Weekly Roundup – November 13, 2013

Below are some of the past week’s interesting health care related news stories. Happy Hump Day!
In honor of November being National Caregivers Month AARP and the Advertising Council launched a new advertising and social media campaign. The campaign illustrates the many roles caregivers play and to thank them for this assistance. Check out the New York Times article for more details on the campaign.
NPR’s Shots Blog covered a story about doctors who are studying if gabapentin, a generic drug that’s commonly used to treat epilepsy and fibromyalgia can be used to fight alcoholism.
USAToday ran an article about a study that looked at how speaking multiple languages could delay dementia. The study found that dementia developed years later in bilingual people than in people who speak just one language.
Apparently some doctors did not get the memo that with the introduction of the test for human papillomavirus in 2003 women don’t need to get Pap tests as often. NPR’s Shots Blog has more on this.
Parents and children alike dread the birth control conversation. Knowing this a new public service campaign aims to make it easier by offering guidance through a series of ads and online videos. The New York Times has more on the pro bono effort, called “We Get You,” which promotes Bedsider.org, a website that offers information on birth control.
Do alternative medicines work? An article in the Washington Post seeks to answer this question. The article says some do a...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 13, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Roundup health Human papillomavirus new york times NPR USA Today Washington Post Source Type: blogs