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This is #NPHW National Public Health Week
April 2-8 marks ​National Public Health Week (NPHW). Each day is marked with a specific public health theme:Monday, April 2: Behavioral HealthAdvocate for and promote well-beingFocus on and advocate for improved access to mental and behavioral health services. Use education and training to de-stigmatize mental health diagnoses and encourage people experiencing mental illness to seek treatment. Coverage for mental health services must be on par with physical health services in all health insurance coverage.Tuesday, April 3: Communicable DiseasesLearn about ways to prevent disease transmissionWash your hands. Know your HIV...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - April 2, 2018 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

110 Years of Mortality Rates by Category
It is sometimes helpful to look back at recent history in order to see just how far we have come in terms of progress in medicine, wealth, and health. Ours is an era of rapid, profound change in technology and its capabilities, and that is very apparent in mortality statistics, such as the charts provided in the article noted here. The numbers change dramatically every few decades, the result of the scientific and medical communities turning their attention to the most pressing issues of their time, generation after generation. The past century is a story of success due to advancing medical technology on the one han...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 14, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

LITFL Review 320
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 320th 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 Deep dive into flu controversies on this episode of FOAMcast, including a review of the CDC r...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 26, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs

Investigative Epidemiology: Putting your head above the parapet
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Part of the joys of studying at the Liverpool Tropical School of Medicine is the weekly Wednesday lunchtime lectures. This week we were treated to investigative journalist Deborah Cohen (@deb-cohen), an award winning medically qualified TV, print and radio reporter, as well as being an editor on the British Medical Journal. Dr Cohen gives us a glimpse of her dark world, interviews ‘on’ and ‘off’ the record; brown envelopes; the manipulation of th...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 20, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Investigative Epidemiology Bawa-Garba MVA85A Tamiflu Source Type: blogs

Are Mass Shootings Becoming More Frequent?
Terrible mass shootings like the one at a Parkland, Florida high school are so shocking that it is easy to get the impression that mass shootings are increasingly common.  The number of deaths from mass shootings has been unusually high since 2007, because of five horrific incidents – Las Vegas (58), the Orlando nightclub (49), Virginia Tech (32), Sandy Hook (27), and the Texas First Baptist Church (26).  Statisticians would never try to fabricate a trend from su ch a small sample, even though the untrained eye may want to.Last November, however, aWall Street Journal essay byAri Schulman claimed,It isn ’t your imagin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 15, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Medical Chatbot Improves Patient Response Rate for Flu Shot Reminders
One of the continuing challenges in healthcare is developing techniques for communicating with patients in an efficient and effective way. The goal of such a conversation may be to remind them about an appointment or perhaps persuade them to take some action regarding their health. A recent article addressed a chatbot campaign launched by a physician office to increase patient response to flu shots (see:Chatbot campaign for flu shots bolsters patient response rate by 30%). A chatbot is a computer program which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods (see:Chatbot) Such programs are often designed...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 9, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Medical Consumerism Medical Education Preventive Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 22nd 2018
In conclusion, death is a natural part of human existence, but human progress is essentially a story of overcoming undesirable natural limits. In the near future, technological progress might make it possible to stop natural biological death. Should humankind embrace such technology? Yes: Even though such technology would not be without risks, the risks are almost certainly manageable. The benefits of ending natural death, on the other hand, are immense. Death is an obstacle that is slowing down human progress. If we remove that obstacle, humankind could increase the speed of both its moral and its epistemic progress. ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 21, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

8 Digital Health Mergers That Help Prepare for 2018
A lot of interesting acquisitions and mergers took place in 2017. Pharmaceutical, health insurance, medical technology and digital technology companies took brave steps to strengthen their position with more or less success. Here are the most exciting ones. Last year’s business moves on the digital health market suggest that producing drugs alone without added digital services is not enough anymore for pharma companies; medical websites are becoming huge media outlets; and that Apple is seriously moving into healthcare. Check out the descriptions of the 8 most interesting mergers below. 1) Internet Brands & WebMD, th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine acquisitions business digital health Healthcare healthcare companies healthcare market Innovation M&A mergers technology Source Type: blogs

