Beyond Vaccination: New Measures Needed to Protect Hospitals and the Public Against the Flu
By MARC M. BEUTTLER, MD
Every year at this time, you hear warnings that flu season has arrived. New data from the CDC indicates the season is far from over. So, you are urged by health authorities to get a flu shot. What you may not realize is how the flu can affect the hospitals you and your loved ones rely on for care.
In January, the large urban hospital where I am an intern faced the worst flu outbreak it has ever seen. Nearly 100 staff members tested positive for the flu. Residents assigned to back-up coverage were called to work daily to supplement the dwindling ranks of the sick. Every hospital vis...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Hospitals Medical Practice Marc Beuttler Vaccination Source Type: blogs
How To Go Beyond The Airline Medical Kit To Keep Passengers Healthy In The Future?
Humanity has come a long way from treating patients who have fallen off cliffs after having tried to fly, dressed like birds: parallel to the development of flying, the practice of how to keep people alive during flights has also greatly evolved. How can digital health add to the practice of aviation medicine in the future and make sure that passengers step off the plane as healthy as they got in?
From Icarus through hot air balloons to mid-air
meditation
The human desire to conquer the sky is a
thousand-year-old story, with tales such as the Greek myth about Daedalus and
Icarus. The duo wanted to escape from Crete,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 21, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers aero aeronautics aviation emergency emergency medicine flight flight medicine Healthcare portable portable diagnostics predictive prevention technology wearables Source Type: blogs
Drum roll please … presenting this year ’ s winners of our F1000Prime Awards
Throughout the year our Faculty works tirelessly to ensure we never miss a notable article to help us stay on top of the literature. Therefore, each year it’s fitting that we recognise their valuable work by way of two types of award, namely our AFM Travel Grant Awards and Faculty Member of the Year Awards.
Whist, of course, we are grateful for all of the contributions each and every member of the F1000Prime Faculty makes, these awards acknowledge those who have made extraordinary contributions and whose recommendations have proved particularly popular and engaging throughout the year.
Thank you very much to our entire F...
Source: Naturally Selected - March 1, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Steven Lokwan Tags: F1000 Institutions Researchers Source Type: blogs
U.S.-South Korea Alignment and the Hanoi Summit
Theoutline of the tentative Hanoi agreement released by Vox this morning indicates that Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will make significant progress on improving U.S.-North Korea relations at the summit. The two most important points in this respect are the signing of a peace declaration and the establishment of liaison offices. The peace declaration does not carry the same legally binding power as a peace treaty, but it represents a significant U.S. security assurance to North Korea —an assurance that has never been previously offered. Establishing liaison offices will provide a venue for regular, working-level exchanges...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
Research Integrity and Peer Review looks ahead to the World Conference on Research Integrity
On June 2-5, 2019, the research community will have an exciting opportunity to gather in Hong Kong at a global forum and address the challenges of promoting research integrity and the responsible conduct of research. The 6th edition of the World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) will be back in Asia for the first time since its 2010 meeting produced the groundbreaking Singapore Statement on Research Integrity ). This time, the focus will be “New Challenges for Research Integrity”.
What is the WCRI?
The World Conferences on Research Integrity are run by an independent foundation drawn from academia, funders, publi...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - February 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Susan V. Zimmerman Tags: Publishing Research Integrity and Peer Review Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 11th 2019
We report that the bone marrow stromal cell senescence is driven by p16INK4a expression. The p16INK4a-expressing senescent stromal cells then feedback to promote AML blast survival and proliferation via the SASP.
Importantly, selective elimination of p16INK4a-positive senescent bone marrow stromal cells in vivo improved the survival of mice with leukemia. Next, we find that the leukemia-driven senescent tumor microenvironment is caused by AML induced NOX2-derived superoxide. Finally, using the p16-3MR mouse model we show that by targeting NOX2 we reduced bone marrow stromal cell senescence and consequently reduced A...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
$100 Million Longevity Vision Fund Launches
A new fund to invest in companies working on aging recently launched, the $100 millions Longevity Vision Fund. From what has been said, and what was presented at the Longevity Leaders conference, it sounds very much as though the Longevity Vision Fund principals wish to follow in the footsteps of Juvenescence, with an initial focus on small molecule drug discovery infrastructure. Unlike Juvenescence, it will probably continue to focus on established infrastructure technologies related to age-related disease, such as diagnostics, and fairly safe work with modest benefits, such as stem cell therapies, rather than invest in a...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 7, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Do You Understand Just Why There Is Sudden Concern With The Chinese Having Access To Our Health Data?
Two articles I have spotted this week have raised concerns:First:China has a very unhealthy interest in our medical dataBy Clive Hamilton 13 Jan 2019 — 11:00 PMChinese companies are required by law to obey directives from Beijing's intelligence agencies. So why would our regulators permit a giant Australian healthcare provider that is privy to highly sensitive records on hundreds of thousands of Australians to be acquired by a Chinese company?T he Jangho Group, a Shanghai-based building supplies company, wants to take over Healius, an Australian company that operates 2400 pathology centres and 70 medical centres, and par...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 23, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
New Immigrants Are More Culturally Different than They Used to Be
Native-born American concerns about immigration are primarily abouthow immigration will affect the culture of the country as a whole and, to a lesser extent, how the newcomers will affect the economy. One’s personal economic situation is not a major factor. It’s reasonable to assume that the degree of cultural difference between native-born Americans and new immigrants affects the degree of cultural concern. Thus, Americans would likely be less concerned over immigrants from Canada or Singapore than they would be over immigrants from Egypt or Azerbaijan. A large team of psychologists recently created an index o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Cato's 2018 Immigration Research in Review
ConclusionImmigration has been one of the top policy issues since 2015. Cato scholars have been at the forefront of publishing new facts and figures to illuminate this debate. This post does not include our other activitiessuch as our work with Rep. Grothman (R-WI) to reduce immigrant welfare consumption, our numerouspublicdebates,summations of outside research, andweekly analysis of immigration-related events. We hope to continue this pace of original research in 2019 and beyond. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 31, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018: winning images
The objective of this collage is therefore to recognize diversity, as an essential aspect of our existence.
“Look into my eyes”Lidianne Salvatierra, Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), Brazil
Frontal face of a jumping spider (Salticidae). Jumping spiders have well developed eyes and can actually form images.
The post BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018: winning images appeared first on Research in progress blog. (Source: BioMed Central Blog)
Source: BioMed Central Blog - December 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Open Access Publishing Research in progress photo competition Source Type: blogs
Why Is the U.S. Economy Successful?
In a recenttalk, my Harvard colleague Martin Feldstein posits ten answers:An entrepreneurial culture. Individuals in the U.S. demonstrate a desire to start businesses and to grow them. There is little opprobrium in the U.S. for failing and starting again.A financial system that supports entrepreneurship. The United States has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors who are willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance those firms as they grow. The U.S. also has a large decentralized banking system with more than 7,000 sm...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 13, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs
Cheap Infrared Scanners Thanks to Quantum Effects and Wavelength Shifts
Infrared spectroscopy is commonly used for testing the strength of various materials, to study archaeological finds, and in forensics. It’s a bit of a niche in medicine, partially due to the fact that the visible spectrum is itself so useful and equipment relying on it cheap to acquire. Researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore have now developed an infrared sensing technique that relies on cheap visible spectrum detectors to do the job.
The researchers figured out how to split a laser beam into two lower energy, and therefore longer wavelength, beams. One beam is used for r...
Source: Medgadget - November 19, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs
