Pioneering Researcher to Lead LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes at UT Austin’s Dell Med School
S. Gail Eckhardt, a visionary cancer leader, educator and research innovator, will serve as the inaugural director of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin.Eckhardt also has been appointed associate dean of the medical school. She will oversee the creation of a transdisciplinary cancer research program at UT Austin, one that will lead to new models of prevention, treatment, patient-centered cancer care; and new models of teaching and training future doctors.The appointment was made possible by a $6 million recruitment grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research I...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - September 13, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs
Memo To The President: The Pharmaceutical Monopoly Adjustment Act Of 2017
Since 1980, Congress has enacted many laws granting pharmaceutical manufacturers monopolies that no other industry enjoys. These extra monopolies were created with the expectation that monopoly profits would spur greater investment in research to find important new drugs. In fact, they have caused US consumers to pay higher prices for medicines for longer periods of time while making the pharmaceutical industry far more profitable than any other industry. I believe the next president and Congress should take several key steps, which I outline below, to roll back these costly, unnecessary monopolies.
The Current Landscape
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Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 13, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Alfred Engelberg Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Health Policy Lab Bayh-Dole Act Big Pharma Gilead Hatch-Waxman Act johnson & johnson pfizer Source Type: blogs
Rice University ’s Design-A-Thon Focused on Assistive Devices
Team Fab Assistants developed a single-handed solution for drawing medication with a syringe and self-administering.
Rice University just hosted the first Innovate Design-A-Thon focused on creating devices to help disabled people lead more independent lives. Students from Rice, as well as University of Houston, and the University of Texas at Dallas participated in the event. Modeled on popular hackathons that are focused on software, the Innovate Design-A-Thon was created to give attention to assistive devices that can now be quickly prototyped and manufactured.
One team developed a syringe that can be used with one hand ...
Source: Medgadget - September 7, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Spotlight on “Team Fathers and Sons”
This year will be the 20th Anniversary of theLIVESTRONG Challenge in Austin! For 20 years, we have been creating awareness and changes in cancer care for people in Austin and beyond. All proceeds will be going to benefit theLIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. The Challenge helps us promote our cause and it encourages locals as well as people from around the country to come out and participate in the runs/bike rides. Here, we have the spotlight on Alex Arato who has been participating in the LIVESTRONG Challenge for a very long time and is captain of Team Fat...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - September 1, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs
Healthy Native Youth
— a website produced in collaboration by the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston — uses culturally relevant health information to develop educational programs for Native Alaskan and American Indian youth. Intended for use by health educators, teacher and parents, the project provides training and tools for age appropriate programs on sexual health. More heath topics will be added in the coming year: https://nnlm.gov/bhic/ckfq (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - August 25, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Children and Teens Source Type: blogs
When cancer tries to destroy you, what do you do?
Cancer changed my family forever. I was diagnosed with testicular cancer twice and my beloved wife, Judy, was taken from us after a brave battle with multiple myeloma.Through it all, LIVESTRONG was by my side. Their expert guidance and support as my children and I worked to navigate the “new normal” saved us, and that’s why I decided to give back. I became aLIVESTRONG Leader and actively fundraise throughTeam LIVESTRONG events.This year, I took my work one step further. I joined the LIVESTRONG staff in Washington, D.C., for a meeting on Vice President Biden ’s National Cancer Moonshot initiative. I shared how cance...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - August 24, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Guest Source Type: blogs
How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar
DiscussionIt is hardly news that US health care is broadly dysfunctional, that it suffers from ever rising costs, and questionable quality, while access has only somewhat improved after the 2009 Affordable Care Act. The big question is why these problems seem so intractable.Our latest case illustrates that the problem may be that health policy making is dominated by people withconflicts of interest. In the current case, one of the more influential voices on health care policy turns out not to have just a garden variety conflict of interest. He actually has a duty to uphold the corporate interests of one o...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 10, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: boards of directors Brookings Institution hepatitis C Johnson and Johnson revolving doors You heard it here first Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 30th July, 2016.
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.-----http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/portals-linked-to-lower-rates-of-hospitalization-readmissionPortals linked to lower rates of hospitalization, readmission By Joseph Goedert Published July 21 2016, 4:40pm EDTResearch still underway shows that congestive heart failure patients using a patient portal offered by a hospital or physician practice have higher e...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 29, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Portals Can Work But Not The Sort Of Portal Offered By The myHR! Sad That!
