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Revaluating mental health assessments: It ’ s not just the patient you should consider
I believe that mental health care is one of the most underrated areas in health care. Mental illness is an epidemic plaguing virtually every corner of the world. While great strides have been made in identifying and treating mental disorders, particularly in wealthier countries, many people remain without adequate care for their conditions. The numbers Read more… Revaluating mental health assessments: It’s not just the patient you should consider originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Mindfulness. Is there an app for that?
TL:DR – The idea of an app for mindfulness is inherently contradictory, but they may have some use if used mindfully… The notion of mindfulness is often discussed in light of an apparently epidemic of mental health crises, anxiety, depression, phobias, addictions, and other problems. It is considered a state of being where one is fully present in the moment and aware of one’s thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. The aim of mindfulness is not to exclude external stimuli nor to ignore one’s memories and preclude predictions of the future, but rather to live in the moment, to try to feel satisfi...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Health and Medicine Psychology Source Type: blogs

Ambience Healthcare Launches Fully Automated AI Medical Scribe to Address Burnout Across Major Provider Organizations
Ambience AutoScribe technology, custom-built for medicine, works in real time without human scribes Providers using the technology reduce their documentation time by 76% on average Company backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Human Capital, Kleiner Perkins, AIX Ventures, and OpenAI Startup Fund Ambience Healthcare, a leading AI company developing technology to supercharge healthcare providers, announced today the public launch of its fully automated AI medical scribe, Ambience AutoScribe. Already in use by provider organizations across North America, AutoScribe is revolutionizing the way healthcar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Medical Scribe AIX Ventures Ambience Ambience AutoScribe Ambience Healthcare Andreessen Horowitz Dr. Denise Yun Dr. Jennifer O’Driscoll Dr. Kendell Cannon Eren Bali Source Type: blogs

Narcissism Epidemic? No Evidence Of ‘ Age Of Narcissism ’
Is there really a 'narcissism epidemic' or is this not really the 'age of narcissism'? (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Narcissism Source Type: blogs

Solving a Drug Epidemic with More Drugs: A Discussion on the Expansion of Medical Marijuana in Ohio and its Impact on the Opioid Crisis
Discussion on the Expansion of Medical Marijuana in Ohio and its Impact on the Opioid Crisis, Drug Enforcement& Pol ’y Center 58 (2022): Ohio has suffered greatly... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 16, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Breathing your way out of stress: the simple solution to a growing epidemic
Stress is ubiquitous, and Americans are struggling to deal with it effectively. The tag #mentalhealth on TikTok has amassed 65.5 billion views and counting. Still not sure about that? Answer this question quickly:  What do you do when you’re hungry? Many would respond that they eat; it’s a straightforward answer to a common experience. But what Read more… Breathing your way out of stress: the simple solution to a growing epidemic originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Electrochemical Sensor for Detailed SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Data
Researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute have developed an electrochemical device, called the eRapid sensor, that can assist clinicians in quickly characterizing someone’s COVID-19 infection, including identifying the infecting viral variant and the nature of someone’s immunity to the virus in terms of whether it is vaccine-mediated or natural immunity. Monitoring these characteristics could help to personalize treatment for individuals and also provide data for drug development and inform government decisions on the best way to manage COVID-19 in the community. When antibodies from a blood sample bind within the devi...
Source: Medgadget - February 14, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 13th 2023
This study investigated whether taller Polish adults live longer than their shorter counterparts. Data on declared height were available from 848,860 individuals who died in the years 2004-2008 in Poland. To allow for the cohort effect, the Z-values were generated. Separately for both sexes, Pearson's r coefficients of correlation were calculated. Subsequently, one way ANOVA was performed. The correlation between adult height and longevity was negative and statistically significant in both men and women. After eliminating the effects of secular trends in height, the correlation was very weak (r = -0.0044 in men and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Opioid addiction: Understanding the risk factors with a predictive model [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we’re discussing the opioid epidemic and its impact on our society. Our guest is Gary Call, a family physician, who shares the emotional and financial cost on individuals and families caused by opioid addiction and overdoses is immense and impacts everyone. Read more… Opioid addiction: Understanding the risk factors with a predictive model [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Pain Management Source Type: blogs

How occupational therapy can help the anxiety epidemic [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we have Taylor Gurley, a professor of occupational therapy as our guest. She will be discussing the new recommendation by the United States Preventive Services Task Force for primary care physicians to screen their patients for mental health concerns, specifically anxiety. Read more… How occupational therapy can help the anxiety epidemic [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Considering a Role for Infectious Disease in the Evolution of Aging
If interested in the evolution of aging, today's open access paper opens with a very readable tour of the history of thought on this topic, as well as the more recent debate between different classes of hypotheses that seek to explain the evolution of aging. The authors are opinionated, and the path leads to their favored theory, involving population-wide effects driven by infectious disease that do not require group selection, but it nonetheless covers a lot of ground and makes for an educational read. Theories of aging are much debated, perhaps in part because there are so many exceptions to the rule that must be explain...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

COVID-19 myocarditis illusions: A new cardiac MRI study raises questions about the diagnosis
BY ANISH KOKA One of the hallmarks of the last two years has been the distance that frequently exists between published research and reality. I’m a cardiologist, and the first disconnect that became glaringly obvious very quickly was the impact COVID was having on the heart. As I walked through COVID rooms in the Spring of 2020 trying to hold my breath, I waited for a COVID cardiac tsunami. After all social media had been full of videos from Wuhan and Iran of people suddenly dropping in the streets. My hyperventilating colleagues made me hyperventilate. Could it be that Sars-COV2 had some predilection for heart...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka COVID-19 Misinformation myocarditis Vaccine Source Type: blogs

Bonfire of the Vanities
Here ' s Anne Lutz Fernandez onthe epidemic of book banning, which is affecting not only schools and public libraries but even commercial bookstores and publishers.  There are some complexities here which she doesn ' t really address, so I ' ll give it a try. Obviously  there can be legitimate debate about what books schoolchildren should be assigned to read, and also what should be available to them in the school library, although these are certainly not the same question. Assigned readings need to be age appropriate, and they need to include what is acceptable to a wide range of the community. Children are...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 30, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

The unspoken epidemic: Why health care professionals aren ’ t talking about burnout
We don’t talk about burnout. I recently reunited with a former medical school classmate for lunch and realized that I talked more to him in two hours about my experiences over the past few years than with my hospitalist colleagues at work or my closest friends. I’ve only ever dared to mention anything to my Read more… The unspoken epidemic: Why health care professionals aren’t talking about burnout originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Pediatric mental health is a growing epidemic. Here ’ s how Illinois is leading the way to solve that.  
One of my friends in middle school was known for her uncanny ability to brighten up any space she walked into. But when we hit high school, she had become more withdrawn and dejected, and her self-esteem plummeted. She was clearly struggling, but at the time, I didn’t know what the signs of depression were Read more… Pediatric mental health is a growing epidemic. Here’s how Illinois is leading the way to solve that.  originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Policy Pediatrics Psychiatry Source Type: blogs