We Need to Align With What ’ s Coming Next
We’ve seen a lot of changes in the world this week due to the coronavirus situation. I think what many people don’t yet realize is that the rate of change isn’t going to be linear. It’s going to accelerate.
Despite all the changes you’ve seen this week, next week’s changes will be bigger still… and the changes coming the week after that will be even bigger. So if your head is spinning now, it will spin twice as hard next week.
In the USA I see people making some adaptations, but they seem to be mentally making minimalist ones. By this I mean that they’re taking in what ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Values Source Type: blogs
The sociology of homicide
It is certainly true that at present, the rate of violent offending is considerably higher among African-Americans in the U.S. than it is among white non-Hispanics. The rate among Latinos is somewhat higher but not nearly as much.(However, the disparity is not as great as your teevee would have you believe. Also here.)This observation, however, is specific to time and place. As Darnell Hawkins wrote in Health Affairs some year back (Winter, 1993):In the United States the social scientific efforts to provide " causes " forantisocial conduct, including violence, were first found in studies of whiteethnic groups r...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 5, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Reducing Mental Effort – Part 2
We continue the series on reducing mental effort.
Distracting thoughts are a major source of wasted mental energy, so in this part we’ll cover a few ways to reduce internal distractions.
Empty your head
One reason we dwell on certain thoughts is that we’re trying to remember certain to-dos, ideas, and items that require deeper consideration. Refreshing these items in our minds sucks up extra neural energy and doesn’t necessarily move much towards completion.
If your brain is using its working memory to continually bring up distracting thoughts, you can often free up extra processing power by a...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Source Type: blogs
House sparrow nicknames
Do you have a local word for Passer domesticus, the House Sparrow? Where I grew up in the North East of England we called them Spuggies, I hear from a Shropshire lad that it’s a common nickname for this species in that part of the country too. They’re sometimes called spugs in Northern England too. In the South P. domesticus is known as a sparr, sparrer (or Cockney sparrar), spadger (Northern Ireland too), spadgick, and phip or philip. That latter is a bit weird.
In Scotland they’re often known as a spur or sprig (also Spriggies after a Mr Sprigg, apparently). One contact on twitter (hah!) said that his f...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 3, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
4 Life-changing Ways to Overcome Depression
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Depression
can affect anyone, at any given time or age. It is generally a disorder that
causes one to experience excessive sadness, loss of interest in once enjoyable
activities, and a lack of motivation. Commonly, sorrow or despair results from
a loss, significant life change, stress, disappointments, and so on. Although
these feelings may seem ‘normal,’ you cannot just snap out of them. For
starters, it’s i...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - February 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Harry Hogan Tags: depression featured self-improvement mental health pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
The Step 1 Score Reporting Change – A Step in the Right Direction for IMGs?
By TALAL HILAL, MD
The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step
1, a test co-sponsored by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the
National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), has been the exam that people love
to hate. For many years, blogs, Twitter feeds, and opinion pieces have been
accumulating urging the presidents of the FSMB/NBME to stop reporting a 3-digit
score and instead report a pass/fail score. This animosity towards the Step 1
exam originates from the reality that medical schools have increasingly focused
their curriculum on teaching what the Step 1 wants you to learn – medica...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Education Medical Practice Physicians FSMB IMGs international medical graduates Match NBME Residency Step 1 Step 1 Madness Talal Hilal USMLE USMLE Step 1 Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 18th December 2019
Some recent things you might want to know about...Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity (MBRRACE-UK)Saving lives, improving mothers ’ care: lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2015-17Read more, and link to the report, on the HQIP site. Fetal and neonatal haemochromatosisNHS EnglandClinical commissioning policy: Maternal intravenous immunoglobulin for the prevention of allo-immune fetal and neonatal haemochromatosisGlobal healthUSAID ' s Maternal and Child Survival Program is endingHypertension in pregnancyClini...
Source: Browsing - December 18, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network annual report 2019: summary report
Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) - This is the sixteenth annual PICANet clinical audit report summarising paediatric critical care that took place in the United Kingdom (UK) and Republic of Ireland (ROI) between 2016 and 2018. PICANet continues to provide key information to monitor the quality of care and clinical outcomes in relation to agreed standards, and inform national policy in paediatric critical care.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 15, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP): 2019 annual report on 2018 data
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health - This is the sixteenth annual PICANet clinical audit report summarising paediatric critical care that took place in the United Kingdom (UK) and Republic of Ireland (ROI) between 2016 and 2018. PICANet continues to provide key information to monitor the quality of care and clinical outcomes in relation to agreed standards, and inform national policy in paediatric critical care.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 15, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Saving lives, improving mothers ’ care: lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2015-17
MBRRACE-UK - This is the sixth annual report produced for the Maternal, Newborn and Infant Clinical Outcome Review Programme, run by the MBRRACE-UK collaboration. The authors analysed 2.3m pregnancies from 2015-2017 in the UK and Ireland. During that three year period, 209 women in the UK and Ireland died during their pregnancies or up to six weeks afterwards from pregnancy-related causes. This is equivalent to just over nine women per 100,000. The leading cause of maternal deaths in the UK is still cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks, heart failure and heart rhythm problems, and there has been no reducti...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 15, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
December 5 –6th in Dublin: 2nd European Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Symposium
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Just a heads-up about a great event later this week in Dublin, Ireland, for those working on virtual and augmented reality and healthcare innovation.
When: Thu Dec 5, 2019 8:00 am — Fri Dec 6, 2019 5:00 pm.
Where: Davenport Hotel
Featured sessions include:
Day 1 – Thursday, December 5th, 2019
9:00am‑9:30am
Introductions, Welcome and Setting The Stage
Robert Fine, Executive Director, International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association (IVRHA)
9:30am-10:30am
Keynote Presentation: Virtual Reality and Healthcare: The Past, The Present and The Future
Dr. Walter Greenleaf, B...
Source: SharpBrains - December 3, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Technology augmented reality Dublin healthcare healthcare innovation virtual-reality Source Type: blogs
The Psychological Impacts Of Poverty, Digested
This study, of 4,758 11-year-olds living in urban areas of England, found that children who lived in greener neighbourhoods performed better on tests of spatial working memory (an effect that held for both deprived and non-deprived neighbourhoods). “Our findings suggest a positive role of greenspace in cognitive functioning,” commented researcher Eirini Flouri at University College London. What might this role be? Perhaps because it’s restful for the brain, and restores the ability to concentrate.
Interventions that focus on the families of kids growing up in poverty should also help. The team that observed t...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Feature Mental health Money Source Type: blogs
Elsevier Acquires 3D4Medical, Creator of World-leading 3D Anatomy Technology
Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, and part of RELX, has acquired 3D4Medical, the global anatomy education company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. 3D4Medical created Complete Anatomy, the world’s most advanced 3D anatomy platform, revolutionizing how students, educators, health professionals and patients understand and interact with anatomy. With outstanding technology and design […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 27, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 3D Anatomy 3D4Medical Elsevier Health IT Acquisition Healthcare Education Healthcare Training Jan Herzhoff John Moore RELX Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly Irish Cream for Thanksgiving
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 26, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes grain-free low-carb wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly Irish Cream
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 26, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes grain-free low-carb wheat belly Source Type: blogs
