scholarly journals New Data Reveal More Americans Than Ever Have Epilepsy

US Neurology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Michael Privitera
Keyword(s):  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Past President ◽  
The Public ◽  
Expert Interview ◽  
The Us ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Active Epilepsy ◽  
National And State Estimates

Anew Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study published in August 2017 reported national and state estimates of the numbers of adults and children with active epilepsy in the US in 2015.1 In an expert interview, Dr. Privitera, past president of the American Epilepsy Society (AES, 2016), discusses the implications of the latest data including the public health impact, how to recognize the signs and symptoms of epilepsy, and how AES is partnering with CDC to provide educational resources about epilepsy and keep children and adults with epilepsy safe in their communities.

Epidemiological Forecasting: A Crystal Ball for COVID-19 and Future Pandemics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saketh Sundar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Crystal Ball ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
The Media

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, headlines ranging from “Coronavirus forecasts are grim: It’s going to get worse” to “Covid-19 cases and deaths in the US will fall over the next four weeks, forecast predicts” have dominated the news (Achenbach, 2020; Kallingal, 2021). The weekly-published Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 forecasts have become the go-to forecasts for the media, the public, and various levels of government (Cramer et al., 2021). These projections, generated from epidemiological forecasting, not only inform the public’s caution towards the pandemic but are also crucial for officials to create public health guidelines and allocate resources in hospitals (Gibson et al., 2020). But where do these predictions come from?

Evidence-Based Cancer Practices, Programs, and Interventions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria E. Fernandez ◽  
Patricia Dolan Mullen ◽  
Jennifer Leeman ◽  
Timothy J. Walker ◽  
Cam Escoffery
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Control Research ◽  
Control And Prevention

There are many evidence-based interventions, cancer control practices, programs, treatments, and clinical practice guidelines across cancer control and prevention topic areas that have great potential for decreasing the cancer burden. Nevertheless, challenges in identifying evidence-based interventions (EBIs) that match the needs of community and practice settings, adapting EBIs for new populations and contexts, and implementing EBIs in real-world settings limit the public health impact of cancer control research and its products. This chapter provides an introduction to existing EBIs for cancer control and provides examples of different types of EBIs across the cancer continuum. It highlights issues related to the identification of EBIs, including the evaluation of EBI resources. It also describes processes that can be used to enhance the development, adaptation, and implementation of evidence-based cancer control interventions.

scholarly journals The Role of YouTube and the Entertainment Industry in Saving Lives by Educating and Mobilizing the Public to Adopt Behaviors for Community Mitigation of COVID-19: Successive Sampling Design Study

10.2196/19145 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. e19145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E Basch ◽  
Corey H Basch ◽  
Grace C Hillyer ◽  
Christie Jaime
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Design ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Successive Sampling ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Voluntary Behavior

Background Effective community mitigation through voluntary behavior change is currently the best way to reduce mortality caused by coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This study builds on our prior study based on the scientific premise that YouTube is one of the most effective ways to communicate and mobilize the public in community mitigation to reduce exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Objective Because of the rapidly changing nature of YouTube in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a follow-up study to document how coverage of preventive behaviors for effective community mitigation has changed. Methods A successive sampling design was used to compare coverage of behaviors to mitigate community transmission of COVID-19 in the 100 most widely viewed YouTube videos in January 2020 and March 2020. Results Videos in the January and March samples were viewed >125 million times and >355 million times, respectively. Fewer than half of the videos in either sample covered any of the prevention behaviors recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but many covered key prevention behaviors and were very widely viewed. There were no videos uploaded by entertainment television in the January sample, but this source comprised the majority of videos and garnered the majority of cumulative views in the March sample. Conclusions This study demonstrates the incredible reach of YouTube and the potential value of partnership with the entertainment industry for communicating and mobilizing the public about community mitigation to reduce mortality from the COVID-19 viral pandemic.

West Nile Virus

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 676-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven P. Gelone
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
West Nile Virus ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
West Nile ◽  
The Public ◽  
Provider Group ◽  
Educational Effort ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Vector Borne

Several infectious agents have emerged over the past two decades as a result of population migration and enhanced world travel. The introduction of arthropodborne infections to formerly unaffected geographic areas has occurred in the western hemisphere at an alarming rate. In 1999, the West Nile virus (WNV) first appeared in North America in Queens, New York and spread rapidly to infect bird and mosquito populations along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Significant human morbidity and mortality has been associated with the virus, with several patients deaths from encephalitis. Specific antiviral therapy is currently unavailable, but recommendations for a national plan to control and prevent the spread of this vector-borne disease have been made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Educating the public about how WNV is transmitted, how to best protect one's self, and what signs and symptoms are consistent with this infection are extremely important. Pharmacists, who have more patient interactions per unit time than any other health care provider group, are in an excellent position to play a pivotal role in this educational effort.

scholarly journals Nebulized Gentamicin as an Alternative to Nebulized Tobramycin for Tracheitis in Pediatric Patients

