Audiologist Talks About Noise-Induced Hearing Loss on ABC News
Audiologist—and ASHA member—Julie Norin talked about hearing loss caused by common and constant noise in our everyday lives. Norin warned of seemingly innocuous items like hair dryers and blenders, which when used daily for prolonged times can cause damage to nerves in the ear. She adds retail stores, restaurants, concerts, parties and other loud public spaces can cause similar damage.
In the interview, Norin explains how noise-induced hearing loss can occur at any age and is currently appearing in more young people. She offers ways to prevent damage caused by noise, such as limiting exposure or wearing ear plugs. And,...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 16, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology hearing loss hearing protection noise-induced hearing loss Source Type: blogs
Audiologist Talks About Noise-Induced Hearing Loss on Baltimore Local News
Audiologist—and ASHA member—Julie Norin talked about hearing loss caused by common and constant noise in our everyday lives during a recent news segment on local Baltimore channel ABC2. Norin warned of seemingly innocuous items like hair dryers and blenders, which when used daily for prolonged times can cause damage to nerves in the ear. She adds retail stores, restaurants, concerts, parties and other loud public spaces can cause similar damage.
In the interview, Norin explains how noise-induced hearing loss can occur at any age and is currently appearing in more young people. She offers ways to prevent damage caused...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 16, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology hearing loss hearing protection noise-induced hearing loss Source Type: blogs
Want To Lose Weight?
The notion that the more you exercise, the more weight you’ll lose could disappoint you. You would be better off focusing on what you’re eating. That’s the word from a study examining daily energy expenditure of 332 adults in five countries, including the U.S. The participantswore devices that recorded their activity levels for a week, and the researchers used that information to calculate the number of calories each person burned using standard measurements. They found thatmoderate activity - the equivalent of walking a couple of miles per day - burned about 200 calories more than amounts expended by sed...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - November 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: Science and Supplement News eating metabolism weight loss Source Type: blogs
Age-Friendly Health Systems: How Do We Get There?
As the American population ages, our health care delivery system must embrace significant changes in payment strategies, as well as value-based service provision, to meet the demands of this demographic shift. Health care leaders are clear that without change, the system will suffer destabilizing financial distress, access to needed services will be limited, and the quality of care received by older adults will deteriorate. We will likely experience all of the above unless we continue to shift to new ways of providing and paying for health care.
As a result of the aging demographic doubling and skewing older, the demand fo...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 3, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Terry Fulmer and Amy Berman Tags: Costs and Spending Featured GrantWatch Health Professionals Hospitals Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Quality ACOs Aging seniors Source Type: blogs
Memo To The President: The Pharmaceutical Monopoly Adjustment Act Of 2017
Since 1980, Congress has enacted many laws granting pharmaceutical manufacturers monopolies that no other industry enjoys. These extra monopolies were created with the expectation that monopoly profits would spur greater investment in research to find important new drugs. In fact, they have caused US consumers to pay higher prices for medicines for longer periods of time while making the pharmaceutical industry far more profitable than any other industry. I believe the next president and Congress should take several key steps, which I outline below, to roll back these costly, unnecessary monopolies.
The Current Landscape
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Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 13, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Alfred Engelberg Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Health Policy Lab Bayh-Dole Act Big Pharma Gilead Hatch-Waxman Act johnson & johnson pfizer Source Type: blogs
Would Our Procedural Competence in Medicine Stand Up to the Same Level of Scrutiny as … a Hockey Goalie?
Editor’s Note: This post is one of two pieces on the topic of procedural competence. Read the other piece here.
By: Martin Pusic, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Emergency Medicine, and director, Division of Learning Analytics, New York University School of Medicine Institute for Innovations in Medical Education, New York, New York.
When I read Vaisman and Cram’s thoughtful Perspective on academic faculty procedural competence, I agreed with most of what they had to say. Academic faculty are certainly having to adapt to a myriad of dislocations as our health systems adapt to new realities. What doesn’t change is the b...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 13, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective big data deliberate practice faculty procedural competency Source Type: blogs
New clues about the way memory works in infancy
By Alex Fradera
Can we form memories when we are very young? Humans and non-humans alike show an “infantile amnesic period” – we have no memory of anything that happens during this time (usually up to age three or four in humans) which might suggest we can’t form very early memories. But of course it might be that we can form memories in these early years, it’s just that they are later forgotten. The idea that at least something is retained from infancy is consistent with the fact that disorders present in adult life can be associated with very early life events.
Now Nature Neuroscience has published ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: researchdigestblog Tags: biological Brain Cognition Comparative Developmental Memory Source Type: blogs
Will Research on 10,000 New Yorkers Fuel Future Racial Health Inequality?
By Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D. A 20-year, multi-million dollar study of more than 10,000 New Yorkers scheduled to begin next year claims that it will enable the development of theories, therapeutics, and policies to improve the health and quality of … Continue reading → (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 30, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Ethics and Society Tags: Health Care Health Disparities Research Ethics Celia B. Fisher demographics ethnicity Evidence-Based Ethics In the News Kavli Human Project National Institutes of Health New York City New York University NIH race racial inequal Source Type: blogs
Demand For Family Medicine Physicians Ranks Highest Among Specialties
Discussion
While indicated in only one instance from one state, the rise of family medicine to the specialty with the greatest demand among New York State trainees is a very positive development. The ranking is somewhat surprising given that primary care advocates have been calling for greater support for several decades with little response. It is worth noting that New York State has not been known to be particularly friendly to family medicine residency training. For many years, few of the state’s academic medical centers even offered family medicine training, making this an even more noteworthy development. For examp...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Edward Salsberg, David Armstrong and Gaetano Forte Tags: Featured Health Professionals Hospitals family medicine Graduate medical education New York Physicians Primary Care Source Type: blogs
JAMA Forum: The Pain and Opioid Epidemics: Policy and Vital Signs
This post authored by Diana Mason first ran in the The Journal of the American Medical Association Forum on August 9, 2016.
Diana Mason, PhD, RN
Near the end of my tenure as editor-in-chief of AJN, theAmerican Journal of Nursing in 2009, I asked one of the coordinators of our pain column to write an article on opioid dependence and addiction. The diversion and misuse of drugs such as oxycodone, with a resultant spike in overdose deaths, had been widely reported in the news media. Her surprising response continues to resonate for me as we face the urgent public health problem of opioid abuse.
The column’s coordinators,...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Pain and Opiods Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Free Speech and the University of Cape Town
< p > < a href="http://www.cato.org/people/flemming-rose" > Cato adjunct scholar Flemming Rose < /a > who recently < a href="http://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-video/flemming-rose-receives-2016-milton-friedman-prize-advancing-liberty" > won the 2016 Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty < /a > has been disinvited from speaking at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The academic freedom committee of the university had asked Rose to give the annual TB Davie Academic Freedom Lecture. The Vice Chancellor of the university rescinded the invitation. He argued that Rose ’s lecture might divide the campus leading to p...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 25, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: John Samples Source Type: blogs
Chemistry Technique Concentrates Chemo at Sarcoma Tumor Sites
Today’s chemotherapy delivery is poorly targeted, leading to lots of systemic side effects while often doing too little to attack the cancer itself. Researchers at State University of New York at Albany have now developed a way of encapsulating chemo agents within special shells that concentrate and open up around a special pre-positioned material next to a tumor.
The technique, dubbed “local drug activation,” relies on so-called “bioorthogonal chemistry” to gather near an implanted complementary biomaterial and have it trigger the shells to open up. In a proof of concept, the researchers t...
Source: Medgadget - July 20, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
Bad Apple or Bad Orchard? - A Narrative of Alleged Individual Research Misconduct that Sidestepped the Pharmaceutical Corporate Context
Conclusion So it seems that in this case a study which may not have been conducted according to research standards was likely a pharmaceutical sponsored, designed, and controlled Phase II trial done as part of an effort to seek approval for a new drug. Hence this case was not only about allegations of individual research misconduct, but about yet more problems with the implementation of commercially controlled human experiments designed to ultimately further marketing as well as science. Yet none of the public discussion so far of this case was about whether Pfizer had any responsibilities to assure the quality...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 7, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect clinical research integrity clinical trials New York University Pfizer pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs’ July Issue: ACA Coverage, Health Spending, And More
The July issue of Health Affairs, a variety issue, covers a broad range of topics: the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage provisions; improvements in emergency department care; trends in health spending by different income groups; efforts by accountable care organizations (ACOs) to improve behavioral health care; and others.
US emergency department death rates reduced by 48 percent, 1997-2011
Despite a wealth of literature about the relationship between emergency care and subsequent mortality for selected conditions, little is known about overall mortality trends in the emergency department (ED). In what is believed to be...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 6, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured ACA Marketplaces Health Affairs journal medical marijuana tobacco Source Type: blogs
Integrating Medical And Social Services: A Pressing Priority For Health Systems And Payers
The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world—more than double the amount that some industrialized countries do—yet our health outcomes are comparatively horrible. We live with higher incidence of chronic illness, we face many more financial barriers to care, and we die younger than people in just about every industrialized nation in the world. Since 2004, the Commonwealth Fund has ranked the health system performance of at least five industrialized countries. It expanded that work to eleven countries in 2014. The result: the United States has consistently come in last.
Although there ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 5, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Melinda K. Abrams and Donald Moulds Tags: Costs and Spending GrantWatch Long-term Services and Supports Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Chronic Care Commonwealth Fund Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Health Philanthropy integration of medical and nonmedical serv Source Type: blogs
