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Text Messages to Improve Medication Adherence and Secondary Prevention After Acute Coronary Syndrome: The TEXTMEDS Randomized Clinical Trial
CONCLUSIONS: A text message-based program had no effect on medical adherence but small effects on lifestyle risk factors.REGISTRATION: URL: https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=364448; Unique identifier: ANZCTR ACTRN12613000793718.PMID:35533220 | DOI:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056161
Source: Circulation - May 9, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Clara K Chow Harry Klimis Aravinda Thiagalingam Julie Redfern Graham S Hillis David Brieger John Atherton Ravinay Bhindi Derek P Chew Nicholas Collins Michael Andrew Fitzpatrick Craig Juergens Nadarajah Kangaharan Andrew Maiorana Michele McGrady Rohan Pou Source Type: research

Reducing health inequality in black, asian and other minority ethnic pregnant women: Impact of first trimester combined screening for placental dysfunction on perinatal mortality
CONCLUSIONS: First trimester combined screening for placental dysfunction is associated with a significant reduction in perinatal death in minority ethnic women. Health disparity for perinatal death amongst ethnic minority women demands urgent attention from both clinicians and health policy makers. The data of this study suggests that this ethnic health inequality may be avoidable.PMID:35104381 | DOI:10.1111/1471-0528.17109
Source: BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - February 1, 2022 Category: OBGYN Authors: Becky Liu Usaama Nadeem Alexander Frick Morakinyo Alakaloko Amar Bhide Basky Thilaganathan Source Type: research

Pandemic Fears: What the AIDS Battle Should Teach Us About COVID-19
By ANISH KOKA, MD As the globe faces a novel, highly transmissible, lethal virus, I am most struck by a medicine cabinet that is embarrassingly empty for doctors in this battle.  This means much of the debate centers on mitigation of spread of the virus.  Tempers flare over discussions on travel bans, social distancing, and self quarantines, yet the inescapable fact remains that the medical community can do little more than support the varying fractions of patients who progress from mild to severe and life threatening disease.  This isn’t meant to minimize the massive efforts brought to bear to keep pat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: CORVID-19 Health Policy Patients Physicians AIDS Anish Koka AZT coronavirus COVID-19 FDA novel coronavirus Pandemic Source Type: blogs

Weekly Postings
See something of interest? Please share our postings with colleagues in your institutions! Spotlight Deadline Extended! Apply by November 23 to participate in the 2019 Critical Appraisal Institute for Librarians! – Craving more confidence in leading EBM sessions for medical students? Puzzled on how to guide students about study design and in depth critical appraisal? Frustrated with statistics? This six week online program will develop librarian’s critical appraisal skills via enhanced understanding of research design, biomedical statistics, and clinical reasoning to apply knowledge in teaching target populations. ...
Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog - November 16, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Hannah Sinemus Tags: Weekly Postings Source Type: news

Is Teaching Meditation The New Bartending?
...there may actually be puritanical fanatics of conscience who even prefer to lie down and die on a certain nothing than an uncertain something. ~ Nietzsche ...every artist first attains the supreme pinnacle of his greatness when he can look down into himself and his art, when he can laugh at himself. ~ Nietzsche I found the recent "F*ck That" meditation video to be a skillful skewering of the spate of self-anointed meditation teachers. Since there is no unanimously accepted meditation teacher training certification or licensure program, anyone can call himself a "Meditation Teacher" with that title currently being as leg...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More
By JOE FLOWER Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast pile of money we siphon into health care in the United States every year is the underlying driver of almost every other problem with health care in the United States from lack of access to waste to fragmentation to poor quality. We can’t afford to fix the problems, cover everyone, do real outreach, build IT systems that are interoperable and transparent and doc-friendly — or so it seems, because at least on weak examination every fix seems to add even more cost. And in the old ways of doing things in health care, the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs

What is Life Coaching?
If you were to stop 100 people in the street and ask them what life is, you would probably get some strange looks, but I would imagine everybody would be able to give you an answer of some description. If you had too much time on your hands and you were to follow that up by asking them if they knew what a coach was, again most would be able to give you a satisfactory answer. So why do you think it is, that if you stopped 100 people and asked them to explain what Life Coaching is you would get more blank stares than if you asked the way to the gym at a Star Trek convention? You cannot get too many more obvious words than, ...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - February 25, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs