The Forgotten Chronic Disease: Mental Health Among Teens And Young Adults
Deadly chronic conditions garner much attention from health care providers and researchers seeking to prevent cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. However, often forgotten or overlooked are mental health disorders in young people, which can lead to serious persistent conditions in adulthood.
Chronic diseases affect one in two Americans, and one in four has multiple chronic conditions. Chronic diseases cause the most overall deaths in the United States, with heart disease and cancer together accounting for 62 percent of all deaths in 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Adding to the mounting c...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Bernadette Melnyk, Terry Fulmer, Sarah Van Orman and Kenneth Thorpe Tags: Equity and Disparities Innovations in Care Delivery Long-term Services and Supports Organization and Delivery Population Health Public Health Quality Care coordination chronic conditions depression Mental Health substance use Youth Source Type: blogs
A Patient at a Press Conference
The following post originally ran on Gray Connections on September 6th.
Earlier today (September 6, 2015) I gave this speech at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) World Conference on Lung Cancer in Denver. I’m pleased at the reception it received.
I appreciate IASLC including me in this press conference. They’ve been responsive to lung cancer patients and advocates, and have included the patient voice in several conferences. Patients and advocates participated in the planning process for this World Conference on Lung Cancer, as demonstrated by the number of patient and advocate prese...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Cancer Patients Source Type: blogs
Omics Data in Aging: the Rat Hole of Metabolism Runs Very Deep Indeed
Here I'll point out a review paper on the "omics," the younger fields of the life sciences, including genomics, proteomics, and so forth, and their role in aging research. These fields encompass the study of biological molecules and their roles in cellular metabolism and tissue function, broken down by type and class. The study of genes, the study of proteins, the study of proteins only applicable to the immune system, the study of proteins involved in transcription, and many more divisions besides. There are now dozens of omics fields, and they continue to proliferate and specialize, this growth a reflection of the accele...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 9, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
The heartbreak of counselling younger couples after a cancer diagnosis
My patient mix comes in waves — some months it is mostly women with breast cancer struggling with adjuvant endocrine therapy or men in the aftermath of surgery for prostate cancer. These past two months, it has been young adults, and my heart has taken a beating.
There is something quite different from my perspective between talking to a couple who has been together for 30 or more years and hearing the struggles of couples who have been together for one or two years, or at the most, eight.
For the former couple — their wrinkles appearing in tandem, their relationship comfortable and weathered by common experien...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 8, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Anne Katz, RN, PhD Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs
American Hospitals Need to Stop Offering Fast Food, Quick!
Ban on Hospital Smoking: A Model
In the 1950′s the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published what was, at the time, an incredibly surprising finding: smoking is detrimental to health1. By 1964, the Surgeon General had publically acknowledged the linkage between smoking and cancer and, by the seventies, the smoking-cancer relationship was standard curricula in U.S. medical schools 2. Despite both medical and public awareness, however, hospital policy lagged behind the science; most healthcare centers had little to no official regulation regarding smoking in their facilities2. Reducing Smoking in Hos...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Food Policy Publc Health Source Type: blogs
Title X: The Lynchpin Of Publicly Funded Family Planning In The United States
The Title X national family planning program was created 45 years ago with broad bipartisan support. Today, Congress has Title X—still the only federal grant program dedicated entirely to family planning and related preventive health care—in its sights for severe funding cuts or even elimination.
The U.S. House of Representatives has proposed ending the program for the fifth year in a row, and the U.S. Senate is recommending a sizable reduction to Title X’s budget. In addition, while legislation aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, whose health centers serve one-third of Title X clients n...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Kinsey Hasstedt Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Featured Long-term Services and Supports Population Health Public Health Quality ACA family planning Planned Parenthood Title X Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Making an informed choice about indoor tanning
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event today 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 check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy!
I am so pleased to have the opportunity present on behalf of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) during “The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses” event co-hosted by Disruptive Women in Health Care and Congressional Families for Cancer Pre...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
Why Don’t We Take Tanning As Seriously As Tobacco?
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 check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy!
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 ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer prevent cancer foundation Source Type: blogs
Meet Dakota Fisher-Vance…she didn’t let cancer derail her
Fasten your seatbelts. You’re about to meet Dakota Fisher-Vance. Cancer could have derailed the impact she’d have on the world, but it didn’t. She was preparing for Med School, interested in education and looking forward, perhaps, to a day she’d work with children with autism.
Then, came cancer. Specifically, Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. I won’t tell you what she found on the web, you can read it here and understand her frustration about what she found. Then, came a desmoid tumor, another very rare condition. Statistically, she’s one in four million.
Except in my book, where she’s one in a billion. In the ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Cancer Innovation Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs’ April Issue: The Cost And Quality Of Cancer Care
This study is part of Health Affairs’ DataWatch series.
Under the new pay-for-performance models, how do low performers fare?
Jessica Greene of George Washington University’s School of Nursing and coauthors studied the impact of a primary care provider compensation model—that of Fairview Health Service, a Pioneer accountable care organization in Minnesota—in which 40 percent of providers’ compensation was based on their clinic-level quality outcomes. The researchers examined providers’ performance data before the model and two years after implementation,
The best predictor of improvement was the primary care pr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: Access All Categories Chronic Care Comparative Effectiveness Consumers Europe Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Pharma Policy Quality Research Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation Newsletter, February 2015
The SENS Research Foundation coordinates fundamental research into the technologies needed for future rejuvenation treatments. There is in fact a very clear roadmap leading from where we are today to the means to repair the cellular and molecular damage that causes aging. Outside of stem cell research and cancer research, most of that roadmap is lagging far behind, however. There is little interest and little funding despite the fact that other causes of aging as just as important to the development of age-related disease as faltering stem cell activity and the conditions that give rise to ever higher risk of cancer with p...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 13, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
6 years later the Z-Man still lives in my heart
The most influential people in your life. Quick, think ...who are they? After they leave this earth - do they realize what this whole thing called life is all about and share it with you later on?Yes...and sometimes (if you're really lucky) they share that message while still here on earth.Yet, we miss that message far too often. I guess I became drawn to Mitch Albom's 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' (read it and reread it and even own the movie) because of this very universal wondering.Sometimes it does not require a close encounter with the afterlife or actually crossing over to receive a heavenly mes...
Source: Life is like a sandwich...enjoy the big bites. - January 18, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
The costs of fertility preservation in cancer treatment
I have fertility on my mind — and it’s definitely not personal. And it’s really fertility preservation that has me thinking. I recently completed the manuscript of my 10th book — a text for oncology care providers about the provision of psychosocial care to young adults with cancer
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 24, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Anne Katz, RN, PhD Tags: Conditions Cancer OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Resources for Kids and Young Adults
One in three people face a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime, meaning that millions of ... (Source: LIVESTRONG Blog)
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - August 18, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs
Rare Diseases Hiding Among Common Diseases
In June, 2014, my book, entitled Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs: Keys to Understanding and Treating the Common Diseases was published by Elsevier. The book builds the argument that our best chance of curing the common diseases will come from studying and curing the rare diseases. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 12:It is easy to find cases wherein a rare disease accounts for a somewhat uncommon clinical presentation of a common disease. 12.1.2 Rule—Uncommon presentations of common diseases are sometimes rare diseases, camouflaged by a common clinical phenotype. Brief Rationale—Common diseases tend to occur with a char...
Source: Specified Life - July 18, 2014 Category: Pathologists Tags: common disease cryptic disease disease genetics genetics of common diseases genetics of complex disease orphan disease orphan drugs rare disease subsets of disease Source Type: blogs