This appeared last week:Portals linked to lower rates of hospitalization, readmission By Joseph Goedert Published July 21 2016, 4:40pm EDTResearch still underway shows that congestive heart failure patients using a patient portal offered by a hospital or physician practice have higher engagement rates, lower hospitalization and readmission rates, and higher outpatient visit rates.Use of portals is associated with 20 percent lower hospital admissions and a similar lower rate of readmissions, said Indranil Bardhan, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, during a session at Health Data Management ’s Healthcare An...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 28, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Jul 21, Clifford T. Morgan: Today in the History of Psychology (21st July 1915)
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Morgan was also a passionate advocate of scientifically rigorous research within psychology, m...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - July 22, 2016 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Study: To improve brain health you need BOTH aerobic and cognitive exercise
— Neural networks. Photo credit: Radu Jianu, Brown University
Mental, physical exercises produce distinct brain benefits (Science Daily):
“Cognitive brain training improves executive function whereas aerobic activity improves memory, according to new Center for BrainHealth research at The University of Texas at Dallas…healthy adults who participated in cognitive training demonstrated positive changes in executive brain function as well as a 7.9 percent increase in global brain flow compared to study counterparts who participated in an aerobic exercise program. The aerobic exercise group showed increases in immediate ...
Source: SharpBrains - July 20, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness aerobic-exercise aging brain-aging Brain-Fitness brain-function Brain-health Brain-Training cognition Cognitive Aging Cognitive-Training improve-memory neur Source Type: blogs
Why Do Hospitals Installing an Epic EHR Start Losing Money?
I have blogged perviously about hospitals beginning to lose money after installing an Epic EHR (see: Some of the Details Behind the Maine Medical Center/Epic EHR Meltdown; Who Says a Hospital CIO Can't Get Fired for Picking the Epic EHR; The Cost of Deploying an Epic EMR and the "Oreo Cookie" Analogy). Often the details of these financial shortfalls are sketchy because of the contractual gag clauses imposed by Epic on their hospital clients (see: Gag Clauses in EHR Contracts Documented; Concerns Raised about Patient Safety). A recent opinion piece discusses how an Epic EHR installation...
Source: Lab Soft News - June 23, 2016 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Business Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Information Technology Hospital Executive Management Hospital Finance Source Type: blogs
The Myths of Primacy: Geography, Energy, and Democracy
Proponents of America’s foreign policy strategy of primacy insist that its benefits far outweigh its costs. But as last week’s conference at the Cato Institute demonstrated, not everyone agrees. During the first panel of the conference, for example, foreign policy experts challenged the conventional wisdom about the benefits of the United States’ post-Cold War alliances, as I highlighted yesterday. Experts on the second panel continued that critique of primacy by discussing and debunking its myths related to geography, energy, and democracy promotion.
Alexander Downes of George Washington University and Jonathan Mont...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 21, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Travis Evans Source Type: blogs
The Myths of Primacy: Alliances and Security Dilemmas
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has followed a foreign policy of primacy. The strategy aims to preserve and extend America’s dominant position in the world using its massive military and global network of alliances to spread western values and stop prospective threats before they materialize. Yet, while primacy continues to receive bipartisan support, a growing number of U.S. foreign policy and military experts are now calling for a new grand strategy, one that would make the United States stronger and more secure, and that would better align with the fundamental values at the core of the nation’s foun...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 20, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Travis Evans Source Type: blogs
CRISPR Serves Up More than DNA
The marine bacterium Marinomonas mediterranea uses a CRISPR system to spot invading RNAs and store a memory of the invasion event in its genome. Research team member Antonio Sanchez-Amat was the first to isolate and characterize this bacterial species. Credit: Antonio Sanchez-Amat, University of Murcia.
A new study has added another twist to the CRISPR story. As we’ve highlighted in several recent posts, CRISPR is an immune system in bacteria that recognizes and destroys viral DNA and other invading DNA elements, such as transposons. Scientists have adapted CRISPR into an indispensable gene-editing tool now widely used ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 8, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Kathryn Calkins Tags: Genetics Bacteria CRISPR Gene Editing RNA Source Type: blogs
