Tracey v. Cambridge University Hospital – Duty to Consult on DNR Orders
Almost three years ago, David Tracey filed a lawsuit against Cambridge University Hospital. Tracey alleged that CUH clinicians wrote a DNR order for his wife without her consent and without any discussion with her.
Today, Tracey finally obtained... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 17, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Can a Tree Experience Hurt?: If It Can, Do Ethics and Law Apply?
I was visiting a well known botanic garden in Southern California today, taking pictures of all the beautiful flowers when I saw this tree shown above in the pictures I took. Honestly, what I saw, a tree apparently being pulled by straps out of its normal posture, pained me as I projected myself as if I were that tree. Of course, I am not that tree but then this got me thinking about the bioethics of what had been done to the tree. (First of all, I want to admit that I have no idea how long the straps were in place or for what future duration and what the gardeners were intending to accomplish with the st...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 13, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Maurice Bernstein, M.D. Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Time to #choosecycling
This report, commissioned by British Cycling from Cambridge University, finds that if people replaced 5 minutes of the 36 minutes they spend each day in the car with cycling, there would be an almost 5% annual reduction in the health burden from inactivity-related illnesses including heart disease, diabetes, stroke and some cancers. It also argues that if 10% of trips in England and Wales were made by bike, the savings to the NHS of the top inactivity related illnesses would be at least £250 million per year.
Report
Cambridge University research summary
British Cycling - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 10, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Tecumseh Fitch’s The Evolution of Language – a highly recommended read
In conclusion, animals which actually generate call sequences that appear random seem to be exceptional, and in many species there are rules (or constraints) upon vocal sequences that can reasonably be termed “animal syntax.” However, the types of rules that govern these arrangements in primates are very simple compared to human linguistic syntax: they typically can be captured by trivial finite state grammars, and only the propositionally meaningless “songs” of birds and whales require more complex grammars. Thus, current data support the existence of a large gulf between animal “syntax” and that employed in a...
Source: Talking Brains - January 21, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Dementia campaign could lead to over-diagnosis, say experts
The current prevalence of dementia is thought to be 10-30% in people over the age of 80. Photograph: John Stillwell/PATwo-thirds of people aged 80 or over could be diagnosed with dementia in future because doctors are subjecting patients to needless investigation for and potentially damaging treatment of the disease, experts say.The specialists in dementia, geriatric medicine and public health claim the growing trend towards older people having their risk of dementia assessed could lead to considerable over-diagnosis."The current prevalence of dementia is thought to be 10-30% in people over the age of 80, but the...
Source: PharmaGossip - September 10, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Police Hate This Idea, But
Ronald Bailey: Earlier this year, a 12-month study by Cambridge University researchers revealed that when the city of Rialto, California, required its cops to wear cameras, the number of complaints filed against officers fell by 88 percent and the use of force by officers dropped by almost 60 percent. Watched cops are polite cops. Jay Stanley, a policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), calls police-worn video cameras “a win/win for both the public and the police.” Win/win... (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - September 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Forskning og livsløb – har kreativiteten en udløbsdato? Debatdag på Medicinsk Museion den 8. oktober.
Et af aldringsforskningens mere komplicerede emner er kompetence og kreativitet set i et livsperspektiv. Hvornår kan man “toppe” – og inden for hvad? Bibeholdes kreativiteten og energien til at tænke nyt gennem hele livet? Og hvad med udviklingen af modenhed og de egenskaber der beskrives med aldringens plusord?
Center for Sund Aldring afholder en debatdag om emnet:
Tirsdag 8. oktober 2013, kl. 9 – 17.
Medicinsk Museion, Bredgade 62, 1260 København K
Formålet med dagen er, at:
Formidle viden om fremherskende traditioner, opfattelser og holdninger til forskning, kreativitet og livskarriere – set i et kult...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 4, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: aesthetics Source Type: blogs
Current Wisdom: Even More Low Climate Sensitivity Estimates
Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger
The Current Wisdom is a series of monthly articles in which Patrick J. Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science, reviews interesting items on global warming in the scientific literature that may not have received the media attention that they deserved, or have been misinterpreted in the popular press.
Our periodic compilations of low equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) estimates have become a big hit.
In our on-going effort to keep up with the science, today we update our previous summary with two additional recently published lower-than-IPC...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger Source Type: blogs
Updates from Journal Apps (BrowZine, docwise, ReadbyQxMD, Docphin)
Here a short overview of all new updates around the Journal apps we are supporting.
Personally I am most excited about the anouncements of "docwise" making big steps to keep up with BrowZine & Read (Integration -"Open in"- with Dropbox, Evernote and more, save and email full text articles), but making a hug jump with unique features, like shareable Folders with docwise users ánd a RSS reader feature (boldly called Google Reader replacement!). Bring it on!
BrowZine:
just published the Android Version of their App to which the CMB UMCG now has a subscription. To be downloaded from Google Play Store or Amazon App S...
Source: DigiCMB - July 22, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Guus van den Brekel Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation Mentioned in Los Angeles Magazine
Here is a recent article from the local Los Angeles press, in which the author manages to touch on a broader range of the pro-human-longevity community than is usually the case:
What researchers do know is that there are limits to how far we can naturally extend the human life span. L. Stephen Coles, a UCLA lecturer and executive director of the Gerontology Research Group, documents and studies "supercentenarians" - people who live to 110 or longer. When he started tracking the longest-lived humans around 2000, "the oldest [known] person in history was a Frenchwoman named Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
George Smith's Long-Awaited Book: The System of Liberty
David Boaz
George H. Smith is one of the best-read, most insightful libertarians living today. He is the author of most of the Cato University Home Study Course, which you should definitely download. He writes a weekly article for Libertarianism.org titled “Excursions into the History of Libertarian Thought.” He is the author of Atheism: The Case Against God (1974), Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies (1991), and audio series on “Great Political Thinkers,” “The Meaning of the U.S. Constitution,” and “The Ideas of Liberty.” And finally – finally – h...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 3, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
A Medical Student and YOU: The "Hidden Curriculum"
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - May 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
A Medical Student and YOU: Like to Know Who is Closing the Incision?
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - May 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
A Medical Student and YOU:Patient Confidentiality
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - May 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
A Medical Student and YOU: The Matter of Honesty
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - May 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
