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Rendering Unto Caesar - What the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute vs Thompson Says About the Loss of the Academic Medical Mission
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A case, reported by the New York Times as involving an intellectual property dispute, should create a lot of cognitive dissonance about the state of the academic medical mission.Litigation Involving the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and Dr Craig B ThompsonHere is how the Times outlined the story:The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace, a cancer institute at the University of Pennsylvania, over accusations that he walked away with groundbreaking research and used it to help start a valuable biotechnology company. In a lawsu...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: secrecy Memorial Sloan-Kettering mission-hostile management intellectual property University of Pennsylvania cancer Source Type: blogs
Should New Hampshire Create a Health Insurance Exchange?Email this article to a colleague.
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The liberty-lovers at New Hampshire’s Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy have produced this video of my appearance before the New Hampshire House of Representatives where I argued against creating health insurance “Exchanges”:
(Notice my rapt audience.)
Should New Hampshire Create a Health Insurance Exchange? is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Michael F. Cannon Tags: General Government and Politics Health Care aca andrew manuse big government chairman jim hunt Constitution government spending health care reform health insurance health insurance exchanges josiah bartlett new hampshire Obamac Source Type: blogs
Milwaukee Man Shoots Armed RobberEmail this article to a colleague.
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A Milwaukee man only recently acquired his permit to carry a concealed handgun and then found himself in the middle of an armed robbery. As the robber threatened a store clerk with a shotgun, the permit holder was able to draw his weapon and shoot the culprit. The Milwaukee District Attorney said: “He disrupted an act that potentially exposed himself and others to great bodily harm.”
Last week, Cato released a new study concerning the frequency with which citizens use guns in self-defense, along with a map to track such events. We’ve already received many suggestions from readers all over the web...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Tim Lynch Tags: Law and Civil Liberties guns self-defense Source Type: blogs
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Official Handel QuitsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A Komen fundraising race from the fall.
Karen Handel, a top official at Susan G. Komen for the Cure who supported the breast-cancer charity’s short-lived decision to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for grants, has resigned.
As the Associated Press reports, Handel is leaving her role as senior vice president for public policy after joining the organization just last year. In her resignation letter, she tells Komen head Nancy Brinker that she thought the decision to end funding to Planned Parenthood because it was the subject of a congressional investigation was the right one.
“I am deeply disappointed by th...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Katherine Hobson Tags: Drugs Cancer Komen Source Type: blogs
My Therapist Is Pregnant, And I Hate Her For ItEmail this article to a colleague.
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When I showed up to my session, my therapist told me we needed to discuss something. Uh oh—had a check bounced? Was she breaking up with me? I’d been thinking it was time to end our sessions; maybe she was trying to beat me to the punch. But no. Those were not the issues at hand. She was pregnant, and wouldn’t be able to hide it much longer, so she was letting all of her patients know. She’s due at the end of June and plans to be on maternity leave for two to three months, but would be available for phone sessions.
I did what society and past experience had taught me is appropriate, and gleefully congratulated ...
Source: Healthbolt - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Amanda Chatel Tags: FEEL psychology Family pregnancy therapy Source Type: blogs
Acting as the Typhoid Mary of the Global Economy, the OECD Urges Higher Taxes in Latin AmericaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Is it April Fool’s Day? Has somebody in Paris hacked the website at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development? Have we been transported to a parallel dimension where up is down and black is white?
Please forgive all these questions. I’m trying to figure out why any organization—even a leftist bureaucracy such as the OECD—would send out a press release entitled, “Rising tax revenues: a key to economic development in Latin American countries.”
Not even Keynesians, after all, think higher taxes are a recipe for growth.
