Thanks to the AHCA We Could Now See Cervical Cancer Rates Increase
By ILANA ADDIS, MD
In 2014 I took my first trip to Kenya. After my plane landed in Nairobi I rode for 10 hours with my medical colleagues to Bungoma, a town on the western edge of the country. We set up our clinic in the local hospital and then spent the week training local healthcare providers on a technique called ‘Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA)’. This is an inexpensive method to screen for cervical cancer and pre-cancer in low resource settings using vinegar. As a part of the training we screened 189 women for cervical cancer in that week.
The Papaniculou (pap) smear was revolutionary in cervical cancer pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Cervical Cancer MacArthur Amendment Source Type: blogs
We Could Now See Cervical Cancer Rates Increase
By ILANA ADDIS, MD
In 2014 I took my first trip to Kenya. After my plane landed in Nairobi I rode for 10 hours with my medical colleagues to Bungoma, a town on the western edge of the country. We set up our clinic in the local hospital and then spent the week training local healthcare providers on a technique called ‘Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA)’. This is an inexpensive method to screen for cervical cancer and pre-cancer in low resource settings using vinegar. As a part of the training we screened 189 women for cervical cancer in that week.
The Papaniculou (pap) smear was revolutionary in cervical cancer pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Cervical Cancer MacArthur Amendment Source Type: blogs
A Health Plan CEO Daydreams
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD
Jim was at his desk, looking weary.
The last few weeks had been brutal. Despite working twelve-hour days, he felt that he had little to show for it. His annual board meeting was to take place the next day, and he expected it to be tense.
With a replacement bill for the ACA about to be voted on, and with Trump in the White House, the situation seemed particularly precarious. The board members had asked him to present a contingency plan, in case things in DC didn’t go well.
As CEO of a major health insurance company, Jim was well aware that business as usual had become unsustainable in his l...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized AHCA health reform MICHEL ACCAD repeal and replace Source Type: blogs
Telling Daughters About Their Genetic Breast Cancer Risk
We are now in the era of predictive medicine when many of us will have theopportunity to learn about our individual predisposition to develop serious diseases at some point in our lives. This is now a reality for families carrying the BRCA gene (females as well as males) (see:BRCA-Positive Males at Higher Risk for Prostate and Pancreatic Cancer). This topic was discussed in a recent article in theNew York Times. An excerpt from the article is listed below (see:When to Tell Daughters About a Genetic Breast Cancer Risk):As genetic testing has given women and men a trove o...
Source: Lab Soft News - April 25, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Lab Industry Trends Lab Information Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
Parenting a Bone Marrow: Suffer, Suffer, Suffer, Suffer, Relief
I walked in on Bone Marrow as she was mainlining pollen. Talk about having your tongue tied. I entered the balcony of our apartment and there was my teenage bone marrow “daughter” injecting into herself—I mean, injecting into us—the pollen she had plucked from the air and collected in a small mountain on the bistro table.Bone Marrow saw my shock and said, “It’s maple, our worst allergen,” as if that statement was enough for me to understand her reasoning.Eventually, words came to my mind, and I said, “You can’t just shock our body into building immunity like this without medical supervision!”“Hey, you...
Source: cancerslayerblog - April 24, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer-free anniversary life lessons Source Type: blogs
Loneliness: A Silent Epidemic
Loneliness. It is an epidemic that has silently gripped the nation. And it is not going away. I wrote about the issue back in February: http://www.disruptivewomen.net/2017/02/23/loneliness-and-its-impact-on-health-share-your-story/. In that post, we announced that we were looking for ways to help. And we found one!
Dr. Jeremy Nobel, Founding CEO at the Foundation for Art and Healing, is spearheading The Creatively Connected Film Festival, which involves a film contest, digital platform, public health outreach, and evening of celebration in New York City on May 9, 2017. Sharing information about the Foundation for...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The problem with tanning (and the myth of the base tan)
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Are you a person who loves to be tan? Do you pine after the bronzed look of jet-setting celebrities just back from the tropics?
If so, you’re not alone — let’s face it, we’re a culture that’s obsessed with being tan. It’s attractive, fashionable, and a sign of good health, right?
Actually, sun exposure or spending time in tanning booths has many health experts worried: it damages skin and increases the risk of skin cancer. The risk rises if tanning leads to a sunburn — according to the American Academy of Dermatology, a single blistering sunburn can nearly double one’s lif...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Cancer Children's Health Parenting Prevention Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
The suicide rate is increasing. Why is that?
