Lecture on Scientific Bias in Cardiology
Last month I gave a lecture in Brazil (via my house in Kentucky) on scientific bias in cardiology.
It’s about 20 minutes. Dr Bob Kaplan from Stanford also spoke on issues relating to how FDA approves drugs–a timely topic.
Many of you know that I espouse a medically conservative approach to medical practice.
My lecture explains some of the reasons I take that approach. I try to make the case for a humble approach to medical evidence and what doctors can do.
We have a 30 minute discussion after the lecture. That was fun.
The intro and moderator is my friend and colleague Dr Luis Correia, who is...
Source: Dr John M - September 29, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Doctors Urge Caution in Interpretation of Research in Times of COVID-19
September 9, 2020
To:
American College of Cardiology
American College of Chest Physicians
American College of Physicians
American College of Radiology
American Heart Association
American Society of Echocardiography
American Thoracic Society
European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
European Society of Cardiology
European Society of Radiology
Heart Rhythm Society
Infectious Disease Society of America
North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging
Radiologic Society of North America
Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Soci...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Medical Practice Patients Physicians myocarditis Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
Which Human Experiences Are Universal?
By Emma Young
As everyone knows, American undergrads are not representative of all humanity — and the perils of drawing conclusions about people in general from WEIRD studies have been well-publicised. To really understand which human experiences are universal, and which are a product of our individual cultures, we need big, well-conducted studies of people from many different cultures. Fortunately, there are studies like this. Here are some of their most fascinating insights…
Personal space
How big is your “personal space”? As a Brit, I’d expect mine to be larger than that of th...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Feature Source Type: blogs
How Did We Screw A Pandemic Up So Bad?
We’re still in the thick of things when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. Countries are bracing themselves for a second wave. Scientists are still racing to find a vaccine. We wrote a whole e-book with resources to help you in the fight against COVID-19 while indoors. And we even had to tackle the conspiracy theories that captured way too many people’s imagination.
Thankfully, those conspiracy theories represented the thoughts and actions of an irrational minority. But even the slow and misguided actions of the rational majority further escalated and worsened the crisis. In our tech-aided, always-connected and i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 9, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Pharma Healthcare Policy Video china leadership Fauci Trump pandemic second wave covid-19 Bolsonaro U.S. vaccine new normal Source Type: blogs
To harness our best selves, “Temper your empathy, train your compassion, and avoid the news”
In the novel Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys are shipwrecked on an island and eventually turn savagely against each other. The book is a cautionary tale about humanity’s underlying cruelty and the need for civilization to tame our darker impulses—a message that resonates with many people today.
But that’s not what happened to a real-life group of shipwrecked kids in 1965. Unlike the fictional Lord of the Flies characters, they developed a game plan for survival that was cooperative, fun, and peaceful, resulting in lifelong friendships.
In other words, the boys didn’t turn into devils when left on their own...
Source: SharpBrains - September 1, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness brain-damaging stress coronavirus humankind Lord of the Flies mental health mental hygiene mindfulness Rutger Bregman Source Type: blogs
Wearable Sweat Sensor Made from Microbial Nanocellulose
Researchers in Brazil have developed a wearable sweat sensor made from microbial nanocellulose. The natural polymer provides a breathable interface with the underlying skin and allows sweat to travel through for electrochemical analysis using printed electrodes. The system can measure a wide variety of metabolites and biomarkers present in sweat, and could be useful for monitoring conditions such as diabetes.
Wearable sensors are developing apace, and hold significant promise in monitoring various biomarkers. However, developing materials that interface well with the skin is a challenge, with many sensors, including pla...
Source: Medgadget - August 18, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Hey indeedy for this headline . . .
Two decades of pandemic war games failed to account for Donald Trump. What ' s interesting about this is that they never realized they needed a way to simulate ineptitude. The scenarios foresaw leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines and disputes between state and federal leaders, but none could anticipate the current levels of dysfunction in the United States. The gist is that public health specialists have been running simulations of pandemics knowing that they will happen and that nations, and the world, need to be prepared. In these simulations, the U.S. was presumed to have the most robus...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 10, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Can appealing to teenagers ’ vanity improve sun-protective behaviors?
As the summer warmth lures us outside, parents may be struggling to get their teenagers to follow sun protection guidelines. It can be challenging to catch the attention of younger people, for whom health concerns such as skin cancer feel like a lifetime away. One promising strategy for educating teens about sun-protective behavior is to appeal to their vanity and meet them where they are — on their smartphones.
