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July 2017
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Can We Talk? Advice on Online Health Chat Rooms
At one time or another, most Americans have gone online to search for health information, from suspected diseases to the latest therapies. Many join virtual health communities where they share intimate details of their diagnoses, treatments and coping mechanisms. While a carefully vetted chat room can be beneficial, it’s important to remember these conversations are not equivalent to speaking with your doctor. |
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Actions Spoke Louder
The voice of Sean Porter is a whisper. He doesn’t have a cold or laryngitis. His vocal troubles are from the long term effects of tubes placed down this throat after his heart stopped beating. The father of two was airlifted to Jacobs Medical Center in need of an emergency quadruple bypass surgery. It took a lifesaving flight, a multidisciplinary team and comprehensive care to save the man who is expected to have a full recovery.
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Be Steady My Beating Heart
Bonnie Coppla was a Disney on Ice performer. Then she started to feel a fluttering in her chest, like a fish flopping on a dock. It forced her to hang up her skates. Almost 30 years later, the fluttering was identified as atrial fibrillation, a common yet hard-to-diagnose heart condition that can be life-threatening. One in four adults over age 40 will develop cardiac arrhythmia. Learn about the symptoms, new treatment options and how Coppla returned to a full and active life. |
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Learn from the Burn
Bronzed bodies, kissed by the sun, have long symbolized good health. But, in fact, there’s no safe way to get a tan. Browned skin is damaged skin and perhaps a dark harbinger of cancer to come. So protect yourself with adequate sun protection and these 19 things to know.
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Grading Hospital Ratings
From rankings to letter grades to numerical scores, consumers have lots of ways to assess health care providers and services. But what do these various comparisons actually mean? Chad VanDenberg, chief quality and patient safety officer at UC San Diego Health, provides some answers.
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A Pore Substitute
We set ourselves apart from others in many ways. In physical terms, by our appearance, body shape, identifying marks and that old standby—the fingerprint. Another method is poroscopy, a century-old analysis of the size, shape, position and number of sweat pores found on fingerprints. |
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August will be Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month. Each year more than 100,000 children in the U.S. go blind because, in part, they did not receive an eye exam. Since 2000, the traveling UC San Diego Eyemobile for children at Shiley Eye Institute has screened and examined tens of thousands of children throughout the county, providing thousands of pairs of glasses. Here’s looking at them and them looking back. |
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Cancer and the Competitor
When Clay Treska completed the Ironman Triathlon just 10 months after being diagnosed with stage-four terminal testicular cancer, his story became inspirational. The former Marine is now in remission after comprehensive care and a clinical trial at UC San Diego Health. He has turned his experience into a passion to advocate for other cancer patients. |
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What Should be in a First Aid Kit?
From minor ailments to more serious injuries, a first aid kit is a must in every home (and car). Kits include a variety of supplies to treat cuts, scrapes and wounds, including sprains and burns. You can buy a prepared kit or you can make your own. Learn what common supplies to include, plus tips on how to keep your family safe at home and on the road. |
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The Opposite of Doping
A quick search for “drugs and sports” brings up a long list of articles about athletes using performance-enhancing drugs. But what about drugs that make exercise more difficult, or even dangerous? Catherine Robertson, MD, orthopedic surgeon and head team physician for the San Diego Padres, offers some recommendations.
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Stool microbes predict advanced liver disease; ketamine gets boost as potential antidepressant; tobacco advertising still targets youth; a new approach to treating autism; radiation therapy vital, but there’s a toll; cancer cells communicate to fend off chemotherapy.
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Tale of Two Crises: Chronic Pain and Opioid Abuse
Opioid abuse is a problem, but so is chronic pain. In this episode of our N Equals One podcast, we talk to experts working on both sides — a palliative care pharmacist and a psychiatrist who specializes in addiction treatment.
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Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are the last and most important step before scientific discoveries can be delivered to patients in the form of new medicines and therapies. Each year, UC San Diego Health researchers and doctors, including those at Moores Cancer Center, conduct hundreds of such trials involving a vast array of diseases, disorders and conditions. Among studies currently recruiting participants are:
The WISDOM Study (Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of Risk) for breast cancer
Saliva-based Detection of CD44 (an oral rinse to screen for oral, head and neck cancers)
Impact of Combined Behavioral Interventions on Cognitive Outcomes in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Studying the Effectiveness of Non-Invasive Glucose Sensors in Patients with Diabetes
Impact of Time Restricted Feeding in Improving the Health of Patients with Metabolic Syndrome
Checkpoint Blockade Immunotherapy Combined With Stereotactic Body Radiation in Advanced Metastatic Disease
View additional trials, both at UC San Diego and across the nation.
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Corner Clinic: Answers from Our Experts
L-R: Jeffrey Jenks, MD, primary care physician, O. Douglas Wilson, MD, pediatrician, Robert A. Dorschner, MD, dermatologist.
1. How serious are tick bites?
2. Is my baby colicky or is there something else going on?
3. Skin tags: why do we get them and how to deal with them?
Nutritional Yeast Flakes Rise to the Occasion
Nutritional yeast flakes have long been a staple of vegan diets, not only as a source of vitamin B6 and protein, but because of its similarity in taste to cheese. Cayleih Mackay Nunn, registered dietitian with UC San Diego Health Nutrition Services, fills us in on the nutritional value of nutritional yeast flakes and we offer some recipes that rise to the occasion.
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