Death with Dignity?
Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMinWhat Kansans Need to Consider about House Bill No. 2150(“The Kansas Death with Dignity Act”)How would you answer the following question if a Gallup pollster asked?When a person has a disease that cannot be cured and is living in severe pain, do you think doctors should or should not be allowed by law to assist the patient to commit suicide if the patient requests it?As of mid-2015, nearly 7 out of 10 Americans polled answered that question, “Yes,” including 48% of those who attend church weekly. The vast majority of Americans, and 81% of young adults ages 18-34, currently fav...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 15, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care advance care directives bioethics chronic pain Death with Dignity end of life care planning medical ethics syndicated Source Type: blogs
“For International Childhood Cancer Day, we’re sharing...
"For International Childhood Cancer Day, we're sharing this case of a 10-year-old boy with Ewing's Sarcoma who underwent limb salvage therapy. Here is the patient's femur. It was removed, treated with liquid nitrogen to kill remaining tumor cells, and then reimplanted. After surgery, recovery in the ICU, and chemotherapy, the patient is now able to ride his bike again. Thank you to all the healthcare professionals who treat and support children and adolescents with cancer like this every day." By figure1 on Instagram Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - February 15, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
My Children are Vaccine-Damaged; are Yours?
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A growing number of today’s children suffer from vaccine damage. Most individuals do not make the connection between health problems and vaccines. When asked about the cause of autoimmune disorders, asthma, allergies, diabetes, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, autism, and other common childhood diseases and illness, the majority of health care providers advise patients that the causes are unknown. Doctors, including most integrative physicians, fail to make the connection to vaccines.
It takes one moment to permanently damage the health of an adult or child, but takes a lifetime to t...
Source: vactruth.com - February 5, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Stories autoimmune disorders gardasil HPV Vaccine Medical Authority vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
ICMEJ Proposes Data Socialism – Data Utopianism Has its Cracks - Comments Due April 18
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recently put forth a proposed set of new requirements for sharing data that was generated by interventional clinical trials. The ICJME believes there is an ethical obligation to responsibly share such data because the participants in the trials put themselves at risk.
Essentially the ICMJE is proposing that as a condition of consideration for publication of a clinical trial report in their member journals, the authors must share with others the deidentified individual patient data (IPD) that is underlying the results presented in the article, including any ta...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 3, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
When patients question the motives of their physicians
I was recently scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed when I came upon a long message chain started by one of my friends, an older woman from my hometown in New Jersey. She had seen a discussion given by a drug representative who was promoting administering Gardasil to early adolescents for the prevention of cervical cancer, and my friend wanted to know how other parents felt about allowing their children to be given the vaccine.
The discussion that followed was remarkable to me for a number of reasons. I knew that there was a lot of public suspicion surrounding the HPV vaccine, much of it fueled by fear of negative side e...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 30, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Heather Flynn Tags: Education Medical school Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
A routine visit with a transgender patient
“Hey, Rick. They warned you about me, I hope?”
My routine med student opening line elicits a slight smile from my balding forty-two-year-old patient and the patient’s wife. As we shake hands, I continue the script.
“I’m Nat — the medical student. What brings you in today?”
“Well, I’d like to transfer my care to this clinic. We’ve brought my medical records.”
Together, they heave stacks of papers onto the desk. Rick’s hands slide back into the pockets of well-worn work jeans.
“Can you tell me a bit about yourself?” Classic open-ended questio...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Nat Fondell Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
Fighting the injustice of health disparities: Honoring the legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Dr. John M. Eisenberg
The past several years I have run this post and because it continues to have a very important and relevant message I am sharing it again.
We, as a nation, have made progress and I believe Dr. King would be proud. But our work is far from complete – particularly where health care is concerned. Another doctor, Dr. John M. Eisenberg, a physician of tremendous stature whose life was also tragically cut short (not by an assassin’s bullet but by brain cancer) was equally passionate about the dignity of life and justice for all Americans. Dr. Eisenberg, who among other things, served as the Director of the Agency for Health...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Source Type: blogs
TBT: Getting Diagnosed with Cervical Cancer
In honor of it being Cervical Cancer Awareness Month today’s TBT post is one we ran as part of a series back in 2014.
January is Cervical Cancer Month. According to the CDC, in 2010 11,818 women in the United States were diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3,939 women died from the disease. And while these statistics are disheartening, once the leading cause of death in women, cervical cancer has rapidly declined over the past 40 years. The decline in cases can be attributed to preventative medicine: more women are getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer.
