Concussions Take a Rapid Toll on Young Brains
This study demonstrates that playing a season of contact sports at the youth level can produce neuroimaging brain changes, particularly for the DMN, " said Murugesan. (Source: radRounds)
Source: radRounds - December 2, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Creating Leadership Roles for Integrating Value into Academic Medical Programs
By: Christopher Moriates, MD, assistant dean for healthcare value and associate professor of internal medicine, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
I have a made-up administrative title. I know this because, in 2016, we made it up. When you make up a title, you get to be the first “assistant dean for healthcare value”… but I do not want to be the only one. So, what does an assistant dean for healthcare value do?
In a recent Academic Medicine article, Dr. Pam Johnson and colleagues from Johns Hopkins describe the critical role academic institutions must play in advancing high value care. They “c...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 16, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective Choosing Wisely Dell Medical School health care value high value care quality improvement Source Type: blogs
UT Dallas, October 19th: Public grand opening of the new Brain Performance Institute by the Center for BrainHealth
New Brain Performance Institute at UT Dallas (Photo by Albert Vacerka, Esto Photographics)
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We are happy to announce that the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas, an esteemed Partner of the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit, is opening a fantastic new home for its Brain Performance Institute.
Leanne Young, executive director of the Brain Performance Institute, makes one crucial point about their mission and vision:
“This isn’t just about preventing dementia, although it’s important to so many. It’s about improving brain performance and health in everyone right now. The institute will hel...
Source: SharpBrains - October 17, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Peak Performance brain performance institute Center for BrainHealth dementia improve brain performance improve-brain-health UT-Dallas Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Briefing: Choosing Wisely — Opportunities and Challenges in Curbing Medical Overuse
You are invited to join Health Affairs on Tuesday, October 24, in Washington, DC, for an important event:
“Choosing Wisely: Opportunities and Challenges in Curbing Medical Overuse.”
“Choosing Wisely” is an initiative launched in 2012 by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation in partnership with Consumer Reports — and which has received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — to advance a national dialogue on avoiding wasteful or unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures. At the five-year mark of the initiative, Health Affairs will gather leaders of the effort, p...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs ABIM alexander mainor american board of internal medicine arthur s. hong Choosing Wisely Consumer Reports daniel b. wolfson eric wei eve kerr jessica rich john n. mafi kellie slate vitcavage matt handley Source Type: blogs
Wrapping Our Heads Around the Radiologist Shortage in the Northeast
Despite having the lowest number of jobs available in the specialty, there are more radiology residents in the Northeast than any other region in the United States, according to a newstudy published in theJournal of the American College of Radiology. The study ’s author, Cory Pfeifer, MD, an assistant professor of radiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, set out to determine the growth of radiology resident positions between 2006 and 2016 in comparison to the number of currently open positions nation-wide. Pfeifer utilized data from the National Resident Matching Program that pertained to the n...
Source: radRounds - October 6, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Nobel Prize for Biological Clock Mechanisms
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly toJeffrey C. Hall,Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young for their discoveries ofmolecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.SummaryLife on Earth is adapted to the rotation of our planet. For many years we have known that living organisms, including humans, have an internal, biological clock that helps them anticipate and adapt to the regular rhythm of the day. But how does this clock actually work? Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young were able to peek inside our biologica...
Source: The A and P Professor - October 2, 2017 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Palliative Care in the Time of Hurricane Harvey
by Ishwaria Subbiah (@IshwariaMD)Trouble BrewingBetween the network news and many institutional emails on hurricane preparations, we at MD Anderson knew were in for something ‘big.’ Harvey made landfall on August 25th as a Category 4 hurricane about 190 miles southwest of Houston. The outer bands brought rain without any major disruptions to our practice. As expected, upon landfall, Harvey rapidly weakened but stalled over Texas. The subsequent two days brought a level of rainfall best described as apocalyptic. The institution’s leaders activated the ‘ride-out’ team where the core essential physicians and staff r...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 27, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Tags: disaster hurricane subbiah The profession weather Source Type: blogs
What does Anthem ’s New Imaging Diagnostics Policy Mean for Your Practice?
Anthem has announced they will no longer cover outpatient MRI and CT scan services, unless the insurance company deems the imaging procedure to be medically necessary. Instead, patients will be referred to a freestanding imaging center. Anthem, which boasts around 40 million members, just enacted this new policy in Colorado, Nevada, New York, Ohio, and Georgia. Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Wisconsin implemented the change in July, and New Hampshire is the only state that is exempt. This new requirement could mean serious financial consequences for healthcare facilities that rely on imaging services to bring in reve...
