Bit by the Research Bug: Priscilla ’s Growth as a Scientist
This is the third post in a new series highlighting NIGMS’ efforts toward developing a robust, diverse and well-trained scientific workforce.
Credit: Christa Reynolds.
Priscilla Del Valle
Academic Institution: The University of Texas at El Paso
Major: Microbiology
Minors: Sociology and Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Charles Spencer
Favorite Book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Favorite Food: Tacos
Favorite music: Pop
Hobbies: Reading and drinking coffee
It’s not every day that you’ll hear someone say, “I learned more about parasites, and I thought, ‘This is so cool!’” But it’s al...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 28, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Christa Reynolds Tags: Being a Scientist Bacteria BUILD Infectious Diseases Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
A request for honesty about modern day practice in long term care facilities
Follow-up toEthical occupational therapy practice in nursing home careStudying historical phenomenon is helpful for framing modern problems - and so I would like to draw attention to an article that appeared in Modern Hospital in September 1922.The author of the article, Christine Newman, was Head Aide of the Howell State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis in Howell, Michigan. The facility isdescribedas " a self-sufficient entity that aimed to meet the patients ' and employees ' every need with a working farm, apple orchard, convenience store, post office, water and heating plants and kitchen staff. "This model of ' self su...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - March 2, 2017 Category: Occupational Health Tags: health insurance history OT practice Source Type: blogs
Why do so many Indian gynecologists believe that all infertile women have TB ?
I recently attended an IVF conference in Delhi, and came away with the impression that a lot of IVF doctors there seem to feel that every Indian patient who's infertile has tuberculosis. They feel that it's a ubiquitous disease, and that the only reason we don't diagnose it for everyone is because we don't look for it hard enough.Their " impression" is based on their personal experience with their own patients, and they don't care what the foreign medical literature shows. After all , TB is extremely common in India, and very rare elsewhere, so why would foreigners know anything about genital TB? This means that India...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - February 27, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Tags: EB endometrial TB genital TB PAMP TB PCR Tuberculosis Source Type: blogs
Tackling tuberculosis in under-served populations: a resource for TB control boards and their partners
Public Health England -Tackling TB among under-served populations is one of the key areas for action identified in the Collaborative TB Strategy for England. This resource has been developed to improve the understanding of the health needs of under-served populations with TB; to support the design and delivery of multi-agency programmes and services to better meet those needs; and ultimately to reduce the health inequalities associated with TB among USPs.GuidancePublic Health England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 18, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Madura Foot: MRI
Case Report - A 45 year non-diabetic male pt. presents with pain& swelling in right foot of about 2-3 months duration for MRI foot with clinical suspicion of actinomycetoma.Radiological Findings1. 4THMetatarsal shows cortical thickening and sclerosis in shaft& mild expansile lytic lesions in the base with ill defined T2 hypointense soft tissue around the base. Multiple lytic lesions also seen in talus (neck and anterior body), anterior calcaneum, inferior cuboid, intermediate& lateral cuneiforms.2. Ill defined T2 hypointense soft tissue seen in the subcutan...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - January 12, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
The Framework Convention On Global Health: A Call For Leadership From The Global Health Trio
In the current issue of Health Affairs, we explore a pivotal moment of opportunity and peril in global health, while identifying the leadership challenges of “the global health trio” — the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Each of the challenges we pose share a common thread: poor and other marginalized populations are most vulnerable to current and emerging health risks. Maternal and child mortality, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, health harms from climate change, and mass migration — all disproportionately affect those who are poor and less educated, indig...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin Tags: Featured Global Health Policy Public Health antimicrobial resistance Ebola Source Type: blogs
Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit
Ten years ago, the world was a different place when it came to tobacco. Fewer than twenty developing countries in the world had even one strong tobacco control policy in place. The tobacco industry was beginning an aggressive ramping up of nefarious activities to grow their market share in vulnerable developing countries. And although advocates for tobacco control measures had a major public health victory in passing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world’s first public health treaty, little financial or technical help was available to support countries that wanted to put life-saving, proven tobacco contr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Kelly Henning Tags: Featured Global Health Policy GrantWatch Public Health Source Type: blogs
Scientific quackery in IVF.
