54-study analysis says power posing does affect people ’s emotions and is worth researching further
By Emma Young
Does power-posing – such as standing with your hands on your hips and your feet spaced well apart – really help to improve your life?
Yes – according to Amy Cuddy, one of the pioneers of the idea, at Harvard University (famous for her massively popular TED talk on the subject and her best-selling book Presence). No – according to a critical analysis by Joseph Simmons and Uri Simonsohn at the University of Pennsylvania, published in Psychological Science in 2017. The pair’s statistical analysis of 33 previous studies of potential posture effects led them to a damning conclusion: “the ex...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Methods Replications Source Type: blogs
Apple ’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry
An announcement on January 24 didn’t get the large amount of attention it deserved: Apple and 13 prominent health systems, including prestigious centers like Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania, disclosed an agreement that would allow Apple to download onto its various devices the electronic health data of those systems’ patients – with patients’ permission, of course.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - March 23, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: blogs
Notes from WIRED Health 2018 at Francis Crick Institute
Set in its new home of the Francis Crick Institute, WIRED Health 2018 brought together world leaders and change-makers in cancer, aging, artificial intelligence, government, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals, to name but a few. Alongside the main event, cutting-edge medtech companies demonstrated their new technologies, and budding start-ups pitched for the chance to be crowned WIRED Health start-up of the year.
Bruce Levine from the University of Pennsylvania opened the day by setting the challenge of how to treat a condition like cancer, which is fundamentally the result of “our own bodies gone awry.” Bruce intro...
Source: Medgadget - March 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Dear CMS Administrator
, Ms. Seema Varma:
Your address to HIMSS acknowledges many of the problems with Healthcare IT, highlighting lack of interoperability, lack of data exchange, and lack of cybersecurity, and suggesting some regulations that could be eliminated. This is a welcome realization of some of EHR’s more obvious limitations and problems. However, most of your recommendations for improvement of health IT are insufficient, unproven, or have been repeatedly shown to fail.
We applaud your acknowledgement of: 1. The frustration (and often rage) of many clinicians when using the current EHRs’ clunky and inefficient user interfaces; 2...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Dear CMS Administrator Verma
By ROSS KOPPEL & STEPHEN SOUMERAI
Your address to HIMSS acknowledges many of the problems with Healthcare IT, highlighting lack of interoperability, lack of data exchange, and lack of cybersecurity, and suggesting some regulations that could be eliminated. This is a welcome realization of some of EHR’s more obvious limitations and problems. However, most of your recommendations for improvement of health IT are insufficient, unproven, or have been repeatedly shown to fail.
We applaud your acknowledgement of: 1. The frustration (and often rage) of many clinicians when using the current EHRs’ clunky and inefficient ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Trump Administration, Patient Data Rights + Value Based Care
By SEEMA VERMA
Following is the full text of CMS administrator Seema Verma’s remarks at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas.
It is a privilege to be with you here today and speak about the amazing advancements happening all across the nation in healthcare. One of the most exciting parts about being the CMS Administrator is the opportunity to see the cutting-edge breakthroughs that are happening every day. As we walk the exhibit hall of this conference, it is easy to be struck by how innovation is accelerating in healthcare.
We have procedures that we couldn’t have imagined a generation ago that are saving thousands of lives.
Pre...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Mar 1, James McKeen Cattell: Today in the History of Psychology (1st March 1886)
Under the supervision of Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig, James McKeen Cattell passed his Ph.D. examinations.
The following year Cattell returned to the United States to take up the post of lecturer in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College; where he helped pioneer the experimental technique within scientific psychology.
See following link to learn all about the fascinating history of psychology.History of Psychology (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - March 1, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Placenta-on-a-Chip to Screen for Drug Safety During Pregnancy
This study has given us confidence that the placenta-on-a-chip has tremendous potential as a screening platform to assess and predict drug transport in the human placenta.”
