Using Twitter To Find An Individual Who Becomes Lost Because Of Dementia
The results of a study published on April 18, 2018 in the open access journal npj Digital Medicine is based on an evaluation of the effectiveness of using Twitter to search for individuals who become lost due to dementia. Online messages on Twitter, i.e., tweets, were collected through an Application Programming Interface and the contents analyzed. Personal characteristics, features of tweets, and types of Twitter users were collected to investigate their associations with whether a person can be found within a month. Logistic regression was used to identify the features that were useful in finding the missing individuals. Results showed that the young age of persons with dementia who became lost, having tweets posted by police departments, and having tweets with photos can increase the chance of being found. The findings indicate that social media are reshaping the human communication pathway.
Dynamic Modeling To Predict The Behaviors Of Gut Microbes
It has been challenging to understand how the microbiome is formed, how it changes over time, and how it is affected by disturbances like antibiotics used to treat illnesses. The results of an investigation that was published on June 21, 2018 in the journal Molecular Systems Biology provides a platform for predicting how microbial gut communities work and represents a first step toward understanding how to manipulate the properties of the gut ecosystem. Doing so, for example, could allow scientists to design a probiotic that persists in the gut or tailor a diet to influence human health positively The data also can be used to start to answer questions about how pathogens cause damage when they invade communities, and how to prevent it. The model developed will allow scientists to begin to ask questions about the composition and dynamics of thousands of microbial communities.
Other Articles from TRENDS June 2018
WORDS AND THEIR PLACEMENT REALLY MATTER
Apart from gestures and semiotic influences, such as wearing a white coat and having a stethoscope, communication between a health professional and a patient relies heavily on language in the form of words—whether spoken or written. Read More
FUNDING AND AGENCY RESTRUCTURING
The House Appropriations Committee in June 2018 released the text of its fiscal year (FY) 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education funding bill. The proposed legislation...Read More
DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Two issues in higher education attracted a considerable amount of attention in June 2018. The newest is an announcement by the Trump Administration to merge the Departments of Labor and Education into a single Department of Education and the Workforce...Read More
AVAILABLE RESOURCES ACCESSIBLE ELECTRONICALLY
- Academic Medical Centers And High-Need, High-Cost Patients: A Call To Action
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results And Trends Report
- New America’s Survey On Higher Education
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ROBOTS, AND THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY
The aging of the U.S. population and the extent to which multiple morbidities characterize a large segment of that sub-group provides assurance that the health care industry will continue to be robust for decades...Read More
PRESIDENT’S CORNER — ASAHP MEMBER FOCUS
Name and Title: Kim L. Halula, PhD, Associate Dean, College of Health Sciences... Read More
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT DEVELOPMENTS
Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) become law in 2010, Congressional Republicans have vowed to repeal and replace it. With the advent...Read More
QUICK STAT (SHORT, TIMELY, AND TOPICAL)
Genetic testing and spending on that testing have grown rapidly since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, but it is not widely known how many tests there are, how they are used, and how paid for...Read More
THE WALKING CORPSE SYNDROME
Page one of this issue of TRENDS is on the topic of communication as expressed by the use of words. An error made in speaking can be referred to as...Read More