Category «Health Care»

New website to report COVID-19 treatment adverse events

PHARMAField: “A new online reporting site, dedicated to reporting any COVID-19 treatment adverse events, including suspected side effects from medicines, future vaccines and incidents involving medical equipment relating to COVID-19 treatment, has been launched. The new and tailored Yellow Card COVID-19 reporting site makes it quicker and simpler for healthcare professionals, patients and carers to report side-effects or incidents. The site has been developed as part of the Medicines and …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

What U.S. States Are Ready To Test & Trace Today?

#TestandTrace: “Test and Trace is a classic public health approach for containing diseases. It means identifying people who have come into contact with an infected person (contact tracing) , testing them, and then isolating them if they’re sick. This is proven to quickly limit the spread of a deadly disease like COVID-19. Here’s a basic …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books

The New York Times Coronavirus Notebook: “…In this time of crisis, we are reminded that literature provides historical empathy and perspective, breaking through the isolation we feel hunkered down in our homes to connect us, across time zones and centuries, with others who once lived through not dissimilar events. It conjures our worst nightmares (Poe’s …

Subjects: Health Care, Libraries

Global health crises are also information crises: A call to action

Xie B, He D, Mercer T,et al. Global health crises are also information crises: A call to action. J Assoc Inf Sci Technol.2020;1–5. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24357: “In this opinion paper, we argue that global health crises are also information crises. Using as an example the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) epidemic, we (a) examine challenges associated with what …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Libraries

ABA Legal Fact Check explores legal workplace issues arising from COVID-19

“A new ABA Legal Fact Check posted today examines how COVID-19 is raising questions — and legal challenges — to employers’ actions related to keeping their workplace safe and to workers’ rights to seek reasonable accommodation under federal and state law. Employers, for example, can now require workers to have their body temperatures taken before …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Health Care, Legal Research, Privacy

Adapting to Remote Law Practice through the Pandemic

Cunningham, Lawrence A., Adapting to Remote Law Practice through the Pandemic: Essays from the GWNY 2020 Business Lawyering Class (April 20, 2020). GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-22; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2020-22. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3581249 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3581249 “The coronavirus pandemic requires law schools to train students in the …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

EU – States of emergency in response to the coronavirus crisis

European Parliamentary Think Tank – “With the first case of unknown pneumonia reported in the province of Wuhan (People’s Republic of China) on 31 December 2019, within few weeks the coronavirus (Covid-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020. Since then it has spread to most corners of the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Google and the Cost of ‘Data Voids’ During a Pandemic

Wired – “Was a Nazi slogan brandished at a Reopen Illinois rally? The answer depends on what you search, and when you search for it….”

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Everything We Know About Covid-19 Antibody Tests (So Far)

Wired – Should you take a test, and what does it mean for immunity? You’ve got questions, but we’ve got … more questions. “Antibody tests are big news right now. Many people consider these blood tests key to “reopening the economy” and easing back on social distancing, sending us back to work and to some …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management

Scientists Say a Now-Dominant Strain of the Coronavirus Appears To Be More Contagious Than Original

bioRxIV- Spike mutation pipeline reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2. Full text – May 5, 2020. “We have developed an analysis pipeline to facilitate real-time mutation tracking in SARS-CoV-2, focusing initially on the Spike (S) protein because it mediates infection of human cells and is the target of most vaccine strategies …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Virus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science’s march

AP: “Despite a century’s progress in science, 2020 is looking a lot like 1918. In the years between two lethal pandemics, one the misnamed Spanish flu, the other COVID-19, the world learned about viruses, cured various diseases, made effective vaccines, developed instant communications and created elaborate public-health networks. Yet here we are again, face-masked to …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Whistleblower Complaint on Trump’s Pandemic Response

Vanity Fair – “He was pressured to invest in drugs and vaccines that lacked scientific merit, because the people selling them had friends in the Trump administration, up to and including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He was forced to transfer funds to acquire drugs for the Strategic National Stockpile, America’s most important reserve of …

Subjects: Free Speech, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

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