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Will Cancer Drugs Ever Be As Affordable As Retrovirals in Low and Middle Income Countries?
By ASHLEY ANDREOU
In 2014, the majority of international health aid was dedicated to HIV. So, one might reasonably assume that this is the largest health problem facing the world. Yet, HIV only constitutes 4% of the global burden of disease. In 2014, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) made up 50% of the entire disease burden, but only received 2% of all global health funds.
The disease burden of NCDs is fast outpacing that of infectious diseases. Despite this, the proportion of global health financing dedicated to combatting NCDs has remained constant over the past 15 years at 1 to 2%.
Currently, 32.6 million individuals are...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: OP-ED Biologic generics Cancer Pharmaceuitcals Retrovirals Source Type: blogs
Tips for Teaching Graduate Students About Dysphagia
“When I was in graduate school, we didn’t even have a class on dysphagia,” I sometimes tell my students. But before you hold this against me, I did realize this gap in my education during my clinical fellowship back in 1993, so I attended a course taught by Jeri Logemann.
The course helped me connect the dots, but I did my fellowship in an outpatient department for a children’s hospital, so I needed to learn quickly. Fortunately, Joan Arvedson, Bob Beecher and Monica Wojcik continued to shape my pediatric dysphagia knowledge.
Now I’m a clinical instructor and guest lecturer teaching a pediatric dysphagia course t...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jennifer WIlson Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia Feeding Disorders NICU Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
The Myth That Refuses to Die: All Health Care is Local
By PAUL KECKLEY
In 1980, industry healthcare planners imagined a system where the centerpiece was a hospital in every community and a complement of physicians. Demand forecasting was fairly straightforward: based on the population’s growth and age, the need was 4 beds per thousand and 140 docs per 100,000, give or take a few.
In 1996, the Dartmouth Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences published the Dartmouth Atlas on Health Care quantifying variability in the intensity of services provided Medicare enrollees in each U.S. zip code. They defined 306 hospital referral regions (HRRs) that remain today as the basis for...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 28, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Paul Keckley Source Type: blogs
The Biology Behind the Fertility Clinic Meltdown
*This blog was first published at DNA Science Blog at Public Library of Science*
The spindle apparatus is among the most elegant structures in a cell, quickly self-assembling from microtubules and grabbing and aligning chromosomes so that equal sets separate into the two daughter cells that result from a division. But can spindles in cells held at the brink of division in the suspended animation of the deep freeze at a fertility clinic survive being ripped from their slumber off-protocol, as happened the weekend of March 4 at the Pacific Fertility Clinic in San Francisco and University Hospitals Fe...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 28, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care Fertility syndicated Source Type: blogs
Genomic Gymnastics of a Single-Celled Ciliate and How It Relates to Humans
Credit: Denise Applewhite.
Laura Landweber
Grew up in: Princeton, New Jersey
Job site: Columbia University, New York City
Favorite food: Dark chocolate and dark leafy greens
Favorite music: 1940’s style big band jazz
Favorite hobby: Swing dancing
If I weren’t a scientist I would be a: Chocolatier (see “Experiments in Chocolate” sidebar at bottom of story)
One day last fall, molecular biologist Laura Landweber surveyed the Princeton University lab where she’d worked for 22 years. She and her team members had spent many hours that day laboriously affixing yellow Post-it notes to the laboratory e...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 28, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Chris Palmer Tags: Being a Scientist Genetics Cells Cellular Processes Cool Creatures DNA Genomics Research Organisms RNA Source Type: blogs
When dying is a rebirth
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My life is extraordinary. Such a hyperbolic-sounding statement and yet, in so many ways, so very true.
Extraordinary because a decade ago I was told I had three to five months left to live. Diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) three years earlier, the removal of most of my left lung followed by chemotherapy had done little to slow down the cancer. Too diffuse for radiation, we had run out of options.
And so, I did what the dying do. Grieving as preparations began. I bid adieu to friends and family, held my children even closer, and sought the help of a thoracic social worker. Th...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Linnea Olson Tags: Cancer Health Source Type: blogs
The Color of Bioethics
I would like to take you through a thought exercise. More often than not, we are reflecting on more sober, serious topics but I would like to invite you think about a different question today: what is the color of bioethics? To some this may seem like a silly question and maybe it is. However, as we move towards an increased professional presence we need to reflect on our image, including color. We reflect on how we present ourselves in body language, communication, and writing but why not color as well?
