Glove Interprets Sign Language in Near Real Time
People that have to use sign language to communicate with others can feel like foreigners in their own land. Very few random strangers can read sign language, but a new technology out of University of California, Los Angeles may make all of us be able to understand someone speaking using signs.
The UCLA team developed gloves that use stretchable sensors, that can detect when individual fingers are bent and the hand motions that are produced, to interpret each sign as it is displayed by the wearer.
“Our hope is that this opens up an easy way for people who use sign language to communicate directly with non-sign...
Source: Medgadget - July 6, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Informatics Rehab Source Type: blogs
7 Ways Successful People Handle Criticism
Criticism can come from people you know: your co-workers, your boss, your colleagues, and even your loved ones. It can also come from strangers, people commenting on social media, rude customers, a driver on the road, and so on.
Criticism is that look that precedes the silent treatment the wife gives you (and you probably deserve) when you forget her birthday.
The point is you can’t go through life without criticism.
You will often find criticism hard to ignore. Criticism attacks who you are, how you see yourself, and your sense of confidence. The way you choose to deal with criticism affects other areas of your...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bernz JP Tags: featured happiness motivation self-improvement criticism pickthebrain relationships self improvement Source Type: blogs
CIVILITY Mask Lets People See Each Others ’ Faces During Pandemic
Since it seems that the virus that causes COVID-19 is going to be with us for a while, face masks will be around as well. As everyone who hasn’t worked in the OR before just noticed, not seeing the entirety of people’s faces influences how we interact with each other. Smiling, for example, completely loses the effect that it is meant to produce in others. And while this is a nuisance and discomfort for most people, those that are deaf or hard of hearing can’t see lip movement and therefore lose important information they use to communicate with others.
We’ve seen clear face masks created earl...
Source: Medgadget - June 22, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Public Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Some good stuff!
And some weirdness. BTW I ' m going to start doing Wednesday Bible study as well or we ' ll never get through this. Anyway Leviticus 19, as I foretold, contains some rules for daily life which for the most part conform with our present ethical culture. There are however a few that seem arbitrary or weird, and at least one that is definitely not good. This is the New Revised Standard Version.19 TheLord spoke to Moses, saying:2 Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I theLord your God am holy.3 You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall ke...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Nurses, George Floyd, Racial Disparities, and the World We'd Like to See
At this unsettling time in the United States and around the world, racism is being confronted head-on by citizens who ' ve simply had enough of the status quo. The knowledge of deep racial disparities in healthcare are nothing new, and the understanding that people of color are treated more poorly within the American healthcare system is also an old story that never seems to change.But now, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and rampant global fear, economic insecurity, and a population tired of lip service to diversity and inclusion, millions are saying, " No more! "We nurses are part of the conversation because we ' re c...
Source: Digital Doorway - June 8, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: nurses Source Type: blogs
Adverse effects of hydroxychloroquine
In case you were ever stupid enough to follow Trump’s lead you would have already injected ultraviolets in your eyeballs by now to save you from Covid and maybe bathed in Domestos or sulfuric acid or both! Anyway, his latest bullshine claim is that he’s been taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to keep Covid at bay.
Well, for starters there is no evidence that this drug acts as a prophylactic against infection with SARS CoV-2 or indeed any pathogen other than the causative agent of otherwise drug-resistant malaria. It’s primary use is in treating lupus. There was some testing done weeks ago to...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 19, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Health and Medicine Source Type: blogs
A pediatrician ’s silver linings during the pandemic
A few weeks ago, while I was still seeing a full schedule of patients and the crisis was just beginning, I asked myself,“How can I reach this little person on the exam table in front of me?” It was our first meeting. He was deaf and partially blind, neither of those affecting his spirit […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 17, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lauretta-stombaugh" rel="tag" > Lauretta Stombaugh, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Stores That Reopen Face ADA Compliance Puzzles
Walter OlsonAround much of the country retail stores and small businesses are struggling with how to reopen, or carry on operations online, consistent with public health recommendations on social distancing and protection of customers and workers. And as they do they find their task complicated in many ways by the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and related state laws. So I conclude from anadvice column by Minh Vu and John Egan of the law firm Seyfarth Shaw. Some questions:*Can you make customers wait outside, and if so how? Under one format commonly approved for reopening, stores m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 14, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
After COVID-19, What Next? A Recovery Blueprint for Health System Leaders
By JAMES GARDNER
Is the beginning of the end in sight? Perhaps. After much stress and strain, many experts believe we’re seeing early signs of a COVID-19 plateau in some states and cities. Everything could change tomorrow, but healthcare leaders should be preparing now to reopen their shuttered operating rooms and get back to business.
When restrictions loosen, lost days and weeks could have dire implications for health systems already weakened by months of deferred and canceled elective procedures. These surgeries — joint replacements, tumor biopsies, gallbladder removals, and cosmetic procedure...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy health system James Gardner Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 and Opening the Country: Lessons from 1918 Philadelphia
By CHADI NABHAN, MD, MBA, FACP
Everyone has an opinion on whether and when we should open
the country. Never in the history of America have we had so many “correct”
theories and experts to pontificate on a new pandemic. But somehow, few seem to
recall history or attempt to learn from it.
Over a century ago, almost 100 million people out of a world population of 1.8 billion lost their lives to the so-called “Spanish Flu”. At 8.5 million casualties, the death toll from World War I pales in comparison. In the US alone, we lost over 675,000 people in one year to this pandemic. In fact, we lost more people to the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Chadi Nabhan Pandemic Philadelphia Spanish Flu Source Type: blogs
Hearing Loss Impairs Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Function in Mice
The brain makes use of sensory information in order to form memories. Loss of hearing has an impact on the aging brain, as suggested by the correlation between onset of age-related deafness and onset of dementia. While it is possible that this reflects common processes of neurodegeneration, as age-related deafness appears to result from loss of neural connections between sensory hair cells and the brain, studies such as this one provide evidence for deafness to cause greater loss of function in areas of the brain associated with memory formation.
Brain structures that are essential for the acquisition and encoding...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 1, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Lasting Lessons From Health Care ’s ‘Money Back Guarantee’ Experiment
Ceci Connolly
Matt DoBias
By CECI CONNOLLY and MATT DOBIAS
When it comes to money back guarantees in health care, it’s
often less about the money and more about the guarantee.
That’s the biggest takeaway shared by two organizations—Geisinger
Health System and Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHCSCW)—that
separately rolled out closely-watched campaigns to refund patients their
out-of-pocket costs for health care experiences that fell short of expectations.
Both programs started as a way to inject a basic level of
consumerism into a process long bereft of one. In fact, as consumer ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Health Policy Ceci Connolly Geisinger Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin Health Plans Matt DoBias money back guarantee Source Type: blogs
5 Ways to Become More Empathetic in All Relationships
Empathy is a powerful tool to enrich your life.
What is the purpose of empathy in our lives? ‘Empathy’ is often a word you use with respect to other people and your expectations of them.
We make comments like “they don’t have empathy” or “they need empathy.” Sometimes it seems as though we don’t have a deep understanding of what being empathetic even means to yourself, let alone what it means to others.
But what if empathy is linked to your emotional intelligence and helps you become the most successful version of yourself?
What Is Empathy?
Empathy is defined as “the action of understanding, ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Publishers YourTango Empathetic Empathy Relationships Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 27th 2020
In conclusion, our study demonstrated that Nrf2 deficiency promoted the increasing trend of autophagy during aging in skeletal muscle. Nrf2 deficiency and increasing age may cause excessive autophagy in skeletal muscle, which can be a potential mechanism for the development of sarcopenia.
To What Degree is Chondrocyte Hypertrophy in Osteoarthritis Due to Cellular Senescence?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/04/to-what-degree-is-chondrocyte-hypertrophy-in-osteoarthritis-due-to-cellular-senescence/
Senescent cells are large. They do not replicate, that function is disabled, but it is as if they go...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 26, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Does joy in work matter during a pandemic?
At a time when health care professionals across the globe are working around the clock against COVID-19, it may seem tone-deaf at best to think about joy in work. We all agree that the top priority for health care leaders now is to focus on expanding testing and ensuring enough proper equipment and other resources […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 25, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/derek-feeley" rel="tag" > Derek Feeley, DBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Practice Management Source Type: blogs
