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New app lets you check air quality as easily as checking the weather
Yareli Sanchez lives in Los Angeles and jogs regularly, but she never used to know if the day’s air quality was bad until after she had already set out for a run — her chest would tighten and it would become hard to breathe. She knew poor air quality triggered her asthma, but she didn’t have a convenient way to check the day’s pollution levels.
For the past few months, instead of using trial-and-error, she’s checked UCLA’s new AirForU app, which uses GPS data to give her local air quality ratings. The app is useful for anyone in the U.S. who sees a hazy skyline and wonders how safe it is to breathe outside air...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 23, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Temporal stability and responsiveness of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment following acquired brain injury - Lim PA, McLean AM, Kilpatrick C, DeForge D, Iverson GL, Silverberg ND.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the temporal stability and responsiveness of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in acquired brain injury (ABI). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: English-speaking adults with stroke or moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury were...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Current 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk threshold for statin eligibility is cost-effective for primary prevention
Commentary on: Pandya A, Sy S, Cho S, et al. Cost effectiveness of 10-year risk thresholds for initiation of statin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. JAMA 2015;314: 142–50 . Context The American College of Cardiology American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) cholesterol guidelines replaced the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III (NCEP/ATP III) in 2013,1 a change that was accompanied by significant controversy.2 Notable among the criticisms was that the pooled cohort equations (PCE) overestimates risk and coupled with the relatively lenient risk threshold (10-year PCE &g...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - November 24, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Yeboah, J. Tags: Health policy, Epidemiologic studies, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Neuromuscular disease, Stroke, Ischaemic heart disease, Musculoskeletal syndromes, Health economics, Health service research Economic analysis Source Type: research
Work productivity loss and indirect costs associated with new cardiovascular events in high-risk patients with hyperlipidemia: estimates from population-based register data in Sweden
Conclusions
Indirect costs related to work productivity losses of CV events are substantial in Swedish high-risk patients treated for hyperlipidemia and vary considerably by type of event.
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - November 25, 2015 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
MPPR Rollback and Mammography Protections in Consolidated Appropriations Act: A Victory for Patients and Providers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) applauds Congress for including access to imaging care protections for the most sick and injured of Medicare beneficiaries and women seeking mammograms in the Consolidated Appropriations Act. The legislation was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President today (Dec. 18).
“The ACR, its member physicians, patients and others have worked with Congress to improve and safeguard patient access to vital imaging care through the protections in this bill. The access to care that these steps will allow can literally mean the difference between life and death for many Americ...
Source: American College of Radiology - December 18, 2015 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Challenging return to play decisions: heat stroke, exertional rhabdomyolysis, and exertional collapse associated with sickle cell trait - Asplund CA, O'Connor FG.
CONTEXT: Sports medicine providers frequently return athletes to play after sports-related injuries and conditions. Many of these conditions have guidelines or medical evidence to guide the decision-making process. Occasionally, however, sports medicine pr...
Source: SafetyLit - March 3, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Perceived factors in return to work after acquired brain injury: a qualitative meta-synthesis - Frostad Liaset I, Lorås H.
OBJECTIVES A substantial proportion of survivors after brain injuries originating from trauma, tumour, or stroke may experience reduced ability to work due to a number of challenges. The purpose of this review is to summarize and highlight factors that hav...
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Needs of Internally Displaced Women and Children in Baghdad, Karbala, and Kirkuk, Iraq
Conclusions
The vulnerability of this population is great, and the emotional trauma of multiple displacements, kidnapping and deaths from intentional violence is great. While some aid is reaching families, much more is needed. Though Iraq is a middle income country, reaching the IDPs in central Iraq will take much more in international assistance than is currently being received. Unfortunately, at this time of great need, assistance is being cut back throughout the region because of lack of funding.10 The local civil society organizations which have sprung up in many locations to assist IDPs, offer an avenue for targeting ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 10, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gilbert Burnham Source Type: research
Mathematical modelling of blood-brain barrier failure and oedema - Lang GE, Vella D, Waters SL, Goriely A.
Injuries such as traumatic brain injury and stroke can result in increased blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability. This increase may lead to water accumulation in the brain tissue resulting in vasogenic oedema. Although the initial injury may be localized,...
Source: SafetyLit - June 27, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Diagnosis and mortality in prehospital emergency patients transported to hospital: a population-based and registry-based cohort study - Christensen EF, Larsen TM, Jensen FB, Bendtsen MD, Hansen PA, Johnsen SP, Christiansen CF.
We examined the diag...
Source: SafetyLit - July 9, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Rationale and design of a randomized trial of automated hovering for post-myocardial infarction patients: The HeartStrong program
Conclusions Our randomized controlled trial of the HeartStrong program will provide an evaluation of a state-of-the-art behavioral economic intervention with a number of important pragmatic features. These include a tailored intervention responding to patient activity, streamlining of consent and implementation processes using new technologies, outcomes centrally important to patients, and the ability to implement rapid-cycle innovation.
Source: American Heart Journal - July 8, 2016 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Rationale and design of a randomized trial of automated hovering for post –myocardial infarction patients: The HeartStrong program
Conclusions Our randomized controlled trial of the HeartStrong program will provide an evaluation of a state-of-the-art behavioral economic intervention with a number of important pragmatic features. These include a tailored intervention responding to patient activity, streamlining of consent and implementation processes using new technologies, outcomes centrally important to patients, and the ability to implement rapid-cycle innovation.
Source: American Heart Journal - July 27, 2016 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
The Importance of Talent and Chemistry in New Patient-First Business Models
Forward-thinking life sciences companies are shifting to new patient-centered business models, leaving the traditional volume-first approach behind. This move has tremendous implications, not only for patients but also for the current workforce and future talent: life sciences companies need to design new roles and rethink their talent strategies, including the ways they recruit, train, motivate and retain the best teams.The shift from volume to valueThe historical model in life sciences has been based on selling products, where more was better - more products, more market share and then more profits. Value-based reimburse...
Source: EyeForPharma - August 12, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jeff Elton Source Type: news
The Long ‐term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition: Evidence from the 1959–1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine
We report evidence of long‐term adverse health impacts of fetal malnutrition exposure of middle‐aged survivors of the 1959–1961 China Famine using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long‐lasting impacts on both physical health and cognitive abilities, including the risks of suffering a stroke, physical disabilities in speech, walking and vision, and measures of mental acuity even half a century after the tragic event. Our findings imply that policies and programs that improve the nutritional status of pregnant women yield benefits ...
Source: Health Economics - August 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Seonghoon Kim, Belton Fleisher, Jessica Ya Sun Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Neuropathophysiology of brain injury - Quillinan N, Herson PS, Traystman RJ.
Every year in the United States, millions of individuals incur ischemic brain injury from stroke, cardiac arrest, or traumatic brain injury. These acquired brain injuries can lead to death or long-term neurologic and neuropsychological impairments. The mec...
Source: SafetyLit - August 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
