Weekly Roundup – May 17, 2013
Happy National Women’s Health Week to all our fabulous Disruptive Women readers! Lots of groups released information and toolkits in celebration. If you haven’t had a chance to check them out yet here are just a few: NWLC toolkit, interactive screening chart and infographic done by HHS.
In other news, the Washington Post reported on the possibility that cancer patients and others taking pricey drugs might pay even more for their medications under ACA.
An interesting study of Medicaid recipients in Oregon found that increased health care spending had a limited impact on improving people’s health. Learn more here.
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Roundup weekly roundup Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 13th 2013
In this study we used the hMTH1-Tg mouse model to investigate how oxidative damage to nucleic acids affects aging. hMTH1-Tg mice express high levels of the hMTH1 hydrolase that degrades 8-oxodGTP and 8-oxoGTP and excludes 8-oxoguanine from both DNA and RNA. Compared to wild-type animals, hMTH1-overexpressing mice have significantly lower steady-state levels of 8-oxoguanine in both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of several organs, including the brain. hMTH1 overexpression prevents the age-dependent accumulation of DNA 8-oxoguanine that occurs in wild-type mice.
These lower levels of oxidized guanines are associated with in...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Melanoma: Make an informed choice
MG is all about making decisions. The good and the bad. When I was younger, I made a lot of bad ones. I was very immature and naïve. Most of them only affected me, but there were some that hurt others, and I wish I could change that. But I can’t. That is the thing about choices. You make them and that is pretty much it. So you need to make as many smart ones as possible. If not, then you certainly need to learn from them, so you can make better ones in the future. This is where I am now. Really thinking about my choices. How do they affect me and the people in my life? Now that I am 40, hopefully I am older and wiser (a...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Body Image Cancer Young Adults Melanoma skin cancer tanning Source Type: blogs
Motherless Daughters: Coping With Your Loss
Research tends to overlook young adults who lose their moms, according to Taranjit (Tara) K. Bhatia, PsyD, a clinical psychologist who specializes in relationships, including mother-daughter bonds. Because they’re already adults, people assume these daughters don’t need maternal guidance.
However, losing a mom has a powerful effect on young adult daughters. In her research, Bhatia found that a daughter’s sense of identity is especially shaken. “They don’t know what being a woman is all about.”
Daughters also doubt their own role as mothers. “Most motherless daughters are very insecure about how well they coul...
Source: World of Psychology - May 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Family General Grief and Loss Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Relationships Self-Help Women's Issues Adult Daughters Advice Support Being A Woman Bhatia Bonds Clinical Psychologist Conflict Cultural Identity Guidance Source Type: blogs
Colonless – young cancer survivor – guest post
We last heard from Reagan Barnett a couple of years ago. She has a new blog now that focuses on colon cancer, genetic cancer syndromes, and young adult cancer issues. In the world of cancer blogging, colon survivors probably don’t … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - March 3, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Guest Post * Living with Cancer Colon Cancer Surgery Young Adults Source Type: blogs
My Dad on Exercise
Bullseye has walked four to six miles for exercise almost every day, for 25 years. When home, he’ll walk the same route around the neighborhood or on the treadmill if the weather is poor. He’ll also walk the same route when he’s on vacation at the beach (at the same hotel every year). At the last job he held for over 30 years, he walked the same blocks, or the same hallways if the weather was poor.
Despite spending more time in Washington, D.C., than almost any other location throughout his life, he couldn’t tell me about his surroundings, where landmarks are, or how to get anywhere. “What do I care where you y...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - February 17, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: family Source Type: blogs
Aaron Swartz & A Culture of Denial: Depression & Suicide in Tech
Aaron Swartz, 26, an Internet developer and activist, committed suicide last week. The tech world has since been ablaze commenting and speculating on his life… and his death.
While many people point to the cause of his death connected to the overzealous prosecution by U.S. District Attorney Carmen Ortiz, it’s unlikely that a single thing led to his decision. If Aaron Swartz was like most of the 100 people every day who take their own lives in this country, the biggest thing that likely led to his death was untreated or under-treated depression.
Which comes as no surprise to people who knew him and have written...
Source: World of Psychology - January 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Celebrities Depression Disorders General Grief and Loss Policy and Advocacy Stress Treatment Aaron Swartz Acute Episode Carmen Cause And Effect Committed Suicide Compulsion Conclusion Culture Denial D Source Type: blogs
Gun Violence and Young Adult Cancer?
I was diagnosed with cancer at age 27 and have gone on to become a major advocate in the young adult cancer community. It is truly incredible to see how many people rally around the cause of cancer when they or a loved one is touched by this killer disease. Gun violence is a disease too. And one that can be controlled a lot more easily than cancer. With gun violence we don’t need to spend over three decades unlocking the secrets of science. We simply need strict gun policies, enforcement, and regulation. Gun shootings and gun deaths are preventable. I didn’t beat cancer only to get gunned dow...
Source: Everything Changes - January 8, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kairol Rosenthal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Celebrating Young People in Recovery
Because addiction is a disease, it can be treated with therapy and, in some cases, medication. People can enter recovery from addiction, just like people can enter recovery from other diseases, like cancer.
Maybe when you think of someone who gets treatment for drug or alcohol abuse, you picture a middle-aged person who has struggled for half his life with the disease of addiction. That’s not always the case. Many teens and young adults enter treatment and recovery at a young age.
Take it from Ben Chin, who submitted his story to the “Youth and Young Adults” section of the website for September’s National Recovery ...
Source: NIDA Drugs and Health Blog - September 13, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Sara Bellum Source Type: blogs
Does Smoking on TV Influence You?
The Government banned cigarette commercials on television in 1970 after the 1964 Surgeon General’s report found that smoking cigarettes increased your chances of getting lung cancer. This was a big deal, considering the strong smoking culture in the United States at the time. However, this ban didn’t stop smoking on television. Forty-years later, characters on television shows continue to smoke.
And, what if we told you that teens are one of the primary audiences for some of those shows?
Researchers from Columbia University and Legacy (formerly the American Legacy Foundation), an anti-tobacco group that produces th...
Source: NIDA Drugs and Health Blog - January 12, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Sara Bellum Source Type: blogs
