Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 10th 2022
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Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 9, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Commentary on Old Age in the International Classification of Diseases
The world of medicine and medical research is regulated to the point of extreme dysfunction. Regulation determines the flows of funding in the clinic, which in turn determines priorities for research and development. To swim against the tide is significantly harder than to go along with it, and this has a material effect on the speed with which the scientific community and biotech and pharmaceutical industries can create and deploy therapies to treat aging. Even the prospect of treating aging as a medical condition at all is shadowed by the way in which regulation distorts the playing field. Yes, a working, proven rejuvena...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 3, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Politics and Legislation Source Type: blogs
The hardly hidden costs
Chronic/persistent pain management is not sexy. No-one gets a magic cure. Lives are not saved – at least not in a way that mortality statistics show. Chronic pain management is under-funded.
And now: buried in a list of other proposed service cuts in the local health board’s plan to save millions of dollars, is a proposal to “save” $650,000 from the pain clinic. You’ll note also reductions in community services, GP support for vulnerable, and healthy lifestyles programmes.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/122558278/hundreds-of-staff-nurses-and-services-may-be-axed-at-canterbury-d...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 30, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Interdisciplinary teams News Pain conditions Research Science in practice Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, March 3, 2015
From MedPage Today:
Don’t Like ICD-10? Don’t Worry — ICD-11 is on the Horizon. As U.S. physicians gear up to put the ICD-10 coding system in place by the upcoming Oct. 1 deadline, work is being done elsewhere on the coding system’s next-generation product: ICD-11.
Docs Struggle With Vaccine Spacing. Ninety-three percent of pediatricians and family physicians said that they’d been asked by a parent to spread out vaccinations for children under 2 years of age, deviating significantly from recommended schedules.
Four Words That Could Destroy Health Insurance for Millions. “Established by ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 3, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News OB/GYN Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
ICD-10: HHS Officially Delays Compliance Deadline to October 1, 2015; CMS Publishes 2015 ICD-10 Guidelines
In August, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule which delayed the transition to ICD-10 until October 1, 2015, one year away. Prior to the enactment of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA), the health care industry was preparing to transition to ICD-10 by October 1st of this year. Last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the official ICD-10 Guidelines for Coding and Reporting.
CMS explains that these guidelines should be used in conjunction with the official version of the ICD-10-CM as publ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 15, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
ICD-10 Delay - Latest News on Coding
With all the hype that went into the launch of ICD-10, there is a lot of debate on how the delay, signed into law by President Obama on April 2, will affect the healthcare community. The 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems was slated to go live this year, but that changed when Congress passed H.R. 4302. How will the wasted momentum affect medical practices and EHR implementation?
H.R. 4302
Provision H.R. 4302 allows for a one-year delay in the compliance deadline for ICD-10. H.R. 4302 prevents cuts to payments under the sustainable growth formula. This repri...
Source: EMR EHR Blog for Physicians - April 9, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Suzanne Prasad Source Type: blogs
A Five-Dimensional View of Pain | Pain Research Forum
Leaders of a major effort to systematically classify all common chronic pain conditions expect to have the first stage completed by mid-July 2014. The Pain Taxonomy, a project of the ACTTION public-private partnership, and the American Pain Society is one of two independent initiatives launched last spring to fill a widely perceived need for an updated evidence-based approach to improve diagnosis, treatment, and research of chronic pain (seePRF related news story). Key issues and decisions of the initial consensus meeting held in May 2013 are summed up in the March 2014 issue of The Journal of Pain. The paper also des...
Source: Psychology of Pain - April 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Funny ICD-10.2 Codes Never Before Discovered!
UPDATE: ICD-10 has been delayed until October 1st, 2015.If you have never had a chance to cruise through the 68,000 ICD-10 codes set to go live on October 1st, 2014, you're missing out on some great humor. What does ICD stand for? ICD stands for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. Medicaid.gov provides a nice brief review of the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. If you do a Google search for funny ICD-10 codes, you'll find some healthcare related websites claiming to describe the best, funniest, strangest, most outrageous and colorful codes in the b...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - February 17, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Is ADHD Overdiagnosed? It’s Complicated, Part 2
Earlier this year, the CDC released data that showed that diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) went up over the past few years. But the CDC data also showed that diagnoses went up across the board for multiple mental disorders.
Some media outlets at the time, however, only focused on the increase in the diagnosis of ADHD. This two-part article (part 1 is here) examines whether there really is an “over”-diagnosis of ADHD — or whether it’s more complicated than answering with a simple “yes” or “no.”
The Recent BMJ Study
This past month, the prestigious...
Source: World of Psychology - November 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: ADHD and ADD Children and Teens Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Parenting Policy and Advocacy attention Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Bmj Depression Diagnosis Media Outlets Mental Disor Source Type: blogs
Is ADHD Overdiagnosed? Yes & No
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 2, 2013
A headline on Monday about the marked rise in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, described incorrectly the disorder that saw the increase. It is A.D.H.D. — not hyperactivity, which is present in only a portion of A.D.H.D. cases. The article also misidentified the organization that plans to change the definition of A.D.H.D. to allow more people to receive the diagnosis and treatment. It is the American Psychiatric Association, not the Am...
Source: World of Psychology - November 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: ADHD and ADD Children and Teens Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Parenting Policy and Advocacy Treatment Alan Schwarz American Psychiatric Association attention Attention Deficit Attention Deficit Hy Source Type: blogs
Organizing principles: Classifying pain for healthcare, research | Pain Research Forum
Where does it hurt? How bad does it hurt? Why does it hurt? The many inconsistent and inadequate ways of sorting chronic pain by anatomy, severity, and associated medical conditions are impeding the health and well-being of patients, optimal medical care, and treatment advances, say pain experts who are calling for a change. This spring, two major efforts are taking shape to fill a widely perceived need for standardized worldwide diagnostic criteria to classify all chronic pain conditions (Finnerup et al., 2013; IOM, 2011; Rief et al., 2012; Rief et al., 2010; von Hehn et al., 2012)....
Source: Psychology of Pain - May 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
