Health Affairs Briefing: Advancing Global Health Policy
TweetPlease join us on Monday, September 8, when Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will host a briefing to discuss our September 2014 thematic issue, “Advancing Global Health Policy.” In an expansion of last year’s theme, “The ‘Triple Aim’ Goes Global,” we explore how developing and industrialized countries around the world are confronting challenges and learning from each other on three aims: cost, quality, and population health.
A highlight of the event will be a discussion of international health policy—led by Weil—featuring former CMS and FDA administrator ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 22, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: All Categories End-of-Life Care Global Health Health Care Delivery Hospitals Innovation Pharma Policy Source Type: blogs
Does sunscreen make you Vitamin D deficient?
Angela asks…My husband recently read an article (from Australia, but I can’t remember the source now) claiming that we shouldn’t be using sunscreens. I think the basis of the article was that many people are vitamin D deficient, and that applying sunscreen prevents the production of vitamin D. It suggested that the risk of skin cancer was low compared to the vast benefits of vitamin D. In all your experience/ readings, is there any truth to that or can I continue preaching the virtues of sunscreen to my outdoor loving hubbie? And if I were to stop using all sunscreen, wouldn’t I look like an old leather shoe as...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 20, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Myths Safety Source Type: blogs
Do PDUFA Fees Encourage Approval of Dangerous Drugs and/or Undermine FDA's Regulatory Oversight of Approved Drugs?
A new study by researchers from Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Boston Medical Center (BMC)/Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), City University of New York School of Public Health, and Public Citizen, reveals that drugs released after the 1992 enactment of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), which allowed the FDA to collect fees to expedite drug approvals, were more likely to be withdrawn or have a black box warning, with 26.7 percent of these drugs receiving such a warning compared to 21.2 percent in the pre-PDUFA drugs that underwent the longer approval process (see press release here)....
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - August 5, 2014 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: Black Box Warning Drug Safety FDA PDUFA Public Citizen warning letters Source Type: blogs
Health eVillages, Qualcomm ‘move the needle’ on global health
I’m back from an extended break, though hardly a vacation. I spent 11 days this month cycling from Chicago to Washington to raise awareness of multiple system atrophy, the rare neurodegenerative disease that killed my father in 2012. For my first post in more than two weeks, I’ll keep it simple but important, namely with an update on Health eVillages, the program I sit on the advisory board of, as well as some vaguely related news from Qualcomm.
First off, Health eVillages this week officially welcomed five new board members: Brad Fluegel, Spencer Warden, Mike Hamilton, Lorri L. Jean and Ulya Khan. Here’s...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - July 16, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil VerselNeil Versel Tags: health IT Healthcare IT imaging international mobile patient safety rural health video Health eVillages iPad prenatal care Qualcomm Trice Imaging ultrasound Source Type: blogs
AllTrials News - Out of 400 trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 30% haven’t
reported results
A new study found that 118 of 400 clinical trials had not reported results four years later in either a journal or on ClinicalTrials.gov. The researchers randomly selected trials that were registered on ClinicalTrials.gov and listed as completed in 2008. They found that trials were equally likely to report results regardless of whether or not they were funded by industry.This is yet one more study to look at the reporting of clinical trial results. The best available evidence is still that around half of all clinical trials have never been published or reported their results.Dr Christopher Gill, the study’...
Source: PharmaGossip - July 16, 2014 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review - Consider sending your next theory/review or punchy empirical paper here
On 1 January 2014, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review began a slow transition to a new editorial team. It will take a full year to complete the transition and probably longer than that to start noticing differences in the content of the journal. But keep on eye on PBR because we've got some interesting special issues in the works: one that presents a set of critical perspectives on embodied cognition, one on language evolution, another on perceptual interface theory, and lot's more in the planning stages. Also look for a very interesting review paper on animal mind reading by Cecelia Heyes. PBR is already ...
Source: Talking Brains - June 21, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
TWiV 286: Boston TWiV party
On episode #286 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent and Alan meet up with Julie and Paul at the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, to talk about their work on the pathogenesis of poliovirus and measles virus.
You can find TWiV #286 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 26, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Boston University bsl4 canine distemper virus eradication lipopolysaccharide measles virus microbiome NEIDL pathogenesis poliovirus stabilization viral Source Type: blogs
Fwd: presentations of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
From: Djacobs272@aol.comTo: dhj1.neurology@minutiae.comSent: 5/13/2014 2:29:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight TimeSubj: presentations of chronic traumatic encephalopathy Stern et al. Neurology; 2013: 81:1122-1129 Clinical review of 36 patients, all male athletes. They were based on autopsy studies at Boston University Center for CTAE. 11 patients had episodic memory impairment and executive dysfunction (cognition group) initially, only later behavioral and mood disturbances. Nine patients initially had depression and thi...
