Are AI Clinical Protocols A Dobb-ist Trojan Horse?
By MIKE MAGEE
For most loyalist Americans at the turn of the 19th century, Justice John Marshall Harlan’s decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). was a “slam dunk.” In it, he elected to force a reluctant Methodist minister in Massachusetts to undergo Smallpox vaccination during a regional epidemic or pay a fine.
Justice Harlan wrote at the time: “Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
What could ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion AI Dobbs Forced Sterilization Mike Magee racial bias SCOTUS Vaccination Source Type: blogs
The inflection point
Okay, pretty correct answers from our two commenters on the previous post. Not just chlorination, but clean water generally, i.e. sewage treatment and separating sewage from drinking water sources. Also pasteurization of milk was very important. But the story is a bit more complicated. Pre-industrial people were mostly rural, obviously drank their milk fresh and didn ' t have a lot to fear from waterborne diseases since their population was sparse. Obviously they did suffer greatly from other plagues -- the Black Death killed something like half the population of Europe in the mid-14th Century, and plague recurred in lesse...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 20, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Inexplicable irrationality
For mysterious reasons, there have been anti-vaccination movements since vaccination was invented.* The eradication of smallpox from the earth; the near eradication of polio (which terrified the population in the 1950s); and the near elimination of measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, typhus and other diseases which formerly maimed and killed many children; and many other triumphs ought to have convinced people that vaccination was an unalloyed benefit to humanity. But somehow it ' s profitable to deny this obvious reality.The near miraculous success of the Covid 19 vaccines turns out to be one more opportunity for charlat...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Why We Can ’ t Eradicate Poliovirus
by Gertrud U. Rey In 1988 the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention passed the initiative to eradicate polio globally by the year 2000. We are now 23 years past this deadline, and it is increasingly clear that this goal will likely never be achieved. Smallpox … Why We Can’t Eradicate Poliovirus Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 6, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey Albert Sabin asymptomatic infection childhood vaccination eradication fecal-oral route gut immunity inactivated poliovirus vaccine IPV jonas salk local immunity nOPV2 oral poliovirus vaccine paralysis Source Type: blogs
Why We Can ’ t Eradicate Polio
by Gertrud U. Rey In 1988 the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention passed the initiative to eradicate polio globally by the year 2000. We are now 23 years past this deadline, and it is increasingly clear that this goal will likely never be achieved. Smallpox … Why We Can’t Eradicate Polio Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 6, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey Albert Sabin asymptomatic infection childhood vaccination eradication fecal-oral route gut immunity inactivated poliovirus vaccine IPV jonas salk local immunity nOPV2 oral poliovirus vaccine paralysis Source Type: blogs
Rapid Test for Mpox Virus Developed
Researchers at Penn State have engineered a rapid testing technology for mpox, previously known as monkeypox. The mpox virus, which is transmitted through close contact with an infected person and that spread around the world last year, left healthcare staff grappling with a new problem. As the disease can be transmitted before symptoms arise, diagnosis is important in helping to stop the spread. However, conventional diagnostic approaches, such as PCR, are time consuming and require access to expensive lab equipment and qualified technicians. This latest technology uses gold nanoparticles that can bind viral nucleic acid....
Source: Medgadget - April 25, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Public Health monkey pox mpox penn PennState Source Type: blogs
Myocarditis update from Sweden
BY ANISH KOKA
The COVID19/vaccine myocarditis debate continues in large part because our public health institutions are grossly mischaracterizing the risks and benefits of vaccines to young people.
A snapshot of what the establishment says as it relates to the particular area of concern: college vaccine mandates:
Dr. Arthur Reingold, an epidemiology professor at UC-Berkeley, notes that UC also requires immunizations for measles and chickenpox, and people still are dying from COVID at rates that exceed those for influenza. As of Feb. 1, there were more than 400 COVID deaths a day across the U.S.
