How I resurrected my ancient PhD thesis using R/bookdown (and some other tools)
An ancient thesisI’ve long admired the look of publications generated using the R bookdown package, and thought it would be fun and educational to publish one myself. The problem is that I am not writing a book and have no plans to do so any time soon.
Then I remembered that I’ve already written a book. There it is on the right. It’s called “Cloning, sequence analysis and studies on the expression of the nirS gene, encoding cytochrome cd1 nitrite reductase, from Thiosphaera pantotropha“. Catchy title, hey. It’s from my former life, as a biochemistry graduate turned reluctant molecular mi...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - July 22, 2021 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: personal statistics bookdown oxford phd rstats thesis thesisdown Source Type: blogs
Cuba ’s Uprising and the Social Change that Caught the Dictatorship by Surprise
Ian V ásquezLast December I wrote an op ‐ed (in Spanish) titled“Losing Fear in Cuba” pointing to what appeared to be a significant, new development: ordinary Cubans were becoming unafraid to publicly protest the communist regime. The mass uprising across the country this week in which Cubans shouted, “Down with the dictatorship,” and chanted “Liberty” was astounding because it was unprecedented in Cuba’s police state. But it also showed that Cubans have indeed lost their fear of openly defying the regime.This is a profound change in Cuban society that caught the dictatorship by surprise. ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Paying College Athletes, Preventing Suicide, Planning for Heatwaves: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on a potential step toward paying college athletes, helping college freshmen overcome COVID-19 learning loss, the effects of U.S. sanctions in Syria, more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 16, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
The Nurse Warrior: Fighting the Good Fight
Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission.While nursing can often feel absolutelyquixotic or Sisyphean in nature, nurses battle on. Whether it ' s the Covid-19 pandemic, a natural disaster, the opioid epidemic, a mass shooting, or the challenges faced by the homeless, nurses the world over continue to fight the good fight no matter the odds. It is here that the archetype of the Nurse Warrio...
Source: Digital Doorway - July 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: nurse nursing nurses healthcare Source Type: blogs
Patience for Those Who Grieve
❝My son fricken tried to commit suicide, so I had to drive all the way over there to deal with it.A few months ago, I pulled up to the one remaining branch in my area that US Bank allowed to be open during the pandemic and tentatively approached the entrance. I had banking to do, but they had bizarrely limited hours and, of course, they were closed. So I entered the ATM area and began my bank transfers with hundreds of dollars tight to my chest, hoping nobody would come in and rob me blind while I was feeding the money into the ATM.As I was doing my banking in the comfort of their ATM fishbowl, a woman entered behind me....
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - July 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Suicide Source Type: blogs
The explosion of mental health apps raises substantial opportunities –and tough questions
In the eyes of the tech industry, mental health treatment is an area ripe for disruption.
In any given year, 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experience a form of mental illness, according to federal estimates. And research indicates only about half of them receive treatment in a system that is understaffed and ill distributed to meet demand.
For tech startups looking to cash in on unmet need, that translates into more than 50 million potential customers.
Venture capital firms invested more than $2.4 billion in digital behavioral health apps in 2020 — more than twice the amount invested in 2019 — touting support or treatment ...
Source: SharpBrains - June 28, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety BetterHelp brain-illness Brightside cerebral depression digital behavioral health FDA Food and Drug Administration Ginger health apps mental illness mental-health-treatment Source Type: blogs
Surviving medical school with depression
I was first diagnosed with major depressive disorder as a preteen after my teenage sister died. I attempted suicide three years later. This would be the first of several attempts and the first of countless times I felt my life was not worth living. But I am not unique. According to the Centers for DiseaseRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 27, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Medical school Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
American Exceptionalism, yet again
The 4 1/2 readers of this humble blog are well aware that life expectancy in the U.S. is lower than that of other wealthy countries, even though we spend twice as much on health care. It ' s right on top, every time you come here. The bad news is that the utterly inept response of the U.S. to the Covid-19 pandemic made the gap even worse.Here ' s an analysis by Steven Woolf in BMJ. Since people tend to complain when I link to stories about the U.S. in journals published in furrin lands, I point out that Woolf is a good old Merkin who works at Virginia Commonwealth University in the capital of the Confederate States o...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 25, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Your Patient is Someone ’s Student
The following is a guest article by Dr. Sandy Whitehouse, Chief Medical Officer, Tickit Health. Anxiety, depression, and suicide rates, already rising pre-pandemic, are significantly increased amongst our youngest. As things like anxiety and depression take root in a child, their academic performance and socialization skills also suffer. This has the likelihood to have far-reaching […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ascension Health Margaret Soukup Mental Health Screeners Mental Health Technology Possibilities for Change’s Rapid Adolescent Prevention Screening RAAPS Sandy Whitehouse S Source Type: blogs
I Want You to Panic: Leveraging the Rhetoric of Fear and Rage for the Future of Food
Iselin Gambert (George Washington University), I Want You to Panic: Leveraging the Rhetoric of Fear and Rage for the Future of Food, J. Food L.& Pol ’y (2021): Humanity Is About to Kill 1 Million Species in a Globe-Spanning Murder-Suicide.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 16, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Teaching young children about the existence and acceptance of LGBTQ people [PODCAST]
“Even though there has been a lot of progress, LGBTQ youth are still struggling with discrimination. I am disheartened that 40 percent of LGBTQ youth surveyed by the Trevor project in 2020 seriously considered suicide in the previous 12 months, and the amount of LGBTQ youth reaching out to the Trevor project crisis centers hasRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 12, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 7th 2021
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 6, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Oisin Biotechnologies Seeks to Treat Chronic Kidney Disease with Senolytic Suicide Gene Therapy
Oisin Biotechnologies is one of the older startup biotech companies in the still young and growing longevity industry. The company develops a programmable suicide gene therapy platform, initially targeted at the selective destruction of senescent cells and cancerous cells. Of interest in a recent press release regarding funding is the note that their senolytic program will be used to treat chronic kidney disease. Other groups are running human trials of the dasatinib and quercetin combination as a treatment for chronic kidney disease. Positive data there will help Oisin Biotechnologies, in the sense that it will further va...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 3, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Does the DEA Have to Allow Psilocybin Access for Terminally Ill Patients?
Trevor BurrusA case at the Ninth Circuit is seeking to compel the DEA to allow psilocybin (magic mushrooms) use by terminally ill patients. The case,Advanced Integrative Medical Science Institute v. DEA, has been brought by a research institute, a doctor, and two terminal cancer patients who wish to use psilocybin.A lot has changed in psilocybin research in recent years. In 2018 and 2019, the FDAdesignated two psilocybin trials as “breakthrough therapies” for treating severe depression.Breakthrough ‐therapy status can be granted by the FDA when a new drug shows significant improvement over currently...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 28, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Trevor Burrus Source Type: blogs
