Ann McKee named to Time Magazine's Annual List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
Ann McKee, MDDr. Ann McKee joins Rihanna, Donald Trump, and Oprah Winfrey on the list of Time Magazines ' s annual list of the100 most influential people in the world for 2018. The full list appears in the April 30 issue of Time Magazine. McKee is the chief of neuropathology at the VA Boston Healthcare System and director of the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center.McKee ' s research focuses on the long-term effects of concussion, subconcussion and blast injury in contact sports athletes and military veterans, including CTE. Her work has shifted the prevailing paradigm of scientific thought regar...
Source: neuropathology blog - April 26, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: neuropathologists trauma Source Type: blogs
New York Times Succumbs to The False Narrative Driving Opioid Policy-and Deaths
In an April 21 editorial, the New York Times succumbs to the false narrative reverberating in the media echo chamber that blames the opioid overdose crisis on doctors overprescribing opioids to their patients in pain. Even worse, the Times perpetuates a significant component of that narrative: the myth that such overprescribing can essentially be traced to nothing more than a single letter to the editor by researchers at Boston University in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980 touting the low addictive potential of opioids when prescribed in the medical setting. In fact, numerous studies before and after that...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 24, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Podcast: How to Control Social Anxiety Before It Controls You
Social anxiety is more common than most of us realize. Around 80% of us have experienced it at some point in our lives. In this episode, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen shares her insights into social anxiety, including how it is experienced by different sorts of people, and how we can reduce its impact on us. She explains about safety behaviors and how they can work against us in overcoming anxiety, as well as addresses specific anxious behaviors, such as avoiding eye contact. As she explains, a little social anxiety isn’t anything to worry about. It’s when social anxiety causes us to avoid certain situations or interactions tha...
Source: World of Psychology - March 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: Anxiety and Panic General Mental Health and Wellness The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Why seminary? Or, why are you non-traditional?
“Why are you in seminary?”
As a “non-traditional applicant,” I was asked this question on every medical school interview four years ago.
I’ve come to learn that seminary training engenders stereotypes and mythopoeia. My mentors knew this, and advised me to have examples ready related to the importance of being trained in fields that both study the human condition and provide the skill set necessary to critically assess paradigms.
Some interviewers appreciated the importance of understanding humans at the emergent level of culture and religion, though many did not. Many were perplexed by ‘such an unusual...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 7, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/joshua-niforatos" rel="tag" > Joshua Niforatos < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
Are There Ties Between Prenatal Ultrasound and Autism?
Acontroversial study recently published inJAMA Pediatrics has posed possible but largely unfounded links between autism and ultrasound technique and frequency. According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, there is a possible correlation between depth of ultrasound penetration during the first and second trimesters and autism. The researchers evaluated sonograms of 420 children, 107 with autism, 104 with developmental delay, and 209 with typical development. They looked at the frequency of ultrasound scans and penetration depth amongst the three groups. They found that mothers of children with autism...
Source: radRounds - February 23, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Fear and Loathing in Pay-For-Performance Land
KIP SULLIVAN & STEPHEN SOUMERAI
Pay for performance, the catchall term for policies that purport to pay doctors and hospitals based on quality and cost measures, has been taking a bashing.
Last November, University of Pittsburgh and Harvard researchers published a major study in Annals of Internal Medicine showing that a Medicare pay-for-performance program did not improve quality or reduce cost and, to make matters worse, it actually penalized doctors for caring for the poorest and sickest patients because their “quality scores” suffered. In December, Ankur Gupta and colleagues reported that a Medicare pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 22, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Pay for Performance Source Type: blogs
Questioning the Link Between Sports-Related Concussions and CTE
This article is submitted on behalf of 26 brain injury experts in neurosurgery, neuropsychology, neurology, neuropathology and public policy at 23 universities and hospitals in the United States and Canada.
The additional signatories are:
Lili-Naz Hazrati, associate professor of neuropathology at the University of Toronto; clinician-scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
John Leddy, professor of clinical orthopaedics and rehabilitation sciences at the SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Barry Willer, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Me...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Boston University CTE football Sports-Related Concussions Source Type: blogs
Opioid Resources and Events in January 2018
A recent article from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) described State Opioid Response Plans that have been developed by nine states to address opioid use disorder in 2018. Some statewide goals include focusing on prevention of opioid misuse, supporting those affected by opioid misuse, and expanding access to treatment. Proposed strategies include establishing limitations for those receiving an opioid prescription for the first time, enacting good Samaritan laws in the event of overdose, providing incentives for students to become behavioral health providers, and adding more coverage for be...
