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Managing Chaos: Lessons Learned From the Emergency Department
By: Teresa Chan, MD, FRCPC, MHPE T. Chan is assistant professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine & Faculty of Health Sciences, and program director, Clinician Educator Area of Focused Competence Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. “We need a doctor in Resusc 1 STAT!” “I’m worried that my child has an ear infection.” “Dr. Chan, can you take a look at this ECG for Bed 8?” “Doc, do you think I have cancer?” In a single shift, I may hear all of these … and more. As an academic emergency physician (EP), I might see two do...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 13, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective emergency department multi-patient environments organizing information patients Source Type: blogs

U.S. to Get Its Own Supply of Radioisotopes Thanks to Approval of RadioGenix System
A good deal of advanced medical imaging to spot cancer tumors, and help to diagnose coronary artery disease and other conditions, relies on injecting radioisotopes into the body whose location can be tracked. The most common is technetium-99m (Tc-99m...
Source: Medgadget - February 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Nuclear Medicine Oncology Radiation Oncology Source Type: blogs

Inspirata Acquires Omnyx from GE Healthcare, Achieving an End-to-End Solution
The business model of Inspirata is relatively unique compared to other companies connected to digital pathology. The company seeks to enhance the digital pathology workflow of its clients presumably pathology departments and consulting firms. Here is a summary of the company goals copied from the company web page (WELCOME TO INSPIRATA):We...help cancer institutions overcome the financial barriers to adoption using our unique business and delivery model where we make the upfront capital investment in the hardware, software and storage needed to enable a cancer institution to move to a fully automated digital pathology...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 7, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Digital Imaging in Pathology Food and Drug Administration Lab Industry Trends Lab Processes and Procedures Lab Regulation Pathology Informatics Surgical Pathology 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

Revisiting options for improving results of breast reconstruction
This study is the first of its kind to provide patient-reported outcomes about fat grafting, and reflects a growing trend of incorporating patient-reported outcomes into clinical trials. Gaining a better understanding of outcomes from the patients’ perspective helps researchers and clinicians to design and deliver care that truly meets the personal preferences and treatment priorities of women diagnosed with breast cancer. I’d like to thank my colleague Dr. Dhruv Singhal, a plastic surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, for his contributions to this post.  The post Revisiting options for improving resul...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ted A. James, MD Tags: Breast Cancer Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs

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Laurie Kingston, 1967-2018Laurie passed away peacefully at Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario on Monday January 8th, 2018 at the age of 50 years. Loving partner of Tim Wayne. Beloved mother of Sacha Kingston-Wayne and Daniel Kingston-Wayne. Daughter of Diane Kingston and the late Bob Kingston of Hawkesbury, Ontario. Daughter-in-law of Susan Way ne, Jack Wayne and Susan Silva of Toronto, Ontario. Will be dearly missed by her sister Linda Kingston and her partner Ian (Ottawa); brother-in-law Andrew Wayne, his partner Brenda MacDonald, nieces Claire, Esme and nephew Noah (Guelph); brother-in-law Ian Wayne, his pa...
Source: Not just about cancer - January 16, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology 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

Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape and Potential Approaches – A Workshop
Discussion with workshop  participants moderated by Linda Ganzini 10:30 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. Definitional FrameworkLegal/Regulatory Landscape (20 mins)• David Orentlicher, Co-Director, UNLV Health Law Program and The Cobeaga Law Firm Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Key Terms and Taxonomy (40 mins)• Scott Kim, Senior Investigator, Department of Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center• Tom Strouse, Medical Director, Stewart and Lynda Resnick NeuropsychiatricHospital at UCLA 11:45 a.m. Discussion with workshop participants moderated by Linda Ganzini 12:15 p.m. LUNCH SESSION II: PROVIDER E...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

The 1000th Thread!
This is the 1000th presentation to my bioethics blog since starting on Google Blogspot.com in 2004.There has been many topics covered. Though comments by the visitors has always been encouraged and, since as a " discussion blog " , comments leading to discussions I have felt was the definitive function here. Virtually none of the thread topics have gone unread and most have had some commentary, some with mainly particularly strong and emphatic opinions http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2013/01/should-pathologists-be-physicians.html, some with extensive up to 12 years long continued discussion http://bioethicsdiscussi...
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs

The Young Adult Ignored Cancer Patients
This is one of my pet peeves. Children with cancer have their mature, sane parents advocating for them. Adults with cancer can advocate for themselves.The young adults - 15 to 30s - often don ' t find the same support or resources. First they are still trying to figure out who they are and what they will do with their life. Second, they are learning to be independent and should be focusing on their education and careers, not going to chemotherapy. There is hope now that online resources can help fill the gaps for the patients and maybe for the doctors as well." In addition, they will probably go on to live long lives and t...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 22, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer bonds cancer treatment side effects young cancer patients Source Type: blogs

Why I ' m Bored With the Debate About Physician Assisted Suicide
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)I ’m a little bored of all the discussion about physician-assisted suicide. Mostly it’s because legalizing PAS is going to have zero impact on nearly all of my patients, and I think the significant amount of press and energy it gets is a distraction from other things which actually would improve t he lives (and deaths) of the patients and families I care for as a palliative doc.The last time I blogged about PAS waspart of my euphemisms series last year, when I elaborated why I did not like terms like ‘assisted death’ or ‘aid-in-dying’ and prefer ‘assisted suicide’ and ‘euthana...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - December 13, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Tags: ethics euthanasia/suicide health policy rosielle Source Type: blogs

The 10 Most Exciting Digital Health Stories of 2017
Gene-edited human embryo. Self-driving trucks. Practical quantum computers. 2017 has been an exciting year for science, technology – and digital health! It’s that time of the year again when it’s worth looking back at the past months; and list the inventions, methods and milestone events in healthcare to get a clearer picture what will shape medicine for the years to come. 2017 – Amazing year for science and healthcare Scientists, researchers, and innovators come up with amazing breakthroughs every year, and that was no different in 2017 either. No matter whether we look at physics (proving the existence of gra...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 13, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing artificial intelligence digital health genetics genomics Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine robotics technology wearables Source Type: blogs

In Honor of National Caregiver Appreciation Month: An eBook Sale Just for You
As The Author of Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories, I'm honored to be chosen to be part AlzAuthors. This post is courtesy of AlzAuthors. Read through for some incredible deals on ebooks written by authors who've been where you are. MOE is among the books on sale. All are $2.99 or less. November is National Caregiver Appreciation Month, a time to recognize the long hours, sacrifice, and love all caregivers bring to the task of caring for a loved one with dementia or any long-term illness. In honor of their efforts, AlzAuthors is hosting an eBook sale and giveaway! This is a terrific way...
Source: Minding Our Elders - November 15, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs