TWiV 984: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses the political polarization of COVID-19 treatments among physicians and laypeople in the United States, seven alternatives to evidence-based medicine, Malawi’s cholera death toll crosses 1,300 in its deadliest outbreak on record, impact of coronavirus infections on pediatric patients at a tertiary pediatric hospital, maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 18, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern viruses Source Type: blogs
TWiV 984: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses the political polarization of COVID-19 treatments among physicians and laypeople in the United States, seven alternatives to evidence-based medicine, Malawi’s cholera death toll crosses 1,300 in its deadliest outbreak on record, impact of coronavirus infections on pediatric patients at a tertiary pediatric hospital, maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during … TWiV 984: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 18, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern viruses Source Type: blogs
Electrochemical Sensor for Detailed SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Data
Researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute have developed an electrochemical device, called the eRapid sensor, that can assist clinicians in quickly characterizing someone’s COVID-19 infection, including identifying the infecting viral variant and the nature of someone’s immunity to the virus in terms of whether it is vaccine-mediated or natural immunity. Monitoring these characteristics could help to personalize treatment for individuals and also provide data for drug development and inform government decisions on the best way to manage COVID-19 in the community. When antibodies from a blood sample bind within the devi...
Source: Medgadget - February 14, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Voice-Activated Sample Prep for Safer Handling
Researchers at Kyung Hee University in South Korea have developed a voice-activated DNA sample pre-treatment device to assist clinicians dealing with outbreaks of infectious disease to stay safer. Dealing with highly infectious patient samples puts clinicians and lab technicians at risk. Minimizing sample handling and exposure is important in reducing the risk of transmission, and a system that can perform some of these steps automatically, without a clinician even having to interact with it physically can facilitate this. Another application is to allow biomedical scientists with a disability that might preclude them from...
Source: Medgadget - February 9, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: etc. Genetics Pathology Public Health Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 23: The Great Rapprochement
George SelginWhat finally brought the Great Depression to an end? We ' ve seen that, whatever it was, it took place not during the 30s but sometime between then and the end of World War II, when a remarkable postwar revival occurred instead of the renewed depression many feared. We ' ve also seen that, while postwar fiscal and monetary policies weren ' t austere to the point of preventing that revival, they alone can ' t explain it, because they can ' t explain the reawakening of private business investment from its decade-and-a-half-long slumber.Animal SpiritsTo get to the bottom of that reawakening, we must first recall ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Fighting the Wrong (Culture) War
By KIM BELLARD
News flash from the culture wars: they’re coming to take our gas stoves!
Well, actually, “they” are not, but the kind of people who got alarmed about it are a threat to our health, and to theirs.
The gas stove furor started with a Bloomberg News interview that Richard Trumka, Jr, a Consumer Product Safety Commission commissioner. “This is a hidden hazard,” he said. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
He was referring to the well known but little acknowledged fact that gas stoves emit various pollutants, especially nitrogen dioxide. Last ye...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Culture Wars Gas Stoves Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed
The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network.
Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs
Health information exchanges (HIEs) are well-situated to help healthcare organizations achieve three core goals of value-based care: providing better care for individuals, reducing healthcare costs, and improving population health management strategies. But establishing an HIE and finding success can be a tremendous challenge for some states to establish in large measure becau...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Contact Tracing CRISP CRISP Shared Services CSS Federal Healthcare Standards Health Information Exchanges healthcare infrastructure HIE HIEs Local Com Source Type: blogs
The Telehealth'Revolution'& How it Fails to Transform Care for Undocumented Immigrants
Asees Bhasin (Yale University), The Telehealth ' Revolution '& How it Fails to Transform Care for Undocumented Immigrants, 24 N.C. J. L. Tech. 1 (2022): The outbreak of Covid-19 led to the rapid adoption and expansion of telehealth services. Upon understanding... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 13, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
U.S. Gun Laws, China's COVID Outbreak, Space in 2050: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on gun policy in America, the myth of America ' s“Ukraine fatigue,” the COVID outbreak in China, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 13, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Milwaukee County Addresses Health Equity with Data and GIS Technology
Milwaukee County is at the forefront of addressing racial inequity. During the COVID-19 pandemic they cross referenced vaccination rates with the CDC’s social vulnerability index and plotted the results using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. Armed with this powerful insight, the County was able to increase vaccinations in populations that needed them the most and by doing so increased the safety of the entire County. They are now incorporating an equity lens into other areas of public health.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity recently to sit down with Zachary Swingen, Lead GIS Coordinator at Milwauke...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System CDC vulnerability index COVID-19 Vaccination GIS for Health GIS technology Health Equity Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Manag Source Type: blogs
Pathogen Genomes as Global Public Goods (And Why They Should not Be Patented)
Jorge L. Contreras (University of Utah), Pathogen Genomes as Global Public Goods (And Why They Should not Be Patented), 55 NYU J. Int ’l& Policy (Forthcoming): During past viral outbreaks, researchers rushed to patent genomic sequences of the viruses as... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 6, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Care aides in long-term care were traumatized during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on long-term care in Canada. During the first two waves in 2020, over 80 percent of all Canadian COVID-19 deaths happened in long-term care homes. While vaccination and policy changes have helped to reduce the number of deaths, long-term care homes are still experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks and severe staffing shortages.
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Care aides in long-term care were traumatized during COVID-19 originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Carole Estabrooks, PhD, RN Tags: Conditions COVID Geriatrics Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 706
Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 706:Haycocknema perplexuminfectionWow, I am so impressed by the responses on this case! There are many helpful comments and links in the comment section of this blog which you may want to check out.Haycocknema perplexuminfection (haycocknematosis) is an extremely rare parasitic infection. There have only been 13 humans cases (including this one) reported to date. As Florida Fan noted, Blaine and I previously presented this case as a poster, and it has now been published inEmerging Infectious Diseases. You can read the articleHERE. The article describes the diagnostic features of...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - January 1, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Measles: a preventable disease that is making a comeback
I see there has been yet another measles outbreak; at the time of writing, the count is 59 in central Ohio. All are either unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated. No doubt local pediatricians are being flooded with worried parents proffering their offspring for viewing with the statement, “Could this rash be measles, doctor?” This certainly
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Measles: a preventable disease that is making a comeback originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 30, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Martin C. Young, MD Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
“All Men Would Be Tyrants.” History Reverberates!
By MIKE MAGEE
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
This striking and sweeping statement of values, the Preamble to our Constitution, was anything but reassuring to the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the Founding Fathers. Abigail Adams well represented many of them in her letter to John Adams in March, 1776, when she...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy AMA Contraception Dobbs v. Jackson Mike Magee Women's Health Source Type: blogs
