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Advancing American Indian and Alaska Native Health Through Research, Training, and Engagement
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations have long experienced health disparities such as higher rates of diabetes, certain cancers, and mental health conditions than those of other Americans. One contributing factor in these disparities is underrepresentation of AI/AN populations in biomedical science—as study participants, researchers, and health professionals. Unfamiliarity with health care options and opportunities, coupled with a distrust of biomedical research resulting from unethical studies in the past, have exacerbated this underrepresentation. NIGMS-supported researchers, including Native scient...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Genes Injury and Illness COVID-19 Diseases Genomics Profiles Training Source Type: blogs

November 2022: How to Kill Vampire Ticks Instantly
Yes, ticks are vampires. They need blood to progress from larva to nymph to adult and then for females to lay eggs. They can drink so much blood in one meal that they increase their weight several hundred times. Once engorged, they release their mouth attachments and fall off the host and progress to their next life stage.Ticks, depending on the species, can have up to three different hosts during a lifetime. Their complicated mouthparts—the hypostome, chelicera, and palp—allow the tick to attach and feed on animals and humans.The mouth of a tick. (Photo by the National Institutes of Health)Like most insects, ticks pro...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - October 31, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs

Why psychological explanations for long COVID are dangerous [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and their allies will rally in DC, London, and Edinburgh this September to “demand bold, urgent governmental action” for the millions of people living with ME, long COVID, and other infection-associated, chronic diseases. As researchers continue to find many Read more… Why psychological explanations for long COVID are dangerous [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 29, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

I am stupid
Conclusion: Isaac Asimov is stupid(Sorry, no post yesterday because I was doing some heavy cerebral processing.)He ' d have been the first to admit it. All of us are susceptible to cognitive errors and biases. I ' d like to think that Asimov was less susceptible than most, but he must have had his own foibles. It ' s a constant struggle to be mindful and think straight. For my own part, I once had a romanticized view of the Chinese revolution, I was an anthropogenic climate change skeptic, and I entertained the likelihood that medical intervention, on balance, did more harm than good. (Viz Illich, Medical Nemesis.)&nb...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 28, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Does Surviving The Plague Mean You Will Eventually Contract An Autoimmune Disease?
BY MIKE MAGEE This Fall, I am teaching a 4-week course on “How Epidemics Have Shaped Our World” at the President’s College at the University of Hartford. It is, of course a timely topic, but also personally unnerving as we complete a third year under the shadow of Covid-19. Where does one begin on a topic such as this? Yale historian, Frank M. Snowden, in his book “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present”, made his intentions obvious. He would begin with the plaque. Why? His answer, “The word ‘plague’ will always be synonymous with ‘terror’”, and especially references: ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Autoimmune. Disease Mike Magee Plague Source Type: blogs

Quiz: Antibiotic Resistance and Researchers Studying It
Antibiotics are a class of drugs that treat bacterial infections. They may seem common now, but they were discovered less than a century ago. In 1928, Alexander Fleming, a scientist studying bacteria, found that mold from his bread kept bacteria from growing. He determined that “mold juice” was able to kill different types of harmful bacteria, and he and his assistants worked to figure out what natural product in the mold was actually causing the killing. It turned out to be penicillin! Thanks to Fleming’s discovery, doctors have been successfully treating bacterial infections with penicillin and other newer anti...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 26, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Injury and Illness Bacteria Infectious Diseases Quiz Viruses Source Type: blogs

