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Voting Republican is bad for your health
Literally. A study byWarraich HJ, Kumar P, Nasir K, Joynt Maddox KE, and Wadhera RK in BMJfinds this: There has actually been lots of previous research on this general question. As the authors note, " Previous studies have shown that counties that elect Republican candidates tend to experience worse health outcomes, such as fewer gains in life expectancy and increased rates of opioid prescription.56789, " so this is just further confirmation. As they summarize their fndings, " the mortality gap between white residents in Democratic versus Republican counties increased fourfold. Rural Republican count...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 24, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How IoT Medical Devices Save and Improve Lives
The following is a guest article by Erik Kling, Interim Head of IoT Americas at Vodafone Business.
IoT, or the Internet of Things, has transformed our homes with connected lights and smart appliances. It’s also revolutionized all areas of business, including manufacturing. Sensors connected to the internet can track goods throughout the supply chain — from sourcing materials to delivering completed products to consumers.
IoT technology has improved the way we live, but its most profound impact may be in healthcare, where it’s saving lives and improving health.
Before IoT revolutionized healthcare, doctors and care pr...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops AED American College of Cardiology Connected Defibrillators Continuous Glucose Monitors CPAP Dr. Ami Bhatt Elliot Erik Kling Healthcare AI Source Type: blogs
Global Warming and Disease
BY MIKE MAGEE
A study eight years ago, published in Nature, was titled “Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic.” The study, which analyzed more than 80,000 gene sequences from flu viruses from humans., birds, horses, pigs, and bats, concluded the 1918 pandemic disaster “probably sprang from North American domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.”
The search for origin in pandemics is not simply an esoteric academic exercise. It is practical, pragmatic, and hopefully preventive. The origin of our very own pandemic, now in its third year and claiming more than 1 million ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Uncategorized Bird Ecology Global Warming Source Type: blogs
Republican Health Policies Disproportionally Harm White Citizens in Their States
BY MIKE MAGEE
“As I’ve said before, I believe Dr. Ladapo is an anti-science quack who doesn’t belong anywhere near our state’s Surgeon General office, let alone running it. But now that he’s been confirmed, it’s my sincere hope that he and Governor DeSantis choose to focus on saving lives and preventing unnecessary illness instead of continuing their absurd promotion of conspiracy theories and opposition to proven public health measures — but I’m not going to hold my breath.”
If you identified these as the words of the former governor, and now Congressman Charlie Crisp, currently running to retake t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics ACA Affordable Care Act Charlie Crisp Medicaid Medicaid Expansion Source Type: blogs
Paul Krugman and the “Ersatz” Theory of Private Currencies
George SelginAlthough I ' ve devoted many essays here to exploding myths about historical private currencies, there ' s one I ' ve yet to directly challenge. That ' s the belief that such currencies only thrive in the absence of official alternatives. Otherwise, the argument goes, people would drop private currencies like so many hot rocks. Since this opinion assumes that private currencies are inevitably inferior to official ones, I hereby christen it the " ersatz " theory of private currency. Note that " currency " means circulating or (in today ' s digital context)peer-to-peer exchange media: nobody denies that other so...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
June 09, 2022 Edition-----The Russian war on Ukraine is now well over 100 days old. The destruction and deaths are just awful and the world is being seriously re-shaped. Where this ends is unknowable but unlikely to be good.In the US we are seeing almost daily mass shootings and no-one seems to know what to do. Just pathetic.In the UK the hangover is slowly lifting after the 4 day royal celebration.In OZ we are having an energy crisis which we hope we will find solutions for soon!-----Major Issues.------https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/australias-labor-government-faces-a-whole-new-economic-ball-game/news...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 18: The Recovery So Far
George Selgin(Although my contributions to this series have so far been more-or-less in their proper order, this one isn ' t: it occurred to me only relatively recently that it would be worthwhile to take stock of the overall progress of the recovery up to the outbreak of the Roosevelt Recession before delving into that episode. Had I done this in the first place, this installment would be Part 10 of the series, with the present Part 10 and all subsequent installments moved up a notch. –Ed.)When it struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act in January 1936, the Supreme Court dropped the final curtain on the original New...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Underfunding Research Of Female Health Leaves Huge Amounts Of Money On The Table
“Did you know that at least one-third of women have lower back pain before their periods every month, and yet, nobody seems to fully understand why?” – asked a Medical Futurist team member a little while ago. The question led to a discussion about the differences in research, funding and understanding of male-only and female-only health issues, and consequently, to this article.
