Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 5th 2021
In conclusion, the findings suggest that DNAm GrimAge is a strong predictor of mortality independent of genetic influences.
Heart Failure Correlates with Increased Cancer Risk
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/07/heart-failure-correlates-with-increased-cancer-risk/
Age-related disease results from the underlying cell and tissue damage that causes aging. Different people accumulate that damage at modestly different rates, the result of lifestyle choices and exposure to infectious disease. Thus the presence of a sufficient burden of damage to produce one age-related disease will be accompanied by a...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 4, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Heart Failure Correlates with Increased Cancer Risk
Age-related disease results from the underlying cell and tissue damage that causes aging. Different people accumulate that damage at modestly different rates, the result of lifestyle choices and exposure to infectious disease. Thus the presence of a sufficient burden of damage to produce one age-related disease will be accompanied by a raised risk of other age-related conditions. The conditions themselves need not have any direct relationship with one another, but can be distinct outcomes of the same root causes. Here, however, researchers propose that heart failure may provoke increased cancer risk via inflammatory and ot...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 1, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Nasal Endoscopy for Urgent and Complex ED Cases
Fiberoptics and endoscopy have changed the way we treat patients in the emergency department. Endoscopes are relatively easy to use, and can aid your diagnosis and treatment plan. Endoscopy may be useful in urgent cases, such as epistaxis, nasal foreign bodies, and ear debridement. It may also be helpful when dealing with more complicated presentations and critically ill patients, such as those with Ludwig's angina, epiglottis, tracheostomies, or those who need intubation.Fiberoptic tools are not just for surgeons and consultants. The endoscope has many uses in the emergency department, and we have a few tips and tricks...
Source: The Procedural Pause - October 28, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: November 2018
By BISHAL GYAWALI MD
Keynote speech
There was a very sobering piece in NEJM by the FDA last month in which the authors try to explore what went wrong with the Keynote-183, Keynote-185 and checkmate 602 trials testing PD-1 inhibitors combinations with pomalidomide or lenalidomide and dexamethasone in multiple myeloma. Interim analysis of Keynote 183 and 185 revealed detrimental effects on overall survival (OS) with hazard ratios of 1.61 and 2.06, not explained by differences in toxicities alone. The checkmate 602 trial was also halted in light of these findings and also showed higher mortality in the nivolumab combina...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Pharmaceuticals Physicians Bishal Gyawali Cancer drugs cancer immunotherapy Clinical Trials FDA Oncology PD-1 inhibitors Source Type: blogs
A Case of Missing Teeth
An older man presented to the emergency department for respiratory complaints, and a routine series of studies—blood work, ECG, and a chest x-ray—almost automatically appeared in the orders.Haziness on the left side—left hilar fullness probably isn't good. A CT scan would likely confirm the fears of cancer.The large mass wasn't unexpected, but did you see the metallic foreign body in the stomach? There was something on the left side under the diaphragm on the upright chest radiograph. The same thing appeared on the coronal CT image. Did he swallow something?Upon detailed questioning, the patient remembered t...
Source: Lions and Tigers and Bears - October 2, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Parapharyngeal space schwanomma :MRI
The parapharyngeal space is often described to be a deep potential neck space shaped as an inverted pyramid. The base of the pyramid is at the skull base, and the apex is at the greater cornu of the hyoid bone. Clinically, the parapharyngeal space should be considered in two compartments: pre-styloid compartment and poststyloid compartment. This patient showed well-defined, iso- to hyper-intense mass with heterogenous areas of enhancement in the left parapharyngeal space in the poststyloid compartment, displacing the major vessels and compressing the oropharyngeal airway.Of all the parapharyngeal space tumor...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - March 6, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Nivolumab with chemotherapy improves response, survival in AML study patients
The immunotherapy drug nivolumab in combination with standard chemotherapy more than doubled reaction rates and improved overall success in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to preliminary findings by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - December 5, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
American Cancer Society Updates HPV Vaccine Recommendations to Include Males
In a new report, the American Cancer Society recommends that 11- and 12-year-old girls as well as boys should be vaccinated to guard against cancers associated with the human papilloma virus (HPV). “HPV vaccination has the potential to prevent tens of thousands of cancers and hundreds of thousands of pre-cancers each year,” said Debbie Saslow, PhD, director of cancer control intervention for HPV vaccination and women’s cancers at the American Cancer Society. “It is critical that all the stakeholders here—families, health care providers, and others—make HPV vaccination a priority, so that prevention of the vast ...
Source: BHIC - July 20, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Michelle Burda Tags: Children and Teens General Health Information Literacy Public Health Source Type: blogs
A Day in the Life of an Acute Care SLP
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from a guest blog post that originally appeared on Tactus Therapy. In the post, speech-language pathologist Brenda Arend shares highlights of a typical day working in acute care at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington.
8:30 a.m.: Assigning patients
The first part of my day is spent opening up patient charts in our EPIC electronic medical record and assigning three SLPs to see patients in our 380-bed hospital. Two or three SLPs cover a caseload that ranges from 15 to 30 patients, although recently we see as many as 42. In addition, we also provide outpatient video fluo...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 9, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Brenda Arend Tags: Speech-Language Pathology acute care Aphasia Cognitive Rehabilitation Dysphagia Health Care Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
As If We Don’t Have Enough to Think About
My work recently took me to the Multidisciplinary Symposium on Head and Neck Cancer. Among the proceedings was a discussion of the epidemiology of oropharyngeal cancer—cancer of the throat. Historically, this tumor typically occurred in people with long histories of smoking and drinking. Treatment brings the prospect of disfiguring surgery, although the surgeons do great work these days, and/or a 6-7 week slog of radiation... // Read More » (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 25, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Jon Holmlund Tags: Health Care bioethics Health Care Practice syndicated Source Type: blogs
NYU Researchers Develop New Assessment Tool to Combat Oral-Systemic Disease Across the Lifespan
The Interprofessional Oral Health Grant Team Challenges the Medical Profession to “Put the Mouth Back in the Head” in the American Journal of Public HealthImproving oral health is a leading population health goal; however, curricula preparing health professionals have a dearth of oral health content and clinical experiences. Funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), New York University College of Nursing’s (NYUCN) Teaching Oral-Systemic Health (TOSH) Program is working to build interprofessional oral health workforce capacity which addresses a significant public health i...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - January 26, 2015 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Curt Schilling Announces He is a Victim of Oral Cancer from Smokeless Tobacco: Time for MLB to Ban the Stuff
This summer, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling announced that he had undergone treatment for oral cancer, which he clearly attributes to this 30-year history of smokeless tobacco use (he was not a smoker). According to an article at MLB News:"Curt Schilling said Wednesday that he believes his use of smokeless tobacco led to oral cancer that required radiation and chemotherapy. Schilling revealed the type of cancer he had while speaking on WEEI Radio during the Boston station's annual fund-raising broadcast for the Jimmy Fund. "I do believe without a doubt, unquestionably, that chewing is what gave me cancer,...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - October 1, 2014 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
99205 CPT ® Code Description, Progress Notes, RVU, Distribution.
This 99205 CPT ® lecture reviews the procedure code definition, progress note examples, RVU values, national distribution data and explains when this code should be used in the clinic and hospital setting. CPT stands for Current Procedural Terminology. This code is part of a family of medical billing codes descr ibed by the numbers 99201-99205. CPT ® 99205 represents the high (level 5) office or other outpatient new patient visit and is part of the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS). After you're done studying this lecture, make sure to also review the lectures on level three andlevel four ...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - November 26, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: The Happy Hospitalist Source Type: blogs
