Feature Friday: Acton Children ’s Business Fair
Colleen Hroncich“Welcome to the Pop Shop!”Future entrepreneurs?With this friendly greeting, my daughters happily welcomed customers to their booth at anActon Children ’s Business Fair several years ago. The “Pop Shop” featured popcorn, popsicles, lollipops, cake pops, soda pop … you get the idea.The fair was started in Texas byActon Academy founders Jeff and Laura Sandefer to spark “a sense of wonder and entrepreneurship” in their own children. Now the largest entrepreneurship network for children in North America, the Acton Children’s Business Fair gives young entrepreneurs the chance to gain first‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 29, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Acton Children ’s Business Fair
Colleen Hroncich“Welcome to the Pop Shop!”Future entrepreneurs?With this friendly greeting, my daughters happily welcomed customers to their booth at anActon Children ’s Business Fair several years ago. The “Pop Shop” featured popcorn, popsicles, lollipops, cake pops, soda pop … you get the idea.The fair was started in Texas byActon Academy founders Jeff and Laura Sandefer to spark “a sense of wonder and entrepreneurship” in their own children. Now the largest entrepreneurship network for children in North America, the Acton Children’s Business Fair gives young entrepreneurs the chance to gain first‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 29, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Medicine May Be an Art, but AI May Be Artists
By KIM BELLARD
Six hundred years ago, Swiss physician/scientist/philosopher Paracelsus disclaimed: “Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art.” Medicine, most people in healthcare still believe, takes not just intelligence and fact-based decision-making, but also intuition, creativity, and empathy. This duality is often cited as a reason artificial intelligence (A.I.) will never replace human physicians.
Perhaps those skeptics have not heard about Ai-Da.
Now, I have to admit, “she” wasn’t on my radar either until recently, when she was imprisoned/impounded at customs by Egyptian...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Trend: Harnessing digital tech to improve mental health and wellness
From mindfulness apps to virtual therapy sessions, digital tools offer instant access to wellness resources (The Globe and Mail):
In 2015, Brie Code was working at leading video game company Ubisoft as lead artificial intelligence programmer when she realized that many people she knew – about half, by her estimation – found video games boring.
… Code left Ubisoft to develop exactly that type of game. Her AI company, Tru Luv, launched its first product, a game appropriately titled #SelfCare, in 2018. Designed with the help of Dutch academic Isabela Granic, a professor at the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) at Radb...
Source: SharpBrains - October 25, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Breathing Calm chronic insomnia Clue cognitive behavioural therapy digital mental health digital therapeutic digital wellness Global Wellness Institute global wellness market Headspace Source Type: blogs
Response to COVID-19 in Ukraine: Legal Pragmatism or Constitutional Outbreak?
Bohdan Bernatskyi (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Roman Petrov (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Response to COVID-19 in Ukraine: Legal Pragmatism or Constitutional Outbreak?, VerfBlog (2020): Legal measures adopted by Ukrainian authorities to fight COVID-19 seemed as an attempt to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 24, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Delivery Device Inspired by BBQ Lighter
A team at Georgia Tech tinkered together a battery-free electroporation device to deliver DNA vaccines, which is inspired by BBQ lighters. The details of the workings of the vaccine injector are described in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The electric ‘spark’ that ignites the gas flowing from a BBQ gas lighter has been repurposed to provide the power behind the electroporation. The battery-free piezoelectric sparking mechanism from a lighter is attached to a microneedle patch that acts as an array of electrodes. When the device is pressed against the skin, it initiates electroporation and delivery of ...
Source: Medgadget - October 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Pediatrics Public Health Source Type: blogs
Grading for Proficiency | Book Club: The One World School House | TAPP 103
Can we create a course that ensures a student isproficient in all concept groups and not just insome? Where everyone who passes is at aB+ level of proficiency (or better)? In this episode, host Kevin Patton describes his experiment with what he callsproficiency grading. And we have new andappropriately controversial selection forThe A&P Professor Book Club:The One World School House by Salman Khan.00:00 | Introduction00:56 | Book Club: The One World School House13:30 | Sponsored by AAA14:20 | Does Averaging Grades Measure Proficiency?21:35| Sponsored by HAPI22:20 | Importance of Foundation Concepts29:46| Sponsored by H...
