Indian government needs to do more to tackle rising sale of unapproved antibiotics, according to an analysis by researchers at Newcastle University and Queen Mary University of London. In India, the sale of antibiotics requiring the tightest control and regulation is rising the fastest, warn the researchers. The correspondence published in The Lancet Global Health highlights serious hurdles for...
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Study Highlights 10 Most Unnecessary And Overused Medical Tests And Treatments
Unnecessary medication. Tests that don’t reveal the problem, or uncover a “problem” that isn’t really there. Procedures that have more risk than benefit. A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) highlights some of the most egregious examples of medical overuse in America. The goal is not to...
WHY WE’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT MADNESS ALL WRONG: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID DOBBS
The acclaimed writer talks with Pacific Standard about the emerging scientific consensus around psychosis treatments—and the scholar-advocate he profiled for his new story in our October issue. David Dobbs’ new feature in our October 2017 issue, “The Touch of Madness,” tells a story that is both heartbreaking and uplifting, and all too familiar: A young woman...
How Amazon, Google, And Apple Are Covertly Tackling The Healthcare Sector
Traditionally known for tech products, Amazon, Google, and Apple are beginning covert ventures into yet another critical sphere of human life, healthcare. With nearly 165,000 health-related apps that run on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, 12 million activity trackers, and 9 million smartwatches that will enter circulation by 2018, it is not surprising that Google, Apple, and Amazon are covertly leveraging...
This elephant tranquilizer is killing people, but no one knows how many
“I see her on the floor by her bathroom and she was crumpled up on the floor and I just say ‘Krissy.’ My mind was racing. Maybe she fell asleep on the floor for some odd reason,” Lisa Lutz recalled through tears. “She was cold to the touch when I touched her.” That’s the way...
MANIPULATING MICROBES MAY BE A KEY TO THE FUTURE OF RESTORATIVE HEALTH
Rather than a single bacterial magic bullet, imagine instead a future that involves microbial concoctions tailor-made to your microbiome fingerprint to help restore equilibrium. In addition to being delicious, kombucha, kimchi, and yogurt all have something in common: they are all teeming with microorganisms. This sounds like a bad thing. However, by studying the microbiome,...
Epic allows patient data access to providers without EHRs
Dive Brief: Epic announced the launch a new global interoperability platform called Share Everywhere. The technology lets patients grant access to their personal data to any provider with internet access, regardless of whether they have EHRs. Providers can also send progress notes to the patient’s primary care organization, enhancing care coordination and continuity. The technology builds on...
Garment device convertible to one or more facemasks
Abstract A garment device convertible to one or more facemasks wherein the garment device has a plurality of detachable cup sections. Each of the cup sections has a filter device, an inner portion positionable adjacent to the inner area of the user’s chest, and an outer portion positionable adjacent to the outer area of the...
When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes
First, listen to the story with the happy ending: At 61, the executive was in excellent health. His blood pressure was a bit high, but everything else looked good, and he exercised regularly. Then he had a scare. He went for a brisk post-lunch walk on a cool winter day, and his chest began to hurt....
Doctors spend half of workday in the electronic health record
Primary care physicians spend more than one-half of their workday interacting with the electronic health record during and after clinic hours. Based on data from EHR event logs (an automated tracking feature) and confirmed by direct observation data, researchers from the University of Wisconsin and the American Medical Association found that physicians spent 355 minutes...