Unconscious + STEMI criteria: activate the cath lab?
Case submitted and written by Dr. Mazen El-Baba and Dr. Evelyn Dell, with edits from Jesse McLarenEMS brought a John Doe, in his 30s, who was found in an urban forest near a homeless encampment on a cool fall day. There were no signs of trauma on scene or on the patient. EMS reported an initial GCS of 8 with pupils equal and reactive. The patient had a witnessed generalized tonic-clonic seizure leading to GCS 4.Vitals: HR 45; systolic BP was 110-120; irregular respiratory rate; oxygen saturation was normal; tympanic temperature 30; glucose was 6. In the resuscitation room, the patient had another seizure that stopped after...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 21, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
High Court May Toughen Employers ’ Legal Duty To Accommodate Religion
Walter OlsonThe Supreme Court last week agreed to hearGroff v.DeJoy, a case on how stringently employers should be obliged to accommodate workers ’ religious practice and belief under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It will revisit the statutory interpretation standard it announced in 1977 inTrans World Airlines v. Hardison, in which employers can turn down religious accommodation requests that subject them to more thande minimis costs. The Court also agreed to revisit the question of whether the employer can justify a refusal of accommodation by pointing to costs inflicted on co ‐workers, ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 20, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Fighting the Wrong (Culture) War
By KIM BELLARD
News flash from the culture wars: they’re coming to take our gas stoves!
Well, actually, “they” are not, but the kind of people who got alarmed about it are a threat to our health, and to theirs.
The gas stove furor started with a Bloomberg News interview that Richard Trumka, Jr, a Consumer Product Safety Commission commissioner. “This is a hidden hazard,” he said. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
He was referring to the well known but little acknowledged fact that gas stoves emit various pollutants, especially nitrogen dioxide. Last ye...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Culture Wars Gas Stoves Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
How Long After Infection Omicron Symptoms Start To Show Up
How fast the omicron variant spreads among people, including fully vaccinated young adults. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: COVID19 Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 16th 2023
Conclusions
Implanted Hair Follicle Cells Produce Remodeling of Scar Tissue
Assessment of Somatic Mosaicism as a Biomarker of Aging
The Gut Microbiome of Centenarians
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/01/the-gut-microbiome-of-centenarians/
The state of the gut microbiome is arguably as influential on health as exercise. Various microbial species present in the gut produce beneficial metabolites, such as butyrate, or harmful metabolites, such as isoamylamine, or can provoke chronic inflammation in a variety of ways. An individual can have a better or worse microbiome, assessing these and other...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – January 14, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
2023 Health IT Predictions: Consumerism. Healthcare IT Today kicked off 2023 by asking the experts in our community to offer their thoughts on the year ahead. Our latest round of predictions kicks off with the ongoing consumerization of healthcare. Our experts say retail health and telehealth will continue to make gains as consumers vote with their feet ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Compulsory Vaccination and the European Court of Human Rights
Silvio Roberto Vinceti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), COVID-19 Compulsory Vaccination and the European Court of Human Rights, 92 Acta Biomedica 6 (2022): Between August and September 2021, the European Court of Human Rights rejected three requests for interim... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 14, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Milwaukee County Addresses Health Equity with Data and GIS Technology
Milwaukee County is at the forefront of addressing racial inequity. During the COVID-19 pandemic they cross referenced vaccination rates with the CDC’s social vulnerability index and plotted the results using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. Armed with this powerful insight, the County was able to increase vaccinations in populations that needed them the most and by doing so increased the safety of the entire County. They are now incorporating an equity lens into other areas of public health.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity recently to sit down with Zachary Swingen, Lead GIS Coordinator at Milwauke...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System CDC vulnerability index COVID-19 Vaccination GIS for Health GIS technology Health Equity Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Manag Source Type: blogs
Using Engineered Cancer Cells to Rouse an Immune Response Against Tumors
Researchers here report on an interesting approach to encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells in an established tumor. They engineer cancer cells to be more visible to the immune system and then return them to the body, where they will naturally home to the site of the tumor. At present the proof of concept is established in animal models; time will tell as to whether this line of work attracts the support needed to progress further towards the clinic.
Cancer vaccines are an active area of research for many labs, but the new approach to treating the brain cancer glioblastoma that researchers have take...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Pharma – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
Check out our community’s pharma predictions.
Jesse Cugliotta, Global Industry GTM Lead, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Snowflake
Industry investments in data platforms to enable decentra...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions Abrpo BrainCheck Doceree Harshit Jain Ian Chen Jesse Cugliotta Kimberly Powell Lance Hill Lauren Ohlsson Mike Montalto NVIDIA Ofer Sharon OncoHost PathAI Pharma Source Type: blogs
More Popular Science Commentary on the Longevity Industry
It is interesting to see the present state of popular science commentary on efforts to treat aging as a medical condition, given the recollection of widespread skepticism and mockery even as recently as a decade ago. The large-scale funding, many serious research programs, and dozens of new biotech companies are ensuring that the popular science press at least does its homework on the science underlying the prospects for human rejuvenation before committing an opinion to paper. Today's bootstrapping era of progress is very different from the turn of the century, a great deal more is being accomplished, but these are still ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
No I didn't make it up
The claim that the Covid-19 vaccine caused Damar Hamlin ' s cardiac arrest was all over wingnut media. It made it onto Tucker Carlson, in fact. These people are not just liars, they are literally trying to kill you. (Source: Stayin' Alive)
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 8, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 9th 2023
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s New Legal Migration Border Plan Could Work If He Wants It To
ConclusionPresident Biden has announced one of the largest expansions in legal migration in decades, and if he succeeds in drastically reducing illegal crossings with these new procedures, it will likely lead to expansion to other nationalities. This is the first serious intentional effort to use legal migration to secure the border since the 1950s Bracero Program. Whether it succeeds depends more on how it is administered than the policy on paper, but the administration already knows the blueprint, so failure will have to include an element of intent. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Foobaw and more
Let me start with Damar Hamlin. His physicians haven ' t said anything publicly about what happened to him, but there are basically two possibilities. First, it is obviously uncommon but not unheard of for apparently healthy athletes to suffer cardiac arrest during exertion. This happened to Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis. I happened to be in Boston Garden watching the first round playoff game against the Charlotte Hornets on April 29, 1993 when Lewis collapsed. All of the spectators were baffled about what had happened. Doctors at New England Baptist Hospital later diagnosed him with a heart abnormality...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
