COVID-19 myocarditis illusions: A new cardiac MRI study raises questions about the diagnosis
BY ANISH KOKA
One of the hallmarks of the last two years has been the distance that frequently exists between published research and reality. I’m a cardiologist, and the first disconnect that became glaringly obvious very quickly was the impact COVID was having on the heart. As I walked through COVID rooms in the Spring of 2020 trying to hold my breath, I waited for a COVID cardiac tsunami. After all social media had been full of videos from Wuhan and Iran of people suddenly dropping in the streets. My hyperventilating colleagues made me hyperventilate. Could it be that Sars-COV2 had some predilection for heart...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka COVID-19 Misinformation myocarditis Vaccine Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Passports and the Charter: Do they Actually Infringe Rights?
Colton Fehr (Thompson Rivers University), Vaccine Passports and the Charter: Do they Actually Infringe Rights?, 43 Nat ’l J. Const. L. 95 (2022): Although most Canadians consented to receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine, many others still refuse or remain hesitant despite medical... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 4, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Chatbot Explosion on The Way?
While healthcare providers have been relatively slow to put chatbots to work, the time may have come for a chatbot explosion. With ChatGPT generating frenzied global interest, we may be at the tipping point for using chatbots in our daily lives, and providers will have good reason to meet consumers where they are.
Over the last few years, there has been a slowly growing movement toward using chatbots in clinical care. One of the highest-profile projects involves the deployment of a chatbot created by Babylon Health to triage patients seen in several hospitals within the UK’s National Health Service.
Providers have al...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Babylon Health ChatGPT Colin Hung Generative AI Healthcare Chatbot National Health Service Pie Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Development, the China Dilemma and International Regulatory Challenges
Peter K. Yu (Texas A&M University), Vaccine Development, the China Dilemma and International Regulatory Challenges, 55 N.Y.U. J. Int ' l L.& Pol. (Forthcoming): Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, countries, intergovernmental bodies, nongovernmental... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 2, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Enterprise Architect
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Enterprise Architect position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.
Here’s a description of the position:
About You
You love IT Enterprise Architecture and it’s a huge part of your life. The best days at work involve solving complex information puzzles and designing for years into the future. You enjoy designing systems with societal benefits and finishing a long day knowing you gave your best for work th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Enterprise Architect Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 31st January 2023
Trying to keep up, so here are some things you may want to know about...Firstly, a (another?)systematic review of COVID vaccination in pregnancy, this one conducted by researchers in Iran and published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Apgar scores and preterm births are two of the outcomes looked at.Three pieces of original research: Research in the Journal of Advanced Nursing aiming to estimate the association between feeling upset by experience of racism and self reported depression during pregnancy, specifically looking at non Hispanic Black women in the United States.A randomised clinical trial of vagin...
Source: Browsing - January 31, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Microneedle Bandage for Hemostatic Control
Scientists at Penn State have developed a microneedle bandage that can rapidly stop bleeding. Uncontrolled bleeding following a traumatic injury is a major cause of death in the young, and developing new medical technologies that can rapidly stop bleeding would be highly beneficial. This bandage contains an array of biodegradable and biocompatible microneedles made using a gelatin methacryloyl biomaterial. The device also contains silicate nanoplatelets that give it its hemostatic properties, and the needle structure increases the surface area for blood contact and helps to bind the bandage to the injured tissue.
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Source: Medgadget - January 31, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Surgery PennState Source Type: blogs
COVID-Bivalent Booster for Children: Should your child get one?
A recent study showed that there is a 43% increase in autoimmune diseases in the months following a COVID infection. And autoimmune diseases among kids were already on the rise. The question becomes how best to guard against COVID and the long tail of impact on children.
With some vaccines, it can be important for the whole community to take them because they help prevent transmission and help prevent the vulnerable among us from becoming infected. The COVID booster is a bit different than that. It decreases transmission little if any. It does boost antibodies for a period of time, it may make it a bit less likely that y...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - January 29, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog COVID COVID-19 Feature COVID-19 Immunity Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 30th 2023
In conclusion, deletion of p16Ink4a cells did not negatively impact beta-cell mass and blood glucose under basal and HFD conditions and proliferation was restored in a subset of HFD mice opening further therapeutic targets in the treatment of diabetes.
Communication Between Blood and Brain in Aging and Rejuvenation
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/01/communication-between-blood-and-brain-in-aging-and-rejuvenation/
As noted here, joining the circulatory systems of an old and young mouse results in some degree of rejuvenation in the old mouse. Where brain function is improved, researchers are inte...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Towards Microneedle Delivery of LNP-mRNA Gene Therapies for Skin Aging
The skin is arguably one of the easiest of the large organs in the body to target for delivery of gene therapies, via established microneedle approaches. Nonetheless, much of the initial thrust of gene therapy clinical development focused instead on the liver, one of the other more tractable targets. Most material injected into the bloodstream ends up in the liver, and a single injection is logistically easier than coverage of large amounts of skin via microneedle patches, among other reasons.
Given the advent of messenger RNA (mRNA) encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (either artificial or repurposed extracellular ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 27, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Contracts in the Context of Pandemics and Epidemics
Ana Santos Rutschman (Villanova University), Vaccine Contracts in the Context of Pandemics and Epidemics, N.Y.U. J. Int ' l L.& Pol. (Forthcoming): This symposium essay explores the architecture of vaccine contracts, as well as the allocation of resulting vaccines in preparation... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 27, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Cardiology update: Should mRNA vaccine myocarditis be a contraindication to future COVID-19 vaccinations ?
BY ANISH KOKA
Myopericarditis is a now a well reported complication associated with Sars-Cov-2 (COVID-19) vaccinations. This has been particularly common with the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines (BNT162b2 and mrna-1273), with a particular predilection for young males.
Current guidance by the Australian government “technical advisory groups” as well as the Australian Cardiology Society suggest patients who have experienced myocarditis after an mRNA vaccine may consider a non-mRNA vaccine once “symptom free for at least 6 weeks”.
A just published report of 2 cases from Australia that document myopericarditi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Anish Koka mRNA vaccine myocarditis Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - mostly COVID related
The last collection of things you may want to know about. Firstly, COVID related:Asystematic review and meta-analysis of neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy, published in Pediatric Research.Another,of the effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccine in pregnant women, published in BJOG.Then, apopulation based matched cohort study of major congenital anomalies following COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection - two separate groups, using health records from Scotland, published in Nature Communications.Anda sequential prospective meta-analysis of clinical risk factors of adverse outcomes a...
Source: Browsing - January 26, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Gun crisis in America: Youth fatalities on the rise
In 2020, firearm fatalities displaced motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of death of U.S. youth (ages 1 to 19). We long ago dramatically reduced infectious deaths (though vaccine hesitancy threatens to upend this victory), and the “big five” have been auto accidents, firearms, cancer, suffocation, and drug overdose – accidental in the youngest
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Gun crisis in America: Youth fatalities on the rise originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Edward Hoffer, MD Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Cervical health awareness month: Unveiling inequities in cervical cancer outcomes
According to the World Health Organization, cervical cancer is among the most preventable and treatable gynecological cancers. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and longitudinal screening are highly effective modes of prevention and detection, respectively. While statistics on the efficacy of vaccination and screening are promising, the realities surrounding cervical cancer outcomes are anything but. A closer
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Cervical health awareness month: Unveiling inequities in cervical cancer outcomes originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Bintou Diarra Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
