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The Migrant Caravan, Central America, and Vaccination Rates
Many commentators have recentlywritten andsaid that members of the migrant caravan and Central American immigrants in general are diseased. Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent David Ward claimed that the migrants are “coming in with diseases such as smallpox,” a disease that the World Health Organization (WHO) certified as beingeradicated in 1980. One hopes Mr. Ward was more careful in enforcing American immigration law than in spreading rumors that migrants are carrying one of the deadliest diseases in human history nearly 40 years after it was eradicated from the human population. But even on oth...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 1, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs

TWiV 513: Double-stranded in Belgium
From the 13th International Symposium on dsRNA viruses in Belgium, Vincent speaks with Harry Greenberg about his career and his work on rotaviruses, noroviruses, hepatitis B virus, and influenza virus. <span data-mc...
Source: virology blog - September 30, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology gastroenteritis Harry Greenberg hepatitis b virus norovirus rotavirus vaccine viral viruses Source Type: blogs

Rwanda and the Dreamers of Digital Health in Africa: Wakanda Is Real
Rwandans in remote villages are using an artificial intelligence-based algorithm on their mobile phones to get a diagnosis for their health problems, doctors in Kigali consult their colleagues in the Western Province about radiology cases through telemedicine, blood is delivered by Zipline’s medical drones, and a central electronic health records system ensures data is collected about health activities. Rwanda is a pioneer in digital health in Africa – a real Afrofuturistic embodiment of Black Panther‘s Wakanda. Let’s see how and why that happened. Wakanda gets real in Rwanda Black Panther’s Wakanda...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 29, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Africa AI artificial intelligence chatbot development digital health drones government medical drone mobile app mobile health regulation rwanda smartphone telemedicine Source Type: blogs

MKSAP: 30-year-old woman with HIV infection
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 30-year-old woman is evaluated in follow-up after being recently diagnosed with HIV infection. She is asymptomatic. Medical history is unremarkable, and she takes no medications; she has not yet started antiretroviral therapy. She received all scheduled childhood immunizations. On physical examination, vital signs are normal. She has shotty cervical lymphadenopathy, but the examination is otherwise unremarkable. Laboratory studies: Absolute CD4 cell count 461/µL HIV viral load 44,874 copies/mL Hepatiti...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Americans Fighting the Opioid Crisis in Their Own Backyards
Credit: New York Times article, Jan. 19, 2016. The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. The rates of opioid addiction, babies born addicted to opioids, and overdoses have skyrocketed in the past decade. No population has been hit harder than rural communities. Many of these communities are in states with historically low levels of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIGMS’ Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program builds research capacities in these states by supporting basic, clinical, and translational research, as well as faculty development and infrastructure improveme...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 1, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Chris Palmer Tags: Pharmacology Medicines Opioids Pain Source Type: blogs

What's new in midwifery - 4th July 2018
This report, commissioned by the National Childbirth Trust, explores the implications of extending the current six-week health check for babies to include a consultation about the wellbeing of the mother. It concludes that an additional health check with GPs would provide an important opportunity to help women whose difficulties were missed during pregnancy.Bulletin of the WHOInvolving male partners in maternity care in Burkina Faso: a randomized controlled trial Long-term impact of infant immunization on hepatitis B prevalence: a systematic review and meta-analysisWith grateful thanks to:Embed Health Consortium...
Source: Browsing - July 4, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs

TWiEVO 31: Virus archaeology, or when the human genome is the junk
Nels and Vincent present ancient hepatitis B virus genome sequences from Bronze Age to Medieval period human remains. &lt;span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; ov...
Source: virology blog - May 19, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Evolution ancient dna ancient viral genome Bronze Age hepatitis b virus Medieval period virology virus archaeology Source Type: blogs

MKSAP: 28-year-old man with lower-extremity edema
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 28-year-old man is evaluated for a 2-month history of progressive lower-extremity edema, weight loss, and fatigue. Medical history is significant for recreational use of inhaled cocaine; he denies injection drug use. He has no other known medical issues and takes no medications. On physical examination, temperature is 37.2 °C (99.0 °F), blood pressure is 130/90 mm Hg, pulse rate is 90/min, and respiration rate is 20/min. BMI is 28. Temporal wasting is present. The lungs are clear. Cardiac examination is norm...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 19, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Nephrology Source Type: blogs

3 ways to help get more children immunized
Follow me on Twitter @drClaire There is much to celebrate during National Infant Immunization Week this year. More than 90% of children 19 to 35 months have received all the recommended doses of vaccines for their age against polio, measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, and hepatitis B — and more than 80% have received all the recommended protection against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, pneumococcus, and Haemophilus influenzae. But there are also reasons to be concerned. Only 72% have had all the recommended vaccines, which means one in four children is missing at least one. Even more concerning, studies show that ther...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Infectious diseases Parenting Vaccines Source Type: blogs

Precision Medicine and Public Health (from Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease)
Excerpted fromPrecision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human DiseaseDespite having the most advanced healthcare technology on the planet, life expectancy in the United States is not particularly high. Citizens from most of the European countries and the highly industrialized Asian countries enjoy longer life expectancies than the United States. According to the World Health Organization, the United States ranks 31st among nations, trailing behind Greece, Chile, and Costa Rica, and barely edging out Cuba [42]. Similar rankings are reported by the US Central Intelligence Agency [43]. These findings lead us to infer that acc...
Source: Specified Life - February 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer vaccines precision medicine prevention public health Source Type: blogs

TWiV 476: In ACOD1 we trust
Nels joins the TWiV team to talk about his work on genomic accordions in vaccinia virus, hepatitis B virus in a 439 year old mummy, and viral induction of energy synthesis by a long noncoding RNA. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - January 14, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology ATP carbon source fatty acids genomic accordion glutamine HBV hepatitis b virus lncRNA long noncoding RNA malate-aspartate shuttle metabolism mummy Oxford nanopore sequencing TCA cycle vaccinia virus v Source Type: blogs

A virus and a paradox in a 439 year old mummy
A study done in 1985 on a 16th century Italian mummy suggested that the two year old child had smallpox. Recent sequence analysis of tissues from the mummy now reveal the presence of hepatitis B virus, not smallpox virus. The sequence of the viral genome suggests that HBV entered the human population well before 1500. […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - January 11, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information ancient dna hepatitis b virus high throughput sequencing mummy mutation rate phylogenetics viral viral evolution viruses Source Type: blogs

MKSAP: 25-year-old man positive for hepatitis B surface antigen
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 25-year-old man is evaluated in follow-up after recently testing positive for hepatitis B surface antigen. He underwent testing as part of the immigration process from Somalia. Two other siblings also have hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. On physical examination, he is a young, healthy-appearing man. Vital signs are normal. No jaundice is noted, and the abdominal examination is unremarkable. Laboratory studies: Alanine aminotransferase Normal Aspartate aminotransferase Normal α-Fetoprotein Normal H...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 2, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Gastroenterology Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

TWiV 466: The Capsid Club
From Indiana University, Vincent and Kathy speak with Tuli Mukhopadhyay, John Patton, and Adam Zlotnick about their careers and their work on alphaviruses, hepatitis B virus, and rotaviruses. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 466 (40 MB .mp3, 66 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - November 5, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology alphavirus capsid Capsid Club hepatitis b virus Indiana University rotavirus viral virus assembly virus structure viruses Source Type: blogs