Kenya ’s COVID-19 Policy Responses Furthering Inequality
Leo Kipkogei Kemboi, Kenya ’s COVID-19 Policy Responses Furthering Inequality, SSRN: The government response in appropriating more resources, public health responses, social protection measures and virtual learning in Education have excluded persons at different levels. Failure of government to respond appropriately... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 24, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Deliberately Infecting Healthy Volunteers with Malaria Parasites: Perceptions and Experiences of Participants and Other Stakeholders in a Kenyan ‐Based Malaria Infection Study
Irene Jao, Vicki Marsh, Primus Che Chi, Melissa Kapulu, Mainga Hamaluba, Sassy Molyneux (University of Oxford), Philip Bejon, Dorcas Kamuya, Deliberately Infecting Healthy Volunteers with Malaria Parasites: Perceptions and Experiences of Participants and Other Stakeholders in a Kenyan ‐Based Malaria Infection... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 15, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Alice in Nutcaseland
People have always been subject to elaborate false belief systems, from believing the Oracle at Delphi to the resurrection of Jesus to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It ' s nothing new. All three of the above, have done a lot of harm, along with countless other hoaxes.* But are we in a particularly deranged period of history? The big difference from the past, or at least we thought so up until recently, is that we had the Scientific Revolution and developed rules of evidence, along with the technological means to evaluate reality and the communicative infrastructure to converge on a consensus about what is...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What infectious diseases are due to be eradicated next?
Although Medical Science aims to eradicate Infectious Diseases in order to protect life and reduce the healthcare burden, it has only been able to achieve that goal against two diseases to date. While this remains a difficult task, there is a genuine possibility that additional diseases will be eliminated in the near future! Let’s explore the diseases that have been consigned to history…and those that are set to join them soon.
Smallpox: declared eradicated in 1980
Following a concentrated global effort spanning more than 20 years, Smallpox became the first infectious disease to be eradicated by mankind. S...
Source: GIDEON blog - December 23, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
Deliberately Infecting Healthy Volunteers with Malaria Parasites: Perceptions and Experiences of Participants and Other Stakeholders in a Kenyan ‐Based Malaria Infection Study
Irene Jao, Vicki Marsh, Primus Che Chi, Melissa Kapulu, Mainga Hamaluba, Sassy Molyneux (University of Oxford), Philip Bejon, Dorcas Kamuya, Deliberately Infecting Healthy Volunteers with Malaria Parasites: Perceptions and Experiences of Participants and Other Stakeholders in a Kenyan ‐Based Malaria Infection... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 19, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Rabies – a dumb disease
Dog vaccination programs are the most effective way to prevent Rabies
Rabies is endemic to over 150 countries, and according to the World Health Organization, 99% of all transmissions to humans are from dogs, potentially bringing into question the animal’s status as the ‘man’s best friend’.
In Europe, southern Africa, and parts of North America, most cases are acquired from wild carnivores; mongooses, and vampire bats in Latin America and the Caribbean. In more recent years, humans have acquired rabies from inhalation of aerosols in bat caves, ingestion of dogs and cats for food, ticks, cart-scratches...
Source: GIDEON blog - September 28, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
Smartphone Video Otoscope To The Rescue: The HearScope Review
Did you know the smallest bones in your body have a super important function? One which you use constantly? The ossicles are just a few millimetres in size, but they help you hear in every second of the day – even when you’re sleeping!
Your hearing outer-, middle- and inner ear is a delicate, special system. Examining it requires special skills and a lengthy training. Creating the opportunity to safely observe some parts of this system by non-medical personnel is empowering. This offers a possibility for long distance consultation and telemedicine as well.
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Is the future of ENT here?
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Source: The Medical Futurist - September 22, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: szandra Tags: Portable Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones device medical device medical technology medical imaging A.I. otoscope hearscope otorhinolaryngology ENT hearables Source Type: blogs
Teaching As a Human Trait
What did people have to talk about when language was new? They had been getting along fine without words, and suddenly they had a few, but what was there to say?Donald M. Morrison has written a book (The Coevolution of Language, Teaching, and Civil Discourse among Humans) that proposes language got up and running as a teaching system. Speculation about teaching is common, but usually limited to teaching how to make stone tools. Opinions are mixed as to whether language was necessary to teach how to make the early tools, especially Oldowan tools. Showing without talking might well have been enough to teach how to make th...
Source: Babel's Dawn - August 17, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
Engendering Rule of Law in Health Care Delivery in Kenya
Smith Ouma (Strathmore University), Engendering Rule of Law in Health Care Delivery in Kenya, 35 Wis. Int ’l L. J. 81 (2017-2018): The healthcare sector in Kenya has been in a state of turmoil for a long time with this manifesting... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 14, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Access to Lifesaving Medical Resources for African Countries: COVID-19 Testing and Response, Ethics, and Politics
Matthew Kavanagh (Georgetown University), Ngozi A. Erondu (Chatham House), Oyewale Tomori (Nigeria Academy of Sciences), Victor Dzau (National Academy of Medicine), Emelda A. Okiro, Allan A. Maleche (Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network), Ifeyinwa C. Aniebo (Health Strategy and Delivery... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 22, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Bipartisan Consensus to Destroy U.S. Trade Policy
Daniel J. IkensonOn June 16, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testified before theHouse Ways and Means andSenate Finance committees. The hearings were billed as opportunities for Congress to raise questions and air concerns about the Trump administration ’s trade policy actions and priorities. Instead, through more than seven hours of statements and discussion, lawmakers from both chambers and both sides of the aisle confirmed a general harmony with the administration ’s trade policy performance.How else to explain the dearth of probing inquiry and push back? With a few limited exceptions, the day ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 1, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
Neopenda NeoGuard Wearable Vital Signs Monitor for COVID-19: Interview with Sona Shah and Assumpta Nantume
Neopenda, a medical device startup based in Chicago that has been featured on Medgadget previously, has recently adapted its wearable vital signs monitor, originally developed for newborns, to be used with pediatric and adult patients in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To date, the neoGuard has been utilized as a monitoring solution for newborn infants in hospitals in Uganda. The wearable wirelessly streams vital signs, such as respiration rate, to a phone or tablet computer, allowing healthcare staff to monitor newborns on the move or remotely.
The technology has been useful in helping to reduce infant mortality ...
Source: Medgadget - June 17, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Emergency Medicine Exclusive Pediatrics Public Health Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Smartphone Measures Hemoglobin Levels in Photos of Eyelids
Anemia is properly diagnosed using a blood test that measures hemoglobin, but simply looking behind a patient’s eyelid can be a pretty good alternative if you know how red the tissue is supposed to be. Now, a team at Purdue University has developed a technology that lets a clinician use smartphone pictures of the inner eyelid to automatically obtain surprisingly accurate results of blood hemoglobin levels. This capability is expected to soon be fully integrated into an app that will perform the necessary image analysis.
Unlike blood tests, smartphone apps are incredibly easy to roll out and put to use in even some...
Source: Medgadget - May 26, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Diagnostics Informatics Medicine Pediatrics Public Health Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
A Multinational Effort to Reduce Neonatal Mortality: Interview with Dr. Maria Oden, Co-director of Rice 360 ° Institute for Global Health
According to the World Health Organization, 47% of childhood deaths worldwide occur in the first four weeks of life. This neonatal mortality rate is particularly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly one million newborns die every year.
Many of these deaths can be prevented with medical devices that more developed countries often take for granted, such as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), phototherapy lights, and temperature monitors. However, solving the problem is not as simple as donating equipment; these devices are often too complicated to operate by limited staff, too resource-intensive to use, o...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Education Exclusive Pediatrics Public Health Source Type: blogs
3D Printed Microscope Costs as Little as $18
Researchers at the University of Bath in the UK have developed a 3D-printed microscope design, called OpenFlexure, which is open-source and can be assembled for as little as $18. More complex versions of the design are possible, and the microscope can incorporate full automation and a Raspberry Pi computer. The research team hopes that the design could help with medical research and diagnostics around the world, including in low-resource areas.
The humble microscope is a crucial piece of research equipment in medical labs, but commercial versions can run into tens of thousands of dollars, putting them out of reach for l...
Source: Medgadget - May 6, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Education Materials Pathology Source Type: blogs
