Indigeneity in the Public Health Surveillance Maze
Aila Hoss (Indiana University), Indigeneity in the Public Health Surveillance Maze (2023): An October 2021 study revealed that race and ethnicity data was unavailable for nearly 40% of patients that tested positive for COVID-19 or receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Another... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 5, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Mobile Printer Produces Microneedle Vaccines
Researchers at MIT have developed a printer that can create large numbers of microneedle patch-style vaccines in places where they are needed quickly. Moreover, the printed patches can deliver thermostable mRNA vaccines, whereby the mRNA therapeutic is encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles before printing to enhance its shelf-life at room temperature and avoid the need for cold storage and transport. The current prototype can produce 100 such patches over the space of two days, but the researchers believe that they can scale up the technology to produce hundreds of vaccines a day. The technology could be very useful in addre...
Source: Medgadget - May 3, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health microneedle mit Source Type: blogs
Political Attitudes and Equity Market Reactions to Vaccine Mandate Bans
Michael J. Cooper (University of Utah), Fan Li (University of Utah), Tim Liu (University of Utah), Yihui Pan (University of Utah),Political Attitudes and Equity Market Reactions to Vaccine Mandate Bans (2023): In 2021, many firms began considering and implementing vaccine... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 3, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Let Them Stay
Paul MatzkoDr. Muhil Ravichandran has a PharmD from Rutgers University and works in cancer research. She has lived legally in America for almost her entire life and is a model immigrant. Yet because of America’s broken immigration system, she’s going to beforced to leave her home and take her much ‐needed talents elsewhere.Ravichandran legally moved to the USA with her family when she was two years old, but when she became an adult she was no longer covered by her family ’s legal status. While in college she qualified for a student visa, but upon graduation she was forced to fall back on the vagaries of the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 2, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Paul Matzko Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 1st 2023
In conclusion, frailty progression accelerates in males with one LTCs and females with two LTCs or more. Health providers should be aware of planning a suitable intervention once the elderly have two or more health conditions.
Plasma Transfer Lowers Epigenetic Age and Mortality in Rats
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/04/plasma-transfer-lowers-epigenetic-age-and-mortality-in-rats/
Plasma transfer from young to old individuals has produced mixed results in animals and little to no benefit in humans where assessed rigorously. These studies were driven by the hypothesis that young plasma contains m...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Maximizing Healthcare Data Starts with a Human-Centric Approach
The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data. Some of these opportunities come down to basics of data interoperability and data sharing—challenges highlighted in a GAO report published last fall. But when it comes to putting the data in front of citizens, healthcare decision makers, government employees, and other key stakeholders, customer experience becomes a major part of the equation.
The appetite for data around COVID-19 cases, ho...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT CDC Chris Anello COVID-19 CX Data Interoperability Data Sets Data Sharing GAO Healthcare Accessibility Healthcare Data Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Manager – Clinic Informatics Coordinator
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Clinic Informatics Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Cow Creek Government Office and is in Roseburg, Oregon.
Here’s a description of the position:
Position Purpose
The Clinical Informatics Coordinator (CIC) will be responsible for the implementation and smooth operation of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Greenway utilized at the Cow Creek Health & Wellness Center (CCH&WC) and other related technology-based initiatives crit...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Clinical Informatics Coordinator Clinical Informatics Jobs Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians Cow Creek Government Office Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers Source Type: blogs
Pure evil
That would be Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. He ordered a study of the safety of the Covid-19 vaccine, and when the result of the study was that it is safe, he altered the report to falsely imply that it poses a risk of cardiac complications in young men. In other words, he lied to the world in order to support the pre-ordained conclusion that his boss, the pathological liar and fascist governor of Florida, was touting as part of his political act. The result we can assume is that some people did not get vaccinated who other wise would have, and that therefore people got sick and died because of the lies of " Docto...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
MedArrive Raises $8 Million Investment to Bring More Care Into the Home
New funding led by Cobalt Ventures will support continued business growth and expansion of health plan relationships
Mobile-integrated care management platform company, MedArrive, today announced $8 million in new funding led by Cobalt Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC). The investment follows MedArrive’s $25 million series A round in November 2021 and brings the company’s total funding to $40.5 million to date.
MedArrive supports both adult and pediatric populations, providing a white-labeled care management solution that powers care into the home – often ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT At Home Care behavioral health Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City Blue KC Bright Health Care Management Cobalt Ventures Dan Trigub David Eichler Health IT Funding Source Type: blogs
Low Thymic Function Correlates with a Twofold Risk of Mortality in Old People
In conclusion, thymic function failure is an independent predictor of mortality among elderly nursing home residents. sjTREC represents a biomarker of effective ageing as its blood levels could anticipate individuals at high risk of negative health outcomes. The identification of these subjects is crucial to manage older people's immune function and resilience, such as, for instance, to plan more efficient vaccine campaigns in older populations.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12979-023-00340-0 (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - April 24, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 24th 2023
In this study, researchers show that mice lacking a functional ATF4 gene show little to no loss of grip strength and treadmill performance into late life; it is quite an impressive effect size. Assessments of muscle biochemistry do show age-related declines, but to a lesser degree than the controls. How ATF4 knockout functions to produce this outcome is an interesting question. The researchers point out a range of possible downstream and upstream targets that have been implicated in the regulation of muscle growth, but it will clearly require further work to identify the important mechanisms involved.
Aging slowly...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Understanding the end of the COVID public health emergency
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented event for worldwide health care. The call to action for organizations included setting up mass testing sites to serve their communities. I helped set up multiple locations across several counties using a mobile model. We tested hundreds of patients each day in various places. Once the vaccine was
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Understanding the end of the COVID public health emergency originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Steven Marshall, DNP, RN Tags: Conditions COVID Source Type: blogs
Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA Therapy to the Lungs
Researchers at MIT have developed lipid nanoparticles that are highly efficient at delivering mRNA therapies to lung cells. Getting therapeutic agents into the lungs can be challenging, but there are a variety of medical challenges that could be addressed by efficiently targeting lung cells with nanoparticle technologies. These latest particles are highly efficient at delivering mRNA which can then encode therapeutically useful proteins in the lungs. So far, the researchers have demonstrated that the particles can deliver mRNA that codes for the CRISPR/Cas gene editing system, suggesting that the new method may be useful i...
Source: Medgadget - April 18, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Medicine Nanomedicine News mit Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Stephanie Planque of Covalent Bioscience
Covalent Bioscience develops catalytic antibodies, a way to bind and neutralize target molecules in the body without consuming the antibody molecule itself. A given dose of catalytic antibody can thus remove many times more target molecules than is the case for standard monoclonal antibodies. This offers the potential for highly efficient removal of age-related amyloids present outside cells, perhaps the most interesting of the many possible use cases, such as those related to suppression of specific signal molecules. Like most biotech companies, the backstory behind the science emphasizes the point that progression of any...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 17, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Collaborative Innovation between Patents and Standards: A New Path to Solve the Legal Dilemma of COVID-19 Vaccine Patenting
Yupeng Dong (NingboTech University), Hong Wu (NingboTech University), The Collaborative Innovation between Patents and Standards: A New Path to Solve the Legal Dilemma of COVID-19 Vaccine Patenting (2023): As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the rapid development and dissemination of safe,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 16, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