“The arg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka covid19 myocarditis Sweden Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – November 13, 2022 – HCA extends 30-year relationship with MEDITECH, cost of care replaces pandemic as top reason to defer care, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Research
HCA Healthcare signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse, continuing a relationship with the EHR vendor that has spanned three decades and been recognized with the 2021 CHIME Colla...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: EMR-EHR Healthcare IT AbsoluteCare Atropos Health BARDA Bioverge Cerner CharmHealth directtrust HCA Healthcare HCTec Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Julie McCorkle Lifehouse MDaudit Meditec Source Type: blogs
Clinical Research 101: Lecture 3
Now that we ' ve cleared away a bit of the underbrush, let ' s say you think that Eye of Newt Toe of Frog (Eontof) is potentially therapeutically useful against Creeping Crud (CC), and you want to test it. You face a whole lot of considerations. One is that you ' re going to need funding, which means you need to persuade somebody -- either the National Institutes of Health or a pharmaceutical company, most likely -- to invest in your idea. They ' re going to want to know that there ' s a reasonable chance of success with Eontof, and in the case of the pharmaceutical company that they can make money off of it, which brings ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 17, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Outbreaks of Injustice Linked by Two Different Dobbs.
BY MIKE MAGEE
Under the definition for the noun, epidemic, there are two main (and distinctly different) definitions. I know this fact because it was the beginning point of my preparations earlier this summer for a Fall course on “The History of Epidemics in America” at the Presidents College at the University of Hartford.
The entry reads:
Epidemic nounep·i·dem·ic | \ ˌe-pə-ˈde-mik \Definition of epidemic (Entry 2 of 2)1: an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time : an outbreak of epidemic disease2: an outbreak or product of sudden ra...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Bioethics and Law Medical Practice Buck vs. Bell Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
“Virgin-Soil Epidemics” Covers a Multitude of Sins
BY MIKE MAGEE
Epidemics don’t appear in isolation of geography, social status, race or economics.
In a recent Kaiser Family Foundation article, the authors reviewed case numbers and death rates organized by race/ethnicity. It will come as no surprise that the most vulnerable populations death rate is nearly three times greater than the least vulnerable. But what may surprise you is that the population at greatest risk was neither self-identified as Black or Hispanic, but Native American.
Sadly, this is not a new story, but in the analogs of American history, it has been papered over by a partially true, but inco...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Jeffrey Ostler Mike Magee Native Americans Virgin-Soil Epidemic Source Type: blogs
Microparticle Vaccine Provides Boosters Automatically
Researchers at MIT have created a microparticle vaccine that can provide booster doses automatically. The hollow microparticles resemble a coffee cup with a lid, and are made using poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), otherwise known as PLGA. The polymer breaks down over time in the body, releasing the contents of the hollow particles. By changing the composition of the polymer and the chemical groups attached to it, the researchers can tweak the release time, allowing them to deliver an assortment of particles that release at different times.
This would allow them to deliver the particles subcutaneously, and then as the par...
Source: Medgadget - July 27, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Public Health covid mit vaccines Source Type: blogs
TWiV Special: Monkeypox clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In this special episode, Dr. Griffin answers questions about the recent cases of monkeypox including their origin, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and overall risk. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology monkeypox smallpox vaccine viral virus viruses zoonosis Source Type: blogs
TWiV 902: Autoantibodies drive severe COVID-19
TWiV reviews recent cases of monkeypox, presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA but not infectious virus in feces, and the association of autoantibodies to interferons with severe COVID-19. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 22, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology autoantibodies coronavirus COVID-19 feces interferon monkeypox pandemic SARS-CoV-2 smallpox viral viruses Source Type: blogs
68 Mind Your Business Quotes to Help Simplify Your Life
It’s sometimes too easy to get stuck in thinking about what other people may think or say if you do what you deep down want to do.
So you hold back. Get stuck in inaction.
To help you with that I’d like to share the 68 most helpful mind your own business quotes.
To get you unstuck and also to help you handle negative comments or busybodies interfering in your life in a way you don’t want or need.
I hope you’ll find something useful and freeing in this post.
And if you want even more inspiration to help you mind your own business and focus on what you want then check out this post with quotes on knowing your own wo...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
