“Tell Me More”
By HANS DUVEFELT
Words can be misleading. Medical terms work really well when shared between clinicians. But we can’t assume our patients speak the same language we do. If we “run with” whatever key words we pick up from our patient’s chief complaint, we can easily get lost chasing the wrong target.
Where I work, along the Canadian border, “Valley French” expressions tripped me up when I first arrived. The flu, or in French le flu (if that is how you spell it – I’ve never seen it in writing) is the word people use for diarrhea. Mal au cœur (heart pain) doesn’t mean angina or che...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt health communication Source Type: blogs
Sleep well — and reduce your risk of dementia and death
This study controlled for demographic characteristics including age, marital status, race, education, health conditions, and body weight.
In the second study, researchers in Europe (including France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland) examined data from almost 8,000 participants from a different study and found that consistently sleeping six hours or less at age 50, 60, and 70 was associated with a 30% increase in dementia risk compared to a normal sleep duration of seven hours. The mean age of dementia diagnosis was 77 years. This study controlled for sociodemographic, behavioral, cardiometabolic, and menta...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew E. Budson, MD Tags: Alzheimer's Disease Healthy Aging Memory Neurological conditions Sleep Source Type: blogs
Can Governments Push Providers to Collaborate? A Comparison of Hospital Network Reforms in France and the United States
Robert Field (Drexel University), Catherine Keller, Michael Louazel, Can Governments Push Providers to Collaborate? A Comparison of Hospital Network Reforms in France and the United States, Health Pol ’y (2020): France recently implemented a program to encourage greater collaboration among public... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 30, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
#Healthin2Point00, Episode 201 | European Funding Deals – complete with accents!
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we’re back from our 200th episode celebration! In Episode 201, we have an all-European funding deals episode for you, and I even attempt to answer every story in an accent relevant to the company. First, French insurance company Alan raises €185 million. Scottish company Current Health raises $43 million in a Series B for remote patient monitoring. Thankfully we have an English company in the mix, Proximie raises $38 million, bringing their total to $48 million – they do AR for the OR. Kry, a Swedish telehealth company with 3 million visits, raises $316 million bringing their to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Alan Caresyntax Current Health KRY Proximie Source Type: blogs
The Market Forces Behind Vaccine Passports
By SAURABH JHA
Unlike medical meetings, rendering Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony isn’t easy on Zoom, so the local orchestra has been furloughed and their members work for Uber. The opera house wants to reopen, preferably before we reach the elusive herd immunity threshold. They mandate vaccinations for their artists, not least because the performers can keep their masks off. Should they extend this requirement to their patrons?
Vaccine passports, proof of immunity against SARS-CoV-2, to work, dine, fly or watch shows, are controversial. Opponents say they blithely disregard decency, are operationally one...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Saurabh Jha vaccine passports Source Type: blogs
Poll: 72% of Americans Say Immigrants Come to the United States for Jobs and to Improve Their Lives
Emily Ekins andDavid Kemp53% Say Ability to Immigrate Is a “Human Right,” 53% Oppose Immigrant Households Receiving WelfareTheCato Institute 2021 Immigration and Identity National Survey, a new national survey of 2,600 U.S. adults, finds that nearly three‐fourths (72%) of Americans believe immigrants come to the United States to “find jobs and improve their lives” while 27% think immigrants come to obtain government services and welfare.READ THE FULL SURVEY REPORT HERESupport for More Immigration Is on the RiseSupport for more immigration has tripled from the mid ‐1990s when about 10% of the public supp...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 27, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Emily Ekins, David Kemp Source Type: blogs
The Parallel Realities of Health Care: Ratio and Intellectus
By HANS DUVEFELT
Every patient is unique, with some common basic and measurable features and parameters. For a couple of decades now, healthcare has professed to be patient centered. But the prevailing culture of “quality” (and the reality of getting paid for what you do) has us spending at least half our time documenting for outsiders, who are non-clinicians, the substance and value of our patient interactions. That means our patients get half of our attention and others get half.
But of course, if you really wanted to be patient centered, you’d have to ask what patients actually care about, like their blood p...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 19th 2021
In conclusion, airway pressure treatment and adherence are independently associated with lower odds of incident AD diagnoses in older adults. Results suggest that treatment of OSA may reduce risk of subsequent dementia. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - April 18, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Corporate Taxes: Rates Down, Revenues Up
Chris EdwardsU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recentlycomplained about a“30-year race to the bottom on corporate tax rates,” and is pushing for a higher U.S. rate and a global minimum rate. Yellenwants to make sure that corporate taxes “raise sufficient revenue to invest in essential public goods and respond to crises.” EconomistGabriel Zucmanapproved of the proposed tax hike, saying corporations should “pay more in taxes, instead of them paying less and less. "Zucman ’s claim about “less and less” is incorrect when looking across the major economies in recent decades. TheNew York Times charts the OECD ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
In Horses, the Gut Microbiome Interacts with Mitochondria to Improve Function
The study here is carried out in horses, but it is reasonable to expect to find very similar mechanisms in other mammals. The beneficial populations of the gut microbiome provide metabolites that steer cell function and exist in symbiosis with the host animal. Mitochondria, the power plants of the cell, are the evolved descendants of ancient symbiotic microbes, now an integral part of cellular processes. It is reasonable to think that the one can influence the other directly via signaling processes, as researchers discuss in these materials and elsewhere. In humans, for example, researchers have found that propionate gener...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 14, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What To Check Before Buying A Smartwatch Or Health Tracker
The market for fitness trackers, and especially smartwatches are on the rise. Despite the delivery difficulties due to the coronavirus, the market kept on growing and the leading players (Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Garmin) have kept their lead, securing a steady 75% of the entire segment. Globally, they posted stable revenue growth of about 20 per cent for the first half of 2020 and were able to keep a solid growth in Q3.
Source: Counterpointresearch.com
We wrote earlier about how COVID-19 affected our way of doing sports. From quarantine exercises, dance rehearsals to online yoga and even mass events and online mara...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 8, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones apple fda smartwatch sports health data Samsung Withings Garmin regulatory approval smart sleep Hua Source Type: blogs
Jean Drouin, Clarify Health, on the new data stack.
By MATTHEW HOLT
Clarify Health has linked (but anonymized) data on about 300m Americans, including their claims, lab, (some) EMR data and their SDOH data. They then use it to help providers, plans and pharma figure out what is going on with their patients, and how their doctors et al are behaving. CEO Jean Drouin, a French-Canadian who incidentally at one point ran strategy for the NHS in London, explained to me what Clarify does, how it’s going to help improve health care, where these data products are going next–and why they needed to raise $116m in March to build it out. Jean thinks about creating a singl...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Data Health Tech Clarify Health Health Data Jean Drouin Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
Decolonising Nelson
I wrote in an earlier post about Admiral Lord Nelson, who, being a Norfolkman like my Dad, did get talked about in my house growing up.And I have written a few posts about decolonisation. Here is one about both.Nelson, English (maybe British) hero, victor over the French, standing proud on his famous column in central London.And Nelson, famous Norfolkman.Are there other viewpoints from which to view his life?Well, although he fought in battles against another European power, they were not always in European waters. He is remembered for Trafalgar, but there was also the Battle of the Nile. &...
Source: Browsing - April 6, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: decolonisation Source Type: blogs
A health librarian and music: Billie Holiday
My Dad was in the habit of playing music on records (those have made a comeback) or cassette tapes (those have not) around the house, and if it was not folk music, it was traditional jazz. And one of the singers was Billie Holiday, so I have been listening to her for some years. When I left home I took with me tapes of some of some things from his collection, including two of Billie Holiday, one from early in her career, with sparse jazz accompaniment, and one from much later, where her voice had become deeper, huskier and slower, with an orchestra.I knew something of her life, but not, as it turns ...
Source: Browsing - April 5, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: decolonisation jazz Source Type: blogs
Nuclear Power Costs
Peter Van DorenTheNew Yorkerrecently published a shortarticle about environmentalists who support nuclear power because they believe it is an essential component of any strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The article discussed the risks from nuclear accidents, such as Fukushima and correctly noted that more than a thousand people died in the forced evacuation of the area, dwarfing the expected direct health effects of radiation exposure.A recentpaper extended that analysis by examining the effects of the shut ‐down of all nuclear power plants in Japan following the Fukushima accident in March 2011. ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 26, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
