATED LINK FINDS OF THE WEEK BELOW THE ORANGE-PEEL
See end of diary for introduction to free Medscape use - other links are free as-is.
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VACCINES - IT'S A SMALL WORLD, AFTER ALL:
The Rehydration Project's 'recipes' ▄ ▄ Flu Vaccine 2014 ▄ ▄ 2014 Immunization Schedule for Adults ▄ ▄ 2014 Pediatric Vaccine Schedule ▄ ▄ 2014 Changes to the Child/Teen Immunization Schedule ▄ ▄ Intranasal Live-Attenuated Flu Vaccine Safe in Kids With Cystic Fibrosis ▄ ▄ Flu Vaccine Coverage for Healthcare Workers Still Lacking ▄ ▄ Full-Dose Trivalent Flu Vaccine Seems Safe for Kids 6mos to 35mos of Age ▄ ▄ FDA Cites GSK Flu Vaccine Plant on Quality Violations ▄ ▄ Unpicking Narcolepsy Link to GSK's H1N1 Flu Vaccine ▄ ▄ New evidence: Hi-Dose Flu Vaccine is More Effective for Seniors ▄ ▄ Influenza Hi-Dose Vaccine Decreases Flu in Older Adults ▄ ▄ Jet Injection of Flu Vaccine as Effective as by Needle ▄ ▄ Boosting Flu Vaccine Dose in HIV Patients An Expert's View - 2013 ▄ ▄ All Pregnant Women Should Get Flu Shot ▄ ▄ 'Not for My Child': Dealing With Vaccine-Averse Parents ▄ ▄ Childhood Vaccines: Serious Adverse Events Rare ▄ ▄ Address Parental Fears Over Childhood Vaccination (2011) ▄ ▄ Systematic Review: Effect of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Dosing Schedules on Prevention ▄ ▄ Pneumonia Vaccine Cuts Infant & Elder Hospitalization ▄ ▄ Get Pneu- monococcal Vaccine Before Starting Methotrexate (2011) ▄ ▄ HPV Vaccine Is About Cancer Prevention, Not Sex ▄ ▄ Dismal Rates of HPV Vaccination in Boys ▄ ▄ Tdap Vaccine Safe in Pregnancy ▄ ▄ Ethics issues in Rush to Release Ebola Vaccines ▄ ▄ First UK Volunteer Gets Experimental GSK Ebola Vaccine ▄ ▄ Canada Says Poor Coordination Bogging Down Ebola Vaccine Shipment ▄ ▄ Ebola: Environmental Infection Control Guidance -CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH ▄ ▄ Chikungunya Virus Concern Growing ▄ ▄ Respiratory Illness & Enterovirus D68: Clinical Guidance ▄ ▄ Update on Recommendations for Use of Herpes Zoster Anti- Shingles Vaccine ▄ ▄ Prospects for a Vaccine for Human Lupus ▄ ▄ Dengue Vaccine Promising but Questions Remain ▄ ▄ Final Trial Confirms Efficacy of Sanofi's Dengue Vaccine ▄ ▄ Infectious Disease Update June 2014: New & Emerging Threats ▄ ▄ Acceptance of a Malaria Vaccine by Caregivers of Sick Children in Kenya by David I Ojakaa, Jordan D Jarvis, Mary I Matilu, Sylla Thiam
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Oklahoma Judge Rules Against Obamacare Tax Subsidies ▄ ▄ California to Launch Medicaid-Funded Teledentistry ▄ ▄
MEDSCAPE is a mostly-plain-English news & research report service geared for healthcare professionals but FREE to all who register - choose "Consumer" on the PROFESSIONS list in the registration process that starts when you first click on a Medscape link.
Picking multiple topics for email notification may flood your inbox, since a tremendous number of medical journals worldwide contribute articles to Medscape, so it's a good idea to start with few or just one notification topic, and see how it goes (or none, if you prefer access without emails).
Many Medscape articles are commentable - if you use a screen-name for privacy, it's worth devising one that won't undermine your own comments' impact.
Articles with videos of speakers provide a transcript below the vid window. Click sound off if you'd rather just read. Some articles are slideshows or quizes with accompanying text.
Keep in mind that the competitive nature of publishing can skew writing to suggest certainties not fully supported by findings, and there are always the basics to watch out for, such as, "Many Studies Have 'Elementary Statistical Errors'" and It Ain't Necessarily So: Why Much of the Medical Literature Is Wrong and Data Re-analysis Changes 35% of Trial Conclusions. Medical science, like every realm of human endeavor, is a work in progress. Read critically for best results.