New Reports Confirm Perio-Systemic Connection and Outline Clinical Recommendations
European Federation of Periodontology and American Academy of Periodontology Issue Consensus Reports Reaffirming Relationship between Periodontal Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Adverse Pregnancy OutcomesChicago, IL – April 30, 2013 – The American Academy of Periodontology (AAP), in collaboration with the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP),) recently published a series of consensus reports that analyze the scientific evidence linking periodontal disease, specifically periodontitis, to other systemic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and adverse pregnancy outcomes. The consensus...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - May 2, 2013 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Power Up: The Performance Benefits of a Simple Mental Exercise
Can this mental exercise make you more employable?
"Have successful professionals always been successful? Take Francesca Gino. An Associate Professor at Harvard, she is considered by many to be a superstar.
But things did not always look so bright for her: two years in a row she gave job talks at a number of top 10 schools and universities, but got no offers from those schools. Yet, in 2009, everything suddenly turned up roses; she got offers from Harvard, Wharton, Berkeley, and New York University. What had changed?
Well, clearly she was older and wiser. But she also changed her pre-talk ritual: before each campus talk an...
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
When the Doctor Is Overweight - NYTimes.com
This is a fascinating article. I am very interested in hearing from you regarding your thoughts on this topic. Please leave a comment to this blog -- it should make for a very interesting discussion. I know that as a physician, I spend all day speaking to patients about their weight, their level of physical activity, their diet, their smoking and their medical compliance. There are definitely days that I feel hypocritical if I know that recently I have not been exercising or eating well or taking my medicines as prescribed. When I feel this, it helps me relate to my patients and understand just how hard the thing...
Source: Dr Portnay - May 1, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs
Independent Review Needed for Future DSM Revisions
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the association’s comprehensive guide that sets the classification, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders across the United States and the world. In an April 24 Health Affairs Web First analysis and commentary, Helena Hansen of New York University and coauthors argue that the revision process for the DSM-5 missed crucial population-level and social determinants of mental health disorders and their diagnoses.
Some of these include environmental factors triggering biological responses that manifest in behavior; differing cultural perceptions in defining...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 26, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: All Categories Insurance Mental Health Nonmedical Determinants Payment Pharma Source Type: blogs
Trying to Burnish Its Image, Johnson & - Johnson Turns to Emotions
The company’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit recalled more than 280 million packages of over the counter medications like Motrin, children’s Tylenol liquid and Benadryl in 2010, and the same year, its DePuy Orthopedics unit recalled two popular artificial hip replacement models. About 10,000 lawsuits have been filed involving those artificial hip devices and while a Chicago jury this month rejected claims of wrongdoing by Johnson & Johnson in one suit, another lawsuit in March yielded a less favorable outcome when a Los Angeles jury ordered the company to pay more than $8.3 million in damages to a Montana...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 26, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
The Seven Stages of Alzheimer's
describes the progression and pattern of symptoms that typically occur in individuals living with Alzheimer’s dementia.
+Alzheimer's Reading Room
What is Alzheimer's Disease
It is important to note that not everyone living with Alzheimer's or a related dementia will experience the same symptoms or progress at the same rate over time. As a result, the Seven Stages of Alzheimer's should be look at as guidelines to expectations.
People with Alzheimer’s typically live an average of 8 years after diagnosis, but may survive anywhere from 3 to 20 years.
The framework for this section is a system that outlines key symp...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 19, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
NYU Faculty Vote No Confidence in their President
Faculty at large American universities, in which most of the country's medical schools and teaching hospitals are embedded, are becoming increasingly concerned about the leadership and governance of their organizations, and whether the universities are putting their academic (and clinical) missions ahead of other concerns, like making money and rewarding top executives.In January, 2013, we discussed a an informal, anonymous vote faculty at the University of Miami medical school expressing no confidence in their dean and his chief lieutenant.The NYU No Confidence Vote The faculty of a major component of another big US unive...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: New York University executive compensation boards of trustees free speech academic freedom transparency accountability Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, February 18, 2013
This series is brought to you by MedPage Today.1. Sandy’s Impact on Clinical Trials Still Being Felt. When Hurricane Sandy shut down a number of its hospitals, New York University researchers worked overtime to keep clinical trials going, but enrollment in new trials is down, according to investigators.2. Diabetes: Control Better, But Still Short of Goal. More patients with diabetes are meeting targets than was the case a decade ago, but there is still room for improvement, especially within certain subgroups.3. Steroids Reduce Benefits of Prostate Ca Tx. Men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) on treatm...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 18, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News Cancer Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Study Warns Against Dual Blockade of Renin-Angiotensin System In Heart Failure And Hypertension
The enormous success of ACE inhibitors in hypertension and heart failure spurred hope that adding a second drug to block the renin-angiotensin system would yield improved outcomes. Although definitive evidence supporting dual blockade of the renin-angiotensin system has never been found, more than 200,000 patients in the US currently receive  this therapy. Now a large new meta-analysis suggests that dual blockade results in no improvement in mortality but is associated with an increase in important adverse events. In a paper published online in BMJ, Harikrishna Makani and colleagues at Columbia University and New York Uni...
Source: CardioBrief - January 28, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Heart Failure Policy & Ethics Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes ace inhibitor Angiotensin II receptor antagonist hypertension Renin-angiotensin system Source Type: blogs
Accelerated Degrees
Amen to this:
But now one of the nation’s premier medical schools, New York University, and a few others around the United States are challenging that equation by offering a small percentage of students the chance to finish early, in three years instead of the traditional four. Administrators at N.Y.U. say they can make the change without compromising quality, by eliminating redundancies in their science curriculum, getting students into clinical training more quickly and adding some extra class time in the summer.
Not only, they say, will those doctors be able to hang out their shingles to practice earlier, b...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - January 2, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Buckeye Surgeon Source Type: blogs
Help Wanted: Brain Scientist
The brain controls just about everything we do, think, and feel. It coordinates all of the body’s physical functions—like standing, walking, and breathing—as well as our memory, emotions, and behaviors.
Managing all of those jobs requires 100 billion neurons, or brain cells. And those neurons have trillions—yes, trillions—of connections through synapses, or routing switches that control how these nerve impulses travel around the brain and through the body.
With so much going on in that tightly packed space between our ears, it’s no wonder the brain requires its own field of scientific research—neuroscience.
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Source: NIDA Drugs and Health Blog - October 16, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Sara Bellum Source Type: blogs
