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Paying homage to the father of epidemiology
: The Journal of American Medicine and Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., paid tribute to the father of epidemiology, John Snow, on what would have been his 200th birthday. Dr. Snow was an innovative physician who was suspicious about how cholera was spread throughout England in the 1800s. Using maps and tracking outbreaks of the disease, Dr. Snow located the wa....
Source: Sound Medicine - December 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sound Medicine Source Type: news

We Need to Bend Privacy Rules to Stop the Ebola OutbreakWe Need to Bend Privacy Rules to Stop the Ebola Outbreak
A leading bioethicist says that in order to combat Ebola, we need more information than we normally expect about where people have been and the care they have received. Medscape Business of Medicine
Source: Medscape Business of Medicine Headlines - October 24, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Commentary Source Type: news

Africa: Africa's Medicine Men Key to Halting Ebola Spread in Guinea
[Thomson Reuters Foundation]Macenta -In a land where witchcraft is sought after more than science for curing illness, medicine men in Guinea say the Ebola epidemic would be over by now if they had been properly included in the outbreak response.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 2, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethical Issues in the Response to Ebola Virus Disease in United States Emergency Departments: A Position Paper of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Emergency Nurses Association, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Abstract The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa has presented a significant public health crisis to the international health community and challenged U.S. emergency departments (EDs) to prepare for patients with a disease of exceeding rarity in developed nations. With the presentation of patients with Ebola to U.S. acute care facilities, ethical questions have been raised in both the press and medical literature as to how U.S. EDs, emergency physicians (EPs), emergency nurses, and other stakeholders in the health care system should approach the current epidemic and its potential for spread in the dom...
Source: Academic Emergency Medicine - April 22, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Arvind Venkat, Shellie L. Asher, Lisa Wolf, Joel M. Geiderman, Catherine A. Marco, Jolion McGreevy, Arthur R. Derse, Edward J. Otten, John E. Jesus, Natalie P. Kreitzer, Monica Escalante, Adam C. Levine, , , Tags: Special Contribution Source Type: research

Ultrasound screening for fetal microcephaly following Zika virus exposure
Microcephaly is a condition in which the size of the head is smaller than expected for age. This condition in fetuses and infants has been associated with the recent outbreak of Zika virus. Due to this association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), and Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) have suggested prenatal ultrasound evaluation for fetal microcephaly in pregnant women who have been infected or potentially exposed.
Source: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology - February 17, 2016 Category: OBGYN Authors: Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Publications Committee Tags: Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Statement Source Type: research

WHO (World Health Organization) Consultation on Data and Results Sharing During Public Health Emergencies: Background Briefing
University of Oxford, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. 09/2015This 23-page document analyzes important issues around rapidly sharing data and results in public health emergencies that were raised by the Ebola outbreak, when multiple barriers to rapid information sharing were identified. It details problems with sharing data and results in public health emergencies, and suggests solutions to improve data and results sharing in public health emergencies. Recommendations include pilots of ideal regulatory frameworks and knowledge curation models, and ongoing live audit of results dissemination from completed research. (PDF)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news

Zika Virus: History, Emergence of Neurologic Disease, and Threat to the Americas
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 08/09/2016 This 49-minute presentation reviews the origins and history of the Zika virus, the evidence of its etiology in Guillain Barr é syndrome and congenital microcephaly, and its historic spread. It discusses the risk for spread within the United States, along with strategies to control the outbreak and prevent severe human disease. (Video or Multimedia)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - August 17, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news

Disaster Research Ethics: Developing Evidence Ethically
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine. 03/01/2017 This one-hour, 12-minute webinar provides an overview of the need for evidence that creates an ethical imperative to conduct research on and in disasters. Such issues have been highlighted by the inclusion of disaster research within the 2016 revision of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) ethics guidelines for biomedical research. The webinar discusses examples from medical intervention research during the Ebola outbreak and with qualitative research in humanitarian crises. It also discusses how disaster research challeng...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 7, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news

Pathogen Detection
National Library of Medicine [National Institutes of Health]. 05/2017 The National Center for Biotechnology Information Pathogen Detection integrates bacterial pathogen genomic sequences originating in food, environmental sources, and patients. It quickly clusters and identifies related sequences to uncover potential food contamination sources, helping public health scientists investigate food-borne disease outbreaks. (Text)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news

Ethiopia: 5.2 Billion Birr Medicine for IDPs
[Reporter] The government of Ethiopia is in the process of buying a 5.2-billion-birr medicine in fear of potential epidemic outbreak at camps where Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) are sheltered. This was disclosed at a press briefing by the head of Prime Minister's Press Secretariat, Nigussu Tilahun on Thursday May 10, 2019.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 13, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

What to Tell People Who Are Against Measles Vaccination What to Tell People Who Are Against Measles Vaccination
Dr Art Caplan discusses the measles outbreak and how to address new antivaccination arguments.Medscape Business of Medicine
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - May 14, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Commentary Source Type: news

Can Chinese Medicine Be Used for Prevention of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)? A Review of Historical Classics, Research Evidence and Current Prevention Programs
ConclusionsBased on historical records and human evidence of SARS and H1N1 influenza prevention, Chinese herbal formula could be an alternative approach for prevention of COVID-19 in high-risk population. Prospective, rigorous population studies are warranted to confirm the potential preventive effect of CM.
Source: Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine - February 16, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on rehabilitation services and Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) physicians' activities in Italy. An official document of the Italian PRM Society (SIMFER).
PMID: 32175719 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine - March 15, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Boldrini P, Bernetti A, Fiore P, SIMFER Executive Committee and SIMFER Committee for international affairs Tags: Eur J Phys Rehabil Med Source Type: research

The critical role of laboratory medicine during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other viral outbreaks
Journal Name: Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM) Issue: Ahead of print
Source: Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine - March 19, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research