Case of the Week 724
This week ' s case was generously donated by Dr. Nazia Nagi in New Delhi, India. She saw these ' cute ' little objects (around 15 micrometers long) during her rotation in the Diarrhoeal Laboratory. The patient is a young teenager with diarrhea lasting for 15-17 days. Identification?Saline wet mounts:Iodine wet mount: (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 16, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Ventra Health Expands Services Through ArcMed Acquisition
Transforming Service Delivery to Enable Further Investments in Client Engagement
Ventra Health, the leading business solutions provider for hospital-based clinicians, announced today the acquisition of ArcMed, an India-based billing and automation services organization. This acquisition will strengthen Ventra Health’s service performance and quality, optimize operational efficiencies, and provide added scale for automation and growth.
“Based on client feedback, we are transforming our client success and service delivery approach and moving several non-client-facing functions to a more cost-effective model,” said Vent...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ArcMed Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Maya Mohan Steven Huddleston Ventra Health Source Type: blogs
Podcast Episode Recommendation: Healthy Dose of Dialogue Episode 31 " A Dose of Prescription Drug Disruption "
Today, I am recommending a podcast episode worth listening to. Specifically, it is an episode from June 15, 2022 of the podcast known as " Healthy Dose of Dialogue " which describes its mission to " gather the brightest minds in healthcare to share their unique perspectives on transformative marketplace trends, industry insights, and their vision for the future " .This particular episode (EP31: " A Dose of Prescription Drug Disruption " ) is an interview with the President of CivicaScript LLC, which in case you weren ' t aware of it, is an affiliated business unit of the nonprofit drug company Civica, Inc. The president of...
Source: Scott's Web Log - August 9, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Biosimilar Civica Civica Rx CivicaRx CivicaScript insulin podcast podcast episode recommendations ypsomed Source Type: blogs
What ChatGPT Means for Virtual-First Care
The following is a guest article by Erica Jain, Co-Founder and CEO at Healthie
ChatGPT has been dominating headlines since its release in November. While the AI Chatbot has already led to some truly whimsical poetry, comedic greetings, and helpful travel suggestions, it has also started to raise questions about its application in healthcare.
ChatGPT is revolutionizing the world – and this will hit healthcare, albeit a bit slower than other industries. Healthcare is inherently conservative and resistant to change, plus liability in a care setting is a massive issue. All that being said, in the 5 to 10-year time horizo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AI Chatbot ChatGPT Digital Health Erica Jain Healthcare Chatbots Healthcare ChatGPT Healthcare Generative AI Healt Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Historical oddity
Sorry for missing regular posting recently. I was dealing with some extremely frustrating technical problems. Will get back to it. Chapter 8 departs in a few ways from what has been our understanding of the situation of the Jewish population in this historical era. Note again the complete lack of any mention of Jerusalem or Judah. The Jews appear to be dispersed throughout the Achaemenid empire, from " India to Ethiopia. " Furthermore it is possible for people to convert to Judaism everywhere in this diaspora, which is basically contrary to the law and custom in all of the previous literature, in which far from being ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 2, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 2nd August 2023 - Research
Some recent research you might like to know about. Payment, a subscription, or if you have one, a librarian, might be needed to get full text access.Acupuncture and doxylamine-pyridoxine for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy : a randomized, controlled, 2 x 2 factorial trial. Real-time imaging as visual biofeedback in active second stage of labor among nulliparas: a randomized controlled trial. The effect of virtual reality glasses applied during the episiotomy on pain and satisfaction: a single blind randomized controlled study.Efficacy of early intrauterine balloon tamponade for immediate postpartum hemorrh...
