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Sunset on the RAC: When is it time to end special oversight of an emerging biotechnology?
by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Anna C. Mastroianni, J.D., M.P.H. National Institutes of Health Director (NIH) Francis S. Collins and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb recently co-authoreda New England Journal of Medicinecommentary suggesting that special oversight of gene transfer research in humans was no longer necessary. Their views followed on the2014 recommendations of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) consensus committee,and are reflected in proposed policy changes recently made available for public comment.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 16, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Clinical Trials & Studies Editorial-AJOB Featured Posts Health Regulation & Law Stem Cells Source Type: blogs

Why Most Parents Can ’t Understand Pediatric Radiation Safety Guides
Pediatric radiation safety guidelines are written at far too difficult reading levels for the average parent to understand, according to a studyrecently published in theAmerican Journal of Roentgenology.Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Hospital assessed 54 articles on patient safety that were published on websites such as the Society for Pediatric Radiology, RadiologyInfo, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Using the ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) scale, they found that 91 percent of articles were “very difficult,” “difficult,” or “fairly difficult” for the typical parent. On average, the articles were g...
Source: radRounds - October 12, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

National Bullying Prevention Month: Help Your Kids Understand The Difference Between Bullying & Teasing
What makes a bully? Is it a malicious desire to hurt another person? A person lashing out because of problems at home? A need to seem tough in a world that is out of their control? There is no single formula for those we have come to see as bullies and the definition is pretty broad. The facts about bullying are less vague. According to Stop Bullying, as many as one in three children has reported being bullied at some point in their life. While some of this is done in elementary and high school, the bulk of it seems to be in those middle years of junior high. More alarming is the impact. The National Institute of Health...
Source: World of Psychology - October 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tyler Jacobson Tags: Bullying Children and Teens Communication Depression Policy and Advocacy Self-Esteem Stigma Student Therapist Students Suicide Trauma Violence and Aggression National Bullying Prevention Month Cyberbullying school bully sc Source Type: blogs

Cure Alzheimer's Fund - Progress with the Research of Alzheimer ’s Disease
You won't want to miss this year's Cure Alzheimer's Fund Symposium. The participants will be discussing the latest and most important developments in Alzheimer's research (very exciting). They will also update the newest National Institute of Health guidelines and funding for Alzheimer's research.The Cure Alzheimer's Fund's (CAF) annual research symposium takes place on Thursday, September 27.This year's topic -Progress with the Research of Alzheimer ’s DiseaseYou can watch today via a live stream on the Internet.The start button is on the Cure Alzheimer's Fund Home page. The Symposium starts at 5:30 PM (eastern time). T...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - September 27, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: Alzheimer research alzheimer's webinar Alzheimers Dementia charity navigator alzheimer's cure alzheimer's cure alzheimer's fund endalz science Symposium Source Type: blogs

A Call to Focus on Extension of Healthspan, Not Lifespan
S. Jay Olshansky is one of the researchers behind the Longevity Dividend initiative, a long-standing and fairly conservative academic initiative aimed at producing far greater funding for research to slow aging. It is one of a number of groups attempting to change the present academic and public research edifice from the inside. Olshansky recently issued a call to action, arguing for the research community to focus on increased healthspan rather than increased lifespan. From my perspective he makes this argument for all the wrong reasons, based on an expectation that it will prove impossible to produce large gains, say two...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 20, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs

The Price of Progress or the Waste of Regulation?
The average cost of delivering a new therapy from laboratory to clinic is increasing at a fast pace, more than doubling since the turn of the century according to some studies, to stand at $2.5 billion or more. This is not driven by the work of research and development becoming more expensive: if anything, the price of the tools of biotechnology is in free fall, even as capacity increases by orders of magnitude. Biotechnology has gone through, and is still going through, its own echoed version of the computing revolution of recent decades. A mix of advances in computational power and materials science means that a graduate...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 7, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs

Three easy questions. Three surprising NLM answers.
What is the most famous house in Washington, DC? What is the most famous theater in Washington, DC? What is the most famous name in museums in Washington, DC? The National Library of Medicine was located at three prestigious places in Washington, DC, before moving to the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda in… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - August 29, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: History Source Type: blogs

