The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 06, 2022 Edition-----In the UK the current Tory Government appears to have totally lost the plot and failed to even move to fix things – a real disaster I fear for millions.In the US Hurricane Ian seems to have been of Biblical Scale that will take years to repair the damage.In Europe we see the recession arriving.In OZ we are coping with the Optus data breach, an imminent and difficult Budget and the new Integrity Commission being sorted out!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/technology/manufacturers-turn-to-robots-as-job-ads-go-unanswered-20220920-p5bjilHow a $1m robot solved this company ’s labour sh...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –17th September, 2022.
This study adds to the evidence showing that expanded access to these services could have a longer-term positive impact if continued.”Roughly 1 in 8 beneficiaries in the pandemic group received OUD-related telehealth services compared with 1 in 800 in the prepandemic group, the research revealed. Access to telehealth services was associated with better treatment retention and lower risk of medically treated overdose in the pandemic group compared to those not receiving telehealth services.-----https://healthimaging.com/topics/management/education-training/ai-deterring-students-pursuing-radiologyConcerns about the future ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

TWiV 880: COVID-19 clinical update #107 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #107, Daniel Griffin discusses Moderna vaccine results in children, hospitalization by ethnicity, BA.2 severity in children, placentitis and thrombohematoma during pregnancy, predictive value of symptoms for diagnosis, Evusheld activity against BA.1 and BA.2, Remdesivir resistance, Ivermectin with and without strongyloidiasis, inhaled ciclesonide, home telemonitoring, pulse oximetry for remote monitoring, effectiveness of anti-platelet therapy, and deaths in Zambia. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 26, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation Long Covid monoclonal antibody pandemic SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern viruses Source Type: blogs

A health librarian at church: leprosy
This started life as apost from 2015.  I have removed the links that have broken since, including a chapter in the Encyclopaedica Judaica, which seems not to be freely available anymore.  Your local library might have access. In Mark 1:40, in the Christian New Testament, Jesus heals a man with leprosy. I ' d certainly come across the idea that " leprosy " in the Bible might not actually be the leprosy (Hansen ' s disease) that we know today.  There is work by Biblical scholars and others to back up my memory - thisarticle by Cochrane (not Archie), and an article from the&nb...
Source: Browsing - February 9, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: leprosy Source Type: blogs

Words of courage for medical students and residents
About 15 years ago, I spent a few weeks at a small community hospital in Zambia, helping to staff the primary care clinic and attend some of the rounds on the small inpatient units there.   The inpatient pediatrics unit was full of young children suffering from malaria or measles, often both.  One particularly stark evening, […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/deborah-edberg" rel="tag" > Deborah Edberg, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Advanced Wireless Neonatal Body Monitors to Improve Outcomes
Babies that end up in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) are monitored via a complex collection of sensors, each of which has a wire connected to a patient monitor. While necessary, all this technology makes it difficult for parents to bond with their children and for clinicians to access their patients. Northwestern University engineers have developed flexible, wireless sensor patches that are able to collect the same vital signs as wired devices while offering an entire set of additional capabilities that existing commercial devices lack. The new sensors are able to trac...
Source: Medgadget - March 11, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

How Does Sleeping Well Impact Brain Detoxification?
You're reading How Does Sleeping Well Impact Brain Detoxification?, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Have you been sleeping well lately? We all know that getting enough sleep is an important part of living a healthy and engaged life. Of course, getting a good night's sleep keeps you sharp during the day, and recent science has also shown how important it is in learning and memory. Sleep is not only good for helping you pay attention in class or remembering what you did yesterday though, it also helps keep ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca Wilson Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement better sleep brain health science of sleep Source Type: blogs

Jellybean 105 Emergency Medicine in Zambia
At the moment there is only one public emergency department in Zambia that actually has a trained emergency physician. It only has one. The post Jellybean 105 Emergency Medicine in Zambia appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane • LITFL • Medical Blog. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 10, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Podcast Mwiche Chiluba SMACC SMACCreach Zambia Source Type: blogs

African Trypanosomiasis: Crossing Borders
141 individual importations (193 patients) of African trypanosomiasis are listed by Gideon www.GideonOnline.com  Ten of these patients acquired the disease in Zambia, and 27 were treated in South Africa. As of February, 2019 the Gideon web application and e-book series [1,2] list 2,718 individual cross-border events, arranged in 134 charts – by disease and country.  Charts also include importation of infected animals (ie, rabid dogs) and contaminated foods and other vehicles which resulted in outbreaks.  Charts in the web application are interactive, and allow the user to sort data according to country, year, numb...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 20, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Travel Source Type: blogs

What ’s the Best Way to Retain a Health Worker? Just Ask Her!
By Kate Tulenko. The world currently has a shortage of some 4 million health workers. This shortage is amplified by a complete mismatch between where health workers are stationed and where they are most needed. The healthier and wealthier a community is, the more health workers it has. The poorer and sicker a community, the fewer health workers it has. The situation is worsening as every year hundreds of thousands of health workers move from poor, rural, and underserved communities to wealthier, metropolitan communities with a surfeit of health workers. This occurs both within countries (a nurse moving from a rural area to...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 27, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

New cross-cultural analysis suggests that g or “general intelligence” is a human universal
By Alex Fradera Intelligence is a concept that some people have a hard time buying. It’s too multifaceted, too context-dependent, too Western. The US psychologist Edwin Boring encapsulated this scepticism when he said “measurable intelligence is simply what the tests of intelligence test.” Yet the scientific credentials of the concept are undimmed, partly because intelligence is strongly associated with so many important outcomes in life. Now Utah Valley University researchers Russell Warne and Cassidy Burningham have released evidence that further strengthens the case for intelligence being a valid and useful conce...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Intelligence Source Type: blogs

Cerebral malaria in a young woman who had traveled to Africa
A young woman became sick after visiting Zambia. She died a few weeks after onset of headache and flu-like symptoms. The slide is not dirty! The dirty-looking stuff in the picture below is birefringent pigment called hemozoin. This is typical of a falciparum infection. There are ring hemorrhages and D ürck granulomas present as well. Dürck granulomas are accumulations of mononuclear cells, predominantly macrophages, probably related to resorption of ring hemorrhages.Hemozoin pigmentD ürck granuloma (Source: neuropathology blog)
Source: neuropathology blog - March 8, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: infectious disease Source Type: blogs

Trypanosomiasis – Imported / Exported
Gideon follows cross-border Infectious Disease events in tabular form – including movement of infected animals, and outbreaks related to imported items. [1]  The following list chronicles cases of African trypanosomiasis which were imported into South Africa, or were exported from Zambia.  Further details and references are available from the author. Acquired in Zambia. 1986 – An American tourist acquired trypanosomiasis in Zambia. 2000 – A British tourist acquired trypanosomiasis (nonfatal) in Zambia. 2001 – A British national acquired trypanosomiasis in Zambia. 2008 – A British tourist acq...
Source: GIDEON blog - January 12, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Source Type: blogs

LITFL Review 306
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Welcome to the 306th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week RebelEM unleashes his top 10 pearls from ACEP17 [LP] EPMonthly published an ER account of the...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 13, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review #FOAMped #FOAMresus #FOAMsim #FOAMus #meded FOAMcc FOAMed LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

Addressing The Gap In Noncommunicable Disease Data With Technology And Innovation
High-quality health data is the backbone of strong public health policies. When government officials and public health professionals understand the factors that influence health, they can make informed decisions about how and where to target public health interventions and resources.  In low- and middle-income countries, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) account for 67 percent of deaths but only 1 percent of global health funding (see page 5). As the NCD epidemic reaches all countries—regardless of income level, high-quality, quickly accessible data that provide information about NCD risk factors are the lever for action....
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 21, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Kelly Henning Tags: Featured GrantWatch Public Health Bloomberg Philanthropies CDC Foundation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chronic Care Global Health Health Data Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW Johns Hopkins U Source Type: blogs