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin K. Chen ◽  
Brittany L. Martin-McNew ◽  
Lisa M. Lubsch
Keyword(s):  
Lower Respiratory Tract ◽  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
Average Duration ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Radiographic Evidence ◽  
Safety And Efficacy ◽  
Gentamicin Treatment ◽  
The Us ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Definition Of

OBJECTIVES Tracheitis is an infection of the lower respiratory tract and is defined by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) based on signs and symptoms with no radiographic evidence of pneumonia. One method of treatment involves the use of tobramycin given by nebulizer. The purpose of this study was to compare the safety and efficacy of nebulized gentamicin with nebulized tobramycin. METHODS This study was conducted in patients under 21 years of age who received greater than or equal to 1 day of gentamicin, 80 mg, or tobramycin, 300 mg, given twice a day by nebulization within the 14-month study period. The primary endpoint was amount of time until the patient no longer met the CDC definition of tracheitis. RESULTS There were 19 patients who presented with 60 separate encounters. The average age of the patients within the gentamicin group was 7.2 and 5 years old within the tobramycin group. The average duration of time for the gentamicin treatment encounters to be free of the CDC definition of tracheitis was 3.36 days compared to 3.17 days with tobramycin. No adverse effects were observed that were attributable to aminoglycoside nebulization. CONCLUSIONS No differences were detected between the safety and efficacy of intravenous gentamicin administered twice a day by nebulizer and that of tobramycin inhalation solution given twice daily in children without cystic fibrosis.

scholarly journals The Role of YouTube and the Entertainment Industry in Saving Lives by Educating and Mobilizing the Public to Adopt Behaviors for Community Mitigation of COVID-19: Successive Sampling Design Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E Basch ◽  
Corey H Basch ◽  
Grace C Hillyer ◽  
Christie Jaime
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Design ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Successive Sampling ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Voluntary Behavior

BACKGROUND Effective community mitigation through voluntary behavior change is currently the best way to reduce mortality caused by coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This study builds on our prior study based on the scientific premise that YouTube is one of the most effective ways to communicate and mobilize the public in community mitigation to reduce exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). OBJECTIVE Because of the rapidly changing nature of YouTube in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a follow-up study to document how coverage of preventive behaviors for effective community mitigation has changed. METHODS A successive sampling design was used to compare coverage of behaviors to mitigate community transmission of COVID-19 in the 100 most widely viewed YouTube videos in January 2020 and March 2020. RESULTS Videos in the January and March samples were viewed >125 million times and >355 million times, respectively. Fewer than half of the videos in either sample covered any of the prevention behaviors recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but many covered key prevention behaviors and were very widely viewed. There were no videos uploaded by entertainment television in the January sample, but this source comprised the majority of videos and garnered the majority of cumulative views in the March sample. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates the incredible reach of YouTube and the potential value of partnership with the entertainment industry for communicating and mobilizing the public about community mitigation to reduce mortality from the COVID-19 viral pandemic.

scholarly journals Isolation and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from the first US COVID-19 patient

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Harcourt ◽  
Azaibi Tamin ◽  
Xiaoyan Lu ◽  
Shifaq Kamili ◽  
Senthil Kumar. Sakthivel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Titer ◽  
Etiologic Agent ◽  
The Public ◽  
Isolation And Characterization ◽  
The Us ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Vaccine Testing ◽  
Medical Countermeasures ◽  
Research Drug

ABSTRACTThe etiologic agent of the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan China was identified as severe acute respiratory syndrome associated coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in January, 2020. The first US patient was diagnosed by the State of Washington and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on January 20, 2020. We isolated virus from nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal specimens, and characterized the viral sequence, replication properties, and cell culture tropism. We found that the virus replicates to high titer in Vero-CCL81 cells and Vero E6 cells in the absence of trypsin. We also deposited the virus into two virus repositories, making it broadly available to the public health and research communities. We hope that open access to this important reagent will expedite development of medical countermeasures.Article SummaryScientists have isolated virus from the first US COVID-19 patient. The isolation and reagents described here will serve as the US reference strain used in research, drug discovery and vaccine testing.

Refusal to Mourn

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Runions
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
American People ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Civil Religion ◽  
The Us ◽  
Robert Bellah

In her recent book Precarious Life, Judith Butler points out that not more than ten days after 9/11, on 20 September 2001, George W. Bush urged the American people to put aside their grief; she suggests that such a refusal to mourn leads to a kind of national melancholia. Using psychoanalytic theory on melancholia, this article diagnoses causes and effects of such national melancholia. Further, it considers how a refusal to mourn in prophetic and apocalyptic texts and their interpretations operates within mainstream US American politics like the encrypted loss of the melancholic, thus creating the narcissism, guilt, and aggression that sustain the pervasive disavowal of loss in the contemporary moment. This article explore the ways in which the texts of Ezekiel, Micah, Revelation, and their interpreters exhibit the guilt and aggression of melancholia, in describing Israel as an unfaithful and wicked woman whose pain should not be mourned. These melancholic patterns are inherited by both by contemporary apocalyptic discourses and by the discourse of what Robert Bellah calls ‘American civil religion’, in which the US is the new Christian Israel; thus they help to position the public to accept and perpetuate the violence of war, and not to mourn it.

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