A cool list of inventions that might make your life a whole lot easier Source: 23 Mindblowing Tech Gadgets That Will Sell Out This Season v2 | State Of Gadgets… Read More
This article looks at whether electric cars are worth the money. The article includes several issues to consider depending on where you live. Having driven electric cars almost exclusively for the past three years, there are a lot of pluses. There are some negatives as well. Positives include Federal rebates State rebates Local electrical company… Read More
A JAMA Medical News & Perspectives published June 5, 2018 discusses emergency departments who have engaged in helping with opiate addiction and the challenges as very few communities have adequate resources. The 8 hour course to prescribe Suboxone, the paperwork, and the limits on the number of prescriptions is a problem as well as the stigma to… Read More
The ride-hailing giant Uber is looking to get in on the scooter business, the news website Axios reported Thursday. Scooter companies say the simple vehicles are a cheap, efficient way to provide “last mile” transportation solutions, for trips that are too long to walk but too short to warrant a car ride. In that… Read More
From June 2018 JAMA Between 2001 and 2016, the number of opioid-related deaths in the United States increased by 345%, from 9489 to 42 245 deaths (33.3 to 130.7 deaths per million population). By 2016, men accounted for 67.5% of all opioid-related deaths, and the median (interquartile range) age at death was 40 (30-52) years. The… Read More
From May 1, 2018 LA Times and JAMA The U.S. opioid crisis has passed a dubious milestone: Overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl have surpassed deaths involving prescription opioids. This switch occurred in 2016, according to data published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. And it seemed to happen pretty suddenly. Data from the National… Read More
Medicine is grappling with rising levels of physician burnout, one of the factors driving high rates of depression and suicide in the profession. But physicians who suffer from mood disorders are often reluctant to seek treatment — in part because it might jeopardize their license to practice. For instance, in one survey, around 1 in… Read More
This April 2018 Wired article discusses the influx of shared electric bicycle and electric scooters. They offer an alternative to ride share programs like Uber and Lyft. They came quickly and are now working to find their place in the transportation challenges of San Francisco, San Diego and other cities. There’s Bird, which also… Read More
A March 8, 2018 in NEJM looks at the potential health effects of the smokes form wildfires. This Perspective article was entitield “The New England Journal of Medicine — Where There’s Wildfire, There’s Smoke.” This article looks at the increased number of wildfires and their potential health effects. The recent Napa wildfires Fine particles are… Read More