Source: Browsing - August 2, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
When Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Says Your Prescription is " Out of stock "
My followers may recall that about a year ago (on August 22, 2023), I blogged about (see https://blog.sstrumello.com/2022/08/generic-crestor-pricing-insanity.html for the post) that I had made a conscious decision to simply disintermediate my own insurance pharmacy benefit to buy an inexpensive generic statin drug because my own pharmacy benefit manager was screwing me. Currently, I ' m covered by Aetna which is now owned by CVS Health, which also owns the PBM known as Caremark. Caremark was robbing me on the statin. It was overcharging me. They were trying to charge me $33.85 for a 90-day supply of a cheap...
Source: Scott's Web Log - August 1, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 cash pharmacy cash-only pharmacy Crestor Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company rosuvastatin calcium Source Type: blogs
The 2023 Disability Data Report
Jill Hanass-Hancock (South African Medical Research Council), GVS Murthy (Indian Institute of Public Health), Michael Palmer (University of Western Australia), Monica Pinilla-Roncancio (Universidad de los Andes), The 2023 Disability Data Report, Fordham Res. Consortium on Disability (2023): The 2023 report... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 29, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Spouse behavior as a coronary risk factor ?
This is a re-blog from 2010 pages of this site.
Hope we have more updates.Spouse behaviour as significant CAD risk factor, is still a valid research concept that shall lead to more productive social “cardiac Interventions” and prevent CAD burden outside the much glamorised cathlab
Dr.S.Venkatesan MD
American journal of epidemiology in a land mark analysis has found , spouses share the same profile of coronary risk factors .This is a huge finding , considering the fact that , genetic factors are not involved here . So , it is something to do with family diet ? domestic issues, sibling effect ?
It is well-k...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - July 24, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Russia's Frontlines, India's'Power' Moves, Food Security: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on dysfunction on Russia ’ s front lines, India ’ s regional diplomacy, stopping mass shooters who seek fame, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 21, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
The Heat is On
BY KIM BELLARD
Attention must be paid: the world is now hotter than it has been in 125,000 years.
A week ago, we broke the record for average global temperature. That record was broken the next day. Later in the week it was broken yet again. Yeah, I know; weather records are broken all the time, so what’s the big deal?
Well, it is a big deal, and we should all be worried. “It’s not a record to celebrate and it won’t be a record for long,” Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, told CNN.
Bill Maguire, a professor a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Oink, oink
If you haven ' t already, please see the introduction to the Book of Esther that I posted yesterday. For Ch. 1, the main thing to keep in mind is that it is very unlikely the author intended this to be a story about the real emperor Xerxes. The Hebrew, Ahasuerus, is not the name of any actual Achaemenid emperor and we should assume that we are reading a story about a fictitious, generic emperor. That said, I would not be surprised if the real emperors, including Xerxes, were what we would consider actual sexist pigs. What we can ' t be sure of is how the author intended us to take Vashti ' s act of defiance, refusing to be...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 9, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Laws on Attempt to Suicide and Euthanasia in India
Devanshi Sharma (O.P. Jindal Global University), Laws on Attempt to Suicide and Euthanasia in India, (2022): Euthanasia and attempt to suicide have gained importance in the second half century throughout the world. There have been several cases in different countries... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 8, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Funding Opportunity: Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH)
We’re pleased to share that the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) program (PAR-23-166) has been reissued. NARCH supports federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native Tribes and Tribal colleges or universities, Tribal health programs, and Tribal organizations. The program funds health-related research, research career enhancement, and research infrastructure-enhancement activities. This NOFO is led by NIGMS with additional participating NIH institutes, centers, and offices.
A NARCH award is for up to 5 years with an annual budget of up to $1.3 million...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - July 6, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Research Capacity Building Source Type: blogs
Frailty Correlates with Cognitive Decline
The objective of this work is to determine if frailty is associated with cognitive decline among older adults from different countries. We analyzed the baseline the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), that includes six countries (Ghana, South Africa, Mexico, China, Russia, and India). A cross-sectional analysis was used to assess how frailty was related with the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) decision tree, while cognitive decline was evaluated using standardized scores of tests used in SAGE.
A total of 30,674 participants aged 50 years or older were included. To the best of our knowledge this is the fir...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 28, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
