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Are Competitive Elections Good for Your Health? Evidence from the 1918 Flu and Covid-19
Jacob Walden (University of Michigan), Yuri Zhukov (University of Michigan), Are Competitive Elections Good for Your Health? Evidence from the 1918 Flu and Covid-19, SSRN (2021): Do more electorally vulnerable government officials respond to public health emergencies more aggressively than...
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 3, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Microfluidic Device for Quick and Accurate SARS-CoV-2 Testing
Researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, have created a microfluidic chip that can detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in less than 30 minutes, and with a similar level of accuracy as the current gold-standard test, PCR. The tec...
Source: Medgadget - March 1, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Public Health Source Type: blogs
‘Just Follow the Science’ Shows Some Improvement
Peter Van DorenDuring summer 2020 I wrote anessay about what science can and cannot do and the role it can play in public policy decisions including those pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. I concluded that science explains relationships between cause and effect: no more and no less. No normative conclusions about individual or collective decisions follow directly from science. Instead, costs, benefits, and other values properly enter both individual and collective decisions.I have writtenthreetimessince then about gradual recognition of this argument among medical professionals as well as journalists. I a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
Lessons of pandemic : Tackling Covid is much easier task, than the onslaught of Science !
This article by Dr. Anand Krishnan, Professor of community medicine, AIIMS New Delhi, has some enlightening content
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/whys-pandemic-policymaking-still-short-of-science/articleshow/88650912.cms
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - February 12, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Photographing the Physics of Cells
Dr. Melike Lakadamyali with a microscope. Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Lakadamyali.
“It would be a dream come true if I could look at a cell within a tissue and have a Google Maps view to zoom in until I saw individual molecules,” says Melike Lakadamyali, Ph.D., an associate professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Her lab is helping make part of that dream a reality by developing super-resolution microscopy tools that visualize cells at a near-molecular level.
Blending Physics and Biology
Science and math fascinated Dr. Lakadamyali since childhood, ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Tools and Techniques Cellular Imaging Cellular Processes Cool Tools/Techniques Profiles Source Type: blogs
Our Canary in the Coal Mine: The Rapid Viral Testing Mini-Lab
Like a beggar telling other beggars where to find bread, I have to talk about our pediatric emergency department mini-lab for rapid viral testing and its undeniable positive impact on our practice during the pandemic. We had begun discussions with Abbott Laboratories months before the COVID-19 pandemic about setting up rapid testing for flu, RSV, and strep. Hospital administration approved moving forward with the concept, but like most big endeavors, administrative delays and other distractions resulted in many months passing without much apparent movement on the contract. And then it happened: The COVID-19 pandemic...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - February 1, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
The Social Science of Covid
By MIKE MAGEE
As we enter the third year of the Covid pandemic, with perhaps a partial end in sight, the weight of the debate shows signs of shifting away from genetically engineered therapies, and toward a social science search for historic context.
Renowned historian, Charles E. Rosenberg, envisioned a similar transition for the AIDS epidemic in 1989. He described its likely future course then as a “social phenomenon” with these words, “Epidemics start at a moment in time, proceed on a stage limited in space and duration, follow a plot line of increasing and revelatory tension, move to a crisis of individual ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine Mike Magee vaccines Source Type: blogs
The next plague
Here ' s a discussion by Kelly Piper of the ominous implications of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Most people are thinking that in the long run, it ' s good news that we have this highly contagious, but less virulent strain of the virus. Once we get past the surge and the problems of overwhelmed hospitals and too many people out sick, we ' ll have a degree of herd immunity and it will be comparable to flu and other respiratory viruses that we already live with.That may be true, although it ' s too soon to tell. Another more dangerous variant may yet emerge. But it also points to a danger -- this highly contagious virus ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 28, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Avian influenza (bird flu)
My local park has notices up about an outbreak. Here are sources of latest official information (for the UK). Travel related information is at the end of the post. In addition to the sites below try your local authority ' s website.Animal and Plant Health Agency reports relating to wild birdsDEFRA and APHA, preliminary outbreak assessment, for Europe, Russia and the UK - includes Weekly disease reportsDEFRA and APHA, guidanceDepartment of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), Avian influenzaHealth and Safety Executive, Avian influenza(PDF) (information particularly for those i...
Source: Browsing - January 26, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: avian influenza Source Type: blogs
Oura Ring (Gen3) Review: Does The Oura Ring Really Work?
The Oura Ring from Finland-based ŌURA was making waves over the past years, partly due to the technology behind the item, and in part due to well-placed PR moves. Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey wears one as do NBA players; but the smart ring made waves recently following reports that it could indicate when the wearer is sick before symptoms show. In some cases, it could potentially help identify asymptomatic COVID-19 infections, which can make up to 40% of cases. Quite the ability-enhancing wearable for our non-fantasy world; but would it satisfy digital health and fitness enthusiasts?
That’s what we’ll find ou...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones review fitness tracker ring oura Gen3 smart tracker Source Type: blogs
Vortioxetine for Post-COVID Brain Fog
If you ' re relatively young and healthy, is a mild case of COVID-19 really “mild”, like a cold or the flu? Are you still at risk forlong COVID— a persistent state of fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, exercise intolerance, and “brain fog” (impairments in memory, attention, and concentration)— even if you ' re fully vaccinated?If you have post-COVID brain fog and live in Toronto, you might beeligible for a clinical trial run by the Brain and Cognition Discovery Foundation. The study will assess the effects ofvortioxetine (brand name Trintellix), an FDA-approved antidepressant thatmay improve cognitive function in peop...
Source: The Neurocritic - January 17, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 17th 2022
In conclusion, fibroblasts in monolayers cultured with soluble pentosidine and tridimensional in vitro skin constructs exposed to the combination of AGEs and UVA promote an inflammatory state and an alteration of the dermal compartment in relation to an elastosis-like environment.
Source: Fight Aging! - January 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Senescent Cells Negatively Affect T Helper Cell Differentiation
The accumulation of senescent cells with age harms tissues and cell behavior throughout the body. Senescent cells generate a pro-growth, pro-inflammation mix of molecules, the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Researchers are still comparatively early in the process of producing a complete list of problems caused by the SASP. One of the better studied SASP components is TGF-β, and here researchers demonstrates that it causes disarray in the normal behavior of T-helper cells of the adaptive immune system. Applying senolytic treatments that selectively destroy senescent cells can reverse this aspect of aging...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
5 COVID-19 Discussions That Will Dominate 2022
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Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Science Fiction vaccination pandemic vaccine pfizer fatigue booster Source Type: blogs
Diverting children from unnecessary hospital attendances in York
NHS Confederation -Local GP provider organisation Nimbuscare worked with the local authority, volunteers, local businesses and health providers in York to turn an area of wasteland into the beginnings of a health village. The disused car park hosts an innovative paediatric hub pilot scheme to help prevent under-fives from going into hospital, provides preventative health checks and delivers flu, Covid-19 and booster vaccinations on behalf of the eleven GP practices within the city. Case studyMore detail
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 11, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Primary and community care Source Type: blogs
