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What to Watch for After Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is afflicting more people, and research shows patients who have had non-melanoma skin cancers are at increased risk of recurrence.
Source: WSJ.com: The Informed Patient - September 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: FREE Source Type: blogs

This is great medical care. With a large helping of unnecessary suffering.
I watched helplessly as a dear friend went through the emotional meat grinder of a new cancer diagnosis. Her husband was found to have melanoma on a recent skin biopsy, and she knew that this was a dangerous disease. Because she is exceptionally intelligent and diligent, she set out to optimize his outcome with good information and the best care possible. Without much help from me, she located the finest specialists for her husband, and ultimately he received appropriate and state-of-the-art treatment. But along with his excellent care came substantial (and avoidable) emotional turmoil. The art of medicine was abandoned as...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 17, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Cancer Source Type: blogs

TBT: Melanoma: Make an informed choice
For today’s TBT post we have a post from two years ago that offers a cautionary note about spending time in the sun. After reading it you may want to think twice about squeezing in all that sunbathing before summer ends. MG is all about making decisions. The good and the bad. When I was younger, I made a lot of bad ones. I was very immature and naïve. Most of them only affected me, but there were some that hurt others, and I wish I could change that. But I can’t. That is the thing about choices. You make them and that is pretty much it. So you need to make as many smart ones as possible. If not, then you certainly...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer TBT Source Type: blogs

A (Lower Cost) Healthcare Industry to Deal With a (Higher Cost) Healthcare Industry
By MARC-DAVID MUNK, MD I was recently on the phone with a medical device company executive who was describing his company’s efforts to develop a non-invasive diagnostic device that could quantify the degree of cirrhosis in a patient with liver illness.  It’s technology that his firm sees as timely given the recent introduction of Solavdi and other Hepatitis C therapies: the device will be offered as a way for healthcare systems (and insurers) to risk-stratify a bolus of patients who are waiting for hepatitis C antiviral therapy. As background: Sovaldi was really the first pharmaceutical therapy to give hea...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: suchandan roy Tags: THCB Marc-David Munk Source Type: blogs

When Great Healthcare Is Served With A Large Helping Of Unnecessary Mental Anguish
Better Health first ran the post below on August 5. I watched helplessly as a dear friend went through the emotional meat grinder of a new cancer diagnosis. Her  husband was found to have melanoma on a recent skin biopsy, and she knew that this was a dangerous disease. Because she is exceptionally intelligent and diligent, she set out to optimize his outcome with good information and the best care possible. Without much help from me, she located the finest specialists for her husband, and ultimately he received appropriate and state-of-the-art treatment. But along with his excellent care came substantial (and avoidable) e...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Patients Quality Source Type: blogs

Praluent, the Next Expensive "Game Changer," Blockbuster," "New Hope," - But Not Yet Shown to Benefit Patients
ConclusionsThe NEJM study was accompanied by an editorial by Stone and Lloyd-Jones(2) which documented that drugs previously shown to lower cholesterol were never proved to do any good for patients, and concluded,it would be premature to endorse these drugs for widespread use before the ongoing randomized trials, appropriately powered for primary end-point analysis and safety assessment, are available. After an FDA advisory committee recommended approval of aliromucab and another PCSK9 inhibitor in June, 2015, John Mandrola entitled a Medscape article,Dear FDA: Resist the Urge on PCSK9 DrugsHis reasons included lack o...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 5, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: aliromucab evidence-based medicine health care prices manipulating clinical research PCSK9 inhibitor Praluent Regeneron Sanofi-Aventis Source Type: blogs

When Great Healthcare Is Served With A Large Helping Of Unnecessary Mental Anguish
A wrist graft similar to what my friend's husband required. I watched helplessly as a dear friend went through the emotional meat grinder of a new cancer diagnosis. Her  husband was found to have melanoma on a recent skin biopsy, and she knew that this was a dangerous disease. Because she is exceptionally intelligent and diligent, she set out to optimize his outcome with good information and the best care possible. Without much help from me, she located the finest specialists for her husband, and ultimately he received appropriate and state-of-the-art treatment. But along with his excellent care came substantial (and ...
Source: Better Health - August 5, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: True Stories Anxiety Bedside Manner Genetic Testing Healthcare Quality Oncology Source Type: blogs

The Struggle to Find Truth from a Position of Ignorance
Today I stumbled over a popular press article on the topic of longevity science, in which a fair amount of attention is given to Aubrey de Grey and the SENS Research Foundation vision for rejuvenation biotechnology. Like most such articles it is a view from an individual who, though a scientist himself, stands far outside the field of aging research - just like much of the world he is looking in with limited knowledge, trying to make sense of it all, in search of truth from a position of ignorance. This struggle, the search for truth in a field in which you will never personally know enough to verify any significant detai...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 30, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs

Treating Cancer as Though It Were an Infectious Disease
Here researchers propose an interesting approach to destroying cancer stem cells via targeted antibiotics. Cancer stem cells have been shown to be the driving force behind many types of cancer: without their presence, tumors would halt their growth or wither. At this point cancer research as a whole is far too slow and expensive. Faster progress towards meaningful treatments will arise from identifying and focusing on common points of attack that are essentially the same in many different types of cancer. However all too many of today's expensive and time-consuming research programs are entirely specific to the genetics an...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 23, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Preservative free products can be dangerous! Episode 91
Perfume for poop I never realized how important it is to have a good perfume for poop. We really take a lot of things for granted living in a first world country and one of them is proper sanitation. A lot of places lack proper plumbing and instead use latrines or outdoor toilets. That’s not as much fun as it sounds like because sometimes the stench in these latrines becomes so great the people stop using them and just go outside. When that happens the groundwater can become contaminated which leads to the spread of all sorts of illnesses. This is not a trivial problem – it affects about 2.5 billion people ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs

Skin Cancer Myths, Busted: Part 2
Following up from this morning’s post, below is Part 2 of the Society for Women’s Health Research’s “Skin Cancer Myths, Busted” series. Part 2 ran yesterday on HuffPost’s Healthy Living Blog. This is Part 2 of our two-part “Skin Cancer Myths, Busted” series. If you haven’t already, be sure to read Part 1 here. This summer, we want you to take charge of your skin health, beginning with busting damaging myths about skin cancer. Myth 3: People With Dark Skin Don’t Need Sun Protection Everyone is at risk for skin cancer when they go out in the sun unprotected — ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

Skin Cancer Myths, Busted: Part 1
The following post first ran on HuffPost’s Healthy Living blog and can be accessed here. With summer’s arrival and more time spent outdoors everyone should take a minute to read the information below. Did you know 10,000 people in the U.S. will die from a preventable cancer this year alone? That preventable cancer is skin cancer. And yes, we know you’re tired of being told to wear sunscreen, put on a hat, and hang out in the shade, but these practices can be life-saving. About 3.5 million cases of basal and squamous cell skin cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. each year. Melanoma, the most dangerous form of...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer American Academy of Dermatology Food and Drug Administration skin cancer Sunburn Sunscreen Ultraviolet Source Type: blogs

Skin Cancer Myths, Busted: Parts 1 & 2
The following post first ran on HuffPost’s Healthy Living blog and can be accessed here. With summer’s arrival and more time spent outdoors everyone should take a minute to read the information below. Did you know 10,000 people in the U.S. will die from a preventable cancer this year alone? That preventable cancer is skin cancer. And yes, we know you’re tired of being told to wear sunscreen, put on a hat, and hang out in the shade, but these practices can be life-saving. About 3.5 million cases of basal and squamous cell skin cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. each year. Melanoma, the most dangerous form of...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer American Academy of Dermatology Food and Drug Administration skin cancer Sunburn Sunscreen Ultraviolet Source Type: blogs

Trametinib Modestly Extends Healthy Life Spans in Flies
Researchers have found that the MEK inhibitor trametinib, used as a cancer treatment, modestly extends life in flies. This is of interest for researchers involved in mapping the relationships between metabolism and natural variations in longevity, but otherwise not all that significant in the grand scheme of things. The plasticity of life span in response to drug treatments that alter the operation of metabolism is much greater in short-lived creatures, and it should be expected that a small extension of life such as this one would map to next to nothing in humans, even assuming that the underlying mechanism of action is i...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 26, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

The fascinating journey of new immunotherapy drugs to treat cancer
Question: What do all these cancers have in common: melanoma, lung, kidney, bladder, ovarian, head and neck, Hodgkin lymphoma, stomach, breast (and others)? Answer: They have all shown evidence of meaningful, durable responses when treated with one or more of the new immunotherapy drugs. And that is truly amazing, not to mention very unexpected, even by the experts who know this stuff. That’s the message that is coming out of the 2015 annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, where thousands of doctors, researchers and others from around the world make the annual trek to Chicago to shar...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 16, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs