Oat Milk

First came soy, then almond. But the people behind Oatly believe they’ve found the best possible milk - Rachel Sugar

Oatmeal

Traditional oat porridge was made with flaked oats, but modern versions are more finely milled i.e. they are oat flour. This means they are easier to prepare. Think 1 minute in the microwave. But………. this changes how they behave in the gut. And these changes are NOT necessarily good for us - Sandy On

Oats

When it comes to superfoods, there is one food that ticks the boxes. It’s not an ancient grain or a fancy new age green leaf. It’s the humble oat - Dr Joanna McMillan

OB

A special place for practicing obstetricians and gynecologists

OB Emergencies

Pregnant patients are susceptible to the same diseases, including appendicitis and biliary disease, that are common in the general population. These conditions need to be considered in addition to obstetric causes in the work-up of abdominal pain in pregnant patients - Marina Boushra MD

OB Ultrasound

Ultrasound scan is currently considered to be a safe, non-invasive, accurate & cost-effective investigation in the fetus. It has progressively become an indispensible obstetric tool and plays an important role in the care of every pregnant woman - OU.ne

Obama Likes His Butts

21% of the population smokes cigarettes and every year approximately 20% of them try to quit, yet only 2% will be successful. President Obama can relate, he is still struggling with smoking, and is using “nicotine replacement therapy”

ObamaCare

The act has become entrenched as a partisan issue rather than a human one, a litmus test for party affiliation rather than a set of innovative, but imperfect, ideas geared towards increasing access to health care and containing costs - Vishal Khetpal

ObamaCare Good or Bad

Insuring every U.S. citizen by 2014 is laudable but not by creating a bigger and more convoluted mess. However, there is a way out and it's next door!

ObamaCare Is There a Fix

Just ask our northern neighbors, the Canadians. And it’s not defunding ObamaCare, granting everyone the current ‘federal worker option’ or even socialized medicine. For the lack of a better term could it be a SinglePayerPlan, aka Medicare for everyone.

Obamacare, is it on Life Support?

A reasonable prediction seems to be the ACA is here to stay and that efforts to repeal it will, vis-a-vi the British system, become less fervent as people get used to the benefits it offers to them

OBE

Millions of people have reported OBEs, but only a few have been studied in laboratory or clinical settings - Todd Murphy

Obesity

Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem - Indra Nooyi

Obesity and Coke

Coca-Cola wants you to believe that, contrary to conventional wisdom, empty-calorie beverages like Coke don't contribute to obesity. And they're willing to pay scientists to peddle their message.

Obesity Epidemic

The obesity epidemic now affects practically all countries, all income levels, all age groups and all sectors and industries. This truly global problem now accounts for more deaths and more costs than any other epidemic - Bruce Y. Lee

OBGYN Obstetricians & Gynecologists

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car - Carrie Snow

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD

People with OCD are plagued by recurring and distressing thoughts, fears, or images that they cannot control. The anxiety produced by these thoughts leads to an urgent need to compulsively perform certain rituals or routines

Obstetric Brachial Plexus Injury (Erb's Palsy)

Brachial plexus injuries can be caused by trauma sustained during a difficult childbirth, and it affects approximately 1 to 2 children per 1000 live births. Erb’s palsy is caused by injury to the fifth (C5) and sixth cervical (C6) spinal nerves, whereas Klumpke’s palsy is caused by injury to the eighth cervical (C8) and first thoracic (T1) spinal nerves - Carl Tabb II, BS

Obstetrics

A special place for practicing obstetricians and gynecologists

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)

Sleep apnea patients may soon have several new treatments to choose from. Not one involves an annoying face mask - Andrea Petersen

Occult Blood Stool

There are two different types of tests on the market today that you can take in the privacy of your own home that requires no laxative-taking/bowel-cleansing preparation - Jim T Miller

