Don ’ t Let Weak Research Influence Policies with Life and Death Consequences
This study wrongly creates the impression that advanced ambulances cause more deaths. In fact, they transport patients who are already more likely to die.
One large study shows that advanced ambulance teams are twice as likely as basic ambulances to pick up people with respiratory distress, serious breathing conditions, resulting in more deaths. In other words, people who are barely breathing are 100% more likely to get more advanced ambulances, making it appear that advanced ambulances “cause” more deaths when it is the opposite. People who can’t breathe and are more likely to die, are sent advanced ambulances in ef...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How You Can Win The Battle Against Negativity
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One time I spoke at a women-only event in Southern California and a petite blonde woman cornered me in the bathroom afterward to ask about how to better handle her husband.
She explained, “I am the optimistic one in the marriage, while my husband is the pessimist, and it’s killing me.” I could hear the concern and frustration in this woman’s voice, and even a touch of desperation as she tried so hard to...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michelle Gielan Tags: confidence depression featured happiness psychology self improvement best self improvement blog how to stay positive motivation negativity pickthebrain relationships Source Type: blogs
Even short-term opioid use can set people up for addiction risks | Science News
Even though a sprained ankle rarely needs an opioid, a new study of emergency room patients found that about 7 percent of patients got sent home with a prescription for the potentially addictive painkiller anyway. And the more pills prescribed, the greater the chance the prescription would be refilled, raising concerns about continued use.The research adds to evidence that it's hard for some people to stop taking the pills even after a brief use. State officials in New Jersey recently enacted a law limiting first-time prescriptions to a five-day supply, and other states should consider similar restrictions, says Kit De...
Source: Psychology of Pain - May 20, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Lessons From the 100 Nation Ransomware Attack
By ROSS KOPPEL and HAROLD THIMBLEBY
The world is reeling from the massive ransomware attack on at least a hundred nations’ computer systems. The unprecedented malware spasm infected hundreds of thousands of computers, and would have infected millions more but for a 22-year old computer science student who found a vulnerability in the malware that he used to curtail the infection. He found it looked for a non-existent URL, so he a set up that URL and found he could stop it spreading. Of course, now the hackers know that, it is an easy matter to update the malware to use other URLs and other techniques. Clearly, this iconi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
It ’s Not the Ceiling; It’s the Floor
We have newly designed office space at work. The conference rooms are now elegant glass enclosures with subtle glass doors at their center. One day I sat in a meeting and watched a female colleague approach the doors at full speed, coffee in one hand, papers in the other. She was running late but had arrived at the right room. She was where she was meant to be. I glanced back at the table, preparing to present my work, when I heard the loud thud. I looked up just in time to see the woman collide into the glass door. Papers flew into the air and coffee fell to the floor. She looked stunned, as did everyone in the conference...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Turn Down The Radio So You Can See Better: Distractions in Healthcare
The scene is familiar to any ophthalmologist: Your long-time patient, Mrs. Howell, sits centered in the grand exam chair. She is elderly but not frail. Today she is unusually nervous. Her daughter and son (whom I have never previously met) occupy the bench that lines right wall of every exam room. On my left, a familiar Pennsylvania Department of Motor Vehicles form rests on the computer keyboard– a place where my technicians know it won’t be overlooked.
Everyone knows good vision is essential for safe driving. Vision is critical and vision is measurable. Eye doctors are, therefore, routinely asked to asses...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
FDA Approves the Philips Digital Pathology WSI Solution for Primary Diagnosis
As many of the readers of this blog already know, the Philips platform for digital pathology was recently approved by the FDA for the primary diagnosis of cases using WSI (see:FDA allows marketing of first whole slide imaging system for digital pathology). Primary diagnosis with digital pathology has been a long slog but we have now turned a major corner. Philips presented a webinar yesterday about PIPS (Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution) which is accessible on-line (see:Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution now available for primary diagnostic use in the U.S.) He...
Source: Lab Soft News - May 5, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Digital Imaging in Pathology Food and Drug Administration Healthcare Information Technology Lab Industry Trends Lab Processes and Procedures Lab Regulation LIS Definitions and Strategy Medical Research Pathology Informatics Source Type: blogs
40th Annual Health Law Professors Conference
If you teach health law, come to the 40th Annual Health Law Professors Conference, June 8-10, 2017, at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta. Here is the schedule:
Thursday, June 8, 20178:00-12:00 AM Tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Separate registration is required. Participants meet in the lobby of Georgia State Law to take a shuttle to the CDC.)
9:45 – 11:15 AM Tour of Grady Health System (Separate registration is required. Participants meet in the lobby of Georgia State Law and will walk over to Grady as a group.)
2:00 – 5:00 PM Conference Registration – Henso...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 27, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
The Fairy Tale of a Non-Profit Hospital
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
Nonprofit hospitals have higher profit margins than most for-profit hospitals after accounting for their tax obligations. 3900 (62%) of U.S. Hospitals are non-profit and therefore tax-exempt: they pay no property tax, no federal or state income tax, and no sales tax. An article published in Health Affairs found seven of the nation’s 10 most profitable hospitals were of the non-profit variety, each earning more than $163 million from patient care services. Revoking their property tax-exempt status for not functioning as a charitable entity could return billions in healthcare dollars to local gover...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
World Congress ADHD Family Day In Vancouver April 23rd
ADHD Family Day will be on Sunday, April 23rd 2017, 8.30 am -4.30 pm at the Vancouver Convention Centre East thanks to the 6th World Congress on ADHD and Caddac. Only $50. Please help get the word out.
Topics
> How the Understanding of ADHD has changed
> ADHD in the Classroom
> Oppositional Defiant Disorder, a new perspective
> ADHD and Coexisting Disorders
> A Punishment- Free Alternative to Dealing with Challenging Kids
> ADHD in Adults, early and late onset, sleep and health
> Understanding Medication Treatment
Featured Speakers
Dr. Thomas Brown Director Brown Clinic for Attention & Rela...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - April 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Conferences and Workshops Vancouver Source Type: blogs
“I am excited”: Making Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You
Image: The Yerkes-Dodson Law (YDL)
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How much stress is good for you?
In 1908, Robert Mearns Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson designed an experiment that would begin to tackle the question, “How much stress is good for you?”
The researchers tracked mice to see how stress would affect their ability to learn. Simple—yet painful, because how do you stress out mice? You shock them. The researchers set up two corridors to choose from—one painted white and the other black—and if a mouse went down the black corridor, ZAP! Yerkes and Dodson observed that given too mild a shock, the mice just shrugged it off and kept ...
Source: SharpBrains - April 17, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dan Lerner & Dr. Alan Schlechter Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Peak Performance Professional Development ability ability to learn alertness anxiety mind physiology Stress work Yerkes-Dodson Law Source Type: blogs
Yes, Mr. President. Health Care is Complicated. And Also Hard.
By ASEEM SHUKLA, MD
“Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,” President Donald Trump told us a few weeks ago. As the failure of the House Republican bill shows: Healthcare is hard.
The American Healthcare Act failed to clear the House of Representatives despite catering to longstanding conservative demands: rid the ‘individual mandate’ (designed to force able-bodied people to pay insurance so it’s cheaper for sick people), subsidies to individuals, and revamping Medicaid into block grants to states.
Even with the claim it could be deficit-neutral, the act failed to win enough moderat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
First Time Outside of Europe. The 6th World Congress on ADHD In Vancouver, Canada, April 20-23rd
Würzburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan, Glasgow, and now # 6 in Vancouver.
The 6th World Congress on ADHD will take place for the first time outside of Europe, they chose Canada, here in my home city of Vancouver.
It will be on April 20–23 2017 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
It is a massive conference with presenters from all over the world. There will be very many sessions on an extremely wide variety of topics on ADHD in adults, children, and teens.
For example just scrolling through one of the four days, Friday, on my 20” monitor took scrolling down 29, count them, 29 screens scrolls.
I hope some speakers wi...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - April 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Conferences and Workshops Vancouver ADHD family day. World Congress on ADHD Source Type: blogs
" A Radical Idea for Health-Care Reform: Listen to the Doctors " - Oops, I Mean Listen to the Corporate Executives, Directors, and Lobbyists
It has been the season for health care reform in the US since at least the Nixon administration. We have endlessly discussed the unholy triad of health care dysfunction: rising costs, declining access, and stagnant quality.These days, with all the furor over whether Obamacare should be repealed and replaced, let alone, or improved, it is still the season for health care reform. Last weekan article by David Ignatius in the Washington Postentitled " A Radical Idea for Health Care Reform: Listen to the Doctors, " appeared. Since onHealth Care Renewal we are all about trying to uphold physicians ' profe...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: boards of directors conflicts of interest deception disinformation health care reform propaganda Source Type: blogs
Penn Medicine Expert: Smoking May Be No More Hazardous than Vaping
An expert at Penn Medicine - the University of Pennsylvania ' s health care system - is telling the public that smoking cigarettes, like Marlboros, Camels, and Newports, may beno more hazardous to your health than vaping a tobacco-free e-liquid.According to the expert: "We know that cigarettes are unsafe after 40 years of exposure. We don ’t have 40 years of exposure to e-cigarettes to know what the danger is. We don’t know the safety profile, so we can’t say that e-cigarettes are safer than traditional cigarettes."The Rest of the StoryWell, if we can ' t say that e-cigarettes are safer than traditional cigarettes, t...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - April 3, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
