Trump ’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
Randal O'TooleIt ’s an election year, so it must be time for some grandiose infrastructure proposals. Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR), chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has come out with a$494 billion five ‐year transportation proposal, which is a huge boost from Congress ’2015 five ‐year spending package of $305 billion. Congress writes a new highway& transit package about every five or six years; the 2015 one expires on September 30 of this year.In response, the Trump administration is rumored to finally be coming out with his$1 trillion infrastructu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Randal O ' Toole Source Type: blogs
Go-2 Spinal Stimulator Helps Return Leg Function: Interview with Jan Öhrström, Chairman of the Board, GTX Medical
GTX Medical, a medtech company with offices in The Netherlands and Switzerland, has announced that it received Breakthrough Device Designation for the Go-2 system, an implant that provides targeted epidural spinal stimulation therapy for patients with spinal cord injuries. The device aims to allow such patients to regain leg motor function and neurological control.
At present, patients with lower limb paralysis caused by traumatic spinal cord injuries have limited options in terms of regaining substantial functional recovery. The Go-2 systems aims to change this for patients with a sufficient number of remaining spinal ...
Source: Medgadget - June 25, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
Webinar tomorrow Tuesday, June 16th: Harnessing neuroplasticity to transform brain rehabilitation
Quick heads-up on an opportunity for clinicians to learn about an innovative program transforming brain injury rehab up in Canada.
When: Tue, June 16, 2020. 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Who:
Mark Watson, CEO ABI Wellness
Mia Burgess, CO-CEO, Brain Trust Canada
Shaun Porter, Director of Research ABI Wellness
What:
Brain Injury defined
What is neuroplasticity? How does it apply to treatment options?
Why do so many people struggle following brain injury? Why is brain injury so difficult to treat? How could we innovate?
What is new research suggesting could be possible following brain injury?
New Opportunities to become trained ...
Source: SharpBrains - June 15, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness ABI Wellness brain rehabilitation Brain Trust Canada brain-injury neuroplasticity treatment Source Type: blogs
Webinar on Tuesday, June 16th: Harnessing neuroplasticity to transform brain rehabilitation
Quick heads-up on an opportunity for clinicians to learn about an innovative program transforming brain injury rehab up in Canada.
When: Tue, June 16, 2020. 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Who:
Mark Watson, CEO ABI Wellness
Mia Burgess, CO-CEO, Brain Trust Canada
Shaun Porter, Director of Research ABI Wellness
What:
Brain Injury defined
What is neuroplasticity? How does it apply to treatment options?
Why do so many people struggle following brain injury? Why is brain injury so difficult to treat? How could we innovate?
What is new research suggesting could be possible following brain injury?
New Opportunities to become trained ...
Source: SharpBrains - June 15, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness ABI Wellness brain rehabilitation Brain Trust Canada brain-injury neuroplasticity treatment Source Type: blogs
International Chronic Pain Virtual Summit 2020
I am so happy to be part of this virtual summit especially under our current COVID19 disruptions! It’s FREE and more than 20 speakers from around the world are talking about the things that matter in pain rehabilitation and management. I might even drop in a word or two about occupational therapy….!Click the link and find out more! – click
Just to give you an idea of the speakers involved, you’ll get to hear from:
Professor Peter O’Sullivan
Professor Tasha Stanton
Lissanthea Taylor
Vidyamala Burch
Dr Stephen Grinstead
Kathy Hubble
Pete Moore
Prof Kim Burton
Prof A...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 14, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A Missed Opportunity for Universal Healthcare
Connie Chan
Phuoc Le
By PHUOC LE, MD and CONNIE CHAN
The United States is known for healthcare spending accounting for a large portion of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) without yielding the corresponding health returns. According to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), healthcare spending made up 17.7% ($3.6 trillion) of the GDP in the U.S. in 2018 – yet, poor health outcomes, including overall mortality, remain higher compared to other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. According to The Lancet, enacting a single-payer UHC system would likely result in $...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy AMA Arc Health Connie Chan Phuoc Le universal healthcare Source Type: blogs
Getting the NHS back on track: planning for the next phase of Covid-19
This report outlines the key challenges that local organisations will face over the coming months. It also suggests some changes in policy and practice that will be required as the NHS prepares to restart a wide range of services either paused or stopped when the pandemic struck. The key challenges identified are: funding; capacity; rehabilitation; health inequalities; regulation and inspections; system working; and managing public expectations.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 9, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
Details of 155 Immigration Detainers for U.S. Citizens
David J. BierImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) routinely requests that local law enforcement detain U.S. citizens to allow it to pick them up. ICE ’s recordslist 3,158 U.S. citizens as targets of ICE detainers from October 2002 to September 2019. Another 1.6 percent of actual ICEarrests through Secure Communities —the targeting system that ICE uses to issue detainers—were U.S. citizens from October 2008 to April 2011—or 3,627 citizens. Immigration courts—again with incomplete records—show 2,549 removal proceedings terminated in the favor of U.S. citizens from 2002 to June 9, 2017.These totals undercount...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
It's not just the dying
As I occasionally point out here (sorry to be a downer) everybody dies. Therefore, in public health, when we measure problems or evaluate policies we don ' t just count deaths. Comparing one problem to another requires, first that we estimate the number of life years lost. As a person of oldness I am not actually offended, nor do I feel discriminated against, by the proposition that we ought to care more about a problem that will kill 1,000 people under 20 than one that will kill 1,000 people over age 80. Some people have tried to argue that because Covid is more deadly among old people, it isn ' t that big of a deal...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 18, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
All rise now — just how fit are you?