Mobile app reveals possible effects of UV exposure
A recent study in JAMA Dermatology looked at the impact of using a face-aging mobile application on sun-protective behaviors in a group of Brazilian high school ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shinjita Das, MD Tags: Cancer Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
Will There Be A Second Wave Of COVID-19?
In short? Yes, there most certainly will. Or, looking at it from another perspective, there might not be a second wave as the first one won’t end. In any case, which scenario is more probable depends on your country’s leadership and decisions and whether people will be compliant enough to go along with the restrictions. Because how governments are preparing for it over the next few weeks will be crucial in the fight against the pandemic.
The search is still on for a vaccine and it certainly won’t be ready by the time experts say the second wave hits the stage. Technically, to talk about a second wave, the firs...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 30, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Digital Health Research Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones vaccination coronavirus covid19 vaccine research leadership pandemic second wave flatten the curve researchers Anthony Fauci Mike Pence lockdown Source Type: blogs
Researchers Assume White Americans Are More Representative Of Humankind Than Other Groups, According To Analysis Of Psychology Paper Titles
By Matthew Warren
It’s well-known that psychology has a problem with generalisability. Studies overwhelmingly involve “WEIRD” participants: those who are western and educated, from industrialised, rich and democratic societies. And while there is increasing recognition that other populations need better representation in research, many psychologists still often draw sweeping conclusions about humanity based on results from a narrow portion of the world’s population.
A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that this problem may have had another, more insidious effect. The auth...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Methodological Source Type: blogs
2020: Jumanji Or Dystopia
“There’s No Going Back to ‘Normal’”, crudely proclaims the headline of a June piece from The Atlantic. “The Terrible Consequences of Australia’s Uber-Bushfires” reads a recent Wired article. One of our own April articles was titled “Will Medical Workers Deal With PTSD After COVID-19?”. If it wasn’t clear, an article published earlier this year in The Conversation rightly asks: “Are we living in a dystopia?”.
Indeed, what was once relegated to the fertile minds of fiction novelists has become daily occurrences. Many are drawing similarities to “prophetic” works of fiction such as the c...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 28, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Science Fiction Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality black mirror dystopia coronavirus covid19 jumanji Death Stranding video games bushfires Source Type: blogs
Religious People In The US — But Not Elsewhere In The World — Have More Negative Attitudes Towards Science
By Matthew Warren
It’s a common view among the public — and certain intellectuals — that science and religion are in fundamental opposition to each other, despite claims to the contrary. As Richard Dawkins put it in his essay The Great Convergence, “To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.”
Part of this conviction that science and religion cannot be reconciled comes down to a belief that the two doctrines are psychologically incompatible. How can someone put their faith in a divine being while also trying to make sense of the world ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Personality Religion Source Type: blogs
Chest Pain and Ischemic ST Depression — but there is no Cath Lab available. Thrombolytics?
===================================MY Comment by KEN GRAUER, MD (7/14/2020):===================================This middle-aged man with hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented to the ED with 2 hours of new-onset chest pain — and the ECG shown in Figure-1. The patient was hemodynamically stable. No prior tracing was available for comparison.HOW would you interpret the ECG shown in Figure-1?Immediate cath lab activation was not an option in this hospital. Should acute thrombolysis be used?Figure-1: The initial ECG in the ED (See text).My THOUGHTS on ECG #1...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 14, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: ECG Interpretation Source Type: blogs
Exposed, silenced, attacked: failures to protect health and essential workers during the pandemic
Amnesty International - Amnesty has collated and analysed a wide range of available data showing that more than 3,000 health workers have died after contracting Covid-19 in 79 countries, though the figure is likely to be a significant underestimate due to under-reporting. According to Amnesty ’s monitoring, the countries with the highest numbers of health worker deaths thus far, are: Russia (545), UK (England and Wales: 540, including 262 social care workers), USA (507), Brazil (351), Mexico (248), Italy (188), Egypt (111), Iran (91), Ecuador (82) and Spain (63). In the UK, early studi es indicate that black, Asian...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 13, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Determining America ’s “Dependence” on China for Essential Medical Goods
Scott LincicomeThe unfortunate onset of COVID-19 has caused many politicians and pundits to proclaim that the United States is distressinglydependent on China for essential medical goods, and to ask whether this “dependence” demands new government programs—in particular, protectionism, subsidies and “Buy American” procurement mandates—to fix the alleged problem.A little‐noticedreport from United States International Trade Commission (ITC) begins to provide the answer to that question, though probably not the answer those same politicians and pundits were expecting.The June 2020 ITC report on“tariff a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
