Old West River – The Musical
A hopefully soothing instrumental inspired by a peaceful trip on a narrowboat along the Old West River on a midsummer’s dawn, “composed” by David Bradley. Synth strings, French horns, oboe, clarinet, and glockenspiel played on AKAI keyboard, Taylor six-string for the pseudoclassical guitar, mixing and production by David Bradley.
I don’t hear anyone else’s melodies or snippets of melodies (and usually with my music I can hear all the influences outloud), so I think I’ve avoided copying the tropes of the wonderful new world, big country, deep south stuff from the likes of Copland, Dvorak,...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 6, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
The Nurse Warrior: Fighting the Good Fight
Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission.While nursing can often feel absolutelyquixotic or Sisyphean in nature, nurses battle on. Whether it ' s the Covid-19 pandemic, a natural disaster, the opioid epidemic, a mass shooting, or the challenges faced by the homeless, nurses the world over continue to fight the good fight no matter the odds. It is here that the archetype of the Nurse Warrio...
Source: Digital Doorway - July 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: nurse nursing nurses healthcare Source Type: blogs
Respect for Science
I vaguely remember discussing some of this before, but anyway . . . Throughout most of the 19th Century, despite the dramatic advances of science in many areas, nobody gained any useful understanding of human health and disease, and effective therapies were largely lacking. In fact, physicians -- medical school graduates -- advocated bloodletting and violent purging with mercury based emetics and laxatives. For obvious reasons, most people preferred other healing methods, which didn ' t work either but at least didn ' t kill you. Hospitals were just places where poor people went to die. So what happened to ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How to Get Started Teaching English Abroad if You Have No Experience
Teaching English in another nation is an easy way to travel the globe without having to save thousands of dollars or have years of experience as a teacher. All you need is an online TEFL certificate and the ability to communicate in English. The rest is easy after you've checked those boxes.
When you begin teaching English in a foreign country, you will be able to spend your weekends exploring your new surroundings. If you pick China as your teaching location, for example, you will have the opportunity to travel across East Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.You may be able to save thousands of dollars by te...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Esme Gelder Tags: career featured self education self-improvement success english abroad Source Type: blogs
Emerging Trends: Technology ’s Response To Alzheimer’s Disease
In our new series, Emerging Trends, we are looking at those technologies in digital health that are on a particular ‘hype cycle’ – technologies and solutions that currently stand out from the rest because of their novelty, timeliness, or greatness. These are solutions everyone’s talking about or the ones they should.
Technological solutions to cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease, in particular, are rising with increasing pipeline drug development, promising biomarkers, and more. Let’s jump right in.
Liza Marshall was “over the moon” when she said yes to the love of her life in a small cerem...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Forecast Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine E-Patients Future of Medicine Personalized Medicine Robotics Telemedicine & Smartphones alzheimer brain diagnosis digital digital health Healthcare Innovation me Source Type: blogs
Better Broadband for Better Health Care
By KIM BELLARD
Here’s a question that we don’t often ask: which is the U.S. more likely to accomplish – getting everyone health insurance, or broadband? Hint: it’s probably not what you think.
The health insurance part of it is often debated. We passed ACA, but the number of uninsured stubbornly remains at nearly 30 million, almost 10% of the population. Still, except for residents of those 12 states that have refused to pass Medicaid expansion, everyone in the country has at least access to public or private health insurance, with subsidies available to many.
Broadband hasn’t bee...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology broadband broadband access Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
We Like The Original Versions Of Abstract Artworks More Than Colour-Shifted Ones
By Emma Young
Take a look at this 1930 painting, “Rhythm, Joy of Life”, by French artist Robert Delaunay. Do you find it colourful? And do you like it?
Robert Delaunay – Rhythm, Joy of Life (1930)
Now what if every pixel in a digital version was rotated an equal distance on a “colour wheel” that represents every colour that people can see? Technically, the number of different colours in the image would be the same — but you’d probably perceive it to be less colourful. And, even if you’d never seen the original before, you’d probably like it less. That, at least, is the con...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Perception Source Type: blogs
G-7 Corporate Tax Agreement
Chris EdwardsLeaders of the G-7 countries agreed on the weekend to pressure other countries to impose corporate tax rates of at least 15 percent. They also agreed to reallocate the earnings of some multinational corporations if too much was deemed to be in low ‐tax countries. The impetus for the agreement is a claimed revenue shortage caused by corporate tax dodging, especially by large technology companies. The G-7 countries are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States.At the G-7 meeting, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellenalleged that the agreementwould “end the race to the bo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Is There A Future For Drones In Healthcare?
The threat COVID has posed ever since it first appeared influenced how healthcare operates on many levels. It triggered a rapid expansion in health technology – some obvious, like the rise of telemedicine or at-home lab tests, others filled a much-needed immediate void. The demand for safe solutions inclined the development of robotic support in hospitals – and drones.
I must admit, I expected the rise of drone-based solutions years ago (and I wasn’t alone with my expectations). By now, we are just at the very beginning of using drones in healthcare. And still, even now, when COVID-19 clearly showed the necessity ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 3, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones drones telehealth medical drones mon Source Type: blogs
Diagnosing Acute Compartment Syndrome: Interview with Charles Allan, CEO of MY01
MY01, a medtech company based in Montreal, has developed the Continuous Compartment Pressure Monitor, a sterile, single-use device for the diagnosis of acute compartment syndrome. If undiagnosed and untreated, acute compartment syndrome, a condition caused by high pressure around muscles typically following an injury, can have significant consequences for patients. Long-term disability and amputation is too often the result.
At present, the condition is diagnosed using subjective measurements such as pain. These can be unreliable, and given the potential for serious consequences, often clinicians will err on the sid...
Source: Medgadget - June 2, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Emergency Medicine Exclusive Source Type: blogs
June 2021: Will This Patient Need a New House?
I love to test myself to see if I can guess what I am going to see with the minimum number of films. I played this game recently when looking at this man's knee film. He had been drinking and slipped walking down a set of stairs.With one glance and one film, I knew I had to order another film. The patient was distraught about his recent knee replacement. He was sure he had messed it up. He could barely contain his frustration that I went straight to his ankle. I explained about potential other injuries as I palpated the medial malleolus.He did not have much swelling, but I rationalized it away by thinking it might ...
Source: Lions and Tigers and Bears - June 1, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
When HIPAA is Outpaced by Technology and the Cyber-Elephant We Need Confront: Exclusive with CEO of VigiTrust
Mathieu Gorge is the author of The Cyber-Elephant in the Boardroom, as well as CEO and founder of VigiTrust, which provides Integrated Risk Management SaaS solutions to clients in 120 countries across various industries. He helps CEOs, CxOs, and boards of directors handle cyber accountability challenges through good cyber hygiene and proactive cybersecurity compliance programs. He is a multi-award-winning CEO and an established authority on IT security, information governance, and risk management, with more than 20 years of international experience.
Mr. Gorge is also a prominent member of the international cybersecurity...
Source: Medgadget - May 27, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Informatics Source Type: blogs
Lab move to ETH Zurich, the job search and fixed term PI positions
ETH Zurich (credit) Next January, after 9 years at the EMBL, I will be joining ETH Zurich as a tenured faculty of the Department of Biology with my research group hosted at the Institute for Molecular and Systems Biology (IMSB). I am really excited about this move and I think the IMSB is a perfect fit for the type of research that we do. We primarily use computational approaches to study the relation between genotype and phenotype with a specific focus on post-translational regulatory systems (more on theEBI website or myGScholar page). IMSB has a long tradition of method development in large scale measurements o...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - May 21, 2021 Category: Cytology Tags: academia group Source Type: blogs
Coronary physiology update : Why did the “ French FLOWER ” failed to blossom ?
The concept of Fractional flow reserve ( FFR) has dominated the coronary interventional field for over a decade. It gave us a (false) sense of security and pride that we have been advocating physiology-based appropriate stenting.
The much-expected FlOWER-MI trial was presented in ACC & NEJM a week ago. (May 16th Issue 2021)
FFR, though physiologically an attractive concept, has many well-known confounders right from the technical factors, lesion-related errors in physics, mirage of true hyperemia induction with Adenosine, finally & most importantly microvascular dynamism. The value of FFR in the ACS setting w...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - May 20, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized FFR FLOWER trial FFR IFR QFR CT FFR FLOWER MI Source Type: blogs
