Innovation Amidst the Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 4 – Resource Allocation and Access
By COLIN KONSCHAK, FACHE and DAVE LEVIN, MD
Dave Levin
Colin Konschak
The opioid crisis in the United States is having a devastating impact on individuals, their families, and the health care industry. This multi-part series will focus on the role technology can play in addressing this crisis. Part one of the series proposed a strategic framework for evaluating and pursuing technical solutions.
A Framework for Innovation
In part one of our series, we declared the opioid crisis an “All Hands-On Deck” moment and made the case that health IT (HIT) has a lot to offer. Given the many different possibilities, having a meth...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Tech Access to care Colin Konschak Dave Levin Divurgent Health IT Sansoro Health Source Type: blogs
The Return of the Beauty Brains – Episode 166
After a brief hiatus, the Beauty Brains podcast is back.
Covered on this episode:
Beauty Science stories:
Cruelty free products are free from cruelty.
What does it mean for consumers? Getting rid of animal testing means that products will not be much different than what you could ever make.
EWG on the Kardashian’s show –
We got an email from the PR firm that does the work for the Environmental Working Group (the EWG). This is the group that seems to exist to propagate fear about cosmetics. Well, they sent me a notice crowing about how they were mentioned on the Keeping up with the Kardashian reality tv show. I ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - December 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast hair care natural Source Type: blogs
The Return of the Beauty Brains – Episode 166
After a brief hiatus, the Beauty Brains podcast is back.
Covered on this episode:
Beauty Science stories:
Cruelty free products are free from cruelty.
What does it mean for consumers? Getting rid of animal testing means that products will not be much different than what you could ever make.
EWG on the Kardashian’s show –
We got an email from the PR firm that does the work for the Environmental Working Group (the EWG). This is the group that seems to exist to propagate fear about cosmetics. Well, they sent me a notice crowing about how they were mentioned on the Keeping up with the Kardashian reality tv show. I ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - December 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast hair care natural Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 9th 2018
In this study, senescent cell distribution and quantity in vastus lateralis muscle were examined in young human adults after a single bout of resistance exercise. To determine the effects of dietary protein availability around exercise on senescent cell quantity and macrophage infiltration of skeletal muscle, two isocaloric protein supplements (14% and 44% in calorie) were ingested before and immediately after an acute bout of resistance exercise, in a counter-balanced crossover fashion. An additional parallel trial was conducted to compare the outcome of muscle mass increment under the same dietary conditions after 12 wee...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 8, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Humble Axolotl and the Quest for Human Organ Regeneration
The popular science article I'll point out today takes a look at research into axolotl biochemistry. The scientists involved are searching for ways in which they might be able to improve upon mammalian regeneration; the axolotl is one of the few higher species capable of perfect, repeated regeneration of lost limbs and severe damage to other organs. There are limits, of course, and the axolotl is just as mortal as any mammal, but mammals, ourselves included, have in comparison a very poor capacity for regeneration. We can barely grow back a fingertip, and even that only when very young, and not at all reliably. There are t...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 6, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 26th 2017
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
This content is...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 25, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Senescent Cells and Declining Heart Health in the Context of Oxidative Stress
There is every reason to believe that selective destruction of senescent cells in older individuals should improve heart health, lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease and dysfunction. Researchers who demonstrated 25% median life extension in mice engineered to lack senescent cells found improvements in a number of measures of cardiac health. There is a good deal of evidence for senescent cells to reduce stem cell activity and tissue regenerative capacity, perhaps through chronic inflammation and other consequences of changes in immune cell behavior. Senescent cells spur fibrosis, which disrupts small scale tissue str...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 22, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Calcium Scan and Subtractive Medicine
By SAURABH JHA MD
Being a radiologist, I rarely speak to patients, but I was asked to counsel Mrs. Patel (not her real name, so calm down HIPAA totalitarians), who was worried about the risks of radiation from cardiac calcium CT scan. Because of her risk factors for atherosclerosis, her cardiologist wanted her to take statins for primary prevention, but she was reluctant to start statins. They eventually reached a truce. If she had even a speck of calcium in her coronary arteries she would take statins. If her calcium score was zero she wouldn’t. This type of shared decision making is the most frequent reason why cardiol...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Patients Small Practice Source Type: blogs
Reviewing What is Known of the Aging of Stem Cells
One of the important contributions to the aging process is a progressive reduction in stem cell activity. The majority of tissues in the body are in a constant process of turnover. The somatic cells making up the bulk of all tissues reach the Hayflick limit on replication and self-destruct, and are replaced by new cells generated by tissue-specific stem cell populations. With age, these stem cells spend ever more time quiescent, and thus the supply of new somatic cells declines, causing tissues and organs to deteriorate and ultimately fail. This loss of stem cell support is thought to have evolved as part of a balance betw...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 23, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 264
Welcome to the 264th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Another great set of talks from SMACCDub released this week: John Greenwood discussing assault on the RV and Haney Mallemat on the PEA Paradox. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medicine
Rob Orman talks to a number of EPs about the prac...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 8, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 5th 2016
This study is a good example of the degree to which the choice to remain active in later life makes a difference. That implies a range of other choices over the decades in order to raise the odds that you can in fact choose to remain active when older, such as avoiding weight gain.
Moderate physical activity is associated with a greater than 50% reduction in cardiovascular death in over-65s. The 12 year study in nearly 2500 adults aged 65 to 74 years found that moderate physical activity reduced the risk of an acute cardiovascular event by more than 30%. High levels of physical activity led to greater risk reducti...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 4, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Potential Use of Cell Therapies to Treat Immunosenescence
Immunosenescence is the name given to the decline of immune system effectiveness with aging, a large component of the frailty that arises in later life. This decline is partially a result of a failing supply of new immune cells, and partially a result of a growing misconfiguration of the immune system as a whole, driven by life-long exposure to infections. On this second front, persistent infection by herpesviruses such as cytomegalovirus appears to be particularly problematic, the cause of large fractions of the immune cell population in an old individual becoming specialized and unable to react to new threats. This open ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 30, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Do stem cells work in cosmetics?
We’ve previously touched on the topic of stem cells in our podcast about exfoliation but I still find it annoying when companies talk about plant and human “stem cells” in cosmetics. That’s completely misleading because there aren’t stem cells in the product no matter what this company claims about their skin cream.
How can I say that with such confidence? All you have to do is know a little about the science of stem cells and it becomes clear. So let’s talk about stem cells.
Stem Cells
Stem cells are living cells that are undifferentiated. They’re a bit like the cells that start every e...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - July 21, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
EMA April 2013
From Andrew Gosbell & Tony BrownIssue 2 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published online on 6 February 2013Stroke thrombolysis: editorial perspectives and letters (#FOAMed)Debate continues on the use of tPA in acute ischaemic stroke (AIS). Editorial by Klening et al, address previous (October 2012) criticisms in editorials by Hoffmann & Cooper and Fatovich, arguing that, despite its acknowledged flaws, the Third International Stroke Trial (IST-3) strengthens the evidence for the benefits of thrombolysis within up to 6 hours of AIS and also shows a corresponding benefit for elderly pati...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning EMA Emergency Medicine Featured Journal April emergency medicine australasia Source Type: blogs
EMA April 2013
From Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
Issue 2 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published online on 6 February 2013
Stroke thrombolysis: editorial perspectives and letters (#FOAMed)
Debate continues on the use of tPA in acute ischaemic stroke (AIS). Editorial by Klening et al, address previous (October 2012) criticisms in editorials by Hoffmann & Cooper and Fatovich, arguing that, despite its acknowledged flaws, the Third International Stroke Trial (IST-3) strengthens the evidence for the benefits of thrombolysis within up to 6 hours of AIS and also shows a corresponding benefit for elderly p...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning EMA Emergency Medicine Featured Journal April emergency medicine australasia Source Type: blogs
