Building A Community Of Web3 Content Creators; Nurse Breaks Leadership Record In Nigeria; Healthcare Research, Digital Health and More
Second edition of Care City Weekly in January
This year is already starting with a lot of good and exciting news, and sadly some disturbing news, like the emergence of another Covid19 variant which has warranted WHO to instruct travelers to go back to wearing face masks.
In this edition of Care City Weekly, we feature news from Care City [as usual] and curated content from our favorite online healthcare media outlets.
We have curated content from healthcare leadership, innovation, digital health and health tech, entrepreneurship, and community building.
There's so much we want to share with you.
Did you miss the first edition of the year? Find it here.
Remember sharing is caring.
Ayinla Daniel — Editor, Care City.
Table Of Contents
News from Care City
Healthcare Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Science Facts
Digital Health & Healthcare Innovation
Medical Research
Public Health
Care City
Carecode Digital Health Hub.
Building A Community of Web3 Content Creators For The Healthcare Ecosystem [H3]
We launched our Web3 Content Creator Community.
And it has been exciting. We have received some interesting feedback from readers and our community.
The primary purpose of this project is to educate healthcare professionals about the importance of web3 technologies, like blockchain, NFTs, and the metaverse, to healthcare delivery and practice.
Read the first article of this project published in partnership with Small_bites of CryptoCurrents:
Blockchain & Health: Blockchain Healthcare Applications
Web3 is the internet of the future and its impact will be felt across all industries on the face of the planet. And the healthcare ecosystem is not left out. How will Web3 technologies, especially blockchain technologies, the most widely used Web3 tech influence healthcare delivery, and practice?
The Digital Health Report
We also launched a separate newsletter on Beehiiv dedicated to digital health.
Reports, commentaries, insights, and thought leadership about the digital health ecosystem will be published exclusively in "The Digital Health Report
Healthcare Leadership
Making Medicine A Team Sport | Robert Pearl, LinkedIn.
"No one physician can effectively treat the totality of patient problems in the 21st century. Healthcare leaders must undo the myth that medicine is an individual sport."
Healthcare Leadership Nigeria
A Nurse Becomes Vice-chancellor of A Nigerian University, Making History | Fellow Nurses Africa
For the first time in the history of healthcare leadership in Nigeria, a nurse has risen to become the vice-chancellor of a Nigerian university.
Science Facts
First "virovore" discovered: An organism that eats viruses | Source: New Atlas
Digital Health & Healthcare Innovation
Vivoo launch smart toilet device to detect health conditions earlier
"The toilet's ergonomic design – created with user-experience at its heart – coupled with the moving urine strip will allow users to conveniently receive personalised wellbeing and nutritional advice, giving them the opportunity to take control over their own health and wellness via the recommendations provided by the Vivoo App."
Is virtual care delivering on its promise of improving access? | McKinsey & Company
"More than 50 million in-person visits per year could be converted to virtual or telemedicine visits if adoption were extended equally across patient segments."
Digital health: An opportunity to advance health equity |McKinsey & Company
"Digital technology can narrow the equity gap in several ways, from streamlining difficult-to-navigate medical bureaucracy processes to eliminating travel and transportation factors from healthcare access. Access is limited by two chief constraints: affordability and availability."
Medical Research
New medicines need not be tested in animals to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, according to legislation signed by President Joe Biden in late December 2022 |Science
"In order for a drug to be approved in the United States, FDA typically requires toxicity tests on one rodent species such as a mouse or rat and one nonrodent species such as a monkey or dog. Companies use tens of thousands of animals for such tests each year. Yet more than nine in 10 drugs that enter human clinical trials fail because they are unsafe or ineffective, providing grist to those who argue that animal experiments are a waste of time, money, and lives."
Activity-dependent spinal cord neuromodulation rapidly restores trunk and leg motor functions after complete paralysis | Nature
"Three decades of preclinical1–6 and clinical7–16 research have shown that EES applied over the lumbosacral spinal cord can restore walking after SCI."
Public Health & Healthcare
Public Health | Africa
Updates On Lasa Fever Outbreak In Nigeria:
- From Times Health, BBC, The Guardian Nigeria.
- Uganda Declares End of Ebola Disease Outbreak
Covid19 Updates | WHO
"Globally, as of 6:24pm CET, 11 January 2023, there have been 660,378,145 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,691,495 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 6 January 2023, a total of 13,107,022,929 vaccine doses have been administered."
Relying on agency nurses carries patient safety risks – study | Nursing Times
"While agency staff have an important role to play, this study, likes others, shows that there is an important balance to be struck – for patients' sake – and ministers' failure to grip the situation, or even acknowledge it, means we're heading in completely the wrong direction,"
Screen Time For Kids: What You Need To Know | Healthline
"With the potential risks in mind, you're probably wondering how much screen time is fine and how much other children tend to get. While there are many opinions, most experts agree that less screen time is better, especially for infants and toddlers."
How did you find our curated list of content? Is there something you would like us to add or an aspect you want us to improve on? Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. We want to provide you with the best information and knowledge from the world of healthcare innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, and creativity.
"Care City Weekly" is the official newsletter of Care City. Care City is an online healthcare media publishing start-up committed to publishing quality, authentic, and researched-backed content on healthcare innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, and creativity.
Care City Weekly features published articles on Care City [new and older articles] and also articles, essays, news, and reports from reliable online healthcare media publishing outlets, like The Medical Futurist, BBC Health, Times Health, etc.
Contact the editor: daniel.ayinla@carecityonline.com