Little Stories on a Medical Librarian ’ s Impact
I want to thank the many people who have shared some of their impact stories. I thought I would post these as little vignettes to serve as a sort of “Chicken Soup for the Librarian’s Soul.” While these stories may short, the impact of the medical librarian is not.
All stories are told in the first person. They are not my stories, they are the stories from the emails librarians have sent me.
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I bumped into a nurse who I was doing research for the other day. She thanked me for all of the work I did on INR (international normalize ratio) levels and Coumadin in patients with Cov...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - October 5, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Why mandating boosters for college kids is a no good, very bad, dumb idea 
This study reinforced prior research that measured these responses up to 12 months. The stimulation of an immune response after a mild infection can even be demonstrated in the absence of actual seroconversion (detectable prior infection by antibodies) at the level of T-cells. The presence of effective immune memory, both humoral (antibody) and cellular components, after even a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection is no longer a matter of debate. One might be tempted to argue that repeated boosting can permanently suppress infection. Unfortunately, all available evidence suggests that this increased protection from infection is ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka COVID-19 vaccine Viral Myalgia Source Type: blogs
Qatar: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Qatar adopted a spectrum of policies and health measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 and encouraged its innovation ecosystem to play a role in fighting the pandemic. The health sector has gained experience during the pandemic that might inform response to future spikes in demand for health system resources. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 9, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Hamad Al-Ibrahim; Nazia Wolters; Mahshid Abir Source Type: blogs
The War in Afghanistan Has Not Ended If “Over the Horizon” Operations Continue
Jordan CohenSecretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee and said that despite not having U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the difficulty of “over the horizon operations” can be overcome by using intelligence from “a variety of sources. ” These types of operations rely on intelligence and the ability to station U.S. soldiers in partner countries. In return, the U.S. is technically still fighting, though without directly risking American lives. If this continues, it means that the U.S. is not withdrawing from Afghanistan, instead choosing to continue fighting a losi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 13, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Biden Should Extend a “Public Option” as a Message to “Health Care Royalists ”
By MIKE MAGEE
In this world of political theatrics, with Democratic legislators from Texas forced into exodus to preserve voters’ rights, and Tucker Carlson rantings about Rep. Eric Swalwell riding shirtless on a camel in Qatar streaming relentlessly, Americans can be excused if they missed a substantive and historic news event last week.
On Friday, July 9th, President Biden signed a far-reaching executive order intended to fuel social and economic reform, and in the process created a potential super-highway sized corridor for programs like universal healthcare. In the President’s view, the enemy of the common ma...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics Public Health Biden Health insurance Mike Magee Public Option Source Type: blogs
Connection Is Healthcare
By TOMER BEN-KIKI
The American people can’t afford partisan politics that increase long-term healthcare costs.
When the GOP came to the table with a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal last week, I was pleased to see that they had increased funding for broadband access to $68 billion.
The President wants $100 billion for broadband expansion, but a meaningful increase before the soft deadline of June 7 was a positive step.
Politics aside, the pandemic made it clear how dependent we are on the issue of broadband internet access.after all, broadband underpinned nearly everything that was done to keep the economy...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech broadband broadband access Happify Health Telehealth tomer ben-kiki Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 and the Shift Towards Telemedicine: Developing a Regulatory Foundation in a Post-Pandemic World
This article argues that regulations ought to be developed in Qatar for telemedicine. There has been... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 19, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
9 Take-Aways About Digital Health From 2020
Finally, we can say that the surreal year of 2020 is behind us as we welcome a new year rich in potential for digital health and (hopefully) full of good news! Even though the year that went by was dominated with news regarding the novel coronavirus, there were also other important developments in the digital health world; some of which were also shaped by the pandemic.
As such, before diving into what lies ahead of this field in 2021, let’s take a step back and contemplate 9 take-aways about digital health from 2020. These can give us further insights into how those relevant trends will shape up in the near future.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - January 5, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Robotics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones AI fda smartwatch wearables fitnes Source Type: blogs
Helping shape the future of lifelong learning via SEK Education Group
This week, as many students around the globe finally go back to school to meet their peers and teachers in person for the first time since March, it is an honor to announce that our very own Álvaro Fernández Ibáñez has joined the International Advisory Board of SEK Education Group, which runs 9 bilingual IB schools, and a major university, in Spain, France, Ireland and Qatar.