Occupational Exposure

HIV transmission after a single percutaneous exposure to HIV-positive blood is low and this risk is considerably lower than that arising from hepatitis B and C viruses respectively 100 times and 10 times less - University of Wisconsin

Occupational Lung Diseases

Occupational diseases are often thought to be uniquely and specifically related to factors in the work environment... However, occupational exposures also contribute to the development or worsening of common respiratory diseases - European Lung White Book

Occupational Medicine

More and more modern office jobs demand the ability to multitask and tempt employees to be continously available. This causes new health risks that occupational medicine needs to face - Timo Roth

Occupational Medicine & Industrial Clinics

Workplaces are safer than ever before & the economy is shifting from manufacturing to service & tech. The resulting reduction in the # of worker injuries is prompting the end of the formerly lucrative dedicated occ med clinic business - Practice Velocity

Occupational Therapists

Wherever possible, lifestyle redesign, education and other techniques to promote health and prevent injury or other problems from arising are the primary focus of OT intervention - Shoshanah Shear

OCD & Howie Mandel

People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder may be aware that their obsessions and compulsions are senseless or unrealistic, but they cannot stop themselves. Howie Mandel recently released an account of his lifelong struggles with OCD

Octreotide (Sandostatin)

Octreotide is an octapeptide that mimics endogenous somatostatin. Somatostatin is released by cells in the pyloric antrum, the pancreas, and the duodenum. It has an overall inhibitory effect on secretion of multiple hormones, reducing gut motility and gastric emptying, and decreasing splanchnic blood flow - Christina Shenvi MD

Ocular (Retinal) Migraine

Ocular or retinal migraines are generally defined as a transient monocular scotoma or loss of vision that is accompanied or followed by a headache within 60 minutes of visual symptoms onset. In some cases, persistent monocular visual loss and abnormal ophthalmological findings have been reported - Yasir Al Khalili

Ocular Foreign Bodies

Corneal foreign bodies account for the second most common form of ocular trauma, with corneal abrasions being number one. In general, major morbidity such as visual acuity loss is not common. Many corneal foreign bodies are superficial and benign, albeit uncomfortable - Anthony J. Camodeca

Oculomotor Nerve Palsy

Third nerve palsy is an uncommon condition that carries significant risk of serious disease due to both the variability of its presentation and its association with intracranial aneurysms - Michael M. Woodruff MD & the absence of mydriasis (a.k.a “Rule of the Pupil”)is not a sensitive way to r/o a compressive aneurysm - Richard Xiang

Off Shore Wind Power

Renewable energy is a must. So is protecting marine life - Anuradha Varanasi

Ohio Train Derailment

This thing could go on for generations. It's a lot more than gasses and the big cloud and plume of chemicals - Ben Ratner

Oil & the environment

Even though petroleum products make life easier — finding, producing, moving, and using them can harm the environment through air and water pollution - Environment and Ecology

Oil Spills

The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better - Condoleezza Rice

OIT

Completing an oral immunotherapy program is a lifestyle game changer - Charles Feng

Older Adult Suicide

Although most older adults report higher levels of well-being and greater meaning in life than their younger counterparts, late-life suicide remains a pressing public health concern - Brenna N. Renn PhD

Older Adults & Covid-19

Older people and people with chronic illness are at greater risk, and how we respond to the threat affects everyone - Umair Irfan and Julia Belluz

Older Adults & Covid-19 Vaccination

The clearest way to reduce deaths is to push to vaccinate more of the elderly—yes, still - Sarah Zhang

Olecranon Bursitis

Olecranon bursitis, also called baker’s or Popeye elbow, can be a painless or an irritating condition involving the bursa located near the proximal end of the ulna in the elbow over the olecranon - James R. Roberts, MD & Martha Roberts

Olfactory Bulb

Unlike other animals, we humans have evolved to rely most on our sense of vision—but your sense of smell may be more important than you think - Jordan Gaines Lewis PhD

Olive Oil

The latest scientific research in olive oil focuses on the health promoting aspects and uses of phenolic compounds, in particular oleocanthal - Marilyn Harding

Olympics

Sometimes people ask why the Olympics exist, and there are at least two answers. One is they are a peerless global showcase of the human spirit as it pertains to sport, and the other is they are a peerless global showcase of the human spirit as it pertains to aristocrats getting luxurious hotel rooms and generous per diems - Bruce Arthur

Olympics & Covid

Our job as athletes is to make people dream…. Hopefully people will get to maybe forget a little bit about the whole pandemic thing [during] the Olympics - Guillaume Cizeron

Olympics, Though She Be But Little, Simone Biles is Fierce

It was a very good year for women at the Rio Olympics. But one woman dominated...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Are Omega-3 fatty acids one of nature's wonder supplements or are we just destroying the fish and the oceans and ultimately ourselves in the quest for health? - HWN

Omega-3s: Is It an Environmental Disaster?

Are Omega-3 fatty acids one of nature's wonder supplements or are we just destroying the fish and the oceans and ultimately ourselves in the quest for health?

Omega-6 Fatty Acids

These fats don't enjoy the same sunny reputation as omega-3 fats - Harvard Health

Omega-9 Fatty acids

Like their aforementioned cousins, omega-3s, 6s and 7s, omega-9s are among the group of fatty acids—unsaturated fats—that are the superheroes of the fat world - OmegaQquant

Omicron

What’s known so far absolutely warrants attention—not panic. Viruses mutate; they always do. Not all variants of concern turn out to be, well, all that concerning; many end up being mere blips in the pandemic timeline - Katherine J. Wu

Omicron Variants

BA.1 and its siblings seem to be a threat mainly to those who are unvaccinated, haven’t been boosted, or haven’t been infected recently—including in countries with Zero-COVID policies - Josh Sharfstein

Omphalocele

A gastroschisis is usually an isolated congenital defect, whereas a baby with an omphalocele often has chromosome anomalies, cardiac conditions, and other major birth defects - National Association of Neonatal Nurses

On Call Doctors

Just about everything can be done online these days from shopping, dating and working to even consulting a doctor thousands of miles away... But can on-line medicine truly replace traditional face-to-face medical practice - HWN

On Demand Health Services

Health care delivery is so broken that we need to explore new channels — new conduits — and this represents one of them - Dr. Eric Topol

Onchocerciasis River Blindness

The second leading cause of infectious blindness in the world is river blindness, or onchocerciasis, caused by a parasitic worm transmitted through bites from blackflies that live and breed near fast-flowing rivers - Tara Haelle

Oncologic Emergencies

Cancer patients are at risk for several life-threatening emergencies, including metabolic, cardiologic, neurologic, and infectious events. Many of these high-risk situations can be prevented or effectively managed if promptly recognized and urgently treated - Deepti Behl MD

Oncologists

Oncologists trade in bad news of the worst kind. It’s not just dealing with mortality but everything in between - Ranjana Srivastava

Oncolytic Virus Therapy

Although the notion of using viruses in cancer therapy is old, the science only began to move forward in the 1990s with advances in genetic engineering technology with another shift around 2005, as people began to realize the true value of viruses in cancer therapy is in immunotherapy. - Yan Zhi PHD

Online Pharmacies

Never set foot in a pharmacy again. Buy your drugs online. But, a word to the wise...If you buy drugs online be careful of rogue sites

Online Workouts

Virtual fitness classes have grown past the novelty phase, with millions of people using apps and internet-connected gear to exercise at home - Hilary Potkewitz

Onsite Clinics

Employers fed up with the annual “get less for more” health story when they get annual health plan updates have taken matters into their own hands. This has created one of the hottest sectors of the economy — onsite clinic providers - Dave Chase

Onychomycosis

You don’t have to have have crumbly, discolored, unhealthy nails forever. Toenail fungus is more treatable, maybe even curable, than you think - Marty Munson

