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Trial By Error: #MEAction ’ s Jaime Seltzer on Recent NIH Gathering
By David Tuller, DrPH Last Tuesday and Wednesday (December 12th and 13th), the US National Institutes of Health–and, specifically, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases–held a two-day meeting called “Advancing ME/CFS Research: Identifying Targets for Intervention and Learning from Long COVID.” In 2019, I’d physically attended a similar NIH gathering; this time, I … Trial By Error: #MEAction’s Jaime Seltzer on Recent NIH Gathering Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - December 18, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized NIH Source Type: blogs

The arrogance of expertise
Here is a thoughtful essay by NYT reporter Ed Yong. (Free Gift link! [as opposed to a not free gift]) It ' s long, but worth it. Yong was assigned the Long Covid beat and he found -- as I already knew -- that people who tell their doctors about long-term fatigue, pain, and cognitive difficulties, for which the physicians could find no specific biophysical explanation, commonly found their complaints dismissed or even ridiculed:Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force it is often misconstrued as. It is instead a human endeavor, relentlessly buffeted by our culture, values an...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 11, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

What Is the Immune System?
A computer-generated image of the rotavirus, a virus that commonly causes illness in children through inflammation of the stomach and intestines. Credit: Bridget Carragher, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. What do antibodies, mucus, and stomach acid have in common? They’re all parts of the immune system! The immune system is a trained army of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to block, detect, and eliminate harmful insults to your body. It can protect you from invaders like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Innate and Adaptive The immune system is often thought of as two...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Common questions Immunology Miniseries Infectious Diseases Microbes Source Type: blogs

Aranscia Acquires YouScript from Invitae
Aranscia, a global provider of diagnostics software, services, and testing solutions, and Invitae Corporation, a leading medical genetics company, today announced that Aranscia has acquired select assets of the YouScript personalized medication management platform from Invitae Corporation in an all-cash transaction. YouScript is a widely recognized leader in providing actionable, real-time medication risk and pharmacogenomics (PGx) insights that enable healthcare providers and organizations to build, deliver, and scale comprehensive personalized medication management programs. YouScript’s foundational peer-reviewed resea...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2bPrecise AccessDX Laboratory Aranscia Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Invitae Corporation Joe Spinelli Kristine Ashcraft SinguLab YouScript Source Type: blogs

Coping with grief in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Natalya Beneschott, a pediatric infectious disease fellow, as she shares her personal experience and insights on coping with the lasting impact of a patient’s death, the challenges medical professionals face in processing grief, and the importance of creating a supportive environment for health Read more… Coping with grief in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 5, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

World AIDS Day 2023: Remember and commit
December 1, 2023, marks the 35th anniversary of World AIDS Day (WAD), first commemorated in 1988. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Remember and commit,” a truly impactful theme because through remembrance, we acknowledge those who have lost their lives and those who have inspired us to get to where we are. We acknowledge Read more… World AIDS Day 2023: Remember and commit originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Navigating COVID: Why it still matters
This article is sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc. In this special sponsored episode from Gilead, I’m joined by Anu Osinusi, an infectious disease physician and Vice President of Clinical Research for Hepatitis, Respiratory, and Emerging Viruses at Gilead, to discuss navigating COVID-19 today. We look back on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and Read more… Navigating COVID: Why it still matters originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors:
Decades ago, I missed my college graduation ceremony with President Clinton as the commencement speaker because I had to be elsewhere. I was in Shanghai, celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Chinese Medical Association—an organization founded by my great-grandfather, Wu Lien-teh, who was the first Chinese person to be nominated for a Nobel Prize. My Read more… Dependent on the mask my great-grandfather invented originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Breaking Doctrinal Silos between Environmental Law, Disability Law, and Torts to Stop the Spread of Infectious Disease Through Contaminated Indoor Air
Jennifer Bard (University of Cincinnati), Breaking Doctrinal Silos between Environmental Law, Disability Law, and Torts to Stop the Spread of Infectious Disease Through Contaminated Indoor Air, J. Env ’t L.& Litig. (forthcoming 2023): " We accept respiratory diseases right now, like... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 24, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

What Is Antibiotic Resistance?
Antibiotic resistance is a risk for patients undergoing joint replacement surgery, for example, when the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus group together (blue) and attach to the surface of the implant (green). Credit: Tripti Thapa Gupta, Khushi Patel, and Paul Stoodley, The Ohio State University; Alex Horswill, University of Colorado School of Medicine. Bacteria can cause many common illnesses, including strep throat and ear infections. If you’ve ever gone to the doctor for one of these infections, they likely prescribed an antibiotic—a medicine designed to fight bacteria. Because bacteria can also cause life-threateni...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Injury and Illness Bacteria Common questions Drug Resistance Infectious Diseases Medicines Source Type: blogs

Putting people in boxes
I just finished readingThe Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Meghan O ' Rourke. She lived for many years with a debilitating illness that went undiagnosed. She ultimately concluded that she had chronic sequelae of Lyme disease, likely complicated by autoimmune and other manifestations that may have been triggered by Lyme disease or possibly just co-occurring coincidentally. In her desperation to find relief, or at least answers, she saw innumerable physicians and other practitioners, ultimately resorting to people with, shall we say, unorthodox ideas who many people -- I included -- would classify as quack...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

A life-changing illness started with a popcorn kernel and just-in-case treatment
My decade-long struggle began with a tiny piece of popcorn hull stuck under my gum, which led to a visit to the dentist and an antibiotic, prescribed just in case that persistent irritation behind a tooth was an infection. The antibiotic, clindamycin, cleared my gut of healthy microbes to make way for a dangerous outbreak Read more… A life-changing illness started with a popcorn kernel and just-in-case treatment originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

The Djokovic saga: Vaccination policies revisited
No matter your politics or judgment on the COVID-19 vaccine, we can agree that the visuals of the world’s number one tennis player being detained and treated like a criminal when he went to the Australian Open last year were unsettling, and the Australian government should have better handled his case. To recap, Mr. Djokovic Read more… The Djokovic saga: Vaccination policies revisited originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Turning adversity into hope: my path to a career in medicine
I have wanted to work in medicine ever since my eleven-year-old cousin passed out during my uncle’s birthday party. He suddenly fainted when we were supposed to cut the cake. We rushed to the emergency room. Doctors diagnosed him with blood cancer after a couple of months, which was too late for him to survive. Read more… Turning adversity into hope: my path to a career in medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

When mandates fail to protect, science can help
On October 28, 1918, a San Francisco horseshoer named James Wisser urged a street corner crowd to throw away their masks in defiance of a local mask mandate issued a few days before. He was shot twice after resisting a local health inspector’s attempt to force compliance. At that time, most of the medical community Read more… When mandates fail to protect, science can help originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs