Public Health Funding And OMB Director Mulvaney ’s “Taxpayer First” Test
The first formal budget of the Trump era—billed as a “Taxpayer First” budget—contains some very bad news when it comes to the health of the American public. It proposes dramatic cuts in federal investments that keep us healthy and protected from harm, including a $1.2 billion cut from the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is on top of the catastrophic cuts that will occur with the loss of the Prevention and Public Health Fund if the Affordable Care Act is repealed.
It is the opposite of both what American taxpayers have asked for and what is owed to them.
Office of Management and...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 8, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Edward L. Hunter Tags: Costs and Spending Featured GrantWatch Public Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chronic Care Consumers Effectiveness Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW vaccines Source Type: blogs
Ebola vaccines for Guinea and the world: photos
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, visited some of the communities who participated in the vaccine trial in the city of Conakry. (Source: WHO Features on the Ebola Outbreak)
Source: WHO Features on the Ebola Outbreak - May 5, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: ebola [subject], ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola [subject], ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, African Region [region], Guinea [country], Photo gallery [doctype] Source Type: blogs
Leaders gather in Guinea to celebrate Ebola vaccine successes
“The world is far better prepared for another Ebola outbreak,” said Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, today at a celebratory event to recognize the Governments and people of the three most-affected countries for their contribution to the control of the Ebola ou tbreak in 2014-15. (Source: WHO Features on the Ebola Outbreak)
Source: WHO Features on the Ebola Outbreak - May 4, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: ebola [subject], ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola [subject], ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, African Region [region], Guinea [country] Source Type: blogs
Why President Trump Should Use Foreign Aid For Health To Make America Great
The Trump administration recently proposed to make major cuts to US foreign assistance, including the $10.3 billion a year that the federal government spends to advance global health through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the United Nations.
As practitioners with more than 60 years of combined experience, we believe that the Trump administration is making a terrible mistake. Investing in global health is essential to the safety, security, and future prosperity of the United States, in addition to being a highl...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Robert Hecht and Sten Vermund Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Global Health Policy Population Health Public Health epidemics foreign aid humanitarian aid infectious diseases PEPFAR US foreign assistance Source Type: blogs
Scott Gottlieb ’s FDA Commissioner Confirmation Hearing: Remarkably Unremarkable
On Wednesday morning, the United States Senate Committee on Health, Energy, Labor, and Pensions conducted the confirmation hearing for Dr. Scott Gottlieb, President Trump’s nominee to be the next Commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). In a presidential administration whose confirmation hearings have sparked more than a few contentious moments, Dr. Gottlieb’s hearing was remarkable for how unremarkable it was. Senators from both parties asked questions on the full range of the FDA’s jurisdiction, and Dr. Gottlieb’s experience combined with his clear preparation for the hearing resulted in an uneve...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Rachel Sachs Tags: Drugs and Medical Innovation Featured FDA generic drugs opioid epidemic Source Type: blogs
The Law of Diminishing Returns of Ethicism
SAURABH JHA MD
Many allege that the FIRST trial, which randomized surgical residencies to strict versus flexible adherence to duty hour restrictions, was unethical because patients weren’t consented for the trial and, as this was an experiment, in the true sense of the word, consent was mandatory. The objection is best summarized by an epizeuxis in a Tweet from Alice Dreger, a writer, medical historian, and a courageous and tireless defender of intellectual freedom.
@RogueRad @LVSelbs @ethanjweiss @Skepticscalpel Consent to experimentation. Consent. Consent. Am I not being clear?
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) Nov...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Online Virus Tracking Tool Nextstrain Wins Inaugural Open Science Prize
Credit: Trevor Bedford and Richard Neher, nextstrain.org.
Over the past decade, scientists and clinicians have eagerly deposited their burgeoning biomedical data into publicly accessible databases. However, a lack of computational tools for sharing and synthesizing the data has prevented this wealth of information from being fully utilized.
In an attempt to unleash the power of open-access data, the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Britain’s Wellcome Trust, launched the Open Science Prize . Last week, after a multi-stage public voting process, the inaugural awa...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 10, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Chris Palmer Tags: Computers in Biology Bioinformatics Ebola Genomics Infectious Disease Spread Infectious Diseases Modeling Viruses Zika Source Type: blogs
ACA Repeal Would Mean Massive Cuts To Public Health, Leaving Cities And States At Risk
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed a little over six years ago, it brought with it the promise of health insurance for all Americans. It also sought to begin to shift the paradigm for health care in this country, emphasizing value over volume, and recognizing the importance of prevention coupled with appropriate access to care.
By now, it is well known that repealing the ACA could leave nearly 20 million Americans uninsured and simultaneously result in millions of job losses across the country. An associated cost that has been less discussed, but no less relevant, is what repeal could mean for the nation’s alr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Chrissie Juliano Tags: Costs and Spending Following the ACA Public Health Big Cities Health Coalition Community Health Prevention and Public Health Fund. Source Type: blogs
Donald Trump's " Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior "
Asany pedantic patriot can tell you, there’s really no such thing as “Presidents’ Day”–the official name for the federal holiday we celebrated on Monday is “Washington’s Birthday.” And it wasn’t the first president’s actual birthday, which is today, February 22.Washingtonhad his faults, but, especially when compared to most of those who followed him, he provided an admirable model of probity and restraint. The teenage Washington copied in his own hand 110 precepts on etiquette:“The Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” and, as I noted recently, they make for a pretty...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 22, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
The Public Health Enemy at the Gate
By ARTHUR CAPLAN
President Donald Trump keeps getting kicked around in court when challenges are brought against his ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations. Trump says he wants to halt the flow of people who might be planning attacks. What we cannot forget is that the kind of attack he has in mind is not confined to bombs and shootings. Trump is terrified that immigrants bring diseases with them. If racism fails, public health will likely afford Trump the rationale he seeks for making it difficult for those he does not like to enter our country.
The president is a self-described germaphobe. He has doubts a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Art Caplan Ebola Pandemic Zika Source Type: blogs
What Three Decades Of Pandemic Threats Can Teach Us About The Future
Editor’s Note: This post reflects on a speech on pandemic preparedness Dr. Fauci gave on January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC, hosted by The Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center, the Harvard Global Health Institute, and Health Affairs.
One of the most important challenges facing the new Administration is preparedness for the pandemic outbreak of an infectious disease. Infectious diseases will continue to pose a significant threat to public health and the economies of countries worldwide. The U.S. government will need to continue its investment to combat these diseases whe...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Anthony S. Fauci Tags: Featured Global Health Policy Ebola HIV/AIDS NIH pandemic preparedness Zika Source Type: blogs
The Framework Convention On Global Health: A Call For Leadership From The Global Health Trio
In the current issue of Health Affairs, we explore a pivotal moment of opportunity and peril in global health, while identifying the leadership challenges of “the global health trio” — the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Each of the challenges we pose share a common thread: poor and other marginalized populations are most vulnerable to current and emerging health risks. Maternal and child mortality, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, health harms from climate change, and mass migration — all disproportionately affect those who are poor and less educated, indig...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin Tags: Featured Global Health Policy Public Health antimicrobial resistance Ebola Source Type: blogs
Introducing New Deliberative Scenario and Facilitator Guide from the Bioethics Commission: “MMR Vaccination in a Local Immigrant Community”
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) has released two new educational materials, Deliberative Scenario: MMR Vaccination in a Local Immigrant Community and Facilitator Guide for Deliberative Scenario: MMR Vaccination in a Local Immigrant Community. This new deliberative scenario and facilitator guide build on the work of two of the Bioethics Commission’s reports, Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response (Ethics and Ebola) and Bioethics for Every Generation: Deliberation and Education in Health, Science, and Technology. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 2, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Ijeoma Egekeze Tags: Health Care Deliberation and Education syndicated Source Type: blogs
Slow progress on Zika vaccine development – and at the expense of Ebola funding?
The Zika Virus – Image by David Goodwill (RCSB Molecule of the Month 197, June 2016) [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons A recent PBS Newshour story highlights just some of the challenges in getting a vaccine for Zika tested and out on the market. The article confirms that about 30 vaccines are being developed […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 13, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Nancy Walton Tags: Health Care syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Let’s Stop Making Excuses For Egregious Medical Errors
To save the life of a child, a zoo sacrifices a prized, endangered gorilla. In exchange for one nearsighted Israeli soldier captured in Gaza, Israel released 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. (This example from the Middle East may not be surprising. In Judaism, it is commanded that “to save a life is as if one saved the world.”) And there are other examples of extreme bravery to save one life. That’s how much societies value the life of each human being.
So how, then, do we explain our national acceptance of approximately 251,000 preventable deaths each year from medical error (according to a recent BMJ study)?
We can wat...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Karen Wolk Feinstein Tags: Featured GrantWatch Health Professionals Hospitals Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Quality Consumers Health Care Delivery Health Philanthropy Health Professions insurers Medical Errrors MRSA Nurses outcomes data Pa Source Type: blogs