When we think of quacks, we think of unqualified doctors holed up in dingy rooms in slums and villages who give colourful injections, herbs , placebos and potions to illiterate patients . We believe that it's easy for them to fool illiterate poor patients, who don't know any better; and that we are safe, because we go to sophisticated doctors who practise in gleaming 5-star hospitals.However, quackery is far more prevalent than you realise, and lots of highly qualified medical specialists engage in quackery as well. They label it " cutting-edge treatment" , but the truth is that a lot of things which many speci...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - January 3, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Perils of Precision Medicine
By MERCEDITAS VILLANUEVA , MD
When The White House announced their Precision Medicine Initiative last year, they referred to precision medicine as “a new era of medicine,” signaling a shift in focus from a “one-size-fits-all-approach” to individualized care based on the specific characteristics that distinguish one patient from another. While there continues to be immense excitement about its game-changing impact in terms of early diagnoses and targeting specific treatment options, the advancements in technology, which underlie this approach, may not always yield the best medical results. In some cases, low cost ap...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Global Health Policy: A Health Affairs Resource Hub
While many readers are familiar with Health Affairs’ content focused on the many facets of health and health care in the United States, we also publish extensively on global health policy.
Global Health Policy
In any given year, Health Affairs publishes about 45 peer-reviewed global health policy articles in the journal, including at least one full theme issue on a topic in global health policy. In 2016, for example, we published a special issue featuring some of the latest global research on vaccines. Add to all that the frequent commentary and analysis taking place on Health Affairs Blog with the aim of promoting a...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 23, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Global Health Policy Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 165
This study reveals (using US to determine soft tissue depth) that in obese patients, the standard 25 mm IO may not be adequate to penetrate the soft tissue and get into the bony cortex. If you’re unable to palpate the tibial tuberosity, there’s a good chance your IO won’t be long enough. In obese patients, consider reaching for the 45 mm IO needle instead of the 25 mm one. Remember that the 45 mm one can be used for shallower placement (some of the device will simply protrude from the skin).
Recommended by: Anand Swaminathan
Emergency Medicine
Juhani-Mehta M, et al. Effect of Cranberry Capsules on Bacte...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 21, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nudrat Rashid Tags: Anaesthetics Education Emergency Medicine Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE Resuscitation EBM literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
Global Vaccine Development: Lessons From The Road To A New HIV Vaccine Trial
Three decades of advances in HIV treatment and prevention have curbed mortality from the HIV epidemic, but every year since 2010 2 million more people around the world have been infected with HIV. This is a sad reminder that we still have not put the brakes on this clever viral menace.
Millions of lives and the hopes of an entire generation thus hang on the development of an effective HIV vaccine. Those hopes were rekindled in November 2016 with the opening of a major new HIV vaccine trial in South Africa. Called HVTN 702, the trial will enroll 5,400 adults to receive five injections of an investigational HIV vaccine or a ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Tim Lahey Tags: Global Health Policy clinical research HIV/AIDS Research and Development vaccines Source Type: blogs
Anti-Vaccinators and their Brave Fight Since the Smallpox Vaccine
With the development of the very first vaccination of smallpox, brave anti-vaccinators fought against the dangerous, ill-advised practice of vaccinations. Those fighting against vaccines included the most intelligent and respected physicians of their time. [1]
This fight has been steadfast and continuous, as anti-vaccinators fought against an unjust, dangerous medical procedure. Vaccinations have always only profited the vaccine makers, not the people targeted for vaccines. Today’s anti-vaccination movement, while still in the minority, is most likely the largest we have had in history.
First Anti-Vaccinators
The smallpo...
Source: vactruth.com - November 20, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Recent Articles Top Picks anti-vaccination Polio Vaccine smallpox vaccine truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
The Work of the Aoki Foundation to Support SENS Rejuvenation Research
Music business entrepreneur Steve Aoki has been a supporter of the SENS rejuvenation research programs for a while now. I'm always pleased to see successful people being vocal about their support for SENS, putting it front and center when talking to their audiences. Placing this important scientific work - as well as the prospects for near future therapies, and the need for philanthropic funding - in front of a bigger audience is a vital to the continued growth of our community and continued progress towards the medical control of aging. We need to reach out to entirely new networks of people, those who would never seek ou...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 12, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
When a cough just won ’t go away
Who has never had a cough? I bet no one can raise their hand. We see this in clinic all the time. But chronic cough— one that lasts at least eight weeks — can be hard for patients to deal with and difficult for doctors to figure out.
In the October 20, 2016 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, lung experts describe a step-by-step approach doctors can use to help treat patients with chronic cough. Most often a prolonged cough is due to one of the “usual suspects.” But when it’s not, we have a long list of increasingly rarer conditions that we should run through and rule out. If it isn’t due to any of th...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Cold and Flu Health Lung disease Source Type: blogs