In the professional marketing world, a lot of thought is given to color. As professionals, we are sometimes traine...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 12, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Machine Learning for Building Personalized Cancer Nanomedicines: Interview with Dr. Daniel Heller
Dan Heller
Researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute and the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences in New York have developed a machine learning approach to design personalized nanoparticle therapies for cancer.
Personalized cancer the...
Source: Medgadget - February 15, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
The Moment I Got My MFA
I hadn ’t expected to care that much about earning my Master of Fine Arts in creative writing degree. Sure, I felt pride for the two years I dedicated myself to the work. But, I didn’t think the three letters “MFA” on my résumé, the validation that I finished what I had started, or the brief cere mony at which I would wear the goofy “hood” would matter to me.When the thirteen of us went backstage at Freeport High School on the night of Saturday, January 13, to dress in our academic regalia, my heart rate began rising. It wasn ’t even related to the Eagles taking the lead over the Falcons. In fact, for proba...
Source: cancerslayerblog - January 23, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: a day in my life life lessons MFA Source Type: blogs
Defend Britt Hermes from a naturopathic cancer quack trying to silence her through legal thuggery
One of the favorite tactics of cranks and quacks to silence criticism from bloggers is to threaten to sue for libel. Ex-naturopath turned science advocate Britt Hermes is currently living this reality, as a naturopathic cancer quack is currently suing her for libel in Germany. Given that Britt is a graduate student in evolutionary biology her means are quite modest and as is no doubt the intent, just defending this lawsuit could ruin her and her husband financially. Fortunately, you can help help her, and I urge you to do so.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - January 15, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Naturopathy Pseudoscience Quackery Britt Hermes Britt Marie Hermes Colleen Huber featured legal thuggery libel Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Talking with Suicide Documentary Director Lisa Klein
In this episode of the Psych Central Show, hosts Gabe Howard and Vincent M. Wales talk with Lisa Klein, director of the powerful documentary about suicide, The S Word. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. Nearly everyone has lost someone to suicide, whether a family member, friend, coworker, etc. Despite this, we don’t talk about it enough. In this episode, the director speaks of why she chose to make this film and how it affected her personally. Additionally, she talks about some of the stories that didn’t make it into the movie, the diverse perspectives featured, and more.
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Source: World of Psychology - January 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: General Grief and Loss Suicide The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
RSNA 2017: 2016 Redux...Centaurs Will Make Radiology Great Ag-AI-n!
In readinglast year ' s RSNA report, I was struck with just how little has changed.Here I am this year, 2017, and here ' s how I looked at RSNA 2016:A little grayer, perhaps a pound or two more. But otherwise same ol ' Dalai. And same ol ' RSNA. I even manned the RAD-AID booth again:Yes, I tied the bow-tie all by myself.This is a model housed at the Bayer booth of the airship RAD-AID hopes to use to bring imaging to underserved areas; I think the official rendering is much more impressive, and maybe even a little, well,buxom:I ' m still lobbying for a seat on the first flight. Did I saybuxom? I meanthandsome!I did attend t...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - December 17, 2017 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Hey Watson, Can I Sue You?
By JAYSON CHUNG & AMANDA ZINK
Currently, three South Korean medical institutions – Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Pusan National University Hospital and Konyang University Hospital – have implemented IBM’s Watson for Oncology artificial intelligence (AI) system. As IBM touts the Watson for Oncology AI’s to “[i]dentify, evaluate and compare treatment options” by understanding the longitudinal medical record and applying its training to each unique patient, questions regarding the status and liability of these AI machines have arisen.
Given its ability to interpret data and present treatment op...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
What do you do when a colleague has cancer?
This year has brought about change — the theme of 2017. As it comes to a close and I reflect back, it is so hard to believe what is going on in the world today, let alone just the United States.
In 2017, I graduated from my internal medicine residency training program, passed my board exam and celebrated my one-year wedding anniversary. I helped my family cope with my grandmother’s progressive dementia and supported them as we realized she could no longer live at home. Despite all of these big life events, nothing made me feel the way I felt after I heard that a colleague of mine still finishing residency was diagnosed...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 7, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Practice Management Source Type: blogs
