Hush, Here Comes the Not ‐So‐Little Baby Tax
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithThe U.S. baby formula industry is in trouble. For most of 2022, parents faced bare shelves when looking for formula. Even in the last week,34 percent of households reported difficulty finding formula. What ’s more depressing, Reckitt Benckiser, an infant formula producer, expects low supplies topersist into the spring.While reports of problems began in August 2021, alarm bells didn ’t ring until theshutdown of a major U.S. plant in early 2022. The shutdown caused a massive supply shock and by June 2022, national out-of-stock levels of infant formulaexceeded90 percent. The crisis wasn ’t just b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 8, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
Start walking to improve health and well-being
I just walked 120 km over five days on the South Downs Way along the southeast coast of the United Kingdom. It was a beautiful walk through the pastoral English countryside, culminating in the dramatic chalk cliffs near the coastal town of Eastbourne. While not a technically difficult walk, there were certainly enough hills to
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Start walking to improve health and well-being originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 8, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Paula Rochon, MD Tags: Conditions Geriatrics Source Type: blogs
What are the mechanisms of beneficial action of alcohol in moderate amounts ?
Putative mechanisms
Alcohol dis-engages platelets that are in aggregation mode (Renaud et al Clin Chim Acta. 1996 Mar 15;246(1-2):77-89)
Alcohol has anti-atherogenic properties (BRUNECK study Stroke. 1998;29:900–907 )
Alcohol Increases HDL which we still believe to be good cholesterol ( Elizabeth R. De Oliveira e Silva Circulation. 2000)
Alcohol causes less Ischemic stroke, that is documented ( Hillbom M Alcohol and stroke: pathophysiologic mechanisms. Neuroepidemiology. 1998)
Alcohol promotes energy consumption.
It is a sort of baseline exercise equivalent (ELI* )
Alcohol can make a perso...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - December 8, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Alcohol and heart disease ada guidelines alcohol alcohol and cad alcohol and Interheart alcohol is it really beneficial INTERHEART study lancet interheart gbd study moderate alcohol beenfits what is moderate alcohol intake Source Type: blogs
NHS staffing shortages: why do politicians struggle to give the NHS the staff it needs?
The King's Fund -The King ’s Fund and Engage Britain commissioned Bill Morgan, a former Conservative special adviser, to explore what can get in the way of ministers taking meaningful, long-term action to address NHS workforce shortages. The resulting report focuses on the role of politicians in workforce planning and deli very. It sets out the scale of the workforce crisis and the impact that it has, and the causes – identified in the report as difficulties in workforce forecasting, a tendency to train too few staff in the UK, and the insufficiently strategic use of international migration to compensate. It also c...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 24, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
America, the intolerant
BY ANISH KOKA
Historically, the great tension between liberty and authority was between government as embodied by the ruling class and its subjects. Marauding barbarians and warring city-states meant that society endowed a particular class within society with great powers to protect the weaker members of society. It was quickly recognized that the ruling class could use these powers for its own benefit on the very people it was meant to protect, and so society moved to preserve individual liberties first by recognizing certain rights that rulers dare not breach lest they risk rebellion. The natural nex...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Anish Koka COVID-19 in-hospital death Source Type: blogs
One Person ’ s Trash …
BY KIM BELLARD
Gosh, so much going on. Elizabeth Holmes was finally sentenced. FTX collapsed. Big Tech is laying off workers at unprecedented rates, except TikTok, which should, indeed, be cautionary. Elon Musk’s master plan for Twitter remains opaque to most of us. Americans remain contentedly unworried about the looming COVID wave.
With all that to choose from, I want to talk about space debris. More specifically, finding opportunity in it, and in other “waste.” As the old saying goes, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, so one person’s problems ar...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Debris Remediation Elizabeth Holmes Space Source Type: blogs
Frustration in the clinic
I’m prompted to write this post because it’s something I see in social media so often – a clinician gets frustrated. Things don’t work. The person getting treatment doesn’t respond in the way that was expected. The person doesn’t look like what the clinician usually sees. The evidence doesn’t fit with practice. All the things! So I thought today I’d write about emotions and thoughts that might turn up – and what might underlie those feelings. (For people living with pain – we also have frustration in the clinic. Things don’t work out. The therapist isn’...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - November 20, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Clinical reasoning Coping Skills Pain Professional topics Research Resilience Science in practice biopsychosocial Health healthcare pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
This report looks at the impact of Covid-19 on British Geriatrics Society members, their patients, their way of working and their mental and emotional wellbeing. It aims to capture these experiences and the learning from how the pandemic was handled. It highlights how these lessons need to be applied to healthcare for older people, in the event of another pandemic.ReportBritish Geriatrics Society - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 16, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Source Type: blogs
Our Plants Should Be Plants
BY KIM BELLARD
It seems like most of my healthcare Twitter buddies are enjoying themselves at HLTH2022, so I don’t suppose it much matters what I write about, because they’ll all be too busy to read it anyway. That’s too bad, because I was sparked by an article on one of my favorite topics: synthetic biology.
Elliot Hershberg, a Ph.D. geneticist who describes his mission as “to accelerate the Century of Biology,” has a great article on his Substack: Atoms are local. The key insight for me was his point that, while we’ve been recognizing the power of biology, we’ve been going about it ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health HLTH2022 Industrialization Kim Bellard synthetic biology Source Type: blogs
Anxiety nation?: economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain
Joseph Rowntree Foundation -Amid rocketing rates of diagnosis for anxiety, and with 7.3 million English adults already having received antidepressants by 2017-18, this report establishes many connections between financial insecurity and poor mental health. It calls for more to be done to protect those millions of Britons, and not just those on the very lowest incomes, at a time of increasing prices and interest rates.ReportJoseph Rowntree Foundation - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 10, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
What Is The Duty To Act?
This week I’d like to explore two related topics that tend to create a bunch of confusion – the duty to act and the good Samaritan law. If you want to see a room full of EMTs argue with each other, ask a question like, “So, when does an EMT have a legal duty to act?” or “To whom does the good sam law really apply?” These are subjects where myth and confusion are more common than fact so lets jump in to these two, often confusing, legal tenants.
Today we’ll look at the duty to act and on Thursday we’ll dive in to the good samaritan law.
On duty or off duty, paid or vo...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 2, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 29, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Doctors Love Alerts – Until They Don’t. The idea behind the alerts to help doctors get the information they need quickly to improve patient care. The problem is that EHR alerts are great until doctors stop looking at them – and with hundreds of alerts streaming into the average EHR every day, John Lynn said he’s worried the EHR may so...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 27, 2022 Edition-----In the UK we have a political farce running with only a day or so to run when you read this, with a new PM (Rishi Sunak) in place..In the US the mid-term elections are coming in a week or so, thus some concern as to where the US is going!In China Xi has his third 5 year term so we all wonder how that will turn out!In OZ we have has a Budget with floods, inflation, data leaks, the threat of recession, Medicare concerns and other issues just rolling on! At least the Budget does not seem to have broken anything!Overall an ‘omnishambles’ as they say!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/wo...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Combined tDCS neurostimulation and cognitive training found to improve working memory among older adults –especially those with lower starting capacity
In this report, we explored the effectiveness of working memory training, combined with tDCS to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), to manipulate working memory performance in older individuals. We hypothesized that individuals with lower working memory capacity would benefit the most from the combined regimen. Thirty older adults took part in a 5‑day combined regimen. Before and after the training, we evaluated participants’ working memory performance with five working memory tasks. We found that individual characteristics influenced the outcome of combined cognitive training and tDCS regimens, with the ...
Source: SharpBrains - October 25, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation aging brain stimulation Brain-Plasticity COGNISANT cognitive needs cognitive-functioning cognitive-skills Cognitive-Training dementia dorsolateral prefrontal cortex neuroplasticity Par Source Type: blogs
