Start Well - Stay Well: a new model to support new starters
NHS Employers - This case study explores how the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) designed the Start Well: Stay Well model to ensure new starters feel part of the team from the start of their employment journey, and that they continue to be engaged throughout their time with CUH.Case studyMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 11, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Clinical reasoning in pain – emotions
The current definition of pain includes the words “unpleasant sensory and emotional experience” so we would be surprised if we encountered a person with pain who wasn’t feeling some sort of negative emotion, am I right? Yet… when we look at common pain assessments used for low back pain, items about emotions or worries are almost always included as indicators of negative outcomes (for example, STarTBack – Worrying thoughts have been going through my mind a lot of the time, I feel that my back pain is terrible and it’s never going to get any better, In general I have not enjoyed all the thing...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 29, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Health Humour Pain biopsychosocial Occupational therapy pain management rehabilitation Research Therapeutic approaches treatment Source Type: blogs
Photographing the Cambridge Peregrines – Part 2
Having recently photographed the Peregrines (Falco peregrinus) that share their time between Cambridge University Library, King’s College Chapel, and the United Reform Church (see Cambridge Peregrines Part 1), Mrs Sciencebase and myself ventured a little further afield (having had a tipoff from a birder friend about another local pair).
So, this morning we found ourselves in the wastelands of Cherry Hinton the southeastern suburb of the city of Cambridge. We ventured into a local wildlife reserve there that was originally a chalk quarry that back in the day mainly supplied materials for college construction and loca...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 9, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Reply to Erich Jarvis by William Matchin
More from William Matchin -- Reply to Erich Jarvis:At the most recent SfN, Erich Jarvis gave the opening presidential address on the functional neuroanatomy of language, which I commented on and critiqued in my recent blog post for Talking Brains (http://www.talkingbrains.org/2017/11/abstractness-innateness-and-modality.html). Erich has briefly responded to my writing on Twitter and suggested a debate. Few things could give me more pleasure than a productive debate on central issues concerning the nature of human language. The following is a response to his comments in the context of a more in-depth exploration of the issu...
Source: Talking Brains - January 10, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Continuous Sedation at the End of Life: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives
New from Cambridge University Press: Continuous Sedation at the End of Life: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives
Continuous sedation until death (sometimes referred to as terminal sedation or palliative sedation) is an increasingly common practice in end-of-life care. However, it raises numerous medical, ethical, emotional and legal concerns.
These include: the reducing or removing of consciousness (and thus potentially causing 'subjective death'), the withholding of artificial nutrition and hydration, the proportionality of the sedation to the symptoms, its adequacy in actually relieving symptoms rather than simply g...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 28, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Abstractness, innateness, and modality-independence of language: reflections on SNL & SfN 2017
Guest post by former student, William Matchin: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It ’s been almost 10 years since the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference (SNL) began, and it is always one of my favorite events of the year, where I catch up with old friends and see and discuss much of the research that interests me in a compact form. This year’s meeting was no ex ception. The opening night talk about dolphin communication by Diana Reiss was fun and interesting, and the reception at the Baltimore aquarium was spectacular and well organized. I was impressed with the high quality of many...
Source: Talking Brains - November 20, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Monetary Freedom: Lessons from the Western Han Dynasty
During the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. – A.D. 9), the question of monetary freedom was vigorously debated. There were as yet no banks or paper money in China — money consisted solely of coin. Private mints competed with government mints, either in the shadow market or legally. In 81 B.C., the issue of whether the state or the marke t would be the best guardian of sound money came to a head in the famous “Discourses on Salt and Iron,” which were compiled by Huan Kuan in his bookYantie lun. The relevant chapter for our study ischapter 4, “Cuobi” ( “Discordant Currencies”).In this article, I provide some b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 17, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
Biomolecule Imaging Pioneers Share Nobel Prize
Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 to Jacques Dubochet(University of Lausanne, Switzerland) andJoachim Frank (Columbia University, New York, USA), andRichard Henderson (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK). The award is given "for developingcryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"Cool microscope technology revolutionises biochemistryWe may soon have detailed images of life ’s complex machineries in atomic resolution. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 is awarded to Jacques Dubochet, ...
Source: The A and P Professor - October 4, 2017 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Recursos en espa ñol: Huracán Maria; Terremoto en la Ciudad de México
Huracán Maria
La guía de información para la salud en desastres, Huracanes 2017, de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina se ha actualizado para incluir recursos específicos para los huracanes María, Irma y Harvey.
Recursos en español para el huracán Maria
Huracán Maria (Centro para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades)
Huracán Maria (FEMA)
Búsquedas de literatura de desastres en Disaster Lit (disponible solamente en inglés)
Recursos sobre huracanes en español
Recursos sobre cortes de energía eléctrica en español
El huracán Preparación y Respuesta (Administración de Seguridad y Salud, Departame...
Source: BHIC - September 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Emergency Preparedness Multilingual National Library of Medicine News Websites disaster response español spanish language resources Source Type: blogs
Emergency Access Initiative activated for libraries affected by recent disasters
NLM and Publishers Launch Emergency Access Initiative, Granting Free Access to Books and Journals for Libraries Impacted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Expanded to Include Hurricane Maria and the Earthquakes in Mexico
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) activated the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) on September 15th in response to Hurricanes Irma and Harvey which devastated Florida and several Caribbean islands, as well as parts of South Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana.
On September 20th, NLM extended the area of coverage to include areas impacted by Hurricane Maria, and those in Mexico impacted by the recent earthq...
Source: BHIC - September 22, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Emergency Preparedness National Library of Medicine News disaster response EAI Source Type: blogs
Conspirators in their own memory loss – findings from 53 patients with “psychogenic amnesia”
By Christian Jarrett
A person diagnosed with psychogenic amnesia complains of serious memory problems, sometimes even forgetting who they are, without there being any apparent physical reason for their symptoms – in other words, their condition seems to be purely psychological.
It’s a fascinating, controversial diagnosis with roots dating back to Freud’s, Breuer’s and Charcot’s ideas about hysteria and how emotional problems sometimes manifest in dramatic physical ways. Today, some experts doubt that psychogenic amnesia is a real phenomenon, reasoning that there is either an undetected physical ca...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Memory Mental health Source Type: blogs
Law, Religion, and Health in the United States
I am delighted to be a small part of this valuable new volume coming out this month from Cambridge University Press: Law, Religion, and Health in the United States. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 26, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 26th 2017
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 25, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation Publishes the 2016 Annual Rejuvenation Research Report
The SENS Research Foundation annual reports tend to arrive in the middle of the following year, and today the 2016 report was published. You can find it in PDF format at the foundation website. The story of SENS rejuvenation research, approaches that aim to repair the cell and tissue damage that causes aging, is one of growth and success over the years. It has been a bootstrapping from idea to reality, powered by the philanthropy and determined support of our community. We have come a long way and achieved a great deal these past fifteen years. Yet there remains the upward curve ahead, and the completion of the vision of a...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 22, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Silent wings of the barn owl
Walking the dog at dusk out on the Cambridgeshire fens mid-May, lots of swallows around, meadow pipits, yellowhammers, the inevitable wood pigeons, collared doves, starlings and blackbirds, a few LBJs (little brown jobs), chaffinch, house martins, robins, (barely glimpsed, but certain) goldcrests and more. Heading along the lode thought I saw a little egret out of the corner of my eye, but turned to see a beautiful barn owl (Tyto alba) in the lowering sun circle the fields, hunting small mammals, worrying the skylarks on their nests.
The shot above was the first I captured, it’s often the way, first shot on the reel...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 30, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