How fit are you, really? Fitness is not always best measured by parameters like your weight, your ability to run a 5K, or whether you can do 10 push-ups. Instead, one test of fitness is how well you can stand from a seated position.
Try this: Rise from the floor without using your hands
Before you start: Keep in mind that this test is not for everyone. For instance, someone with a sore knee, arthritis, poor balance, or another kind of limitation would have difficulty doing the test with little or no assistance.
Instructions: Sit on the floor with your legs crossed or straight out. Now stand up again. (This may not an easy ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Solan Tags: Exercise and Fitness Health Healthy Aging Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Flexible Throat Sensor Powered by AI to Track COVID-19 Symptoms
As COVID-19 continues to infect more people around the world, there are still few reliable ways to spot the early onset of the disease and to monitor its symptoms in detail, particularly at a distance and while patients are at home.
Now, researchers at Northwestern University have partnered with the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) to develop a tiny flexible electronic device that can track coughing, body temperature, and respiration rate continuously. The device produces a great deal of detailed data that the researchers hope to be able to process using artificial intelligence...
Source: Medgadget - May 4, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Critical Care Diagnostics Geriatrics Informatics Materials Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 117 | Wellthy, Lionrock Recovery, Datos and Gaido
On Episode 117, we bring you the late-night edition of Health in 2 Point 00. Jess asks me about Wellthy Therapeutics raising $4 million—they’re a digital therapeutics company I’ve been working with out of the Bayer group, definitely a space to watch. Lionrock Recovery raises $7 million, lots of activity in this area of telehealth for recovery and rehabilitation. Also getting $7 million is Datos Health, an Israeli company with a remote monitoring platform. Finally, Biofourmis acquired Gaido Health, expanding into the oncology space. —Matthew Holt
The post Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 117 | Wellthy, Li...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Lionrock Recovery Wellthy Therapeutics Source Type: blogs
Chemotherapy and hearing loss: Monitoring is essential
Treatment for cancer is a difficult time for patients and their families. While there are significant benefits of chemotherapy in treating and managing many types of cancers, some of the negative side effects may not always be so obvious. One of the potential negative effects of chemotherapy that you may not be aware of is hearing loss. Hearing loss caused by chemotherapy is generally considered a type of sudden hearing loss, so monitoring hearing before and after treatment with hearing tests is important.
How are chemotherapy and hearing loss connected?
Hearing loss as a potential side effect of chemotherapy is more likel...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: James Naples, MD Tags: Cancer Ear, nose, and throat Hearing Loss Source Type: blogs
ASHA Voices: SLPs in Quarantine and a Look at PDPM 6 Months Later
This week on the podcast: What happens when health care workers are exposed to COVID-19? We hear from two SLPs who share their experiences with potential exposure and self-quarantine. We also check in on the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) six months after it went into effect in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
Read the transcript for this episode.
If you work in health care, there’s a possibility you will encounter a patient who has COVID-19. And if you are exposed without personal protective equipment (PPE) … What happens next?
In the first half of this episode, ASHA Voices speaks with two SLPs about their p...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 9, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Health Care Podcast Slider Speech-Language Pathology covid COVID-19 medicare PDPM Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Inpatient Psychiatric Stays From a Doctor ’ s Perspective
We’ve all heard scary inpatient stories from the psychiatric hospital. Perhaps you have a personal experience that you’d rather forget. In today’s podcast, Gabe asks a psychologist with 25 years of hospital experience the tough questions surrounding psych wards: Why do so many psychiatric inpatients seem to have such unpleasant — or even traumatizing — experiences while there? Are these stories the norm or the exception? For those who have had bad experiences, how can we change things?
Tune in to hear the unique perspective of Dr. David Susman, a licensed clinical psychologist who offers a deeper, ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Interview Podcast Psychiatry The Psych Central Show Treatment Source Type: blogs
