Provider Experience, Life Stressors Drive HIV Adherence Provider Experience, Life Stressors Drive HIV Adherence
Now that medical science has solved the HIV treatment paradigm, to end the AIDS epidemic, it may be time to shift focus to patient experience.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - March 7, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS News Source Type: news
Educational and ecological assessment for unintentional injuries among children under 7 years: directed qualitative research based on PRECEDE-PROCEED model - Lael-Monfared E, Rakhshanderou S, Ramezankhani A, Ghaffari M.
This study aims at investigating the factors ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
How Virtual Reality Is Expanding Health Care
Clinicians can help patients recover from strokes while they’re anywhere in the world—even states or countries far away from each other—by using a combination of robotics and virtual-reality devices.
It’s happening at Georgia Institute of Technology, where Nick Housley runs the Sensorimotor Integration Lab. There, patients undergoing neurorehabilitation, including those recovering from a stroke, are outfitted with robotic devices called Motus, which are strapped to their arms and legs. The goal: to speed up recovery and assist with rehabilitation exercises. Patients and practitioners using the syste...
Source: TIME: Health - March 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sascha Brodsky Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
SwitchPoint Future League Unites Six Next-Generation African Leaders for New Advocacy Partnership
March 07, 2022Six young African leaders have joined the inaugural cohort of theSwitchPoint Future League, a new advocacy partnership launched by IntraHealth International with the Global Fund and ONE Campaign Africa. " IntraHealth is thrilled to join these six outstanding young leaders in elevating the conversation about the future of global health—and how we finance it,” saysPolly Dunford, president and CEO of IntraHealth.“Their voices and perspectives are essential to creating a world where everyone everywhere has access to the health care they need to thrive. " The Future League c...
Source: IntraHealth International - March 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Policy & Advocacy Youth Source Type: news
Black History Month: Honoring Dr. Charles Richard Drew
Each February, Black History Month is recognized to honor the many contributions of Black Americans and their role in U.S. history. Keeping with this year's theme of "Black Health and Wellness," the Mayo Clinic News Network recognized a pioneer in the field of medical science each week throughout the month.This week, the Mayo Clinic News Network honors Dr. Charles Richard Drew. Dr. Charles Richard Drew was a renowned surgeon and medical researcher who pioneered methods for long-term storage… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - February 22, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Dr. Paul Farmer, global health giant, dies at 62
Dr. Paul Farmer, a physician who championed global health and sought to bring modern medical science to those most in need around the world, died unexpectedly in his sleep in Rwanda on Monday,... #paulfarmer #healthgiant #partnersinhealth (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Black History Month: Honoring Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller
Each February, Black History Month is recognized to honor the many contributions of Black Americans and their role in U.S. history. Keeping with this year's theme of "Black Health and Wellness," the Mayo Clinic News Network will recognize a pioneer in the field of medical science each week throughout the month.This week, the Mayo Clinic News Network honors Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller. In 1897, at the age of 25, Solomon Carter Fuller became the nation's first Black psychiatrist.… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - February 15, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Black History Month: Honoring Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Each February, Black History Month is recognized to honor the many contributions of Black Americans and their role in U.S. history. Keeping with this year's theme of "Black Health and Wellness," the Mayo Clinic News Network will recognize a pioneer in the field of medical science each week throughout the month. This week, the Mayo Clinic News Network honors Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler was born in Delaware on Feb. 8, 1831. She… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - February 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Sweating the small stuff: Smartwatch developed at UCLA measures key stress hormone
The human body responds to stress, from the everyday to the extreme, by producing a hormone called cortisol.To date, it has been impractical to measure cortisol as a way to potentially identify conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress, in which levels of the hormone are elevated. Cortisol levels traditionally have been evaluated through blood samples by professional labs, and while those measurements can be useful for diagnosing certain diseases, they fail to capture changes in cortisol levels over time.Now, a UCLA research team has developed a device that could be a major step forward: a smartwatch that ass...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 7, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Black History Month: Honoring Dr. Marie M. Daly
Each February, Black History Month is recognized to honor the many contributions of Black Americans and their role in U.S. history. Keeping with this year's theme of "Black Health and Wellness," the Mayo Clinic News Network will recognize a pioneer in the field of medical science each week throughout the month. This week, the Mayo Clinic News Network honors Dr. Marie Daly. In 1947, Marie Daly made history when she became the first African American woman… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - February 1, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
13-year-old student dies after fentanyl overdose at Connecticut school
The seventh-grader had been listed in “grave condition” at a hospital after he collapsed in the gymnasium at the Sports and Medical Science Academy in Hartford on Thursday. #seventhgrader #fentanyloverdose #gymnasium (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Clinician Experience, Life Stressors Drive HIV Adherence, Retention in New Patients Clinician Experience, Life Stressors Drive HIV Adherence, Retention in New Patients
Now that medical science has solved the HIV treatment paradigm, it might be time to shift to patient experience to end the AIDS epidemics.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - January 12, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS News Source Type: news
Why pig-to-human heart transplant is for now only a last resort
Analysis: As doctors monitor world ’s first human recipient of pig heart, safety and ethical concerns remainThe world ’s first transplant of a genetically altered pig heart into an ailing human is alandmark for medical science, but the operation, and the approach more broadly, raise substantial safety and ethical concerns.Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center spent eight hours on Friday evening transplanting the heart from the pig into 57-year-old David Bennett, who had been in hospital for more than a month with terminal heart failure.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Medical research Health Science Maryland Gene editing US news Society World news Genetics Heart disease Biology Animal welfare Animals Organ donation Source Type: news
Greed-Driven Pandemic Still Killing Millions
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nazihah NoorKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 14 2021 (IPS) Failure to vaccinate most in poor countries sustains the COVID-19 pandemic. Rich country greed and patent monopolies block developing countries from affordably making the means to protect themselves.
Mutant menace
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has been mutating as it replicates. Numerous replications in hundreds of millions of hosts have generated many variants. Some mutations are more resilient than others, and better able to overcome human defences.
Jomo Kwame SundaramEarly data suggest the B.1.1.529 Omicron variant is more transmissible than others...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 14, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nazihah Noor Tags: Aid COVID-19 COVID-19 VACCINES Economy & Trade Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