He (and us) look forward to seeing over 9,000 students from 70 different nationalities plus their many teachers and administrators, further develop their unique brains and minds in years ahead!
About SEK Education Group:
With schools in Madrid, Ba...
Source: SharpBrains - September 9, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning bilingual brains Lifelong-learning minds schooling schools SEK Education Group students teachers Source Type: blogs
What Parents Should Know About Digital Health
A recent report titled “Digital Health Generation” found that more than 70% of young people are using apps, YouTube videos and other digital technologies such as Fitbits to track and manage their health. This includes children as young as eight years old. While it’s encouraging to see the younger generation adopt digital health solutions at such a young age, there are certain aspects of this adoption that they and their parents must take into consideration.
“Over recent years there has been a surge of new online apps, blogs and videos specifically targeting young people with messages about personal improvement i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 27, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Policy Security & Privacy digital health kids fitness trackers data privacy Source Type: blogs
New Maritime Report Marked by Factual Errors and Dubious Claims
Colin GrabowThe Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments recently released a report on the U.S. maritime sector that hasgarneredconsiderablepraise from the Jones Act lobby. That ’s no surprise. EntitledStrengthening the U.S. Defense Maritime Industrial Base, the report explicitly calls for the Jones Act ’s retention. Overlooked amidst the plaudits, however, are factual errors and dubious assertions that call its endorsement of the law into question. This blog post will lay some of these out.Factual errorsThe report includes a number of factual errors. In this section, I note these incorrect cl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 28, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Do Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Really Care About Wealth Inequality?
Ryan BourneSenator Bernie Sanders has called levels of U.S. wealth inequality“outrageous,” “grotesque” and “immoral.” Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is pushing for a wealth tax to curb what she describes as “runaway wealth concentration.” Yet despite their rhetoric, it’s not clear, deep down, whether either really cares about wealth inequality per se or believes that reducing it should be an overriding public policy goal.To see why, consider this. Every year,Credit Suisse calculates a wealth “Gini coefficient” for major countries, indicating their level of wealth inequality in a s...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 5, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Job: Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology – Cornell University
Assistant Professor; Fungal Biology; tenure track, academic year appointment (9-month) https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/15107
The search is looking for someone with research interests and expertise in the biology of plant-associated fungi and are particularly interested in learning of talented postdoctoral scholars or junior faculty who are or identify with underrepresented groups in science, representing diversity in its broadest sense.
The School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University (https://sips.cals.cornell.edu) invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor lev...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - October 21, 2019 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: fungi Source Type: blogs
What Happens When Genomics Meets Politics?
The number of people having their genomes sequenced
could reach more than 100 million by 2025, researchers estimated. Policy-makers around the world started to realize
the incredible potential in genomics for population health in the last 3-5
years, but there are huge question marks whether they can manage the use of this
incredibly useful pool of data in an appropriate framework, with well-thought-out
means, for the right purposes, meaning for the well-being of humans and
communities in the present and the future. Here, we launched an article series
to look at the countries with the most experience. Let’s start with a t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 28, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Genomics Healthcare Policy data data privacy data security Estonia ethics Gene genetic genetics Genome genome sequencing health data personal genomics Personalized medicine population population genomic Source Type: blogs
Interventionists Evade Responsibility for Their Policy Disasters
Ted Galen CarpenterAs I point out in a newNational Interest Onlinearticle, a multi-sided struggle for power in Libya continues to fester more than eight years after the United States led an air war to help rebels oust longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi.Libya joins Iraq and Syria as a classic example of the failed U.S. regime-change strategy.Fighting between Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ’s so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) and the even more misnamed Government of National Accord (GNA) has intensified in and around the capital, Tripoli. The LNA boasted on September 11 that its forces had routed troops of the Sarraj milit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 20, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
