Telehealth Seems To Be Something Of A Hit With Docs And Patients.
A couple of surveys on Telehealth have appeared this week. First we have: GPs have embraced telehealth, survey finds RACGP survey results from July show GPs and patients are seeing the benefits of telehealth consultations – but there is room for improvement. Anastasia Tsirtsakis 06 Aug 2020 GPs who use video said they find it to be more personal, it helps them in assessing the patient, and that it aids them in undertaking a physical examination. Since telehealth was rapidly unrolled in March in response to the c oronavirus pandemic, GPs have proven their ability to adapt – as have patients.
Among mor...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 13, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Chest discomfort, Sinus Tachycardia, Q-waves, ST Elevation, and Intermittent Wide Complex Tachycardia. Activate the Cath Lab?
This ECG was texted to me with no other information:Computer Diagnosis:SINUS TACHYCARDIAINCOMPLETE RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK [90+ ms QRS DURATION,TERMINAL R IN V1/V2, 40+ ms S IN I/aVL/V4/V5/V6]LEFT ANTERIOR FASCICULAR BLOCK [QRS AXIS<= -45, QR IN I, RS IN II]ANTEROSEPTAL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION , PROBABLY RECENT [40+ ms QWAVE IN V1-V4]***ACUTE MI***What do you think? Below is my response.There is sinus tach. There is an incomplete RBBB and LAFB. There are QR-waves in aVL and V2, and a QS-wave in V3. There is ST elevation in V2 and V3, with upright T-waves in V2 and V3. There is reciprocal ST depre...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 12, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Remembering Former NIGMS Director Marvin Cassman
Credit: NIGMS.
We in the NIGMS family are deeply saddened by the loss of our former director Marvin Cassman, Ph.D., on August 6. Dr. Cassman joined NIGMS in 1975 as a health scientist administrator in what was then the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Disease Program, advancing through the ranks to become NIGMS’ deputy director, acting director, and from 1996 to 2002, director. Dr. Cassman’s tenure as director coincided with the period of NIH’s budget doubling, and he ably led NIGMS’ establishment of key initiatives that have had a worldwide impact. These included the Protein Structure Initiative, the goal of which...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 12, 2020 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: News Source Type: blogs
4 Examples Of Merging Gaming & Digital Health
Pausing to check his map, Sam confirms that he is on the right track for his next delivery, only 2 kilometres left. He takes the opportunity to quench his thirst and check if his delivery load is securely attached to his back; some contain fragile vials of medicines and digital pills susceptible to damage if handled inappropriately. After making sure of the integrity of those packages, Sam takes a final look at his surroundings. “It’s quite peaceful with nobody around,” he thinks to himself and resumes his path.
Upon arrival at his destination, his gear is disinfected before he has access to the inte...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 4, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence Augmented Reality Digital Health Research Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality fda gamification Fitbit covid19 Apple Watch WHO gaming roche MySugr Foldit A Source Type: blogs
Too Many Small Steps, Not Enough Leaps
By KIM BELLARD
I was driving home the other day, noticed all the above-ground telephone/power lines, and thought to myself: this is not the 21st century I thought I’d be living in.
When I was growing up, the 21st century was the distant future, the stuff of science fiction. We’d have flying cars, personal robots, interstellar travel, artificial food, and, of course, tricorders. There’d be computers, although not PCs. Still, we’d have been baffled by smartphones, GPS, or the Internet. We’d have been even more flummoxed by women in the workforce or #Blac...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Tech Public Health Health Age Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
MDCalc Aids COVID Clinical Decisions with Evidence-Based Scores and Tech Initiatives: Interview with Dr. Habboushe
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As physicians and healthcare workers have toiled to treat COVID-19 patients over the past few months of the pandemic, it’s been a continuous struggle and challenge to adapt clinical care methodology as we learn more about the disease pathogenesis and its consequences over time. We have not yet had to deal with a pandemic and virus in this way, and tackling this unknown, but powerful microscopic enemy has been the concerted effort of many dedicated and ingenious minds.
Of these silver-lining efforts are the clinical scores developed by MDCalc and their collaborators and contributors. There...
Source: Medgadget - July 14, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Informatics Source Type: blogs
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INCREASING EPIDEMIC FREQUENCY
There’s mounting evidence that the rates of infectious disease outbreaks have been increasing in frequency over the past few years. Perhaps even in the past two decades.
From the period of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 to the HIV/AIDS epidemic around 1981, there were only six pandemics on record. Approximately one per decade.
However, since the SARS outbreak of 2002, there has been an increased frequency of outbreaks.
The records show that SARS was quickly followed by several recurring and new outbreaks. AVIAN flu, MARBURG virus, SWINE flu, MERS, and E...
Source: GIDEON blog - July 9, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Case studies News Reviews Source Type: blogs
Ridiculing the Experts Who Just Might Save Us: Why Is This Happening?
Years ago, when I was teaching a course on nonverbal communication, I read a research report on a topic relevant to that class. It had just been published. So that day, instead of starting with the lecture I had planned, I told the students all about the new study.
It is a small thing, I know, but I was proud of myself. I thought the students would appreciate having access to the most up-to-date findings in the field.
Maybe some of them did. But one of the students was indignant, and she let me know it. The new findings contradicted what she had just read in the textbook I assigned for the course. She thought she shoul...
Source: World of Psychology - July 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. Tags: Ethics & Morality Memory and Perception Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy anti-intellectualism coronavirus COVID-19 Fox News Masks Misinformation pandemic Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 6th 2020
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Source: Fight Aging! - July 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Far Too Little Consideration is Given to the Failure of the Immune System in the Old
There is no situation so terrible that it will not be silently accepted as set in stone, only given that it has lasted for long enough to become routine. So it is with aging, and all of the pain, suffering, and death that accompanies it. The present furor surrounding COVID-19 is unusual for casting at least a little light upon the point that infectious disease largely kills older people, and in very large numbers, year in and year out. In the normal course of affairs, no-one cares until it is their turn to be old, frail, and vulnerable.
The immune system decays with age, becoming simultaneously overactive (inflammag...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 3, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 29th 2020
In conclusion, metabolomics is a promising approach for the assessment of biological age and appears complementary to established epigenetic clocks.
Sedentary Behavior Raises the Risk of Cancer Mortality
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/06/sedentary-behavior-raises-the-risk-of-cancer-mortality/
Living a sedentary lifestyle is known to be harmful to long term health, raising the risk of age-related disease and mortality. Researchers here show that a sedentary life specifically increases cancer mortality, and does so independently of other factors. This is one of many, many reasons to maintain a r...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 28, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Go-2 Spinal Stimulator Helps Return Leg Function: Interview with Jan Öhrström, Chairman of the Board, GTX Medical
GTX Medical, a medtech company with offices in The Netherlands and Switzerland, has announced that it received Breakthrough Device Designation for the Go-2 system, an implant that provides targeted epidural spinal stimulation therapy for patients with spinal cord injuries. The device aims to allow such patients to regain leg motor function and neurological control.
At present, patients with lower limb paralysis caused by traumatic spinal cord injuries have limited options in terms of regaining substantial functional recovery. The Go-2 systems aims to change this for patients with a sufficient number of remaining spinal ...
Source: Medgadget - June 25, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
Nanoparticles Containing Cyclodextrins to Sequester Cholesterol Do Well in an Atherosclerosis Animal Model
Cyclodextrins bind to cholesterol. This aspect of their biochemistry has been used by the Underdog Pharmaceuticals team to produce a cyclodextrin that binds the form of toxic oxidized cholesterol known as 7-ketocholesterol. 7-ketocholesterol builds up with age and is implicated in a range of age-related conditions, particularly atherosclerosis, as altered cholesterols cause dysfunction in the macrophage cells responsible for removing cholesterols and other lipids from blood vessel walls. The outcome is the creation of fatty lesions that narrow and weaken blood vessels in older individuals, an ultimately fatal condition. Re...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 24, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 15th 2020
In this study, we used markers to monitor the formation of SGs in Caenorhabditis elegans. We found that, in addition to acute heat stress, SG formation could also be triggered by dietary changes, such as starvation and dietary restriction (DR). We found that HSF-1 is required for the SG formation in response to acute heat shock and starvation but not DR, whereas the AMPK-eEF2K signaling is required for starvation and DR-induced SG formation but not heat shock. Moreover, our data suggest that this AMPK-eEF2K pathway-mediated SG formation is required for lifespan extension by DR, but dispensable for the longevity by reduced ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 14, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
7 Tips for Better Sleep in Children and Teens
Children,
teens, and adults all need to get enough sleep in order to perform well and
maintain good health. Kids and young adults from the ages of puberty to 22
should sleep for approximately nine hours per day, according to the Child
Mind Institute.
However, in a busy world full of academic pressure, after-school activities, time
with friends, and technology, quality sleep time often suffers.
Sleeplessness can promote anxiety and affect well-being. In fact, 70% of teens (ADAA) report experiencing anxiety before the age of 22. Not only does a lack of sleep affect a young person’s mental health, but it can also have an...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SarahDaren Tags: featured motivation psychology self improvement children mental health sleeping teens Source Type: blogs
