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The Difficulty Of Counting the COVID-19 Pandemic ’s Full Death Toll
Sara Wittner had seemingly gotten her life back under control. After a December relapse in her battle with drug addiction, the 32-year-old completed a 30-day detox program and started taking a monthly injection to block her cravings for opioids. She was engaged to be married, working for a local health advocacy group in Colorado, and counseling others about drug addiction. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The virus knocked down all the supports she had carefully built around her: no more in-person Narcotics Anonymous meetings, no talks over coffee with trusted friends or her addiction recovery sponsor. As the virus stressed...
Source: TIME: Health - June 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markian Hawryluk / Kaiser Health News Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Not Just Acid Reflux: The Need to Think Worst First
Discussion Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.1 This year, 720,000 Americans will have a new coronary event—defined as first hospitalized myocardial infarction (MI) or coronary heart disease death—and around 335,000 will have a recurrent event. Approximately 35% of people who experience a coronary event in a given year and around 14% of patients who have an acute coronary syndrome will die from it.1 Roughly 60% of patients with an acute coronary syndrome are transported to the emergency department via ambulance.2–4. Up to one-third of patients experiencing an MI may not complain of chest...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 13, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Stephen Sanko, MD, FACEP Tags: Exclusive Articles Cardiac & Resuscitation Source Type: news

Abstract 126: The Association Between Medication Aherence and Time in Therapeutic Range (TTR) Among Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Treated With Warfarin: Lessons From the Parkland Health and Hospital System Session Title: Poster Session I
Conclusions: TTR to Warfarin in this underserved population is suboptimal. Given that adherence to Warfarin is independently associated with poor TTR, in the absence of strong adherence interventions, a policy of universal NOAC adoption is unlikely to significantly improve outcomes. If patients are transitioned to NOACs, this data implies that a targeted adherence intervention will be necessary to ensure that the medication is effective in reducing the risk of stroke.
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - March 31, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Wang, J., Vigen, R., Clark, C., Das, S. Tags: Session Title: Poster Session I Source Type: research

How Exercise Shapes You, Far Beyond the Gym
(Photo: Grady Reese) By Bradley Stulberg When I first started training for marathons a little over ten years ago, my coach told me something I've never forgotten: that I would need to learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. I didn't know it at the time, but that skill, cultivated through running, would help me as much, if not more, off the road as it would on it. It's not just me, and it's not just running. Ask anyone whose day regularly includes a hard bike ride, sprints in the pool, a complex problem on the climbing wall, or a progressive powerlifting circuit, and they'll likely tell you the same: A diff...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Heart Health -- Love, Happiness, Gratitude, and Learning
"Money is of no value to me. Love gives you more. You can't get rid of love, when you give more, you get more." --Warren Buffett My friend Emily Sachs Wong texted me these words after having dinner with Warren Buffett, I have no idea what they were eating and for the first time in my life I wasn't interested. Perhaps because when someone says something like that, you just let it soak in. I was struck by the fact that he so clearly expressed what seemed to me to be a profound statement about what is important in life. Emily Sachs Wong and Warren Buffett February is heart month and organizations like Go Red for Women are fo...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Biggest Medical Stories You May Have Missed In 2015
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Craig Bowron As we head into the New Year, let’s take a look back and see what lessons we should have learned from medical science in 2015. The New England Journal of Medicine’s publication Journal Watch provides physicians and other health care providers with expert analysis of the most recent medical research. Below is a brief synopsis of what the Journal Watch editors felt were the most important stories in general medicine for the year 2015. While you likely heard about a couple, others probably escaped your radar. Getting Aggressive with Strokes We’re familiar with the id...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 15, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Lessons Learned From Trends in Insufficient Sleep Across the United States
This article originally appeared on the Amerisleep blog. Rosie Osmun is the Creative Content Manager at Amerisleep, a progressive memory foam mattress brand focused on eco-friendly sleep solutions. Rosie writes more posts on the Amerisleep blog about the science of sleep, eco-friendly living, leading a healthy lifestyle and more. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Design Your Healthy and Happy Life With 3 Quick Makeovers: Small Steps Equal a Big Impact
Design your healthy and happy life with these super quick makeover tips that will have you wanting more. A healthy and happy life is about living blissfully, with passion and purpose, not just about the absence of disease. The great news is that we can design our own healthy lifestyle plan just like interior designers create beautiful spaces; we can design it no matter where we are in your own health journey; dealing with an illness, or recovering from an injury. What's even better news is that we don't need to do a complete overhaul. Who doesn't love a quick makeover? Sometimes, all it takes is new throw pillows or a bold...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Southern Diet: Dead on Arrival
We probably could have predicted the outcomes of a recent and well done study. Does a typical Southern diet, rich in fried foods, fatty foods, eggs, processed meats like bacon and ham, organ meats, and sugar rich drinks, promote heart disease? Some clues were available. The yearly map of rates of obesity by state in the U.S. show the Southeast to have the greatest problem with weight. Paula Dean and her cooking led to her declaration that she had diabetes and changes in her recipes. Now researchers from the National Institutes of Health have put the "sugar coating" on the topic by providing strong data condemning this patt...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Village voices: lessons about processes for disease prevention from a qualitative study of family health leaders in a community in northeastern Thailand - Jongudomkarn D, Singhawara P, Macduff C.
BACKGROUND: Cancer is a primary source of concern in Thailand and other countries around the world, including the Asian-Pacific region. Evidence supports that an important contributing cause of cancer and other chronic illnesses such as stroke, diabetes, a...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Stroke Education Using an Animated Cartoon and a Manga for Junior High School Students
Conclusions: Stroke education using these teaching aids of the animated cartoon and the Manga improved stroke knowledge in junior high school students.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - March 31, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Yuya Shigehatake, Chiaki Yokota, Tatsuo Amano, Yasuhiro Tomii, Yasuteru Inoue, Takaaki Hagihara, Kazunori Toyoda, Kazuo Minematsu Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Developing complex interventions: lessons learned from a pilot study examining strategy training in acute stroke rehabilitation.
Conclusions:It is feasible and acceptable to administer both intervention protocols as an adjunct to acute inpatient rehabilitation, and strategy training shows promise for reducing disability. PMID: 24113727 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Rehabilitation - October 10, 2013 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Skidmore ER, Dawson DR, Whyte EM, Butters MA, Dew MA, Grattan ES, Becker JT, Holm MB Tags: Clin Rehabil Source Type: research

Stroke Education Program of Act FAST for Junior High School Students and Their Parents
Conclusions: Our stroke education program improved stroke knowledge, especially the FAST message, for junior high school students and their parents.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - October 4, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Tatsuo Amano, Chiaki Yokota, Yuki Sakamoto, Yuya Shigehatake, Yasuteru Inoue, Akiko Ishigami, Takaaki Hagihara, Yasuhiro Tomii, Fumio Miyashita, Kazunori Toyoda, Kazuo Minematsu Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research