Why use that database?
A module done by some of our students in nursing and midwifery involves an assignment, in which students need to find a peer reviewed paper to critically appraise.One thing students have to do is choose a peer reviewed paper - see separate post " Is this peer reviewed? " for a discussion of that.Another thing is to explain and justify their choice of databases.Is " the librarian told me about it " or " we covered it in a library class " a good enough reason? In the spirit of evidence based practice, where expert opinion (and I flatter myself) is at the base of the pyramid, I think it is not.So, how to choo...
Source: Browsing - April 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: EBP literature searching Source Type: blogs
Manchester street photography and architecture
There’s actually not much difference between snapping wildlife in the countryside and human activity in the city to be honest. You have to blend in and sort of camouflage yourself, hiding in plain sight so that your subjects don’t really notice you’re there.
So, on a trip to Manchester, I swapped my green waterproofs and trek-shoes for a mostly black outfit and my zoom lens and dSLR for a phone. And, while Mrs Sciencebase and daughter were doing some post-graduation shopping, I leaned against a few lampposts and some other street furniture and and got a few candid shots of Manchester and its daylife.
A ho...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 7, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Photography Source Type: blogs
Is there such a thing as too much empathy?
“What does it mean to be neighbors in the trenches?” I began a recent staff meeting at our medical group. We’d just read a passage about the Christmas Truce between the Germans and the British in World War I. The troops found themselves so close together they could smell each other’s food, hear each other’sRead more …Is there such a thing as too much empathy? originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 6, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/eve-makoff" rel="tag" > Eve Makoff, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
How stigma and online trolls stopped an intervention that could save lives
I came across an article a few weeks ago with the heading,“Biden administration denies funding handing out crack pipes to addicts to improve‘racial equity.'” As similar articles came out across the United States and the United Kingdom, I was immediately bombarded with questions from friends and family members who were in disbelief thatRead more …How stigma and online trolls stopped an intervention that could save lives originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 5, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/bonzo-reddick" rel="tag" > Bonzo Reddick, MD, MPH < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
An American vagrant in Earith
I’ve been a bit under the weather with something other than covid but it’s had me stuck indoors for a few days nevertheless. I stoked myself up on some appropriate medication and ventured out to see the Black Redstarts, the Garganey, and the Blue-winged Teal that have all turned up on a fairly local patch (a fenland village currently with a lot of flooding).
There were lots of birders around with big scopes and a few toggers. Some of the birders is toggers too (to paraphrase Ice-T). Speaking of which, one of the birders that you can’t see in the photo told us he had covid, although thought he was probably...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 2, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Correcting the Record on the Trans ‐Pacific Partnership
Clark PackardCiting a supposed groundswell of support for rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), former U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Lighthizer recentlyargued that it would be a mistake for the United States to reenter the trade pact. The promising agreement with 11 other Pacific Rim countries was negotiated by the Obama Administration as the economic centerpiece of its “pivot to Asia” but then was unfortunatelyjettisoned by the Trump Administration as one of its first official acts in January 2017. The remaining TPP members moved forward with the agreement and renamed it the Comprehensive and Pr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
From Organ Designers To Telesurgery VR Planners: Healthcare Jobs in 2040
In this study, the researchers employed the VR prototype for surgical planning using a standard VR setup in two real cases of patients with liver tumours who were scheduled for surgery at a University Hospital for Visceral Surgery. Surgeons used the VR prototype before the surgery to plan the procedure in addition to their regular planning process. They used semi-structured interviews before and after the surgery to explore the benefits and pitfalls of VR surgical planning.
Within 20-30 years, AR/VR operation planners will help surgeons in the preparation for very complex surgical interventions. While the medical pr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast E-Patients Future of Medicine Medical Education Science Fiction digital health healthcare jobs future jobs Source Type: blogs
Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2021
The King's Fund -This analysis of the 2021 British Social Attitudes Survey (undertaken by The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust) finds that public satisfaction with how the NHS runs has fallen sharply to 36 per cent – an unprecedented drop of 17 percentage points from 2020 and the lowest level of satisfaction recorded since 1997. Despite this, support for the principles of the NHS is as strong as ever. The overwhelming majority of people expressed high levels of support for the founding principles of the NHS when asked if they should still apply in 2021: that it is free of charge when you need it (94 per cent), ...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 30, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs
Personalised prescribing: using pharmacogenomics to improve patient outcomes
This report, from a RCP and British Pharmacological Society joint working party, explains how a type of testing, known as pharmacogenomic testing, should be deployed across the NHS to ensure all patients have an equal chance of being prescribed a medicine at a dose that is likely to be safe and effective for them, with minimal side effects. There can be enormous variation from person to person in whether a medicine works, whether it causes serious side effects and what dose is needed. The report states that testing patients for genetic variations that affect how their body will respond to common medicines must be integrate...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 29, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
3D Printed Testicular Cells Offer Hope for Male Infertility
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a technique that lets them 3D print human testicular cells into a hollow tubular structure that mimics the seminiferous tubules found in the testicles. The printed structures are showing encouraging signs that they may be able to produce viable sperm, and the researchers are still working to bring this outcome to fruition. The technology may provide a path to conception for men with fertility issues that are currently difficult or impossible to treat.
Infertility can be a huge burden for those that wish to have children. With medical advances, there are no...
Source: Medgadget - March 24, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Reproductive Medicine ubc Source Type: blogs
Glossy Ibis looking glossier
I’ve mentioned the Glossy Ibis many times before, there are still several in and around our local patch and almost 200 estimated to be across the British Isles. There were just four at a place where I’ve seen seven recently, but that’s fine. Four is better than zero.
They were all looking rather glossy, which is presumably in time for the breeding season. Whether or not these birds actually breed here is another matter. There is a breeding colony in Spain, but this African/Mediterranean species has been extending its range and hanging around the British Isles recently, but no reports of breeding or attem...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 22, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Making AUKUS Work
In September 2021, President Biden announced the creation of AUKUS, a trilateral, experimental arrangement among the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom focused on defense technology. The barriers to success are numerous but the partnership could offer significant opportunities. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 22, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Jennifer D. P. Moroney; Alan Tidwell Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 16: The Keynesian Myth, Continued
George Selgin(The first installment of " The Keynesian Myth " ishere.)All-American Money MakersAlthough conventional wisdom has it that Keynes considered government spending far more capable of ending the depression than monetary expansion, that certainly wasn ' t his view in 1931: during lectures he gave then at the University of Chicago, he disappointed faculty members who themselves favored more spending on public works over monetary easing by expressing the opposite opinion.Nor had Keynes lost faith in monetary policy in March 1933, when he published a series of articles in the LondonTimes,later republished as a pamphl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 18, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 2)
By DAVID WARMFLASH, MD
This is part 2 of David Warmlash’s takedown of Robert W. Malone’s appearance (transcript) on the Rogan podcast. Part 1 is here
Menstruation and Fertility
Much more than the line about reproductive damage in the Wisconsin News clip that we used to open the story, Malone used the Rogan interview to dive more deeply into the topic, starting with:
…there’s a huge number of dysmenorrhea and menometrorrhagia…
By that, he meant excessive menstrual cramping and very heavy, often irregular, bleeding, which he followed up with:
…they DENY it…
Judging by other parts ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy antivaxxer COVID-19 vaccine David Warmflash Joe Rogan Robert Malone Source Type: blogs
Facial Recognition Debate Lessons from Ukraine
Matthew Feeney and Rachel ChiuAccording toReuters, Ukrainian officials are using the facial recognition search engine Clearview AI to “uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead.” In the United States, Clearview AI has made headlines in reporting on law enforcement, with civil liberties experts raising well‐founded concerns about the proliferation of facial recognition technology (FRT) in poli ce departments. These concerns have prompted calls for the outrightban of facial recognition. Yet the Reuters article serves as a reminder that FRT has many applications beyond policing, and...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney, Rachel Chiu Source Type: blogs
