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A Tale of Two Telehealth Acquisitions
Telemedicine companies are actively looking for ways to open the sector up to broader adoption. Partnerships and acquisitions seem to be the fastest means to that end, as two recent telemedicine deals would suggest. InTouch Health, a Santa Barbara, CA-based telemedicine firm, said it will acquire REACH Health, an Alpharetta, GA-based telemedicine software company.  Shortly after the deal was announced, Boston, MA-based American Well, reported its agreement to acquire Avizia, a prominent player in the acute care telehealth space. Financial terms were not disclosed for either deal. "The telehealth industry is fragmented and...
Source: MDDI - May 2, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Digital Health Business Source Type: news

Compound improves stroke outcome by reducing lingering inflammation
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) An experimental compound appears to improve stroke outcome by reducing the destructive inflammation that can continue months after a stroke, scientists report.Rats consuming compound 21 following a clot-based stroke -- the most common type in humans -- don't have a smaller stroke size but do have better memory and movement in its aftermath, says Dr. Adviye Ergul, vascular physiologist and Regents' Professor in the Department of Physiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Silent pauses in aphasia
Publication date: Available online 7 April 2018 Source:Neuropsychologia Author(s): Georgia Angelopoulou, Dimitrios Kasselimis, George Makrydakis, Maria Varkanitsa, Petros Roussos, Dionysis Goutsos, Ioannis Evdokimidis, Constantin Potagas Pauses may be studied as an aspect of the temporal organization of speech, as well as an index of internal cognitive processes, such as word access, selection and retrieval, monitoring, articulatory planning, and memory. Several studies have demonstrated specific distributional patterns of pauses in typical speech. However, evidence from patients with language impairment is sparse and res...
Source: Neuropsychologia - April 8, 2018 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Accuracy of Prehospital Identification of Stroke in a Large Stroke Belt Municipality.
CONCLUSIONS: EMD and EMS personnel in a large city in the Southeastern United States, with high stroke prevalence, had a relatively high sensitivity in identifying acute stroke patients. Paramedic accuracy was augmented by positive CPSS screening and by EMD recognition of stroke. PMID: 29596006 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Prehospital Emergency Care - March 31, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Prehosp Emerg Care Source Type: research

Validating the TeleStroke Mimic Score Clinical Sciences
We report the area under the curve in receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis with 95% confidence interval for our previously derived TM score in which lower TM scores correspond with a higher likelihood of being a stroke mimic.Results—Based on final diagnosis at the end of the telestroke consultation, there were 630 of 1930 (32.6%) stroke mimics in the external validation cohort. All 6 variables included in the score were significantly different between patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease versus stroke mimics. The TM score performed well (area under curve, 0.72; 95% confidence interval, 0.70–0.73; P
Source: Stroke - February 26, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Syed F. Ali, Gordian J. Hubert, Jeffrey A. Switzer, Jennifer J. Majersik, Roland Backhaus, L. Wylie Shepard, Kishore Vedala, Lee H. Schwamm Tags: Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke, Ischemic Stroke Original Contributions Source Type: research

New stem-cell based stroke treatment repairs damaged brain tissue
(University of Georgia) A team of researchers at the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center and ArunA Biomedical, a UGA startup company, have developed a new treatment for stroke that reduces brain damage and accelerates the brain's natural healing tendencies in animal models.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 15, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Cardiac output changes after osmotic therapy in neurosurgical and neurocritical care patients: A systematic review of the clinical literature
ConclusionsMannitol or HTS administration seems to induce an enhancement of cardiac performance; being more prominent after HTS infusion. This effect combined with mannitol‐induced enhancement of diuresis and HTS‐promoted increase of plasma sodium concentration could partially explain the effects of osmotherapy on cerebral hemodynamics.
Source: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - December 1, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Georgia Tsaousi, Elisabetta Stazi, Marco Cinicola, Federico Bilotta Tags: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META ‐ANALYSIS Source Type: research

Ambient Ozone Pollution and Daily Mortality: A Nationwide Study in 272 Chinese Cities
Conclusions: Our findings provide robust evidence of higher nonaccidental and cardiovascular mortality in association with short-term exposure to ambient ozone in China. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1849 Received: 4 March 2017 Revised: 3 October 2017 Accepted: 20 October 2017 Published: 21 November 2017 Address correspondence to H. Kan, Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, P.O. Box 249, 130 Dong-An Road, Shanghai 200032, China. Telephone: 86 (21) 5423 7908. Email: kanh@fudan.edu.cn and M. Zhou, National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chines...
Source: EHP Research - November 21, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Daniil Lyalko Tags: Research Source Type: research

Is it an Emergency? Insurer Asks Patients to Question ED Visits
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Alison Wrenne was making waffles for her two young children one morning when abdominal pain forced her to the floor. A neighbor who is a physician assistant urged her to go to the emergency room. Wrong decision, according to her health insurer. Wrenne was diagnosed with a ruptured ovarian cyst, but Anthem said that wasn't an emergency and stuck her with a $4,110 bill. "How are you supposed to know that?" said the 34-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky. "I'm not a doctor ... that's what the emergency room is for." In an effort to curb unnecessary and costly ER visits, the Blue Cross-B...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - November 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tom Murphy, Associated Press Tags: Patient Care News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

Novel Algorithm to Help Identify Stroke Mimics
Stroke is a major cause of disability in the United States. A portion of patients presenting with stroke-like symptoms in the emergency room who receive tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) do not end up having a true stroke, leading to unnecessary health-care costs. The aim of our study is to identify those patients who have a high likelihood of experiencing a stroke mimic using a novel stroke mimic score and to identify a cutoff point with a high specificity of ruling in stroke mimics.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - November 6, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Nadeem Israr Khan, Shilpa Chaku, Christina Goehl, Laura Endris, Georgia Mueller-Luckey, Fazeel M. Siddiqui Source Type: research

Associations between Ambient Fine Particulate Oxidative Potential and Cardiorespiratory Emergency Department Visits
Conclusions: Lag 0–2 OPDTT was associated with ED visits for multiple cardiorespiratory outcomes, providing support for the utility of OPDTT as a measure of fine particle toxicity. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1545 Received: 23 December 2016 Revised: 4 August 2017 Accepted: 12 August 2017 Published: 26 October 2017 Please address correspondence to J.Y. Abrams, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCEZID/DHCPP, 1600 Clifton Rd. NE, CDC Mailstop A30, Atlanta, GA 30333 USA. Telephone: (404) 639-5121. Email: jabrams@cdc.gov Supplemental Material is available online (https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1545). The authors ...
Source: EHP Research - October 26, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Daniil Lyalko Tags: Research Source Type: research