How short-term increases in testosterone change men ’s thinking style
Competitive situations or the presence of attractive potential mates can lead to the short-term testosterone increases that were the focus of the new research
By Emma Young
The hot-headed “macho man”, who acts first and thinks later, has long been popular in movies. Now there’s psychological evidence to support it. A new study in the Psychological Science finds that a short-term rise in testosterone – as might occur when in the presence of an attractive potential mate, or during competition – shifts the way men think, encouraging them to rely on quick, intuitive, and generally less accurate, judgement...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: biological Cognition Gender Sex Thought Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs New Issue: Market Concentration
The September issue of Health Affairs includes a group of studies examining different aspects of health care markets: market concentration, preserving competition, and provider networks. Other September studies provide updates on Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage.
The issue was supported in part by The Commonwealth Fund, which provided funding for the studies on market concentration.
Insurers drive down hospital and physician prices
The rapid pace of consolidation in health care markets has continued: From 1998 to 2015, there were 1,412 US hospital mergers, with 40 percent of them after 2009. To examine how provider and i...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs journal Source Type: blogs
“We need to understand what stimuli and interventions can result in healthy fetus/ baby development” — Eduardo Briceño, CEO of Mindset Works
Question: Eduardo, please share 1-2 major brain health needs you observe right now whose solution demands a creative and significant tech-enabled innovation.
Answer: We need to understand what stimuli and interventions can result in healthy fetus/ baby development, reducing the percentage of children developing significant brain deficiencies and providing means for pregnant women, parents, and health care providers to deliver those stimuli and interventions.
Question: And what advice would you give an entrepreneur launching an innovation to address those needs–for the approach to be successful and sustainable?
Ans...
Source: SharpBrains - August 29, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Technology baby brain development fetus growth-mindset Source Type: blogs
Trial by Error: Retired PACE Investigator Peter White and Swiss Re
By David Tuller, DrPH
On November 17, 2015, a few weeks after publication of my 15,000-word investigation of the PACE trial, I posted a blog about a talk Peter White gave to Swiss Re employees on the findings from his bogus study. Professor White, of course, was the lead PACE investigator and also served–and apparently still serves–as “chief medical officer” for the insurance company.
Swiss Re has released information about its 2017 “insurance medicine summit,” to be held this coming November. Not surprisingly, Professor White is on the schedule. Although he has retired from his academic position, he a...
Source: virology blog - August 7, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Yoga improves treatment-related symptoms in men with prostate cancer
Decades of research show that yoga can reduce the emotional and physical fatigue brought on by cancer treatment. Now researchers have shown for the first time that’s also true specifically for men being treated for prostate cancer. Men who took a yoga class twice a week during treatment reported less fatigue, fewer sexual side effects, and better urinary functioning than men who did not, according a new study. “The data are convincing,” said the study’s principal investigator, Dr. Neha Vapiwala, an associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. “Wha...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Prostate Health Yoga Source Type: blogs
New Way to Reprogram Macrophages Helps Immune System Kill Tumors
Macrophages, as their greek-derived name implies, are hungry white blood cells that consume all kinds of foreign and unwanted objects within the body. They are one of the primary methods that the immune system uses to fight off disease, and they work by checking the protein content on the exterior of cells to identify whether the cells are native or are invaders. In terms of cancer, macrophages, unlike T-cells, are able to penetrate solid tissue but are often a long way from being effective, ignoring diseased cells because the proteins on their outer layer match the ones found on healthy cells.
At the University of Pennsyl...
Source: Medgadget - July 21, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Genetics Oncology Source Type: blogs
Researchers Optically Clear Blood Clots to Study Their Structure and Pathogenesis
These days blood clots are often successfully removed from the body using minimally invasive catheter-based tools. They are then summarily discarded, but researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Riverside, and University of Notre Dame have developed an investigative non-clinical imaging technique that allows the study of the removed clots to better understand their formation and how they come to be.
This so-called “optical clearing” technique makes clots easier to see through, allowing for up to a millimeter of penetration of light into a clot. Previous capabilities only permitt...
