Google的電子病歷

Google正朝著醫藥市場前進

Online Info: Google Health

Official Google Blog: A pilot with the Cleveland Clinic for health information access

Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

HbA1c 其實也不是很夠準

HbA1c 先天限制

"Sickle Cell Trait and Other Hemoglobinopathies and Diabetes: Important Information for Physicians"

NIH的提醒


在洗腎病人會比實際情況低

Comparison of glycated albumin and hemoglobin A1c levels in diabetic subjects on hemodialysis
Kidney International advance online publication 20 February 2008; doi: 10.1038/ki.2008.25

手機用太多 與不孕

科學證據出現了
這次是精液品質下降

Effect of cell phone usage on semen analysis in men attending infertility clinic: an observational study.
Fertil Steril. 2008 Jan;89(1):124-8. Epub 2007 May 4.

熬夜與癌症

似乎有相關性，而且高到可以列為危險因子

Prospective Cohort Study of the Risk of Prostate Cancer among Rotating-Shift Workers: Findings from the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study
American Journal of Epidemiology Volume 164, Number 6 Pp. 549-555


Rotating Night Shifts and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women Participating in the Nurses' Health Study
JNCI J Natl Cancer Inst Volume 93, Number 20 Pp. 1563-1568

Night Shift Work, Light at Night, and Risk of Breast Cancer
JNCI J Natl Cancer Inst Volume 93, Number 20 Pp. 1557-1562

晚上跟週末心臟病人的存活率較低

Survival From In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest During Nights and Weekends
JAMA Vol. 299 No. 7, February 20, 2008

體重超重與癌症

Body-mass index and incidence of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies
The Lancet, Current Issue, Volume 371, Number 9612, 16 February 2008

The Lancet 2008; 371:569-578

Being overweight may raise cancer risk

YAHOO! news By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer

In men, an average weight gain of 33 pounds increased the risk of esophageal cancer by 52 percent, thyroid cancer by 33 percent, and colon and kidney cancers each by 24 percent, the research found.

In women, a weight gain of 29 pounds increased the risk of cancer in the uterus and gall bladder by nearly 60 percent, esophagus by 51 percent and kidney by 34 percent, the study said.

血醣控制爭議

將HbA1c控制在6%以下，結果反而導致mortality增加

ACCORD trial

For Safety, NHLBI Changes Intensive Blood Sugar Treatment Strategy in Clinical Trial of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
NIH press release

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/heart/other/accord/remarks.pdf