Application and Funding Trends in Fiscal Year 2022
NIGMS continues to support a wide range of topics and investigators, maintaining a broad biomedical research portfolio. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, NIGMS received a congressional appropriation of $3,092,373,000. Consistent with the Institute’s mission, a large portion of these funds support investigator-initiated research project grants (RPGs) at institutions throughout the country. As part of its commitment to transparency, NIGMS publishes data on annual trends in its grant portfolios. In this post, we describe investigator-level trends for RPGs and review the trends associated with competing RPGs as well as those in...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 6, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Director’s Messages Funding Trends Funding Outcomes Funding Policies MIRA NIGMS Strategic Plan R01 Source Type: blogs
PoliTikTok
Paul MatzkoFDR Looks Longingly at TikTok Emblem (Dall ‑E 2)Rep. Jeff Jackson (D ‑NC) went onMeet the Press and wasasked why he doesn ’t delete his TikTok account given the risk of Chinese surveillance. He responded with a paradigm‐shattering statistic: nearly a third of his constituents follow him on TikTok, where he posts weekly videos explaining the nuts and bolts of Congress. A THIRD.Contrast that with how most members of Congress still do constituent outreach. A couple of times a year a little pamphlet shows up in my mailbox from one of my legislators. Since I don’t need more boilerplate self‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 5, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Paul Matzko Source Type: blogs
Consistency Quotes: 80 Powerful Sayings About the Most Underrated Success Habit
Few things are so powerful as taking consistent action and working towards your goal or dream each day.
It's the reliable but often forgotten or underrated motor that keeps you going until you get to where you want to go.
And without it you're likely to not get there at all. Or it will take a long, long time with many ups and down along the way.
With this post I'd like to inspire you to tap into this powerful habit more often. And I'd like to do that by sharing 80 of the best consistency quotes.
And if you want even more motivation for success then check out this post with quotes on how action speaks louder than words and...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
The People's Hospital
That ' s a new book by Ricardo Nuila, M.D. (Scribner) I ' m not going to do a full-scale review, but it ' s definitely worth a mention. He ' s a physician at Ben Taub hospital in Houston, which is a charity hospital that takes care of people who are uninsured or underinsured. He tells the stories of many individual patients he has known and weaves them together into a tapestry that reveals the fundamental insanity of the way we pay for, or don ' t pay for, medical services. Of course I talk about that all the time here, but maybe statistics and facts and figures don ' t make the case for everybody. Tragic stories of r...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 4, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Helping People Take Their Meds
Lack of adherence to prescribed medication is a major failing of our healthcare system. (Dr. Omar Manejwala, CMO of DarioHealth, recommends using the term “adherence” instead of the more condemnatory term “compliance.”) A previous article listed some alarming statistics about the number of patients who don’t take their medications as advised, and the dire effects on life expectancy as well as costs to the health care system.
That previous article focused on ways to solve problems of cost and access, which in the United States and many other countries are big contributors to lack of adherence. ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AdhereHealth athenahealth Babylon Health Bethany Doran Bryan Hill Carium Caroline E. Ort Source Type: blogs
Using Technology to Address Medication Access
In conclusion, the market for medications in the United States is broad, confusing, and often arbitrary.
Information gaps open the market to manipulative direct-to-consumer advertising by pharmaceutical companies. Perhaps the services described in this article could undermine the appeal for drugs that appear on major TV channels. If you’re told that the premium medication you’ve been sold on TV is essentially no better than a generic, you can save yourself and your insurer a lot of money.
It’s daunting to pull together all the public sources of help, but well-designed technology can do it fast enough to h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AdhereHealth athenahealth Babylon Health Cognizant Colin Banas DrFirst Medication Access Source Type: blogs
On not being a arse
Humans are judgemental beings. All of us are. It’s part of having a big brain and wanting to know who’s ‘in’ and who’s ‘out’. Judgements help us make decisions, they’re surprisingly resistant to change, and they can inadvertently trap us into doing things we would never countenance were we able to stand back from what our minds want us to know (and feel).
My post today is prompted by a couple of conversations recently. One was with a clinician, new to a pain team, who found that experienced members of that team thought actions taken by a person with pain were a sign of ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 2, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Interdisciplinary teams Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice healthcare pain management Source Type: blogs
On not being an arse
Humans are judgemental beings. All of us are. It’s part of having a big brain and wanting to know who’s ‘in’ and who’s ‘out’. Judgements help us make decisions, they’re surprisingly resistant to change, and they can inadvertently trap us into doing things we would never countenance were we able to stand back from what our minds want us to know (and feel).
