Natural Law, Gay Rights, and the State Department ’s New Commission on Unalienable Rights
More on the State Department ’s new Commission on Unalienable Rights, about whichI wrote in this space on Friday. Aimed at providing Secretary Pompeo “with fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation’s founding principles of natural law and natural rights,” the commission has raised several concerns. Chief among them is whether “natural law” is code, signaling that the department in futu re might “focus less on protecting women and LGBT people,” as put byPolitico, which broke the story on Thursday afternoon. Giving weight to those concerns,ABC News late Fr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 3, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Roger Pilon Source Type: blogs
Pros and Cons of Screening Tools for Dementia
Working with older adults as a speech-language pathologist for a rehab company, I often assess patients on their cognitive function. I will deal more in-depth on how and why determining cognitive function helps guide my treatment strategies in an upcoming post. For this first article, however, I wanted to discuss the first steps.
The first step I take in determining a person’s cognitive status involves using a standardized screening tool. I like three tests: the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) exam.
Quick, easy to use, and readi...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Bonnie Slavych Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology dementia Source Type: blogs
Pros and Cons of Screening Tools for Assessing Dementia
Working with older adults as a speech-language pathologist for a rehab company, I often assess patients on their cognitive function. I will deal more in-depth on how and why determining cognitive function helps guide my treatment strategies in an upcoming post. For this first article, however, I wanted to discuss the first steps.
The first step I take in determining a person’s cognitive status involves using a standardized evaluation. I like three tests: the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) exam.
Quick, easy to use, and readily a...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Bonnie Slavych Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology dementia Source Type: blogs
Pros and Cons of Various Screening Tools for Dementia
Working with older adults as a speech-language pathologist for a rehab company, I often assess patients on their cognitive function. I will deal more in-depth on how and why determining cognitive function helps guide my treatment strategies in an upcoming post. For this first article, however, I wanted to discuss the first steps.
The first step I take in determining a person’s cognitive status involves using a standardized screening tool. I like three tests: the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) exam.
Quick, easy to use, and readi...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Bonnie Slavych Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology dementia Source Type: blogs
Options to Opioids: How to Manage Chronic Pain Without Prescribing Pain-Killers
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While there is considerable debate as to how much blame doctors should be assigned for the ongoing opioid crisis, there is little doubt they can do something to curtail it -- that instead of prescribing drugs that have been found to be highly addictive they can resort to alternate forms of pain management.
Doctors’ prescription of powerful painkillers like OxyContin is frequentl...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DrStanleyMatthew Tags: health and fitness addiction health and wellness opioids self improvement Source Type: blogs
Heart & Dart, Agrotis exclamationis
Just added another new moth species to the mothematical list, the Heart & Dart (Agrotis exclamationis). Here’s a focus-stacked shot looking down on the moth so you can see its “darts” and its “hearts”.
Heart & Dart (Agrotis exclamationis)
Here’s a face-on closeup, also focus stacked using digiCamControl to capture a sequence of six photos at different focus positions, front to back, and then aligning and stacking together with CombineZP. The stacking has not worked brilliantly in this shot, the antennae have artefacts, but at least you can see this species’ distinctive blac...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 8, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Light Emerald, Campaea margaritaria
Another one of those insects almost everyone else thinks of as grey or brown…just look at that pure greeeen.
Light Emerald (Campaea margaritaria). This is a geometer moth, which means its larvae “measure the earth”, they’re inchworms, in other words. Although I think it’s time they went metric AND they’re not worms…they’re larvae (moth caterpillars).
Although this moth is pretty much flat, I took three photos of it at different focus depths and then aligned and stacked them together (using digiCamControl and CombineZP, mentioned as my current free tools of choice for focus s...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 8, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Moths Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
It's Greek to me
My alma materhas suspended fraternity activity because of some leaked documents that show members of one -- Phi Psi -- celebrating blackout drinking and insulting women, racial and gender minorities and joking about sexual assault. Coincidentally, I had lunch with my mother on Sunday, who is also an alum, and we talked about Swarthmore College fraternities. There are only two, and there are no sororities.When I was there, I had friends who were members of the other frat, Phi Delta Theta, and I went to some parties there -- I got invited because I was on the wrestling team -- but I had no interest in membership. PDT was act...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 30, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The heart and science of kindness
Kindness (noun): the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate; a kind act.
— English Oxford Living Dictionaries
Ombudspeople like myself have a unique view of the institutions they serve. Some of us fondly refer to it as the “view from the underbelly” of our organizations. The urgent calls we get aren’t to share a recent act of kindness. Visitors who arrive at our offices often do so feeling under siege from less than kindly forces. We hear repeatedly of our visitors’ desire to be treated with kindness, and of the wish that they could themselves rise above unkindness to be their best kind selves. Here...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Melissa Brodrick, MEd Tags: Mental Health Relationships Stress Workplace health Source Type: blogs
A practical guide to the Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean diet has received much attention as a healthy way to eat, and with good reason. The Mediterranean diet has been shown to reduce risk of heart disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, certain cancers, depression, and in older adults, a decreased risk of frailty, along with better mental and physical function. In January, US News and World Report named it the “best diet overall” for the second year running.
What is the Mediterranean diet?
The traditional Mediterranean diet is based on foods available in countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. The foundation for this healthy diet includes
an abundanc...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
How To Go Beyond The Airline Medical Kit To Keep Passengers Healthy In The Future?
Humanity has come a long way from treating patients who have fallen off cliffs after having tried to fly, dressed like birds: parallel to the development of flying, the practice of how to keep people alive during flights has also greatly evolved. How can digital health add to the practice of aviation medicine in the future and make sure that passengers step off the plane as healthy as they got in?
From Icarus through hot air balloons to mid-air
meditation
The human desire to conquer the sky is a
thousand-year-old story, with tales such as the Greek myth about Daedalus and
Icarus. The duo wanted to escape from Crete,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 21, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers aero aeronautics aviation emergency emergency medicine flight flight medicine Healthcare portable portable diagnostics predictive prevention technology wearables Source Type: blogs
Opinion | Is Pain a Sensation or an Emotion? - The New York Times
The United States uses a third of the world's opioids but a fifth of Americans still say they suffer from chronic pain. The only demonstrable effect of two decades of widespread prescription of opioids has been catastrophic harm. With more than 47,000 Americans dying of opioid overdoses in 2017 and hundreds of thousandsmore addicted to them, it was recently reported that, for the first time, Americans were more likely to die of opioids than of car accidents.This has forced many to take a step back and ponder the very nature of pain, to understand how best to alleviate it.The ancient Greeks considered pain a passion —...
Source: Psychology of Pain - March 18, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Bodily Fluids As The Basis For Digital Health
Blood, saliva, urine, sweat or even ear wax can carry valuable information about an individual’s medical state. Until now, even simpler tests on such bodily fluids had to be carried out at medical facilities, but with the recent uptick in the development of digital diagnostic technologies, more and more solutions appear on the market which enable the patient to do such tests at home. Here we take a look around the bodily fluid business.
From bloodletting to digital sweat measurement
Blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm. Although it
doesn’t sound appealing, the ancient Greek already thought that bodily fluids ma...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 27, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Diagnostics blood bodily fluid digital digital health digital solutions digital tattoo saliva smart smart healthcare sweat technology urine Source Type: blogs
Podcast: What is Schadenfreude?
We’ve all experienced it – that feeling of smug happiness at another person’s misfortune. From someone slipping on a banana peel to a jerk receiving a dose of instant karma, there’s something satisfying about this strange emotion. Why is that? Are we living in an “Age of Schadenfreude”? Should we feel guilty about feeling it? And for crying out loud, how do we say it in English? Listen in to find out!
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Source: World of Psychology - February 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Happiness Psychology The Psych Central Show Emotion Gabe Howard schadenfreude Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
What is the Rhythm?
-----------------------------------------------------------Presentation by KEN GRAUER, MD (1/31/2019):-----------------------------------------------------------The Case: A previously healthy 23-year old male presents to the ED for shortness of breath and chest pressure that occurred ~3 hours earlier. He was at a track meet cheering, when he suddenly felt his heart “skip a beat”, and then begin “racing”. He felt “lightheaded” (presyncopal) during the episode — with the “strong sensation of his heart beating”. He did not feel better until ~45 minutes later. Similar episodes had occ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 31, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