No Surprise, Life Expectancy Declined Again
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD Newborns born in 29 other countries of the world have life expectancies exceeding 80 years; yet, an infant born in the US in 2016 is expected to live only 78.6 years according to recently released statistics. While death rates fell for 7 of the 10 biggest killers, such as cancer and heart disease, they climbed for the under-65 crowd. The irrefutable culprit is the unrelenting opioid epidemic. Last year life expectancy declined for the first time since 1993. The last two-year decline was in 1962 and 1963, more than a half-century ago. I predicted (accurately) it would decline again this year unless ther...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 3, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Recommendations vs. Medical Standards vs Patient Preferences
How often do you get your teeth cleaned? Every six months, just like the ADA reccomends of course. Unless you have bad teeth like me and go every three months (and I hate having my teeth cleaned). There are guidelines that tell us all sorts of things - get the oil changed on your car, get a flu shot, get a colonoscopy, and get a mammogram.We usually follow these guidelines because they give us structure and a sense of how often we need to do these things. We listen to them because they are all in the ' preventive ' category - they help make us more likely to live longer and healthier. We may not understand all the reasons ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer screening changes education Source Type: blogs

The Secret Behind Our Powers of Perception
When you’re an eye doctor, and I’ve spent my entire career as one, you learn a lot about how people use, and misuse, the sense of sight to perceive the world around them. As humans, we’re constantly interpreting and occasionally manipulating our experiences to distinguish fantasy from reality. Some people are better at this than others. Some, for example, are consistently taken in by conspiracy theories or fake news stories, whereas others can quickly sniff them out as bogus. A few years ago, I asked myself-what’s the difference between people with keen powers of perception and those with weaker powers? Is it educ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Brain Blogger Memory and Perception Publishers Fantasy perceptual intelligence reality Source Type: blogs

Will CVS-Aetna Merger Lead to “ Separate But Unequal ” Healthcare?
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD Last week, pharmacy giant CVS agreed to purchase Aetna this week for an astounding $69 billion dollar sum. The company allegedly plans to reduce health spending by developing an integrated system touted as “a new front door for health care in America.” This merger is actually an acquisition, entailing transfer of ownership. The central aim of an acquisition is to increase market share, expand the scope of services provided, and improve financial stability. CVS hit the jackpot on all three objectives. While Wall Street investors celebrate, many of us knowledgeable in the delivery of healthcare servi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Aetna CVS Niran Al-Agba Source Type: blogs

2017 Nanopore Community Meeting: An Incomplete Summary
The 2017 Nanopore Community Meeting was over a week ago back in New York City, so I ' m grossly overdue in cobbling together some observations and opinion based on the tweet stream (I had a critical day job meeting at the same time and wasn ' t in New York).  I diddash off the bit about SmidgION being potentially like the early Macs (though I got wrong the nomenclature, the original was the Mac 128K -- Mac Classic was a later model that resembled it).  Oxford also deviated this autumn from the pattern of public information they had seemingly established, with major news at London Calling and smaller updates at th...
Source: Omics! Omics! - December 10, 2017 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs

Children are Being Educated in School to Obey the Government ’s Vaccination Agenda
Conclusion The message is clear, as far as governments are concerned: the more often something is repeated, the more likely the public will believe it. Or, in the words of Joseph Goebbels, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” [8]   References https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com…history-and-biology-of-vaccines/ http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/magic-madness-governments-nlp-assault-our-minds https://thenib.com/vaccines-work-here-are-the-facts-5de3d0f9ffd0 https://www.popsci.com/16-african-countries-have-overtaken-us-measles-vaccinations https:/...
Source: vactruth.com - November 10, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England, BA Hons Tags: Christina England Logical Top Stories Maki Naro NLP truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs

What Every Parent Needs to Know About Back to School Vaccine Threats and Exemptions
Conclusion Because the mainstream media has financial interest in promoting vaccines, informed parents must seek information elsewhere about back to school vaccine mandates and exemptions. Parents, as you prepare to send your child back to school, do your homework and determine which exemptions are available in your area. A list of vaccine exemptions for all fifty states is published online by the National Vaccine Information Center. Sharing this article with other parents will also help them make informed decisions about vaccines. References: http://www.nvic.org/vaccine-laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx http://www.oma...
Source: vactruth.com - August 17, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Top Stories truth about vaccines Vaccine Exemptions Source Type: blogs