Coronavirus and the duty to treat
For the first time since graduation from medical school, stirred by the courage of my colleagues in the ICUs and emergency rooms during the COVID pandemic, I looked back at the Hippocratic oath to reassess its charge to physicians. My wife and I, both doctors, studied and trained for a long time, and we considered Read more… Coronavirus and the duty to treat originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 24th 2022
This study shows the uncoupling of lifespan and healthspan parameters (aerobic fitness and spontaneous activity) and provides new insights into SIRT3 function in CR adaptation, fuel utilization, and aging. HDL Level, Age, and Smoking are the Largest Determinants of Mortality Risk in Old People https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/10/hdl-level-age-and-smoking-are-the-largest-determinants-of-mortality-risk-in-old-people/ An interesting epidemiological study here stratifies the contributions of various metrics to mortality in later life, age 70 and older. The authors find that the largest effects arise...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 22nd October, 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/partnership-to-add-virtual-primary-care-feature-to-smart-tvsPartnership to Add Virtual Primary Care Feature to Smart TVsTelehealth provider HealthTap has partnered with Samsung to add a virtual healthcare feature to the tech giant ' s Smart TVs to expand access to primary care.ByMark MelchionnaOctober 14, 2022 - Aiming to ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

The Future of Treating Aging
Here find a sensible, readable paper discussing the years ahead in the treatment of aging as a medical condition. The potential to slow and reverse aspects of aging, demonstrated in animal studies in the laboratory, is now beginning to reach the clinic. A great shift in the provision of medicine, expectations for health in later life, and priorities in research and development will occur over the next few decades. Where we stand today, with senolytic drugs, the first form of rejuvenation therapy worthy of the name, in initial clinical trials, is merely the opening of a lengthy, world-changing process. The human condition w...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 18, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Clinical Research 101: Lecture 3
Now that we ' ve cleared away a bit of the underbrush, let ' s say you think that Eye of Newt Toe of Frog (Eontof) is potentially therapeutically useful against Creeping Crud (CC), and you want to test it. You face a whole lot of considerations. One is that you ' re going to need funding, which means you need to persuade somebody -- either the National Institutes of Health or a pharmaceutical company, most likely -- to invest in your idea. They ' re going to want to know that there ' s a reasonable chance of success with Eontof, and in the case of the pharmaceutical company that they can make money off of it, which brings ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 17, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Clinical Research 101: Lecture 2
 Editor ' s note: Only about 15 million people so far have gotten the new bivalent Covid booster that ' s specifically formulated against the Omega variants that are currently circulating. I got it a few days ago, Walgreen ' s was offering appointments the same day! I got the flu shot at the same time, both absolutely free. Do it!So, picking up where we left off, to determine whether an intervention is beneficial, harmful or basically useless you ordinarily need a comparison group. There are actually exceptions. You don ' t need a randomized controlled trial for parachutes when jumping out of airplanes because you alr...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 15, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Infectious Disease on a Hike – Fun Friday
Happy Friday everyone!  We hope you had a great week and accomplished many great things.  If it’s Friday, then it’s time to have a little fun in our ongoing series we call Fun Friday.  That’s right, we share something funny and entertaining to get your weekend started off right.  This week isn’t very IT focused, but if you’ve ever worked with doctors you can at least understand how unique each specialty is and this video illustrates it well. Infectious disease goes on a hike pic.twitter.com/O8bSTOThkx — Dr. Glaucomflecken (@DGlaucomflecken) October 10, 2022 I have to say. I kind of wis...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare IT @DGlaucomflecken Dr. Glaucomflecken Fun Friday Source Type: blogs

Pediatrician and pharmacist agree: Children should be vaccinated against COVID-19
With COVID-19 vaccines now widely available for children six months and older, we join pediatricians and pharmacists across the country and urge parents to vaccinate their young children against COVID-19 as soon as possible. Schools are open and more activities are moving indoors with the cooler weather, so now is the time to ensure your Read more… Pediatrician and pharmacist agree: Children should be vaccinated against COVID-19 originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 13, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

Really, really hard times
I ' m reading Epidemics and Society by Frank M. Snowden. (Plagues and People ' s, which I discussed here a long while back, was taken. That book, by William McNeill, was first published in 1076. It essentially sets out on the same endeavor, to tell the story of the impact of epidemics on history. Snowden, quite churlishly in my view, does not acknowledge it.)There ' s been a lot of hardship in various times and places in our age. World War II was the worst thing to happen in the past 100+ years, but many other much more localized disasters were really awful, for much smaller numbers of people. But the Black Death -- which ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 8, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs