The landscape of brain health innovation: 130 experts and pioneers in 18 countries (and counting)
— Registrants for the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5-7th) as of November 3rd, 2017
Just a quick update on how registration stands for the upcoming 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Brain Health & Enhancement in the Digital Age (December 5-7th).
We are proud to report that so far 130 experts, pioneers and practitioners are registered to participate.
95 seem to be based in the US and 35 abroad, based on IP address during registration, with the following country breakdown:
United States 95
Australia 7
Canada 6
United Kingdom 4
Israel 3
Norway 2
Italy 2
Taiwan 1
Singapore 1
India 1
France 1
Sweden ...
Source: SharpBrains - November 3, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Professional Development Technology brain health innovation brain-enhancement Brain-health virtual conference virtual summit Source Type: blogs
“Mouths full of gold.” Private practice in Britain’s National Health System
By SAURABH JHA, MD
When Aneurin Bevan was asked how he convinced doctors to come on board the National Health Service (NHS) he allegedly replied, “I stuffed their mouths full of gold.” Bevan recognized that to conscript doctors to the largest socialist experiment in healthcare in the world he had to appeal not so much to their morals, but pockets.
There is much piety about the NHS. It is the envy of the world, though oddly Saudi oil barons still favor Cleveland Clinic and Texas Heart Institute over quaint little hospitals in rural Scotland. The NHS featured in Britain’s 2012 Olympic parade along with Mr. Bean and the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Best Way To Make Your Face Look Younger Revealed By Research
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - October 25, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Attractiveness Source Type: blogs
Back Stage with More Librarian Rock Stars
As we continue celebrating National Medical Librarians Month, we’re thrilled to introduce you to even more rock star medical librarians. One librarian hit the road, sharing her expertise in South Africa; another manages two medical libraries; and a third librarian describes her work as stimulating, collaborative, and research-oriented. We’re also featuring two bands–one with members all… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - October 25, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Source Type: blogs
Bottom Line: We Can Stop Hearing Loss in Many TB Patients
Health Equity Blog By Hyejeong Hong The cure for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is the same in the United States as it is in South Africa. Yet the drug regimen’s most severe and permanent potential side effect, hearing loss, occurs up to four times as often in South Africa. The reason is simple and stark: a
The post Bottom Line: We Can Stop Hearing Loss in Many TB Patients appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - October 19, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: New On the Pulse Bedaquline Deaf hearing MDR-TB multidrug-resistant tuberculosis South Africa Source Type: blogs
Announcing a Global Hope Challenge: What is Your #OneThing for #Hope
Today, on Global Mental Health Day, the International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression (iFred) launches a global challenge to spread Hope. They invite participants to share the one thing they turn to when feeling hopeless, anxious, depressed or stressed through a contest on the HeroX platform where the top three videos will win prize money ($1,000, $500, and $250). Kicking things off with powerful submissions from Jack.org’s network of young leaders, the goal is to help inspire others to create, maintain, and sustain hope by sharing a 30 second video of what individuals do in their darkest hour to get ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kathryn Goetzke Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness anxiety Depression hope Ifred Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 79 with Kirsten Kingma of BadEM @SurferKirst
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
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The Africans are coming. BadEM are surfing a #FOAMed wave at the moment and they are doing it with style, which isn’t that surprising when Kirsten Kingma is on board.
The Jellybean Podcast is a big fan of the BadEM.co.za bunch. Of course we are. Why wouldn’t we be? They are a great cohesive team of fabulously varied individuals. We like that sort of team. If you were at #dasSMACC you won’t have forgotten the BadEM team standing up with their friend and colleague A...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: JellyBean #badEMfest18 Kirsten Kingma SurferKist Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 79 with SurferKist – Kirsten Kingma of BadEM
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
The Africans are coming. BadEM are surfing a #FOAMed wave at the moment and they are doing it with style, which isn’t that surprising when Kirsten Kingma is on board.
The Jellybean Podcast is a big fan of the www.BadEM.co.za bunch. Of course we are. Why wouldn’t we be? They are a great cohesive team of fabulously varied individuals. We like that sort of team. If you were at #dasSMACC you won’t have forgotten the BadEM team standing up with their friend and colleag...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: JellyBean #badEMfest18 Kirsten Kingma SurferKist Source Type: blogs
In this era of increased globalization, infectious diseases show no boundaries
Devastating. That alone cannot fully describe the extent of the destruction of property, the displacement of tens of thousands of residents, the injuries and loss of life in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. As Americans, our hearts ache for those affected by the flooding. As a medical student, former international development worker in Afghanistan and EMT in South Africa, I also lay awake thinking about the many infectious diseases that take hold in disaster and flood settings.
In major floods and other natural disasters, rising water levels and damage to sewage treatment plants lead to contaminated water supplies, ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 21, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sarah-lawrence" rel="tag" > Sarah Lawrence < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Giving Back: RAD-AID
Question: What do airships, 747 ’s, William Shatner, Radiology, and giving back have in common?Answer: RAD-AID International!Let me explain …A few years ago, I decided to bail out of the rat-race of private practice. My original goal was to retire altogether, but it seemed more reasonable to ease out slowly, maintain health insurance and some shred of income, and have something to do, at least periodically. And so I started out working 26 weeks per year, and now I ’m down to 22 weeks. Which leaves 30 weeks that need to be filled. I had originally thought I would ramp up my writing, but somehow that hasn’t happened;...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - September 18, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Departing are such sweet swallows
In some parts of the UK, the migrants have already departed, but there are plenty of swifts, housemartins, sandmartins, and barn swallows here in East Anglia, from the North Norfolk coast, to deepest Norfolk and west again to Cambridge (well those are the places I’ve seen them this week).
Back in early May, I photographed adult (barn) swallows (Hirundo rustica) getting it on at Bottisham Lock on the River Cam near Waterbeach (north of the city of Cambridge). The adults are still whirling around the skies and scooping up water and insects from the river. These two products of that springtime behaviour were anything b...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 26, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Flavors of DVI
I just completed (a rather long) Day 4 at Aga Khan Hospital, here in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (in case you didn ' t know where I was). As usual, time flies when you ' re having fun, and I really am enjoying my time here.Today was a day of many hats. In the morning, I played " real doctor " and attended an OB Gyn lecture series beamed over from the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi:The full title was " Female Sexual Dysfunction and its Effects upon Fertility " and it was quite well done. While the lecture will have little impact upon my medical practice, I ' m trying to get the staff used to me hanging around, and I ha...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - August 24, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Is bee venom a good anti-aging ingredient? Episode 163
Is bee venom a good anti-aging ingredient?
Monika asks…Korean Bee Venom essence but it does seem to work. My question is the bee venom really magic or is there something else that removes the spots?
RS: Thanks Monika…this gives me the perfect excuse time to remind listeners to go back to Episode 105 and listen to the story about how Perry got stung in the eye by a bee. If nothing else, just go the webpage and check out the picture of his face. It’s horrific. I’m not kidding. But let’s put my personal revulsion aside and try to figure out why this product seemed to work on Monika’s acne.
PR: We found a study pub...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Patient ID
Hello from the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania!Just wanted to let you know that I ' m here and on the job. I ' ve met so far with the head of Radiology (who is also the Chief of Staff of the Hospital), the head of IT, the Nuclear Medicine technologist/physicist, and briefly with the Regional CEO and the COO of the hospital. Everyone has gone out of their way to make me feel welcome here, and their warmth, and their pride in this amazing place is incredible.I am quite taken with the facility as it stands, but the additions, and plans for the future, will certainly propel AKH well into the forefront of patient car...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - August 21, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201, courtesy of Dr Hakan Yaman from RFDS.
Question 1
What is the rate of severe permanent TBI in the Asterix comics, 0%, 25%, 50% or 90%?
http://www.asterix.com/the-collection/albums/asterix-and-the-picts.html
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five asterix CRP Death dying Felty's syndrome fingernail GCS head injury hospital Pain pencil RA rheumatoid arthritis TBI Source Type: blogs
