E ‑Cigarettes as Harm Reduction for Pregnant Tobacco Smokers
Jeffrey A. SingerLast week U.K. researchers published a study providing more evidence of the harm ‐reduction potential of nicotine containing e‑cigarettes—this time for pregnant women who smoke tobacco.The randomized controlled trial, begun in 2019, included 1,140 participants from 24 UK hospitals. Pregnant women who smoked were placed on either nicotine patches or refillable nicotine e ‑cigarettes to replace tobacco. The researchers found both replacement methods to have an equal safety profile. However, low birth weight was less frequent among the e‑cigarette arm of the study compared to the nicotine pa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
British Medical Association Covid review
British Medical Association (BMA) -The BMA have undertaken a review into the UK Government ’s handling of the pandemic and its impact on the NHS, the health of the population, and doctors. These reports conclude that the UK Government failed in its duty of care to protect doctors and the wider healthcare workforce from avoidable harm and suffering in its management of the Covid-19 pande mic.Report 1: protectionReport 2: impactBMA - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 19, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Episode 30: The psychology of superstitions
This is Episode 30 of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, sponsored by Routledge Psychology. Download here.
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From carefully avoiding cracks in the pavement to saluting every magpie that you meet, superstitious behaviour is really common. But why do we have superstitions? Where do they come from? And are they helpful or harmful?
To find out, our presenter Ginny Smith talks to Stuart Vyse, former professor of psychology at Connecticut College and author of Believing in Magic: T...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Podcast Thought Source Type: blogs
The Reckoning: What Happens to Digital Health After COVID?
By JEFF GOLDSMITH and ERIC LARSEN
It has been a rough year so far for digital health. After an astonishing $45 billion poured into new digital health companies in 2020 and 2021, and an early 2021 peak in market valuations of publicly-traded digital health providers, valuations and multiples have collapsed. Once high-flying Teladoc, which traded at an eye-watering 42x revenues and commanded a $45 billion market capitalization, is now trading around 2.7X at about $5.7 billion. AmWell, the next largest telehealth player, has seen its stock drop more 90% from its high.
Nor is the evaporation in market value is co...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech digital health Digital health investing Eric Larsen Healthcare bubble Jeff Goldsmith Source Type: blogs
Memorandum of understanding on the recruitment of Sri Lankan healthcare professionals between the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Department of Health and Social Care - This memorandum of understanding (MoU) sets out the framework under which nurses and other healthcare professionals from Sri Lanka will be recruited to the UK. The MoU includes: areas of cooperation; recruitment; and the establishment of a joint committee to oversee implementation of the provisions of the MoU.MoUMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 9, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Women, partner violence and pain
As the potential for greater repression of women’s autonomy grows (Afghanistan, United States, Mexico), along with racist and misogynist statements from business leaders (DGL CEO Simon Henry) it’s timely to look at pain in women. We already know that more women than men present with persistent pain (Blyth, n.d.), while women who are seen for their pain are more often misdiagnosed, offered psychiatric medication or psychological intervention only and have their experiences dismissed as “hysterical, fabricated, or nonexistent” (Samulowitz, et al., 2018). My daughter, when attending Emergency Departmen...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 8, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Professional topics Research Science in practice biopsychosocial gender Health pain management partner violence Source Type: blogs
A gateway guide to mothing
Other people’s hobbies are weird, aren’t they? Bird watching, trainspotting, stamp collecting…what’s that all about. But, some are particularly strange, at least until you find yourself introduced, intrigued, interested, and then heavily invested in that particular hobby.
Take mothing, it’s like birding, but with moths. What could be weirder? Many people think of moths as pests, dull grey and brown fluttery things that fly around lights at night and eating clothes and carpets. But, nothing could be farther from the truth. There are indeed some moths that are grey or brown and just two species...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 30, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
Seeing good people do bad things makes the world feel like a more confusing place
By Emma Young
Have you ever believed someone to be decent — but then they did something morally bad, which turned that belief on its head? It happens more often than we might think. And, according to new work in Social Psychology and Personality Science, the consequences are far-reaching.
