Why Don ’t We Take Tanning As Seriously As Tobacco?
With our Back to School series highlighting how best to navigate through the college journey; we also revisit a series that ran last year in May covering the hazards of indoor tanning beds. The following is one of the posts that spoke to the risks and concerns as they relate to skin cancer. It’s Flashback Friday here at Disruptive Women in Health Care!
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event Wednesday co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Wellness prevent cancer foundation Source Type: blogs
5 Things You Must Take to College to Help Your Mental Health
College isn’t always easy, whether you’re a freshman going away for the first time or you’re a senior looking forward to your last year. There are many challenges, especially if you’re living on your own for the first time in your life, as most college students are.
Luckily, there are things you can take with you to college or university to help improve your mental health and keep yourself balanced. Here are a few…
1. Your Belief That Anything is Possible
For better or worse, as people age, they tend to become more cynical. Life has a way of teaching a person things over time — what we...
Source: World of Psychology - August 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: College General Mental Health and Wellness college mental health help with mental issues mental health in college Mental Illness roommate mental health university mental health Young Adult Source Type: blogs
The Cancer Moonshot
I ' m not entirely sure how much I ' ve written about this here before, butthe cancer moonshot that president Obama recently announced isn ' t sitting all that well with me. It will apparently re-allocate $1 billion in NIH funding to cancer research. Since congress obviously hasn ' t appropriated any new money, this is coming out of competing research interests.The first problem with this idea is that, as the linked NIH fact sheet states quite clearly, cancer is not a disease. It is an umbrella term for hundreds (at least) of diseases -- quite likely it ' s conceptually impossible to define any finite number of cancers. Ca...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 1, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
UnitedHealth's Optum Division Settles Case Alleging it Enrolled Non-Terminally Ill Patients in Hospice, Thus Risking Their Deaths Due to Treatable Illnesses
Discussion < /b > < br / > < br / > The problem of fraudulant enrollment of non-terminal patients in hospice continues, despite our < a href= " http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/hospices " > efforts over five years < /a > to make the problem more public. & nbsp; The latest case involved a very big, very wealthy for-profit health care corporation which has had its share of < a href= " http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/UnitedHealth " > troubles in the past < /a > . & nbsp; Yet the latest case is as < a href= " http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/anechoic%20effect " > anechoic < /a > as earlier ones...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 19, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: fraud hospices legal settlements UnitedHealth Source Type: blogs
UnitedHealth's Optum Division Settles Case Alleging it Enrolled Non-Terminally Ill Patients in Hospice, Thus Risking Their Deaths Due to Treatable Illnesses
Discussion The problem of fraudulant enrollment of non-terminal patients in hospice continues, despite our efforts over five years to make the problem more public. The latest case involved a very big, very wealthy for-profit health care corporation which has had its share of troubles in the past. Yet the latest case is as anechoic as earlier ones, including smaller cases this year.These enrollments may be motivated by the desire for more money, but they put patients at risk. Nonetheless, such abuses by hospices get little press coverage, seemingly are ignored by health care regulators and law enforcemen...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 19, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: fraud hospices legal settlements UnitedHealth Source Type: blogs
Medtech Innovator 2016 Semi-Finalists Announced
MedTech Innovator, the medtech industry’s annual start-up competition and virtual accelerator, has just announced their 20 semi-finalists. 430 companies from around the globe applied for these coveted spots, and were reviewed by 90 reviewers from 50 different companies. These ground-breaking semi-finalists will undergo a four month virtual accelerator before attending AdvaMed 2016. There, four finalists will be selected to present and compete for $250,000 in cash prizes, with the winner being selected by audience vote. In addition, throughout the year there will be additional awards given in three areas: Value, Ex...
Source: Medgadget - July 6, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Justin Barad Tags: Exclusive News Source Type: blogs
Habits and Practices in Your 20s
Your 20s are a powerful decade of your life. During this time you sculpt many of the habits and practices you’ll probably maintain throughout your 30s, 40s, and beyond. However, many 20-somethings don’t give much thought to how their decisions and actions during this decade will ultimately create their future identity. They expect they’ll be able to make changes later, but that assumption usually turns out to be wrong.
Career
During your 20s you may think of your career path as having many options. You believe you could do many different types of work. That’s technically true.
Later in life, however...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
The Clare Project and "What Matters Most?" to young people with advanced cancer
by Karen J. Wernli In the summer of 2014, my sister-in-law, a new mother, died of cancer after 11 years with her disease. Although doctors gave her the best care they could, as a health researcher focused in cancer care, I wanted to do better for people like Clare. Then, at a scientific conference that fall, I learned that others had the same desire. Representatives from the National Cancer Institute were asking for studies to improve care for adolescents and young adults, including at the end of life. On the plane home, I started working with my research ideas. I realized that to know what young people with advanced-stage...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 29, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: cancer pediatrics tweetchat twitter young adult Source Type: blogs
The Clare Project and " What Matters Most? " to young people with advanced cancer
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Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 29, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: cancer pediatrics tweetchat twitter young adult Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 27th 2016
In conclusion, we showed for the first time that 7-KC induces oxidative stress via lysosomal dysfunction, resulting in exacerbation of calcification.
CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR CANCER THERAPIES CAN NOW TARGET SOLID TUMORS
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/06/chimeric-antigen-receptor-cancer-therapies-can-now-target-solid-tumors/
If the research community is to win in the fight to cure cancer, and win soon enough to matter for all of us, then the focus must be on technology platforms that can be easily and cheaply adapted to many different types of cancer. The biggest strategic problem in the field is t...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 26, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The collective failure of the HPV vaccine is ours
A couple of years ago, “epic fail” was the phrase my teenage son used as I unsuccessfully attempted to beat him in a game we were playing. At the time, I thought to myself it was a harsh but accurate assessment of my performance. And I was certainly motivated to practice on my own so that the next time, things would be different.
That same phrase came to mind as I read through an October 2015 article published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention titled, “Quality of Physician Communication about Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Findings from a National Survey.” The article describes well the poor perfor...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 11, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jason V. Terk, MD Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Talk To Me: Me, My Dad, and Foul-Tasting Medicine
When Justin Halpern's hilarious hit book Shit My Dad Says published, I thought, I wish I thought of that first! My dad has been sharing with me his goofball stories, philosophies, and OCD-like behaviors my whole life. I have written about him, of course in my books and also in this blog about his thoughts on exercise and clothing. Now I get to share an interview I conducted with him.Two months ago The Huffington Post invited me to be part of its new video series called Talk To Me in which children interview their parents. The Huffington Post is sharing many of these interviews online and I hope they share this intervi...
Source: cancerslayerblog - June 6, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: family Source Type: blogs
The Last Straw: Anti-Tobacco Groups are Actively Promoting Smoking
Readers of the Rest of the Story may have noticed that I have not posted for a few days. This is not for lack of material. Lots is happening that deserves comment, and in the days to follow I will catch readers up on some important developments, including two more lawsuits filed against the FDA in an attempt to overturn its electronic cigarette deeming regulations.I have not been able to write because I have been too distraught. I have come to the realization that the anti-smoking movement - which I have been a part of for the past 31 years, is essentially dead. And even worse, the anti-smoking movement is now actively pro...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - June 5, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 6th 2016
This study teaches us that poor wound healing and wrinkling and sagging that occur in aging skin share similar mechanisms."
Reduced cell cohesiveness of outgrowths from eccrine sweat glands delays wound closure in elderly skin
Human skin heals more slowly in aged vs. young adults, but the mechanism for this delay is unclear. In humans, eccrine sweat glands (ESGs) and hair follicles underlying wounds generate cohesive keratinocyte outgrowths that expand to form the new epidermis. Our results confirm that the outgrowth of cells from ESGs is a major feature of repair in young skin. Strikingly, in aged skin, ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 5, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
About Hastert’s “Known Acts:” The Indifference Is as Disturbing as the Crime
By DAVID INTROCASO
This past April 8th federal prosecutors made known former Republican House Speaker, Denis Hastert, sexually molested at least four boys while employed as an Illinois high school wrestling coach beginning in the 1960s. Prosecutors said there was “no ambiguity” about these abuses. They were, they said, “known acts.”1 While the news was disturbing sexual and all other forms of child abuse is commonplace. According to the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually assaulted before they ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
