Zombie Viruses of the Permafrost
By KIM BELLARD
We’ve had some cold weather here lately, as has much of the nation. Not necessarily record-breaking, but uncomfortable for millions of people. It’s the kind of weather that causes climate change skeptics to sneer “where’s the global warming now?” This despite 2023 being the warmest year on record — “by far” — and the fact that the ten warmest years since 1850 have all been in the last decade, according to NOAA.
One of the parts of the globe warming the fastest is the Arctic, which is warming four times as fast as the rest of the planet. That sounds like good news if you run a ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Climate Change Kim Bellard Viruses Source Type: blogs
Does Digital Health Technology Have a “ Famous Trio ” in the Making?
By MIKE MAGEE
Yale historian, Frank M. Snowden wisely notes in his 2020 book, “Epidemics and Society”, that “We must avoid the pitfall of believing the driver of scientific knowledge is ever a single genius working alone.”
His insight came to mind this week as I was reviewing the January 11, 2020 Forbes article by Seth Joseph, health tech policy correspondent, titled “What Bubble? Digital Health Funding Year in Review 2021.”
By one measure of success – dollars invested – it’s been a banner year. According to Joseph, there was over $29 billion funded, and 729 digital health US-based st...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Breakthrough digital health Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
More on Freedumb
I think that in the present political climate, a small history lesson may be in order. The first safe and effective vaccination was discovered by the English physician Edward Jenner in 1796. It depended on the lucky coincidence that infection with the cowpox virus, which causes only mild disease in humans, confers cross-immunity to smallpox, a terrible scourge which had afflicted humanity for thousands of years. (That ' s why we call it vaccination, by the way, from the Latin vacca for cow. Modern vaccination used killed virus and caused no disease.) Nobody knew at the time what a virus was or why this worked, so it would ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 9, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Respect for Science
I vaguely remember discussing some of this before, but anyway . . . Throughout most of the 19th Century, despite the dramatic advances of science in many areas, nobody gained any useful understanding of human health and disease, and effective therapies were largely lacking. In fact, physicians -- medical school graduates -- advocated bloodletting and violent purging with mercury based emetics and laxatives. For obvious reasons, most people preferred other healing methods, which didn ' t work either but at least didn ' t kill you. Hospitals were just places where poor people went to die. So what happened to ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Focus on Microscopes: See Eye-Catching Images
Have you ever wondered what creates striking images of cells and other tiny structures? Most often, the answer is microscopes. Many of us have encountered basic light microscopes in science classes, but those are just one of many types that scientists use. Check out the slideshow to see images researchers have captured using different kinds of microscopes. For even more images of the microscopic world, visit the NIGMS Image and Video Gallery.
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Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 30, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Matt Mills Tags: Cells Molecular Structures Tools and Techniques Cellular Imaging Cool Images Cool Tools/Techniques Source Type: blogs
What Healthcare IT Leadership and Early 90 ’s MTV Have in Common – How White Zombie Benefitted from a Leadership Change and We Can Too
Early 1990’s MTV played a lot of music videos. However, if you liked heavy metal, you had one night a week, Saturday night, to watch videos from bands like Slayer, Anthrax, Pantera, Motörhead, GWAR, or Megadeth. The legendary show that featured videos from these bands was Headbangers’ Ball, hosted by Riki Rachtman. This was at […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 12, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mitch Parker, CISO Tags: C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Health IT Leadership Healthcare Leadership Source Type: blogs
American Industrial Policy in Action
Scott LincicomeIn case you haven't noticed, U.S. industrial policy is having (yet another) moment. Armed with the latest data and cross-country comparisons, a large and bipartisan cadre of industrial policy advocates in Washington are eager to shovel billions of taxpayer dollars into the open arms of American manufacturers of "essential goods" and "critical technologies." The risks (China, pandemics, whatever), so the theory goes, greatly outweigh any harms that a few, scattered industrial policy failures might cause along the way, so whynot just throw money at the (perceived) problems? These advocates, however, rarely ack...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Compiling some of my Twitter comments about the evolution and origins of SarsCoV2/ COVID19
News Stories Quoted inUC Davis Aggie:Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants raise concern for the future of the pandemic9/15/2020. Newsweek. Fact-check: Does a New Study Give Evidence that the Coronavirus Was Made In a Lab?May 17, 2020. Newsweek: Scientists Shouldn ' t Rule Out Lab As Source of Coronavirus, New Study SaysApril 27, 2020.The controversial experiments and wuhan lab suspected of starting the coronavirus pandemic. Newsweek. Twitter ThreadsRelating to the lab vs natural origin theory of#SarsCOV2. I would like to call attention to the history of the anthrax attack investigation. Circumstantial evidence...
Source: The Tree of Life - March 27, 2021 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
Nasal Endoscopy for Urgent and Complex ED Cases
Fiberoptics and endoscopy have changed the way we treat patients in the emergency department. Endoscopes are relatively easy to use, and can aid your diagnosis and treatment plan. Endoscopy may be useful in urgent cases, such as epistaxis, nasal foreign bodies, and ear debridement. It may also be helpful when dealing with more complicated presentations and critically ill patients, such as those with Ludwig's angina, epiglottis, tracheostomies, or those who need intubation.Fiberoptic tools are not just for surgeons and consultants. The endoscope has many uses in the emergency department, and we have a few tips and tricks...
Source: The Procedural Pause - October 28, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Ethical Dilemmas in Covid-19 Medical Care: Is a Problematic Triage Protocol Better or Worse than No Protocol at All?
This post appears as an editorial in the July 2020 special COVID-19 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics
by Sheri Fink, M.D., Ph.D.
The anthrax mailings following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States led to fears that victims of bioterrorism could overwhelm hospitals. The federal government convened experts to define how medical treatments should best be allocated across a population affected by a mass casualty disaster, a concept at first referred to as “altered standards of care,” later changed to the more palatable “crisis standards of care.” This work informed triage plans developed in the ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 29, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Keisha Ray Tags: Uncategorized #covid19 #diaryofaplagueyear Editorial-AJOB pandemic Pandemic Ethics Source Type: blogs
Planning for Future Pandemics Including Smallpox Outbreaks: Interview with Dr. Phil Gomez, CEO, SIGA Technologies
The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant global consequences, with healthcare systems stretched to their limits, a growing death toll, and economic devastation as economies came grinding to a halt.
The pandemic
and its aftereffects will be with us for some time to come, but this isn’t the
first pandemic humanity has weathered, and it won’t be the last. Given accelerating
advances in medical technology, there is plenty to discuss in terms of how we
can be better prepared for the next infectious disease event.
While COVID-19 is widely thought to have arisen naturally through transmission between an animal and a hu...
Source: Medgadget - May 27, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Covid-19 Reuters Q & A with William Haseltine
I live-tweeted a fascinating and perhaps rather depressing meeting with William Haseltine via a Reuters Newsmaker Broadcast. His talk was upbeat but the message does not offer a positive outlook unless we can collaborate internationally to identify, trace, and isolate and go back to early antivirals to treat people urgently. A vaccine will probably never be found, we must stay on top of this virus when we get communities under control. Moreover, we must recognise that another emergent pathogen could appear any time.
These are essentially my notes from Haseltines’s talk.
Might we ever achieve herd immunity?
There is n...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 20, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Covid-19 Reuters Newsmaker Broadcast with William Haseltine
I live-tweeted a fascinating and perhaps rather depressing meeting with William Haseltine via a Reuters Newsmaker Broadcast. His talk was upbeat but the message does not offer a positive outlook unless we can collaborate internationally to identify, trace, and isolate and go back to early antivirals to treat people urgently. A vaccine will probably never be found, we must stay on top of this virus when we get communities under control. Moreover, we must recognise that another emergent pathogen could appear any time.
These are essentially my notes from Haseltines’s talk.
Might we ever achieve herd immunity?
There is n...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 20, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 2
By BOB HERTZ
We Need Legal Assaults On The Greediest Providers!
When a patient is hospitalized, or diagnosed with a deadly disease, they often have no choice about the cost of their treatment.
They are legally helpless, and vulnerable to price gouging.
We need more legal protection of patients. In some cases we need price controls.
Next in this three-part series, I discuss how we could challenge Big Pharma by lessening regulation of generic drugs, having the government take over production and establishing price review boards.
Assault Phase Three – Challenge Big Pharma
Step One – Less Regulation of...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Return of the Beauty Brains – Episode 166
After a brief hiatus, the Beauty Brains podcast is back.
Covered on this episode:
Beauty Science stories:
Cruelty free products are free from cruelty.
What does it mean for consumers? Getting rid of animal testing means that products will not be much different than what you could ever make.
EWG on the Kardashian’s show –
We got an email from the PR firm that does the work for the Environmental Working Group (the EWG). This is the group that seems to exist to propagate fear about cosmetics. Well, they sent me a notice crowing about how they were mentioned on the Keeping up with the Kardashian reality tv show. I ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - December 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast hair care natural Source Type: blogs
