COVID-19 and Opening the Country: Lessons from 1918 Philadelphia
By CHADI NABHAN, MD, MBA, FACP
Everyone has an opinion on whether and when we should open
the country. Never in the history of America have we had so many “correct”
theories and experts to pontificate on a new pandemic. But somehow, few seem to
recall history or attempt to learn from it.
Over a century ago, almost 100 million people out of a world population of 1.8 billion lost their lives to the so-called “Spanish Flu”. At 8.5 million casualties, the death toll from World War I pales in comparison. In the US alone, we lost over 675,000 people in one year to this pandemic. In fact, we lost more people to the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Chadi Nabhan Pandemic Philadelphia Spanish Flu Source Type: blogs
Hearing Loss Impairs Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Function in Mice
The brain makes use of sensory information in order to form memories. Loss of hearing has an impact on the aging brain, as suggested by the correlation between onset of age-related deafness and onset of dementia. While it is possible that this reflects common processes of neurodegeneration, as age-related deafness appears to result from loss of neural connections between sensory hair cells and the brain, studies such as this one provide evidence for deafness to cause greater loss of function in areas of the brain associated with memory formation.
Brain structures that are essential for the acquisition and encoding...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 1, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Lasting Lessons From Health Care ’s ‘Money Back Guarantee’ Experiment
Ceci Connolly
Matt DoBias
By CECI CONNOLLY and MATT DOBIAS
When it comes to money back guarantees in health care, it’s
often less about the money and more about the guarantee.
That’s the biggest takeaway shared by two organizations—Geisinger
Health System and Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHCSCW)—that
separately rolled out closely-watched campaigns to refund patients their
out-of-pocket costs for health care experiences that fell short of expectations.
Both programs started as a way to inject a basic level of
consumerism into a process long bereft of one. In fact, as consumer ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Health Policy Ceci Connolly Geisinger Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin Health Plans Matt DoBias money back guarantee Source Type: blogs
5 Ways to Become More Empathetic in All Relationships
Empathy is a powerful tool to enrich your life.
What is the purpose of empathy in our lives? ‘Empathy’ is often a word you use with respect to other people and your expectations of them.
We make comments like “they don’t have empathy” or “they need empathy.” Sometimes it seems as though we don’t have a deep understanding of what being empathetic even means to yourself, let alone what it means to others.
But what if empathy is linked to your emotional intelligence and helps you become the most successful version of yourself?
What Is Empathy?
Empathy is defined as “the action of understanding, ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Publishers YourTango Empathetic Empathy Relationships Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 27th 2020
In conclusion, our study demonstrated that Nrf2 deficiency promoted the increasing trend of autophagy during aging in skeletal muscle. Nrf2 deficiency and increasing age may cause excessive autophagy in skeletal muscle, which can be a potential mechanism for the development of sarcopenia.
To What Degree is Chondrocyte Hypertrophy in Osteoarthritis Due to Cellular Senescence?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/04/to-what-degree-is-chondrocyte-hypertrophy-in-osteoarthritis-due-to-cellular-senescence/
Senescent cells are large. They do not replicate, that function is disabled, but it is as if they go...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 26, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Does joy in work matter during a pandemic?
At a time when health care professionals across the globe are working around the clock against COVID-19, it may seem tone-deaf at best to think about joy in work. We all agree that the top priority for health care leaders now is to focus on expanding testing and ensuring enough proper equipment and other resources […]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 - April 25, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/derek-feeley" rel="tag" > Derek Feeley, DBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Cochlear Implant Turned-On Remotely to Give Child Hearing
All sorts of medical procedures have to wait to be performed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Since some procedures are done in several steps, often separated by weeks or months, there are patients out there that cannot complete the next steps of their therapies. Cochlear implants, which stimulate the auditory nerve to produce hearing in people with profound hearing loss, have to first be implanted in a surgical procedure and then switched on and fine tuned during a separate visit to an audiologist.
A toddler in England has just had her cochlear implant activated for the first time during a remote telemedicine ...
Source: Medgadget - April 24, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: ENT Surgery Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Research assistant / Lab manager position available in the O-Lab at Duke University
We are looking for a highly motivated recent or soon-to-be graduate to join the O-Lab, led by Prof. Tobias Overath, in the Department of Psychology& Neuroscience at Duke University. Work in our lab investigates how sounds, from simple sinusoids to complex speech signals, are analyzed in the human brain, using a combination of behavioral (psychoacoustics) and neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG, ECoG) to track the underlying neural processes. Current projects investigate the transformation from acoustic to linguistic analysis of temporal speech structure, online measures of statistical learning, and optimization of coc...
Source: Talking Brains - April 21, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Research assistant / Lab manager position available in the O-Lab at Duke University
We are looking for a highly motivated recent or soon-to-be graduate to join the O-Lab, led by Prof. Tobias Overath, in the Department of Psychology& Neuroscience at Duke University. Work in our lab investigates how sounds, from simple sinusoids to complex speech signals, are analyzed in the human brain, using a combination of behavioral (psychoacoustics) and neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG, ECoG) to track the underlying neural processes. Current projects investigate the transformation from acoustic to linguistic analysis of temporal speech structure, online measures of statistical learning, and optimization of coc...
Source: Talking Brains - April 20, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
MItochondria in Age-Related Hearing Loss
In today's open access paper, researchers present evidence to suggest that the mitochondrial dysfunction that accompanies aging may be a meaningful cause of the loss of neurons that contributes age-related hearing loss, in the sense that it increases the incidence of necroptosis, a form of programmed cell death. Present thinking on the progressive deafness of old age is that the sensory hair cells of the inner ear largely remain intact, but their connection to the brain atrophies - the nerve cells in question dying in excessive numbers for reasons that continue to be explored.
Mitochondria are the power plants of th...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 20, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Domestic Violence During Lockdown: How to Cope and Stay Safe
For victims of domestic violence, the pandemic has made day-to-day life incredibly difficult. Prior to social distancing, shelter-in-place orders, and business closures, victims could at least get a break from their abusers by going to work, taking a walk, or running errands. They could safely use a library’s computer to learn about domestic violence resources and seek support.
According to Carol A. Lambert, LICSW, a psychotherapist and intimate partner abuse expert, these mandates “play into an abuser’s playbook of entrapment.”
It’s harder than ever to find a bit of freedom and privacy, said Tasseli McKay, a soc...
Source: World of Psychology - April 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Inspiration & Hope Relationships Self-Help Stress Trauma Violence and Aggression Women's Issues Source Type: blogs
Launching This Week: Your New Leader Live Website
For the past year, ASHA has been building a single-source website for all Leader content. Now prepare for the unveiling: This new, dynamic, frequently updated site launches Wednesday.
You can find everything Leader contributors and staff produce—magazine articles, online-only columns, podcasts, blog posts, news—in one place. The site will display the “Leader Live” name and tagline—”happening now in the world of CSD”—to highlight our ability to publish quickly and responsively.
Discover the many changes in design and functionality you’ll enjoy:
A redesigned home page features mor...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 13, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Advocacy Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Chemotherapy and hearing loss: Monitoring is essential
Treatment for cancer is a difficult time for patients and their families. While there are significant benefits of chemotherapy in treating and managing many types of cancers, some of the negative side effects may not always be so obvious. One of the potential negative effects of chemotherapy that you may not be aware of is hearing loss. Hearing loss caused by chemotherapy is generally considered a type of sudden hearing loss, so monitoring hearing before and after treatment with hearing tests is important.
How are chemotherapy and hearing loss connected?
Hearing loss as a potential side effect of chemotherapy is more likel...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: James Naples, MD Tags: Cancer Ear, nose, and throat Hearing Loss Source Type: blogs
ASHA Learning Pass Offered Free of Cost During COVID-19
Let’s face it—daily life feels more hectic than ever, as audiologists and speech-language pathologists juggle unprecedented COVID-19-related changes and challenges, professionally and personally. While it’s hard to find a spare second, tapping continuing education (CE) online is one way to pivot to new practice approaches, such as telepractice, while also meeting CE requirements (as in-person conferences and professional-development events are cancelled).
To help out, ASHA has made its ASHA Learning Pass free for all members through June 30, 2020. Existing ASHA Learning Pass subscribers have had their subscriptions e...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 10, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Leslie Katz Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Practice Management Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Silence
In his autobiography Ben Franklin shared that one of his virtues was silence. He included this description:
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation.
Think about how much time and energy you could save by avoiding trifling conversation and communicating just for the benefit of others or yourself.
I suppose this depends on how you define benefit.
How beneficial is it to comment on what someone shares for the sake of commenting? So you connect for an extra second or two. How much does that matter?
How much of your conversation will even be remembered the next day, let alon...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
