Rural America ’ s health care crisis: Unmasking the physician shortage epidemic
Data published in 2021 by the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that the U.S. could experience a shortage of 37,800 to 124,000 physicians by 2033. Rural America is struggling, as the majority of graduate training facilities are disproportionately located in metropolitan areas. This geographic imbalance directs doctors and residents away from already underserved and
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Rural America’s health care crisis: Unmasking the physician shortage epidemic originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Joshua Nealy, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
The invisible epidemic: How physician burnout is affecting the medical community
Physicians dedicate their lives to the well-being of their patients, often neglecting their mental health in the process. The demanding nature of their profession, coupled with long hours, emotional exhaustion, and immense responsibility, can result in physician burnout, depression, anxiety, and even suicide. In this article, we will discuss the importance of mental health and
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The invisible epidemic: How physician burnout is affecting the medical community originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Harvey Castro, MD, MBA Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Research into the Use of Exercise to Slow Aging is Not as Simple as One Might Think
One might naively think that studying the effects of exercise on human aging is fairly straightforward. This isn't the case, as illustrated by the authors of this commentary. Very little is simple when it comes to making use of existing epidemiological data, or trying to construct studies that shed light on the question of how exactly exercise interacts with aging. It seems very clear that exercise is a good thing, and that most of us should be undertaking more of it, but once down in the weeds, at the detail level, it is all too easy to find large gaps in present knowledge and contradictory or poorly designed studies.
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Source: Fight Aging! - April 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Obesity is crippling the US, but there are solutions
By STEPHANIE TILENIUS
Well over a third of Americans are obese — and the percentage keeps growing at a staggering rate. Over the last twenty years, obesity prevalence grew from 30% to 42% of the US population and rates of severe obesity nearly doubled. If we don’t make serious changes to our healthcare system, it’s scary to think where we’re headed in a few short years.
The fact is, obesity is far from a cosmetic condition. It can be a devastating disease and was classified as such by the American Medical Association in 2013. Obesity is the leading risk factor for deadly diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart d...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy GLP-1 Obesity Stephanie Tilenius vida health Source Type: blogs
Can Epigenetic Clocks be Suitably Customized to Measure Centenarian Ages?
Verifying the ages of those who claim to be extremely old is rarely as easy might be the case. Many parts of the world are lacking any sort of suitable records infrastructure dating back far enough to help. Particularly past the age of 110, the small number of verified individuals makes any attempt to learn from epidemiological data quite difficult. This in today's open access paper, researchers here report on the construction of epigenetic clocks using data from the oldest living people, with the hope of producing a tool that can help to verify claims of exceptional old age, and thus expand the databases.
While thi...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 10th 2023
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Source: Fight Aging! - April 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How Tech Can Optimize Protocol-Driven Care For Children With Medical Complexity
The following is a guest article by Tammi Jantzen, Co-Founder & CFO at Astarte Medical
Medical advances have led to improved survival for many previously life-threatening conditions of childhood, such as prematurity, congenital anomalies (like congenital heart defects), and congenital or acquired brain injury (like cerebral palsy). Technological advances such as ventilator support, feeding tubes and transplantation have successfully prolonged the lives of children with lung, gut, and other organ failure. This epidemiological shift has created a growing population of children with medical complexity (CMC)—children...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Astarte Medical Children with Medical Complexity Chronic Health Condition CMC Congenital Diseases Digital Tools EMR Inappropriate Care Ne Source Type: blogs
Modeling the Contribution of Cellular Senescence to the Tradeoff Between Cancer Risk and Aging
Researchers consider that the state of late life health in humans, and the mechanisms involved, are a balance between risk of death by cancer and risk of death by loss of tissue function. Cancer risk is increased by the activity of damaged cells, particularly stem cells, in a dysfunctional tissue environment, while loss of tissue function is accelerated by suppressing that activity. Tissue must be maintained, such as via a supply of new cells to replace losses, and cells must be active in order for that maintenance to occur.
Cellular senescence is a part of this balance of benefit and harm. Cellular senescence is a ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 6, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Farm Bill 2023 and Obesity
This study found U.S. farm policies “have generally small and mixed effects on farm commodity prices, which in turn have even smaller and still mixed effects on the relative prices of more‐ and less‐fattening foods.”Farm subsidy/ nutrition issues are hotly debated, and I have not done a detailed research review. If Congress withdrew subsidies from corn, wheat, soybeans, and rice, would U.S. farming shift toward healthier fruits and vegetables? Are the subsidized crops and related oils a cause of obesity, and has the go vernment given Americans bad nutrition advice about these products for decades, asNina T...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Murderous capitalism
This essay by Hunter is mostly a summary of a Washington Post story but I ' m sending you there because of the WaPo paywall. It ' s rather long-winded and repetitive -- you ' ll pretty much get the idea before you read to the end. To put it in a coconut shell, the first main point is that the only purpose of AR-15 rifles and knockoffs thereof is to kill humans. They are military rifles that can get off a lot of not particularly well-aimed shots quickly and that cause horrendous tissue damage. They are not useful for hunting or target shooting or any other conceivable " sport. " They are military weapons designed to k...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action
The following is a guest article by Diana Zuskov, MPH, Associate Vice President of Healthcare Strategy at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions.
SDoH Success Stories to Inspire Adoption and Action in Your Organization
Healthcare organizations are spending significant resources – time, money, and human capital – to address social determinants of health (SDoH) and health equity. Effective execution requires going upstream of the programming itself to understand the social determinants of a population.
According to Data Bridge Market Research, the U.S. SDoH market is growing with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.9% betw...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Clinical Data Data Action Data Analysis Diana Zuskov EHR Electronic Health Records Health Gorilla Health Gorilla’s Source Type: blogs
The real cause of America ’ s opioid crisis: Doctors are not to blame
We’ve all heard about America’s so-called “opioid epidemic.” Nearly 100,000 people died in 2021 of causes that included overdose by one or more narcotic drugs and often alcohol. We also hear assertions from anti-opioid advocates that this epidemic was caused by doctors “over-prescribing” opioid pain relievers to their patients. These assertions are fundamentally wrong on
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The real cause of America’s opioid crisis: Doctors are not to blame originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Richard A. Lawhern, PhD Tags: Meds Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Unlocking the secret to successful weight loss: Curiosity is the key
The obesity epidemic is reaching an all-time high. It’s no surprise why – the fitness industry pushing expensive diets and intense workouts, combined with limited access to affordable health care options, makes it difficult for people to maintain health in our society today. And what’s even more concerning? More than 72 percent of Americans are
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Unlocking the secret to successful weight loss: Curiosity is the key originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Franchell Hamilton, MD Tags: Conditions Obesity Source Type: blogs
Revaluating mental health assessments: It ’ s not just the patient you should consider
I believe that mental health care is one of the most underrated areas in health care. Mental illness is an epidemic plaguing virtually every corner of the world. While great strides have been made in identifying and treating mental disorders, particularly in wealthier countries, many people remain without adequate care for their conditions. The numbers
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Revaluating mental health assessments: It’s not just the patient you should consider originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tomi Mitchell, MD Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Mindfulness. Is there an app for that?
TL:DR – The idea of an app for mindfulness is inherently contradictory, but they may have some use if used mindfully…
The notion of mindfulness is often discussed in light of an apparently epidemic of mental health crises, anxiety, depression, phobias, addictions, and other problems. It is considered a state of being where one is fully present in the moment and aware of one’s thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. The aim of mindfulness is not to exclude external stimuli nor to ignore one’s memories and preclude predictions of the future, but rather to live in the moment, to try to feel satisfi...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Health and Medicine Psychology Source Type: blogs
