Don ’t forget about influenza and the lessons learned from COVID [PODCAST]
“When the public was made aware of the risk of transmitting the virus and the far-reaching measures of social distancing, closing schools, and lock-down, most Americans willingly complied. After all, they became aware, for the first time, of the risk of aerosolized viral particles present in theatres, churches, restaurants, and classrooms. But we physicians already […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast COVID-19 coronavirus Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 19th 2021
In conclusion, airway pressure treatment and adherence are independently associated with lower odds of incident AD diagnoses in older adults. Results suggest that treatment of OSA may reduce risk of subsequent dementia. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - April 18, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Future of Cryopreservation
The ability to cryopreserve and thaw organs via vitrification, without ice formation and significant tissue damage, allowing for indefinite storage time, would go a long way towards simplifying the logistics and reducing the costs of present organ donation and future tissue engineering of organs for transplantation. Cryopreservation via vitrification also offers the possibility of indefinitely storing the terminally ill and recently deceased until such time as medical science advances to the point of restoration. This has been practiced for several decades by the small cryonics industry.
Cryonics is a long shot, but...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 12, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
NIRVANA Test Rapidly Identifies and Sequences COVID-19 Viral Variants
Researchers at the Salk Institute in California, working with outside collaborators, have developed a COVID-19 test that can rapidly identify and sequence the causative virus, helping to track new variants. The test, called “nanopore sequencing of isothermal rapid viral amplification for near real-time analysis,” (NIRVANA), can also simultaneously test for other viruses, such as influenza, that may cause similar symptoms.
As SARS-CoV-2 continues to mutate, health authorities are increasingly concerned about new variants being more dangerous, more transmissible, and more difficult to treat or vaccinate agains...
Source: Medgadget - April 5, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Biden Infrastructure Plan: Wrong Direction
Chris EdwardsPresident Biden has proposed a $2.3 trillion infrastructureplan. It moves entirely in the wrong direction by increasing subsidies and centralizing power. A better approach would be to end federal subsidies and decentralize infrastructure ownership and decisionmaking.Biden ’s infrastructure subsidies would go to: 1) federal government assets, 2) state and local government assets, and 3) private assets. The following summarizes Biden’s proposed subsidies for each type of asset and the better reform approach of freeing assets from federal control.1. Federal Government AssetsBiden would subsidize Amtrak $...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 1, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s Not‐Really‐Necessary Plan
Randal O'ToolePresident Biden ’s proposedinfrastructure plan includes $621 billion for transportation. It would spend $115 billion on accelerated road and bridge repairs, $20 billion for “vision zero” and other anti‐auto programs, $85 billion for mass transit, and $80 billion for Amtrak’s backlog and expansion of Amtrak service. It also would spend $174 billion supporting electric vehicle manufacturers, $25 billion on airports, and $17 billion on inland waterways. That’ s $104 billion short of $621 billion, but the White House press release doesn’t say where that $104 billion will go.Non ‐transpo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Randal O ' Toole Source Type: blogs
Biden Proposes Massive Corporate Welfare
Chris EdwardsPresident Biden is introducing an infrastructureplan today costing $2 trillion. The plan is a combination of subsidies for corporations and subsidies for state and local governments. Both types of subsidies are unneeded and wasteful.Bidenwants $135 billion for highways and bridges, $111 billion for water supply, $100 billion for schools, $85 billion for transit, $25 billion for airports, $17 billion for waterways and seaports, and much else. State and local governments own these assets and can fund them with their own taxes and user fees. There is no economic reason for federal subsidies for any of these ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
No mass shooting is “worse” than another mass shooting
It is a macabre fact. The easing of COVID shutdowns has brought back mass shootings in the U.S. With almost no packed schools, movie theaters, malls, airports, and fewer packed workplaces during the last year, mass shootings did not lead the news. Now they are back. This month’s shootings at Atlanta spas and at a […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/martha-rosenberg" rel="tag" > Martha Rosenberg < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
New Documentary on Modernization and Indigenous Tribes in India
Ian V ásquezSome 30 years ago, the Indian government displaced tens of thousands of families as part of its Sardar Sarovar Dam project. The families belonged to indigenous forest tribes that have been living in the jungle for thousands of years. They were resettled in mainstream villages where they were given land an d were much more integrated with modern society. At the time and since, many activists claimed that tribespeople would not be able to cope with the shift from subsistence agriculture in the forest to modern commercial life in mainstream villages, would lose their land and other compensation to loan sharks, ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 26, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
The 5 Levels Of Automation In Medicine
“Good morning! How may I help you today?” asks the virtual assistant as you boot your telemedicine app. After experiencing a sore throat and runny nose for a few days, you’ve decided to seek medical attention. You share your symptoms with the assistant who subsequently suggests a cause after scanning its database. “There’s an 83% chance that you are experiencing allergic symptoms,” replies the chatbot. “I will send you your prescription shortly, but if you are not satisfied or still feel unwell, please request for a human physician.”
Considering the likelihood of the diagnosis and the deductive prowess o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education ibm watson automation A.I. Andrew Ng A.I. assistant Journal Of Clinical Oncology Behold.ai Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Testing in Schools, Family Caregivers, U.S. Entrepreneurship: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 testing in schools, giving a voice to family caregivers, preparing for daylight saving time, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 12, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Influenza: a deadly risk in schools before COVID
The Washington Post published an interesting article in its weekly health section on March 2. 2021. The article had an impactful graphic using data from the Centers for Disease Control that showed the number of pediatric deaths due to influenza over the last four years. Of course, this was a flu season and year unlike […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 11, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/joan-naidorf" rel="tag" > Joan Naidorf, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Credentials Done Right
Vaccine credentials could be a safe and convenient way for people to resume a more normal daily life, but it ’s critical that we do it in the right way. Public and private sector collaboration is essential, and we must be driven by science and our best understanding of what vaccines mean for immunity under different conditions. It’s reasonable to expect that some businesses, schools and countries may r equire it – just like yellow fever vaccine certificates.So if we are moving toward those uses, we need to create a way patients can share their vaccination status if they wish to do so, with tools designed to be volunt...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - March 11, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s “Wait in Mexico” Is Worse Than Trump’s “Remain in Mexico”
David J. BierYesterday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkasupdated the press on the Biden administration ’s efforts to “replace the cruelty of the past administration,” especially the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program where asylum seekers were stuck in Mexico for months. Yet in practically the same breath, Mayorkas articulated an even worse policy: Wait in Mexico.Of asylum seekers, he said, “They need to wait. But they need to wait with a particular goal in mind. We are not saying don ’t come. We are saying don’t come now.” He clarified that if they do...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 2, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
How do we treat the unvaccinated? And how can they treat us?
As the challenges to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine get harder and not easier, and as the pressure for schools to open their doors for in-person learning, as long as teachers will get vaccinated, rises, the question remains: What about those who choose not to? In the midst of so many individuals clamoring […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 24, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/nina-shapiro" rel="tag" > Nina Shapiro, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
