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Medgadget Sci-Fi Contest 2017: Meet The Winning Stories
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have all been waiting for – the day that the winners of the Medgadget Medical Sci-Fi Competition are announced and their fantastic stories are published! First, we would like to thank Eko Devices, th...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs

We all treat the whole patient. We must avoid tunnel vision at all costs.
This article was written with Dr. Scarlet’s mother, Susan Scarlet. Sara Scarlet is a surgery resident and can be reached on Twitter at @SaraScarletMD.  This article originally appeared in the Gold Foundation blog.  Image credit: Shutterstock.com Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sara-scarlet" rel="tag" > Sara Scarlet, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Cardiology Hospital-Based Medicine Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Empathy is better felt than defined
Empathy is a cryptic term. Those in the health care profession can certainly spout off a variety of phrases and metaphors that are typically used to describe the concept of empathy in the educational setting. Throughout my medical education thus far it has been described as “putting yourself in another’s shoes” or “sharing in another’s emotion.” We are also taught early on what empathy is not. Empathy is not feeling sorry for someone. Now, these are all definitions that might be elicited when asking the average medical student about the concept of empathy. However, discussing empathy in a classroom does very li...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 31, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/brian-schnettgoecke" rel="tag" > Brian Schnettgoecke < /a > Tags: Education Cardiology Hospital-Based Medicine Medical school Source Type: blogs

Giving Cancer Hell
ANISH KOKA, MD There are 80,000 new cases of primary brain tumors diagnosed every year in the United States.  About 26,000 of these cases are of the malignant variety – and John McCain unfortunately joined their ranks last week.  In cancer, fate is defined by cell type, and the adage is of particular relevance here. Cancer is akin to a mutiny arising within the body, formed of regular every day cells that have forgotten the purpose they were born with. In the case of brain tumors, the mutinous cell frequently happens to not be the brain cell, but rather the lowly astrocyte that normally forms a matrix of support f...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Physicians Anish Koka John McCain Source Type: blogs

Should McCain Fight or Fold?
ANISH KOKA, MD There are 80,000 new cases of primary brain tumors diagnosed every year in the United States.  About 26,000 of these cases are of the malignant variety – and John McCain unfortunately joined their ranks last week.  In cancer, fate is defined by cell type, and the adage is of particular relevance here. Cancer is akin to a mutiny arising within the body, formed of regular every day cells that have forgotten the purpose they were born with. In the case of brain tumors, the mutinous cell frequently happens to not be the brain cell, but rather the lowly astrocyte that normally forms a matrix of support f...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Physicians Anish Koka John McCain Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 10th 2017
This article covers some of the advances of recent years in understanding the effects of varied forms of calorie restriction in humans. Efforts to quantify the results and find a good 80/20 point, at which most of the effects of longer and more stringent reductions in calorie intake are still evident, have resulted in practical outcomes. A number of quite interesting discoveries have been made along the way, such as the ability of longer fasting periods to clear out and replace damaged immune cells to some degree. The second phase of the Comprehensive Assessment of Long-term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (C...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 9, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

A Health Plan CEO Daydreams
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD Jim was at his desk, looking weary. The last few weeks had been brutal.  Despite working twelve-hour days, he felt that he had little to show for it.  His annual board meeting was to take place the next day, and he expected it to be tense. With a replacement bill for the ACA about to be voted on, and with Trump in the White House, the situation seemed particularly precarious.  The board members had asked him to present a contingency plan, in case things in DC didn’t go well. As CEO of a major health insurance company, Jim was well aware that business as usual had become unsustainable in his l...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized AHCA health reform MICHEL ACCAD repeal and replace Source Type: blogs

Misleading Metrics
Editor’s Note: This essay contains excerpts from Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, coming February 21st, 2017 from Penguin-Random House. A few years ago, while at a family get-together, I sat across from a retired hospice social worker named Terry. I am a physician whose practice alternates between attending on the wards of an inner-city intensive care unit and serving as a consultant on the hospital’s palliative care team. I didn’t set out to practice this uncommon combination of medical specialties. I started out totally dedicated to using the miraculous technologies in my critical car...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 21, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Jessica Nutik Zitter Tags: End of Life & Serious Illness Health Professionals Hospitals 30-day mortality statistic advance directive Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Palliative Care Is...
Palliative care is...I wait intently as the board members rearrange themselves in their seats and look up expectantly. Silence. I wasn't going to let it be that easy. I repeat myself and pause again. This time a few tentative answers flutter up to the podium.hospice...comfort care...end of life...giving up?Now this is something I can work with. I clear my throat and smile broadly.Palliative care is a philosophy.I can't help but launch into a series of idioms. I talk of the difference between the forest and the trees. I invoke Osler's famous quote about how the great (palliative) physician trea...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - January 23, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs

The Most Exciting Medical Technologies of 2017
It is almost a tradition for me to publish predictions for the coming year. I do not mean to disappoint you this year either, so here you find some thoughts about the top medical technologies of 2017. 2016 was a rich year for medical technology. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Smart algorithms analysing wearable data. Amazing technologies arrived in our lives and on the market almost every day. And it will not stop in the coming year. The role of a futurist is certainly not making bold predictions about the future. No such big bet has taken humanity forward. Instead, our job is constantly analysing the trends shaping t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 15, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing AI artificial intelligence diabetes GC1 genetics Healthcare Innovation nutrigenomics Personalized medicine robotics wearables Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 19th 2016
In conclusion, we found that IS status was associated with a significant increase in Hannum DNA methylation, likely as a consequence of the accumulation of cardiovascular risk factors, and near signification with Horvath method. Patients with IS were biologically older than controls, a difference that was more obvious in young stroke. This could open up the possibility of useful new biomarker of stroke risk. Latest Headlines from Fight Aging! A Profile of Kelsey Moody and Ichor Therapeutics https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/09/a-profile-of-kelsey-moody
Source: Fight Aging! - September 18, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance New Test Series 3
Time limit: 0 Quiz-summary 0 of 30 questions completed Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - July 9, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Featured Source Type: blogs

Cardiac amyloidosis – Cardiology MCQ
Pick the wrong statement: a) Light chain cardiac amyloidosis has a better survival than transthyretin cardiac amyloid amyloidosis b) Light chain cardiac amyloidosis responds to chemotherapy c) Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis is associated with sensorimotor polyneuropathy d) Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis can be detected by bone scintigraphy Correct answer: a) Light chain cardiac amyloidosis has a better survival than transthyretin cardiac amyloid amyloidosis Light chain amyloidosis with left ventricular systolic failure has median survival of 4 months while transthyretin amyloidosis has a median survival of 3-6 years...
Source: Cardiophile MD - June 29, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs

Does The Site Of Care Change The Cost Of Care?
Patients like Gay Miller, a North Carolina resident who paid almost $900 more than her typical $60 co-pay for a routine 30-minute echocardiogram, are feeling the angst of increased out-of-pocket (OOP) costs solely attributable to a change in site of care. Gay received her echocardiogram at a hospital outpatient department (HOPD) as opposed to her cardiologist’s office. Gay Miller’s experience is unfortunately not isolated. It is one example of a widespread and systematic national problem of price differences based on the site of care. Price differences by site of care refers to differential payments for the same se...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 2, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Aparna Higgins and German Veselovskiy Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Medicare Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Quality hospital consolidation hospital mergers hospital outpatient department MedPAC North Carolina Physicians Source Type: blogs