Until Next Year
It’s been our great pleasure to collaborate with the Health Affairs Blog on this series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium at Harvard Law School. This annual event takes a look back over the prior year and previews the year to come with regard to hot topics in health law.
After the symposium, we asked our speakers to keep the conversation going online by expanding on their topics from different angles or by honing in on particularly intriguing features. These pieces were published on the Health Affairs Blog through the spring and into summer.
We heard more from Kevin Outterson on how to...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 24, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen and Gregory Curfman Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Organization and Delivery Population Health Public Health ACA Antibiotics Brittany Maynard Common Rule Ebola FDA Harvard Law Hobby Lobby MassHealth Petrie Source Type: blogs
Long-term effects of Ebolavirus infection
This study only included adults; children who have recovered should also be examined as their health care needs may be different.
These results confirm that there are long-term sequelae of Ebolavirus infection. The basis for the complications is not known, but is likely a consequence of tissue damage due to viral replication and the immune response. Whether or not virus was present in the patients was not determined. However it is known that Ebolavirus can persist in the testicles and eye long after it is absent from serum.
Other serious viral infections are also accompanied by long term health effects. For example, 29% of...
Source: virology blog - June 19, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information acute arthralgia Ebola ebolavirus long term myalgia persistent symptoms uveitis viral Source Type: blogs
Will Governor Brown Take the Risk as the African-American Community Says NO to SB277?
Conclusion
Will Governor Jerry Brown think twice and really risk the wrath of the black community? Will he even read Mrs. Sullivan’s letter or care about the many religious groups opposing vaccinations due to their ingredients?
It appears that more governments worldwide are mandating vaccinations on a daily basis and parents are completely powerless to stop them. Who are these people who make all the decisions, and what right do they have to impose their largely unproven theories that ALL vaccinations are safe and effective for ALL children?
Let’s face it, it does make you wonder what their real agenda is, doesn’t it...
Source: vactruth.com - June 16, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Logical Top Picks Mandatory Vaccination SB 277 vaccine mandate Source Type: blogs
TWiV 341: Ebolavirus experiences
On episode #341 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent returns to the University of Glasgow MRC-Center for Virus Research and speaks with Emma, Gillian, and Adam about their ebolavirus experiences: caring for an infected patient, working in an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, and making epidemiological predictions about the outbreak in west Africa.
You can find TWiV #341 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 15, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Centre for Virus Research Ebola patient Ebola treatment center ebolavirus epidemiology ETC hemorrhagic fever outbreak Sierra Leone University of Glasgow vaccine viral Source Type: blogs
Domestic And Global Health Converge At Spotlight Health
When the Ebola outbreak shattered parts of West Africa and a handful of cases surfaced in the United States, the world was again reminded that a disease anywhere can become a disease everywhere. Yet infectious agents are only one dramatic example, not just of how interconnected our planet has become, but also of the valuable lessons to be learned from looking beyond our own borders.
Globally, the widespread use of vaccines counts as one of the great public health success stories of all time, helping to cut the death rate for children under age five in half; yet in the United States and in Europe, a strong anti-vaccine sent...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 12, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Ruth Katz and Peggy Clark Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Organization and Delivery Population Health Public Health Agriculture Aspen Institute Climate Change Ebola food insecurity Spotlight Health trade Source Type: blogs
Say It Ain't So: Logical Fallacies in Defense of Conflicts of Interest ... in the New England Journal of Medicine?
IntroductionWe have been viewing with alarm the web of conflicts of interest draped over medicine and health care since we started Health Care Renewal. We have been particularly concerned about how conflicts of interest may have led to threats to the integrity of clinical research, especially due to manipulation and suppression of clinical research studies. We have also been concerned about how COIs have led to threats to the integrity of medical education, especially given how health care corporate marketers have paid influential health care professionals and academics to be "key opinion leaders," mainly to ac...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 21, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: conflicts of interest logical fallacies NEJM Source Type: blogs
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Threat To Global Health?
Lost in the political discussions over the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a trade agreement currently being negotiated in secret between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific-Rim nations—is the very real negative impact it would have on global health.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works in over 60 countries, and our medical teams rely on access to affordable medicines and vaccines. We are deeply concerned that the TPP, in its current form, will lock-in high, unsustainable drug prices, block or delay the availability of affordable generic medicines, and price millions of people...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 8, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Deane Marchbein Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Public Health Doctors Without Borders fair trade generic drugs obama trade deal TPP Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership Source Type: blogs
Silent Killers Amidst The Fast And The Furious
Attention to Ebola is important. The virus’s ability to easily cross regional and national borders makes it a significant threat to global health and national security. The swift and aggressive international response to the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus, which has killed at least 10,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, has been laudable and has resulted in positive outcomes, such as reduced disease transmission and strengthened global health and coordination systems.