Ah, never mind. I just remembered that the OECD is a hotbed of s...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Tags: General Government and Politics International Economics and Development Tax and Budget Policy big government bureaucrats International Bureaucracy latin america oecd organization for economic cooperation and development Source Type: blogs
The ACA Supreme Court Litigation: The States’ Medicaid And Minimum Coverage BriefsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Briefs continue to be filed at a furious pace in the Affordable Care Act Supreme Court litigation. On January 6, the federal government led off with its brief challenging the decision of the Eleventh Circuit federal court of appeals that the ACA’s minimum coverage requirement (individual mandate) is unconstitutional. The states and the National Federation [...] (Source: Health Affairs Blog)
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: All Categories Health Law Health Reform Insurance Medicaid States Source Type: blogs
Disrupting Women’s Representation in Leadership PositionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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By Robin Strongin. No less an authority than the President of the United States has made it clear how he feels about the importance of having women well represented in the highest levels of the federal government. In an executive proclamation, the President said:
“As you know, it has been my desire to attract the ablest and most talented people in the country to join this Administration and assist in the achievement of our far-reaching goals. The Nation’s many highly qualified women represent an important reservoir of ability and talent that we must draw on to a greater degree. In this Administration we have firmly e...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Policy Politics Healthcare Businesswomen's Association Miss Representation Nancy Pelosi Oval Office Richard Nixon Ursula Burns White House Source Type: blogs
Health Journal: Deciphering the Ailments Tied to GlutenEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers are making slow progress in understanding the numerous ailments that a growing number of people suffer after eating foods with gluten, a protein found in wheat.
As the Health Journal column reports, a group of 15 experts from seven countries took a step forward this week, proposing a new classification and diagnosing system to help doctors and patients figure out whats a wheat allergy, whats celiac disease and what falls under a new category of ills lumped together as gluten sensitivity.
Another international team aims to clear up the confusion caused by experts around the world using different terminol...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Melinda Beck Tags: Drugs Health Journal Nutrition Research Source Type: blogs
A.M. Vitals: Merck Will Apply for Suvorexant Approval This YearEmail this article to a colleague.
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Merck’s Plans: Merck said it plans to apply this year for FDA approval of suvorexant, an experimental treatment for insomnia, the WSJ reports. The drug, an orexin receptor antagonist, produced positive results in two later-stage studies that will be presented at scientific meetings this year, Merck said.
On-Campus Eating: Research published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine finds that about half of kids at public and private elementary schools have access to on-campus foods outside of the cafeteria, such as in vending machines and snack bars, the Los Angeles Times’ Booster Shots blog reports. ...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Katherine Hobson Tags: Drugs Cancer Research Sleep Source Type: blogs
Formaldehyde in Vaccines: A DNA Adduct?Email this article to a colleague.
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Ingredients in vaccines have been shown to harm your DNA
The U.S. National Library of Medicine at NIH in January 2010 published online the “Final Report on Carcinogens Background Document for Formaldehyde.” [1] It’s an interesting document in many respects, especially since it details in vitro and in vivo studies in lab animals, i.e., rats, mice, and hamsters.
Experimental Animals: Formaldehyde has been tested for carcinogenicity in mice, rats, and hamsters. Studies reviewed include chronic and subchronic inhalation studies in mice, rats, and hamsters; chronic and subchronic drinking-water studies in rats, and hams...
Source: vactruth.com - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Cancer DNA Adduct Formaldehyde Vaccine Excipients Source Type: blogs
Will Komen Foundation Withdraw Funding from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center?Email this article to a colleague.
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According to an article in the Boston Globe, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is under federal investigation for overbilling Medicare. The investigation has been underway since 2010 and was disclosed over the last six months. According to lawyers familiar with the investigation, if true, these allegations represent fraud. If intentional, the overbilling is not simply a civil matter, but constitutes criminal wrongdoing, and the hospital could be subject to criminal penalties.According to the article: "Federal investigators have subpoenaed six years of records from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as part of an i...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
The Art of medicineEmail this article to a colleague.
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Can practising medicine be a form of art? (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Physicians Face Cash Crunch – New Payment Models May not Work for Many Private Practice PhysiciansEmail this article to a colleague.
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According to a recent article from CNN Money, “many doctors are going broke,” creating a “quiet reality that is spreading nationwide and claiming a wide range of casualties, including family physicians, cardiologists and oncologists. Industry watchers say the trend is... (Source: Policy and Medicine)
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Convergence of Interest - Not Conflict of InterestEmail this article to a colleague.