My post today is prompted by a couple of conversations recently. One was with a clinician, new to a pain team, who found that experienced members of that team thought actions taken by a person with pain were a sign of ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 2, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Interdisciplinary teams Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice healthcare pain management Source Type: blogs
I was reading EKGs on the system and came across this one......
I am always looking for EKGs that show either subtle OMI or OMI mimics.Which did I think this was?I suspected that this was amimic. It is hard to say why. There is " inferior " ST depression, reciprocal to high lateral ST Elevation. The precordial leads have ST Elevation but also high voltage and look like possible LVH. I was not certain that it did not represent OMI, but was pretty sure.So I went to the chart and found that it was not different from previous ECGs and the patient ruled out for MI by serial troponins.This is a very difficult ECG and so I wanted to know how the PM Cardio Bot would per...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 2, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Sarah Bavar, RN, BSN, Director at ReMedi Health Solutions.
At ReMedi, we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR.
Eventually, that information must be reconciled in the new system with all of the disparate sources, including legacy system(s), scanned documents, continuum of care documents (CCDs), and various databases (archives, HIEs, pharmacy databases, state registries, etc.). It’s jus...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System CCDs Clinical Data Abstraction EHR Consulting EHR Data EHR Data Quality EHR Switching Healthcare Scene Featured Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s Math of Just Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Add Up
Adam N. MichelDespite the headlines, thePresident ’s 2024 Budget demonstrates how challenging it is to raise significant new tax revenue from a small minority of wealthy taxpayers. The budget raises about $1.8 trillion from non‐corporate taxpayers over ten years. Yet, following all the rhetoric about the rich not paying their fair share, it should be striking that across more than twenty new and expanded taxes, the administration’s plan does not even raise enough revenue from wealthy taxpayers to cover new spending proposed in Biden’s budget, let alone theprojected $20 trillion deficit over the next ten years....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
Producer Price Inflation Averaged One Percent for Eight Months
Alan ReynoldsThe PPI measures prices received by U.S. businesses for final demand.It has one big advantage over the CPI —the PPI doesnot include the extremely misleading old lagged BLS surveys of rent and estimates of “owner‐equivalent” rent. Such “shelter” accounts for a third of the CPI, which makes it a very serious issue indeed.Althoughmarket rents have been falling since last summer, BLS estimates of rents on old and new leases still keep soaring in CPI monthly reports —at a 9.6 percent annual rate for the past three months!That statistical snafu made inflation in 2021 looklower than it really was,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 21, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Some Thoughts on Silicon Valley Bank ’s Credit Ratings for David Sacks
Marc JoffeDavid Sacks, a San Francisco venture capitalist who advocated government intervention on behalf of uninsured Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) depositors, has argued that the depositors were not equipped to perform due diligence on the bank. Instead, he suggested that they might be guided by, among other things, the “ A” rating from Moody’s Investors Service that SVB carried days before its collapse.This line of thinking raises a couple of concerns. First an “A” rating is not that high. Moody’s has 21 rating symbols ranging from “Aaa” denoting the safest securities to “C” for the most distressed.T...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 20, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 20th 2023
This study also provides the potential for de novo generation of complex organs in vivo.
T Cells May Play a Role in the Brain Inflammation Characteristic of Neurodegenerative Conditions
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/03/t-cells-may-play-a-role-in-the-brain-inflammation-characteristic-of-neurodegenerative-conditions/
Alzheimer's disease, and other forms of neurodegenerative condition, are characterized by chronic inflammation in brain tissue. Unresolved inflammatory signaling is disruptive of tissue structure and function. Here, researchers provide evidence for T cells to become involved in thi...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Legislative Cuff around the Pharmaceutical Industry in Pakistan
Shan Ali (Bahria University Islamabad), Hamza Khalid Niazi (Independent), Syed Zaheer Hussain Shah (Bahria University Islamabad), Sadia Tanveer (Independent), A Legislative Cuff around the Pharmaceutical Industry in Pakistan, 8 J. Islamic Countries Soc ’y Statistical Sciences 3 (2022): The profit-oriented pharmaceutical... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
