Inequitable Treatment Persists Across Pediatric Specialties, Review Shows
Children in racial and ethnic minority groups received poorer healthcare services compared with white kids, a review of quantitative studies showed. Inequitable treatment persisted across pediatric specialties, including neonatology, primary care, emergency medicine, inpatient and critical care, surgery, developmental disabilities, mental health care, endocrinology, and palliative care, reported Nia Heard-Garris, MD, of Northwestern University’s Feinberg […]
McConnell’s Medical Report; Mask Mandate War Brews; OTC Naloxone Hits Stores
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had no evidence of stroke, seizure disorder, or movement disorder like Parkinson’s disease, Capitol physician Brian Monahan, MD, stated in a letter. (Politico) But Sen. Rand Paul, MD (R-Ky.), an ophthalmologist, thinks differently. (USA Today) Mask on; mask off: President […]
Sen. McConnell Appears to Suffer Medical Incident During Press Conference
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appeared to have suffered some kind of medical problem during a press conference Wednesday afternoon. McConnell, 81, stepped up to a lectern, greeted the reporters, and began speaking about the Senate Republicans’ agenda in the near term when he stopped in the middle of a sentence. He […]
Pragmatic Trials May Help Increase Minority Participation in MS Research
Pragmatic trials may offer one way to increase minority populations in multiple sclerosis (MS) studies, investigators for the DELIVER-MS trial suggested. Race and ethnicity did not appear to influence decisions to participate in either the randomized or observational cohorts of the pragmatic DELIVER-MS study, or in treatment choices, reported Sarah Planchon, PhD, of the Cleveland […]
7 Ways The ‘Model Minority’ Myth Hurts Asian American’s Mental Health
The model minority myth just won’t quit ― and it’s hurting Asian Americans’ mental health. The concept is deeply rooted in American history: Like most newly arrived ethnic groups, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were seen as outcasts and faced fierce discriminatory laws when they first arrived in the United States in the mid-19th century. […]
Simple, accurate, and efficient: Improving the way computers recognize hand gestures: Optical hand gesture recognition sees improvements in accuracy and complexity with new algorithm
In the 2002 science fiction blockbuster film Minority Report, Tom Cruise’s character John Anderton uses his hands, sheathed in special gloves, to interface with his wall-sized transparent computer screen. The computer recognizes his gestures to enlarge, zoom in, and swipe away. Although this futuristic vision for computer-human interaction is now 20 years old, today’s humans […]