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Given all the recent coverage of the proposed regulations implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Section 6002 of the Affordable Care Act), there has been an increasing focus on the issue of “conflicts of interest” that may arise from physicians... (Source: Policy and Medicine)
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
More on Exercise and Muscle Stem CellsEmail this article to a colleague.
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As you might imagine, exercise affects the behavior of muscle stem cells: "researchers determined that an adult stem cell present in muscle is responsive to exercise, a discovery that may provide a link between exercise and muscle health. The findings could lead to new therapeutic techniques using these cells to rehabilitate injured muscle and prevent or restore muscle loss with age. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in skeletal muscle have been known to be important for muscle repair. ... Since exercise can induce some injury as part of the remodeling process following mechanical strain, we wondered if MSC accumulation was a ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Another Study on Exercise and Telomere LengthEmail this article to a colleague.
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If you think that telomere length is a secondary marker of aging and health, then it makes perfect sense that exercise would lengthen telomeres. There is ample evidence to show that average telomere length, while declining with age, is somewhat dynamic in response to circumstances, at least in the white blood cells examined by most present day research: "Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is a potential indicator of cellular aging; however, its relation to physical activity and sedentary behavior is unclear. The authors examined cross-sectionally associations among activity, sedentary behavior, and LTL among 7,813 women aged ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Sex Hormones Govern Genes That Control BehaviorEmail this article to a colleague.
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At least in mice (and probably some day in humans) it is possible to separately tweak the expression of individual genes that are influenced by testosterone and estrogen. Now a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has uncovered many genes influenced by the male and female sex hormones testosterone and estrogen that, in turn, govern several specific types of male and female behaviors in mice. Imagine being able to create humans who have very rare combinations of both female and male traits. That'll be possible eventually. Some prospective parents will opt to do it for a variety of reasons...
Source: FuturePundit - February 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Randall Parker Tags: Brain Sex Differences Source Type: blogs
Who Really Shouldn't Eat GlutenEmail this article to a colleague.
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A group of experts is proposing a new classification system for the gluten-related disorders plaguing a growing number of people world-wide. (Source: WSJ.com: Health Journal)
Source: WSJ.com: Health Journal - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: FREE Source Type: blogs
Many Doctors Don’t Follow Ovarian-Cancer Screening GuidelinesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The government estimates that more than 15,000 women died last year from ovarian cancer.
But routine screening of women with no symptoms isn’t recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists or other professional groups, even for women at high risk for the disease. That’s because the benefits of the available tests — a transvaginal ultrasound and a blood test that detects an antigen called CA-125 — haven’t been shown to outweigh their risks (such as complications from unnecessary surgery), or to reduce the number of deaths.
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Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Katherine Hobson Tags: Drugs Cancer Research Screening Source Type: blogs
Live Now: Are You Less Smart in a Group?Email this article to a colleague.
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Ever clam up at a meeting even though you knew a lot and wanted to contribute? Have you tripped over yourself as you tried to explain a complex subject? Have you felt tongue-tied when the spotlight turns to you at a party? You’re not alone. WSJ’s Bonds columnist Elizabeth Bernstein writes this week about research which shows that some people become, in effect, less intelligent when in professional or social gatherings.
Elizabeth is taking reader questions in a live chat underway right now, moderated by Personal Journal news editor Laura Bird. Join the live event. (Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog)
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Demetria Gallegos Tags: Drugs Research brain scans Source Type: blogs
Cardless National ID and the E-Verify RebellionEmail this article to a colleague.
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New Hampshire was the state where the “REAL ID rebellion” got its start. There, in 2006, Rep. Neal Kurk (R-Weare) took to the floor of the New Hampshire House to talk about his principled opposition to the federal national ID law.
In stirring words, Kurk urged his colleagues to overturn a committee recommendation that no action should be taken on his bill to have New Hampshire reject REAL ID. The House went on to pass his bill and half the states in the nation soon followed suit.
Now a bill pending in the New Hampshire House responds to a more insidious version of the federal government’s national ID plan...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jim Harper Tags: Telecom, Internet & Information Policy Trade and Immigration E-Verify national id Neal Kurk new hampshire real id Seth Cohn Source Type: blogs
Online Dating Isn’t the Likely Route to Mr. or Ms. Right: StudyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Does online dating work?
Well, it’s a great way to meet people, but not for leading you to the partner of your dreams, according to a comprehensive new review published in this month’s issue of the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
The authors, all academic researchers without any financial ties to dating services, combed through the literature on relationships (those begun both on- and offline) and other areas of psychology to take a stab at answering the question.
Using an internet dating site has the advantage over in-person dating in expanding one’s access to the dating pool. Tha...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Shirley S. Wang Tags: Drugs Psychology Research Source Type: blogs
ASCO: Why Cancer Care and Palliative Care Should Be CombinedEmail this article to a colleague.
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Cancer patients with advanced disease should have access to palliative care early on in their illness, according to new guidelines from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
That doesn’t mean oncologists are being encouraged to give up on extending the lives of those patients, says Thomas Smith, an author of the guidance and director of palliative care for Johns Hopkins Medicine and a professor of palliative care in the Hopkins School of Medicine’s oncology department.
Rather, the guidelines recommend combining palliative care — open and honest communication about the progress of the disease and the ...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Katherine Hobson Tags: Drugs Cancer Research Source Type: blogs
E.J. Dionne on Campaign Finance as Class WarfareEmail this article to a colleague.
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E.J. Dionne was in high dudgeon at the Washington Post this morning over Citizens United, the Supreme Court’s January 2010 campaign finance decision that ever since has driven the Left into fits of apoplexy. Taking his cue from Obama’s infamous State-of-the-Union condemnation of the Court shortly after the decision came down, plus the class warfare meme at the core of Obama’s reelection campaign, Dionne attacks not only the Court’s wisdom but its motives:
A more troubling interpretation [than “naiveté”] is that a conservative majority knew exactly what it was doing: that it set out to remake our political syst...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Roger Pilon Tags: General Government and Politics Law and Civil Liberties Source Type: blogs
Consumers Union pushes to improve medical device safetyEmail this article to a colleague.
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As Congress debates whether to reauthorize a statute governing medical devices, Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports is stepping up its campaign to strengthen the law.
Consumers Union wants Congress to require more rigorous testing before medical implants go to market, and establish a better monitoring system, including a national system of notificaiton for when safety problems arise.
Medical devices include every-day items such as eyeglasses and contact lenses, as well as permanently implanted devices like artificial hip joints, surgical mesh, and cardiovascular stents, which can cause serious harm if t...
Source: Consumer Reports Health Blog - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Consumer Reports News Tags: Health Safety & Recalls Source Type: blogs
Will States Lose Medicaid Funds If They Fail to Create an ObamaCare ‘Exchange’?Email this article to a colleague.
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In recent weeks, officials from two states have claimed that if they do not set up an ObamaCare health insurance “Exchange,” the state will lose federal Medicaid or State Children’s Health Insurance Program funds. Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (R), has since walked back that claim. New Hampshire Commissioner of Health and Human Services Nicholas Toumpas has not.
In a January 19 letter to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Toumpas writes:
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) mandates that states create a virtual health coverage marketplace called an Exchange. To ensure compliance with this fed...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Michael F. Cannon Tags: General Government and Politics Health Care aca big government butch otter chip government spending health care reform health insurance health insurance exchanges medicaid Nicholas Toumpas Obamacare obamacare repeal ppaca S Source Type: blogs
Two Health Affairs Articles Among RWJF’s 2011 Top FiveEmail this article to a colleague.
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A belated tip of the hat to two Health Affairs articles included in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s five most influential research articles by RWJF grantees in 2011: Evidence Links Increases In Public Health Spending To Declines In Preventable Deaths, by Glenn Mays and Sharla Smith; and Nurses’ Widespread Job Dissatisfaction, Burnout, And Frustration With [...] (Source: Health Affairs Blog)
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: All Categories Nurses Policy Public Health Quality Research Spending Source Type: blogs
CBO Forecast AccuracyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Economic variables are key drivers of the numbers in CBO’s budget projections. I noted last week that CBO’s new outlook assumes substantially lower interest rates, which appears to produce more than a trillion dollars of savings over the next decade.
Policymakers should be aware, however, that macroeconomic forecasts are not very accurate, despite the sophisticated models available today. Consider how CBO completely missed the recent recession until after it had already started (in December 2007).
Figure 1 shows CBO’s January 2008 projection of real GDP growth (blue bars). The recession had already started, yet CBO p...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Chris Edwards Tags: Tax and Budget Policy Source Type: blogs
The Susan G. Komen Foundation Needs More than PREmail this article to a colleague.
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Carol Schechter
The following is a guest post by Carol Schechter, a leader in the field of health communication and social marketing. You can follow Carol on twitter @carol_schechter.
Last week was a bad week for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. On Monday, they were still an iconic charity; the group that successfully put women’s health issues in the public eye and the group that forever changed our associations with the color pink from babies to breast cancer survivors.
On Tuesday, their world changed. On January 31, AP broke the story that Komen decided to stop funding Planned Parenthood, allegedly because Planned P...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Consumer Health Care Guest Posts Policy Politics Women's Health breast cancer Komen Planned Parenthood Public relations Susan G Komen For The Cure Susan G Komen Foundation Source Type: blogs
Pink Ribbons, Inc. – A Closer Look at Breast Cancer MarketingEmail this article to a colleague.
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With all of the criticism of Komen’s defunding of Planned Parenthood last week, many people are starting to take a more critical look at the organization and its pink ribbon campaigns, asking how much good is really being done for women in breast cancer prevention, research, and treatment.
The timing seems perfect, then, for showings of “Pink Ribbons, Inc.,” a documentary film directed by Léa Pool that takes on corporate pink ribbon campaigns, pinkwashing, and what really happens as a result of this cause-related marketing.
Variety called the film “indignant and subversive,” saying it:
resoun...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Rachel Tags: Activism & Resources Breast Cancer Media Source Type: blogs
Now, on the other handEmail this article to a colleague.
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Having celebrated the wonderfulness of the modern age in my last post, I am now compelled to ponder the converse: we progress by traveling up the edge of a knife. The great advances in public health and lifespan touted by Dr. Fauci, and Stephen Pinker's recent widely noted assertion that we have entered an age of comparative peacefulness and non-violence, the recent gains in prosperity in the vast populations of Asia, the emergence of relative stability and democracy in Latin America and the particularly notable improvements in Brazilian economic and civic life -- these and other developments have given renewed credence to...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
FDA Questions Benefit of Amgen Bone Drug in Certain CasesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Food and Drug Administration questioned the clinical benefit of using Amgen’s bone drug Xgeva to prevent or delay the spread of prostate cancer to the bones.
Xgeva is currently approved to delay fractures and other bone injuries in patients whose cancers have already spread to the bones.
The company is seeking approval for use of Xgeva to prevent the spread of prostate cancer in a group of men that has not responded to other therapies.
Xgeva will be reviewed Wednesday by the FDA’s oncologic drugs advisory committee, which is made up of non-FDA medical experts. The FDA today posted a review of Xgeva in prepa...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jennifer Corbett Dooren Tags: Drugs Cancer Source Type: blogs
As It Turns Out, Money Is SpeechEmail this article to a colleague.
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Those who advocate for more restrictions on campaign finance generally practice a populist politics. They fulminate against the influence of money, demonize donors, and ascribe all the nation’s problems to Citizens United. Once you have read an example such reformist rhetoric, you have read all of them. (But if you must read more, here’s E.J. Dionne’s recent, especially over-the-top offering in the genre).
But not all critics of campaign finance are so intellectually empty. Consider the recent op-ed by liberal law professor Geoffrey Stone. He addresses the question: “Is money speech?” For the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: John Samples Tags: Government and Politics Law and Civil Liberties Political Philosophy Source Type: blogs
Higher education – who is the “customer”Email this article to a colleague.
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Throughout my career I have worked as a medical school faculty member. I took my first job with the naive belief that my main job involved teaching medical students and residents. Over the years I have learned that those who do this job extremely well still may not advance, unless they do the other things like scholarly activity, research grants or clinical income.
This book review caught my eye this morning - The University Of Adam Smith – a book that makes the case for "for-profit" higher education. While I am not sure about the conclusion, the reviewer makes the case for changing o...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Here’s a New One: Micro Businesses Impact Mortality, Obesity and DiabetesEmail this article to a colleague.
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By Glenna Crooks. Next month, the print version of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society will publish an article further exploring the relationship between health and “small” business.
Here’s the short story: counties with a greater concentration of “small,” locally-owned businesses (four or fewer employees) had lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes than counties with a greater concentration of large companies (manufacturers with more than 500 employees or retailers with more than 100 employees).
But hey! Businesses with four or fewer employees are not just “small,” they’re “...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Policy Business Employment health Health Policy Marketing Small business Social Media Source Type: blogs
A.M. Vitals: Social Media Helped Fuel Protests Against KomenEmail this article to a colleague.
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Social Media and Funding Brouhaha: Social media helped galvanize supporters of Planned Parenthood last week after Susan G. Komen for the Cure said it would cut off funding for the women’s health nonprofit — and then reversed its stance, the WSJ reports. According to social-media monitor NetBase Solutions, Komen-related chatter rose 80% from last Monday to Tuesday, when the story broke, with 66% of online conversations against the breast-cancer advocacy group.
The Toll of Child Abuse: Research published in Pediatrics finds that more children under one year of age are admitted to hospitals for child abuse than fo...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Katherine Hobson Tags: Drugs Cancer Diabetes Komen Medicare Obesity Public health Research Source Type: blogs
The ‘Law of Nations’ Is What It Was in 1789Email this article to a colleague.
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One of our oldest laws, the Alien Tort Statute (1789), grants federal courts jurisdiction over lawsuits brought by aliens for actions “in violation of the law of nations.” Courts have differed in their method of interpreting this “law of nations” — an old way of saying “international law” – and thus in their decisions on what behavior violates it and the types of defendants who may be liable. Recent ATS litigation has thus ignited a debate over the role of judges in applying international law.
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum presents the question of whether, under the ATS, the law of nations can be...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ilya Shapiro Tags: Foreign Policy and National Security Law and Civil Liberties aliens amicus briefs ATS international law law of nations Supreme Court Source Type: blogs
Komen Foundation Reverses Decision on Planned Parenthood Funding, But Continues to Deceive the Public About Reason for New Funding PolicyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Brand Will Not Be Restored Unless the Foundation Comes Clean; Organization is Still Practicing Politics, Not Public HealthAfter widespread public protest concerning its decision to withdraw breast cancer screening funding from Planned Parenthood, including an article last Thursday here at the Rest of the Story, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation reversed its decision and will restore funding to Planned Parenthood.The decision was apparently made on Thursday evening in response to the massive outcry. A statement released by the Foundation on Friday announced the reversal of the decision, and attempted to explain wha...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Gestational diabetes and its complicationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Reasons why gestational diabetes should be diagnosed and treated effectively (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
HHS Adoption of Standards for Health Care Electronic FundsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a rule that adopts streamlined standards for the format and data content of the transmission a health plan sends to its bank when it wants to pay a claim to... (Source: Policy and Medicine)
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Independent Payment Advisory Board May Be Much Further Off Than Originally PlannedEmail this article to a colleague.
