Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, surpassing breast, prostate and pancreatic cancers combined. CTCA experts Dr. Daniel Nader, Dr. Edwin Watts, Dr. Maurie Markman and Dr. Shayma Kazmi discuss how patients may benefit from advances in lung cancer treatment.
The deal will create a national champion–and a headache for customers and regulators.
If you find a tick attached to your skin, there’s no need to panic. There are several tick removal devices on the market, but a plain set of fine-tipped tweezers will remove a tick quite effectively.
How to remove a tick
1. Use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin’s surface as possible.
2. Pull upward with steady, even pressure. Don’t twist or jerk the tick; this can cause the mouth-parts to break off and remain in the skin. If this happens, remove the mouth-parts with tweezers. If you are unable to remove the mouth easily with clean tweezers, leave it alone and let the skin heal.
3. After removing the tick, thoroughly clean the bite area and your hands with rubbing alcohol, an iodine scrub, or soap and water.
4. Dispose of a live tick by submersing it in alcohol, placing it in a sealed bag/container, wrapping it tightly in tape, or flushing it down the toilet. Never crush a tick with your fingers.
Avoid folklore remedies such as “painting” the tick with nail polish or petroleum jelly, or using heat to make the tick detach from the skin. Your goal is to remove the tick as quickly as possible–not waiting for it to detach.
Follow-up
If you develop a rash or fever within several weeks of removing a tick, see your doctor. Be sure to tell the doctor about your recent tick bite, when the bite occurred, and where you most likely acquired the tick.
The LSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital has already seen two pets die of heatstroke this summer. So it’s good to remember that pets require special care at this time of year.
Vet school experts also warn that it can be life-threatening to leave pets in hot cars, even if they are parked in the shade, and even for just a few minutes.
Dogs, whose body temperature is normally between 101 and 102 degrees, do not sweat like people, the experts say.
Dogs regulate their body temperature by panting to expel the heat. If the heat is not expelled fast enough, their body temperature rises. A rise to 105 degrees can cause a dog to have problems keeping up with his body’s demand for oxygen. When their temperature hits 108 degrees, a dog’s internal organs, such as the brain, can start breaking down at a cellular level.
Also, brachycephalic breeds (those with short snouts or muzzles, such as pugs and bulldogs) are at increased risk.
Signs of heatstroke include:
Rapid breathing
Rapid heart rate
Gums that change from healthy light pink to bright red or even dull, grayish-pink
If your dog exhibits these signs, move him to a shaded area, soak his coat in cool water and get him to a veterinarian immediately.
These signs can be followed in minutes or days by collapse, seizure, coma, clotting disorders and death. All pets with heatstroke need to be treated immediately and monitored carefully for a few days.
Behold, the most badass way to heat canned ravioli:
Just kidding — it’s a terrible idea. Even if you do have molten lava in your backyard, this should go without saying: Don’t try this at home.
This can of ravioli was doomed from the start. Hawaii-based photographer Bryan Lowry placed it in 2,000-degree lava as a makeshift experiment. (For science, he insisted.)
Lowry has been photographing lava on Hawaii’s Big Island since 1991, and recently began taking video of experiments placing canned food and drink items in active lava flows. His YouTube videos have, unsurprisingly, garnered a lot of attention.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/ravioli-lava-video_n_7701950.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
A questionable cancer cure
USA TODAY investigates Houston doctor Stanislaw Burzynski, who has been treating the terminally ill with unconventional treatments for 36 years. While supporters see him as a hero, critics say he exploits the vulnerable.
USA TODAY investigation finds experts questioning why Houston doctor is allowed to continue to offer his alternative cancer treatment with antineoplastons.
LINDEN, N.J. — On the last day of his life, Josia Cotto’s parents gave him a choice.
The 6-year-old boy had been fighting an inoperable brain tumor for 10 months. When his mother, Niasia Cotto, found him in his bed, unresponsive and unable to open his eyes, “we knew there was nothing else that we could do,” she said.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/15/stanislaw-burzynski-cancer-controversy/2994561/
American Health Imaging (Cumming, GA.) 