How to Build Sustainable Community Health Programs in the United States
Henry’s doctor gave him clear advice: check your blood sugar and take your insulin every day, not just when you feel bad. Exercise, at least thirty minutes a day, four days per week. Stop eating foods high in sugars and fats, and replace them with vegetables and protein. Perfectly straightforward — but Henry won’t follow any of it.
For starters, he doesn’t really know what insulin is or what it does for him, but he does know how much it costs: about $40 every time he fills the prescription, even with his insurance. As for the exercise, he’d be happy to, but it’s not as simple as going for a jog around the b...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 20, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Anna Stapleton, Claire Qureshi, Wendy McWeeny and Prabhjot Singh Tags: Health Equity Organization and Delivery Population Health Community Health community health workers culture of health Source Type: blogs
The Most Exciting Medical Technologies of 2017
It is almost a tradition for me to publish predictions for the coming year. I do not mean to disappoint you this year either, so here you find some thoughts about the top medical technologies of 2017.
2016 was a rich year for medical technology. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Smart algorithms analysing wearable data. Amazing technologies arrived in our lives and on the market almost every day. And it will not stop in the coming year.
The role of a futurist is certainly not making bold predictions about the future. No such big bet has taken humanity forward. Instead, our job is constantly analysing the trends shaping t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 15, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing AI artificial intelligence diabetes GC1 genetics Healthcare Innovation nutrigenomics Personalized medicine robotics wearables Source Type: blogs
Public Private Partnerships to heal Healthcare.
We all know that the healthcare system in India is creaking. The situation is going to become progressively worse , because we cannot keep up with the demand for medical attention. Epidemics of infectious diseases such as dengue and malaria have become increasingly common, because of poor infrastructure. The rise in non-communicable diseases because of poor life style has created a double whammy, and we are reaching a breaking point.The government is supposed to provide healthcare services to citizens, but the problem is that the public sector doesn't trust the private sector. We know that there's a shortage of hospi...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - November 30, 2016 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 424
The following are Giemsa-stained peripheral blood smears from a young girl who was recently treated for malaria. What is the material inside of the white blood cells? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - November 28, 2016 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Pill Expands In Stomach to Stay For Weeks Delivering Medication
Many drugs require precise ingestion regimens that optimize the effect of the medication, but getting patients to follow the schedule is often easier said than done. Additionally, some drugs may work better if only they could be delivered continuously in small doses, over a period of days or weeks. At MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston researchers have created a capsule that expands in the stomach and delivers its drug payload in a controlled manner over an extended period of time.
It consists of a flexible hub and six drug-loaded legs that are bunched together and stuffed inside a dissolvable pill. When the ...
Source: Medgadget - November 17, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology GI Medicine Ob/Gyn Oncology Source Type: blogs
Countries Transitioning From Donor Health Aid: We Need A Common Research Agenda And Mechanisms For Action
Large numbers of countries that have achieved middle-income status are in the process of transitioning away from significant donor aid that they have been receiving for their health programs in recent years — notably in the areas of AIDS, tuberculosis, and vaccine-preventable illnesses, but also in other domains such as family planning. External financial and technical support to these countries is being gradually withdrawn. Millions of lives are in the balance. This is going to be one of the top issues in global health over the coming decade, as the ground shifts profoundly.
Yet neither countries nor donors are well...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Robert Hecht and Sara Bennett Tags: Featured Global Health Policy HIV/AIDS vaccines Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 415
This week ' s case is that of an elderly female with recent travel to a malaria-endemic area in South America. To evaluate the patient for malaria, venous blood was collected in tubes containing EDTA and thick and thin blood films were made immediately at the local hospital laboratory. These slides were stained and sent to my laboratory for examination, in addition to a tube of blood. Below are representative fields from those slides (images courtesy of Emily F.):Two days later, we used the blood to make additional slides for teaching purposes. However, review of the new slides now revealed different forms than what was in...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - September 25, 2016 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
New Technique for Rapid Detection of Malaria in The Field
Malaria is pretty easy to detect inside a hospital laboratory, but the disease is prevalent in poor areas of the world where clinical access is often limited. Duke University researchers have now developed a fully automated system that can be used in the field to test for malaria with only a blood prick. Currently most testing is done using standard microscopy, and the process of staining, preparing, and visualizing the cells can be time consuming. The new Duke technique can potentially screen thousands of cells per minute and maybe screen entire villages in about a day.
The system relies on quantitative phase spectroscop...
Source: Medgadget - September 21, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Pathology Public Health Source Type: blogs
August blogs digest: the future of the chiropractic profession, schistosomiasis, brexit, and more
The New Chiropractic
Dr Matt Bulman from the Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australasia interviews Editor-in-Chief of Chiropractic & Manual Therapies: Associate Professor Bruce Walker on his article ‘The new chiropractic’ which sets out a ten point plan for the advancement of the profession of chiropractic.
Schistosomiasis Outbreak in Corsica, France
Anouk Gouvras, a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum tells the story of unexpected cases of urogenital schistosomiasis appearing in France in 2014.
The future for science post-Brexit
In the wake of the EU referendum, Miranda Wilson-Wood looks...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 12, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Biology Health Medicine Uncategorized blogs digest Source Type: blogs
The Dangerous Expansion of Adult Vaccinations
Conclusion
The vaccination comprises a misguided and unsafe national health care program which claims to prevent disease. Many significant health injuries are associated with vaccinating adults. Government resources are being spent researching and developing new and different vaccinations. Subjecting adults to more vaccinations is likely to cause more health injury and illness.
References:
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/07/05/herd-immunity…
http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/overview/
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2011/02/18/60-lab-studies…
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/adult.html
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Source: vactruth.com - September 10, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Recent Articles Top Stories adult vaccination adult vaccines new vaccines shingles vaccine truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 411
Answer: Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum This case generated a lot of great discussion! As nicely described by Arthur V, there are " multiple infected RBCs containing 1 or more ring forms. " Also, " the RBCs don ' t seem to be enlarged " , " there are no amoeboid ring forms " and " the parasitaemia appears to be moderate judging by the number of ring forms present on the thick smear. " These features, along with the absence of late-stage trophozoites and other intermediate forms are all consistent withP. falciparuminfection. The following annotated images demonstrate some of the characteristic features s...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 28, 2016 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Military tests of the Zika virus mosquito
It is a master of stealth, stretching less than half an inch long and weighing in at 2.5 milligrams with as estimated air speed of 1 to 1.5 miles per hour. It is virtually soundless in flight, registering zero decibels from ten feet. Its tracking systems hone in on targets by detecting infrared radiation from warm bodies, chemicals such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid, body odors from as far as a hundred feet, as well as movement from fidgety hosts. It can carry an impressive array of payload: up to 32 different types of viruses, many of which are lethal to humans. And it protects itself from the same viruses with a well...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/rod-tanchanco" rel="tag" > Rod Tanchanco, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
Cheap Paper-Based Ship-to-Lab Diagnostic Tests
At Ohio State University a small team of researchers has been working on creating cheap paper strips that could be kept by people at home, used to sample blood in case of disease, and shipped to a lab for diagnosis. The original goal of developing the technology has been the detection malaria, but the researchers writing in the Journal of the American Chemical Society are reporting that it can probably be used to detect any disease that results in the release of antibodies. These include certain cancers and other diseases that are not necessarily infectious.
The strips are created from sheets of paper that have microcha...
Source: Medgadget - July 25, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Pathology Source Type: blogs
The 10 Most Innovative Health Technologies Saving Millions In The Developing World
There are striking differences in the general social, economic or political background of the developed and developing country-groups, and developing countries are in dire need for creative and innovative medical solutions. Here are the 10 most innovative health technologies which could save millions of lives in these corners of the Earth.
Imagine two babies being born at the exact same time: a little girl in Sweden and a baby boy in Mozambique. What are their chances for a long, healthy life?
In the Scandinavian country of the easily assemblable IKEA furniture and the most secure car in the world, life expectancy in 2015...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 19, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: 3D Printing in Medicine Bioethics Healthcare Design Longevity Africa future GC1 India Innovation Personalized medicine technology Source Type: blogs
