First Edition: December 11, 2019
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
When Teens Abuse Parents, Shame And Secrecy Make It Hard To Seek Help
Among U.S. States, New York’s Suicide Rate Is The Lowest. How’s That?
“I just snapped” is how Jessica Lioy describes her attempt in April to kill herself. After a tough year in which she’d moved back to her parents’ Syracuse, N.Y., home and changed colleges, the crumbling of her relationship with her boyfriend pushed the 22-year-old over the edge. She impulsively swallowed a handful of sleeping pills….
Marathon Running May Be Good for Your Knees
Distance running rebuilds the health of certain essential components of middle-aged knees.
Books, Binders, Bleed-Control Kits: How School Shootings Are Changing Classroom Basics
When a student recently opened fire at a California high school, staff members did what they were trained to do. They shepherded students to safe spaces, barricaded doors, pulled shades — and, when gunfire struck, used techniques adapted from the battlefield to save lives. The staffers used two bleeding-control kits in the Nov. 14 shooting…
Supreme Court Seems Sympathetic To Insurers In Obamacare Case
No clear split between conservative and liberal Supreme Court justices emerged Tuesday as justices heard arguments over whether the federal government could renege on Congress’ promise to pay health insurance companies billions to motivate them to participate in the Obamacare marketplaces. Health insurers hope to recoup $12 billion they believe is owed to them from…
Fitzhugh Mullan, Foe of Health Care Disparities, Dies at 77
As a doctor, he saw the inequities in the system at first hand; as a writer and administrator, he called them out.
Episode 102 | Proteus, Health 2.0 Asia/Japan, and…a Jewel Heist?
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is in Las Vegas while I’m all the way in Tokyo for Health 2.0 Japan. In Episode 102, Proteus Digital (finally) announces that they’re running out of money. Does this put the whole category of digital therapeutics at risk? In other news, Seema Verma’s jewelry was stolen…
RSNA 2019 AI Round-Up
Shah Islam Hugh Harvey By HUGH HARVEY, MBBS and SHAH ISLAM, MBBS AI in medical imaging entered the consciousness of radiologists just a few years ago, notably peaking in 2016 when Geoffrey Hinton declared radiologists’ time was up, swiftly followed by the first AI startups booking exhibiting booths at RSNA. Three years on, the sheer…
Our Fifteenth Anniversary – Welcome Back to Health Care Renewal
Today is the fifteenth anniversary of Health Care Renewal. As a reminder of where we began, below is a re-post of our welcome to the blog. Welcome to HCRENEWAL Health care around the world is beset by rising costs, declining access, stagnant quality, and increasingly dissatisfied health care professionals. Discussions with physicians and other professionals…