KAISER HEALTH NEWS – Earlier this year, the World Health Organization announced a global campaign to combat ageism — discrimination against older adults that is pervasive and harmful but often unrecognized.
“We must change the narrative around age and ageing” and “adopt strategies to counter” ageist attitudes and behaviors, WHO concluded in a major report accompanying the campaign.
Several strategies WHO endorsed — educating people about ageism, fostering intergenerational contacts, and changing policies and laws to...
New Hampshire Union Leader – More and sicker patients, fewer people to care for them and a highly contagious virus that makes everything less predictable: This is the “new normal” in New Hampshire hospitals.
The delta wave of COVID-19 may be waning, but hospital leaders expect the virus to be here for a long time.
The virus complicates underlying problems — an aging population that needs more health care, people delaying needed treatment because of...
AP – Scientists temporarily attached a pig's kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but among the hurdles: A sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection. The kidney for this experiment came from a gene-edited animal,...
New Hampshire Union Leader – Wentworth-Douglass Hospital is taking legal action against a morbidly obese patient.
Administrators are claiming he’s spent weeks hospitalized for no acute medical reason and wants to stay in the Dover hospital until he can undergo weight loss surgery, which could take six to nine months.
“While Mr. Doe expresses that the surgery is his stated goal, he is not compliant with WDH’s care plan for weight loss and instead...
Candidate Joe Biden promised to restore, rebuild, and expand Obamacare. Now as the apparent president-elect prepares to take office, we revisit the views of an ER physician who is also a member of Congress ...
"I'm an ER doctor, here's why socialized medicine would be a total disaster for America"
By Dr. Mark Green, United States Congressman |
July 11, 2019
I’m an emergency room physician, a cancer survivor, the father of a cancer survivor, and founder...
“The Dublin-Boston score is easily calculated and can be applied to all hospitalized Covid-19 patients.”
Oct 16, 2020
SciTechDaily – Scientists have developed, for the first time, a score that can accurately predict which patients will develop a severe form of Covid-19.
The study, led by researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, is published in The Lancet’s translational research journal EBioMedicine.
The measurement, called the Dublin-Boston score, is designed to enable clinicians to make...
"Doctors engage with you and have a direct effect on your life, health, and your mortality. This is much different than your relationship with a local restaurant, barber, or laundromat. Leaving this decision up to online reviews may not lead to the health outcome you desire."
Sep 22, 2020
Medifind – Today’s consumers consult internet reviews to make a lot of decisions.
From buying cars and bikes to finding the best local restaurant or hair...
“Conversations with your doctor can be intimate. I don’t like other people listening in.”
While 30 million Americans collect unemployment, remote workers in India listen in on medical appointments and take notes for US doctors
Sarah Kwon, Kaiser Health News
October 1, 2020
Podiatrist Dr. Mark Lewis greets his first patient of the morning in his suburban Seattle exam room and points to a tiny video camera mounted on the right rim of his glasses.
“This is my scribe,...
Sep 9, 2020
New York Post – Multiple employees at the hospital where George Floyd was pronounced dead inappropriately accessed his medical records, according to the family’s lawyer.
Attorney Antonio Romanucci told KARE 11 the Minneapolis hospital, Hennepin Healthcare, sent a letter to the family alerting them of the data breaches, which occurred over the last 30 days.
Romanucci said the family is considering suing the hospital, fearing the breaches could have played into an attempt to...
"The government is resorting to draconian measures to combat the coronavirus, including physically locking residents in homes, imposing quarantines of more than 40 days and arresting those who do not comply."
In China's Xinjiang, forced medication accompanies lockdown
Aug 31, 2020
By DAKE KANG Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — When police arrested the middle-aged Uighur woman at the height of China's coronavirus outbreak, she was crammed into a cell with dozens of other women in a detention...
"My morgue was completely full all last week. It’s bad ... " |
"The bodies are piling up fast"
COVID-19 deaths are exploding in the state – and it may be a massive undercount. One coroner put it simply: “It’s bad.”
Aug. 02, 2020
Daily Beast – In the months before his county’s morgue neared capacity, before he started wearing his face shield and “moon suit” to answer calls in neighbors’ homes, and before his own coronavirus...
July 21, 2020
The Patriot Hill – Doctors have been calling out gender bias on some of the origins of human body parts, believing that the medical language is both “sexist” and “misogynistic.”
For ob/gynDr. Kristin Small, these medical terms represented an older generation and had become increasingly irrelevant in today’s generation.
These terms include Achilles Tendon, which was named after the weak spot of a Greek Trojan war hero. Another example is the term Adam’s...
"People who talk to contact tracers will be sent to FEMA camps ... ”
and other Covid-19 conspiracy theories that won't go away
July 15, 2020
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News – In the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic, contact tracing is downright buzzy, and not always in a good way.
Contact tracing is the public health practice of informing people when they’ve been exposed to a contagious disease.
As it has become more widely employed across the...
July 5, 2020
Dallas Morning News – Wearing masks, a practice that health experts say is one of the most effective ways to slow the spread of COVID-19, is now required across the state.
But what if you’re unable to wear a mask because of a legitimate medical condition or disability? Can a business refuse to serve you? Here’s what you need to know.
Who isn’t required to wear a mask?
State and local mandates requiring masks acknowledge...