Dying of loneliness: the COVID-19 epidemic in children and adolescents [PODCAST]
“We know the ER ’s revolving door will continue to spin for so many children and adolescents who seek help in the heat of their personal crisis. Some will need to stay in the hospital – to heal their bodies and minds and even fight for their lives. Some – the lucky ones – will beRead more …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 - July 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Emergency Medicine Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Update on the aducanumab (Aduhelm) saga, retirement, financial advice, cognitive health, excessive worrying, neurotech, and more
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, providing this time a summary of the saga around the FDA approval of aducanumab (Aduhelm) as a supposed treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease, plus a range of timely research findings and resources for lifelong brain health.
First, below are some key reads to navigate “probably the worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. history” — Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, the Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School who resigned rom the FDA Advisory Committee in protest.
#1. Growing backlash against the FDA approval of unproven Alzheimer’s tr...
Source: SharpBrains - June 30, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Technology & Innovation aducanumab Aduhelm Alzheimers-disease anti-amyloid drug Biogen Brain Teasers brain-teaser cognitive decline cognitive-exerci Source Type: blogs
How to avoid treatment you don ’t need
An excerpt from Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win. The American epidemic of unnecessary medical treatment is one of the reasons your health care costs keep going up. Experts estimate it’s wasting hundreds of billions of dollars a year. That’s not some number that’s detachedRead more …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 - June 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/marshall-allen" rel="tag" > Marshall Allen < /a > < /span > Tags: Patient Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Connection Is Healthcare
By TOMER BEN-KIKI
The American people can’t afford partisan politics that increase long-term healthcare costs.
When the GOP came to the table with a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal last week, I was pleased to see that they had increased funding for broadband access to $68 billion.
The President wants $100 billion for broadband expansion, but a meaningful increase before the soft deadline of June 7 was a positive step.
Politics aside, the pandemic made it clear how dependent we are on the issue of broadband internet access.after all, broadband underpinned nearly everything that was done to keep the economy...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech broadband broadband access Happify Health Telehealth tomer ben-kiki Source Type: blogs
US Senator Joe Manchin calls for a new FDA Commissioner to replace current (acting) one who “has repeatedly ignored public health concerns and shown a dereliction of duty” over opioids and aducanumab
Key Democrat Manchin Bashes FDA Leader on Alzheimer’s Approval (Bloomberg):
Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat considered a crucial vote within the party’s slim Senate majority, said Janet Woodcock, the temporary head of the Food and Drug Administration, should be quickly replaced with a permanent leader.
Manchin blasted an FDA decision to approve the controversial Alzheimer’s therapy Aduhelm despite conflicting evidence that the Biogen Inc. drug works and an overwhelmingly negative vote against the therapy by agency advisers. The FDA ruling led three members of that panel to quit in protest…
Manchin urged U....
Source: SharpBrains - June 18, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health aducanumab Aduhelm Alzheimer's treatments Alzheimer’s therapy Alzheimers-disease Biogen FDA Food and Drug Administration Joe Manchin opioids OxyContin public-health Source Type: blogs
I'm for it . . .
