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Hostels for Hope: Easing the Burden for Women with Cancer
This article was originally published on www.impatientoptimists.org on February 2, 2017. Sarah* is a 46-year-old mother of five and a cervical cancer survivor living in Tanzania. Survival wasn’t easy. She had to travel over 300 miles from her village to one of only two treatment facilities in the entire country; once she got there, she had no place to stay. Like Sarah, many of the over 10,000 Tanzanian women diagnosed with cervical or breast cancer each year face two major challenges – how to pay for transportation to the capital, Dar es Salaam, and where to stay for the duration of their treatment. For some women, t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Career Comparative Effectiveness Research Disparities Global Development Global Health Health Reform Patients Patients' Rights Publc Health Quality Women's Health Source Type: blogs

Can Community Health Centers Fill The Health Care Void Left By Defunding Planned Parenthood?
House Speaker Paul Ryan has stated that the House bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), like its 2016 Congressional predecessor vetoed by President Obama, will include a provision that excludes certain providers that furnish abortions (other than those permitted under the Hyde Amendment) from the Medicaid program. Not only would such providers be excluded for family planning services; their exclusion would extend to the full range of Medicaid-covered services furnished in primary and preventive settings, such as breast and cervical cancer screening, mammograms, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseas...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Sara Rosenbaum Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Organization and Delivery Population Health Quality Community Health Centers Congress Paul Ryan Planned Parenthood Primary Care Republicans Women's Health Source Type: blogs

How the Federal Government ’s Opposition to Medical Marijuana Research Keeps Patients in the Dark
How the Federal Government’s Opposition to Medical Marijuana Research Keeps Patients in the Dark Last week the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a report surveying over 10,000 scientific studies to determine conclusively how marijuana interacts with the body. The review was especially concerned with marijuana’s efficacy as a medicine as well as its positive and negative short- and long-term effects on users. Some of the Academies’ published conclusions were incredible. For example, there is conclusive evidence that cannabis and/or cannabinoids are an effective treatment for chronic pai...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - January 17, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Richard Taite Source Type: blogs

Self-Collected HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening
HPV infection is the cause of cancer of the cervix (see:HPV and Cancer). Here's a short quote from theNational Cancer Institute about the etiology of this neoplasm: Virtually all cases of cervical cancer are caused by HPV, and just two HPV types, 16 and 18, are responsible for about 70 percent of all cases. Cytopathologists have long known about this association and kept it in mind when screening cervical specimens. Here's another quote from the NCI addressing the relationship between Pap tests and HPV testing:HPV testing is used to look for the presence of high-risk ...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 16, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Cost of Healthcare Health Insurance Lab Processes and Procedures Laboratory Industry Trends Medical Consumerism Medical Research Test Kits and Home Testing Source Type: blogs

What ’s The Story With Obamacare?
States, patients, and voters are wrestling with the pros and cons of dramatic changes in public health insurance coverage, including extending, maintaining, or rolling back Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) — an often emotional topic of debate. The stories that are told about the effectiveness—or lack thereof—of coverage in improving health and health care usually relate compelling personal experiences, putting a human face on an otherwise abstract argument. Policies are not enacted in the abstract; they affect real people’s lives, and we should all be concerned with how polic...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 9, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Katherine Baicker and Amy Finkelstein Tags: Featured Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Medicaid expansion Oregon Source Type: blogs

Cervical cancer screening update: Not your mother ’s Pap smear
Confused about when to get your next Pap test? Anxious because your doctor said you don’t need another Pap for five years? Well, you are not alone. For several decades, getting a yearly Pap test has been the standard for cervical cancer screening. Cervical cancer, which still kills about 4,000 women annually in the United States, is really a preventable disease. The goal of cervical cancer screening is to detect areas of significant precancerous cells in the cervix (cervical dysplasia) and treat them before they become invasive cervical cancer. Early detection is key and for a long time the Pap test — which looks for a...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrea Chisholm, MD Tags: Cancer Health Prevention Screening Women's Health Source Type: blogs

Moonshots, Opioids and Incentives
By MARSHALL CHIN, MD Major disparities in health outcomes have stubbornly persisted throughout both democratic and republican administrations.  If you have diabetes and you live in a predominantly African-American neighborhood of Chicago, you have a two-to-five times higher risk of having your leg amputated than if you live in one of the city’s white neighborhoods.  If you are a Hispanic child with asthma, you are 50% more likely to be admitted to the hospital than if you are white. And if you are a Vietnamese woman, you are five times more likely to develop cervical cancer than your white counterpart. The incoming T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Yes I Do Have Back Pain In The Middle of My Back
Yesterday I went back to my pain management nurse practitioner yesterday. I felt like it was pulling teeth to get her to admit that there might be an additional source of pain in the thoracic area if my spine (that ' s the middle part - lumbar is the lower part, cervical is the upper part including your neck).She saw my x-rays which my rheumatologist pointed out to me as showing possible sources of pain. She didn ' t think they could be causing that much pain. She did push on my back to see if it hurt (how thoughtful of her). She nearly pushed me across the room as she pressed on my spine. Yes it hurt. A lot.Finally she ag...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 17, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: back pain doctors MRI Source Type: blogs

