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Where You Live Can Shape How Alzheimer ’ s Affects You
The FDA in mid-July for the first time ever approved an Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi. The annual price-tag will run patients $26,500. The same week, the Alzheimer’s Association for the first time ever released county-level data to identify which communities are most struggling with the disease. 6.7 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease and 134,000 of them will die because of it each year. We’ve known these aggregate numbers for a while now, but with new data and new drugs, healthcare specialists can now better target attention and resources. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] ...
Source: TIME: Health - August 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeremy Ney Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news

Estimating the Cost of Delivering Tobacco Cessation Intervention Package at Non-Communicable Disease Clinics in Two Districts of North India
CONCLUSION: The development costs of the intervention package accounted for the majority proportion of the total cost. Of the total unit cost of implementation, the telephonic follow-up, human resources, and capital resources were the major contributory components.IMPLICATIONS: The current study aims to fill gaps by estimating the unit-level health systems cost of a culturally sensitive, disease-specific, and patient-centric tobacco cessation intervention package delivered at the outpatient settings of NCD clinics at the secondary level hospital, which represents a major link in the health care system of India. Findings fr...
Source: Cancer Control - July 4, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Garima Bhatt Sonu Goel Tanvi Kira Sandeep Grover Bikash Medhi Gurmandeep Singh Sandeep Singh Gill Source Type: research

Effect of Tai Chi Yunshou training on the balance and motor functions of stroke patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
CONCLUSION: Initial evidence seems to show that Tai Chi Yunshou training can improve the balance and motor function of stroke survivors and further improve walking ability and daily living ability, and the rehabilitation effect may be better than that of conventional rehabilitation training.SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=376969, identifier [CRD42022376969].PMID:37251239 | PMC:PMC10213663 | DOI:10.3389/fneur.2023.1178234
Source: Cancer Control - May 30, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Liying Zhang Lijuan Zhang Xiaoming Yu Huanxia Zhou Yuwu Ding Jiening Wang Source Type: research

Inflammation May Be the Culprit Behind Our Deadliest Diseases
In the early days of my medical residency, I met a man whom we’ll call Jason. He arrived to our emergency room on a holiday, nonchalant yet amiable, and complained of mild chest pain. Jason was tall and trim, with a strong South Boston accent and fingertips still faintly stained from his last home-improvement project. He was only 45 years old, but he looked much younger. He didn’t smoke, barely drank alcohol, and his cholesterol levels had always been normal. No one in his family had a history of heart disease. He asked us if we could work quickly—he wanted to be home for dinner with his daughters. [time-...
Source: TIME: Health - April 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shilpa Ravella Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news

The Danish landscape of providing support for caregivers of people with potentially life-threatening disease: A cross-sectional study among representatives of health services in Danish municipalities and hospitals
CONCLUSIONS: Disparities and significant differences across diagnoses exist in the identification of caregivers and the provision of support initiatives. Support initiatives involving caregivers primarily targeted patients. Future studies should investigate how caregivers' needs can be met across different diagnoses and healthcare settings and investigate potential changes in caregivers' needs during disease trajectories. In clinical practice, identification of vulnerable caregivers should be a major focus, and disease-specific clinical guidelines may be required to ensure sufficient support for caregivers.PMID:37026179 | ...
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - April 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Karin B Dieperink Jens-Jakob K M øller Tina B Mikkelsen Nina Konstantin Nissen Karen La Cour Nina Rottmann Source Type: research

Enablers & amp; challenges of tribal women & amp; health system for implementation of screening of non-communicable diseases & amp; common cancers: A mixed-methods study in Palghar district of Maharashtra, India
CONCLUSIONS: The study recommends incorporating socioculturally relevant strategies in the tribal population and strengthening health facilities in terms of infrastructure and training with involvement of ASHAs for successful implementation of the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) through health and wellness centres.PMID:36629192 | DOI:10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_3240_21
Source: The Indian Journal of Medical Research - January 11, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Shantanu Birje Anushree Devashish Patil Kiran Ramdas Munne Vidya Chavan Beena Nitin Joshi Anamika Akula Neha Salvi Smitha Nair Shahanara Prabhu Valawalkar Deepti Tandon Sanjay Chauhan Devendra Patil Bontha V Babu Source Type: research