Throughout t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer TBT Women's Health Source Type: blogs
The financial costs of treating CT-induced cancer
Computed tomography (CT) is a powerful diagnostic tool that allows rapid diagnosis of disease. CT is widely available in the U.S. and is a mainstay of medical diagnosis. Estimates state that 85 million CT scans were performed in the U.S. in 2012. To create images, CT scanners pass ionizing radiation (x-rays) through the body thereby exposing patients to radiation. Patients who are imaged with CT have a theoretical but widely accepted risk of developing cancer years to decades following radiation exposure.
In contrast, MRI and ultrasound create images without x-rays and have no risk of inducing cancer. MRI particu...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 12, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Matthew F. Covington, MD and Phillip H. Kuo, MD, PhD Tags: Conditions Radiology Source Type: blogs
For the mental and physical health of students
This study tells us there is a need to rethink how we address mental and physical health in our nation’s high schools. Our current trajectory clearly isn’t working, not when we’re graduating students who are ill-equipped to cope with daily, real-world challenges and who face the high likelihood of chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease that accompany excessive body weight.
Our rhetoric about our children being our future should be accompanied by evidence-based educational approaches that can generate healthy, productive lives. Our youth deserve that chance. (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Childbirth Food Mental Health Nutrition Source Type: blogs
City of St. Paul Takes Cowardly Political Move that is a Public Health Sham; Anti-Smoking Groups Supporting Law Should be Ashamed
Last night, the St. Paul City Council voted to enact an ordinance which bans the sale of flavored tobacco products and flavored electronic cigarettes, unless the retail store is purely a tobacco outlet and access is restricted to adults only.City Council members and health groups put themselves up on a pedestal, claiming that they were taking on Big Tobacco and protecting youth from being seduced by flavorings into using hazardous tobacco products and e-cigarettes.For example, ClearWay Minnesota stated: "With this measure, St. Paul is protecting the health of its young citizens. Not only does this action make the city heal...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 7, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Best of 2015: Why Don’t We Take Tanning As Seriously As Tobacco?
Back in May being to celebrate Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event we co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are ran a series on skin cancer. Today’s best of 2015 posts is from that series.
In 2009, upon review of the science on tanning beds and cancer, the International Agency for Research on Cancer assigned tanning beds a class 1 carcinogen, joining tobacco and asbestos in the highest classification of harm. In spite of this development, skin cancer rates have steadily climbed over the last 3 d...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Should you wear anti-aging lingerie? Episode 112
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Do supplements improve skin?
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I saw this story published on the cosmetic surgery times website asking the question whether nutricosmetics is real science or scientific rhetoric. Or as we called it a few shows back “sciencesplotation”.
First a definition of nutricosmetics. These are supplements that supposedly can help support skin, hair and nail health. It is a group of products that play into the old saying, you are what you eat. In cosmetic industry marketing speak it’s referred to as th...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - December 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
A secret shopper's perspectives on the EHR and clinical workflow
As someone who has practiced medicine using both paper and electronic records, and someone who's been focused on the health tech scene for the past 20 years, you might think I've seen it all. Indeed, during my 35 year career in medicine and tech I've traveled the world and learned a lot about healthcare, clinical practice and the intersection between medicine and technology. However, there's nothing like being a secret shopper to get a little reality check on where things stand with electronic health records and clinical workflow.
For the past couple of months, and likely continuing for most of th...
Source: HealthBlog - December 10, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized AI analytics BI care quality Clinical Workflow Clinicians collaboration communication compliance doctors eHealth EHR electronic medical records EMR Health IT health reform Healthcare healthcare costs hea Source Type: blogs
A secret shopper’s perspectives on the EHR and clinical workflow
As someone who has practiced medicine using both paper and electronic records, and someone who’s been focused on the health tech scene for the past 20 years, you might think I’ve seen it all. Indeed, during my 35 year career in medicine and tech I’ve traveled the world and learned a lot about healthcare, clinical practice and the intersection between medicine and technology. However, there’s nothing like being a secret shopper to get a little reality check on where things stand with electronic health records and clinical workflow.
For the past couple of months, and likely c...
Source: HealthBlog - December 10, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: hlthblog Tags: Uncategorized AI analytics BI care quality Clinical Workflow Clinicians collaboration communication compliance doctors eHealth EHR electronic medical records EMR Health IT health reform Healthcare healthcare costs hea Source Type: blogs
