Up Your Game With NIH Kahoot! Quizzes
NIH is now a premium partner with Kahoot! Credit: NIGMS.
We’re excited to announce our new partnership with Kahoot! Although we aren’t new Kahoot! gamers, we’ve recently partnered with them to provide you quizzes from across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a single place. “Reaching young people to teach them about biomedical science and inspire them to pursue careers in science is critically important to ensuring a diverse and vibrant biomedical research enterprise,” says NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch, Ph.D. “Our partnership with Kahoot! expands NIH’s STEM offerings, providing educators with free, in...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: STEM Education Source Type: blogs
This Sleep Pattern Accelerates Memory Loss – Possible Link to Alzheimer ’ s
Sleep pattern lowered levels of an antioxidant that helps fight cellular damage, such as that caused by Alzheimer's. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - August 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Dementia Memory Sleep Source Type: blogs
In the trenches of health care: Facing unbearable strain
I’m so sorry, but the pain was too much, and I couldn’t continue. I have witnessed patients crying themselves to sleep while nurses held their hands, praying for their treatments to be approved, giving them one more chance at life. Nurses try to juggle 8, 9, 10, or more patients during their shifts, holding onto
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In the trenches of health care: Facing unbearable strain originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Anonymous Tags: Physician Critical Care Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Cold Comfort
I don ' t publish comments that are ridiculous. It ' s that simple. I ' m trying to keep the discourse here at least reasonably reality based.Now we hear from the three comforters. In the play J.B., MacLeish makes Eliphaz a psychiatrist, Zophar a priest, and Bildad a communist. In other words he translates the comforters into contemporary discourse, but just as in the original, their attempts at comforting Job are pretty much gibberish and no help at all. Here in the original Eliphaz basically says that all people are miserable sinners, no-one is innocent, Job must have done something to earn his fate. Obviously this makes...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Sleep Pattern Linked to Repetitive Negative Thoughts (M)
A change to the daily routine that may help fight unwanted negative thoughts. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - August 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Anxiety subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
poem
Secret Third ThingSome mornings the sky is an impressionist painting steeped in violaceous streaks of timorous soft light. I pull over to the shoulder to snap a picture with my phone but the result never quite captures. A ginned up pick up truck veers too close and honks. By the time I get to work the colors have dissolved into the yellow orange haze. The sun continues to rise. The day arrives. Everything once again is gray or black or white. And all the others. The other colors. The ones I don ’t care about anymore. A painting is an artifact of loss. Museums compendiums of everything dear and departed.If I come up...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - August 17, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
The harm of the “ just do it ” culture in medicine: a story of postpartum depression
“There’s no such thing as postpartum depression.” These were the unsolicited words from my obstetrician in the third trimester of my first pregnancy. “It’s only sleep deprivation,” she explained. As an MD, I’d been taught there was indeed such a thing as postpartum depression. But as the patient in that interaction, a pregnant woman, I
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The harm of the “just do it” culture in medicine: a story of postpartum depression originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jennifer Lycette, MD Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Best Blood Pressure Monitors For Apple Health
In conclusion, Apple Health and compatible blood pressure monitors represent the synergy between technology and healthcare, redefining health management’s future.
This amalgamation fosters a detailed and proactive perspective toward personal health, emphasizing the need for maintaining awareness and making educated health choices.
As technological advancements persist, our capacity to control and comprehend our health will likewise expand, heralding a new age of customized healthcare.
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Source: The EMT Spot - August 14, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Monitors Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 14th 2023
This study demonstrates just how vital the thymus is to maintaining adult health."
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Does Amyloid-β Aggregation Cause Broad Disruption of Proteostasis?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/08/does-amyloid-%ce%b2-aggregation-cause-broad-disruption-of-proteostasis/
Researchers here speculate on the ability of insoluble amyloid-β aggregates to be broadly disruptive of the solubility of many other proteins, and thus disruptive to cell and tissue function. Is this important in aging? The evidence here shows the existence of the mechanism in a lower species, but that doesn't ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
On Not Damaging Your Prospects for a Longer Life
As the publicity materials here note, it is all too easy to damage your prospects for a longer, healthy life. The potential loss of life expectancy that attends becoming sedentary, obese, or a smoker is arguably somewhat greater than any gains that might be achieved via presently available medical technologies, when used by someone who takes better care of themselves into later life. That said, it is also true that while the losses resulting from lifestyle choices are well established in many large studies, we have no idea as to the extension of human life expectancy that attends, say, the late life use of existing senolyt...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
RingConn Review: A Smart Ring Tracking Your Health
“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them…” This isn’t Mordor, but we do have a ring in question, and it’s not about ruling but monitoring health. Today, we’re diving deep into our very first smart ring review — and check the RingConn.
At The Medical Futurist, we’ve had the opportunity to review countless digital health technologies, wearables, sensors, and services. But believe it or not, we never had a smart ring – until now. Now, we’ve added a new trophy to that list. Here’s an account of our journey with the RingConn, tested by Dr. Bertalan Meskó...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers digital health review ringconn smart ring RingConn review Source Type: blogs
Can Hallucinated AI Help with Patient Engagement?
The following is a guest article by Michelle X. Zhou, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO at Juji
ChatGPT and similar AI applications have given humankind a new tool. While this new tool is powerful, it may not always be reliable. Hence the term “AI hallucinations” is coined to refer to such unreliable AI performance.
Here is an example. I asked ChatGPT, “Who founded Juji“, the AI startup I co-founded. It hallucinated with the following reply:
It got several facts wrong including my education. I received my Ph.D. from Columbia University, not Carnegie Mellon University. Moreover, Juji was co-founded by Dr. H...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AI Chatbot ChatGPT Dr. Huahai Yang Generative AI Healthcare AI Hallucinations Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Clinical indications for hypnosis
Who might benefit from learning hypnosis – and when might you suggest it?
I’m a person who doesn’t really try changing my own pain intensity very often, and most of the people I’ve worked with in therapy are also in the stage of wanting to learn how to live alongside their pain. However, there are some times when modulating pain intensity can be a really helpful part of even this phase of learning to live well with pain.
I haven’t found any clinical guidelines suggesting when it might be good to introduce hypnosis, so this is my own clinical reasoning. Remember I work with a particular g...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 6, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping Skills Coping strategies Resilience/Health Science in practice Clinical reasoning hypnosis Occupational therapy self-hypnosis Source Type: blogs
Study Warns That Even Light Drinking Can Raise Blood Pressure
Conclusion
In sum, the international research study underscores the significant impact of alcohol consumption on blood pressure, with effects noticed even at low levels. Contrary to common assumptions, it highlights no beneficial effects in low-level drinkers compared to non-drinkers.
The findings serve as a crucial reminder of the importance of moderation, or ideally, avoidance of alcohol for effective blood pressure management and optimal cardiovascular health. The global scale and comprehensive approach of the study lend weight to its findings, making them a key resource for individuals worldwide.
In the face o...
Source: The EMT Spot - August 1, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: News Source Type: blogs
IoMT – Helping Data Reach Its Full Potential
The importance of data in healthcare has been beaten into our heads again and again and again. Healthcare runs on data, all good decisions are backed by data, etc. I think we’re all on the same page about making sure our organizations have all of the healthcare and patient data we can get our hands on. But in repeating the simple message that data is important, we tend to leave out that even more important is the ability to properly manage it to make it accessible, especially with the sheer amount of data that healthcare organizations need to run properly. One tool that can help in this endeavor is the Internet of Me...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Asensus Surgical Dustin Vaughan Grayson Miller Internet of Medical Things Source Type: blogs