Study in Advanced Healthcare Materials: Placental Drug Transport-on-a-Chip: A Microengineered In Vitro Model of Transporter-Mediated Drug Efflux in the Human Placental Barrier…
Via: Penn Engineering… (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - February 21, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Materials Source Type: blogs
Valentine ’s Day Exclusive: A Strengths-Based Approach to Happily Ever After — Author Interview with Suzie and James Pawelski
PC: Your book Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love that Lasts has just come out and it shot to the top of Amazon’s new releases. Why do you think there is such a demand for this new approach and your work?
S&JP: We believe people are hungry for information on how to be happy together. We wrote this book because there is so much focus in our culture on getting together rather than being together and staying together. So much emphasis on the wedding — rather than the marriage — and all the decisions we need to make for just one day, a magical day no doubt, but what...
Source: World of Psychology - February 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D. Tags: Books Communication Marriage and Divorce Proof Positive Relationships Self-Help Active Listening Character Strengths Couples Therapy Loving Support Marital Bliss Personal Growth Source Type: blogs
Do You Want to Stay Happy Together?
When couples come to therapy, it is because something has gone wrong in their relationship. While the problems they bring run the gamut, there is one thing that is almost always a common denominator. When asked how they met they get this far-away look — usually with a sigh — and then tell the tale of how they fell in love. During the telling, they are transported back to a happier time. As they reveal their dance of romance, their bodies soften and breathing changes.
For these few moments they have put down their weapons, and it is not unusual even with the most combative couples for a slight smile to come thro...
Source: World of Psychology - February 3, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D. Tags: Books Communication Marriage and Divorce Proof Positive Relationships Self-Help Conflict Resolution Couples Counseling Intimacy Marriage And Family Therapist Source Type: blogs
Is death still frightening if you believe the self is an illusion? An astonishing study of Tibetan Buddhists
By Christian Jarrett
Imagining ourselves as no longer existing is, for most of us, terrifying. Buddhism may offer some reassurance. A central tenet of the religion is that all is impermanent and the self is actually an illusion. If there is no self, then why fear the end of the self?
To find out if the logic of the Buddhist perspective eliminates existential fear, Shaun Nichols at the University of Arizona and his colleagues surveyed hundreds of monastic Tibetan Buddhists (monks-in-training) in exile in India, as well as lay Tibetans, Tibetan Buddhists from Bhutan, Indian Hindus and American Christians and atheists.
To the...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Religion Source Type: blogs
Exploring Team Composition in Palliative Care
By Brianna Morgan (@BriannaMorganNP) and Elise Tarbi (@EliseConant)Amidst rapid growth in the number of palliative care programs,the December 2017 issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine calls for a pause to consider the blueprints for how we build moving forward. In the issue,Kousaie and von Gunten (2017) compare two hospitals, one that has an established advanced practice nurse only model of palliative care delivery (APN model), and a second hospital implementing an interdisciplinary team including physicians, APNs, social workers, chaplains, and pharmacists (team model) for the same purpose. Compared to the APN mode...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 27, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: advance apn morgan nurse physician research tarbi team teamwork The profession Source Type: blogs
Why Does AT & T Want Net Neutrality Regulation?
Regulation is often portrayed as the use of government authority to alter market outcomes away from the interests of firms and toward those of consumers and employees. In turn, the “story” associated with deregulationistheopposite: Corporations and the powerful use their influence to eliminate public sector controls on their conduct at the expense of consumers and employees.But if the usual narrative is true how do we explain afull-page ad that AT&T recently published in multiple newspapers, including theWashington Post and theNew York Times, calling on Congress to pass new legislation to guarantee internet neutrali...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 26, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 477
This week ' s case was generously donated by Dr. Piryanka Uprety and the excellent Clinical Microbiology and Hematology Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania. The following structures were initially observed by a hematology fellow in a wet mount (40X) from a BAL specimen. Photographs and videos are courtesy of Joyce Richardson, Vivian Whitener, and Darrin Jengehino from the Hematology Laboratory.Wet preparation of the BAL fluid with iodine showed the following:Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - January 15, 2018 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