Giving Thanks to Our Partners: Genentech
Every day another life is turned upside down because of cancer: a mother of young children, a young adult who just entered college, a grandfather who is adored by his family —their world is shattered and they don’t know where to begin.LIVESTRONG is here today to help equip all cancer warriors and their families for the journey ahead.LIVESTRONG Navigation Services provides information and access to emotional support, clinical trials and fertility preservation, guidance on how to seek second opinions and financial and insurance assistance.LIVESTRONG helps real people in the fight of their life, people like:– Wendy,...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - November 15, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs

Nanotechnology in Healthcare: Getting Smaller and Smarter
We are living at the dawn of the nanomedicine age. I believe that nanoparticles and nanodevices will soon operate as precise drug delivery systems, cancer treatment tools or tiny surgeons. Let me introduce you the brave, new world of nanotechnology in healthcare. Nanorobots having nanobreakfast with your red and white blood cells When I was a kid, one of my favorite TV series was a French animation, Il était un fois… la vie (1986). I found it fascinating how the creators imagined the human body as a construction where tiny cars floated through the human veins, grab-cranes worked on teeth and bacteria as tiny monsters tr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 3, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Nanotechnology in Medicine cancer treatment drug delivery system future GC1 Healthcare Innovation nanodevices nanoparticles robotics wearables Source Type: blogs

CMS Issues Final Rule on CY 2017 Physician Fee Schedule
Conclusion The CY 2017 PFS final rule is the latest showing of the Administration-wide strategy to create a health care system that results in better care, smarter spending, and a healthier population.       Related StoriesOpen Payments Having an Adverse Effect on Physician-Rep RelationshipsCMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Evaluation ReleasedCMS Releases MA and Part D Landscape Information for 2017 
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 2, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Cleveland Clinic ' s Top Ten Medical Innovations for 2017; Focus on FHIR
The Cleveland Clinic lists its choices on a yearly basis for the top ten medical innovations. It recently posted its 2017 list (see:Cleveland Clinic names top 10 medical innovations 2017):The microbiome. The microbiome is made up of trillions of helpful bacteria that make a home inside the human gut – to prevent, treat and diagnose disease.Diabetes drugs that reduce heart disease and death....Novo Nordisk ’s liraglutide, sold as Victoza, and Eli Lilly’s empagliflozin, sold as Jardiance, have shown promise in reducing these heart-related complications (see:Novo Slumps as Study on Victoza ’s Heart Impact Disappoints)...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 31, 2016 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Business Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Information Technology Hospital Executive Management Standards Source Type: blogs

Diet and exercise to prevent cancer: What does the evidence say?
One of the most effective spin techniques used by advocates of “integrative medicine” (also sometimes called “complementary and alternative medicine,” or CAM for short) to legitimize quackery has been to claim basically all non-pharmacologic, non-surgical interventions as “integrative,” “complementary,” or “alternative.” Thus, science-based interventions such as diet changes to treat and/or prevent disease, exercise, and…
Source: Respectful Insolence - September 26, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine breast cancer cervical cancer diet exercise lung cancer nutrition prevention Source Type: blogs

It Is My View The Labor Party I Being Way Too Ideological and Impractical On Major Health System Initiatives.
Last week the Labor Party said they would oppose the Legislation authorising the new planned national screening register.Telstra's $178m cancer register deal under attackBy Allie Coyne on Sep 15, 2016 3:01PM Labor, Greens want operation in government hands.Labor and the Greens are fighting the government's $178 million plan to outsource its new national cancer screening register to Telstra, arguing the sensitive data should not reside with a private company.Telstra won the five-year contract for implementation and maintenance of the system, which will record the cancer screening results of 11 million patients, in May....
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 19, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

The Women ’s Health Amendment Is Getting An Update. What Should It Include?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most private health plans in the United States to cover four sets of recommended preventive services without copayments, deductibles, or other out-of-pocket costs. One of those four sets of services focused on women’s preventive care needs. It was called for under the law’s Women’s Health Amendment, developed by an Institute of Medicine panel, and officially incorporated by the federal government into health plans’ requirements in 2012. Taken as a whole, the ACA’s preventive services provision requires coverage of a wide array of sexual and reproductive health services, from...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Adam Sonfield Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Public Health Quality ACA contraceptive coverage HIV/AIDS sexually transmitted infections Women's Health Source Type: blogs