Ethics class
I delivered a lecture about ethical considerations related to the neuroscience of brain plasticity to a class at Stanford last night, and thought it might be fun to reiterate some of the issues raised for those bright young men and women struggling to understand how to behave in their professional lives. The class is organized by Bill Hurlbut, a Stanford neurologist and bioethicist who serves on the President’s Council for Bioethics, and Bill Newsome, a distinguished neurobiologist (member of the National Academy of Sciences) on the Stanford faculty who has had a long interest in neuroscience-related issues of philos...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - April 1, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Brain Fitness BrainHQ Childhood Learning Cognitive Impairment in Children Cognitive impairments Source Type: blogs
Financing of the Anti-COVID-19 Immunization Process in the Republic of Moldova
Andrei Petroia (Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova), Elena Zubcova (Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova), Financing of the Anti-COVID-19 Immunization Process in the Republic of Moldova, SSRN: The immunization is a multidimensional process, with an integrated approach to the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 31, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Hummingbird Device for Ear Tube Placement: Interview with Steve Anderson, CEO of Preceptis Medical
In the United States approximately 1 million children undergo ear tube placement every year. The tubes are typically needed when there’s excess fluid in the middle ear and to address chronic ear infections. The tubes help to prevent this fluid build-up but require placement under general anesthesia.
General anesthesia can be distressing for children and parents, and Preceptis Medical, a medtech company based in Minnesota, has developed an in-office solution for ear tube placement that requires only a local anesthetic. The Hummingbird device allows an ENT surgeon to place an ear tube in a single pass, and provides ...
Source: Medgadget - March 30, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: ENT Exclusive Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Micro-Aneurysm-On-A-Chip to Model Vascular Disease
An international research collaboration, including teams from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Brown University, and MIT, has developed an AI platform that can assess blood flow characteristics through microvasculature. The system relies on a microfluidic chip that mimics vascular disease, in this case a micro-aneurysm in the eye.
The AI platform uses 2D images of fluid flow through the chip to calculate how blood would flow in three dimensions. The resulting data could help clinicians to learn more about vascular diseases, improve their diagnosis, and track their progression.
“Curre...
Source: Medgadget - March 25, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Ophthalmology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Returning to sports and physical activity after COVID-19: What parents need to know
While most children and teens who have COVID-19 recover completely, sometimes the virus can have lasting effects. One of those effects can be damage to the muscle of the heart — and if a damaged heart is stressed by exercise, it can lead to arrhythmias, heart failure, or even sudden death.
This appears to be rare. But given that we are literally learning as we go when it comes to COVID-19, it’s hard for us to know how rare — and just how risky exercise after testing positive for COVID-19 might be. To help doctors, coaches, gym teachers, parents, and caregivers make safe decisions, the American Academy of Pediatrics h...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Exercise and Fitness Source Type: blogs
Happify Health raises $73M to deepen partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and insurance payers
Happify Health raises $73M to expand its digital therapeutic care delivery capabilities (MobiHealth News):
Founded in 2012, Happify is best known for digital programs that provided automated self-guided support across various areas of mental health and wellness, such as stress management for employees or health plan members. Should the user need additional support, the platform can also facilitate a referral to third-party coaching, therapy, telemedicine or other available resources.
In more recent years the platform has expanded to address more than a dozen other chronic conditions, such as heart health and psoriasis, tha...
Source: SharpBrains - March 17, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation artificial intelligence digital therapeutic solutions digital therapeutics Happify Happify Health mental-wellness pharmaceutical stress-management Source Type: blogs
How might leadership roles evolve in integrated health and care systems?
This report for the NHS Leadership Academy explores some of the implications of the Long Term Plan and its supporting plans on leadership within local health and care systems, the roles that may emerge over time, and what knowledge, skills and support leaders need in the future. The report provides an overview of research carried out to better understand how leadership roles are changing in the health and social care sector, especially in collaborative and integrated health and care systems.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 16, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Leadership and leadership development Source Type: blogs
Evidence Suggests Private Schooling No More Likely Than Public to Fuel Right ‐Wing Militancy
Neal McCluskeyFor some people, a considerable worry about private education is that it might foster right‐wing hate and militancy. This concern can be seen in a series ofHuffPostarticles over the last few years sounding alarms about textbooks in some private schools, and inthis recent op ‐ed attacking efforts to expand educational freedom in West Virginia. Says the latter:We have seen where this leads. In some Middle Eastern cultures, private schools called madrassas have been known to engage in religious and political indoctrination beginning at a very young age, even including combat training with military...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
Heavy metals in baby food? What parents should know and do
If there is anything you can trust to be safe, it should be baby food, right?
Well… maybe not.
A report from the US House Committee on Oversight and Reform says that commercial baby foods are tainted with dangerous levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury.
Which baby food companies are involved?
The report was based on information from just four companies that make baby food: Nurture, Beech-Nut, Hain, and Gerber. Arsenic, lead, and cadmium were found in baby foods from all of the companies; mercury was found in the food from the only company that tested for it (Nurture).
Of note, three other companies (Walmart, Spro...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Healthy Eating Nutrition Parenting Source Type: blogs
As One Licensed NC Physician To Another Unlicensed One (Dr. Mary Johnson to Dr. Mandy Cohen/NC DHHS Secretary): PROTECT MEDICAL WHISTLEBLOWERS NOW!
Related to mylast post - which went up (after much soul-searching and trepidation) on 2/28/20201 one of the biggest complaints (coming largely from folks reading on mobile phones) was that the post was " so long " . They wanted something more " concise " . The post relates my own horrific pandemic experience with Central Carolina Hospital/ApolloMD and Duke Lifepoint in Sanford, North Carolina. It ' s my third dance as a medical whistle-blower in 23 years. And much like the first two cases (Asheboro in 1998, and ETSU/Ballad Health in 2017), it ' s really NOT " soundbite " material (it would ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - March 4, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ApolloMD Central Carolina Hospital CMS Dr. Seuss Duke Lifepoint HIPAA Mandy Cohen Medicaid Medical Whistleblower NCDHHS Pandemic Pediatric Hospitalist Source Type: blogs
Consumer Reports finds unclear, questionable privacy practices and policies among popular mental health apps
Conclusion: Mental health apps show many of the same patterns we see elsewhere in data-collecting apps. However, the sensitivity of the data they collect means the privacy practices and policies are even more important—especially during a pandemic where people are relying on these services in greater numbers for the first time. Our evaluation shows how there are multiple ways to evaluate how thoughtfully mental health apps handle user data collection, management, and sharing to third parties.
We call for all apps to improve on the recommendations highlighted in Section 5—adhere to platform guidelines, institute clear e...
Source: SharpBrains - March 4, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation 7 Cups BetterHelp consumer-reports ethics mental health apps MindDoc (formerly known as Moodpath) Neurotechnology privacy Sanity & Self Talkspace Wysa Youper Source Type: blogs
Can You Trust Digital Health Firms To Trust You?
This article originally appeared on Forbes here. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech digital health Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
A North Carolina Pediatric Hospitalist Tells Her Pandemic Story to Senator Richard Burr: Thirteen Months (And Counting) In Medical Whistle-blower Hell - Courtesy Of Private Equity/For-Profit Healthcare And Cruelly-Indifferent/Morally-Bankrupt State & Federal Oversight
Author ' s Note: I cannot " sound-bite " the last year - and perhaps it ' s time to write the book. Scroll about half-way down to read the letter to Senator Burr. The bottom line is that for thethird time in 23 years, as a Pediatrician staffing a community hospital, I was fired " with-out cause " immediately after intervening in a neonatal ( " bad baby " ) case, rescuing the situation/ " saving " the baby, and reporting it INTERNALLY to Peer Review. NO discussion. NO recourse. NO review. A total cover-up. And EVERY SINGLE TIME I ' ve asked the state/Federal government to enfor...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - February 28, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ACA Apollo Global Management ApolloMD Ballad Heath Central Carolina Hospital CMS Duke Lifepoint ETSU Medicaid Medical Whistleblower NCDHHS Pandemic Quality Assruance Randolph Health Richard Burr Trump Source Type: blogs
Four trends accelerating mental health innovation in the COVID/ post-COVID era
The money behind mental health: How the pandemic increased innovation, investment in behavioral health care (Fierce Healthcare):
Earlier this month, Modern Health marked a milestone few companies ever reach: unicorn status.
With the help of its latest $74 million funding round, the startup, which serves as a mental health benefits platform for employers, topped a $1 billion valuation.
… And while Modern Health was already attracting plenty of interest before the pandemic, CEO Alyson Watson said her company is among those in the behavioral health space that have seen what can only be described as a seismic shift across th...
Source: SharpBrains - February 24, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Behavioral Health COVID-19 digital behavioral health employers mental health benefits mental health innovation Modern Health Source Type: blogs
Growing research points to expanding adoption of online cognitive behavioral therapies, both guided and unguided
We are seeing a number of fascinating meta-analyses comparing the value of A) face-to-face vs. Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapies and B) guided vs unguided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy, especially in the case of depression.
Here you have a couple great examples, suggesting a growing adoption in the near future of web-based, and increasingly personalized, interventions.
A) A comparison of electronically-delivered and face to face cognitive behavioural therapies in depressive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Eclinical Medicine). From the Abstract:
Background: Cognitive behavioural ...
Source: SharpBrains - February 22, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation CBT cognitive behavioral therapies depression eCBT Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapies Source Type: blogs
