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The AMA ’ s Digital Health Investment Fund | Andrew Elkind & Stas Sokolin, Health2047
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH The American Medical Association (AMA) announced Health 2047, its accelerator and investment fund in 2018. A year later, Andrew Elkind and Stas Sokolin, both Principals at the fund, stop by to get us up-to-speed on the progress the AMA has made so far with its $45 million accelerator fund and $30 million investment fund. What kinds of health tech startups are piquing the attention of this physician-led fund? Get the details behind the Health 2047 investment thesis here! The post The AMA’s Digital Health Investment Fund | Andrew Elkind & Stas Sokolin, Health2047 appeared fi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Start-Ups WTF Health AMA digital health investment fund Andrew Elkind Health 2047 Stas Sokolin Source Type: blogs

How Does Sleeping Well Impact Brain Detoxification?
You're reading How Does Sleeping Well Impact Brain Detoxification?, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Have you been sleeping well lately? We all know that getting enough sleep is an important part of living a healthy and engaged life. Of course, getting a good night's sleep keeps you sharp during the day, and recent science has also shown how important it is in learning and memory. Sleep is not only good for helping you pay attention in class or remembering what you did yesterday though, it also helps keep ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca Wilson Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement better sleep brain health science of sleep Source Type: blogs

A Disruptive Treatment Promises New Hope to PTSD Patients: Will Physicians Be Willing to Use It?
Millions of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — from veterans to rape survivors — have new hope because of a watershed study showing that the injection of an anesthetic to a bundle of nerves in the neck can relieve their symptoms in a clinically significant way. The treatment is known as the stellate ganglion block, or SGB. Used since 1925 for problems such as pain in the arm and shingles, it is safe and effective. In the newly released, eight-week, U.S. Army-funded clinical trial of 108 active-duty service members with PTSD, the nonprofit research institute RTI International found that patients...
Source: World of Psychology - December 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eugene Lipov, MD Tags: Personal PTSD Research Treatment Hyper Vigilance Neuroscience Neurotransmitter Norepinephrine Posttraumatic Stress Disorder pruning Source Type: blogs

Experimental Subjects for Life?
More than a year after the birth announcement of genome-edited babies in China, we are only slightly more informed of He Jiankui’s experimentation, the results of which are named “Lulu” and “Nana.” Although apparently approached, neither Nature nor the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) chose to publish He’s work. Antonio Regalado reported on … Continue reading "Experimental Subjects for Life?" (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 7, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: D. Joy Riley Tags: Genetics Health Care Lulu Nana Antonio Regalado bioethics biotechnology China Consent / Research CRISPR babies Greely He Jiankui human dignity reproduction syndicated Urnov Vassena Source Type: blogs

American Medical Association Calls for Removal of the Main Competitors to Cigarettes from the Market
In aresolution that is the most dangerous health-related policy proposal from a medical or health organization that I have seen in my career, the American Medical Association (AMA) today called for the complete removal from the market of the #1 competitor to Big Tobacco profits. The resolution also calls for hundreds of thousands of ex-smokers to return to smoking and for the removal from the market of a critical off-ramp that has helped 2.5 million American smokers to quit for good. In addition, the resolution calls for the creation of a dangerous new black market for e-cigarettes and e-liquids.If this sounds crazy, let m...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 20, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Forensic neuropathologist featured in AMA ’s  “Shadow Me” Specialty Series
Michelle Jorden, MDDr.Mich elle Jorden, chief medical examiner for the county of Santa Clara in California, was recently featured in the American Medical Association ' s " Shadow Me " Specialty Series. Dr. Jorden has been employed in Santa Clara County since 2008. She obtained her medical degree from Northwestern, and did her anatomic and neuropathology training at Stanford. She did her fellowship in forensic pathology at the Cook County Medical Examiner ’s Office in Chicago. (Source: neuropathology blog)
Source: neuropathology blog - November 7, 2019 Category: Radiology Tags: neuropathologists Source Type: blogs

More Evidence in Support of Needle Exchange Programs
Jeffrey A. SingerIn his State of the Union Address earlier this year, President Trump announced the laudable goal ofeliminating HIV transmission by the year 2030. Needle exchange programs (also called Syringe Exchange Programs or SEPs) are a public health approach in use since the 1980s with a proven record of reducing the spread of HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne infectious diseases. I have presented much of the data su pporting needle exchange programshere and, more recently,here. Now, new research reported in theJournal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromeadds even more strength to the argument in favor of need...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 3, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs

A Case Study in the Wrong Way to Fix Clinician Burnout
Asking the system to fix the system in regards to physician and nursing burnout is like asking the fox to watch the henhouse. They have no clue. Case in point: the recent article published online before print in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (where else?) preaching a "systems-based approach to clinician well-being and provide better patient care." What "system" is (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - October 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Tags: American Board of Medical Specialties MOC physician burnout Source Type: blogs

Women in medicine are trailblazers, advocates, and leaders
A guest column by the American Medical Association, exclusive to KevinMD.com. Each September, the American Medical Association (AMA) is proud to recognize and honor the immense contributions women make to the House of Medicine. Such recognition is particularly appropriate this year. I count myself lucky to be joined b y two exceptional women physicians in holding the offices […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 13, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/patrice-a-harris" rel="tag" > Patrice A. Harris, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Protecting Health Data Outside of HIPAA: Will the Protecting Personal Health Data Act Tame the Wild West ?
Vince Kuraitis Deven McGraw By DEVEN McGRAW and VINCE KURAITIS This post is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?” Introduction In our previous post, we described the “Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.” Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties? Congress is seriously considering legislation to better protect the privacy of consumers’ personal data, given the patchwork of existing privacy protections. For the most part, the bills,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Data Health Policy The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both? Deven McGraw HIPAA personal health data Protecting Personal Health Data Act Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs

The March Toward a Pre-Modern Approach to the Treatment of Pain Continues, Undeterred by Science
It seems that no amount of data-driven information can get policymakers to reconsider the hysteria-driven pain prescription policies they continue to put in place.I can understand lay politicians and members of the press misconstruing addiction and dependency, but there is no excuse when doctors make that error. Yet National Public Radio reports that surgeons in 18 Upstate New York hospitals have agreed on an initiative to limit the amount of pain medicine they will prescribe to postoperative patients discharged from the hospital. The reporter says that researchers “now know” that patients prescribed opioids for pos...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 12, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs

Physicians need better PR
On July 8, 2019, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine wrote a letter to the American Medical Association, asking the organization to create a public campaign to support physician-led care. Noting concerns over the recent media crusade to promote nurse practitioner care to patients, including the American Association of Nurse Practitioners“We Choose NPs” campaign, […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 3, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/rebekah-bernard" rel="tag" > Rebekah Bernard, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Mainstream media Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS): A New Initiative From Academic Medicine
Academic Medicine recently launched the Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS) initiative, which I will oversee as the journal’s inaugural Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement. So, you might be wondering, who am I and why ATLAS? I hope this blog post will help answer those questions! Who am I? I’m a 3rd-year internal medicine resident at NYU Langone Health in New York City, and am planning to pursue a career as an academic hospitalist. As mentioned above, I will serve as the inaugural Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement, overseeing the ATLAS initiative. My term will last until summer 2020, when we ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 9, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: ATLAS Featured learners Source Type: blogs

Acute MI, pain onset 24-48 hours ago. Should the patient go for emergent angiogram/PCI?
DiscussionWhich subacute STEMI should go to the cath lab?Simplified:IF there is subacute STEMI by ECG or other criteria AND:1. Symptoms onset is within 48 hours AND2. There are persistent symptoms OR persistent ST ElevationThen the patient should go for emergent angiogram/PCI.I think it makes sense to extend this beyond 48 hours because ischemia can be so intermittent.Schomig et al. randomized patients with:STEMI12-48 hours of symptomsNo persistent symptomsPersistent ST ElevationNo hemodynamic or electrical instability, no pulmonary edemaThe patients who received emergent PCI had significantly smaller median left ventricul...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 4, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs