Wednesday Bible Study: Job finally shuts up
Yep. He spends the next three chapters saying, endlessly, the following:I used to be riding high, fortunate and admired, benevolent and generous.Now I ' m in the pits.If I ' d done anything wrong I could understand it. And then, thank God, " The words of Job are ended. " It ' s long past time for this guy to STFU.29 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:2 “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;3 when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;4 as I was in my a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How busy clinicians can advocate for fossil fuel divestment
As general pediatricians whose intention is to promote health and wellness in children and youth, we witness the direct and indirect health effects of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The climate crisis looms as an existential threat to humans and many other species. Due to their size, metabolism, developmental stages, and behaviors, children, particularly those
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How busy clinicians can advocate for fossil fuel divestment originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sandra H. Jee, MD, MPH & Understanding childhood mental health [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join child psychiatrist Shivana Naidoo as she explores the delicate world of mental health in children and young adults. Delve into her unique perspective on how mental illness can be part of normal growth, the evolving role of diagnoses, and the importance of nurturing
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Understanding childhood mental health [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Pediatrics Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction
It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. But only in the past few years have the medical professions tried to quantify and capture these factors. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects.
An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Care Management SDOH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
Bloody Religion
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”Steven Weinberg
In 2003, I started a web page that documented the horrors of the Iraq war. The title of the page was corrie.html, because one of the first entries was about Rachel Corrie. This was it.
On Sunday, 16th March 2003, a 23-year-old American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip.
You can read here some of the emails that she ...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Palestine war Gaza Israel Source Type: blogs
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“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”Steven Weinberg
In 2003, I started a web page that documented the horrors of the Iraq war. The title of the page was corrie.html, because one of the first entries was about Rachel Corrie. This was it.
On Sunday, 16th March 2003, a 23-year-old American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip.
You can read here some of th...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Palestine war Gaza Israel Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Desperate to get this over with
neJob now goes on a three chapter rant saying the same shit over and over again that he already said nineteen times. I ' m really sorry about this, I ' m as anxious to come to the end of it as you are. So I ' m going to post three chapters today, they ' re all Job yammering on so why not? It ' s just more of God and His creation are beyond understanding; and I ' m righteous, I don ' t deserve this, but nevertheless I ' m not going to say anything bad about God. I ' ll just make a couple of notes.First, all of the stuff Job says we can ' t possibly understand -- notably in Chapter 28 -- we do understand, at least a lo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 15, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Why aren ’ t more pediatricians leaning into rural health?
Rural health for children is in trouble. Don’t take my word for it, just ask the CDC. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just offered further evidence that American children — and rural children in particular — are in trouble. Previously, the CDC had noted that poor U.S. children 2 to 8
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Why aren’t more pediatricians leaning into rural health? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mick Connors, MD Tags: Policy Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Given The Health Divide Between Indigenous And Non-Indigenous Australiana The Referendum Needs Some Commentary!
This appeared least week:
Indigenous voice to parliament: ‘Out here’
in the APY Lands, early death the great divide
Exclusive By Greg Bearup Feature writer, The Weekend Australian Magazine 3:44PM October 7, 2023 Out here, the houses are overflowing with kids and cousins. The cost of fuel an d fresh food is eye-watering. Teachers out here use a device called a Soundfield to amplify their voices (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Lollipop Puts the Fun in Saliva Collection
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a technique to make saliva collection for diagnostic purposes a little less disgusting and a little more fun and pleasant. Saliva collection often acts as a less invasive alternative than throat swabs in the detection of a variety of pathogens, such as that causing streptococcal soar throat (strep throat). However, manually collecting the right amount of saliva is pretty gross. In an effort to streamline this process, and make it more appealing to both adults and children, these researchers have developed a new solution. The CandyCollect is a specially designed lol...
Source: Medgadget - October 11, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Materials Medicine Source Type: blogs
I ’ m a neurosurgeon. Social media may change your kid ’ s brain.
A 2023 study of middle school-aged children laid out some alarming findings. Scientists recruited more than one hundred and fifty children, all aged twelve, from rural North Carolina public schools. The children were surveyed regarding their social media usage, including Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Some of the kids rarely checked social media (one time or
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I’m a neurosurgeon. Social media may change your kid’s brain. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Marc Arginteanu, MD Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
Research Organism Superheroes: Tardigrades
A 3D rendering of a tardigrade. Credit: iStock.
“Water bear” or “moss piglet”? No matter what you call them, tardigrades have secured the title of cutest invertebrate—at least in our book. They’re tiny creatures, averaging about the size of a grain of salt, so while you can spot them with the naked eye, using a microscope is the best way to see them. They earned their nickname of water bear and their official name (which comes from tardigradus, Latin for “slow walker”) because of the way they lumber slowly and deliberately on short, stubby legs.
They’re excellent research organism...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Tools and Techniques Cool Creatures Research Organisms Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: A little literary history
In Ch. 24, Job laments the wickedness of many humans and the seeming indifference of God to the fate of the good versus the wicked. In the mercifully short Ch. 25, Bildad again tries to blame Job for his own fate. While we continue to wade through this interminable rich purple poetry, I ' ll at least try to entertain you with a bit of speculation about the origin of this story. Job was probably written in its present form in the 6th Century BCE, or perhaps a bit later. A Sumerian work dated around 1,700 BCE, usually called in English the Poem of the Righteous sufferer, tells a similar story, far more briefly, of a man...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 11, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Do dogs live in a black and white world?
As a child, I remember my mother telling me something she learned when she was an eye nurse – dogs are colourblind. Now, if I remember rightly, she didn’t mean they could only see in black and white as research in the 1940s had suggested, but that they had limited receptivity to the full colour palate. They were red-green colourblind, like some boys and men. The issue came up after they tested us boys at school for colour blindness with those spotty number colour charts.
The red colour of our lab’s collar would’ve looked grey to her
However, proof that the canine world isn’t monochrome didn...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs
Is a dog ’ s life monochrome?
Do dogs live in a black-and-white world?
As a child, I remember my mother telling me something she learned when she was an eye nurse – dogs are colourblind. Now, if I remember rightly, she didn’t mean they could only see in black and white as research in the 1940s had suggested, but that they had limited receptivity to the full colour palate. They were red-green colourblind, like some boys and men. The issue came up after they tested us boys at school for colour blindness with those spotty number colour charts.
The red colour of our lab’s collar would’ve looked grey to her
However, proof that the ca...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs
