2019 Health Law Professors Conference
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 27, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Libertarians and Harm Reduction
Last week we held a day-long conference at the Cato Institute devoted to exploring the strategy known as “harm reduction” to address the rising rate of drug overdose deaths and the spread of infectious diseases, such as hepatitis and HIV. In my remarks at the beginning and at the conclusion of the conference, I pointed out that the harms afflicting the drug-using community and their intimate contacts are the direct result of drug prohibition. Cato ’s Jeffrey Miron emphasized that point in a key presentation and discussed the success Portugal has had in reducing overdose deaths, HIV, hepatitis, and the heroin add...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
The Cruelty of Managed Medicare
By HANS DUVEFELT MD
Jeanette Brown had lost twenty pounds, and she was worried.
“I’m not trying,” she told me at her regular diabetes visit as I pored over her lab results. What I saw sent a chill down my spine:
A normal weight, diet controlled diabetic for many years, her glycosylated hemoglobin had jumped from 6.9 to 9.3 in three months while losing that much weight.
That is exactly what happened to my mother some years ago, before she was diagnosed with the pancreatic cancer that took her life in less than two years.
Jeanette had a normal physical exam and all her bloodwork except for the sugar num...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health Policy Medicare Hans Duvefelt Managed Care Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 11th 2019
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - March 10, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
TWiV 538: An Iowa caucus of viruses
TWiV travels to the University of Iowa to speak with Wendy Maury and Stanley Perlman about their research on Ebolavirus entry and coronavirus pathogenesis. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 538 (37 MB .mp3, 62 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 10, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology ebolavirus MERS coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus SARS coronavirus TIM-1 viral virus entry viruses Source Type: blogs
Video of Investor Jim Mellon Presenting at Abundance 360 Summit 2019
Jim Mellon's Juvenescence venture is at present one of the few major venture organizations focused on approaches to treat aging as a medical condition. Mellon and his colleagues outlined their take on the field in a 2017 book, also called Juvenescence. We are fortunate in that he is among the first few high net worth individuals to both agree with the SENS philosophy of damage repair, and then, much more importantly, follow through in action as well as word. He is not just seeing a massive market opportunity in treating aging, though that is certainly there, but is doing this because he wishes to achieve the goal of radica...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 4, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Is wheat really THAT bad?
Because it has become such a frequent item in everyday meals, suggesting that something so commonplace must be fine, people often ask: Is wheat really that bad?
Let’s therefore catalog the health conditions that are associated with wheat consumption.
Health conditions we know with 100% certainty are caused by consumption of wheat and related grains:
Celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis, cerebellar ataxia, “idiopathic” peripheral neuropathy, temporal lobe seizures, gluten encephalopathy, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune hepatitis, autoimmune pancreatitis, tooth decay
Health conditions ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 2, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune diabetes gluten-free grain-free grains wheat wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Podcast: How to Stay on Track to Make Lasting Change
When it comes to making big changes in our lives, most of us fail. Oh, the change might stick for a while, but eventually we go back to our unchanged selves. Why is that? Why can’t we maintain change for the long-term? In this episode, you’ll learn different reasons for this, but even better, how to make the long-term changes stick.
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Source: World of Psychology - February 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: Brain and Behavior General Habits The Psych Central Show change Gabe Howard Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Opioids and a Crisis of Unintended Consequences
The reformulation of OxyContin in 2010 made it more difficult to abuse, but has been linked to an increase in Hepatitis C infections. As policymakers consider additional approaches to curb opioid abuse, they should be mindful that any strategy may have unintended consequences, and be prepared to respond. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 20, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: David Powell Source Type: blogs
Add Hepatitis C to the List of Unintended Consequences of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids
One year ago Cato published my policy analysis, “Abuse-Deterrent Opioids and the Law of Unintended Consequences, ” which provided strong evidence that reformulating opioids, so that they could not be crushed for snorting or dissolved for injecting by nonmedical users, only served to drive nonmedical users to more dangerous, readily available, and cheaper heroin provided by the efficient black market. The evidence included a RAND study that found “a substantial share of the dramatic increase in heroin deaths since 2010 can be attributed to the reformulation of OxyContin” which replaced regular OxyContin in 2010....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 5, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Understanding the Loneliness Epidemic
Much like the opioid crisis, loneliness is an epidemic. According to results from Cigna’s U.S. Loneliness Index, a survey of more than 20,000 American adults ages 18 and older, nearly half of Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone or left out. One in four Americans rarely or never feel as though there are people who understand them. Two in five Americans sometimes or always feel that their relationships are not meaningful and that they are isolated from others. And one in five people report they rarely or never feel close to people or feel like there are people they can talk to.
According to the General Socia...
Source: World of Psychology - February 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Family Friends Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Relationships Loneliness Moderation Sleep Social Isolation social media Social Withdrawal Source Type: blogs
U.S. Plasma Collection Centers Supply a Booming Industry But Is It Exploitative of Donors?
Earlier in my career I was a hospital blood banker and became familiar with commercial plasma centers that paid individuals for their plasma. Here's a link to the web page of one of them currently in business:CSL Plasma. Such centers are often located in poorer sections of towns. This aligns with the notion that they cater to people down on their luck who donate their plasma because of a financial need. The plasma collected in such centers has various uses including the manufacture of components such as albumin and coagulation factors. I had largely forgotten about this plasma industry until I read a recent...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 4, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Blood banking Food and Drug Administration Healthcare Business Medical Consumerism Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
Checking Boxes
By HANS DUVEFELT MD
I pay $500 per year for UpToDate, the online reference that helps me stay current on diagnostic criteria and best treatment options for most diseases I might run into in my practice. They also have a rich library of patient information, which I often print out during office visits.
I don’t get any “credit” for doing that, but I do if I print the, often paltry, patient handouts built into my EMR. That was how the rules governing meaningful use of subsidized computer technology for medical offices were written.
If I describe in great detail in my office note how I motivated a patient to quit smoki...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Physicians EMR Hans Duvefelt primary care Source Type: blogs
Diagnostic Blood Tests in Minutes: Interview with Brianna Wronko, Founder and CEO of Group K Diagnostics
We have all had to wait for test results after a doctor’s visit. In cases where a serious disease is suspected, a prolonged waiting period can be one filled with agonizing worry and anxiety. In certain scenarios, receiving medical test results earlier may even positively impact the treatment course – allowing patients to start therapy sooner.
Group K Diagnostics (GKD), is an innovative company bringing routine lab tests to the patient’s bedside and developing technologies that have shrunk the waiting time from days to minutes. Some of the many tests they are tackling include liver function, liver cancer, hepatitis a...
Source: Medgadget - January 25, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mohammad Saleh Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Pathology Source Type: blogs
