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When Trials Find Implausible Results—The SCOT-HEART trial

Sensible Medicine

The Edinburgh-based team presented their 5-year results in 2018, and their 10-year results last week. years of follow-up, death due to coronary heart disease (CHD) or nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) was lower in the CTA arm (38% relative; 0.7% Both were positive. This was the original primary endpoint ).

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Planned Home Birth - Marty Makary’s Blind Spot

Sensible Medicine

A 2014 follow-up study by de Jonge analyzed 743,070 low-risk planned home and hospital births and found no significant difference in perinatal or neonatal mortality. Similarly, a 2018 meta-analysis by Scarf et al. Finally, a smaller 2018 meta-analysis by Rossi et al. A notable example was a paper by Pang et al.

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Cancelled by Medscape

Sensible Medicine

If Medscape were to put the courses back up – they had removed the videos on April 5 -- the professor warned, there “would be a rapid global boycott by healthcare professionals disgusted by their behavior.” ” I must note, no one objected to content that my co-presenters and I fully controlled.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

For example, Bergman reports a 2002 study in which ventilated premature babies were placed to sleep on either their tummies or backs, and the following states were measured: quiet sleep, active sleep (which is less restorative than quiet sleep), crying time, number of stress responses (startle, tremor, and twitch), and oxygen saturation.

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Healthcare Data Security Breach: What to Do If Your Records Have Been Hacked

Scrubs

The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year. In 2018, the healthcare sector saw 15 million patient records compromised across 503 breaches, which was three times the amount seen in 2017. These data breaches have affected millions of patients, putting their sensitive healthcare information at risk.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed. for herself and for her son, Emmett. I like business and people.