Source: neurologyminutiae - May 14, 2014 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
Unraveling the NEIDL
The NEIDL (National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory) at Boston University is a newly constructed biosafety level 4 facility which can be used to study the most dangerous human pathogens. The facility is amazingly safe, as we documented in our film about the facility, Threading the NEIDL. Some members of the Boston City Council think otherwise and have moved to stop the facility from opening.
In January 2014 a draft ordinance was introduced to the Boston City Council that would prohibit BSL-4 research within the city limits. The first public hearing on the proposed ordinance is scheduled for Wednesday, April 16, 201...
Source: virology blog - April 11, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Commentary Information biosafety BSL-4 ebolavirus National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory NEIDL viral Source Type: blogs
Graduate Student or Post-doctoral Fellow with Dr. Deryk Beal – Neurodevelopment of speech motor control
Supervisor: Dr. Deryk BealDr. Deryk Beal, principal investigator and founder of the Speech Neurogenetics Laboratory at the University of Alberta, invites applications for a WCHRI (http://wchri.srv.ualberta.ca/) funded position in the areas of developmental cognitive neuroscience, speech motor control and their related underlying genetic contributions.Dr. Beal is interested in advancing our understanding of the genetic and neural contributions to speech motor control in typically developing children and adults as well as children and adults with developmental stuttering and other motor speech disorders. My laboratory is equ...
Source: Talking Brains - March 21, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
USNews 2015 Health Law Program Rankings
1 University of Maryland (Carey) 2 St. Louis University 3 Case Western Reserve University 3 Loyola University Chicago 5 Boston University 5 Seton Hall University 7 Georgetown University 8 Georgia State University 9 University of Houston 10 Harvard University 10... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 11, 2014 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: Nicolas Terry Source Type: blogs
Stamp Out Alzheimer's
This is a picture of the Alzheimer's commerative stamp that was issued in 2008.It did not raise money for Alzheimer's research.By Max WallackAlzheimer's Reading RoomLynda EvermanHelp Stamp Out Alzheimer'sAs all of us on the Alzheimer’s Reading Room know Alzheimer’s is one of the greatest and most costly medical and social problems facing our nation today.It is a cruel disease which extracts a tremendous physical, emotional, and financial toll from all it touches. We must continue our support for those with this disease and their care partners, but we must also fight to stop this disease by finding varied innovative way...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - February 16, 2014 Category: Dementia Authors: Max Wallack Source Type: blogs
A Disruptive Conversation with the Co-founders of Personal Medicine Plus
We love stories about women that are truly changing the face of health care, particularly through innovation. Today is no exception. We recently sat down with Co-founders Natalie Hodge, MD and Brandi Harless, MPH of Personal Medicine Plus, an app that allows individuals to self-manage health through behavior tracking and health data metrics. Both Hodge and Harless shared their experience in developing their tool, being a woman innovation leader, and a few words of wisdom and inspiration to other women interested in following their goals. Check it out below.
What drew you to health innovation technology?
NH: My first passi...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 6, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health 2.0 Health Professions HIT/Health Gaming Innovation Publc Health Technology Women's Health Source Type: blogs
My (Censored) Response to Stan Glantz's Contention that Electronic Cigarettes are Causing Youth to Smoke More Heavily
Last week, Stan Glantz used a new study, published online ahead of print in the Journal of Adolescent Health, to mislead the public into thinking that there is now evidence that electronic cigarettes are leading to smoking initiation and addiction among adolescents. In a statement accompanying the study, study author Stanton Glantz proclaimed that electronic cigarettes are "a new route to smoking addiction for adolescents."He also wrote that: "Use of e-cigarettes is associated with heavier use of conventional cigarettes, which raises the likelihood that actual use of e-cigarettes may increase harm by creating a new pat...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - December 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
As New York Times Article Reveals, Quality of Scientific Analysis at Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Has Deteriorated
An op-ed column by Joe Nocera in the New York Times last Friday discusses the inane position of anti-smoking groups on electronic cigarettes.Nocera writes: "You’d think that the public health community would be cheering at the introduction of electronic cigarettes. We all know how hard it is to quit smoking. We also know that nicotine replacement therapies, like the patch, haven’t worked especially well. The electronic cigarette is the first harm-reduction product to gain serious traction among American smokers. Yet the public health community is not cheering. Far from it: groups like the American Lung Association, ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - December 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
