Five year persistence of Ebolavirus in humans
The current outbreak of Ebolavirus disease in Guinea, which began in February 2021, may have originated from a survivor of the 2013-16 outbreak in the same country. Phylogenetic analysis of genome sequences revealed that viruses from the current outbreak group with the Makona variant, which caused the 2013-16 epidemic. The new isolates are most closely […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 19, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology acute infection ebolavirus Guinea persistent infection sexual transmission viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Ron Paul and our Big, Fat Fed
George SelginRegular readers ofAlt-M don ' t need to be told that yours truly isno fan of the Fed ' s gigantic credit footprint. Even before the recent crisis, he lamented both the extent to which the Fed went from merelyregulating this nation ' s short-term money market tobeingits short-term money market, and the switch to an abundant reserve or" floor " operating system that made a bigger Fed footprint inevitable.By the time the Great Recession ended, the Fed ' s balance sheet was more than four times as large as it was in mid-2008. And now, thanks to the COVID-19 crisis, it has doubled in size yet again, to just shy of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Vulnerabilities and Benefits of Mega-Scale Agri-Food Processing Facilities in Canada
Jared Carlberg (University of Manitoba), Vulnerabilities and Benefits of Mega-Scale Agri-Food Processing Facilities in Canada, 13 School of Public Pol ’y Pub. (2020): This paper explores the vulnerabilities associated with mega-scale agri-food processing facilities in the wake of Canada’s COVID-19 outbreak... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 10, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Resurrecting the Presidential Commission For The Study of Bioethical Issues With Public Engagement at Its Core
by Naomi Scheinerman, PhD
The Biden-Harris Administration has a wonderful opportunity, particularly amidst a pandemic in which bioethics questions and difficult tradeoffs are not in short supply, to resurrect a group tasked to advise the president on “bioethical issues arising from advances in biomedicine and related areas of science and technology.” Created under the Obama administration, and dispersed under Trump, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues was responsible for numerous reports on topics that included synthetic biology, pediatric research, whole genome sequencing, neuroscienc...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 9, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Ethics Featured Posts Health Policy & Insurance Health Regulation & Law Politics Source Type: blogs
A Plan to Conquer U.S. Drug Shortages
By JESSICA DALEY and WAYNE RUSSELL
COVID-19 has focused the nation’s attention on the risks associated with complex, global supply chains, particularly related to healthcare products and prescription drugs. While supply disruptions of personal protective equipment (PPE) captured headlines, the pandemic also compromised the drug supply chain. With much of the United States’ generic drugs manufactured overseas, exportation bans coupled with increased global demand created significant challenges for U.S.-based providers to secure basic, life-sustaining and life-saving therapies.
As an “easy” solution, many ar...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Pharmaceuticals The Business of Health Care Drug shortages Jessica Daley Premier Wayne Russell Source Type: blogs
Correctional and Sentencing Law Commentary: Compassionate Release, the First Step Act, and COVID-19
Christine S. Scott-Hayward (California State University), Correctional and Sentencing Law Commentary: Compassionate Release, the First Step Act, and COVID-19, 57(1) Crim. L. Bulletin 89 (2021): The COVID-19 outbreak exacerbated all of the risks faced by elderly and sick people in... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 27, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
3 Reasons Why National Digital Health Transformations Fail
An armada of digital health technologies is set to bring healthcare to the 21st century. Artificial intelligence can make the alarm fatigue epidemic a thing of the past. Medical-grade, portable diagnostic devices make patients the point-of-care. With such potentials and more, it’s no wonder that some governments are developing national digital health strategies to transform their current systems. A survey from the American Hospital Association suggests that around 85% of hospital executives already factor digital innovation as part of their long-term strategy.
Bringing about such a change requires heavy investments. T...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy technology portable diagnostics cybersecur Source Type: blogs
Generation Q(uarantine): Children Of The Pandemic
COVID-19 has put a spotlight on existing problems that some call the biggest pandemic issue we face today: mental health. “Good mental health is absolutely fundamental to overall health and well-being,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. And children are particularly affected.
A worldwide scale of anxiety, loneliness and fear that had been there before added up, and investigation found rise in school safeguarding reports, eating disorders and sleeping pill prescriptions. Parents struggle to get help, and, as a social worker in the UK put it “everybody feels anxious at the moment. Yo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare Policy Medical Education depression Hospital digital technology children mental health anxiety WHO lockdown child rights Human Rights Watch UNICEF quarantine Generati Source Type: blogs
LGBTQ people living with HIV: considerations during COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly around the world since the first reports from China in 2019, and the outbreak was characterized as a pandemic. COVID-19 does not affect everyone equally. COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted LGBTQ Americans and may continue to. Prior studies have noted significant health disadvantages experienced by LGBTQ populations in the […]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 - February 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kimberly-levitt-and-connie-ticho" rel="tag" > Kimberly Levitt, MPH and Connie Ticho < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Privacy Protection, Big Data Gathering and Public Health Issues: COVID-19 Tracking App Use in Italy
Elena Falletti (LIUC University), Privacy Protection, Big Data Gathering and Public Health Issues: COVID-19 Tracking App Use in Italy, SSRN: The COVID-19 global outbreak showed that big data gathering is an issue of international and national public health. According to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 9, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Laws Against Discussing Pandemics, Cont ’d: Privacy
Walter OlsonIwrote last week in this space about government ’s longstanding tendency during dangerous outbreaks of contagious disease to assert control over public discussion of medical matters on the rationale of preventing the spread of misinformation. (Some members of Congressare currently trying to browbeat platforms into taking down social media posts that promote erroneous notions about vaccines.) Citing the flu pandemic of 1918 –19, I pointed out that “rather than quieting the rumor mill and the popular spread of false ideas about the virus, the tight control of information [often does] the reverse.”The...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Digital Contact Tracing and Data Protection: Assessing the French and Portuguese Applications
Luis Felipe Ramos (University of Minho), Digital Contact Tracing and Data Protection: Assessing the French and Portuguese Applications, 6(2) EU L. J. 35 (2020): The rapid outbreak of COVID-19 has necessitated a global response to manage the transmission, spread, and... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 5, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Epidemics and pandemics (1): Cholera and Sheffield
Sheffield ' s Cholera Monument stands above the railway station ( " Sheffield Midland " , as some signs and things still call it). The foundation stone was put in place in December 1834 by James Montgomery, the poet, and the monument completed in April 1835. There it stayed till it was damaged in a storm in the 1990s. It was put up again, completed in 2006.A board by the monument records that 402 people died, and were buried in the " grounds " where the monument stands.And that the " total number of persons attacked by this disease " was 1347.Sheffield City Libraries have a research guide, with...
Source: Browsing - February 2, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: cholera sheffield Source Type: blogs
Top 6 Crowdsourcing Examples In Digital Health
During your school years, you might have encountered several instances where your teacher laid out a task or asked a question, and asked you and your classmates to come up with an answer or solution. This “method” somewhat exemplifies crowdsourcing, albeit in analogue form. In essence, the term refers to the act of gathering information or input into a task from a large group of people; or simply, “outsourcing work to the crowd” as the Wired editors who coined the term in 2005 described it.
However, one must not confuse crowdsourcing with crowdfunding. The latter involves raising relatively small amounts of fu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 3D Printing Biotechnology Digital Health Research E-Patients Personalized Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones aids crowdsourcing fda artificial pancreas 3d printed vaccination covid19 immunity passport gaming Foldi Source Type: blogs
Understanding Leprosy on World Leprosy Day
Leprosy is a chronic and progressive disease that primarily affects the skin and peripheral nervous system. Leprosy has been with us for thousands of years. There is evidence of the disease as far back as 4000 BC, in ancient Egypt.[1] In 1873, Norwegian physician Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen discovered that leprosy was caused by a bacterium. [2] Today, we call this bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, and we often refer to leprosy as Hansen’s Disease, in honor of Dr. Hansen. While leprosy caused significant morbidity and mortality in the past, cases today are rare and are curable with proper treatment.
How Is Leprosy Transmitte...
Source: GIDEON blog - January 28, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Uri Blackman Tags: News Leprosy Source Type: blogs