In two initial studies, Kate W. Guan and Steven J. Heine at the University of British Columbia recruited online participants who reported having had this type of experience. After reporting details about the event and the perpetrator, participants answered a series of questions about how they felt before, during and after it ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Morality Social Source Type: blogs
Spray Blocks SARS-CoV-2 Entry into Nasal Cells
Researchers at the University of British Columbia, and collaborators, created a nasal spray that can block the entry of SARS-CoV-2 into cells in the nasal cavity, potentially offering protection and treatment for COVID-19. Excitingly, in lab tests, the spray appears to work against all known variants of the virus, including the Omicron variant, which shows some resistance to our existing vaccines.
The spray dramatically increased survival in a mouse model of severe COVID-19, highlighting its potential as both a treatment and a prophylactic. The spray contains a drug that inhibits an enzyme in the nasal cells that is in...
Source: Medgadget - April 18, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Ukraine ’ s National bird, the White Stork on our local patch
I went looking for a White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) that had been seen at the marina in the nearby village Earith this morning. I was lucky enough to catch sight of it on the wing circling with numerous gulls and several Grey Herons before it headed upstream and out of sight along the Great River Ouse.
As many readers will know, the White Stork is the national bird of Ukraine, feels rather poignant to have seen one today. Birdwatcher Oleksandr Ruchko writing in The Guardian from Lviv had this to say on seeing the birds return to his homeland:
The stork is very sacred to Ukrainians, a symbol of spring, of babies, and of peac...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 16, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
A letter to our member of parliament
Today, in desperation, we sent a letter to our MP. Usually such letters get a boiler plate response, dictated by Conservative Central Office. We aren’t hopeful about changing the mind of our MP. Before he was elected he ran a shockingly misogynist web site, now deleted. But it’s essential to do what one can to about democracy while we still have some.
Dear Mike Penning
I doubt whether this will be the only letter you’ll get along these lines.1. The Conservative party used to be the party of business. Brexit has destituted many small businesses and impoverished the UK. That’s not jus...
Source: DC's goodscience - April 14, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Boris Johnson democracy politics Priti Patel Putin Ukraine Source Type: blogs
A letter to our member of parliament
Today, in desperation, we sent a letter to our MP. Usually such letters get a boiler plate response, dictated by Conservative Central Office. We aren’t hopeful about changing the mind of our MP. Before he was elected he ran a shockingly misogynist web site, now deleted. But it’s essential to do what one can to about democracy while we still have some.
Dear Mike Penning
I doubt whether this will be the only letter you’ll get along these lines.1. The Conservative party used to be the party of business. Brexit has destituted many small businesses and impoverished the UK. That’s not just my...
Source: DC's goodscience - April 14, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Boris Johnson democracy politics Priti Patel Putin Ukraine Source Type: blogs
Hemostasis on Contact: Interview with Joe Landolina, CEO of Cresilon
Cresilon, a New York-based medtech company, specializes in developing hemostatic technology. Its co-founder and CEO, Joe Landolina, created a plant-based hemostatic gel that can stop bleeding very rapidly when applied to a wound. Landolin developed the gel when he was just seventeen, and has spent the years since building the company to bring it and similar technologies to market.
At present, Cresilon’s technology is sold under the name Vetigel for use by veterinarians for bleeds that occur during surgery or dental work, or those caused by trauma. However, the company has recently submitted the technology to the F...
Source: Medgadget - April 12, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dentistry Emergency Medicine Exclusive Military Medicine Surgery cresilon hemostasis vetigel Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - guidelines, audit, news - 11th April 2022
First, Development of knowledge and techniques in gynaecology gained from enslaved women, (British Journal of Midwifery).AuditHQIP have a newMaternity and newborn newsletter.National Neonatal Audit Programme, annual report on 2020 dataRecommendations and guidelinesWHO recommendations on material and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience, a 2022 update of their 2014 guidelines. Read about it here, with a link to the recommendations themselves. Thanks to the Library and Knowledge Service at Rotherham General Hospital, South Yorkshire, for this.Press release on publication of NICE Quality...
Source: Browsing - April 11, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Actual causes of death
This by Sandro Galea in JAMA Health Forum has a lot of good information, but it isn ' t really the whole story. As we all know, there are large disparities in health and longevity associated with income -- the richest Americans live on average ten years longer than the poorest. Galea cites a study by Pukaet althat attributes these disparities to behaviors such as smoking, excessive drinking, and lack of physical activity, though to be precise the Puka studied correlated these behaviors with level of formal education, not income.Galeo is at pains to argue that just targeting risk behaviors misses the real point because ther...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 11, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
