Spotlighting SEPA for National STEM Day
The NIGMS Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program provides opportunities for pre-K-12 students from underserved communities to access STEM educational resources. SEPA grants support innovative, research-based, science education programs, furthering NIGMS’ mission to ensure a strong and diverse biomedical research workforce. SEPA projects generate resources that are mapped to state and national teaching standards for STEM and are rigorously evaluated for effectiveness; most are also available at no cost. These resources include mobile laboratories, interactive health exhibits in museums and science centers, edu...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: STEM Education Research Roundup SEPA Training Source Type: blogs
The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms
Communication is the key to making anything work – including your organization. But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. What’s the best way for providers to coordinate the many different areas and people they have to handle? How many communication platforms do you even need to accomplish the goals of your organization without making it overcomplicated? How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy Abhi Sharma Ali Davis Amit Phadnis Care Coordination Communication Pl Source Type: blogs
The power of bibliotherapy to heal
We are in the midst of an alarming global mental health crisis. Its impact is felt most acutely by our youth. Nearly 20 percent of children ages 3-17 in the U.S. have a mental health issue, and suicidal behaviors among high school students increased more than 40 percent in the decade before 2019. As for
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The power of bibliotherapy to heal originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Andrea Sonnenberg, JD Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Happier People Are Raised By Parents Who Do These 3 Things
The largest household panel survey reveals how parents raise happy children. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology Happiness Source Type: blogs
3D Printing In Medicine And Healthcare – The Ultimate List
3D printing has demonstrated huge potential for the future of medicine in the previous years, and its development is unstoppable. See the impressive list of 3D-printed healthcare materials and medical equipment below!
How does 3D printing in medicine work?
3D printing in medicine is part of the innovative process called additive manufacturing, which means producing three-dimensional solid objects from a digital file. How the technology works, we explained in our article on bioprinting here.
As technology evolves, researchers work on various solutions. For example, engineers from the University of Buffalo have ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: 3D Printing Biotechnology Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Medical Education Personalized Medicine 3d printed biomaterial tissue engineering Video bioprinting GC1 Innovation Source Type: blogs
poem
BreadcrumbsAt this stageWe are breadcrumbsTracing a pathThrough the forestFrom wherever we areNow back to a place Once called homeThe birds are eitherNot hungryOr all dead The witch is eatingChicken cacciatoreAnd the dad Has sold his axTo pay his child support We ’re left wondering:Is there any bread leftOr did he use the entire loaf?11/7/23 (Source: Buckeye Surgeon)
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 7, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Not Child's Play: Eliminating Harmful Parody While Preserving Speech in the Cannabis Edibles Market
Hannah R. Weiser (Bentley University), Daniel R. Cahoy (Pennsylvania State University), Not Child ' s Play: Eliminating Harmful Parody While Preserving Speech in the Cannabis Edibles Market (2023): Looking for a snack, a child finds a bright yellow package of “MnM’s.” The... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 6, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 6th 2023
This study aimed to gather valuable insights from pharmaceutical experts and healthcare practitioners regarding the potential and challenges of translating senolytic drugs for treatment of vascular aging-related disorders. This study employed a qualitative approach by conducting in-depth interviews with healthcare practitioners and pharmaceutical experts. Participants were selected through purposeful sampling. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes from the interview transcripts. A total of six individuals were interviewed, with three being pharmaceutical experts and the remaining three healthcare practitioners.
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Source: Fight Aging! - November 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Evidence for Menopause in Wild Chimpanzees
Few mammalian species exhibit menopause. It is thought that humans evolved into this state of post-reproductive old age in part because older individuals can help to enhance the reproductive fitness of their direct offspring. This view is known as the "grandmother hypothesis". The same behavior is observed in orcas, one of the few other mammals to exhibit menopause. Researchers here provide evidence for chimpanzees to undergo menopause, which is a strike against the grandmother hypothesis, as chimpanzee elders do not assist their offspring in this way.
A team of researchers studying the Ngogo community of wild chi...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Medicine has become the new McDonald ’ s of health care
I was having a conversation with a colleague about a state-funded Medicaid managed care organization (MCO). She told me that the mental health performance measures used by the state to evaluate the MCO were all “placement and provider issues,” such as the amount of time children spent sleeping on the floors of social services offices
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Medicine has become the new McDonald’s of health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA Tags: Policy Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
9 Essential Child Psychology Studies
Why are children so depressed? Are modern parenting practices to blame? How has children's play been ruined? (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: The big guy in the sky has questions
Elihu having yammered his last, God shows up and bombards Job with 100 questions intended to prove that God knows everything and is all powerful and Job is just an ignorant piece of crap. Of course, we know that the cosmology God claims credit for is all wrong, as is by the way much of his animal behaviorism. (Ostriches are actually attentive parents.) But I will say that these chapters have contributed some colorful language.38 Then theLord answered Job out of the whirlwind:2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will questio...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 1, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day is 11/18/23
In 1999, Senator Harry Reid, a survivor of his father ’s 1972 suicide, introduced a new resolution into the US Senate. With its passage, the US Congress designated the Saturday before Thanksgiving as National Survivors of Suicide Day - an awareness day that reaches out to thousands of people who have lost a loved one to suicide.National Survivors of Suicide Day has evolved into a global awareness day called International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day thanks to the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention. Sometimes called " Survivor Day, " this November 18th will find children and adul...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - November 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: awareness campaigns depression suicide awareness suicide prevention Source Type: blogs
Obstacles to Healthcare Training Data Accuracy and How to Overcome Them
One of the biggest problems with AI solutions in healthcare right now is getting quality data that you can use to train your AI models. When you train an AI model using generic data, it is like a child trying to teach another child. For the AI models to be effective, they require the highest quality data including meta data that helps the model to understand the context of the data. This is particularly true in healthcare which has extremely complex data models, superfluous data, and unique terminology.
The good news for healthcare IT companies is that there are companies who can help them clean up and annotate their...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability AI Training Data Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Training Data Healthcare Data Quality Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Healt Source Type: blogs
Faculty Perspectives on Responding to Microaggressions Targeting Clerkship Students
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Meghan O’Brien, MD, MBE, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Tasha Wyatt, PhD, and Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into faculty perspectives on responding to microaggressions targeting medical students in the clinical learning environment. They explore several tensions that affected how faculty responded to the microaggressions in the study scenarios as well as some of the strategies the faculty used to respond effectively.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else p...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 31, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast faculty development medical education medical students microaggressions RIME Source Type: blogs
