You Can Get Better at Remembering Names. Here ’s How.
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By Dr. Antonio Rotondo
Let’s be honest. Who hasn’t forgotten
names at one point or another? Sometimes it can be embarrassing: You’re in a
meeting at work making introductions when the name of the person in the cubicle
across from you suddenly escapes you; or, as a candidate for the dream job
you’ve always wanted, you keep calling the chair of the search “Bob” when it’s
really “Stev...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Antonio Rotondo Tags: featured self improvement names Source Type: blogs
Bathroom Scale Combined with ECG for At Home Heart Failure Monitoring
Conclusion: This work demonstrates that high quality BCG signals can be collected in a home environment and used to detect the clinical state of HF patients. Significance: In future work, a clinician/caregiver can be introduced to the system so that appropriate interventions can be performed based on the clinical state monitored at home.
Study in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering: Classification of Decompensated Heart Failure from Clinical and Home Ballistocardiography
Via: Georgia Tech (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - September 24, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
A New Year, A New Family Member — or Two
Recently I hosted a family party — my mom’s 80th — which was just immediate family and close relatives. It was great reconnecting with cousins and with my Aunt Georgia and Mom’s brother Gerard, and Aunt Rhoda, Dad’s older sister.
I think Mom felt the same way. She seemed on a high the whole day. I was particularly excited about this because it was one of the few times we had really celebrated just Mom, and not as part of a really magnificent couple with my dad (82).
We celebrate the two of them a lot, because they have a pretty extraordinary relationship, having started dating when she was 1...
Source: Susan's Blog - September 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How Can the United States Support Democracies in the Former USSR?
The West has only modest capacity to influence circumstances in most post-Soviet countries. In Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Moldova, however, the West has the potential to make a real difference by supporting civil society and improved governance. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 15, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Kenneth Yalowitz; William Courtney Source Type: blogs
Pieces of the Mysterious Lung Disease Puzzle Starting to Come Together, But CDC Continues to Endanger Health by Hiding the Critical Pieces
The pieces of the puzzle of what is causing the " mysterious " outbreak of acute, severe lung disease among more than 450 people--mostly youth and young adults--are starting to come together. Yesterday, new cases of this illness were reported in at least three states. They were said to be associated with " vaping. " However, if you read the fine print, it turns out that all of these cases were associated with the use of black market THC vaping cartridges.Georgia Public Radio announcedtwo new cases of " vaping-related illness " in the state of Georgia. If you read down further in the article, you ' ll find out that" Both ca...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 10, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Multi-Sensing Glove Makes Prosthetic Hands More Real
Engineers from Purdue University, University of Georgia, and University of Texas have combined forces to develop a glove that can be put over existing prosthetic hands to give them a more life-like feel and the ability to sense a variety of parameters. The glove is intended to improve a user’s ability to interact with others.
The device is soft and supposedly feels similar to a human hand when touched. It can measure the pressure when shaking someone’s hand or grabbing objects, as well as the temperature, and even hydration. It would seem like with one of these, an amputee would be able to tell whether some...
Source: Medgadget - September 5, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Rehab Source Type: blogs
How hospitals prepare for hurricanes
We all expect hospitals to be open and operating when we need them, but extreme weather events like hurricanes are a strain on resources and pose significant challenges for hospitals. Closing a hospital is an extreme action, but several hospitals in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina did just that before the arrival of Hurricane Irma in 2017. […]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 - September 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/daniel-b-hess" rel="tag" > Daniel B. Hess, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Emergency Medicine Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Power is Yours: An Exhortation from an Undocumented Medical Student
By Sumbul Siddiqui My parents immigrated to the United States when I was 4 years old, hoping to give their children a better life. I was raised in Georgia with my three younger siblings, two of whom were born here. Georgia has a policy called 287(g), in which some counties are proud to work together […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 3, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: reflectivemeded Tags: Health Care Social Justice Culture Diversity Inclusion Race Social Justice Diversity & Inclusion identity formation medical education medical professionalism medical school social determinants syndicated Source Type: blogs
Sensor Monitors Brain Aneurysms Post Treatment
Aneurysms within the brain are extremely dangerous, although there are therapies available such as stents and blood flow diverters. Even after treatment, a cerebral aneurysm can continue developing and how it heals cannot be predicted. Monitoring a treated vessel deep within the brain would provide physicians with the ability to act in situations that would otherwise only be apparent once a rupture, or some other terrible malady, happens.
Currently, this kind of vascular analysis is only possible using contrast enhanced angiography, but that is dangerous to perform frequently. Now, researchers at Georgia Tech have ...
Source: Medgadget - August 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
JaQuita Sampson: Former Medtronic Diabetes Tech Trainer, Mom and Advocate
Meet DiabetesMine 2019 Patient Voices Contest winner JaQuita Sampson from Georgia, a mom and diabetes educator living with T1D herself. (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - August 28, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral Positions in the Tri-Institutional Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program (Tri-I MMPTP) at Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University
The Tri-Institutional Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program is seeking Postdoctoral Fellowship applicants. This program was founded in 2004 and has been continuously funded by an NIH/NIAID T32 training grant over the past 15 years, and was renewed recently for a fourth five year funding period. Two fellowship positions are available as of August 1, 2019 or thereafter. The program funds both basic and clinical fellows working on all aspects of mycology encompassing model fungi, plant pathogenic fungi, and human pathogenic fungi. Areas of interest span DNA repair and recombinat...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - August 19, 2019 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: postdoc UNC-Chapel Hill duke university ncsu Source Type: blogs
Flexible Body Monitor Measures ECG, Breathing, Heart Rate Continuously for Weeks
Continuous, long-term monitoring of physiological activity can provide doctors, caretakers, and scientists with nuanced information about someone’s health. Children, the frail and elderly, and people with all sorts of conditions often have difficulty wearing and using existing body-worn sensors. Now, researchers at Georgia Tech have designed a remarkable device that can be worn on the skin for a long time to measure a variety of physiological signals.
The device consists of a stretchable substrate with flexible built-in electrodes and appropriate electronics, including a small rechargeable battery, on top. It prov...
Source: Medgadget - August 1, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Geriatrics Pediatrics Sports Medicine Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Tiny Robots Aim to Work Inside Our Bodies
If we’re to have robots that work inside our bodies to find and cure diseases, they must be very small. To help make the dreams of futurists a reality, researchers at Georgia Tech have now created a robot that weighs only five milligrams and is no taller than the side of a US penny.
The device is a variation of a “bristle-bot” that features a vibrating motor and bristles for legs. The bristles are angled so that they stay straight and resist motion in one direction, while bending when pushed in the other. As the motor vibrates back and forth, the robot ends up moving in only one direction. “As th...
Source: Medgadget - July 31, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Diagnostics Materials Medicine Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
False Assumptions Behind the Current Drive to Regulate Social Media
In the early days of the Internet, citing concerns about pedophiles and hackers, parents would worry about their children ’s engagement on unfamiliar platforms. Now, those same parents have Facebook accounts and get their news from Twitter. However, one look at a newspaper shows op-eds aplenty castigating the platforms that host an ever-growing share of our social lives. Even after more than a decade of social media use, prominent politicians and individuals who lack critical awareness of the realities and limitations of social media platforms choose to scapegoat platforms—rather than people—for a litany of social pr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 23, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: John Samples Source Type: blogs
Connect Attendees Share the New Ideas They Plan to Try
In the wake of ASHA Connect 2019’s wrap-up on Sunday, SLPs who attended are returning home, ready to implement a host of new strategies, from slowing down time to using the 3:1 workload model in schools to better gauging severity of speech sound disorders. Here are the new ideas just a few of them plan to try out across health care, private practice, and school settings.
New insights:
Valorie “Lorri” Andrews begins a new job as an SLP in the Sahuarita Unified School District outside Tucson, Arizona, on July 31. She attended ASHA Connect 2019 in preparation for her new position. “I’d like to get into classroo...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