Open Fractures

Open fractures are a time-dependent orthopedic emergency due to the risk of osteomyelitis - Tyler Martin

Open Globe Injury

You should suspect it when someone has moderate to severe pain, decreased vision, hyphema, and deviation of the pupil - Drew Carlton

Open Joint Injuries (Traumatic Arthrotomy)

CT shows promise in diagnosing TA of the knee but not other joints. The saline load test (SLT) can be a sensitive test for identifying TA. However, it requires a significant volume of injected saline and is painful. Methylene blue is not necessary - Brit Long MD

Open Pneumothorax

An easy way to remember this is that any wound roughly the size of a penny or larger can lead to a sucking chest wound - W. Scott Gilmore MD

Operating Room

Hospitals are trying to make it safer for patients to go under the knife - Laura Landro

Operations

Before a drug can be marketed, it has to go through rigorous testing to show it is safe and effective. Surgery, though, is different - Gina Kolata

Ophthalmologists

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opiates

Opiates are chemical compounds that are extracted or refined from natural plant matter (poppy sap and fibers). Examples of opiates Opium, Morphine, Codeine, Heroin - Oregon.gov

Opinion Why Arguing About Fact Won't Change Anything (But Beliefs Just Might)

In the time of Trump, "the death of fact" is the lament of the Left. But insisting that the Right is wrong about facts is to forget that belief is all any of us ever has.

Opioid Addiction

Fortunately, we have a proven way of lowering the death rate and easing the ills of addiction: medication-assisted treatments like methadone and buprenorphine. Unfortunately, thanks to a moral and policy-driven opposition to these treatment techniques, we’re not using it - Zachary Siegel

Opioid Addiction Is Both Medical and Financial

Over the last few years opioids have gotten a lot of bad press. But is profit motive more to blame than the drug itself?

Opioid Epidemic

Unless you’ve been living in a hut on an island in the South Pacific, you are certainly aware of the opioid epidemic. Its roots are deep. Its social, medical, and economic considerations are varied and complex.- Taryn Lloyd

Opioid Overdose Prevention

We can prevent overdoses and save lives by ensuring equitable access to essential health care and support services without stigma - HHS.gov

Opioid Toxidrome

The opioid toxidrome includes three prominent findings - CNS depression, miosis, and most importantly, respiratory depression - but presentations may be variable - Chris Lipp

Opioid Use Disorder

Fortunately, we have a proven way of lowering the death rate and easing the ills of addiction: medication-assisted treatments like methadone and buprenorphine. Unfortunately, thanks to a moral and policy-driven opposition to these treatment techniques, we’re not using it - Zachary Siegel

Opium

For thousands of year, opium was the principal analgesic known to medicine. In the 16th century, the German-Swiss alchemist Paracelsus described it as “a secret remedy - Robert Morrison

Optic Neuritis

Demyelination associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common cause in regions where MS is prevalent; while in other places, there are a substantial proportion of cases where infective or autoimmune causes are seen - Vimia Menon et al

Optic Neuropathy

Rapid onset is characteristic of optic neuritis, ischemic optic neuropathy, inflammatory (non-demyelinating) and traumatic optic neuropathy. A gradual onset over months is typical of compressive toxic/nutritional optic neuropathy. A more protracted history over years is seen in compressive and hereditary optic neuropathies - Raed Behbehani

Optometrists

Perhaps more than many other industries, optometry is facing a big time of change - EyeCarePro Blog

Optometry Careers

Looking for a dynamic and challenging career which allows you to help people, achieve personal growth, community respect, job flexibility and financial success and offers virtually unlimited opportunities - AOA

Oral Health Products & Supplies

As dental care has started moving from being a necessary but boring chore to another way to be glamorous, more and more products are moving onto shelves - Alina Tugend

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

Remember oral surgery is not expensive...neglect is - TahoeOralSurgery.com

Oral Cancer

The face of oral cancer continues to change. Oral cancer does not discriminate age, gender or race, it can effect anybody. Oral cancer is one of the few cancers still on the rise - International Oral Cancer Association

Oral Candidiasis

Exists as a small single-celled organism, but when the immune system is compromised, Candida elongates into an invasive form called hyphae that causes a pervasive infection called oral candidiasis, or "thrush - University of Pittsburgh

Oral Contraceptive Pills

There are risks associated with hormonal contraception, and these shouldn’t be underplayed - Sarah Byrne

Oral Health

The mouth serves as a “window” to the rest of the body, providing signals of general health disorders - Dental Health Foundation Ireland

Oral Health Epidemic

Poor oral health continues to disproportionately affect low-income individuals, the frail and vulnerable, and the traditionally underserved - Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

Oral Herpes

There's this perception that HSV-1 is not that big a deal, and HSV-2 is something that carries a stigma. I'm here to say that's really not true, in general terms, the viruses are essentially the same, save for where they occur - Thomas Connelly

Oral Hygiene

A healthy mouth makes for a healthy body. If that sounds trite, consider that in recent decades scientists have connected poor oral health to cardiovascular disease, stomach ulcers, pneumonia, malnutrition, and a host of other serious ailments - SA

Oral Hypoglycemics

A huge assortment of 100 medications are available to treat high blood sugar in Type 2 diabetes, including two historical breakthrough drugs, insulin and metformin. The pharmaceutical industry has successfully added a few new, innovative drugs, but the most effective drugs remain the older, less expensive medications - Randall Stafford

Oral Immunotherapy

Completing an oral immunotherapy program is a lifestyle game changer - Charles Feng

Oral Infections

An oral infection doesn’t always cause pain. Bad breath, fever, swelling in the gums, glands or jaw, or a strange taste in the mouth can indicate the presence of an infection - Zeyad Mady DDS

Oral Lesions

Since not all oral sores are benign, a careful differential diagnosis is important. The two most common types are canker sores (recurrent aphthous stomatitis) and cold sores (herpetic lesions) - Stuart L. Segelnick DDS

Oral Nerve Blocks

There are essentially 2 blocks you will need to know: the inferior alveolar nerve block (mandibular teeth), supraperiosteal infiltrations (maxillary teeth) - Peter Leighton

Oral Sex

Before embarking oral sex adventure and experiencing erotic ecstasy, many men and women never bother to ask themselves how oral sex affects our health - Royal

Oral Thrush

Exists as a small single-celled organism, but when the immune system is compromised, Candida elongates into an invasive form called hyphae that causes a pervasive infection called oral candidiasis, or "thrush - University of Pittsburgh

Orbital Cellulitis

The main three examination findings that confirm the diagnosis are ophthalmoplegia (and often diplopia), eye pain with movement, and proptosis - Larry Mellick, MD

Orchitis

Orchitis can be caused by a sexually transmitted infection (STI), such as chlamydia or gonorrhea, but it can also be caused by other factors, such as a viral infection like mumps, injury, or autoimmune diseases. So while orchitis can be an STI in some cases, it is not always classified as one - Michelle Thompson

Organ Black Market

The demand for viable organ transplants is not going away any time soon. We are either going to have to find an ethical and honourable way of solving this enormous problem or the day of "Big Al’s Used Organ Lot" may not be so far away - Shilo Zylbergold

Organ Donation

Organ and tissue donation are not popular topics of conversation. It’s hard to discuss or even consider end-of-life care with loved ones, but it’s an important issue that has the potential to save many lives - Sahaj Kohli

Organ Donation Charities

Many countries, especially in Europe, have higher rates of donation with policies based on “presumed consent,” with people who don’t want to become donors needing to opt out - Judy Stone

Organ Donation Compensation: A Simple Solution or Inevitable Inequity?

No doubt allowing people to sell their organs would increase the supply for those awaiting transplants. But would the societal benefits of such a move be offset by a further widening of the gap between the rich and poor?

Organic Food

Organics is at a crossroads. The founding principles of organics are increasingly under attack by powerful agribusiness corporations that want a slice of the organic profit pie - The Cornucopia Institute

Organic Food & Pesticides

Organic farming, just like other forms of agriculture, still uses pesticides and fungicides to prevent critters from destroying their crops - Christie Wilcox

Organic Food Is It Really Organic?

The organic food industry has outgrown the original regulations meant to protect it and its consumers. How organic is organic food is more important now than in the past

Organic Milk

Where your milk comes from may be just as important as an organic label. - Sarah Jampel

Organics Goodwins: Honest to Goodness 100% Organic

Finding healthy food is easier today than for your parents. But what about finding a 100% organic grocery store that has a lot of choices and still is in business!

Organizations for Pain

On the bright side, psychological therapies for pain are low-risk. The same cannot be said of medical treatments for chronic pain - Brian Resnick

Orgasm

Regardless of how orgasm is achieved, it is, by definition, an extremely pleasurable experience. And no woman I know would rate one form of orgasm as more “mature” than another. Most would just be happy to have one, any old way - Jane Ussher

Original Covid Vaccines

Many factors weaken the aging immune system. But vaccines—and booster doses—do offer protection from hospitalization and death - Amy McKeever

Origins Covid-19

Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable. Knowing how COVID-19 emerged is critical for informing global strategies to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks - Jesse D. Bloom

Ornish

What you gain is so much more than what you give up - Dean Ornish

Orthobiologics

Orthobiologics refers to all treatments that utilize molecules, cells or tissues to aid in the healing and reparative process of a musculoskeletal injury or chronic orthopaedic condition - Dominic King DO

Orthodontists

Cosmetic dentistry now represents the largest nonsurgical beauty industry after makeup - Dan P Lee

Orthopedic Emergencies

Orthopedic injuries are common in the emergency department and range from deceptively innocuous appearing injuries to amputated extremities - Brett Lee MD

Orthopedic Trauma

Orthopedic injuries are common in the emergency department and range from deceptively innocuous appearing injuries to amputated extremities - Brett Lee MD

Orthopedist Journals

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Orthopedist Organizations

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly - Mary Kay Ash

Orthopedists

Make no bones about it...probably the best resource for practicing orthopedists - HWN

Orthotics

Call them orthoses. Call them orthotics. Call them inserts. Call them insoles. Call them footbeds... But call them something - Marie-Catherine Bruno, BScPT

Oscillococcinum & Flu

In recent years, Oscillococcinum has secured a slot as one of the top over-the-counter supplements used to treat and reduce symptoms of the flu. Due to the questionable science behind the product and a lack of high-quality research, its effectiveness remains controversial. It may offer a placebo effect rather than true medicinal properties - Healthline

Osgood-Schlatter Disease

It is an easily identifiable issue with many suggestions regarding treatment. Many of those treatments will end in frustration and wasted money... stop addressing symptoms and start addressing causation - Human Performance and Rehabilitation

Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome

Nosebleeds alone may be a reason to suspect HHT, especially if they are frequent, persist into adulthood and/or are present in multiple generations of your family - Sara Palmer

Osteoarthritis

As surgeons, we understand that nobody wants surgery. That's why weight loss & exercise are critical to slow disease progression. However, it's reassuring to know that patients can lead an active & pain free life with modern joint replacements - Raj Sinha

Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Though fragile bones are the hallmark of OI, many parts of the body are affected by OI. Skeletal features include fragile bones, bone deformity, loose joints, and short stature - Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation

Osteomalacia

Rickets is the clinical consequence of impaired mineralization of bone matrix throughout the growing skeleton, whilst osteomalacia is the result of this disturbance after the growth plates have fused in adults - Michael P. Whyte & Rajesh V. Thakker

Osteomyelitis

Nowadays, the presence of implants is one of the most important predisposing factors - Michalis Panteli and Peter V Giannoudis  

Osteonecrosis

This results from a wide variety of conditions, many poorly understood, which lead to major joint damage in children and young adults - National Osteonecrosis Foundation

Osteopathic Medicine

We are doctors of osteopathic medicine and the way we practice health care is different. We don’t see patients. We see people - American Osteopathic Association

Osteopathic Medicine Apps

Physician medical apps provide latest medical research, resources to improve patient care - Vicki Martinka Petersen

Osteopathic Medicine Blogs

An osteopath must be a man of reason and prove his talk by his work - AT Still, Research and Practice, p. 10

Osteopathic Medicine Careers

The concept of treating the whole patient, rather than just the disease and preventive medicine is not the property of new age medicine, osteopaths have been 'do'ing it for over 120 years

Osteopathic Medicine CME

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future ― Brian Tracy

Osteopathic Medicine Orgs

We stand on the brink of the greatest opportunity we have ever seen to bring true osteopathic care to the forefront of medicine - Laura Griffin DO

Osteopathic Medicine Students

Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine are complete physicians who practice in every medical specialty. DOs are trained to first consider the person within the patient - Doctors That Do

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis and thinning bones is a major but under appreciated public health problem - Miriam Nelson

Osteoporosis Meds

Standard treatments, drugs called bisphosphonates, stop the loss of bone but do not build it - Gina Kolata

Osteosarcoma Bone Cancer

Patients who develop osteosarcoma in 2017 receive treatment that remains essentially unchanged since the 1970s. Outcomes likewise remain largely unimproved - Amanda J. Saraf et al

Ostomy

For many of us a stoma is lifesaving. You have probably suffered with a serious illness, whether an IBD, bowel cancer, or something else, and ostomy surgery was needed to make you better - Laura Zappulla

Otalgia

Otalgia is aching or pain in the ear and causes can be primary, relating to the ear itself, or referred from sources outside the ear - Patient.info

OTC Abuse

Abuse of OTC medicines is most common among teens between the ages of 13 and 16. They know they might find a cheap high right in their family’s medicine cabinet, often without being caught - Philly.com

OTCs

The way illness is treated in the United States is ghastly, ranging from costly, inadequate insurance to cheap, over the counter medicines for everything under the sun - Julie Gray

Otitis Externa

It’s a bit of a misnomer, because swimming isn’t always involved. But otitis externa, as the condition is also called, is linked often enough to water exposure that the name “swimmer’s ear” has stuck - Matthew Kashima

Otitis Media

Even with an accurate diagnosis, most ear infections go away on their own. Really. Without antibiotics - Chad Hayes MD

Out of Body Experience

Millions of people have reported OBEs, but only a few have been studied in laboratory or clinical settings - Todd Murphy

Outbreaks

We have eradicated and eliminated some diseases from our community, but the honest truth is most diseases don't get eliminated. Most diseases come home to stay - Dr. Ali S. Khan

Outdoors & Health

Just being outside can improve your psychological health, and maybe your physical health too - Zoë Schlanger

Outpatient & Prevention Treatment Protocol Covid-19

While there is no cure or “Magic-bullet” for COVID-19, recently, a number of therapeutic agents have shown great promise for both the prevention and treatment of this disease including Ivermectin, Vitamin D, quercetin, melatonin, Vitamin C, fluvoxamine and corticosteroids - Frontline Covid19 Critical Care Alliance

Outpatient Surgeries

There are advantages to outpatient procedures. The anesthesia doesn’t last as long, and the procedure is usually less invasive. That can make them safer. Your recovery also will be faster - Healthgrades

Outside & Health

Just being outside can improve your psychological health, and maybe your physical health too - Zoë Schlanger

Ovarian Cancer

Despite its long-standing nickname, ovarian cancer isn’t really a silent killer. There are symptoms; it’s just that they whisper or are commonly mistaken for something else, like aging or irritable bowel syndrome - Diane Mapes

Ovarian Cancer Screening

Currently most blood tests measure the levels of a protein CA125. But using this as a marker for cancer in the blood is not reliable as it can also be elevated in pregnancy, during a woman’s period, and other non fatal conditions (such as endometriosis) - Bobby Graham & Ciaren Graham

Ovarian Cysts

Ovarian cysts can be divided in two ways - those that go away by themselves vs. those that need treatment, and those that are benign vs. those that are cancer. Most cysts are benign and will go away by themselves - OvaryResearch.com

Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome OHSS

If we can have IVF stimulation at a lower cost and without OHSS, then it would be a great step forward - Dr. Pasquale Patrizio

Ovarian Torsion

Unfortunately ovarian torsion remains a diagnostic challenge for carers who look after women who present with abdominal pain in the emergency setting. A lot relies on a high index of suspicion and taking a good history and examination - Jimi Odejinmi

Over The Counter Drugs

The way illness is treated in the United States is ghastly, ranging from costly, inadequate insurance to cheap, over the counter medicines for everything under the sun - Julie Gray

Overactive Bladder

The threshold between urinating a lot and having OAB is crossed when frequent peeing, sudden urges, or inability to “hold it” cause the patient distress - Nick Keppler

Overdose Awareness

It takes only one overdose to affect many - Kendra Kountz

Overdose Prevention

There are real, evidence-based solutions to the drug overdose crisis - German Lopez

OverFishing

Around 70 percent of global fish stocks are fully or overfished, and 30 percent have collapsed, which means they produce less than 10 percent of their original capacity - Mark Bittman

Overhydration

At every moment water escapes the body through sweat, urination, defecation/exhaled breath among other routes. Replacing these lost stores is essential but rehydration can be overdone. There is such a thing as a fatal water overdose - Coco Ballantyne

Overtreatment

For all the truly wondrous developments of modern medicine—imaging technologies that enable precision surgery, routine organ transplants, care that transforms premature infants into perfectly healthy kids, and remarkable chemotherapy treatments, to name a few—it is distressingly ordinary for patients to get treatments that research has shown are ineffective or even dangerous - David Epstein and ProPublica

Overtreatment and Overtesting

Curing medical excess will not be easy. Harmful overtesting and overtreating is promoted and protected by the enormous economic and political power of the medical industrial complex - Allen Frances

Overuse Sport Injuries

Most overuse injuries can be prevented with proper training and common sense. Learn to listen to your body. Remember that "no pain, no gain" does not apply here - Stop Sports Injuries

Overweight

Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem - Indra Nooyi

Ovulation

In a nutshell about the egg, there is a lot to learn and know about once you plan a child - Map My Genome

Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine

The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines both use mRNA as their platform for delivering the genetic instructions. AstraZeneca-Oxford’s uses DNA instead, and the DNA is delivered to cells with the help of another virus known as an adenovirus - Julia Belluz and Umair Irfan

Oximeter Monitoring

If you haven’t been diagnosed with Covid-19, or aren’t suspected to have it, home pulse oximeters aren’t necessary - Pam Moore

Oxycodone (Percocet)

The drugs are analogues of heroin, the potent opiate that has long been almost universally synonymous with danger—with arrests, needles, rock bottom, death - James Hamblin MD

Oxytocin

Oxytocin is a real hormone, a neuropeptide, that has been shown to influence behavior across the animal kingdom, particularly in mammals, and particularly in social mammals - Brian Resnick

Ozempic

This is the start of a new era of effective treatments for obesity - Dr. Robert F. Kushner

Ozone Emissions & Ozone Hole

Ozone pollution is truly a global problem. The important point to remember, though, is that it is a manageable problem - Dave Levitan

Ozone Therapy

Of course, ozone autohemotherapy is not for everyone. It is not a magic pill, but it might help when traditional treatment has failed - Sergey Kalitenko MD