Numb from the news? Understanding why and what to do may help
In the spring of 2020, the pandemic catapulted many of us into shock and fear — our lives upended, our routines unmoored. Great uncertainty at the onset evolved into hope that, a year later, a semblance of normalcy might return. Yet not only do people continue to face uncertainty, but many of us have also reached a plateau of fatigue, resignation, and grief.
We are living through a time of widespread illness, social and political unrest, economic fractures, and broken safety nets. Whether each of us experiences the ravages of this time close to home or as part of a larger circle, the symptoms of collective trauma are wid...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Richard F. Mollica, MD Tags: Behavioral Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Fatigue Mental Health Source Type: blogs
The Year of Living Dangerously
It ' s been exactly one year since our lives changed. On March 10, 2020, Governor Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency for Massachusetts, changing the way many of us travel. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, its first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009. On March 15, 2020, I flew to Minnesota and prepared my Rochester apartment for a lockdown. I said my goodbyes to colleagues on March 16 and flew back to Boston. We ' ve run the Mayo Clinic Platform at a distance for the past year.During the pandemic, those old enough to have overcome ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - March 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
The Future Of Hospital Design – Inside The Point Of Care
Interminable waiting lines; long, boring corridors; piles of paperwork; these are processes and scenes we’re used to when turning to healthcare institutions. But they attest to the relics of a workflow from the 20th century; while 21st-century technology can radically improve the system from the inside out. Quite literally.
Indeed, in designing the future of hospitals, much will be offloaded to the outside of these institutions by leveraging digital health technologies. Patients could monitor their vitals wherever they are thanks to wearables and share the data to their physicians remotely. But that does not make hosp...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy emergency hospital design robots technologies point-of-care alarm fatigue McKinsey hospitals Do Source Type: blogs
Crises Collide: Examining the Intersection of Sex Trafficking and Opioid Use
Jennifer Brinkley (University of West Florida), Crises Collide: Examining the Intersection of Sex Trafficking and Opioid Use, KY L. J. (Forthcoming): This paper examines the opioid epidemic from a public health perspective. Trafficking victims can be identified through drug addiction,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 13, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Science III
While I have been defending the honor of the scientific enterprise, don ' t think for a nanosecond that I ' m uncritical. I did feel the need to point out that the descriptions of certain funded studies by a right wing web site are ridiculous caricatures, or really just lies. A complicated study of the hunting behavior and associated metabolic burden of panthers is turned into "The National Science Foundation received $856,000 in funding from the Federal Government to conduct a study to see if it is possible to train Lions to walk on a treadmill. It took the Lions eight months. " That description is a lie. You must un...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 23, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
3 Reasons Why National Digital Health Transformations Fail
An armada of digital health technologies is set to bring healthcare to the 21st century. Artificial intelligence can make the alarm fatigue epidemic a thing of the past. Medical-grade, portable diagnostic devices make patients the point-of-care. With such potentials and more, it’s no wonder that some governments are developing national digital health strategies to transform their current systems. A survey from the American Hospital Association suggests that around 85% of hospital executives already factor digital innovation as part of their long-term strategy.
Bringing about such a change requires heavy investments. T...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy technology portable diagnostics cybersecur Source Type: blogs
The Technological Future Of Sexuality And Sexual Health
Long-distance hugs; virtual reality porn stars; technosexuals living with automated dolls; you might have caught such news snippets online, but you’ll have to get used to these with the technological transformation of sex. Indeed, if technology permeates the entire terrain of human relations, why should sex and sexuality be an exception?
Sextech is already a $30 billion-strong industry, but analyses expect it to grow further to $52.7 billion by 2026. Such devices even made their way into the popular Consumer Electronic Show in 2020 and 2021 showing that tech and sex are increasingly getting intermingled. But far fr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 17, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Covid-19 Augmented Reality Bioethics Cyborgization Robotics Virtual Reality ces future science fiction technology sensors sex sexuality porn transhumanism sextech hugshirt kissenger Gatebox Alexa loneliness epidemic Source Type: blogs
More Evidence That Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Might Increase Overdose Deaths
Jeffrey A. SingerAt a Cato Institutepolicy forum in October 2019, Columbia University public health researcher David Fink presented data showing that Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), designed to surveil opioid prescribing by health care practitioners to their patients in pain, have no appreciable effect on the fatal or non ‐fatal opioid overdose rate, but may have the unintended consequence of increasing overdoses from heroin. I havecited his work, along with the work of others, that draw similar conclusions.Now researchers at Indiana University are providing even more evidence that PDMPs, alon...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 14, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Physicians need growth days
Physicians are overwhelmed and burned out. We have an epidemic of “too busy.” Many of us think we could get so much more accomplished if we had more time. Why aren’t we taking the time? Doctors need to start taking growth days. These aren’t sick days, mental health days or vacation days. Growth days are […]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 - February 11, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/amy-vertrees" rel="tag" > Amy Vertrees, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Epidemics and pandemics (1): Cholera and Sheffield
Sheffield ' s Cholera Monument stands above the railway station ( " Sheffield Midland " , as some signs and things still call it). The foundation stone was put in place in December 1834 by James Montgomery, the poet, and the monument completed in April 1835. There it stayed till it was damaged in a storm in the 1990s. It was put up again, completed in 2006.A board by the monument records that 402 people died, and were buried in the " grounds " where the monument stands.And that the " total number of persons attacked by this disease " was 1347.Sheffield City Libraries have a research guide, with...
Source: Browsing - February 2, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: cholera sheffield Source Type: blogs
Confronting the financial barriers to health care has to be a centerpiece of any COVID-19 strategy
The initial wave of vaccinations is underway, but let ’s not forget that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the epidemic of precarious access to health care, an issue that the U.S. uniquely faces in the developed world. In 2018, a survey found that 44% would skip a doctor’s visit because they could not afford it. 33% reported delaying care for them […]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 - January 26, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/daniel-x-pham" rel="tag" > Daniel X. Pham < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Marijuana legalization: an unpopular view
In the mid-1990s, a few pharmaceutical companies made broad claims regarding the safety and efficacy of opioid medications for pain management. These claims were based on limited research that did not fully account for these drugs’ potentially harmful effects. As a result, we are now facing an opioid epidemic across the United States. Now, New […]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 - January 26, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/garrett-rossi" rel="tag" > Garrett Rossi, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 25th 2021
In conclusion, our studies highlight the important role of the tyrosine degradation pathway and position TAT as a link between neuromediator production, dysfunctional mitochondria, and aging. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - January 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How Do You Think The Epidemic Of Misinformation On COVID And Vaccination Should Be Handled?
This appeared late last week and really lays out the issues to be considered pretty well. Medical misinformation threatens to derail COVID health response But would censoring high profile spreaders of non-evidence-based content do more harm than good? Matt Woodley 13 Jan 2021 Debates over misinformation, censorship and free speech have dominated the recent news cycle, with Australia ’s acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack questioning the decision of social media platforms to ban outgoing US President Donald Trump from posting content.
The perma-ban stemmed from President Trump ’s comments before, during and a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 22, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