Source: The A and P Professor - October 19, 2021 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
A healthy future: tackling climate change mitigation and human health together
This report claims that measures to tackle climate change could significantly benefit human health in the next few years, as well as in the long-term. It brings together eleven leading experts to review evidence from a range of sources around the health impacts of initiatives to tackle climate change. It concludes that if health is made central to the climate agenda, then actions taken to reach UK net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will have near-term benefits for human health, in the UK, as well as helping to reduce the risks to health from global climate change.ReportThe Academy of Medical Sciences - press release...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 14, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Environment and sustainability Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Six guidelines to navigate the Aduhelm controversy and (hopefully) help patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and early-stage Alzheimer ’s Disease
The approval of a controversial new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, Aduhelm, is shining a spotlight on mild cognitive impairment — problems with memory, attention, language or other cognitive tasks that exceed changes expected with normal aging.
After initially indicating that Aduhelm could be prescribed to anyone with dementia, the Food and Drug Administration now specifies that the prescription drug be given to individuals with mild cognitive impairment or early-stage Alzheimer’s, the groups in which the medication was studied.
Yet this narrower recommendation raises questions. What does a diagnosis of mild cognitive...
Source: SharpBrains - October 13, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Aduhelm Alzheimer’s Disease attention-problems brain bleeding brain swelling cognitive problems dementia dementia specialists early-stage Alzheimer’s Food and Drug Administration language problems memory pr Source Type: blogs
Issues in diagnosing grade 1 diastolic dysfunction: Pearls and Perils
Doppler E/A ratio reversal is probably the most reported abnormality in clinical echocardiography. We are also pleased to label it as a grade 1 diastolic dysfunction. Making a significant population who come for regular health checks anxious and worried.
Sharing a presentation from the Annual conference ECHO INDIA 2019, I participated in a symposium on Diastolic dysfunction.
Topic : Issues in diagnosing grade 1 diastolic dysfunction: Pearls and Perils
How did we get into this academic trap? Should we continue this practice?
The current ASE guidelines 2016 have a clear message. It has taken off the E/A ratio from the Init...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - October 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Cardiology-Echocardiography Diastolic dysfunction Echocardiography-hemodynamics classification of diastolic dysfunction diastolic dysfunction ppt echoindia grade 1 dd HFpEF indian academy of echocardiography what is grae 1 diastolic dysf Source Type: blogs
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hardens data security rules for health apps and devices
FTC says it will fine digital health companies that don’t disclose data breaches (mobihealthnews):
With data breaches on the rise, the FTC is looking to make health apps more accountable for telling patients when their data has been exposed.
The FTC released a new statement specifying that all health apps that capture sensitive patient information notify users, the commission itself and in some cases the media when a security breach has compromised identifiable health data. If the company fails to do so it could face a fine of $43,792 per day of violation.
The ruling is actually more than ten years old, but according to ...
Source: SharpBrains - October 7, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation data breaches devices digital health FTC health apps Health Breach Notification Rule health data personal health records security breach Source Type: blogs
Haitians Assimilate Well in the United States
David J. BierHaitian immigrants have received more attention in recent weeks after the U.S. governmenttrapped them in terrible conditions at a camp along the U.S.-Mexico border and is now using extraordinary legal methods toexpel more than 500 per day. But there is no reason to oppose Haitian immigration. Despite extreme challenges, Haitians integrate well into the U.S. economy and society. Across numerous economic and social measures, Haitians and their U.S. descendants contribute to and prosper in their new country.First Generation Haitian Immigrants AssimilateHaitians mostly speak Haitian creole —a mix of French an...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 4, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
