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HHS Cuts Pose Threat to Older Americans’ Health and Safety | Opinion https://www.byteseu.com/930133/ #DepartmentOfHealthAndHumanServices #elderly #Health #HealthAndMedicine #HealthCare #hhs #Medicine #OlderAdults
#healthIT friends: Don't miss the nuggets buried in here about ASTP/ONC
The proposal would put ASTP under a new Office of the Chief Technology Officer and slash its budget to $9 million
hmu at brittany.trang@statnews.com or btrang.01 on Signal if you know more
Details:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/trump-draft-budget-proposes-nih-consolidation-40-percent-cut/
STAT · Trump budget draft proposes NIH consolidation and 40% spending cutDraft Trump budget proposes a $20 billion NIH budget cut in 2026 and a sweeping consolidation
If you missed it yesterday, this week's AI Prognosis edition was chock full-o'-stuff.
Besides an interview with Zak Kohane, I have
- an analysis of the bipartisan proposal to cover AI devices under Medicare
- the idea that the government could use AI for MA coding
- a podcast recommendation!
STAT · NEJM AI’s editor-in-chief on FDA approval vs. clinical effectivenessIn this edition of AI Prognosis: A chat with the editor of New England Journal of Medicine's new journal focused on AI.
Dietary changes needed to improve diet sustainability: are they similar across Europe? https://www.diningandcooking.com/2022081/dietary-changes-needed-to-improve-diet-sustainability-are-they-similar-across-europe/ #ClinicalNutrition #Epidemiology #francais #france #French #FrenchDiet #general #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #MetabolicDiseases #nutrition #PublicHealth
DATE: April 17, 2025 at 08:30AM
SOURCE: DIGITALHEALTH.NET
TITLE: AI solution to detect lung cancer launches in south west England
Peninsula Imaging Network (PenRAD) has gone live with Qure.ai’s AI for chest CT (qCT) to help detect lung cancer quicker.
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Digital Health · AI solution to detect lung cancer launches in south west EnglandPeninsula Imaging Network (PenRAD) has gone live with Qure.ai’s AI for chest CT (qCT) to help detect lung cancer quicker.
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Did you know? Red Bull was invented by Sebastian Red Bull III because he needed more energy to develop other energy drinks.
If anyone is in the Chicago area, I’ll be providing Naturopathic & acupuncture care at my schools medical center as of part of my training so please let me know if ever interested. This will start May 5th! #healthcare #holistichealth #medicine #healing #chicago
DATE: April 17, 2025 at 06:30AM
SOURCE: DIGITALHEALTH.NET
TITLE: Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing 
URL: https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/04/digital-health-coffee-time-briefing-%e2%98%95-61/
Our coffee briefing covers AI diagnostics, "needle-free" blood testing and NHS Digital Academy's new cyber security apprenticeship.
URL: https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/04/digital-health-coffee-time-briefing-%e2%98%95-61/
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Digital Health · Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕Our coffee briefing covers AI diagnostics, "needle-free" blood testing and NHS Digital Academy's new cyber security apprenticeship.
DATE: April 17, 2025 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: DIGITALHEALTH.NET
TITLE: NICE approves 11 robotic surgery systems for use in the NHS
URL: https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/04/nice-approves-11-robotic-surgery-systems-for-use-in-the-nhs/
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has approved the use of eleven robotic surgery systems in the NHS.
URL: https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/04/nice-approves-11-robotic-surgery-systems-for-use-in-the-nhs/
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Digital Health · NICE approves 11 robotic surgery systems for use in the NHSThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has approved the use of eleven robotic surgery systems in the NHS.
In #America
people lost their livelihyod
#farmers lost farms
#workers fired
social economic assistance >canceled<
who can ... work 2/3 jobs and ... it is not enough
#medicine cost too much
#food costs too much
#inflation
pension savings> burned
since trump become 'leader' a free fall !
and #trump says : > 'Is Going Really Well' < (he really say so) 
(and then go to play golf )
It's obviously early days, but it looks like #AI has the potential to offer some real hope for people suffering from #Parkinsons and other incurable diseases: https://gadget.co.za/aiparkinsonscloud65t/?utm_source=MastodonAfrica #medicine
Gadget · AI decodes Parkinson’s Disease in the Cloud – GadgetPrecise mapping of a patient’s brain can enable a wider range of treatments, writes DR ROWLAND ILLING, chief medical officer of AWS.
DATE: April 17, 2025 at 03:30AM
SOURCE: DIGITALHEALTH.NET
TITLE: Worcestershire Acute finds sepsis screening issues related to EPR
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals has identified issues in the way recording of observations from sepsis patients are captured on its EPR.
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Digital Health · Worcestershire Acute finds sepsis screening issues related to EPRWorcestershire Acute Hospitals has identified issues in the way recording of observations from sepsis patients are captured on its EPR.
Leaked budget document outlines how RFK Jr. may cut up #HHS to build new "Administration for a Healthy America"
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/trump-hhs-cuts-leaked-budget-draft-reveals-details-administration-for-a-healthy-america/ via @STAT
STAT · Leaked budget document outlines how Kennedy may cut up HHS to build new AHAAn internal budget proposal gives the clearest sense yet of how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would build his new Administration for a Healthy America.
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The Food and Drug Administration (#FDA) has already lost 19% of its staff, the Centers for Disease Control (#CDC) 18%, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (#CMS) 9%.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115145
www.medpagetoday.comCan HHS Still Function? Health Data at Risk; Inside Docs' $421M Jury AwardThis past week in healthcare investigations
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Update. "#CDC's #STD Lab Shuttered by #Trump Layoffs"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/stds/115065
"A critical laboratory for surveilling sexually transmitted diseases (#STDs) in the US has been lost in the Trump administration's mass layoffs…One of its most remarkable projects is a one-of-its-kind repository of 50,000 isolates of gonorrhea used to monitor antibiotic resistance, which is quickly becoming a global health concern. The lab has been doing this work for nearly 40 years -- but will now, at best, have a gap in data."
Also see the public statement by the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (#ASTDA).
https://www.astda.org/statement-from-astda-on-cuts-to-the-cdcs-division-of-std-prevention/
www.medpagetoday.comCDC's STD Lab Shuttered by Trump LayoffsImplications of lab slashing 'makes me sick to my stomach,' former employee said
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this UK decision will have dire consequences for #healthCare and #medicine WORLDWIDE.
it is already bad enough that most procedures and pharmaceuticals are developed and optimized for upper-class, white cisgender men.
this UK ruling will absolutely set the clock back on ALL medicine research in which hormonal variability wasn’t understood or taken into consideration.
it’s not just transgenderism. it’s Alzheimers, diabetes, PCOS; even LongCOVID.
today Science was mortally wounded in the UK.