An Urgent Call to Raise Awareness of Heart Disease in Women
By KELLY CARROLL
There is a dire need to raise awareness about heart disease in women. It is the number one killer of American women, and key data points reveal a lack of cognizance among doctors and women.
An assessment of primary care physicians published in 2019 revealed that only 22% felt extremely well prepared to evaluate cardiovascular disease risks in female patients. A 2019 survey of American women showed that just 44% recognized heart disease as the number one cause of death in women. Ten years earlier, in 2009, the same survey found that 65% of American women recognized heart disease as the leading cause o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice heart disease Kelly Carroll Life Essential 8 prevention Womens health Source Type: blogs
Postpartum depression: 40 years of insights [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We sit down with Alan Lindemann, an obstetrics-gynecology physician, to delve into the intricate world of postpartum depression (PPD). With over four decades of experience in the field, Alan offers invaluable perspectives and advice on navigating the complexities of PPD and
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Postpartum depression: 40 years of insights [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 17, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alan Lindemann, MD & Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 4th 2024
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Increased Dietary Leucine Activates mTOR Signaling in Macrophages, Accelerating Atherosclerosis
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/02/increased-dietary-leucine-activates-mtor-signaling-in-macrophages-accelerating-atherosclerosis/
Leucine is an essential amino acid, only obtained from the diet rather than synthesized by our cells. Leucine supplementation has been proposed as a way to slow the loss of muscle mass with age, as leucine processing becomes dysregulated with aging in a way...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 3, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 19th February 2024
Not sure where the time went, but here are some things that might be useful to know. Respectful maternity careRespectful maternity care, a systematic review . This is a systematic review of definitions and valid measurements of " respectful maternity care " . There is also an AHRQ (the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) Comparative Effectiveness Review on the topic. Recommendations and researchWHO recommendations on the assessment of postpartum blood loss and use of a treatment bundle for postpartum haemorrhage.The effect of subsequent pregnancy and childbir...
Source: Browsing - February 19, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Postpartum does not equal depression
You hear it in conversations with friends when returning to work. Maybe in clinic visits with your patients. Definitely among celebrities and on mainstream media. And maybe you’ve even said it yourself. ” “My sister suffered with postpartum.” “I was just diagnosed with postpartum.” “My wife had to seek help after we realized she was
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Postpartum does not equal depression originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 17, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Emily Little, PhD Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
The surprising truth on how to avoid postpartum depression
The current popular notion is that postpartum depression (PPD) cannot be prevented. Rather, it can only be diagnosed with an Edinburgh test once the patient has PPD. Often PPD is considered to be both surprising and mysterious. In reality, it is neither. PPD is nothing new. We’ve known about it for years. My first experience
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The surprising truth on how to avoid postpartum depression originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 7, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alan Lindemann, MD Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Shrink Wrap Radio Podcast - Living with Depression
Catch my interview withDr. David Van Nuys onShrink Wrap Radio Podcast as we talk about my latest book, mental health, the power of psychotherapy and wellbeing. (Source: Dr. Deborah Serani)
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - November 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: author visits book tour depression mental health mood disorders non-suicidal self-injury podcasts postpartum psychoanalysis psychotherapy resiliency treatment well-being. Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Zurzuvae: a beacon of hope for postpartum depression or a superficial solution?
The FDA approval of Zurzuvae (zuranolone), the first oral medication, has offered new hope to mothers who have exhausted all other treatment options to cope with their postpartum depression. This is a milestone in recognizing the maternal mental health crisis that plagues our country. The benefit of this drug is that it offers a new
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Zurzuvae: a beacon of hope for postpartum depression or a superficial solution? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 5, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sonal Patel, MD Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT
For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. However, with healthcare being ever-evolving our regulations are also ever evolving. This can make it extremely difficult to not only follow all of the ones in place today but to prepare our organizations for the upcoming regulations.
To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. The following is what they had to say.
Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Andrew Harding athenahealth Brightside Health Cassie Choi Darena Solutions e4 Services Freshpaint Healthc Source Type: blogs
The harm of the “ just do it ” culture in medicine: a story of postpartum depression
“There’s no such thing as postpartum depression.” These were the unsolicited words from my obstetrician in the third trimester of my first pregnancy. “It’s only sleep deprivation,” she explained. As an MD, I’d been taught there was indeed such a thing as postpartum depression. But as the patient in that interaction, a pregnant woman, I
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The harm of the “just do it” culture in medicine: a story of postpartum depression originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jennifer Lycette, MD Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
The untold struggles of a surgical fellow
My experiences with mental illness have been intimately tied with my experiences of being a surgical trainee. If you read my medical chart, you will see diagnoses like postpartum depression, generalized anxiety, and adjustment disorder. If you read my residency rotation reviews, you will read descriptors like “hardworking,” “reliable,” and “good team leader.” You would
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The untold struggles of a surgical fellow originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mohini Dasari, MD Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 2nd August 2023 - Research
Some recent research you might like to know about. Payment, a subscription, or if you have one, a librarian, might be needed to get full text access.Acupuncture and doxylamine-pyridoxine for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy : a randomized, controlled, 2 x 2 factorial trial. Real-time imaging as visual biofeedback in active second stage of labor among nulliparas: a randomized controlled trial. The effect of virtual reality glasses applied during the episiotomy on pain and satisfaction: a single blind randomized controlled study.Efficacy of early intrauterine balloon tamponade for immediate postpartum hemorrh...
Source: Browsing - August 2, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
The Top 10 Health Chatbots
This study from March 2023 reports how an app developed to help patients’ bowel preparation can increase compliance and thus, the number of successful colonoscopies.
In some cases, health chatbots are also able to connect patients with clinicians for diagnosis or treatment, but that is one step further down the line. The general idea is that in the future, these talking or texting smart algorithms might become the first contact point for primary care. Patients will not get in touch with physicians or nurses or any medical professional with every one of their health questions but will turn to chatbots first. If th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design health chatbot Innovation List medical Personalized medicine AI technology digital health chatbots Source Type: blogs
