The Courage of Corporate America is Needed to End America ’ s Opioid Crisis
By RYAN HAMPTON
A Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll published in July found that three in ten U.S. adults (29%) said they had someone in their family who struggled with opioid dependence. Also surprising, and encouraging, was the statistic that 90% support increasing access to opioid use disorder treatment programs in their communities.
As a person in recovery from opioid use disorder and advocate, my read on this data set is that the public support is there. Now more than ever, we need leaders in healthcare, public policy, and corporate America to have the courage to advance effective treatment options. T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy addiction Albertsons DEA Opiods Ryan Hampton Source Type: blogs
Global Diffusion of COVID-19 Policy Adoption: The Role of Geographic, Cultural, and Institutional Cues
Brian An (Georgia Institute of Technology), Simon Porcher (Universit é Paris Panthéon-Assas), Shui Yan Tang(University of Southern California), Global Diffusion of COVID-19 Policy Adoption: The Role of Geographic, Cultural, and Institutional Cues (2023): In an unprecedented global crisis, like the COVID-19... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 10, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Executive Accountability in Emergencies: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Janina Boughey (University of New South Wales), Executive Accountability in Emergencies: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (UNSW L. Rsch. Paper No. 23-45) (2022): The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many things about our society —both negative and positive. One thing that the past... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 9, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
OMI in a pediatric patient? Teenagers do get acute coronary occlusion, so don't automatically dismiss the idea.
Acute coronary syndrome in a pediatric patient?Written by Kirsten Morrissey, MD with edits by Bracey,
Grauer, Meyers, and Smith An older teen was transferred from an outside hospital
with elevated serum troponin and and ECG demonstrating ST elevations. The patient was obese and had a medical history of only recurrent tonsillitis status post tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy but was otherwise healthy and fully vaccinated. He reported 1.5 days of chest pain that started as substernal and crushing in nature awakening him from sleep and occasionally traveling to right side of neck. The pain ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Bracey Source Type: blogs
Navigating COVID: Why it still matters
This article is sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc. In this special sponsored episode from Gilead, I’m joined by Anu Osinusi, an infectious disease physician and Vice President of Clinical Research for Hepatitis, Respiratory, and Emerging Viruses at Gilead, to discuss navigating COVID-19 today. We look back on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and
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Navigating COVID: Why it still matters originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Anu Osinusi, MD, MPH & Clinicians ’ transformative health care paths [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Listen to conversations that uncover the unique perspectives of health care professionals and the transformative power of their work. Tamara Beckford, an emergency physician, reveals her remarkable journey from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic to entrepreneurial success. And, Robert Kornfeld, a pioneering
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Clinicians’ transformative health care paths [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Toward an Infrastructure of Care
Alan S. Gutterman, Toward an Infrastructure of Care (2023): In the US, the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on residents and staff members of nursing homes and assisted living and long-term care facilities, as well as calls for addressing... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 24, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Senescent Cells in the Human Brain
Study of the biochemistry of the human brain is hindered by the difficulty of accessing tissue samples. Most work is conducted on post-mortem tissue rather than samples taken from a living brain (such as during surgery), and few research groups have the necessary connections to obtain these materials. Thus the development of brain organoids is important in this part of the medical research field, even given that most present organoid recipes result in a poor substitute for actual tissue. Here, researchers use post-mortem tissue and organoids to demonstrate that senescent cells are important in the aging of the brain, and i...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards
This article looks at what it will take to let us all check in to our doctor’s office as easily as we wave our cell phone before a scanner in a retail store.
Start with Standards
A typical digital validation in health care must be recognized by software on the patient’s device as well as sites at multiple institutions: providers, payers, pharmacies, and more. Therefore, standards are a prerequisite to digital insurance cards. Luckily (as the saying goes), there are many to choose from.
HL7, which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability CARIN Alliance Commons Project Foundation Digital Insurance Card FHIR hl7 JP Pollak Leavitt Partners Mark Scrimshire OnyxOS Patient Identificat Source Type: blogs
A query in the ICMR study on sudden deaths in Covid times : How can the control group is also vaccinated ?
Conclusion is fair
It is traditional (and acceptable ) to blame the heart for all unexplained sudden deaths. The study suggests that heavy drinking, along with with intense physical activity in the background of positive family history, is behind many of the deaths. It is a fair assumption that they are all cardiac. Sudden neurological and pulmonary deaths are under reported. In fact many of the SCD is an arrhythmic event originating from CNS or electro-ionic triggers in blood with the healthy heart
Is this not a major limitation*
When you want to know whether COVID vaccination is related to sudden death in any ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - November 22, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized covid and sudden cardaic deaths scd in covid Source Type: blogs
A query in the ICMR study on sudden deaths in Covid times : Why there is no unvaccinated cohort and follow up ?
Conclusion is fair
It is traditional (and acceptable ) to blame the heart for all unexplained sudden deaths. The study suggests that heavy drinking, along with with intense physical activity in the background of positive family history, is behind many of the deaths. It is a fair assumption that they are all cardiac. Sudden neurological and pulmonary deaths are under reported. In fact many of the SCD is an arrhythmic event originating from CNS or electro-ionic triggers in blood with the healthy heart
Is this not a major limitation*
When you want to know whether COVID vaccination is related to sudden death in any ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - November 22, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized covid and sudden cardaic deaths scd in covid Source Type: blogs
ICMR study on sudden unexplained deaths in Covid times : An atypical observation
Conclusion is fair
It is traditional (and acceptable ) to blame the heart for all unexplained sudden deaths. The study suggests that heavy drinking, along with with intense physical activity in the background of positive family history, is behind many of the deaths. It is a fair assumption that they are all cardiac. Sudden neurological and pulmonary deaths are under reported. In fact many of the SCD is an arrhythmic event originating from CNS or electro-ionic triggers in blood with the healthy heart
Is this not a major limitation*
When you want to know whether COVID vaccination is related to sudden death in any ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - November 22, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized covid and sudden cardaic deaths scd in covid Source Type: blogs
Sage Secures $15M to Improve Quality of Care for Older Adults and Combat Caregiver Burnout
Sage Technology Improves Senior Living Community Operations, Improving both Caregiver and Resident Satisfaction, and Reducing Caregiver Turnover by 40%
Sage, a technology company reinventing care for older adults through its unified care coordination platform, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by new investor Maveron. The round also includes all major investors including Goldcrest Capital, ANIMO Ventures, and Distributed Ventures. Natalie Dillon, partner at Maveron, will be joining the Sage board of directors as the first outside board member.
In the wake of widespread healthcare worker shortages and increasi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ANIMO Ventures Distributed Ventures Goldcrest Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Maveron Natalie Dillon Raj Mehra Sage Source Type: blogs
The Vitamin Deficiency Linked To Long COVID
Long COVID is more likely to be seen in those who have lower levels of this hormone. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: COVID19 Source Type: blogs
TikTok on the Gender Gap
By MIKE MAGEE
The juxta-positioning of Tuesday’s New York Times headlines was disturbing. The first “Why Does This Bride Look So Mad?”, was followed by “An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy in Men.”
The “reluctant bride” referred to in the first article is (by now) an estimated 175 years old intended bride was 18 in the painting. The painting itself was the work of artist, Auguste Toulmouche, in 1866. The original title was “The Hesitant Fiancee”. Its current fame has a much shorter timeline – 2 weeks to be exact. That’s when it began to appear on TikTok, hosted as a statement of disg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Gender gap Life Expectancy Mike Magee tiktok Source Type: blogs