Source: Medgadget - July 17, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs
The Most Important Questions About the GOP ’ s Health Plan Go Beyond Insurance and Deficits
By ROSS KOPPEL and JASMINE MARTINEZ
Ending healthcare for those who need it will not make them or their problems disappear. On the contrary, the GOP plan will shatter American families and the economy. Nothing magical happens if we stop caring for the elderly, the ones who need vaccinations, the small infections that can be treated for $2 worth of antibiotics, the uncontrolled diabetics, and those with contagious diseases who clean our schools’ offices and homes. They don’t just get healthy.
As George Orwell said in Down and Out in Paris and London, “the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obli...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs ’ July Issue: Advanced Illness & End-of-Life Care
The July issue of Health Affairs explores topics related to advanced illness and end-of-life care. Often when needs are as much social and spiritual as they are medical, people are confronted with a fragmented, rescue-driven health care system that produces miraculous results but also disastrous failures.
The July issue of Health Affairs was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Medical spending in last year of life is lower than previously reported
Shedding new light on end-of-life medical spending, data from eight countries and the Canadian province of Quebec suggest that high costs associated with the fina...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Larner Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Briefing: Advanced Illness And End-Of-Life Care
Few areas of health
care are as personal, or as fraught, as care for people with serious
illnesses who are approaching death. At a point in their lives when their
needs are often as much social and spiritual as they are medical, people
are confronted with a fragmented, rescue-driven health care
system that produces
miraculous results but also disastrous failures.
As the nation’s population of individuals over the age of 65 is expected to
reach 84 million by 2050, addressing these challenges becomes increasingly
important, requiring coordination across multiple sectors and levels of
government. ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 29, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Stadium Boondoggles Spread to the Minor Leagues
In Prince William County, Virginia, just south of Washington, the board of supervisors isabout to decide whether to issue $35 million in bonds to build a new baseball stadium for the Potomac Nationals, a Class A affiliate of the Washington Nationals. The board just rejected a proposal to let the taxpayers vote on the issue.Art Silber, the retired banker who put up $300,000 to buy the team in 1990,estimates that it ’s now worth $15 to $25 million. But“Right now, we have the worst ballpark in the league and one that probably ranks in the bottom 10 of organized baseball’s 160,” he said. “At the new ballpark, the vis...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 28, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Briefing: Advanced Illness and End-of-Life Care
Few areas of health care are as personal, or as fraught, as care for people with serious illnesses who are approaching death. At a point in their lives when their needs are often as much social and spiritual as they are medical, people are confronted with a fragmented, rescue-driven health care system that produces miraculous results but also disastrous failures.
As the nation’s population of individuals over the age of 65 is expected to reach 84 million by 2050, addressing these challenges becomes increasingly important, requiring coordination across multiple sectors and levels of government. Innovations are needed to p...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured Advanced Illness End-of-Life Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer's and Anesthesia
Alzheimer's and anesthesia don't mix well. Some physicians are advising their patients that are already diagnosed with Alzheimer ’s to avoid surgery unless absolutely necessary.By Sydney S. Farrier, LCSWHow often have you heard the comment about an older person who recently underwent a major surgery, "She was fine until she had that (hip surgery, knee replacement, cardiac surgery, etc) but now she seems confused."Learn More -What is the Difference Between Alzheimer ’s and DementiaThis week I was visiting with an attractive woman in her 80's who had a knee surgery under a general anesthesia a couple of years ago. About ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - June 26, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's alzheimer's anesthesia Alzheimers Dementia anesthesia dementia care of dementia patients dementia care dementia made worse by anesthesia dementia news health Source Type: blogs
What Is Your Nursing " North Star " ?
Many nurses often refer to the profession of nursing as a " calling " . Being a nurse can become and intrinsic part of our personal identity, and reporting for work can end up meaning much more to us than just a paycheck.There are also nurses who approach their work like any other employed person, with no acknowledgment that there is anything more to be gained than a means to a financial end by fulfilling the tasks required of our position. There is no judgment of this approach to professional nursing, but this apparent dichotomy is worthy of our exploration.Way back on the November 12th, 2012 episode ofRN.FM Radio, Dr. Vi...
Source: Digital Doorway - June 26, 2017 Category: Nursing Tags: nurse nurse practice nurse professionalism nurses nursing nursing identity nursing practice Source Type: blogs
