Ushering Children with Disabilities in the New Normal Post-COVID-19 Period: Collective Actions in the Philippines
Michael Cahapay (Mindanao State University), Ushering Children with Disabilities in the New Normal Post-COVID-19 Period: Collective Actions in the Philippines, Disability and Society (2020): As the world enters a new normal period following the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) global outbreak,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 13, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Rapid Identification of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections: Interview with Jong Lee, CEO at Day Zero Diagnostics
Antibiotic resistance is a growing concern, with some predictions suggesting that routine surgery could be unacceptably risky in a future where many antibiotics have become obsolete. Part of the problem lies in the time it takes clinicians to diagnose an antibiotic-resistant infection. Current techniques involve lab technicians culturing a bacterial sample until it can be analyzed for drug resistance. The whole process takes days, and by the time the test provides an answer, a patient could be dead from sepsis.
To address this, clinicians typically administer broad-spectrum antibiotics in an effort to bring an infection...
Source: Medgadget - November 11, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Medicine Pathology Public Health Source Type: blogs
It ’ s (Cyber)Criminal
By KIM BELLARD
One of the redeeming aspects of crises is that, amidst all the confusion, suffering, and loss, there are usually moments of grace, of humans showing their best nature. With COVID-19, we’ve seen health care workers working long hours in dangerous conditions. We’ve seen other essential workers — including not just first responders but also grocery workers, meatpackers, trash collectors, and countless others — putting their own safety at risk so that our lives can go on. There are heroes all around.
Unfortunately, crises also tend to bring out the worst of our natures...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech cyber attacks Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Nasal Endoscopy for Urgent and Complex ED Cases
Fiberoptics and endoscopy have changed the way we treat patients in the emergency department. Endoscopes are relatively easy to use, and can aid your diagnosis and treatment plan. Endoscopy may be useful in urgent cases, such as epistaxis, nasal foreign bodies, and ear debridement. It may also be helpful when dealing with more complicated presentations and critically ill patients, such as those with Ludwig's angina, epiglottis, tracheostomies, or those who need intubation.Fiberoptic tools are not just for surgeons and consultants. The endoscope has many uses in the emergency department, and we have a few tips and tricks...
Source: The Procedural Pause - October 28, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Telepsychology During COVID-19: It All Depends On How You Look At It
The global lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has opened the door to the deepest fears of humanity in this interconnected world: isolation. A worldwide scale of anxiety, loneliness and fear, associated with worrying about the virus, unemployment, social isolation and uncertainty added up to a mental state we may even start to call as “depidemic.” Research shows that about half the population has been or is facing mental health issues since the outbreak. Preserving mental health thus has been an increasing topic over the past months.
We know from the fact that working from home is linked with increased st...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 27, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Lifestyle medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Medical Education Telemedicine & Smartphones depression psychology anxiety remote remote care telepsychology Source Type: blogs
Viruses on Motorcycles
By ANISH KOKA
The most recent fiction dressed up as science about COVID comes to us courtesy of a viral Washington Post article. “How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest” screams the headline. The charge made is that “within weeks” of the gathering that drew nearly half a million visitors the Dakota’s and adjacent states are experiencing a surge of COVID cases.
The Sturgis Rally happens to be a popular motorcycle rally held in Sturgis, South Dakota every August that created much consternation this year because it wasn’t cancel...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka Pandemic sturgis motorcycle rally Source Type: blogs
Herd immunity and covid-19
By Dr. Stephen A. Berger
WHAT IS HERD IMMUNITY?
It stands to reason that a contagious disease should disappear from a population when a sufficient percentage of potential victims – “the herd” has become immune. This outcome may arise because a massive number of individuals have been either infected or vaccinated.
Most authorities dealing with COVID-19 have set the goal for herd immunity at >60 percent; however, the precise percentage for any infectious disease will depend on many factors involving demography, virulence, route of infection, etc.
HAS AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE EVER BEEN ERADICATED BY REACHI...
Source: GIDEON blog - October 26, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology Examples News Source Type: blogs
Let ’s end Polio
An Egyptian stele thought to represent a polio victim. 18th Dynasty (1403–1365 BC).
Poliomyelitis dates back to ancient times, as captured in this 14th century BC Egyptian carving, detailing a typical symptom of atrophy in one or more of the limbs.
The modern name is directly derived from Ancient Greek, poliós meaning ‘grey’ and myelós meaning ‘marrow’, the latter signifying the effect on the grey matter of the spinal cord.
But while the ancient Egyptians and Greeks knew about the disease, it wasn’t clinically described until the late 18th century (AD), by the English doctor Michael Underwood. The di...
Source: GIDEON blog - October 25, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
Remote Patient Monitoring Sets Up Big Tech to Revolutionize Telemedicine and Healthcare
By JAMES MOELLER
Remote patient monitoring has emerged as the next significant challenge for virtual healthcare and that challenge is creating significant opportunities for many companies largely outside of the traditional healthcare technology marketplace. In particular, it is potentially setting up an opportunity for Big Tech companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon, to revolutionize telemedicine and healthcare similar to what those companies have accomplished in mobile phones, Internet search, and retail.
Next Generation Remote Health Monitoring
Next generation remote healthcare monitoring will likely look ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology James Moeller Moeller Ventures remote patient monitoring Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Workforce flexibility in the NHS: utilising Covid-19 innovations
NHS Providers -This briefing argues that speed at which workforce innovations and flexibilities have been implemented in the NHS since the outbreak of Covid-19 has been both impressive and encouraging. It explores and makes recommendations on six key areas of change: staff wellbeing; flexibility in staff deployment and roles; cross-organisational working and regulation; technology; making use of new roles; and funding.BriefingNHS Providers - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 22, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Hepatitis A in the United States
Few Americans are aware of a major epidemic that has taken hold of large areas of their country in recent years – by a disease that is easily diagnosed and prevented. Sadly, public – and even professional interest in these events have been overshadowed by COVID-19.
AN UPTICK IN CASES
Hepatitis A had been largely under control until three years ago and can be easily prevented through the use of a safe and effective vaccine.
From January 2017 to January 2019, at least 26 separate outbreaks were reported, to a total of 11,628 cases and 99 deaths, nationwide. Homeless individuals and users of illicit dru...
Source: GIDEON blog - October 21, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
7 Things You Can Expect From A.I. In Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has for long been the subject of the fertile minds of science-fiction writers and movie directors. HAL 9000, Skynet and JARVIS are some of the many A.I. names sci-fi enthusiasts are familiar with. They streamline administrative tasks, entertain humans and, of course, become overlords threatening human existence.
Now, thanks to technological progress, such A.I. are breaking out of the confines of movies and books and into healthcare. While they aren’t threatening our existence, they are helping in improving the medical field. From forecasting disease outbreaks to helping in new...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Science Fiction Security & Pr Source Type: blogs
Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference
While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. • Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • The patient’s role is critical in coordinating their own care, testing, res...
Source: e-CareManagement - October 19, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) API data sharing health IT interoperability Source Type: blogs
The inconvenient truth: We need to learn how to live with COVID-19 and here ’s how
Since the small cluster of cases broke out in Wuhan, China nine months ago, the world has profoundly changed. With each passing moment, there seems to be a new COVID-19 milestone. 1 million deaths worldwide. 215,000 deaths in the United States. A White House outbreak. Rather than tell you reassuring lies o r downplay the virus, I am […]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 - October 17, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jesse-oshea" rel="tag" > Jesse O'Shea, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
