Rioting and the politics of crisis - Murji K.
This article draws on selected explanatory accounts of rioting that occurred in England in 2011 for the purpose of illustrating the ways in which scholarly critiques frame quite different senses of what kind of "crisis" the riots represented. On one side, ...
Source: SafetyLit - December 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Safety is Third, Not First, and We All Know It Should Be
Conclusion In educational opportunities, train like you plan to fight. Since there may not be an actual patient, the “benefit” in the risk-benefit analysis may be lesser. However, taking no risks in training ensures you’ll be less prepared to take risks—even R+ risks—in actual operations. For example, you don’t stop patient care because it’s raining, so don’t stop your training simply because it’s raining. Also, during your education, fight the idea that we can ever say “the scene is safe.” Accept that our work is done in an imperfect environment where safety cannot be ensured. Then, recognize that yo...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - November 13, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Christopher Davis, MD, NRP, FAWM Tags: Exclusive Articles Operations Source Type: news

Meet Kai Nicole, author of Date Like a Woman
This week I’d like to introduce you to Kai Nicole, the author of Date Like a Woman. What is one thing people wouldn’t usually know about you? That I’m an introvert. What did the best review you ever had say about your work? That my book, Date Like A Woman, not only helps single women, but that it is helpful to married women too. What did the worst review you ever had say about your work? A millennial reviewer was disappointed because my book did not provide more information about how to date online. Personal interactions make dating better. The millennial reviewer missed that point in my book. Most mil...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - September 13, 2018 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Interviews author interview self help books Source Type: news

Hi-tech spectacles could cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes
The high-tech glasses — being developed by Microsoft —have hidden sensors at various positions in the frames that monitor the rate that blood is being pumped every few seconds.
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Under the shadow of genocide: Rwandans, ethnicity and refugee status - Jaji R.
This article discusses ethnicity and refugee status among Rwandan refugees self-settled in Nairobi, Kenya. It addresses conflation of Hutu fugitives who participated in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and refugees, and critiques perception of Hutu and Tutsi as m...
Source: SafetyLit - July 31, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Quality of life in long-term cancer survivors: implications for future health technology assessments in oncology
Cancer survival rates have improved dramatically in recent decades due in part to pharmaceutical advances, with a growing range of increasingly effective and targeted medicines being developed, such as immunotherapies. In the economic modelling of such treatments, the question arises of which utilities should be assigned to patients who show a long-term, durable response. In recent critiques of economic models in this area by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the idea that long-term cancer survivors (LTCS) who have received such treatments could report quality of life (QoL) scores which are simi...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - July 2, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: news

Why do people drive when they can't see clearly? - Fylan F, Hughes A, Wood JM, Elliott DB.
PURPOSE Refractive blur is associated with decreased hazard perception and impairments in driving performance, but little is known about why people who have spectacles to correct their distance vision drive with uncorrected vision. Methods We conducted...
Source: SafetyLit - June 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

MedPAC proposes imaging payment cuts in June report
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has proposed reimbursement...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: Broken record? MedPAC still frets about imaging use MedPAC votes to recommend elimination of MIPS MedPAC floats voluntary MIPS idea MedPAC considers repeal of MIPS value program MedPAC critiques MIPS in June report to Congress
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - June 15, 2018 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

No death and an enhanced life: Is the future transhuman?
The 21st-century tech revolution is transforming human lives across the globeThe aims of the transhumanist movement are summed up by Mark O ’Connell in his bookTo Be a Machine,which last week won the Wellcome Book prize. “It is their belief that we can and should eradicate ageing as a cause of death; that we can and should use technology to augment our bodies and our minds; that we can and should merge with machines, remaking ourselves, finally, in the image of our own higher ideals.”The idea of technologically enhancing our bodies is not new. But the extent to which transhumanists take the concept is. In the past, w...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 6, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Science editor Tags: Artificial intelligence (AI) Computing Consciousness Technology Ageing World news Science Ethics UK news Source Type: news

Cochrane Reviews on vision screening and reading aids updated
The College of Optometrists, UK has funded two Cochrane Review updates in support of theCochrane Eyes and Vision (CEV) group based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The global review updates were used to answer questions on the topics ofVision screening for correctable visual acuity deficits in school-age children and adolescents andReading aids for adults with low vision.The review updates produced the following key findings:Vision screeningThere are no studies comparing vision screening with no vision screening highlighting a gap in evidence.Vision screening with the provision of free spectac...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - April 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news

Doctors Attack Trump ' s Short-Term Health Plans Ahead Of Comment Deadline
Doctor groups including the AMA and American Academy of Family Physicians have unleashed detailed critiques of the Trump administration ' s effort to introduce cheaper health insurance with skimpier benefits.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - April 22, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Japsen, Contributor Tags: NYSE:CNC NYSE:ANTM NYSE:CI NYSE:MOH Source Type: news

Broken record? MedPAC still frets about imaging use
Is the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) starting to sound like...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: MedPAC votes to recommend elimination of MIPS MedPAC floats voluntary MIPS idea MedPAC considers repeal of MIPS value program MedPAC critiques MIPS in June report to Congress MedPAC report on imaging volume sees glass half empty
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2018 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Assessing Conflict Tactics Scale validity by examining intimate partner violence overreporting - Ackerman J.
OBJECTIVE: Although many scholars have questioned, on a logical basis, the validity of the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) to adequately measure intimate partner violence (IPV), relatively few critiques have used extensive empirical data gathered specifically...
Source: SafetyLit - March 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

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