Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 25 July, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Quite a lot going on this week and we have had a pretty busy comment flow on the blog. Interesting how comment streams evolve!The telehealth debate continues and the Government is yet to notice what a ‘steaming pile of poo’the #myHR is!-----https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/anz/australia-launches-digital-cancer-hub-childre...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The COVID-19 TRIPS Waiver and the WTO Ministerial Decision
Peter K. Yu (Texas A&M University), The COVID-19 TRIPS Waiver and the WTO Ministerial Decision in IPR in Times of Crisis: Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic (Jens Schovsbo, ed., Forthcoming): In October 2020, India and South Africa submitted an... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 22, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Historical Revisionism
You may have heard about Faux News and other right-wing media going on a multi-day freakout over the Monticello museum (that ' s what it is now)telling visitors that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.The reality is probably worse than you think. Jefferson enslaved 600 people in his lifetime, 400 of them at Monticello. Most people know that he fathered several children with a woman he enslaved, named Sally Hemmings. What most people don ' t know is that Sally Hemmings was his wife ' s half sister. That ' s right -- Jefferson ' s father-in-law raped one of his slaves, Jefferson inherited his daughter, then he in turn raped...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 21, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Chest pain, RBBB but “STEMI Negative”: Is this a false cath lab activation, or a false cancellation?
A 90 year old with a history of atrial fibrillation presented with two weeks of intermittent retrosternal chest pain lasting minutes. An hour prior to presentation it became constant and more severe, accompanied by nausea and general weakness, and the paramedics brought them to the ED as a code STEMI. Heart rate was in the 50s and other vitals normal. What do you think? There ’s atrial fibrillation, a right bundle branch block, normal axis and normal voltages. RBBB should produce secondary ST depression and T wave inversion in the anterior leads with the RsR’ (as it does in V1). But here in...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 18, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
mRNA Vaccines: From Tackling Pandemic To Treating Cancer
The story of the multi-decade uphill battle Katalin Karikó and her fellow researchers fought to prove messenger RNA can viably be used in medicine is widely known today. In just as little as two years, the world has learned about mRNA technology and how fast it can react when the need arises holding almost unlimited promises in future applications. As always is the case with “instant hits” in science, the ride was actually very long and bumpy, but more on that later.
What is mRNA?
In very simple terms: messenger ribonucleic acids (or mRNAs in short) are the body’s natural way to transport messages from o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Biotechnology Future of Medicine Nanotechnology cancer cancer research covid19 vaccine research HIV mRNA messenger RNA cancer vaccine malaria malaria vaccine HIV vaccine pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer va Source Type: blogs
mRNA Vaccines: From Tackling A Pandemic To Treating Cancer
The story of the multi-decade uphill battle Katalin Karikó and her fellow researchers fought to prove messenger RNA can viably be used in medicine is widely known today. In just as little as two years, the world has learned about mRNA technology and how fast it can react when the need arises holding almost unlimited promises in future applications. As always is the case with “instant hits” in science, the ride was actually very long and bumpy, but more on that later.
What is mRNA?
In very simple terms: messenger ribonucleic acids (or mRNAs in short) are the body’s natural way to transport messages from o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Biotechnology Future of Medicine Nanotechnology cancer cancer research covid19 vaccine research HIV mRNA messenger RNA cancer vaccine malaria malaria vaccine HIV vaccine pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer va Source Type: blogs
The Legal Status of Human Biological Material Used for Research
Donrich Thaldar (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Bonginkosi Shozi (University of KwaZulu-Natal), The Legal Status of Human Biological Material Used for Research, S. African L. J. (2021): Whether human biological material ( ‘HBM’) in the research context is susceptible of ownership is contested,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 10, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Point-of-Care Ultrasound? How Butterfly Network ’ s Hand-Held Devices Make Scans On-Demand Diagnostics
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Butterfly Network (NYSE: $BFLY) is working to make its pocket-sized, smartphone-directed ultrasound as “ubiquitous as the stethoscope” – hoping to give docs and nurses at the point-of-care the ability to easily perform any type of scan and instantly see the results. Dr. John Martin, Butterfly’s Chief Medical Officer, talks us through the technology behind the $2,400 hand-held device and how the company is working with healthcare orgs to integrate ultrasound into their workflows — completely shifting the paradigm for where-and-when scans are performed and able to be utilized. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Hand-Held Devices Jessica DaMassa Source Type: blogs
Most of us don ’t have a desire for unlimited wealth
By Emily Reynolds
Do humans always want more, or are we sometimes just happy with our lot? This debate has long raged in multiple disciplines: economics, politics, and even philosophy. And whether an unlimited desire for more is inherent or a product of capitalism is equally hotly contested.
Paul G. Bain from the University of Bath and Renata Bongiorno from Bath Spa University explore this question in a new paper published in Nature Sustainability. They find that the assumption we always want more, no matter how much we have, may not be completely accurate: while some of us do have unlimited desire for wealth, they ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Money Source Type: blogs
Most of us don ’ t have a desire for unlimited wealth
By Emily Reynolds
Do humans always want more, or are we sometimes just happy with our lot? This debate has long raged in multiple disciplines: economics, politics, and even philosophy. And whether an unlimited desire for more is inherent or a product of capitalism is equally hotly contested.
Paul G. Bain from the University of Bath and Renata Bongiorno from Bath Spa University explore this question in a new paper published in Nature Sustainability. They find that the assumption we always want more, no matter how much we have, may not be completely accurate: while some of us do have unlimited desire for wealth, they ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Money Source Type: blogs
Notes on monkeypox
If you remember the right wing freakout over Ebola virus -- of which IIRC there were fewer than 5 cases in the U.S., none of which was fatal -- you may wonder why the deafening silence about monkeypox. Ha ha! You don ' t have to wonder. So far, he monkeypox outbreak in the U.S. and Europe seems to be largely if not entirely limited to men who have sex with men. This will likely change, of course.Here are the basics about monkeypox. Unfortunately it ' s behind the NYT paywall but it ' s the best summary I could find. Anyway I ' ll review the situation for you. Monkeypox is indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, but among th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 27, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sobering up in South Africa: The Sin Tax Consequences of a Pandemic
Teresa Pidduck (University of Pretoria), Sumarie Swanepoel (University of Pretoria), Sobering up in South Africa: The Sin Tax Consequences of a Pandemic, 27 N.Z. J. Taxation L.& Pol ’y 331-352 (2021): In this article, the authors describe how the South... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 25, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Urban Cottage Educational Collaborative
Colleen Hroncich“Kids are each unique. But in too many school settings, they aren’t allowed to need individual differentiation—the system tries to take their uniqueness out of them,” says Marissa Hess, founder ofUrban Cottage in Tampa, FL.Marissa wanted something different for herself and her children. “Even within my own three children, there were different needs,” she says. “Some were gifted and needed extra challenges. But we also had some learning disabilities that needed extra time. I wanted each of them to be seen for who they are, and that wasn’t happening.”A former homeschooler herself, Marissa d...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 17, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Global Warming and Disease
BY MIKE MAGEE
A study eight years ago, published in Nature, was titled “Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic.” The study, which analyzed more than 80,000 gene sequences from flu viruses from humans., birds, horses, pigs, and bats, concluded the 1918 pandemic disaster “probably sprang from North American domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.”
The search for origin in pandemics is not simply an esoteric academic exercise. It is practical, pragmatic, and hopefully preventive. The origin of our very own pandemic, now in its third year and claiming more than 1 million ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Uncategorized Bird Ecology Global Warming Source Type: blogs
The WTO Waiver on COVID-19 Related Intellectual Property Rights: Why It Should Be Adopted and Why It Is Not Enough
Eric Chin-Ru Chang (National Taiwan University), The WTO Waiver on COVID-19 Related Intellectual Property Rights: Why It Should Be Adopted and Why It Is Not Enough, UCLA L. Rev. Discourse (2022): India and South Africa have proposed a waiver to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 6, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
