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The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 20, 2022 Edition-----In the US we have just had the usual mass-shootings last week! Hard to know why the population put up with it. On a larger scale the war is seemingly just getting worse and more lethal. While there is assassination there must be hope!In the UK all eyes are on just when the Truss implosion will actually happen.In OZ the biggest news has been the really Biblical floods in SE Australia, The Budget is also getting close!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/average-tax-rate-to-hit-record-high-this-decade-with-or-without-stage-three-cuts-20221008-p5bo78Average tax rate to h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Why Native Americans Are Dying Sooner
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that American life expectancy had taken a nosedive during the pandemic, with the biggest drop occurring among non-Hispanic American Indians and Alaska Natives. It was reassuring to see coverage of this terrible trend; but largely absent was the context and history underlying these disparities. The reasons why indigenous people were hit hardest by COVID-19 go beyond the fact that they also have very high rates of underlying comorbidities—like obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Instead the roots of health disparities among indigeno...
Source: TIME: Health - October 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Céline R. Gounder Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
How Technology Can Help Overcome Barriers to Getting Effective Therapies into Patients with Ultra Rare Disorders
The following is a guest article by Dr. Zach Landman, Co-Founder of Moonshots for Unicorns.
As a physician who trained at UCSF, Harvard, and Stanford, I assumed that when my youngest daughter, Lucy – at 10-months old – was diagnosed with an ultra-rare genetic disorder of glycosylation called PGAP3, the answers would reside within a hospital or academic laboratory.
Unfortunately, my pediatrician wife and I were told that our smiling, seemingly healthy babbling 10-month-old baby would likely never walk normally, never talk, and was likely to develop severe and refractory seizures at some point in her childhood. ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Healthcare IT AAV9 ASO CRISPR Dr. Zach Landman epalrestat Gene Therapy Invitae Patient Stories Patients Perlara PGAP3 PMM2 PRAX-222 Rare Diseases SCN2A SMA-1 Source Type: blogs
AI Startup AESOP Raises $3M to Tackle Medical and Billing Errors
Digital health startup AESOP Technology has raised a $2.95 million series pre-A round to address the growing medical and billing errors problem. The round was led by Taiwania Capital with participation from Colopl Next, 500 Startups, and BE Capital.
Originally from Taiwan, AESOP started as a university spin-off from Taipei Medical University (TMU). Professor Yu Chuan (Jack) Li, the founder and current president at the International Medical Informatics Association, spent ten years before AESOP working on big data approaches to reduce medication errors. He initially applied the model to launch a product, RxPrime (previo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT 500 Startups AESOP AESOP Technology BE Capital Colopl Next Dr. Jeremiah Scholl Dr. Jim Long DxPrime Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment International Med Source Type: blogs
U.S. Medical Schools Are Struggling to Overcome Centuries of Racism in Health Care
Derrick Morton was skeptical about working for Kaiser Permanente’s Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. The Pasadena, Calif., school hadn’t yet opened to students when he was offered a job in early 2020, and it felt risky to work for such a new institution. But Morton, who is Black, was eventually sold by the medical school’s mission: to train doctors with a strong focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion and to dismantle health disparities.
After a short time as an assistant professor of biomedical science, however, Morton says it became clear that the reality didn’t live up to his “great ex...
Source: TIME: Health - August 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Equality feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
CBD Could Help Cops Get Relief From Stress, Insomnia, and Chronic Pain. But Using It Puts Their Job in Jeopardy
There were moments in the past few years when Police Sgt. Brian Vaughan would have tried almost anything to break the cycle of sleeplessness that wore him down—to wash away the images, sounds, and smells of violence that stuck to his memory, and ease the constant pain that was shooting through his back. At one point, he found himself tempted to try CBD, a widely available cannabis derivative that can offer relief from many ailments.
“It would have been great to be able to take it and see if it helps,” says Vaughan, a 14-year law enforcement veteran and training coordinator for the police department in Dal...
Source: TIME: Health - July 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katja Ridderbusch Tags: Uncategorized Drugs freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Why It ’ s Way Harder to Get Tested for Monkeypox Than It Should Be
In June, when it became clear that the U.S. monkeypox outbreak that had begun a month before was not going to just peter out, federal officials met the outbreak with confidence. The pool of at-risk people seemed to be relatively shallow—mostly limited to men who had sex with other men, anyone who had other close contact with a confirmed or suspected case, and anyone who had recently traveled to a country where monkeypox was known to be circulating. A testing infrastructure for monkeypox was already in place through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its Laboratory Response Network (LRN), a ...
Source: TIME: Health - July 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Weather and Arthritis: Is There Really a Connection?
Three recent studies found weather does have some impact on arthritis pain. said a writer for the Harvard Health Blog.
Source: WebMD Health - July 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Soft sounds numb pain. Researchers may now know why
In 1960, a group of dentists published a curious study: when they played music for their patients during operations,
the people experienced less pain
. Some didn’t even need nitrous oxide or local anesthesia to get through unpleasant procedures.
Now a new paper untangles why this works—at least in mice. It’s an “elegant” study, says Eduardo Garza-Villarreal, a neurobiologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Juriquilla, who wasn’t involved with the research. The findings could give scientists new ways to treat pain in humans, he says.
In the decades since the 1960 study, researche...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - July 7, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Implementing Digital Strategies Helps Re-define the Healthcare Industry
The following is a guest article by Linda Comp-Noto, Division President, Healthcare Enterprise Operations at Teleperformance.
Digital transformation continues to dominate the headlines. Digitizing content helps companies across almost every industry increase efficiency, improve workflow, reduce costs, and raise productivity. For the healthcare industry – an industry that is conservative by nature – undergoing a transformation presents an opportunity to implement digital strategies across the board. Beyond the benefits listed above, I see the adoption of digital technologies as a way to improve the customer experience ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Customer Journey Mapping Digital Health Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Chatbots Healthcare Transformation Linda Comp-No Source Type: blogs
Accelerated hypofractionated breast radiotherapy with simultaneous integrated boost: a feasibility study
CONCLUSION: With this radiotherapy schedule, acute and late toxicity rates were acceptable with no adverse cosmesis. Local control, DFS, and OS were good.PMID:35796116 | DOI:10.3857/roj.2021.01053
Source: Cancer Control - July 7, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Budhi Singh Yadav Shipra Gupta Divya Dahiya Ankita Gupta Arun Singh Oinam Source Type: research
All About Anesthesia
If you’ve ever had a surgery or even a minor procedure, you’ve probably benefited from the medical marvel of anesthesia—the treatment that doctors, called anesthesiologists, give to keep you from feeling pain. And it’s come a long way since the discovery of diethyl ether. Here we dive into the different types, its history, and the way it works.
The chemistry of anesthetics has advanced since the 1840s, producing different types of anesthesia depending on the compounds involved. See more chemistry infographics like this one in C&EN’s Periodic Graphics collection. Click to enlarge.
Types of A...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - July 6, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Why the monkeypox outbreak is mostly affecting men who have sex with men
Ever since monkeypox started to sicken thousands of people worldwide this spring, two big questions have loomed: Why is a virus that has never managed to spread beyond a few cases outside Africa suddenly causing such a big, global outbreak? And why are the overwhelming majority of those affected men who have sex with men (MSM)?
A long history of work on sexually transmitted infections and early studies of the current outbreak suggest the answers may be linked: The virus may have made its way into highly interconnected sexual networks within the MSM community, where it can spread in ways that it cannot in the general p...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - June 20, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: Hospital shooting reveals so much
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
In this edition’s tidbits, the nation is once again dealing with an epidemic of shootings. Now a hospital joins schools, grocery stores and places of worship on the the recent list. I was struck by how much of the health care story was wrapped up in the tragic shooting where a patient took the life of Dr. Preston Phillips, Dr. Stephanie Husen, receptionist Am...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Hospitals Matthew Holt Chronic Back Pain Gun Control gun violence medical racism opiates orthopedic treatment structural racism Source Type: blogs
