Score for predicting dementia risk also may predict depression
PsycPORT™: Psychology Newswire The Brain Care Score is a tool for assessing dementia or stroke risk without medical procedures. Go to Source 26/07/2024 – 11:35 / Twitter: @hoffeldtcom
Vulnerable people with Covid struggling to access treatments in England, experts warn
Coronavirus | The Guardian Responsibility for prescriptions moving to 42 integrated care boards has led to patients having to work out how to get treatment, often when illPeople at higher risk from Covid are struggling to get timely access to treatments such as antiviral drugs, charities, patients and doctors have warned amid a summer wave […]Continue reading
We Have to Care: A Perspective on Suicide Prevention
Psychology Today: The Latest Our systems of care for suicide prevention have often had a mechanical feel, leaving many people feeling unseen and not cared about. How can we change this? Go to Source 24/04/2024 – 15:05 /Jennifer Gerlach LCSW Twitter: @hoffeldtcom
Eating disorder rates jumped ‘significantly’ among adolescents amid COVID: study
Eating disorders requiring hospital care increased ‘significantly’ among children and teenagers in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research. Go to Source 03/10/2023 – 06:05 /Saba Aziz Twitter: @hoffeldtcom
A. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care
MIT News – Artificial intelligence An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and fellowship awards to his name, A. Michael West is nonchalant about how he chose his path. “I kind of fell into it,” the mechanical engineering PhD candidate says, adding that growing up in suburban California, he was […]Continue reading
Here’s where the jobs are for August 2023 — in one chart
US Top News and Analysis Health care and social assistance was again the top area for job growth in August. Go to Source 01/09/2023 – 18:06 / Twitter: @hoffeldtcom
Families sue UK government over relatives’ deaths during Covid crisis
Coronavirus | The Guardian Cases against government, care homes and hospitals relate to deaths in 2020, when patients with Covid were being moved into homesA group of 30 families are suing the UK government, care homes and hospitals over the deaths of their relatives in the early days of the Covid pandemic.The families argue that […]Continue reading
How to help high schoolers prepare for the rise of artificial intelligence
MIT News – Artificial intelligence Should artificial intelligence be allowed to make care decisions for patients? Though the future of AI may conjure up doomsday visions of robots and computers intent on rendering human existence superfluous, the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (Jameel Clinic) addressed questions surrounding the use of […]Continue reading