CME: Online Medical Education Could Revolutionize Training in Emerging Markets
A recent article published in Forbes argues that online medical education has the opportunity to revolutionize training for doctors and nurses in emerging markets. Internet-based learning tools “will increase the number of health workers globally and train them to provide high-quality care in places that desperately need it,” writes Will Greene, who runs TigerMine Ventures, an advisory firm that helps companies and organizations in Southeast Asia.
Greene argues that medical education in emerging markets “typically suffers from two problems.” He writes:
First, medical universities and residency programs rarely...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 10, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Legal Briefing: Coerced Treatment and Involuntary Confinement for Contagious Disease
My latest “Legal Briefing” column is now up over at the Journal of Clinical Ethics. "Legal Briefing: Coerced Treatment and Involuntary Confinement for Contagious Disease" covers recent legal developments involving coerced treatment and involuntary confinement for contagious disease. Recent high profile court cases involving measles, tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus, and especially Ebola, have thrust this topic back into the bioethics and public spotlights. This has reignited debates over how best to balance individual liberty and public health.
For example, the Presidential Commission...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 20, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
When Death is Optional
Many people believe that medical control over aging will be stunningly expensive, and thus indefinite extension of healthy life will only be available to a wealthy elite. This is far from the case. If you look at the SENS approach to repair therapies, treatments when realized will be mass-produced infusions of cells, proteins, and drugs. Everyone will get the same treatments because everyone ages due to the same underlying cellular and molecular damage. You'll need one round of treatments every ten to twenty years, and they will be given by a bored clinical assistant. No great attention will be needed by highly trained and...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 5, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What Do Measles, Tuberculosis, and Grains Have in Common?
What do measles, tuberculosis, and grains have in common? For that matter, what do anthrax, influenza, and brucellosis also share in common with grains?
All the conditions listed are examples of zoonoses, i.e., diseases contracted by humans from animals. When humans first invited domesticated grazing creatures–cows, sheep, goats–into our huts, adobe homes, or caves, often sleeping in the same room, using them for milk or food, we acquired many of their diseases. These diseases were essentially unknown prior to the human domestication of grazing ruminants.
The process of animal domestication changed the course o...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 9, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat-Free Lifestyle barley corn gluten grains measles rye tuberculosis zoonoses Source Type: blogs
Collaborative tuberculosis strategy for England: 2015 to 2020
Public Health England -This strategy outlines how Public Health England and NHS England intend to organise and resource services to tackle tuberculosis (TB) from 2015 to 2020. It looks at using the assets that already exist in the NHS and the public health system to: support and strengthen local services in tackling TB (particularly in areas of high incidence); ensure clear lines of accountability and responsibility; and provide national support for local action.
Strategy
Consultation: summary report
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Public Health England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 21, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities NHS finances and productivity Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Postdoc position in Computational Biology / Infectious Disease w/ Ashlee Earl at the Broad
My friend, the brilliant Ashlee Earl is recruiting a post doc ... posting this for her.POSTDOC – COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGIST (INFECTIOUS DISEASE)Requisition Number: 1571 http://www.broadinstitute.org/careers/job-openings/job-openings-0The goal of the Bacterial Genomics Group at Broad is to develop and implement genomic and metagenomic methods to answer pressing questions related to bacteria and their role in human health. Specifically, we seek to understand the evolution and spread of bacterial pathogens (and antibiotic resistance) including the interactions that these pathogens have with their host and host-associated micro...
Source: The Tree of Life - January 9, 2015 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
New Antibiotic Teixobactin Holds Promise Against Resistant Organisms
Researchers at Northwestern University have found and grown a new type of antibiotic that kills many of the deadly antibiotic organisms that are developing today, such as MRSA, tuberculosis, and Clostridium difficile.
The antibiotic, dubbed teixobactin, is still in clinical trials with animals.
The post New Antibiotic Teixobactin Holds Promise Against Resistant Organisms appeared first on InsideSurgery Medical Information Blog. (Source: Inside Surgery)
Source: Inside Surgery - January 8, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Pharmacology antibiotic MRSA resistance teixobactin tuberculosis Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 105
Question 1Rodney Dangerfield, the comedian, attends your emergency department. Complete his presenting complaint “I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had…“?Reveal Answerexpand(document.getElementById('ddet114141590'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink114141590'))…an olive in itQuestion 2If one orders a Brompton’s cocktail, what might one get?Reveal Answerexpand(document.getElementById('ddet383681379'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink383681379'))Non-commercial hospital grade analgesic/sedativeMore commonly known as Brompton’s mixtureIt contains the...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 28, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Brompton cocktail chocolate survival FFFF Rapa Nui Rapamycin Rhabdophis tigrinus yamakagashi Source Type: blogs
Whole issues of Genome Biology/Genome Medicine on "Genomics of Infectious Disease"
Wow this has really got some nice papers: BioMed Central | Article collections | Genomics of infectious diseases special issue. I note - this goes well as a follow up to the series I co-coordinated in PLOS a few years back: Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease - PLOS CollectionsFrom their site:Infectious diseases are major contributors to global morbidity and mortality, and have a devastating impact on public health. The World Health Organization estimates that 1 in 3 deaths worldwide are due to an infectious disease, with a disproportionate number occurring in developing regions. While the completi...
Source: The Tree of Life - November 23, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Web First: For Global Health Programs Aiding Developing Countries, Analyzing A New Funding Model
This study, which was supported in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Department for International Development, will also appear in the December issue of Health Affairs. (Source: Health Affairs Blog)
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 13, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Tracy Gnadinger Tags: AIDS All Categories Chronic Care Global Health Policy Public Health Source Type: blogs
TWiM 90: Think globally, act locally
I usually don’t post TWiM episodes here, but #90 has a lot of virology. In this episode, recorded in La Jolla, CA at the annual meeting of the Southern California Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, I first speak with Laurene Mascola, Chief of Acute Communicable Diseases at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Dr. Mascola talks about how Los Angeles county has prepared for an outbreak of Ebola virus. Next up is David Persing, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical and Technology Officer at Cepheid. His company has developed an amazing, modular PCR machine that is brining rapid diagn...
Source: virology blog - October 30, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology This Week in Microbiology bacteria Cepheid diagnosis ebola virus GeneXPert infectious disease MERS microbe PCR polymerase chain reaction public health SARS tuberculosis Source Type: blogs
Quarantine: The politics are as real as the science
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Implementation of medical quarantines in America brings into conflict various legitimate arguments regarding who, if anyone, should have the authority to restrict movements of citizens.</span><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Quarantines are not new, but they exist now in a world with new dangers and new opportunities for abuse.</span></p>
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 30, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hayley Dittus-Doria Tags: Health Care Politics decision making public health ethics Public Trust syndicated Source Type: blogs
Ebola: Local hospitals cannot be prepared
Recently at our community hospital, after we concluded a nearly two-hour standing room only Ebola preparedness meeting, I practiced donning and doffing the personal protective equipment (PPE) for Ebola cases.
PPE is the protective wardrobe health workers wear when examining a patient with a contagious infectious disease. Each disease has a different level of transmission and requires an appropriate level of protection. I wear gloves 25 times a day to examine each patient I see. (Not all doctors do this; in my specialty of infectious diseases, though, it is prudent.) I dress in a gown a dozen times when entering a room of a...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 25, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Manoj Jain, MD, MPH Tags: Physician Hospital Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
Surprised by Joyousness
This week, I was brought up short by a quote from a book by Malcolm Muggeridge entitled Something Beautiful for God. Muggeridge is writing about Mother Teresa and the religious congregation she founded, the Missionaries of Charity. According to Wikipedia, the Missionaries of Charity ”run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children’s and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools.” Muggeridge... // Read More » (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 24, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Joe Gibes Tags: Health Care bioethics Health Care Practice Joy in medicine Mother Teresa syndicated Source Type: blogs
