Avoiding the Doctor? It’s Time to Man Up and Get Checked Out
Do you know someone who should have seen a doctor years ago? Maybe it’s your husband, or your father, or your brother, even your son? They complain about the shortness of breath, the nagging cough, or the stomach pain. But they never take action. For some men, so decisive at work or within the family circle, the lack of motivation to get an illness or symptom checked out is surprising. In fact, men are 24% less likely to have visited a doctor in the past year than women. Seeing a doctor is scary and it makes them feel weak and out of control.
Roald Bradstock was one of those men. An Olympic athlete who trained 3 to 4...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Men's Health Source Type: blogs
Avoiding the Doctor? It’s Time to Man Up and Get a Checked Out
Do you know someone who should have seen a doctor years ago? Maybe it’s your husband, or your father, or your brother, even your son? They complain about the shortness of breath, the nagging cough, or the stomach pain. But they never take action. For some men, so decisive at work or within the family circle, the lack of motivation to get an illness or symptom checked out is surprising. In fact, men are 24% less likely to have visited a doctor in the past year than women. Seeing a doctor is scary and it makes them feel weak and out of control.
Roald Bradstock was one of those men. An Olympic athlete who trained 3 to 4...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Men's Health Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, September 20, 2013
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Orlistat Helps Trim Waistlines. Treatment of overweight and obese individuals with orlistat (Xenical, Alli) was associated with decreased waist circumference to a greater extent than either placebo or standard care.
Less Radiation Works in Early Breast Cancer. Hypofractionated radiotherapy after surgery for early breast cancer is at least as effective and safe as the historical standard regimen.
Screening Cuts Colon Cancer Mortality. Colorectal cancer screening — be it colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, or fecal occult-blood testing — reduced risks of colorectal cancer mortality.
Study Supports B...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 20, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News Cancer Obesity orthopedics Source Type: blogs
Positive diagnostic strategy non-inferior to exclusion in IBS
(HealthDay)—For sufferers with ib syndrome (IBS), an optimistic diagnostic strategy is actually non-inferior to a strategy of exclusion with regard to patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL), according to a study released in the August problem associated with Clinical Gastroenterology as well as Hepatology .
Luise Meters. Begtrup, Meters. N., from Fyn University in Denmark, and colleagues conducted a non-inferiority demo comparing a positive diagnostic strategy with a strategy of exclusion with regard to patients’ HRQOL. Participants included 302 sufferers (aged 18 to 50 years) from primary...
Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - August 9, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Inclusion of Virtual Colonoscopy as HEDIS® Screening Modality Could Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening Compliance, Study Suggests
Reston, VA (Jan. 10, 2013) — Availability of CT colonography (CTC), commonly known as virtual colonoscopy, is increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates across military medical facilities. Inclusion of CTC as a Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set® (HEDIS®)-compliant colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test can potentially raise overall screening rates, according to a study in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance developed HEDIS to provide quality measures for the evaluation of standards of medical care across health ...
Source: radRounds - January 17, 2013 Category: Radiologists Authors: radRounds Radiology Network Source Type: blogs