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One of the major issues with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), something a recent article from POLITICO noted is not likely to happen this year. However, repeal is not necessary... (Source: Policy and Medicine)
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Autophagy Versus ProgeriaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Enhancing autophagy, the cellular housekeeping processes that recycle damaged components and proteins, is one of the possible approaches under investigation for treating a range of age-related conditions and modestly slowing aging. The accelerated aging condition progeria is caused by malformed lamin A, an important structural protein in cells. An accumulation of bad lamin A is something that also occurs in normal aging, albeit to a much lesser degree. Here, researchers propose turning autophagy to remove the damaged lamin A: "Farnesylated prelamin A is a processing intermediate produced in the lamin A maturation pathway. ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Directing Stem Cells to Enhance Bone StrengthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Osteoporosis is a pervasive issue in the old, and potential methods for reversing its effects are welcome: scientists have "developed a novel technique to enhance bone growth by using a molecule which, when injected into the bloodstream, directs the body's stem cells to travel to the surface of bones. Once these cells are guided to the bone surface by this molecule, the stem cells differentiate into bone-forming cells and synthesize proteins to enhance bone growth. ... There are many stem cells, even in elderly people, but they do not readily migrate to bone. Finding a molecule that attaches to stem cells and guides them t...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
SENS5 Video: Collective Advantages of Life ExtensionEmail this article to a colleague.
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As I mentioned the other day, there are more economic benefits to enhanced human longevity than just the obvious ones. Some of these benefits emerge from systematic changes in the interactions and relationships that make up society: the willingness to consider longer time horizons changes the way in which people value all sorts of things, both in the present and for the future. If fifty years from now is someone else's problem in your eyes, you are unlikely to be a good steward of fifty-year bonds - but if you are going to be alive, vocal and very much in the picture five decades from now, then the way in which you look at...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
The danger of weekend admissionEmail this article to a colleague.
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We who work in hospitals know that most hospitals do not work as well on weekends as during the week. I have worked at several hospitals over the years, and every hospital is understaffed on weekends.
Patients 'more likely to die' if admitted at weekends
The study, in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, found that patients were 16% more likely to die if they were admitted on a Sunday than mid-week.
The review looked at all admissions to NHS hospitals in England in one year.
The NHS medical director has called for weekend services to be extended.
The research was carried out at University Coll...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - February 5, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 6th 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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INTERN AT THE SENS FOUNDATION THIS SUMMER
Are you a life science student interested in the biology of aging? Here's a golden opportunity:
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/02/intern-at-the-sens-foundation-this-summer.php
"In the summer of 2012, the Academic Initiative will bring as many as three students to the SENS Foundation Research Center in Mountain View, California to participate in SENS research for three months. These students will receive monthly stipends and, if they are not local to the San Francisco Bay Area, a credit towards airfare. Undergraduate, grad...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 5, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The End of Illness?Email this article to a colleague.
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David Agus an oncologist has some provocative ideas regarding the treatment of cancer after a few decades of research in the field. Last week he released his controversial book, The End of Illness, and here’s the talk he gave at TEDMED 2011 as a preview:
Here’s the book in Amazon
from the Malaysian Medical ResourcesThe End of Illness? (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - February 5, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Palmdoc Tags: - Health tips - Palmdoc Amazon cancer TED Source Type: blogs
Host migrationEmail this article to a colleague.
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Please note that we are about to perform a host migration exercise. There may be a downtime period which hopefully won’t take more than a day or so.
from the Malaysian Medical ResourcesHost migration (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - February 5, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Palmdoc Tags: - Palmdoc Source Type: blogs
What, if any, Parallels Are There Between BP’s Gulf Oil Spill and Big Pharma’s Vaccine Research?Email this article to a colleague.
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Many similarities exist between the British Petroleum oil spill and vaccine research
It’s taken almost two years, but facts are emerging from inter-corporate emails about what BP really knew could happen—and BP withheld—regarding the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill that tragic day, April 11, 2010.
Radio news reports by Dave Cohen of CBS News New Orleans, plus the AP article “BP emails reveal company veiling spill rate” on WWL.com AM870 and FM105.3 website [1] confirm,
…That if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer [sic] at the drill site crude oil could burst into the Gulf...
Source: vactruth.com - February 4, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Source Type: blogs
