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Kia and Hyundai Car Thefts Continue To Rise in Several US Cities
Hyundai and Kia have been scrambling to contain widespread thefts due to a security flaw in millions of the company's vehicles. Despite the introduction of a software fix earlier this year, the theft epidemic shows no signs of slowing down. As reported by the Associated Press, new data shows that…#hyundai #kia #minneapolis #cleveland #stlouis #seattle #atlanta #grandrapids #denver #usb
Source: Reuters: Health - May 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Minnesota Settles Vaping Lawsuit Against Juul
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota announced a settlement Monday in its lawsuit against Juul Labs and tobacco giant Altria—the first of thousands of cases against the e-cigarette maker to reach trial—just ahead of closing arguments. The terms will be kept confidential until formal papers are publicly filed with the court in 30 days, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement. “After three weeks of trial highlighting and bringing into the public record the actions that JUUL and Altria took that contributed to the youth vaping epidemic, we reached a settlement in the best interest of Minnesotan...
Source: TIME: Health - April 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: STEVE KARNOWSKI/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Vaping wire Source Type: news

Why Sleeping In On School Days May Be Good for Teen Health
California teenagers can snooze a little later this year, thanks to a newly implemented law that says most high schools and middle schools cannot start before 8:30 a.m. and 8 a.m., respectively. That law—the first in the country to set statewide mandates for school start times—isn’t only big for California students, but also for public-health experts fighting against what the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has called an “epidemic” of teen sleep deprivation. Both the AAP and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have long opposed early-morning class times and advocated for middl...
Source: TIME: Health - August 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Sleep Source Type: news

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 6th August 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and 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-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/telehealth-bolsters-maternal-care-outcomes-patient-satisfactionTelehealth Bolsters Maternal Care Outcomes, Patient SatisfactionNew research shows that implementing telehealth, either in place of or as a supplement to in-person care, led to good clinical outcomes and high patient satisfaction in maternal care.ByMark MelchionnaJu...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.                                                     Michel de MontaigneBy Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in their homes they watched with fear and fascination how the pandemic swept over the world, while comparing ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Estimated Excess Mortality From External Causes
As of February 2022, there have been about 79 million cases of COVID-19 and 930  000 deaths in the US. Although these numbers are staggering, they only tell part of the story. The health effects of the pandemic extend far beyond COVID-19 itself. Indirect factors, such as increased isolation, unemployment, and poverty, were particularly deleterious in a society already struggl ing with 2 public health crises: the opioid overdose epidemic and structural racism. In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, there were over 75 000 deaths from opioid overdoses, a 35% increase from 2019. In May 2020, the murder of George Floyd at...
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - May 9, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

It ’ s time for a change
Much has been written about the challenges frontline health care workers have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Long hours, excessive death, and fear for one’s own safety and the welfare of family and colleagues have been a consistent theme over the past 22 months. Physicians and nurses started as heroes, but due to strained politics and social-media misuse, they’re now branded by a substantial swath of society as pariahs and purveyors of a medical hoax. The timing of this pandemic could not have been worse: According to the Medscape National Physician Burnout & Suicide Report 2021, 79% of physicians stated their...
Source: The Hospitalist - March 1, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Business of Medicine COVID-19 Hospital Medicine Practice Management Source Type: research

Help.org Names the Best Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers in Minneapolis
Minneapolis’ Opioid Epidemic Prompts Growing Demand for Accessible and High-Quality Facilities(PRWeb July 28, 2020)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/help_org_names_the_best_drug_and_alcohol_rehab_centers_in_minneapolis/prweb17286949.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - July 28, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Minimally Invasive Ivor-Lewis Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer After Gastric Bypass
This report presents the case of a 55-year-old woman with a previous Roux-en-Y gastric bypass who was shown by endoscopy to have an invasive adenocarcinoma located in the distal thoracic esophagus. This necessitated an excision of the thoracic esophagus and the gastric pouch. A laparoscopic and thoracoscopic Ivor-Lewis esophagogastrectomy was performed for this complex patient with esophageal adenocarcinoma. The remnant stomach was fashioned into a gastric conduit using a 60-mm linear stapler with a staple height of 4.1 mm (Echelon, Ethicon Endosurgery, Blue Ash, OH). The reconstruction was performed using a 25-mm Orvil (C...
Source: Annals of Surgical Oncology - June 1, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

Testing Won ’ t Get Us Where We Need to Go
Conclusions Testing is important to track the trajectory of an epidemic in a community to guide local or national efforts at mitigationThe tests we currently have for COVID have limited accuracy for the individual patientAntibody testing suggests that the fatality rate for COVID may be low in certain communities, but data from New York suggests there is the potential for significant death and morbidity in any major metropolitan areaContact tracing enabled by smart phone technology is likely unable to be effective because they do not overcome the inherent limitations of COVID testing, require widespread adoption, and may...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka COVID-19 testing Source Type: blogs

Interdisciplinary Pain Neuroscience Continuing Education in the Veterans Affairs: Live Training and Live-Stream With 1-Year Follow-up
Objective: Because of the pain and opioid epidemic in the United States, there is a need to update clinician’s knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding persistent pain across health care disciplines. The aim of this study was to determine if health care professionals can positively change their knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding chronic pain, following a pain neuroscience education (PNE) lecture and 1 year follow-up. Materials and Methods: A total of 270 health care providers at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System received a 3.5-hour PNE lecture in person or via live-stream. Primary outco...
Source: The Clinical Journal of Pain - October 7, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Antigen I/II Participates in the Interactions of Streptococcus suis Serotype 9 With Phagocytes and the Development of Systemic Disease
In conclusion, S. suis serotype 9 causes a systemic infection resulting in the development of clinical disease and host death. As with serotype 2, this infection is characterized by exacerbated inflammation induced by an uncontrolled and persistent bacterial presence in the systemic compartment. Not only does presence of AgI/II affect S. suis phagocytosis by promoting resistance to phagocytic cells, but it also participates in innate immune cell activation, and by consequence, inflammation. As such, S. suis serotype 9 AgI/II is an important factor involved in not only the initial steps of its pathogenesis in pigs, but also...
Source: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - April 23, 2019 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

Stage of Gestation at Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Infection of Pregnant Swine Impacts Maternal Immunity and Lactogenic Immune Protection of Neonatal Suckling Piglets
In this study, we infected pregnant first parity gilts in their first, second and third trimesters of gestation with PEDV to determine the impact of stage of gestation on generation of maternal B-cell immunity, the gut-MG-sIgA axis and lactogenic immune protection in PEDV challenged piglets. Our goal was to identify innate and adaptive immune factors during pregnancy that influence lymphocyte trafficking, in addition to immune correlates of lactogenic immune protection in neonatal suckling piglets. Understanding the impact of stage of gestation at PEDV infection or exposure on maternal immunity will allow more precise mate...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 23, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

(370) Opioid Management in Primary Care: A Response to the Opioid Epidemic
In March 2016, in response to a national opioid epidemic, the CDC released guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain.   Pain Specialists at a comprehensive, interdisciplinary Pain Clinic within an integrated health system in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota - a Clinic designed in large part to respond to the opioid epidemic - evaluated patients for participation in a pain treatment program with emphasis on SELF- ve rsus MEDICATION-management of their chronic pain.  While recognizing success in the Pain Clinic (95% of the patients had maintained decreased opioid use, and 38% of the patients showed a 100% reductio...
Source: The Journal of Pain - March 21, 2019 Category: Materials Science Authors: G. Panopoulos, S. Ferron, A. Schroepfer, L. Anderson, M. Dargay, A. Roslin, B. Votel, T. Robbins, C. Holte, D. Mullen, G. Fedio, A. Clavel Source Type: research

Opioids Are In the Spotlight. But Meth Hospitalizations Are Surging
The number of people hospitalized because of amphetamine use is skyrocketing in the United States, but the resurgence of the drug largely has been overshadowed by the nation’s intense focus on opioids. Amphetamine-related hospitalizations jumped by about 245% from 2008 to 2015, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That dwarfs the rise in hospitalizations from other drugs, such as opioids, which were up by about 46%. The most significant increases were in Western states. The surge in hospitalizations and deaths due to amphetamines “is just totally off the radar,” ...
Source: TIME: Health - November 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anna Gorman / Kaiser Health News Tags: Uncategorized public health Source Type: news