The Child Sexual Abuse Conspiracy
BY DAVID INTROCASO
(After this essay was submitted to THCB the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on March 28th titled, “Protecting Young Athletes From Sexual Abuse.” USA Gymnastics refused to appear and provide testimony likely, in part, because USA Gymnastics’ President, Steve Penny, was forced to resign on March 16th. The issue was framed by Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley as a “heinous crime,” no health care or public health expert testified and the hearing and was reported in sports pages of the The New York Times and The Washington Post.)
If you do not read the sports page you ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Why we should do only Day 5 transfers for poor ovarian responders
Lots of clinics do Day 5 ( blastocyst) transfers, but they usually reserve them for patients with a good ovarian response - patients who have good eggs and lots of embryos , because they're pretty confident that they will get Day 5 embryos. However, they will use double standards when they're treating patients with diminished ovarian result. These are patients who have few eggs and few embryos and they're very scared that they may not get any blastocysts. This is why they will usually transfer their embryos on Day 2 or Day 3. These justification for this is as follows - If we only have two embryos on Day 3, then ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - March 7, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Tags: Blastocyst day 5 transfer ivf IVF pregnancy IVF success rate oopause Poor ovarian reserve Source Type: blogs
WaPo Leaked Tape of GOP Repeal & Replace Talks is Troubling. But Also Weirdly Reassuring …
By STEVEN FINDLAY
“We’re telling those people that we’re not going to pull the rug out from under them, and if we do this too fast, we are in fact going to pull the rug out from under them.”
– Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J)
“The fact is, we cannot repeal Obamacare through reconciliation. We need to understand exactly: what does that reconciliation market look like. And I haven’t heard the answer yet.”
– Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif)
“It sounds like we are going to be raising taxes on the middle class in order to pay for these new tax credits.”
– Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La)
These q...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
WaPo Leaked Tape of GOP Repeal & Replace Talks is Troubling. But Also Reassuring …
By STEVEN FINDLAY
“We’re telling those people that we’re not going to pull the rug out from under them, and if we do this too fast, we are in fact going to pull the rug out from under them.”
– Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J)
“The fact is, we cannot repeal Obamacare through reconciliation. We need to understand exactly: what does that reconciliation market look like. And I haven’t heard the answer yet.”
– Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif)
“It sounds like we are going to be raising taxes on the middle class in order to pay for these new tax credits.”
– Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La)
These q...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
And the Democrats Wonder Why They Lost the Election?
By ALLISON BOWLES
Now I have insurance. But I can’t use it. What am I supposed to do? I know this one is long but it’s worth a read if you want to understand issues pertinent to the Affordable Care Act. My personal story illustrates many of the problems with the ACA.
I started taking notes on the Health and Human Services Secretary hearing, and I will share more as I scrutinize the hearing in more detail but let’s start with the breakdowns below and my experience with Obamacare. Here goes:
These are the breakdowns of who gets what coverage in the United States:
Medicare 18% – 52m
Employer 61% R...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Judges Who Stand Up To Presidential Power Grabs Deserve Respect
Some on the left are still blasting judges as activist for standing up to Obama administration assertions of executive power in the regulatory sphere. That might prove shortsighted considering what ’s on the agenda for the next four years, or so I argue in a recent piece in the Providence Journal (alternateversion).I take particular exception to a Bloomberg View column in which Noah Feldman, professor at Harvard Law, assails federal district judge Amos Mazzant III for enjoining the Department of Labor’s overtime rule for mid-level employees. In a gratuitous personal jab, Feldman raises the question of “whethe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 12, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
How to Build Character
“Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.” – Cyrus A. Bartol
The desire to be of good character is not only a laudable effort, but also a worthwhile one that pays handsome dividends. It’s unfortunate that more people don’t see the value in striving to achieve character.
There’s nothing like good character for making an indelible impression. When faced with someone with stellar character, others cannot fail to notice and be affected by what’s right in front of them.
It doesn’t take much hard thought to comprehend what Bartol meant by likening character to a diamond. While in the literal...
