Will Senate Republicans Get 50 Votes to Repeal the ACA?
By DAVID INTROCASO
THCB readers are well aware this coming week Senate Republicans plan to begin debate on passing their amended version of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA), titled the Better Care Reconciliation Act. As of today, June 23rd, immediate reactions by Republican senators to the June 22nd released discussion draft have been limited largely because members immediately left town after the draft’s release. The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) score, that will again be influential, is expected this Monday or Tuesday. Senate debate on the legislation will likely begin next W...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized AHCA CBO David Introcaso Repeal Replace Senate Republicans Source Type: blogs
Examining How Senate Republicans Frame Their Health Care Bill
Discussion Draft of Senate Amendment to H.R. 1628
Help stabilize collapsing insurance markets that have left millions of Americans with no options.
Short-Term Stabilization Fund: To help balance premium costs and promote more choice in insurance markets throughout the country, this stabilization fund would help address coverage and access disruption – providing $15 billion per year in 2018 and 2019; $10 billion per year in 2020 and 2021.
Jason Chung writes: S. 106(h)(1) specifies that these amounts are intended to “fund arrangements with health insurance issuers to address coverage and access disruption…” Rand P...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Jason Chung Senate Bill 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
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
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
Health Insurance
I am very concerned about the potential changes in the national health insurance program that is in place. In principle I like the idea of national health insurance so that patient ' s are not victims of their health insurance company or are tied to jobs they hate just to keep their health insurance.I also like the idea of no pre-existing condition clauses, young adults can stay on their parents insurance longer, and no lifetime insurance caps. And I want all of these items to stay. I also want every American to be able to get health insurance if they want.I would like to see changes that help reduce costs of insurance and...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 13, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: being a patient changes health insurance Source Type: blogs
First Longitudinal Study to Examine Progression from Vaping to Smoking among Young People Finds No Effect of Vaping
The first longitudinalstudy that examines progression from vaping to smoking among young people has been published in the journalAddictive Behaviors. The study followed college freshmen at Virginia Commonwealth University for one year to examine whether vaping at baseline was associated with the progression from never smoking to ever and/or current smoking at follow-up.(See: Spindle TR, et al. Electronic cigarette use and uptake of cigarette smoking: A longitudinal examination of U.S. college students.Addictive Behaviors 2017; 67:66-72.)As reported by Dr. Stan Glantz, the major finding of the study was that:" controlling f...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 6, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Unpacking the 21st Century Cures Act
By STEVEN FINDLAY
President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law this week. It’s the largest piece of health legislation since the Affordable Care Act. No doubt you’ve heard or read that—and it’s true.
But while the legislation was three years in the making and much hyped, it became the best recent example of that old saying that passing federal laws is akin to sausage making: You don’t really want to watch what goes into it.
(An aside: I made venison and bacon sausages from scratch for the first time this year and can attest to the “visceral” nature of that exercise.)
There’s some...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
MR-HIFU and ThermoDox to Treat Recurrent Childhood Tumors: Interview with AeRang Kim, Principal Investigator
Children’s National Health System and the Celsion Corporation (Lawrenceville, NJ) have recently announced a Phase I clinical trial in the US to determine a safe and tolerable dose of ThermoDox in conjunction with non-invasive magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU). The trial is aimed on young adults and children with recurring solid tumors.
ThermoDox technology consists of liposomes loaded with doxorubicin, a conventional chemotherapeutic drug. Liposomes are small lipid structures which can be used to encapsulate and deliver drugs through the bloodstream. While liposomal doxorubicin formu...
Source: Medgadget - December 6, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
Dishonesty of Vaping Opponents (Health Agencies) is Out of Control; Urgent Action is Needed
The misleading information being spread to the public by vaping opponents, including prominent health agencies like federal, state, and local health departments, has become out of control. It threatens to do immense public health damage by protecting cigarette sales at the expense of a much safer alternative - electronic cigarettes - and at the same time it also threatens the reputation of public health agencies.Today, I highlight four examples of misinformation about electronic cigarettes from vaping opponents, representing four levels of health groups: international, national, state, and local.InternationalWorld Health O...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 28, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 26th 2016
This study included 647 patients 80 to 106 years of age who had audiometric evaluations at an academic medical center (141 had multiple audiograms). The degree of hearing loss was compared across the following age brackets: 80 to 84 years, 85 to 89 years, 90 to 94 years, and 95 years and older. From an individual perspective, the rate of hearing decrease between 2 audiograms was compared with age. The researchers found that changes in hearing among age brackets were higher during the 10th decade of life than the 9th decade at all frequencies for all the patients (average age, 90 years). Correspondingly, the annual rate of ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 25, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
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
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
