Friday Feature: Enrichment Center of Western PA
Colleen HroncichIt ’s hard to believe homeschooling was illegal in many states as recently as the 1980s—and parents were sometimes jailed for educating their children at home. Fortunately, dedicated parents fought this injustice, and now homeschooling is legal in every state.Pennsylvania passed its homeschooling law in 1988. The following year, Pittsburgh ‐area mom Madeline Petrus began homeschooling her eight‐year‐old son. Local homeschooling groups were beginning to spring up at the time to help parents navigate the new legal requirements. Madeline helped start a group in her town and began organizing...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
TBTAM DIGEST – Nov 30, 2022
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Happy almost December! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and are enjoying the in-between holiday time. Here’s what’s been going on in my neck of the woods….
What I’ve been cooking on the blog
Farro with Oyster Mushrooms and Onions – You call it Thanksgiving. I call it a chance for a sweet potato bake-off.
Spanish Stuffed Peppers – An original recipe from The Blog that Ate Manhattan. With a little help from my friends (and family)…
Where I Ate
Valley Green Inn in the Wissahickon Valley.&n...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - December 1, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Top 10 Digital Health Stories Of 2022
Edging towards the end of the year, it is time for a summary of how digital health progressed in 2022. It is easy to get lost in the noise – I myself shared well over a thousand articles, studies and news items between January and the end of November 2022. Thus, just like in 2021, 2020 (and so on), I picked the 10 topics I believe will have the most significance in the future of healthcare.
1. The Rise Of Digital Therapeutics (DTx)
Unlike a number of unsubstantial hypes (NFTs, Metaverse to name a few), we see DTx as a meaningful trend that has the capacity to bring major short-term improvements in personalised ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF digital health pharma drones digital health trends vocal biomarkers WHO DTx digital therapeutics Metaverse virtual ward summary AI healthcare worker Source Type: blogs
Pioneering Safe & Inclusive LGBT Specific Retirement Accommodation. Exploring Models in the USA, UK, & Spain
Liam Concannon (Independent), Pioneering Safe& Inclusive LGBT Specific Retirement Accommodation. Exploring Models in the USA, UK,& Spain (2022): With significant advances in equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens, achieved across the western world... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 29, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Spanish Stuffed Peppers – The Evolution of a New Recipe
My love affair continues with Sofrito, the Spanish slow cooked tomato-olive oil-mirepoix that’s a staple in a healthy Mediterranean diet. I now make it regularly, storing it in small jars in my freezer and searching for ways to incorporate it into the foods we make. For example, these stuffed peppers, a recipe I am proud to say I came up with all by myself. Well, actually, that’s not entirely true. I had a little help from my friends (and family). Let me tell you how it went down…
Last week, while at the market, a beautiful multicolored fresh pepper medley caught my eye. I knew I had a pound of lean g...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 28, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Rice Vegetables bell peppers corn fish sauce Flor de garum mexican recipe SOfrito Spanish Stuffed Peppers umami Source Type: blogs
Funded phd candidate positions at the bcbl- basque center on cognition brain and language
FUNDED PHD CANDIDATE POSITIONS AT THE BCBL- BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE (SAN SEBASTI ÁN, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN), www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) offers funded 5 PhD candidate positions:- FUNDED Ph.D. CANDIDATE POSITION – CONSCIOUSNESS Group- FUNDED Ph.D. CANDIDATE POSITION – NEUROBIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Group- FUNDED Ph.D. CANDIDATE POSITION – COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE Group- FUNDED Ph.D. CANDIDATE POSITION – SPEECH AND BILINGUALISM Group- FUNDED Ph.D. CANDIDATE POSITION – SIGNAL PROCESSING IN NEUROIM...
Source: Talking Brains - November 28, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Monitoring Congestive Heart Failure Through Speech: Interview with Tamir Tal, CEO of Cordio Medical
Cordio Medical, a medtech company based in Israel, has developed HearO, an app that can assist in monitoring congestive heart failure. The technology is based on the phenomenon whereby congestive heart failure patients demonstrate changes in their voice as their disease progresses or in advance of disease exacerbation. This includes lung sounds, such as wheezing and crackling. Indeed, some cardiologists report that they can hear changes in their patient’s voice, but that this typically occurs relatively late during disease exacerbation, making it less useful.
This phenomenon inspired Cordio Medical to develop an AI-po...
Source: Medgadget - November 11, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive CHF Congestive Heart Failure Source Type: blogs
Post doctoral and doctoral opportunities at Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain)
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION – Signal Processing in Neuroimaging group at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.euINFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION Position: PostdoctoralResearcher Profile: R2, Recognised Researcher (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent) / R3, Established Researcher(Researchers who have developed a level of independence)Number of vacancies: 1Project: OpenLocation: Spain> Donostia-San SebastianResearch Field: Cognitive NeuroscienceJob Statu...
Source: Talking Brains - November 9, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 22nd October, 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/partnership-to-add-virtual-primary-care-feature-to-smart-tvsPartnership to Add Virtual Primary Care Feature to Smart TVsTelehealth provider HealthTap has partnered with Samsung to add a virtual healthcare feature to the tech giant ' s Smart TVs to expand access to primary care.ByMark MelchionnaOctober 14, 2022 - Aiming to ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AT THE BCBL- BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE (SAN SEBASTI ÁN, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN), www.bcbl.eu
The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) offers funded 3 Postdoctoral positions: FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION – Language and Memory Group, Dr. Kepa Paz-Alonso FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION – Brain Rhythms and Cognition Group, Dr. Manuela Ruzzoli and Dr. Nicola Molinaro FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION – Neurobiology of Language Group, Prof. Manuel Carreiras INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITIONS IN https://www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/job-offers (Source: Talking Brains)
Source: Talking Brains - October 19, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Blistered Shishito Peppers
Thanks to my daughter for turning us on to Blistered Shishito Peppers – a simple, fast, delicious and fun appetizer.
The Shishito is mild pepper brought to the US from Japan and now widely available here in the United States. We got ours from Trader Joes, but you can easily grow them in your home garden.
The Shishito pepper likely came to Japan from Spain, where it is called a Padron pepper and is much hotter. It is believed to have mellowed after generations of selective breeding in Japanese soil.
The fastest and most fun way to get to know Shishito is to toss them in a little olive oil,
blister t...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - October 18, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Appetizers blistered shishito peppers charred shishito peppers Japnese food Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 17th 2022
This study investigated whether multimorbidity is associated with incident dementia and whether associations vary by different clusters of disease and genetic risk for dementia. The study used data from the UK Biobank cohort, with baseline data collected between 2006 and 2010 and with up to 15 years of follow-up. Participants included women and men without dementia and aged at least 60 years at baseline. The presence of at least 2 long-term conditions from a preselected list of 42 conditions was used to define multimorbidity.
A total of 206,960 participants (mean age 64.1 years) were included in the final sample, of...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Few Years of Difference in Life Expectancy Between Poorest and Wealthiest in Spain
We present sex- and age-specific life tables based on socioeconomic status at the census tract level in Spain during 2011-2013 that will allow estimating cancer relative survival estimates and life expectancy measures by socioeconomic status.
Life expectancy (LE) at birth was higher among women than among men. Women and men in the most deprived census tracts in Spain lived 3.2 and 3.8 years less than their counterparts in the least deprived areas. Overall, we found a consistent LE gap at birth according to socioeconomic status for both sexes in Spain during the 2011-2013 period. However, the gap was wider among men ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
What day is it again?
It ' s been an annual tradition that I " do " Christopher Columbus but that seems less necessary this year as people are starting to get it.President Biden has proclaimed this to be Indigenous People ' s Day as well as Columbus Day, although the federal holiday still officially honors Columbus. I understand that Italian-Americans want a day to observe their heritage, comparable to, say, Saint Patrick ' s Day. However, Columbus is probably the last person you would actually want to make the named honoree. In the first place, he wasn ' t even Italian. Italy did not exist during his lifetime, he spoke Ligurian, and he sa...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 10, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
