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First, Do No Harm: August 2011

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First, Do No Harm. Thursday, August 25, 2011. Private Hospitals Encourage ER use, Medicaids seeks to decrease usage. Hospitals seek more ER patients even as Medicaid tries to lessen demand. By Phil Galewitz, Published: August 22. 8220;Many hospitals are actively recruiting people to come to the ER for non-emergency reasons,” said Anthony Keck, South Carolina’s Medicaid director, citing facilities that tout their speedy ER service on highway billboards. “When you are advertising on b...ER visits totaled 1...

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First, Do No Harm: May 2011

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First, Do No Harm. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Involvement of the mechanoreceptors in the sensory mechanisms of manual and electrical acupuncture. I bring this study to your attention for a few reasons. 2 This study is out of the Cardiology Department at the University of Kinki in Japan. So they thought enough of it to fund the study. 3 Even in anesthetized rats, the depressor and bradycardic response was quite pronounced and statistically significant. This falls into the category "So there! Yamamoto H, Kawad...

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First, Do No Harm: April 2011

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First, Do No Harm. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Neuro Pathways in cardiovascular electroacupuncture response. Technical article looking at low frequency electroacupuncture in cats at P5 and P6 and the brain circuits responsible for the cardiac sympathoinhibition. Cardiac sympathoinhibition is another way to say a decrease in the stress response. The last blog post. For more information about my acupuncture practice. Please click here.). Li P, Tjen-A-Looi SC, Longhurst JC. Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Am J Ph...

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First, Do No Harm: March 2012

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First, Do No Harm. Saturday, March 31, 2012. When Less Treatment is More. An article worth reading in its entirety discussing the new guidelines for breast cancer treatment. We've discussed breast cancer treatment a few times, for example, here. A few excerpts will follow. In the case of cancer, I can't help but wonder if our language is too clumsy. Perhaps a small "cancer" would be allowed to just be if it was called "a lump of abnormal cells." I posted about this earlier, here. March 29, 2012, 1:23 pm.

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First, Do No Harm: July 2011

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First, Do No Harm. Thursday, July 28, 2011. Medical Device Industry Preemptively Block Regulations. First, Do No Harm. Update: Also, it is becoming increasingly difficult to seek redress if you are harmed by a product. See the film Hot Coffee. July 27, 2011. Study of Medical Device Rules Is Attacked, Unseen. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Case Study: PCOS patient, acupuncture and HRV. I wanted to try to illustrate the gist of my research interest. I will start with this particular patient who is in her la...

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First, Do No Harm: December 2011

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First, Do No Harm. Friday, December 30, 2011. Insomnia, Blue Light and the Yin of the Yin. Insomnia-a common and difficult-to-treat condition-is estimated to cost the American economy $63.2 billion each year in lost productivity. A new body of research suggests that a cure might be as simple as soaking up some sun. If you don't have a change in melatonin levels during the wr hours of the day, your body doesn't know when to rest and when to stay awake,.". Thursday, December 29, 2011. This article was publ...

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February 2012 Newsletter: Insomnia, PSA Testing, Eczema | Kristen Sparrow, MD Medical Acupuncture

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Kristen Sparrow, MD Medical Acupuncture. Ancient Medicine Made Modern. Knee Pain and Arthritis. February 2012 Newsletter: Insomnia, PSA Testing, Eczema. SF Examiner Interview Nov 2011. 2007 Medical Acupuncture HRV Article. February 2012 Newsletter: Insomnia, PSA Testing, Eczema. Subject: Greetings from Kristen Sparrow, MD: Insomnia, PSA testing, Eczema. Having trouble viewing this email? Kristen Sparrow, MD Newsletter. As some of y...

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First, Do No Harm: January 2012

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First, Do No Harm. Monday, January 30, 2012. The Brain Circuitry and Heart Rate Variability Reflections of Nausea. A combined HRV-fMRI approach to assess cortical control of cardiovagal modulation by motion sickness. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011 Aug;2011:2825-8. Kim J, Napadow V, Kuo B, Barbieri R. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Post Spinal Nerve Ligation Hypersensitivity Relieved by Manual Acupuncture (in rats). This study is looking at acupuncture effectiveness for neuropathic pain. They simul...

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First, Do No Harm: November 2011

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First, Do No Harm. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. What's in a name? Time to rename "cancer? I was speaking to one of my Medical School classmates at my recent reunion about this very topic. (I went to Tulane Medical School and was speaking to Dr. Oliver Sartor. A specialist and expert in Prostate Cancer.) We were discussing this because his area of expertise is prostate cancer, and there have been such dramatic and controversial developments in that field discussed here. 8220;Cancer” is used, these ex...