Source: radRounds - September 15, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Let ’s dial down the hype about grit – new paper finds no association with creative achievement
Duckworth’s book is a best-seller
By Alex Fradera
In 2007, the University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth authored a paper on a trait she called “grit” which went on to arrest the attention of anyone interested in the secrets of success. TED talks and a 2016 book followed, wherein Duckworth explained how a combination of passion for a topic, and perseverance in the face of difficulties – the two facets of grit – were the recipe for achievement, a claim borne out by studies within schools and across the lifespan.
In recent years, however, researchers have become more critical of the scope and re...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 15, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Creativity Source Type: blogs
Let ’s not be petty about affirmative action in medical school
Just a year after the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to race-conscious admissions in Fisher v. University of Texas, this issue is being pushed back to the front of the room by none other than the Trump administration’s Justice Department hauling out hoary tropes about “reverse discrimination.” They are preparing cases against Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, charging to the rescue of the multitudes of innocent middle-class whites and Asians who have been wounded by the shame of having to attend their second or third-choice university.
“It’s not fair!” they cry.
And the Supreme Court answers: This...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/thalia-k-robakis" rel="tag" > Thalia K. Robakis, MD, PhD < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Surgical Pen Can Identify Cancer in Real-Time
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a hand-held surgical “pen” that can analyze tissue samples and tell a surgeon if they are cancerous in just a few seconds.
During surgery to remove a tumor, surgeons need to know if they have removed the entire tumor margins, as leaving just a small piece of neoplasm could mean that it grows back. Often the tumor looks very similar to healthy tissue, making it difficult to distinguish, and a surgeon will sometimes remove large areas of healthy tissue to make sure that they remove all the cancerous cells. This can cause unnecessary pain and prolonged recove...
Source: Medgadget - September 7, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Neurosurgery Ob/Gyn Thoracic Surgery Urology Source Type: blogs
Camp Gives Families, Students Insights into Experiences of Teens With Hearing Loss
Doctoral student Alyssa Kaufman (left) with camp director, Linda Thibodeau, PhD, CCC-A.
Six high school students who wear cochlear implants or hearing aids—and their families—recently spent a weekend near Dallas enjoying summer camp. The teens participated in typical camp activities like swimming and fishing, while their parents and siblings learned what it’s like to wear hearing amplification devices. Camp CHAT (Communication Habilitation via Audition for Teens) is directed by audiologist and professor Linda Thibodeau and offered by the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at the University of Texas at Dalla...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - September 6, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss hearing protection Source Type: blogs
Crosspost: #MoBE17: Microbiology of the Built Environment Research & Applications Symposium – microBEnet: the microbiology of the Built Environment network
Discussion: Myth and Reality of MoBE ManipulationRob Knight(UCSD),ModeratorRita Colwell (University of Maryland)Jeffrey Siegel (U of T)Ilana Brito (Cornell)Jessica Green (University of Oregon)Poster Session& ReceptionThursday October 12thWelcomeJordan Peccia (Yale). Gordon Conference Announcement.KeynoteMarc Edwards (Virginia Tech). MoBE, Public Health and the Flint Water CrisisSession 5 - From MoBE Research to MoBE ApplicationsScott Kelley (San Diego State University).Session Chair.Jack Gilbert (University of Chicago). From Hospitals to Forensic ApplicationsRichard Shaughnessy (University of Tulsa).&nbs...
Source: The Tree of Life - August 26, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Researchers are studying psychopathic chimps to better understand the human variety
By Emma Young
To understand the drivers of a psychopathic personality (marked by callousness, disinhibition and superficial charm), it’s worth looking at our closest relatives. Some chimps, like some people, score highly on scales designed to evaluate psychopathic tendencies. And new work in Frontiers in Neuroscience reveals a potentially important genetic contributor to psychopathic traits in chimps, which could lead to a better understanding of the traits in people.
The team led by Robert Latzman at Georgia State University studied 164 chimpanzees housed at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Geor...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: biological Comparative evolutionary psych Genetics Personality Source Type: blogs
Is The ACA Helping to Fuel the Opioid Overdose Rate?
Leaders at all levels of government and civil society are alarmed at the continued rise, year after year, in the death rate from opioid overdose. The latest numbers for 2015 report a record 33,000 deaths, the majority of which are now from heroin. Health insurers are not a disinterested party in this matter.Cigna, America ’s fifth largest insurer, recently announced it has made good progress towards its goal of reducing opioid use by its patients by 25% by mid-2019. To that end, Cigna is limiting the quantities of opioids dispensed to patients and requiring authorizations for most long acting opioid prescriptions. Cigna ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 7, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