For example, staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, including those from various divisions at the Na...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 7, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Karen R. Siegel, K.M. Venkat Narayan and Christine Hancock Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Global Health Public Health chronic disease Diabetes Ebola H1N1 Source Type: blogs
Meet Nels Elde and His Team’s Amazing, Expandable Viruses
Credit: Kristan Jacobsen
Nels Elde, Ph.D.
Fields: Evolutionary genetics, virology, microbiology, cell biology
Works at: University of Utah, Salt Lake City
When not in the lab, he’s: Gardening, supervising pets, procuring firewood
Hobbies: Canoeing, skiing, participating in facial hair competitions
“I really look at my job as an adventure,” says Nels Elde. “The ability to follow your nose through different fields is what motivates me.”
Elde has used that approach to weave evolutionary genetics, bacteriology, virology, genomics and cell biology into his work. While a graduate student at the University of Chica...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 7, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Srivalli Subbaramaiah Tags: Cell Biology Genetics Profiles Source Type: blogs
TWiV 335: Ebola lite
On episode #335 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVumvirate discusses a whole Ebolavirus vaccine that protects primates, the finding that Ebolavirus is not undergoing rapid evolution, and a proposal to increase the pool of life science researchers by cutting money and time from grants.
You can find TWiV #335 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 3, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology aerosol airborne ebolavirus evolution funding going aerosol grants mutation NIH Osterholm research transmission vaccine viral VP30 Source Type: blogs
Health Care Equity Needed To Fight Ebola
Many of us have felt helpless watching the devastation caused by Ebola in West Africa, which has killed nearly 11,000, and sickened thousands more. After a disgracefully sluggish start to the international aid response, Liberia has celebrated a milestone with no new cases for five consecutive weeks, and there have been no new health worker infections for the last two weeks. However, Sierra Leone and Guinea are still fighting to eradicate the disease.
Faced with the daunting realities of the Ebola epidemic, health care professionals across the U.S. raised their collective voice to advocate for equity as a key weapon again...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Andrea Christopher Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Global Health Health Professionals Public Health Africa Ebola Health Care Spending health equality health equity infectious disease Millennium Development Goals mortality Vaccine WHO Source Type: blogs
Health Cooperation In The New U.S.-Cuban Relationship
Four months after the surprise announcement of his determination to normalize relations with Cuba, President Barack Obama is rapidly translating that wish into reality, with the cooperation of Cuban counterparts and widespread support among Americans. On April 11, the Summit of the Americas featured the first meeting of the two countries’ presidents in over fifty years. Three days later, even amidst a struggle with Congress over a possible nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration announced it will remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a step Carl Meacham, Director of the Center for Strate...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 29, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: J. Stephen Morrison Tags: Featured Global Health Bill Frist Cuba cuban health care Raúl Castro U.S.-Cuban relationship Source Type: blogs
FDA Acting Commissioner Ostroff Addresses the "State of the FDA"
The 2015 FDLI Annual Conference kicked off yesterday in Washington, DC. The conference hosted a variety of impressive speakers from the Food and Drug Administration, as well as FDA lawyers and in-house counsel. Dr. Stephen Ostroff, the Acting Commissioner at FDA, spoke as the conference's keynote speaker. After congratulating previous Commissioner Margaret Hamburg on an impressive tenure as FDA Commissioner, Ostroff ran through a long list of recent FDA accomplishments--"hitting the highlights," as he called it. Following Ostroff's address, a panel of industry experts provided a "to do list" for the agency for the co...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
From The WHO: Preventing The Next Ebola
As the senior leaders of the World Health Organization, we are taking action to prevent another emergency on the scale of the current Ebola outbreak from happening again. To do this, we need partners to join us in strengthening crucial components of country and international health systems.
First, robust disease surveillance that identifies disease outbreaks quickly and stops them from spreading is key to avoiding large-scale epidemics. Countries must have the ability to identify outbreaks early and the capacity to respond with enough well-trained health workers. For its part, WHO is creating a Global Health Emergency Wor...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 16, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Margaret Chan Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Global Health Ebola World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
With vaccines, pediatricians walk a thin line
It’s 2015, and we’re talking about measles. Not Enterovirus. Not Ebola. Not RSV. Not influenza. Instead, we’re talking about a historical virus that was declared eradicated from the United States in 2000. Most pediatricians who began practicing within the last 15 years have never even seen the disease.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 11, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Justin Morgan, MD Tags: Physician Infectious disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