Source: World of Psychology - December 22, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Addiction Happiness Motivation and Inspiration Personality Recovery Self-Esteem Self-Help Success & Achievement character building Confidence Decision Making Rationalization Source Type: blogs
Why life insurers need to invest in patient education
I was very excited when I saw the full page advertisement Aviva Life Insurance ran on 18 Dec 2016 in the Times of India , on providing heart care to couples.The IRDA now allows life insurers to also cover medical illnesses , and I think this is a very healthy trend. In the past, health insurance products were primarily provided by health insurance companies. Most of these had a very shortsighted approach because of legacy issues. They were illness insurance product, which reimbursed for the medical care needed in case the customer fell ill. This is why they did not invest in preventive health care.There was no business cas...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - December 19, 2016 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Accelerating Health System Transformation By Disrupting The Status Quo
However the nation’s policies evolve in the months ahead, one thing is clear—how policy makers meet our health and health care challenges remains among the core questions we face as a country. Going back to the time of former President Teddy Roosevelt, lawmakers have tried to address the health of the US population. And while various policy solutions have been tried over the past 100 years, we still don’t have it right.
To get to the solution, we have to start by being honest with ourselves: we know that America’s health system is failing us, and we know why.
Too often, we don’t properly value population health, ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Laura Landy Tags: Costs and Spending GrantWatch Organization and Delivery Population Health Source Type: blogs
Medicaid, Meet Indiana
By JONATHAN HALVORSON
We will soon have a Vice President and a head of CMS who hail from the great state of Indiana, and are proud of what they’ve done with Medicaid there through the Healthy Indiana Plan. Seema Verma, the proposed CMS Administrator, is credited with being the architect of Healthy Indiana, and Mike Pence, the Vice President-elect, presents Healthy Indiana as one of the signature achievements of his term as governor of that state.
It is too early to tell if the program will be enough to raise Indiana up the ranks on health and healthcare from the bottom quintile (1, 2). However, since Republicans have r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jonathan Halvorson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Donald Trump and the Gift of Fear
The prospect of Donald Trump as president is only slightly less ridiculous than the idea ofCharlie Sheen with nukes —and possibly more frightening. And yet, it looks as though the verbally incontinentcelebreality billionaire has a one in three chance of being elected come Tuesday. Terrifying, yes, but fear can be useful. In this case, it ought to concentrate the mind wonderfully: if someone so manifestly unfit, so transparently likely to abuse power, can come within striking distance of the presidency, then maybe it was a bad idea to concentrate so much power in the Oval Office in the first place. It ’s no sec...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 4, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
The Richest Life: Consumer to Advocate
You want more.
Yes, you have a high-paying job, a dutiful spouse, and all the modern accoutrements. Underneath your polished veneer, there is a bubbling restlessness.
Something is missing, and you desperately want to reclaim it.
The issue: defining what ‘it’ is. Then doing something it.
It could represent numbing myopia, mounting indifference, or a stirring wanderlust. As you check off items on your daily to-do list, you recognize the ‘why’ underlying your simmering discontent.
Life is too comfortable.
The solution: embrace the discomfort.
In life, we crave the familiar. Our daily routine provides order fo...
Source: World of Psychology - September 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: Anxiety and Panic Motivation and Inspiration Personal Stress Success & Achievement Boredom Career Change Comfort Zone Discontent Personal Growth Predictability risk-taking routine wanderlust Source Type: blogs
The story of a neurologist who quit medicine and lives on a boat
I write this while sitting in our sailing catamaran, swaying in the wind and current eight feet above sand and sea grass. I know this because I can see right through the water in the Bahamas. There is clarity here.
When I started this journey thirteen months ago, I was burning with anger. I was angry at insurance companies for developing complex, mutable formularies, coverage policies, and appeal procedures, maximizing my burden to minimize their cost. I was angry at pharmaceutical companies and the many layers of profit-seeking middlemen between them and my patients, their unregulated maneuvering resulting in arbi...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 9, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/melinda-burnett" rel="tag" > Melinda Burnett, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Neurology Source Type: blogs
Any IVF clinic which doesn't routinely transfer blastocysts is a bad IVF clinic
I know this is a provocative statement and is going to raise a lot of hackles, because most IVF clinics in India don't do day 5 transfers. While quite a few do day 3 transfers, many still continue doing day 2 transfers.We used to do day 2 and day 3 transfers in the past as well, but the technology has become so good that we can routinely do day 5 transfers for everyone who comes to us. I think any clinic which doesn't do, this is actually being irresponsible. Not only are they depriving their patient of the best chance of getting pregnant, they're also signaling that they're not very confident about their ability or expert...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - July 30, 2016 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
NIH News in Health, July 2016 Issue
Check out the July issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research.
Features
Safeguarding Our Health: Vaccines Protect Us All
A Blurry Worldview: Understanding Myopia
Health Capsules
Physical Activity Linked to Reduced Cancer Risk
Understanding Aphasia
Featured Website: Test Your Sense of Pitch
NIH News in Health, July 2016 http://bit.ly/29upIJr (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - July 8, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kay Deeney Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs
