Confidentiality and Treatment Refusal: Conservative Shifts on Reproductive Rights by Brazilian Medical Boards
Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes, Corina Helena Figueira Mendes, Confidentiality and Treatment Refusal: Conservative Shifts on Reproductive Rights by Brazilian Medical Boards, 152(3) Int ’l J. OBGYN 495 (2021): Brazil has witnessed a conservative shift in recent years, reflected in setbacks in... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 20, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Are the SUS and the Right to Health Incompatible with Universal Health Coverage? Challenging Misconceptions around the Concept of UHC in the Public Health Scholarship in Brazil
Daniel Wang (Funda ção Getulio Vargas Law School), Are the SUS and the Right to Health Incompatible with Universal Health Coverage? Challenging Misconceptions around the Concept of UHC in the Public Health Scholarship in Brazil, 39(3) CEBRAP (2021): The literature on... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 17, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
8 Foods I ’ve Added to My Diet to Enhance My Health
Some nutritionists believe that food is medicine. I’m not sure if I want to go through life taking nothing but chicken soup every time I get sick, but I pay attention to what I put in my mouth and its effects on my body.
As a result, I’ve eliminated many products from my meals over the years, but what I gave up, I made up for in healthier additions. Here are eight foods I’ve added to my diet to enhance my health and why.
1. Beets
Your thoughts might not turn to this root vegetable until it’s time to make red beet eggs for your next picnic. However, including more of them in your weekly diet could help your...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kara Reynolds Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement food mental health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Health technology assessment and judicial deference to priority-setting decisions in healthcare: Quasi-experimental analysis of right-to-health litigation in Brazil
Daniel Wang (Funda ção Getulio Vargas Law School), Natalia Pires de Vasconcelos (Yale University), Mathieu Poirier (University of Ottawa), Ana Chieffi, Cauê Mônaco (Centro Universitário), Lathika Sritharan (University of Ottawa), Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Steven Hoffman (York University), Health technology assessm ent... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 5, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Few Immigrants among Capitol Insurrectionists
Alex NowrastehAs of February 1, 2021, a total of 217 people have been arrested or charged with participating in the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Many more people will be arrested and charged in the coming months, but it’s worth looking at the demographics of this group to better understand what happened.Newresearch by professors Robert A. Pape and Keven Ruby present the age, employment status, and other demographic characteristics of the mob that attacked the Capitol. However, Pape and Ruby left out one key demographic variable: nativity. How many of the rioters were foreign ‐born?To fill this gap, my int...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 3, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Understanding Leprosy on World Leprosy Day
Leprosy is a chronic and progressive disease that primarily affects the skin and peripheral nervous system. Leprosy has been with us for thousands of years. There is evidence of the disease as far back as 4000 BC, in ancient Egypt.[1] In 1873, Norwegian physician Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen discovered that leprosy was caused by a bacterium. [2] Today, we call this bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, and we often refer to leprosy as Hansen’s Disease, in honor of Dr. Hansen. While leprosy caused significant morbidity and mortality in the past, cases today are rare and are curable with proper treatment.
How Is Leprosy Transmitte...
Source: GIDEON blog - January 28, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Uri Blackman Tags: News Leprosy Source Type: blogs
International Access to Public Health Data: An Important Brazilian Legal Precedent
Vera L úcia Raposo (University of Macau), Ian Freckelton (University of Melbourne), International Access to Public Health Data: An Important Brazilian Legal Precedent, 27(4) J. L. Med. 895 (2020): Accurate, up-to-date data are the bedrock of effective public health responses, including... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 4, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 28th 2020
In conclusion, our study demonstrated that the molecular processes of aging are relatively subtle in their progress, and the aging process of every tissue depends on the tissue's specialized function and environment. Hence, individual gene or process alone cannot be described as the key of aging in the whole organism.
Mouse Age Matters: How Age Affects the Murine Plasma Metabolome
A large part of metabolomics research relies on experiments involving mouse models, which are usually 6 to 20 weeks of age. However, in this age range mice undergo dramatic developmental changes. Even small age differences may l...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 27, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Raised Blood Pressure at Any Age Speeds Cognitive Decline
Here is a reminder that the increased blood pressure of hypertension, or even more modestly raised blood pressure, is an important downstream mechanism in aging. Higher blood pressure over time results in greater tissue damage to the brain, kidneys, and other organs, greater vulnerability to atherosclerosis, and many more issues. Raised blood pressure is one of the more important ways in which the underlying molecular damage of aging is converted into structural and physical damage that leads to death.
High blood pressure appears to accelerate a decline in cognitive performance in middle-aged and older adults. Nea...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 21, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Curb Climate Change After COVID-19? Fast-Growing India and Brazil Are Key
India and Brazil are facing pressure to launch recoveries after the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Will they backslide on their Paris Climate Agreement commitments, or will the expected return of the United States to the pact provide some needed encouragement to treat the pandemic crisis as an opportunity to build a more sustainable economic future? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 15, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Louay Constant; Troy D. Smith Source Type: blogs
21st century outbreaks
Which diseases have generated the highest number of cases from outbreaks during the first two decades of the 21st century? In this blog, we can use GIDEON’s data to find out.
‘Disease outbreak’ is a scary term for many, but every year we suffer dozens, if not hundreds, of localized and international disease outbreaks across the world. While these outbreaks are always significant to those affected, they rarely generate headlines, and can sometimes go unnoticed outside of the Healthcare Industry.
An “outbreak” is often defined as an increase in case numbers for a particular disease in a defined place and...
Source: GIDEON blog - December 3, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Top 10 most prominent diseases of the 21st Century
Which diseases have generated the highest number of cases from outbreaks during the first two decades of the 21st century? In this blog, we can use GIDEON’s data to find out.
‘Disease outbreak’ is a scary term for many, but every year we suffer dozens, if not hundreds, of localized and international disease outbreaks across the world. While these outbreaks are always significant to those affected, they rarely generate headlines, and can sometimes go unnoticed outside of the Healthcare Industry.
An “outbreak” is often defined as an increase in case numbers for a particular disease in a defined place and time. ...
Source: GIDEON blog - December 1, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Anterior ST Elevation and a Finding that was Overlooked
===================================MY Comment by KEN GRAUER, MD (11/19/2020):===================================I ’d like to revisit one of Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog posts from 2012 for 2 Reasons:Reason #1: It highlights the challenge of assessing anterior ST elevation in a certain type of patient.Reason #2: There is one more easy-to-overlook but important finding on the ECG that was not initially detected.TAKE a LOOK at the ECG in Figure-1. This is the initial tracing from this patient who presented to the ED with new chest pain and dyspnea.The...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: ECG Interpretation Source Type: blogs
A Stronger Claim to Data Protection During Pandemics? Leveraging the American Convention on Human Rights Against Governmental Inaction: A Brazilian Case-Study
This article presents a case-study to illustrate the crucial... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 22, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What Can We Expect From 2021: The COVID Perspective
Nearing the end of 2020, we are globally far from seeing the end of the pandemic that ruled (and ruined) 2020. Every day we see hundreds of thousands of new cases of coronavirus infections, with the WHO reporting a record one-day rise, while people have a hard time complying with the strict safety measures again. We are all waiting for this nightmare to stop, but will it ever? How long, ‘till we need to keep masks on and stay away from grandma? After this dystopian 2020, how are we looking at 2021?
No one knows for sure. With countries being knee-deep in the second wave, everyone is waiting for the vaccines to put an ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 15, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Forecast Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Science Fiction fake news vaccination covid covid19 pandemic vaccine hoax flu Oxfam COVAX olympics Source Type: blogs