Those of us who work in pediatric intensive care have frequent encounters with the problem of suicide and attempted suicide. It has seemed to me for some years that the numbers are increasing, and this has been shown to be the case. After years of declining, the suicide rate in our country has been increasing, now at about 125 percent of the rate of several decades ago.
This increase accelerated after 2006. Although all age groups showed an increase, the rate among women, particularly adolescent girls, took a notable jump. In 2012 suicide was the second leading cause of death in adolescents aged 12 to 19 years, accounting ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 11, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/christopher-johnson" rel="tag" > Christopher Johnson, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
If Everything Took 15 Minutes: Considering Time
I always thought about time —How long until we get there, Mommy and Daddy? . . .Fifteen minutes, Benjamin . . .no matter the destination, my parents always proclaimed the car ride would take 15 minutes —but time assumed new significance when I was 16.I remember, then, scanning the ceiling and thinking about time. Unlike my bedroom nowadays, in which even my computer ’s LED light is covered with a blackout sticker, my hospital room dazzled with light streaming in through the door’s small window and from the IV machine’s red digits telling me fluid was entering my bloodstream at 150 milliliters an hour. The light p...
Source: cancerslayerblog - March 21, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: life lessons MFA Source Type: blogs
Researchers develop 3-D tissue culture versions to mmic human gut infections
Vaccines and antimicrobials did more to transform medicine plus extend the average human lifespan than any other scientific breakthrough. Yet infectious diseases remain the world’s number 1 leading cause of death of kids and young adults.
Related Posts:Brand new frontiers of fecal microbiota hair transplantCleveland Clinic’s preventive breast cancer vaccine…Special protein interaction may drive most common genetic…Connection between genes that make cells deaf to messages…Several with nonceliac wheat sensitivity have autoimmune…The post Researchers develop 3-D tissue culture versions ...
Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - March 10, 2017 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
How The Trump Administration Could Advance Federal Prevention Policy
Chronic disease prevention was an explicit priority of the Secretaries of Health and Human Services in both of the President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama administrations. While the policies and programs may have differed across administrations, there has been a recognition by both parties that promoting wellness is an important policy objective.
Prioritizing prevention can and should remain an essential part of the Trump Administration’s health priorities. Addressing the high and growing costs of chronic disease is critical to ensuring a sustainable health care system, and tackling well-known risk factors th...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Anand Parekh, Lisel Loy and G. William Hoagland Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Population Health Public Health ACA repeal chronic disease prevention Community Preventive Services Task Force Healthy People Prevention and Public Health Fund. Trump administration Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 173
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 173rd edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 5 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Justin Morg...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 23, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Justin Morgenstern Tags: Emergency Medicine Pediatrics R&R in the FASTLANE Urology EBM literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
The 7 Best Blogs on Anxiety
This article breaks down what it means to feel stressed versus depressed. Stress will signal changes that need to be made that are specific, such as lack of sleep or unhappiness at your job, where as depression hangs around longer than little ‘spells’ like stress, and is usually triggered by something or feels like it just pops out of nowhere.
http://www.beliefnet.com/wellness/health/emotional-health/depression/depressed-or-just-stressed.aspx
Feeling powerless in our current world is a commonality we all share. However, some people develop real anxieties and fears based on the unpredictability of our future. This a...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - February 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Larissa Gomes Tags: featured health and fitness psychology self improvement anxiety best depression blogs pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
A Cross-Section of Recent Work in the Aging Research Community
A recently published report from last year's Biomedical Innovation for Healthy Longevity conference, held in Russia, serves as a sampling of ongoing work in the field of aging research; a wide range of views on theories of aging are represented. One thing that strikes me from a review of the topics is that few of the people involved are working on anything related to rejuvenation, or, setting aside the much-needed consideration of biomarkers of biological age, any other projects with near term practical applications likely to significantly extend life. For the most part this is a field concerned with investigation, develop...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 7, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
We are mortal humans, we suffer and love, hopefully together, and then we each die.
by Drew RosielleI went into medicine because I thought it ' d be something practical, to help people.I majored in English and Religion at the University of Iowa in the early 1990s, and didn ' t have clear career plans. I guess I thought I ' d become an English professor. Late in my undergraduate days I was enamored with the more experimental sides of 20th Century poetry (Gertrude Stein, Lorine Niedecker) and figured I ' d go on to grad school. To make ends meet in college, I got a part-time job cleaning a group home overnight for teenage boys with profound developmental disabilities. I liked to stay up late, and I could cl...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - February 1, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Tags: ethics ethics/law politics rosielle Source Type: blogs
