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LITFL Review – Best of 2015
Welcome to the Best of 2015 LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Year
SMACC Podcast: Crack the Chest Get Crucified (John Hinds)
John’s talk from the opening plenary at SMACC Chicago had a furious battle with David Newman’s talk for the number one spot. Both were clear front runners given the shear numb...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 8, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Anand Swaminathan Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Addressing Tobacco And Secondhand Smoke Exposure In Maternal And Child Survival Programs
Ending preventable child and maternal deaths (EPCMD) by 2035 is one of US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) three global health priorities, along with creating an AIDS-Free Generation and protecting communities from infectious diseases. In June 2014 USAID launched the report Acting on the Call: Ending Preventable Maternal and Child Deaths, which provides an evidence-based approach to meeting this goal across USAID’s 24 EPCMD focus countries. One of the key elements of the EPCMD approach is alignment across interventions to meet the needs of affected populations; for this reason, Acting on the Call incorpor...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 24, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Karen Wilson, Jonathan Klein, Sally Cowal, Aaron Emmel and Emily Kaiser Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Population Health Public Health CDC Children cigarettes Environmental Health second hand smoke tobacco USAID Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Turkish Delight
I’ve just returned from the World Cancer Leaders’ Summit in Istanbul. (The event was held in partnership with the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the World Health Organization.) It was a Turkish delight in more ways than one.
Source: drugwonks.com Blog - November 19, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
Trade Is Not a Trade-Off: The Stronger Case for Free Trade
Too many advocates of trade liberalization don’t really understand the case for free trade. Consider this sympathetic interview by Steve Inskeep of NPR with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, the chief negotiator of the Trans-Pacific Partnership:
INSKEEP: Froman argues the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, will give U.S. industries more access to foreign markets. Granted, there’s a trade-off. Other nations get more access to the U.S. for their products. Froman contends that, at least, happens slowly as tariffs or import taxes drop.
FROMAN: The tariff on imported trucks from Japan, as an example, won’t go a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 16, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Meet Disruptive Woman to Watch: Dara Richardson-Heron, M.D.
A physician by trade, an advocate by choice.
That’s how Dara Richardson-Heron, M.D., the chief executive officer of the YWCA, describes herself. And while her would-be patients would almost certainly have benefited if she had continued actively practicing medicine, there is no doubt that society as a whole – and particularly those facing the greatest life challenges – is better because of Dr. Richardson-Heron’s decision to devote her talents and energies to social activism.
Under her leadership, the YWCA has become far more than an iconic organization with over 1,200 locations in 47 states. It has proven itself...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Is it okay to have alcohol in your skin care products? Episode 105
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Does bee venom cause eye puffiness?
Tune in to listen to Perry’s amazing story to find out. (Hint: check out the picture.)
Is amniotic fluid the next hot anti-aging ingredient?
Have you heard about this new trend in skin care? Amniotic fluid.
Well, at least that is what is being claimed by this story in Stylecaster. Or is it?
The headline to the story is “Amniotic Fluid is a Growing Trend in Skin Car”. So I thought right away that I would be reading a story about amniotic fluid in beauty products. Which seems pretty weird to me. How could...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - October 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
The Payment Reform Landscape: Which Quality Measures Matter?
Over the past 15 years there have been major changes in the measures we have at our disposal to assess the quality of care. We have gone from decentralized disorganization to measures that have been “standardized” through various multi-stakeholder consensus processes, including that of the National Quality Forum. And where there was a dearth of standard quality measures, some now argue we have too many (600-plus and counting), but not the right ones.
This has led to initiatives like the Measure Applications Partnership, the Institute of Medicine’s report “Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progres...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 15, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Suzanne Delbanco, François de Brantes and Tom Valuck Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Quality AHIP Core Measures Collaborative employers IOM report National Quality Forum Payment Reform Landscape quality measures Suzanne Delb Source Type: blogs
Wellness 2.0: Better Health, Better Coverage
By JIM PURCELL
Just what on earth are businesses thinking? Companies pay too much for poor quality health care coverage. If this were any other business expense, this wouldn’t be tolerated. Yet, expensive, sub-standard healthcare is something U.S. companies roll over and accept. There are many reasons why, all unacceptable.
Fortunately, there’s a path that companies can take now to address healthcare costs: fostering healthier employee lifestyles. This is perhaps the only avenue for immediate action that can lower healthcare costs for both employers and employees while cultivating a healthier, more productive w...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Startups – Why Now and So What?
