States Aren't Waiting for DC to Regulate Insulin Prices, They're Doing It Themselves
Back in March 2018, I co-authored (along with Scott King, the former editor ofDiabetes Health magazine) an article (catch the article athttps://www.diabeteshealth.com/good-bad-diabetes-advocacy-world/ for reference) about some patient advocacy wins and challenges ahead. One of the challenges ahead was about runaway insulin prices.We started to see action on runaway insulin prices in state capitals happen a few years ago.Nevada got an early start in 2017, introducing a transparency bill that requires drugmakers who made insulin specifically to report pricing, costs, and rebates. It was signed into law by the state ' s Repub...
Source: Scott's Web Log - February 18, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2020 insulin insulin prices legislation state laws Source Type: blogs
A Fed Geography Lesson
George SelginAlthough one might suppose that, to be eligible to serve as a Federal Reserve governor, a candidate should know something about monetary policy or banking or both, so far as the law is concerned, only two things clearly matter: a candidate cannot serve more than once, and he or she can’t be from just anywhere.Few Americans will know that that second requirement exists, why it does, and how it has come to be routinely ignored. Yet the question of geographic eligibility is likely to be raised during upcoming Senate confirmation hearings for two current Fed Board nominees, Judy Shelton and Chris Waller. Hen...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Renaissance Rad Feature: Dr. Supriya Gupta MD
Dr. Supriya Gupta MD is a Radiologist specializing in neuroradiology at AMITA Health St. Mary ’s Hospital - Kankakee, IL Tell us about your area of clinical expertise within your practice/organization: Dr. Gupta: I am responsible for pretty much all radiology studies except vascular IR, with a focus on neuroradiology and breast imaging, two image-intensive subspecialties. Along with that I look at the IT and dose sub-committee at the local site, advising solutions which benefit us and integrate the best technology with the highest benefit to cost ratio. I am also responsible for supervising quality metrics in the ra...
Source: radRounds - February 4, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Robin Pine Miles Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 27th 2020
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 26, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Misunderstandings of Mental Illness Cost Qualified People Their Jobs
Complaining about work is a popular pastime. It can be a way of bonding with others who also have impossible bosses, annoying coworkers, or miserable working conditions. But few of us would want to be unfairly barred from all that work can offer. The benefits of a job go beyond economic support. In the best cases, jobs can provide structure, social ties and social support, welcome challenges, and maybe even a sense of self and a meaningful life.
If you have a mental illness, though, you may find it particularly difficult to land a job, even if you want to work and you are qualified for the jobs that interest you. According...
Source: World of Psychology - January 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. Tags: Policy and Advocacy Stigma Mental Illness Stigma Source Type: blogs
Notes on the SENS Research Foundation Pitch Day, January 2020
The J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference runs every year in San Francisco, a big draw for the biotech industry, and many organizations take the opportunity to host events at the same time. Among these, the SENS Research Foundation has for the past few years hosted a pitch day in which biotech companies in the longevity industry, largely startups, present to that portion of the Bay Area investor community interested in funding the treatment of aging as a medical condition. I was there to present on progress at Repair Biotechnologies, and took some notes on the other companies as they talked about their work.
Kimera Labs
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Source: Fight Aging! - January 20, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Investment Source Type: blogs
How To Be An Effective Climate Activist, According To Psychology
Young activists take part in a climate strike in Edinburgh. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
By Emma Young
Watching climate activist Greta Thunberg’s passionate speech to world leaders at the UN in New York last September, it was impossible not to be struck by her depth of feeling. For me, it was deeply moving. For a guest speaking on Fox News, this was “climate hysteria” from a “mentally ill Swedish child”.
It’s hardly news to point out that Thunberg is polarising. For everyone who feels shocked and shamed into doing whatever they can — no matter how small — to mitigate climate change,...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: environmental Feature Social Source Type: blogs
9 Tips to Ace a Nursing Career Fair
May and August nurse grads, are you ready? This Wednesday, January 22, 40 employers will be on site to recruit nurse externs, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse leaders. Here’s a preview of the organizations you’ll meet: Boston Children’s, Children’s National, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Providence Health & Services, Rush, Seattle Children’s, and Yale. Here are
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 17, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Career Lab career fair Source Type: blogs
Why Do We Have Residency Training?
This article originally appeared on The Sheriff of Sodium here.
The post Why Do We Have Residency Training? appeared first on The Health Care Blog. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Education Medical Practice Physicians AMCAS Bryan Carmody Medical residency medical training medicale ducation Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 13th 2020
In this study, we investigated the link between AF and senescence markers through the assessment of protein expression in the tissue lysates of human appendages from patients in AF, including paroxysmal (PAF) or permanent AF (PmAF), and in sinus rhythm (SR). The major findings of the study indicated that the progression of AF is strongly related to the human atrial senescence burden as determined by p53 and p16 expression. The stepwise increase of senescence (p53, p16), prothrombotic (TF), and proremodeling (MMP-9) markers observed in the right atrial appendages of patients in SR, PAF, and PmAF points toward multiple inter...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 12, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Revel Pharmaceuticals Finally Seed Funded to Develop Glucosepane Cross-Link Breakers
I'm pleased to see that the Revel Pharmaceuticals founders have finally sorted out a seed round to fund their work; the establishment of this startup has been in progress for a few years now, and some of us were beginning to think it a lost cause. Revel Pharmaceuticals is the biotech startup established to develop glucosepane cross-link breaker drugs based on work carried out by the Spiegel Lab at Yale. That team, supported by the SENS Research Foundation, first developed a means to synthesize glucospane, and then found bacterial enzymes that can break down glucosepane cross-links.
Glucosepane is the most prevalent ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 7, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Investment Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 6th 2020
Conclusion
A great deal of progress is being made in the matter of treating aging: in advocacy, in funding, in the research and development. It can never be enough, and it can never be fast enough, given the enormous cost in suffering and lost lives. The longevity industry is really only just getting started in the grand scheme of things: it looks vast to those of us who followed the slow, halting progress in aging research that was the state of things a decade or two ago. But it is still tiny compared to the rest of the medical industry, and it remains the case that there is a great deal of work yet to be done at all...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
TULA System for Awake Ear Tube Placement FDA Approved
Ear infections are notoriously common in children, but the usual treatment is relatively straightforward. An incision is made in the ear drum (myringotomy) and tympanostomy tubes are placed to drain out the liquid that has built-up within. However, because children are involved, pain is a major limitation and it is very difficult to get the kids to stay still long enough to achieve success. Therefore, general anesthesia is typically a required part of the process, which comes with the potential for side effects, high treatment costs, and an impression that the procedure is a full scale surgery.
Now, a company called Tu...
Source: Medgadget - January 3, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology ENT Pediatrics Surgery Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at 2019: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
Conclusion
A great deal of progress is being made in the matter of treating aging: in advocacy, in funding, in the research and development. It can never be enough, and it can never be fast enough, given the enormous cost in suffering and lost lives. The longevity industry is really only just getting started in the grand scheme of things: it looks vast to those of us who followed the slow, halting progress in aging research that was the state of things a decade or two ago. But it is still tiny compared to the rest of the medical industry, and it remains the case that there is a great deal of work yet to be done at all...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Death: Major Advances & Unresolved Questions
The December 2019 issue of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine is devoted to exploring major advances and unresolved questions about death.
The issue includes 25 articles representing contributions that provide legal, medical, and ethical perspectives on the process of dying. Several of these articles focus on brain death and medical aid in dying.
Practice Variability in Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria for Adult PatientsAlexandra Junn, David Y. Hwang
Brain Death Criteria: Medical Dogma and OutliersMolly Rayner, Maha Mansoor, Tanya Holt, Gregory Hansen
Looking Back at Withdrawal of Life-Support Law ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 22, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
