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Tim Manning: The Miracle of Hope in Healthcare – Daily Gaming Worlld


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A lung transplant team at Vancouver General Hospital. Photo: Provincial Health Department
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Last Christmas, the Vancouver Sun gave me the opportunity to share the heartfelt words of appreciation from patients and families for the outstanding specialized health services we have in British Columbia.
In the months since then, I’ve learned more about the role of hope to enable moments of appreciation. Indeed, progress has been made in healthcare as we hope that efforts and innovations will bring better treatments, service models, protocols and even healing methods within reach.
We hope that our research will bear fruit and that our continued use of time and resources will produce treatments that are faster, less painful or more invasive and make life longer and better.
And since hope has always been part of the holiday season, it is worth sharing some of the hopes this year, through the efforts of dedicated staff and doctors who work in the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) programs and services through collaborative partnership with like-minded people at the five regional health agencies of BC and the First Nations Health Authority.
One in seven young people in B.C. experiences a mental illness at some point. Pupils are increasingly reporting anxiety and depression. So, B.C. The children’s hospital founded Compass, a telephone resource for communities in the north, inland and on Vancouver Island. Healthcare providers in rural communities can now access Compass teams of psychiatrists, psychologists, and nurses. Social workers remotely access expert information, advice, resources, and counseling services, including aftercare in more complex cases. Your collective hope for better treatment has been implemented for more than 1,000 children and adolescents across BC.
Hoping to change the prognosis of pancreatic cancer, B.C. Cancer researchers conducted a study on the genetic structure of pancreatic tumors. In several cases, they identified a unique trait that they had previously seen in other types of cancer. it was a property that was potentially treatable. Looking at the overall genetic makeup of the participants and their cancers, the researchers managed to find an effective treatment. This sequencing technology helps researchers identify new and personalized therapies for cancers that are difficult to treat. It is a breakthrough in the potential of precision medicine for pancreatic cancer. And although it is rooted in science, it started with the hope of a better result.
B.C. The Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Program by Transplant and Vancouver Coastal Health is another result of what started out as hope. The program, which is a partnership with the talented care team at Vancouver General Hospital, uses technology to help donor lungs live outside the body for up to 12 hours. A ventilator inflates the lungs and ensures normal breathing during the examination. Lungs that were originally rejected for transplantation can be re-examined and even repaired. In 2018, 50 double lung transplants were performed in B.C. With the hope of saving more lives, and with Ex Vivo as a way to realize that hope, that number is expected to rise to 60.
From newborns to hearing-impaired adolescents aged 18 and over, Cochlear Implant Services at B.C. Children’s Hospital. The initial programming of a cochlear implant takes place about four weeks after the operation and essentially turns the implant on so that the child can hear sounds. For follow-up care, it is necessary to visit B.C. to travel. Children.
With 40 percent of patients and families living outside of the Lower Mainlands, frequent trips to Vancouver can be stressful. Hoping for a better method, driven by their technological innovation, B.C. Pediatric audiologists can now virtually program cochlear implants using a computer and video conference with patients in their communities.
The other notable thing about this hope is that it spreads and inspires care teams, patients, and families to work together to achieve unimaginable, life-changing results in unexpected places. There are now 19 virtual health centers across China. Connection of local hospitals and regional health authorities to B.C. Children’s Hospital. This enables parents to access more than 40 areas of sub-special care for their children without the stress, expense and time of a physical trip.
BC paramedics are present during some of the most vulnerable moments in the life and health spectrum, including those experienced by palliative care patients living at home. They also hoped for a better result when they had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance to cope with a medical emergency. Hope comes from the B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS), which has developed new paramedic guidelines and training to help palliative care patients who call 9-1-1 for help. Now more patients with minor medical emergencies can be treated comfortably from home. For seniors, particularly in rural and remote communities, this change means that they are calm and fulfill their desire to be treated with dignity and comfort at home.
There is hope in health care and with the special people who make it available. Hope for better results – supported by skills, science, research and compassion – leads to life-improving and life-saving advances that help us and those who are important to us. Especially at this time of year we can comfort ourselves in this hope and let everyone share in their promise and their often wonderful result.
Tim Manning is the chief executive officer of the Provincial Health Services Authority.
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Monkeypox call seen as catch-up bid – World – Chinadaily.com.cn – China Daily



US’ health emergency declaration may come too late to halt spread, experts say
The administration of US President Joe Biden on Thursday declared the country’s monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, but many health experts fear that it may be too late to contain the spread of infections.
Criticism of the White House’s response to the disease outbreak has been building, with experts saying the authorities have been slow off the mark in distributing treatments and vaccines.
The White House’s declaration signals that the monkeypox virus now represents a significant risk to citizens. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, is considering a second declaration that would empower federal officials to expedite medical countermeasures, such as other potential treatments and vaccines, without going through comprehensive federal reviews.
That also would allow for greater flexibility in how the current supply of vaccines is administered, Becerra said.
Some 6,600 monkeypox infections have been reported in the United States, a number that has risen sharply over the past weeks.
Lawrence Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University, said the declaration of the health emergency “signals the US government’s seriousness and purpose, and sounds a global alarm”. But he told The Associated Press that the action was overdue.
Gostin said the government has been too cautious and should have declared a nationwide emergency earlier.
On July 23, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over the outbreak, with cases in more than 70 countries.
California, Illinois and New York have all made declarations recently, as have New York City, San Francisco and San Diego County.
Since doctors diagnosed the first US case on May 27, the virus has been spreading rapidly in the country, with the highest rates per capita reported in Washington, New York and Georgia.
More than 99 percent of the infections are among men who have sex with men.
The virus is transmitted mostly during close physical contact. So far, no deaths from the disease have been reported in the US.
The country now has the highest case count among nonendemic countries, and the number is expected to rise as surveillance and testing improve.
Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals. Classification as endemic means a disease has a constant presence in a population but is not affecting an alarmingly large number of people, as typically seen in a pandemic.
‘Rarely fatal’
On its website, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says of the virus: “Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox.”
There is increasing concern that the US may have lost its chance to contain the monkeypox virus. Some public health experts have pointed fingers at the administration for its slowness in rolling out vaccines and treatments.
“The window for containing monkeypox is rapidly closing,” Gostin warned in an interview with CNN late last month. He had called for the US to declare a national public health emergency and make more vaccine doses available.
“I do think it’s still possible to contain, but it’s also equally possible that this may become endemic in the United States,” he said.
Supplies of a monkeypox vaccine called Jynneos have been limited even as demand surges. The administration has been criticized for moving too slowly to expand the number of doses.
Federal officials have identified about 1.6 million people as being at the highest risk for monkeypox, but the US has received enough Jynneos doses to fully cover only about 550,000 people.
The shortage of vaccines was caused in part because the Department of Health and Human Services failed early on to ask that bulk stocks of the vaccine it already owned be bottled for distribution, reported The New York Times, citing multiple unnamed administration officials familiar with the matter.
The government is now distributing about 1.1 million vaccine doses, less than a third of the 3.5 million that health officials now estimate are needed to fight the outbreak. It does not expect the next delivery, of 500,000 doses, until October.
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Monkeypox call seen as catch-up bid – Chinadaily.com.cn – China Daily



US’ health emergency declaration may come too late to halt spread, experts say
The administration of US President Joe Biden on Thursday declared the country’s monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, but many health experts fear that it may be too late to contain the spread of infections.
Criticism of the White House’s response to the disease outbreak has been building, with experts saying the authorities have been slow off the mark in distributing treatments and vaccines.
The White House’s declaration signals that the monkeypox virus now represents a significant risk to citizens. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, is considering a second declaration that would empower federal officials to expedite medical countermeasures, such as other potential treatments and vaccines, without going through comprehensive federal reviews.
That also would allow for greater flexibility in how the current supply of vaccines is administered, Becerra said.
Some 6,600 monkeypox infections have been reported in the United States, a number that has risen sharply over the past weeks.
Lawrence Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University, said the declaration of the health emergency “signals the US government’s seriousness and purpose, and sounds a global alarm”. But he told The Associated Press that the action was overdue.
Gostin said the government has been too cautious and should have declared a nationwide emergency earlier.
On July 23, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over the outbreak, with cases in more than 70 countries.
California, Illinois and New York have all made declarations recently, as have New York City, San Francisco and San Diego County.
Since doctors diagnosed the first US case on May 27, the virus has been spreading rapidly in the country, with the highest rates per capita reported in Washington, New York and Georgia.
More than 99 percent of the infections are among men who have sex with men.
The virus is transmitted mostly during close physical contact. So far, no deaths from the disease have been reported in the US.
The country now has the highest case count among nonendemic countries, and the number is expected to rise as surveillance and testing improve.
Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals. Classification as endemic means a disease has a constant presence in a population but is not affecting an alarmingly large number of people, as typically seen in a pandemic.
‘Rarely fatal’
On its website, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says of the virus: “Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox.”
There is increasing concern that the US may have lost its chance to contain the monkeypox virus. Some public health experts have pointed fingers at the administration for its slowness in rolling out vaccines and treatments.
“The window for containing monkeypox is rapidly closing,” Gostin warned in an interview with CNN late last month. He had called for the US to declare a national public health emergency and make more vaccine doses available.
“I do think it’s still possible to contain, but it’s also equally possible that this may become endemic in the United States,” he said.
Supplies of a monkeypox vaccine called Jynneos have been limited even as demand surges. The administration has been criticized for moving too slowly to expand the number of doses.
Federal officials have identified about 1.6 million people as being at the highest risk for monkeypox, but the US has received enough Jynneos doses to fully cover only about 550,000 people.
The shortage of vaccines was caused in part because the Department of Health and Human Services failed early on to ask that bulk stocks of the vaccine it already owned be bottled for distribution, reported The New York Times, citing multiple unnamed administration officials familiar with the matter.
The government is now distributing about 1.1 million vaccine doses, less than a third of the 3.5 million that health officials now estimate are needed to fight the outbreak. It does not expect the next delivery, of 500,000 doses, until October.
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Health unit to host monkeypox clinic Sunday – BlackburnNews.com


Health unit to host monkeypox clinic Sunday
File photo courtesy of © Can Stock Photo / jbruiz
August 6, 2022 6:00am
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is making a limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine available.
The health unit will set up a monkeypox vaccine clinic on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Windsor-Essex PrideFest, centred at Lanspeary Park. Acting Medical Officer of Health Doctor Shanker Nesathurai said the clinic will be geared toward high-risk individuals.
“The term is sometimes described as ‘pre-exposure prophylaxis’, and that will be offered at the Pride event this coming weekend,” Nesathurai said during a media briefing Friday morning.
Chief Nursing Officer Felicia Lawal said the health unit will work with PrideFest and Pozitive Pathways to operate the mobile clinic.
“Public health nurses will be available to provide health information and resources on monkeypox, as well as pre-exposure vaccination for those who meet criteria and qualify,” said Lawal.
Nesathurai said the health unit will have about a hundred doses available at the clinic, and that the unit had distributed monkeypox vaccines in the past.
The health unit also emphasized that even though the biggest risk group continues to be men who have sex with men, anyone can get the virus, which can be transmitted through close contact. Nesathurai added that the PrideFest clinic will be the best way to raise as much awareness of the virus as possible, but the health unit is working not to stigmatize any segment of the population.
So far, there has been just one confirmed case of monkeypox in Windsor-Essex.
Complete information about monkeypox and vaccines can be found on the health unit’s official website.
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