The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics
Anna C. Mastroianni (University of Washington), Jeffrey P. Kahn (Johns Hopkins University) Nancy Kass (Johns Hopkins University), The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics, The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics (2019): Public health is fundamentally concerned with promoting the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 20, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Nanoparticles for Large Gene Therapy to Cure Common Eye Diseases
Wet age-related macular degeneration and a number of other eye diseases, including congenital conditions, are related to mutated genes that result in blood vessel abnormalities. These can be treated with gene therapy, but delivering genetic material has proven to be difficult when dealing with large gene sequences that are common in retinal conditions.
Viruses have been the go-to vectors for delivering genes into the eye, but the immune system wants to fight them. Too often this results in poor efficacy on follow-up treatments. Moreover, they are not good at carrying large genetic payloads and there’s also a risk ...
Source: Medgadget - July 9, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Genetics Nanomedicine Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
The Impact of COVID-19 on The Medical Device Industry
As of early May 2020, over 4.7 million people have been confirmed to be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus[1], and governments are scrambling to contain its spread. The high R0 value (a measure of contagiousness- estimated to be between 2.0 and 3.02) of SARS-CoV-2 means that those infected copiously spread the virus and develop complications suddenly. As a result, health care systems are overwhelmed, and the effective delivery of medical care to all patients has become a challenge worldwide. Insufficient attention to early warning signs, inadequate stockpiling, lack of access to testing kits and personal protective e...
Source: Medgadget - June 15, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Kolabtree Tags: Public Health Society Sponsored Content Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting – How Stigma is Everywhere
What is stigma? And how does it affect a person’s mental health and quality of life? In today’s Psych Central Podcast, Gabe talks with anthropologists Alex Brewis and Amber Wutich about the deeply dehumanizing impact of stigma in society. Whether it’s your mental health diagnosis, your neighborhood, your race or your inability to meet society’s standards in some way, stigma is alive and well in today’s world. People even tend to stigmatize themselves, intensifying their suffering.
Why are people so quick to stigmatize? And how does stigma affect mental health treatment? Tune into the show for an in-depth look ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Interview Mental Health and Wellness Podcast Psychology The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
New radiation therapies keep advanced prostate cancer in check
Treatments for prostate cancer are always evolving, and now research is pointing to new ways of treating a cancer that has just begun to spread, or metastasize, after initial surgery or radiation. Doctors usually give hormonal therapies in these cases to block testosterone, which is a hormone that makes the cancer grow faster. But newer evidence shows that treating the metastatic tumors directly with radiation can produce better results.
In March, researchers published the latest study that supports this approach. Based at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, the team used a method for delivering power...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Living With Prostate Cancer Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs
The COVID-19 Data We Have May Not Be The Data We Need
Alan ReynoldsCOVID-19 statistics that are easiest for reporters to find and explain are often the ones we keep hearing about in daily news reports. A perennial favorite is theJohn Hopkins University graphical database which is constantly updated to add up the cumulative number of “confirmed” cases, deaths and recoveries since January 21 for separate countries and the world.To switch the focus from these familiar multi ‐month totals to what is happening now, however, I built this simple graph of daily new deaths and daily new confirmed cases. It does suggest recent flattening, though professional optimism abou...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Newsfeed: Ethics in the Time of Corona(virus)
Healthcare and Public Health Johns Hopkins University & Medicine: The Unequal Cost of Social Distancing“Right now, we must recognize that we cannot expect the most marginalized among us to bear the greatest costs of social distancing for weeks or months on end. If we devise policy based on the assumption that families who cannot put […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 7, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Ethics and Society Tags: Education Environmental Ethics Health Care Health Disparities Privacy Public Health abortion bioethics climate change Climate Ethics coronavirus COVID-19 Criminal justice Discrimination epidemic global warming immigrants Source Type: blogs
When and How Will COVID-19 End?
If you’re staying shut in your home, anxious about when you will finally be able to take a stroll outside or whether you or someone close to you will be infected by the novel coronavirus, you are not the only one. In the U.S. alone, half of the adults report high levels of anxiety due to the COVID-19, according to the American Psychiatric Association. The ongoing pandemic is exerting the whole world both physically and mentally. One thing is sure to be asked by everyone: when will all this be over?
Some think that things will never get back to normal. Acclaimed sci-fi writer Ted Chiang says that “we don’t wa...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 7, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine digital technology digital health tech digital health technologies coronavirus covid covid19 Source Type: blogs
Ophthalmology in the era of COVID-19
We are in the midst of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The numbers are scary and changing by the day and hour. Johns Hopkins University has a real-time dashboard where you can monitor global cases. Cases in China have leveled off, while elsewhere in the world, cases are on the rise. At the time of this […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 4, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/brian-c-joondeph" rel="tag" > Brian C. Joondeph, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Digital Health Apps to Use During the COVID-19 Quarantine
While most of us are experiencing our very first pandemic, we are simultaneously living in an ongoing “infodemic”. The latter refers to the widespread misinformation circulating on the web around the novel coronavirus, especially on social media. We saw the likes of reports claiming the COVID-19 being part of a biological weapons program (debunked, as the natural origins of the virus have been proven) or even more, let’s say, creative ones suggesting 5G networks cause the infection (it goes without saying that there’s no relation whatsoever).
Despite those misconceptions and hoax stories, there are a lot of help...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 2, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine digital health digital technology apps applications coronavirus covid Source Type: blogs
Heroism is a process for physicians
Was everyone in medical school as young, innocent, and wildly stupid as we were? The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine required superlatives: most, best, fastest… dumbest? Before each test, my friend Frank and I would scroll through our mental Rolodexes of“What are our other options?” (As opposed to being stuck inside with […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/giannina-l-garces-ambrossi-muncey" rel="tag" > Giannina L. Garces-Ambrossi Muncey, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Don ’ t Let Coronavirus Impact Your Mental Health
It’s often said that fear is the most dangerous virus on the planet. While a relatively small percentage of people will contract the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, the fear it provokes will chip away at the mental health of nearly everyone who hears about it. So why does COVID-19 inspire so much fear when there are other diseases lurking in the shadows? And what can we do about it? In today’s podcast, our guest Dr. David Batman, a registered medical practitioner in the U.K., discusses how this high level of unprecedented global panic is being intensified by the non-stop media, and specifically, social media.
Tune i...
Source: World of Psychology - March 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Anxiety and Panic General Health-related Interview Podcast The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
seeBOOST Electronic Glasses Improve Central Vision: Interview with CEO Patrick Antaki
Central vision loss is a devastating complication of diseases such as diabetes and macular degeneration. Because central vision is responsible for visual acuity, loss of it can severely affect one’s independence and overall interaction with the world.
seeBOOST is a pair of prescription glasses that improve central vision. The device consists of prescription eyeglasses with a lightweight electronic screen mounted onto one lens. The screen displays a magnified and bright video image of the world. The device has automatic contrast enhancement and adjustable magnification from 1.4-8.0x, and the monocular design means ...
Source: Medgadget - March 25, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Exclusive Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 21 March, 2020.
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://healthitanalytics.com/news/johns-hopkins-develops-real-time-data-dashboard-to-track-coronavirusJohns Hopkins Develops Real-Time Data Dashboard to Track CoronavirusThe interactive dashboard tracks reported cases of coronavirus using real-time data, enabling researchers and the public to monitor the outbreak as it unfolds.By Jessica KentMarch 11, 2020 -&nbs...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 20, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Bioethics Toolkit Resources for COVID-19
Bioethics.net and the American Journal of Bioethics have assembled a bioethics toolkit for people dealing with COVID-19.
We have a collection of important blogs from around the internet that you can find here. We also highly recommending our growing catalog of our original blog posts by leading scholars writing on bioethics in pandemics.
The Hastings Center has assembled a number of reports and resources.
For the best scientific information:
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
World Health Organization
Johns Hopkins University Global Case Counter
For ethical Guidelines for Responding to Crisis:
Illinois Ethics ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 19, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Featured Posts Public Health Uncategorized #diaryofaplagueyear COVID-19 pandemic Source Type: blogs