By LEONARD D’AVOLIO
It’s 8:15 on Friday evening. I’m almost through editing the job description for a user interface engineer after sending off an introductory slide deck to a potential client. Today I met with a business development prospect, held calls with a potential advisor, a potential client, and finally made those changes to the website. There’s not time to write this but when will there be?
I’m part of a growing trend of academics, programmers, and clinicians taking the startup path to try to make healthcare a better place. In fact, record breaking amounts of venture funding are pouring into he...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Leonard D’Avolio Source Type: blogs
The Forgotten Chronic Disease: Mental Health Among Teens And Young Adults
Deadly chronic conditions garner much attention from health care providers and researchers seeking to prevent cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. However, often forgotten or overlooked are mental health disorders in young people, which can lead to serious persistent conditions in adulthood.
Chronic diseases affect one in two Americans, and one in four has multiple chronic conditions. Chronic diseases cause the most overall deaths in the United States, with heart disease and cancer together accounting for 62 percent of all deaths in 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Adding to the mounting c...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Bernadette Melnyk, Terry Fulmer, Sarah Van Orman and Kenneth Thorpe Tags: Equity and Disparities Innovations in Care Delivery Long-term Services and Supports Organization and Delivery Population Health Public Health Quality Care coordination chronic conditions depression Mental Health substance use Youth Source Type: blogs
The 21st Century Cures Act: More Homework To Do
In July, the US House of Representatives approved the 21st Century Cures Act, which heads to the Senate for a vote this fall. While no one can complain about the Act’s purported goal of “bring[ing] our health care innovation infrastructure into the 21st Century,” or increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health, the optimism surrounding the legislation obscures measures buried within that many agree will make newly approved drugs and medical devices less safe and effective, increase the cost of medical products, and discourage innovation in biomedical research.
Long-term value to the public’s health is b...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 24, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Susan Molchan, James Rickert and John Powers Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Public Health Quality 21st Century Cures Act Big Pharma Drug approval Fred Upton Research funding Thurgood Marshall Source Type: blogs
Getting (to the Value) of Value In Health Care
By SUSAN DENTZER
How would you judge the value of your health care? A longstanding definition of treatment holds that value is the health outcomes achieved for the dollars spent. Yet behind that seemingly simple formula lies much complexity.
Think about it: Calculating outcomes and costs for treating a short-term acute condition, such as a child’s strep throat, may be easy. But it’s far harder to pinpoint value in a long-term serious illness such as advanced cancer, in which both both the outcomes and costs of treating a given individual—let alone a population with a particular cancer—may be unknown for years. And ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB PCORI Physicians Robert Wood Johnson Theranos Value value-based care Source Type: blogs
To Fight Noncommunicable Diseases, Forge Strong Partnerships
Throughout nearly all of human history, most people died from causes for which pathogens were to blame. But today, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and chronic lung disease—are responsible for more human deaths than all other causes combined. NCDs are also an overlooked cause of poverty, they stifle economic development in countries where they’re common, and their prevalence is increasing globally.
According to the World Health Organization, NCDs are now responsible for 68 percent of deaths worldwide, and cumulative economic losses due to NCDs could re...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 8, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Bart Peterson Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Health Professionals Long-term Services and Supports Organization and Delivery Population Health Public Health Quality Diabetes Eli Lilly Source Type: blogs
The Story of the Dying Doctor Who Saved a Patient’s Life
By TERRY BENNETT, MD
I have mentioned that in the past, often at times of great duress in my life, often in the midst of cacophony, some window in time and space opens, if only for a moment, but the moment becomes a moment of grace, and, in that moment, an extraordinary medical feat has been granted to me. I have no explanation for any of this, I admit freely that I “hear voices”, voices that others do not hear. I cannot complain about a gift, this gift, weird as it may sound to others
This year, while sick as a dog from the cancer chemotherapy I was receiving for the metastatic cancer that I had discovered in De...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs
Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice Series Overview
Each day there are approximately 353,000 babies born globally, according to UNICEF. America is actually lagging behind most industrialized countries in its maternal health quality indicators. Why is it that despite America’s high medical standards, the maternal death rate appears to be rising? While 99% of maternal death occurs in the developing world, September 2010 data ranks the US 50th in the world for maternal death.
In measuring maternal health there are multiple factors to consider: maternal death rates, infant death rates, perceived experiences of care, cost of care, and more. While statistics and numbers are imp...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Childbirth Children Parenting Source Type: blogs
