Legislators, please stay out of our exam rooms. Especially when it comes to children and gender.
Legislators have found a new way to insert themselves into the physician-patient relationship. In October and November 2019, news stories regarding a parental dispute over the treatment of a transgender child prompted legislators in Texas, Kentucky, and Georgia to announce plans to introduce bills that would prohibit medical and surgical treatment of transgender children under […]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 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/amy-potter" rel="tag" > Amy Potter, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Pediatrics Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Chip Recreates Blood-Brain Barrier to Study Delivery of Drugs to Brain
The blood-brain barrier is one of the greatest challenges that modern medicine has to overcome if we want to be able to fight neurological diseases using drugs. Animal models serve a purpose, but they’re not very good at replicating the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) as results often don’t translate during clinical trials. A better way to study the BBB is needed and researchers at Georgia Tech have now developed a chip that accurately replicates its function using the human cells that form this important part of our anatomy.
Astrocyte brain cells are the primary constituent of the BBB, interfacing betwe...
Source: Medgadget - February 11, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Genetics Medicine Neurology Source Type: blogs
What ’s in a number? Looking at life expectancy in the US
If you were to sum up the overall health of a nation in one single number, what would that be? At the top of the list, you would likely find average life expectancy — the total number of years, on average, that a person in a country can expect to live. Wars, famine, and economic crises are expected to lower life expectancy. Breakthroughs in science, strong economies, and behaviors like eating a healthy diet, exercising, and avoiding tobacco typically raise average life expectancy.
An amazing rise, a surprising fall
Between 1959 and 2014, the United States experienced an unprecedented increase in life expectancy, which ro...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Scott Weiner, MD Tags: Addiction Health Health care disparities Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Flashing Light Into Eyes Lowers Buildup of Alzheimer ’s Amyloid Plaques
A few years ago scientists discovered that directing flashing light at 40 Hertz (cycles per second) into the eyes and noises into the ears of mice with Alzheimer’s disease led to a marked decline in amyloid plaques in their brains. The mechanism making this happen was pretty much a matter of speculation, so researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory universities set out to understand why the therapy seems to work on mice and what that means for how we fight Alzheimer’s.
Amyloid plaques are one of the main suspects underlying the development of Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers in this study exposed healt...
Source: Medgadget - February 4, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Medicine Neurology Neurosurgery Source Type: blogs
Renaissance Rad Feature: Dr. Supriya Gupta MD
Dr. Supriya Gupta MD is a Radiologist specializing in neuroradiology at AMITA Health St. Mary ’s Hospital - Kankakee, IL Tell us about your area of clinical expertise within your practice/organization: Dr. Gupta: I am responsible for pretty much all radiology studies except vascular IR, with a focus on neuroradiology and breast imaging, two image-intensive subspecialties. Along with that I look at the IT and dose sub-committee at the local site, advising solutions which benefit us and integrate the best technology with the highest benefit to cost ratio. I am also responsible for supervising quality metrics in the ra...
Source: radRounds - February 4, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Robin Pine Miles Source Type: blogs
ASHA Voices: Innovations on Strengthening Feeding And Swallowing Services
We delve into feeding and swallowing disorders on this episode of ASHA Voices. From incorporating exercise science values into dysphagia treatment to developing new tools for measuring biofeedback, the work of today’s guests is shaped by their unique personal and professional experiences.
With a background in exercise science, speech-language pathologist Lori Burkhead Morgan brings an interdisciplinary lens to dysphagia treatment. Learn why Morgan would only take a surface electromyography device with her to a deserted island.
“If you are at the point that you want to eat three times a day, then I’m go...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 30, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Podcast Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia eating Purdue swallowing Telepractice Source Type: blogs
TBI Leaders Respond to Comments Dismissive of Traumatic Brain Injury
Reporters recently asked President Trump about news that U.S. troops had sustained various degrees of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in an Iranian missile strike. He responded, “I heard they had headaches and a couple of other things, but I would say, and I can report, it’s not very serious.”
An outcry followed these remarks, with military leaders and others noting that TBI has been called a “signature injury” among U.S. troops in the recent conflicts in the Middle East. Fifty U.S. troops are reported to have TBI resulting from the Iranian strike. Research has tied mild TBI (mTBI, the predominant form) to...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 29, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Bridget Murray Law Tags: Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology blast injuries Cognitive Rehabilitation cognitive-communication disorder hearing loss TBI tinnitus Traumatic Brain Injury Source Type: blogs
Nature Observations. January 1, 2020. #iNaturalist #Birds #BirdPhotography
So one of my New Year's resolution is to try to make and post nature observations of some kind every day this year. I am hoping to post pictures and also post observations to iNaturalist.On January 1, I made some observations in my yard. I posted some pics to iNaturalist:https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/phylogenomics/2020/1/1.I am trying to just copy straight from that iNaturalist page into this blog - not sure how well that will workObservations by you on January 01, 20208taxa 8 birds21observations21 from Yolo County, US, CA21 from California, US21 from United States21 from ...
Source: The Tree of Life - January 5, 2020 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Testing - trying to manipulate the @iNaturalist Blog Widget to post observations from one day here ...
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Source: The Tree of Life - January 3, 2020 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2019
Wrapping up this year and looking back on the particularly interesting developments in medical technology, we at Medgadget are impressed and very excited about the future. We’re lucky to cover one of the most innovative fields of research and one that improves and saves lives. Having a constant eye on what’s new in medtech, we present what we believe are the most novel, smart, and medically important technologies we encountered in this passing year. As in years past, a few trends have emerged.
Opiod Overdose Treatment
Opioid addiction, and accompanying overdoses, have become disturbingly common lately. A ...
Source: Medgadget - December 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Whither Georgia?
Georgia ' s status as a post-Soviet democratic leader is under challenge. A flawed presidential election, use of force against protesters, and political manipulations have strained public confidence and brought mounting public protests. Domestic calm may hinge on improving political dialogue and conducting free and fair parliamentary elections next year. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 8, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Denis Corboy; William Courtney; Kenneth Yalowitz Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence vs. Tuberculosis, Part 1
By SAURABH JHA, MD
Slumdog TB
No one knows who gave Rahul Roy
tuberculosis. Roy’s charmed life as a successful trader involved traveling in his
Mercedes C class between his apartment on the plush Nepean Sea Road in South
Mumbai and offices in Bombay Stock Exchange. He cared little for Mumbai’s weather.
He seldom rolled down his car windows – his ambient atmosphere, optimized for
his comfort, rarely changed.
Historically TB, or
“consumption” as it was known, was a Bohemian malady; the chronic suffering produced
a rhapsody which produced fine art. TB was fashionable in Victorian Britain, in
part, because c...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Saurabh Jha TB tuberculosis Source Type: blogs
Holiday Book Giveaway - THE NINTH SESSION
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Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - December 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: book giveaway Source Type: blogs
