Rapid Compression Device to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis
Researchers at Penn Medicine have developed a wearable sleeve that provides rapid pulsatile compression, and aims to mimic the compression our calf muscles experience during walking. The technology, being commercialized by Osciflex, a spin out from Penn Medicine, is intended to prevent deep vein thrombosis in patients who are bed-bound for long periods of time.
Deep vein thrombosis tends to affect those that are not very mobile, so getting out of bed to stretch one’s legs is a challenge, making the condition tricky to prevent. At present, mechanical cuffs that periodically inflate around the leg are used, with mix...
Source: Medgadget - April 13, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Geriatrics Medicine Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Modelling Pandemic
Fleur Johns (University of New South Wales), Modelling Pandemic, Didier Fassin& Marion Fourcade (eds), Economy& Society in the Time of Covid-19 (Forthcoming): Axiomatic, everywhere, to experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic are models: models for prediction, models for understanding,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 12, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 08 March, 2021.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. General Comment ----- Quite a few interesting bits of news - with vaccines and Aged Care getting a good deal of coverage. Enjoy the browse! ----- https://www.zdnet.com/article/service-nsw-pushes-past-117-million-covid-safe-check-ins/ Service NSW pushes past 117 million 'COVID safe' check-ins Meanwhile, vaccination information will now be uploa...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 8, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
High-Quality Hospital Care — Minus the Hospital
John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.In a time of COVID, the current care models just can ’t remain in place. We need innovative ways to address the high cost of acute care. One solution that is taking a front seat is telemedicine. Telecare has accelerated from 3-4% of visits in January 2020 to 90% in April to a new normal of 20% in 2021. Cultural change has modified patient expectations for the care they can get at a distance, which can be more convenient, less likely to result in C...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - February 12, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 8th 2021
This study was divided in two phases: CALERIE-1 and CALERIE-2. CALERIE-1 study was performed to assess the possible effects induced by a reduction of 10-30% of caloric intake on body composition parameters and lipid profile after 6 and 12 months in a population of middle-aged non-obese subjects. CALERIE-1 results showed an improvement in lipid and glycemic profile and a reduction in body weight (BW) and fat mass.
CALERIE-2 was the largest multi-center study on CRD. A total of 220 subjects were enrolled randomly with a 2:1 allocation into two subgroups: 145 in the CRD group and 75 in the ad libitum group. The CRD gro...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 7, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Do You Think They Will Get It Right This Time? One Has To Wonder!
This appeared last week: NSW running Data61 de-identification tool across COVID data prior to public release The Personal Information Factor tool is claimed by the CSIRO to lower the risk of de-identified data being re-identified. By Chris Duckett | January 27, 2021 -- 23:17 GMT (10:17 AEDT) | Topic: Security The New South Wales government has been using a tool to help de-identify data related to COVID-19 prior to the release of that data to the public, the CSIRO said on Thursday. The tool, dubbed Personal Information Factor (PIF), has been created by Data61, the NSW government, the Australian Computer Society, Cyber Secur...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - February 4, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Debating the Connection Between Herpesvirus Infection and Alzheimer's Disease
The role of persistent infection in the development of Alzheimer's disease is much debated these days, particularly now that the amyloid cascade hypothesis is under attack, following the continued failure of trials for therapies that clear amyloid-β. The biggest challenge in understanding Alzheimer's disease is the question of why only some people develop the condition, even given very similar lifestyle choices relating to weight, exercise, and other well-known influences on health. If the burden of persistent infection is an important contributing factor, it would very conveniently explain this otherwise puzzling outcome...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 3, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Changes to the NHS Pension Scheme regulations
Department of Health and Social Care -The Department of Health and Social Care is consulting on proposals to change NHS Pension Scheme regulations. The Draft Regulations propose amendments to the regulations that provide the rules for the NHS Pension Schemes and the NHS Injury Benefits Scheme in England and Wales. The closing date for comments is 8 April 2021.ConsultationProposed changes to the regulationsDepartment of Health and Social Care - consultations (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 28, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
What If Healthcare Was Like Wikipedia?
By KIM BELLARD
Last week I wrote about, well, how awful social media has become, so this week it’s nice to write about pretty much the opposite: Wikipedia turned twenty last Friday (January 15).
In person years that’s not even old enough to buy alcohol, but in Internet years that makes it one of the grand old masters, like Google or Amazon. Wikipedia is one of the most visited Internet destinations, with its 55+ million articles, in 300+ languages, getting some 10b+ views per month.
It is something that, by all rights, shouldn’t exist, much less be successful. A non-profit, volunt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Wikipedia Source Type: blogs
Happy 20th Anniversary, Wikipedia!
Ryan BourneToday marks the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia ’s website going live. The online, collaboratively sourced encyclopedia is one of the internet’s biggest success stories, but one that, on the face of it, conventional economic analysis would suggest was the least plausible.The free, volunteer ‐edited site today hosts 55 million articles in 300 languages, including 6.2 million individual content pages in English that have been subject to almost 100 million edits. TheWikipedia page about Wikipedia itself cites articles claiming it is the 13th most popular site on the internet, with 1.7 billion unique visitors...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Telehealth Really Seems To Be Off And Rolling Into 2021 – Especially As COVID Persists!
This appeared last week: Patients unlikely to stop telehealth after the pandemic: Research A new GP-led study has labelled telehealth a game-changer, with one author saying ‘we can’t turn back the clock’. Matt Woodley 07 Jan 2021 The research, led by Macquarie University and involving a number of different Primary Health Networks (PHNs) in New South Wales and Victoria, shows a dramatic uptake in the use of phone consultations in particular since the creation of new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item numbers in March last year.
In the Victorian PHNs captured by the study, GP telephone consultations inc...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 11th 2021
This study demonstrates the potential of a natural (o-Vanillin) and a synthetic (RG-7112) senolytic compounds to remove senescent IVD cells, decrease SASP factors release, reduce the inflammatory environment and enhance the IVD matrix production. Removal of senescent cells, using senolytics drugs, could lead to improved therapeutic interventions and ultimately decrease pain and a provide a better quality of life of patients living with intervertebral disc degeneration and low back pain.
From Ying Ann Chiao of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: Mitochondrial dysfunction plays a central role in aging and cardiovasc...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 10, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Historical Gains in Life Expectancy Occurred at All Ages, not Just Due to Reduced Child Mortality
Historical gains in life expectancy in the past two centuries, much of it occurring prior to the advent of effective antibiotics, were largely a matter of control over infectious disease via public health measures such as sanitation, coupled to a rising standard of living. A sizable amount of the gain in life expectancy at birth is due to reduced infant mortality, but this isn't the whole story. It is worth noting, as in this article from a few months ago, that the data shows remaining life expectancy at all ages heading upward over time. Reducing the burden of infectious disease has effects at all ages, not only due to in...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 6, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Selectively Saving Christmas?
Written by Ben Davies and Gabriel De Marco The UK governments in Westminster and the devolved nations (Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) have made a recent about-turn regarding Christmas. Where there were previously plans to relax Covid-related restrictions for five days, they will now be relaxed for only Christmas itself, and not at all in […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 21, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Gabriel De Marco Tags: Ethics Health Care Current Affairs Gabriel De Marco's posts syndicated Source Type: blogs
Streaming, Baby Yoda, and Healthcare
By KIM BELLARD
I’ve never seen The Mandalorian. I don’t have Disney+. But I know who Baby Yoda is, and I’m pretty sure Disney is counting on that. Hollywood, in case you haven’t been paying attention, is going through some radical changes. There may be some lessons for healthcare in them.
2020 has been the year of streaming. Moviegoing isn’t entirely dead in the pandemic, but it may be on life support, with major chains like Regal and AMC barely staying out of bankruptcy. “Yes, there is pent-up demand to see movies in a theater,” Hollywood insider Peter Cher...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Source Type: blogs