It is a well-known fact that some diseases or conditions dominantly affect one gender or the other. There are the trivial ones, like prostate cancer or ovarian, cervical, uterine cancers. But there is a long list of diseases and condit...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Medical Education women female health under-reseached gender gap in healthcare Source Type: blogs
On Today ’s Bad GDP Number, Please Remember: Imports Aren’t a “Drag on Growth”
Scott Lincicome andDaniel GriswoldRising U.S. imports are shouldering some of the blame for this morning ’s report that U.S. real GDP shrank by 1.4 percent in the first quarter. The report may signal underlying problems for the U.S. economy, but the growing demand of U.S. households and companies for imported goods isn’t one of them.In itspreliminary snapshot of first-quarter GDP growth, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis pointed to a drawdown of inventories, a slowdown in exports, and decreased government spending as factors behind the drop in GDP. But the agency also noted that imports “are a subtraction in the c...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 28, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome, Daniel Griswold Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 26th March, 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/55-of-telehealth-providers-frustrated-with-overblown-patient-expectations55% of Telehealth Providers Frustrated With Overblown Patient ExpectationsProviders also cited their ability to provide quality care and technical difficulties as among their top frustrations with telehealth, a new survey shows.ByAnuja VaidyaMarch 18, 202...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based mental healthcare: Time to focus on quality and accountability
For the mental health crisis of care, quality is as much of a problem as quantity.
Most people who seek mental health care for the first time are baffled by how to find a clinician. I know what many parents felt. When my daughter, Lara, finished her first semester at Oberlin, she returned home to Atlanta thin and exhausted. I was excited to have her back home and entirely clueless about her desperate struggle with anorexia. In fact, as I learned later, she had been driven by obsessions about her weight and her appearance for over a year by that point. As was true of Amy, her perfectionism and her shame at not being perfect...
Source: SharpBrains - March 16, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Thomas Insel Tags: Brain/ Mental Health eating disorders eminence-based care evidence-based care mental health crisis mental health providers psychiatry psychologists serious mental illness therapists therapy Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 14th 2022
This study tests the feasibility of chronically elevating skeletal muscle NAD+ in mice and investigates the putative effects on mitochondrial respiratory capacity, insulin sensitivity, and gene expression. The metabolic effects of NR and PT treatment were modest. We conclude that the chronic elevation of skeletal muscle NAD+ by the intravenous injection of NR is possible but does not affect muscle respiratory capacity or insulin sensitivity in either sedentary or physically active mice. Our data have implications for NAD+ precursor supplementation regimens.
Muscle Strengthening Activities in Later Life Correlate ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Long Term Data on Particulate Air Pollution and Dementia in a US Population
There is plenty of evidence for particulate air pollution to have a negative effect on long-term health, particularly those derived from Asian populations that are exposed to more coal and wood smoke than tends to be the case in the US and Western Europe. While the relative importance of the various mechanisms involved are up for debate, the most plausible are those involving raised inflammation as a result of interactions between particles and lung tissue. The chronic inflammation of aging drives near all age-related conditions, and more inflammation means more dysfunction.
As researchers note here, not all particu...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 21st 2022
In conclusion, clinical trials targeting aging in humans have shown promising but limited results on biomarkers so far.
Mycobacterium Vaccae Immunization as an Anti-Inflammatory Strategy
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/02/mycobacterium-vaccae-immunization-as-an-anti-inflammatory-strategy/
In today's open access paper, researchers discuss immunization with Mycobacterium vaccae as an approach to reduce the inflammatory overactivity of the aged immune system. Researchers have made some initial inroads into studying the way in which this bacteria can alter the function of the immune system, and here...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
What the Pandemic Taught Us About Value-based Care
By RICHARD ISSACS
You’ll recall that we ran a long piece (pt 1, pt 2) about Medicare Advantage from former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson earlier this year. Here’s a somewhat related piece from the current head of the Permanente Medical Group about what actually happened there and elsewhere during the pandemic–Matthew Holt
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided important lessons regarding the structure and delivery of health care in the United States, and one of the most significant takeaways has been the need to shift to value-based models of care.
The urgency for this transformation was cle...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice Physicians Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Pandemic Richard Isaacs value-based care Source Type: blogs
