Can Community Health Centers Fill The Health Care Void Left By Defunding Planned Parenthood?
House Speaker Paul Ryan has stated that the House bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), like its 2016 Congressional predecessor vetoed by President Obama, will include a provision that excludes certain providers that furnish abortions (other than those permitted under the Hyde Amendment) from the Medicaid program. Not only would such providers be excluded for family planning services; their exclusion would extend to the full range of Medicaid-covered services furnished in primary and preventive settings, such as breast and cervical cancer screening, mammograms, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseas...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Sara Rosenbaum Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Organization and Delivery Population Health Quality Community Health Centers Congress Paul Ryan Planned Parenthood Primary Care Republicans Women's Health Source Type: blogs
What It Means to Be Your Own Patient Advocate
I learned what it means to be a patient advocate many years ago, when my dad was sick. We knew something was terribly wrong with this tall, strapping man when he started to lose weight and was continually fatigued. Our frustration grew as each time he went to the doctor, he came home with instructions to quit smoking.
Fighting for My Father
Patient advocacy often means working around the doctor, so I found a clinic in Toronto that would perform every test known to man to determine my dad’s illness. Thanks to the Canadian healthcare system, it wasn’t going to cost my dad anything. We quickly learned that he had non-Ho...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - January 23, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
A Sizable Portion of the Damage of Chemotherapy may be due to Cellular Senescence
Now that much more attention and funding is turning to cellular senescence as a cause of aging, a fair number of new discoveries are being made regarding the specific links between age-related disease and the growing presence of senescent cells in old tissues. Some of them seem almost obvious in hindsight, connections that researchers should have long assumed to be likely, such as senescent foam cells accelerating the progression of atherosclerosis. Now that senescent cells can be cleared effectively in the laboratory, proof of these connections is comparatively simple to obtain, and so the evidence is piling up month afte...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 13, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
I ’m sorry your mom died, but I cannot help you now. Here’s why.
Dear Mrs. J,
I would like to express my deepest condolences on the passing of your mother. She was a magnificent woman, and I had the pleasure of being her doctor for almost a decade. It was a pleasure. During our short visits, she regaled me with stories of childhood and often gently sprinkled in advice gleaned from years of experience. Even as she began to decline, we would sit together in the nursing home, and she would reach out to hold my hand. She was a gift, your mother. A gift that I in no way deserved.
I’m sorry she got cancer. As a physician, there is no word worse than the word “metastases.” It...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 12, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jordan-grumet" rel="tag" > Jordan Grumet, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Palliative care Source Type: blogs
The Most Pressing Reason Why We Need to Help Our Kids Get Moving
A headline crossed my desktop recently. And it made me sad:
“U.S. ranks near bottom among countries for youth fitness, study says”
We’d ranked 47 out of 50.
It didn’t concern me that we’d be among the losers in a global field day. After all, the pressure to always win, rather than to have fun, is a key reason why most kids in the U.S. drop out of organized sports by the time they’re thirteen.
The news made me sad because, chances are, the lack of physical activity among our youth, and ultimately among these future adults, will adversely affect how they feel — about themselves and their lives.
I coul...
Source: World of Psychology - December 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Helen Durkin, JD Tags: Children and Teens Eating Disorders Exercise & Fitness Health-related Research Childhood Obesity Overweight Personal Life Physical Exercise Physical Fitness Source Type: blogs
I'm Sorry
Dear Mrs J,I would like to express my deepest condolences in the passing of your mother. A magnificent woman, I had the pleasure of being her doctor for almost a decade. And it was a pleasure. During our short visits she regaled me with stories of childhood and often gently sprinkled in advice gleaned from years of experience. Even as she began to decline, we would sit together in the nursing home and she would reach out to hold my hand. She was a gift, your mother. A gift that I in no way deserved.I'm sorry she got cancer. As a physician, there is no word worse than the wordmetastases.&n...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - December 9, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet 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
Best Post of October 2016: Brain Cancer Surpasses Leukemia as #1 Pediatric Cancer Killer
The next in our " Best of the Month " series comes from October 18, 2016:The following post appeared on the Johns Hopkins Neuropathology Blog last month. The author is Andrew Black:New data from the CDC shows the mortality rates for pediatric cancers is in decline. A study published by the CDC found that during 1999 –2014, the cancer death rate for patients aged 1–19 years in the United States dropped 20%. What is also changing are the type of patients dying. In 1999, leukemia was the leading killer of childhood cancer. That has been replaced by brain cancer. Numerous other trends were also observed in the st...
Source: neuropathology blog - November 28, 2016 Category: Radiology Tags: Best of the Month series facts and figures Source Type: blogs
The Amazing Future of Dentistry and Oral Health
Amazing new technologies such as virtual or augmented reality, 3D-printing or CRISPR will revolutionize dentistry and our whole attitude towards oral health in the future. Let’s look at the top 8 digital technologies.
One of the most common childhood nightmares is going to the dentist. Who would not understand it? You have to sit in a huge chair illuminated by all-seeing light. You have to endure that someone looks inside and pokes around in your mouth using edgy and frightening devices. And finally, when the torture is over, that same someone tells you not to eat your favorite sweets and brush your teeth regularly. Grr....
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 24, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing augmented reality CRISPR dentistry digital GC1 genomics Healthcare oral health technology virtual reality Source Type: blogs
Cryonics in the News of Late
Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of at least the brain following death, leaving open the possibility of restoration to life in a future in which molecular nanotechnology and total control of cellular biochemistry are mature industries. As individuals, each of us is the data of the mind, no more, no less, and that data is stored in the form of fine physical structures, most likely those of the synapses connecting neurons. If that structure is preserved sufficiently well, then the individual is not yet gone - only ceased for the moment. Early cryopreservations involved straight freezing to liquid nitrogen tempera...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Losing Friends
In conclusion, losing friends is a fact of life.
If you’ve lost a friend, try to examine why this occurred. Consider: are you better off without this “friend?” Mourn for a while; remember the good times. Finally, move on. Make a new friend or two.
You will survive. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - November 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Friends General Grief and Loss Self-Help Communication Dishonesty Envy Friendship Gossip Grudge Jealousy Making Friends Stigma Source Type: blogs
When a cough just won ’t go away
Who has never had a cough? I bet no one can raise their hand. We see this in clinic all the time. But chronic cough— one that lasts at least eight weeks — can be hard for patients to deal with and difficult for doctors to figure out.
In the October 20, 2016 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, lung experts describe a step-by-step approach doctors can use to help treat patients with chronic cough. Most often a prolonged cough is due to one of the “usual suspects.” But when it’s not, we have a long list of increasingly rarer conditions that we should run through and rule out. If it isn’t due to any of th...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Cold and Flu Health Lung disease Source Type: blogs
Cancer Prevention for babies and young children
The CDC has a new Supplement in the journal Pediatrics that highlights research in cancer prevention from birth to early childhood. In addition to the open access supplement, there is also a video and tips for healthcare providers, policy makers and caregivers.
Cancer Prevention During Early Life (Centers for Disease Control): https://nnlm.gov/bhic/9jqt (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - November 7, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kate Flewelling Tags: Articles Children and Teens Environmental Health Source Type: blogs
What Tig Notaro ’ s New Show Gets Right about Child Sexual Abuse
In the new Amazon series One Mississippi, loosely based on the life of comedian Tig Notaro, she finds herself living back home in Mississippi following the sudden death of her mother. Staying in her childhood home with her stepfather, Bill, and her adult brother, Remy, Tig isn’t just facing the grief of losing her mother, she’s recovering from breast cancer, which resulted in a double mastectomy, and suffering from a C. diff infection. She’s also dealing with the ghosts of her past. Tig — as she’s also called on the show — was molested by her grandfather throughout her childhood.
Although it’s...
Source: World of Psychology - September 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Newman, MA Tags: Celebrities Family Grief and Loss PTSD Trauma abuse brene brown Child Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Childhood Trauma Complex post-traumatic stress disorder Denial Empathy Molestation Psychological Trauma Rape Shame Tig Notaro Source Type: blogs
Less than 1 in 10 teens gets enough exercise: What this means for them and says about us
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As parents, we think that if there is anything our children have, it’s time. After all, they are still young; there is time for them to succeed, find love, and stay out of trouble. It’s okay if they are a bit overweight, prefer French fries to salad and video games to soccer games; when they are older all that will change, and they will be fine.
They may succeed, find love, and stay out of trouble — but increasingly, research says that if they are overweight with poor eating and exercise habits, they will stay that way.
A study recently released in the journal Pediatrics followed about ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Diet and Weight Loss Exercise and Fitness Parenting Prevention Source Type: blogs