but it isn ' t going to happen, at least not this year. I got the following from the Drug Policy Alliance:Today, on the 50th anniversary of Nixon declaring the “war on drugs,” Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Cori Bush haveofficially introduced the Drug Policy Reform Act, a bill to federally decriminalize ALL drugs that they unveiled earlier this week at the press conference the Drug Policy Alliance hosted. DPA has been a strategic partner on the development of this legislation and will be actively advocating for its passage in Congress. DPA ’s Executive Director, who is currentlytestifying before the House...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 17, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Men ’s mental health: We treat just the tip of the iceberg
June is Men ’s Health Month, and this year, as we emerge from the COVID-19 epidemic, more than ever, there is a compelling need to focus on male patients’ overall health, emphasizing their mental health as a key to their wellbeing. Mental health is a significant problem among men There are approximately 151 million males inRead more …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 - June 11, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/betty-rabinowitz" rel="tag" > Betty Rabinowitz, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Public Discourses on Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to COVID-19 and Vaccination Programs in Korea
Hee-Young Shin (Wright State University), Public Discourses on Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to COVID-19 and Vaccination Programs in Korea, SSRN: The Korean government ’s non-pharmaceutical interventions to suppress the COVID-19 epidemic have achieved a remarkable performance in lowering the number of infected patients... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 11, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Iraq war
I found some old files in my basement from the days when I wrote the Today in Iraq blog. They reminded me of how much I used to follow, research and write about the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It was a big part of my political and intellectual life for many years. It makes one despair to see how it ' s gone down the memory hole.Here are facts which are now generally understood and acknowledged even by many people who were enthusiastic supporters of the war, including some who were in substantial part responsible for it, such as Colin Powell. I ' d have to spend the afternoon going through that 3 foot stack of papers to document...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 8, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Lessons from COVID-19 about the obesity epidemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted our ineffective approach to the obesity epidemic in the United States. I believe COVID-19 would have claimed fewer lives if we had healthier patients and less obesity. According to the CDC,“obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19 infection.” Additionally, they note that obesity can make intubationRead more …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 - June 4, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/carol-petke" rel="tag" > Carol Petke, APRN < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Obesity Source Type: blogs
The invisible epidemic: rethinking the detection and treatment of structural heart disease in Europe
This report considers the impact of structural heart disease (SHD) in an ageing society. It sets out the health and economic case for governments to invest in SHD, followed by the key barriers that contribute to suboptimal detection and treatment and recommendations for how governments, healthcare systems and patients can address these issues.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 3, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Source Type: blogs
Debate: Are depression and dementia two sides of the same coin? And, if they are, how to best approach treatment?
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
News in Context:
Report: 35% of worldwide dementia cases could be prevented by modifying these 9 modifiable risk factors
Repetitive negative thinking may increase (or perhaps be caused by) cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s pathology
Study: Hearing aids may help older adults delay dementia, depression, anxiety, and falls
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Source: SharpBrains - May 21, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alzheimers-disease antidepressants cognition cognitive decline Cognitive-impairment coronavirus COVID-19 dementia depression hippocampus memory Source Type: blogs
Mysterious political calculus
No doubt you have seen the widespread reports of a spate of random attacks on Asian-Americans. Many of these have been especially disturbing because the victims were vulnerable old people. They have happened all over the country and are widely attributed to propaganda blaming the Covid-19 pandemic on China, usually framed as " the Chinese. " * It is historically very common in epidemics for people to blame foreigners, or people perceived as foreigners, for introducing the disease, although obviously in most of these cases the people were U.S. citizens. (Note that many of the victims have been of Korean or other other...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 20, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Foreword to Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition
An excerpt from the Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition:
Have you ever come home from the grocery store with a fresh container of milk, opened it and immediately realized that it was bad—sour-smelling, curdled, unfit to drink?
Feed it to the cat? Probably not. Lighten your coffee? I don’t think so. Pour it down the sink—yeah, that’s the ticket. Or maybe go back to the store with some of the curdled remains and ask for your money back.
That is what your reaction to conventional dietary advice should be. You should wrinkle your nose at the bad smell that emanates from advice that creates an astonish...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open grain-free wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Your New Life In 2021 (Mid-Post COVID)
At the beginning of the pandemic, we wrote a lot about how the pandemic should and could be handled. In addition to providing real-world advice on what technology can do to support us (like Digital Health Apps To Use During Quarantine or The State of A.I. in the Fight Against COVID-19), we often provided forecasts (When And How Will COVID End?) and predictions about the management and the potential outcome of the epidemic (Will There Be A Second Wave). We even created an entire handbook to give away for free!
After drawing attention to the privacy and data protection issues raised by the pandemic (we issued a guide for ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 6, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast 3D Printing science telemedicine vaccination contact tracing cdc pfizer mask mRNA J&J herd immunity Uğur Şahin Karl Schroeder Source Type: blogs