Source: BHIC - January 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Erin Seger Tags: General Substance Addiction and Misuse Webinars Source Type: blogs
International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research (ISFAR) is Still Hiding Conflicts of Interest of Its Members
The International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research (ISFAR)claims to be " anindependent organization of scientists that prepares critiques of emerging research reports on alcohol and health. " The Forumdescribes itself as " an international group of invited physicians and scientists who are specialists in their fields and committed to balanced and well researched analysis regarding alcohol and health. " It is " a joint undertaking of Boston University School of Medicine in the United States and Alcohol in Moderation (AIM) of the United Kingdom. Its Co-Directors are R. Curtis Ellison, MD, Professor of Medicine& ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 7, 2018 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
What ’s Wrong With American Doctors?
By BRIANNA GRAFF
It is February of 2005, and my grandpa is lying in an Intensive Care Unit bed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, critically ill from a renal artery rupture that planted him face-first in his parlor. As a functioning alcoholic who has already been in the hospital for a day, he is beginning to shake periodically, a sign of his withdrawals.
Still, it will take another twelve hours and exasperations from both my mother and grandmother (both nurses themselves) before the physicians get him the Ativan he needs to combat this symptom, which is small potatoes compared to his emergent reason for adm...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Implementer ’ s Dilemma
By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD
One word: implementation.
Increasingly, I’m convinced that the underappreciated challenges of implementation describe the ever-expanding gap between the promise of emerging technologies (sensors, AI) and their comparatively limited use in clinical care and pharmaceutical research. (Updated disclosure: I am now a VC, associated with a pharma company; views expressed, as always, are my own.)
Technology Promises Disruption Of Healthcare…
Let’s start with some context. Healthcare, it is universally agreed, is “broken,” and in particular, many of the advances and conveniences we now take for ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Daimler Benz AG David Shaywitz Innovation Source Type: blogs
Brief Guide to the CTE Brains in the News. Part 1: Aaron Hernandez
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is the neurodegenerative disease of the moment, made famous by the violent and untimely deaths of many retired professional athletes. Repeated blows to the head sustained in contact sports such asboxing and American football can result in abnormal accumulations oftau protein (usually many years later). The autopsied brains from two of these individuals are shown below.Left: courtesy of Dr. Ann McKee inNYT. Right: courtesy of Dr. Bennett Omalu inCNN. These are coronal sections1 from the autopsied brains of: (L) Aaron Hernandez, aged 27; and(R) Fred O ' Neill, aged 63.Both men play...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 4, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Post Doctoral Associate position, Boston University -- great opportunity with Jason Bohland
The Quantitative Neuroscience Laboratory at Boston University (http://neurospeech.org; PI Jason Bohland) is seeking applications for a postdoctoral associate to carry out psychophysical, physiological, and computational studies, which aim to determine how speakers use auditory feedback to guide the sequential production of speech. Full-time funding is currently available for a period of at least two years. There is a possibility of engaging in additional independent or collaborative research including computational and/or brain imaging studies.Requirements:· PhD in neuroscien...
Source: Talking Brains - December 4, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Brief Guide to the CTE Brains in the News. Part 1: Aaron Hernandez
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is the neurodegenerative disease of the moment, made famous by the violent and untimely deaths of many retired professional athletes. Repeated blows to the head sustained in contact sports such asboxing and American football can result in abnormal accumulations oftau protein (usually many years later). The autopsied brains from two of these individuals are shown below.Left: courtesy of Dr. Ann McKee inNYT. Right: courtesy of Dr. Bennett Omalu inCNN. These are coronal sections1 from the autopsied brains of: (L) Aaron Hernandez, aged 27; and(R) Fred McNeill, aged 63.Both men played...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 4, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Taking the Guesswork Out of Pain Management
How do you measure pain? A patient’s furrowed brow, a child’s cries or tears—all are signs of pain. But what if the patient suffers from severe dementia and can’t describe what she is feeling or is a young child who can’t yet talk? Caregivers can help read the signs of pain, but their interpretations may differ greatly from patient to patient, because people have different ways of showing discomfort. And when the patient is unconscious, such as during surgery or while in intensive care, the caregiving team has even fewer ways to measure pain.
Patients can point to one of the faces on this subjective pain scale ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 7, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Barbara Vann Tags: Pharmacology Anesthesiology Medicines Pain Source Type: blogs