Aromatherapy Safe and Effective for People With Alzheimer's According to NIH
Alzheimer's disease can't be cured. There are medications that help slow the development of symptoms for some people, but the type of care that seems to help most people with Alzheimer's is hands-on attention. This often means that caregivers need to use a tool-box approach to providing care. Thus, opening our minds to ancient medicine can give us additional options. One ancient technique that's been studied by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the use of aromatherapy. Read the full article on HealthCentral about how the NIH has found that aromatherapy can be helpful to our loved ones who live with dementia: Medic...
Source: Minding Our Elders - August 28, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Biomedical Knowledge Must Be Mobilized to Save Lives, Not Privatized in the “Last Mile”
By JOSHUA C. RUBIN JD, MBA, MPH, MPP Joshua C. Rubin Last week, Facebook’s unprecedented stock price collapse triggered by concerns over personal data privacy, as well as same-day commentary regarding GlaxoSmithKline’s investment in 23andMe to gain access to its customers’ genomic data, reignited a national dialogue vis-à-vis our rights to our data, especially our health data. Three years ago, our nation’s first National Coordinator for Health IT foresaw an impending “gold rush” for valuable personal health data. Myriad headlines such as Bloomberg’s “IBM Buying Truven for $2.6 Billion to Amass More...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 20, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Featured Hospitals glaxoklinesmith pharmaceutical Source Type: blogs

Dementia: Alzheimer's Is Only One of Many Types
Some types of dementia are reversible: The National Institutes of Health says that some types of dementia can be stopped or reversed with treatment. Normal pressure hydrocephalus, caused by excess cerebrospinal fluid, can be helped by surgical intervention. Some drugs, vitamin deficiencies, alcohol abuse, depression, and brain tumors can cause dementia-like symptoms. Most of these causes respond to treatment. View complete sideshow on HealthCentral about all of the different types of dementia - including Alzheimer's: MedicareFAQ – Medicare Resource Center Support a caregiver or jump-start discussion in suppo...
Source: Minding Our Elders - August 14, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

NIOSH and Wikipedia
NIOSH, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is helping to make sure that the occupational safety and health information that reaches Wikipedia’s millions of readers is complete, up-to-date, and free of errors. NIOSH is one of the first US federal agencies to collaborate with the Wikimedia organizations and it is doing so by actively contributing data and the latest research to help improve the health of the population. Wikipedia has become an important source of information for a large part of the population. Globally, one out of every two hundred visits to the internet is to Wikipedia. In 2015, N...
Source: BHIC - August 6, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kay Deeney Tags: Environmental Health General Websites Source Type: blogs

Americans Fighting the Opioid Crisis in Their Own Backyards
Credit: New York Times article, Jan. 19, 2016. The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. The rates of opioid addiction, babies born addicted to opioids, and overdoses have skyrocketed in the past decade. No population has been hit harder than rural communities. Many of these communities are in states with historically low levels of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIGMS’ Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program builds research capacities in these states by supporting basic, clinical, and translational research, as well as faculty development and infrastructure improveme...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 1, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Chris Palmer Tags: Pharmacology Medicines Opioids Pain Source Type: blogs

Can Liver and Diet Impact Alzheimer's Risk?
This research has a variety of interesting implications. For example, it highlights a potential relationship between conditions such as obesity and diabetes and Alzheimer ’s.ByAlzheimer's Reading RoomReduced levels of plasmalogens — a class of lipids created in the liver that are integral to cell membranes in the brain—are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer ’s Disease, according to new research.Plasmalogens are created in the liver and are dispersed through the blood stream in the form of lipoproteins, which also transport cholesterol and other lipids to and from cells and tissues throughout the body, i...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 31, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's risk alzheimers research diabetes diet health lifestyle liver obesity science Source Type: blogs

Spin it Again - Four More Go Through the Revolving Door From the World of Corporate Health Care to Top US Government Leadership Positions
DiscussionSo this round of revolving door transitions featured a top pharmaceutical company researcher going to a leadership position at the NIH, which was considered long ago as a producer or unbiased science; and one physician-manager and two pure managers going from big management consultancies to DHHS. All these consultancies seem to have thriving businesses working with big commercial health care firms. So the Trump regime continues to stock top health care leadership positions with people from the commercial health care world. These leadership positions will allow them to to control contracting with, poli...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 27, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: CMS conflicts of interest DHHS Donald Trump Eli Lilly McKinsey NIH revolving doors Veterans Affairs Source Type: blogs

CHAMP-HF: Heart Failure Treatment in US Remains Subpar
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Source: Dr Portnay - July 25, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs