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Swindled
You've been swindled. At least that's the conclusion I've come to. It wasn't the hucksters or the snake oil salesman. It wasn't big business, big medicine, or some greedy hospital administrator. It was most likely pharma with a large dose of helping from your doctor. Plain and simple.I've learned quite a bit being a hospice medical director. Covering dozens of new admissions a week has given me much insight into doctor prescribing habits. Often it is my job to decide with meds are necessary and covered by hospice, which are necessary but not covered by hospice, and which are useless.Do yo...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - June 2, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs

Adenocarcinoma in Situ : RadioPath Correlation
In situ pulmonary adenocarcinoma (AIS), previously called "Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma" (BAC), is a term describing certain variants of lung cancer arising in the distal bronchioles or alveoli that initially exhibit a specific non-invasive growth pattern. BAC is a type of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here is video discussing the Radio-path correlationFamous Radiology Blog http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com TeleRad Providers at www.teleradproviders.com Mail us at sales@teleradproviders.com
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - June 1, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs

Top Companies in Genomics
From portable genome sequencers until genetic tests revealing distant relations with Thomas Jefferson, genomics represents a fascinatingly innovative area of healthcare. As the price of genome sequencing has been in free fall for years, the start-up scene is bursting from transformative power. Let’s look at some of the most amazing ventures in genomics! The amazing journey of genome sequencing Genome sequencing has been on an amazing scientific as well as economic journey for the last three decades. The Human Genome Project began in 1990 with the aim of mapping the whole structure of the human genome and sequencing it. ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 30, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics Personalized Medicine AI artificial intelligence bioinformatics cancer DNA dna testing DTC gc3 genetic disorders genetics genome sequencing personal genomics precision medicine Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 29th 2017
In this study, we utilized an imaging-based assay to monitor the ability of disease-associated amyloid assemblies to rupture intracellular vesicles following endocytosis. We observe that the ability to induce vesicle rupture is a common feature of α-synuclein (α-syn) assemblies, as assemblies derived from wild type (WT) or familial disease-associated mutant α-syn all exhibited the ability to induce vesicle rupture. Similarly, different conformational strains of WT α-syn assemblies, but not monomeric or oligomeric forms, efficiently induced vesicle rupture following endocytosis. The ability to induce vesicle rupt...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 28, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Patients appreciate our honest concern. And that takes time.
When we walked into the room, you could sense the anger and frustration on the patient’s face, as well as two other relatives in the room. We knew that the patient had had lung cancer for several months and had failed radiation and chemotherapy. He had labored breathing and looked miserable. I went to his bed and asked if I could sit down on his bed. I took his wrist and began checking his pulse. Then I asked him to tell his story. Continue reading ... 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 - May 25, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/robert-centor" rel="tag" > Robert Centor, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital Source Type: blogs

AHRQ Decision Aids for Patients
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides Decision Aids for patients with certain conditions to help them think about what is important to them when talking with their clinician about treatment options. Decision Aids on Lung Cancer Screening, Urinary Incontinence, Osteoporosis, and Prostate Cancer are available, along with patient handouts and other resources.  
Source: BHIC - May 24, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: General Source Type: blogs

SIWA Therapeutics Obtains Funding to Continue with an Immunotherapy Approach to Clearance of Senescent Cells
SIWA Therapeutics is one of the older companies in the field of cellular senescence, among the small number of ventures that made an attempt to target senescent cells for destruction a decade ago and didn't really get all that far before funding ran out. Times have changed, however, and these groups have now been invigorated by progress in the science of cellular senescence and demonstrations of turning back aging and age-related disease in animal studies. One of these older ventures transformed into Unity Biotechnology, and Unity's success in raising a very large amount of venture funding has made it that much easier for ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 22, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

The Humanity In End-Of-Life Care
Health care is personal, especially when it comes to caring for someone as they approach death. However, half of Americans feel they have too little control over end-of-life medical decisions. As the industry moves toward a more holistic approach to care delivery, health care organizations are beginning to rethink how they treat patients and starting to embed end-of-life care plans into the overall approach earlier on, sometimes before people even become ill. In a recent report on end-of-life care by the Aspen Health Strategy Group, several principles are discussed that take a broader view around caring for seriously ill p...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 19, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Susan DeVore Tags: Costs and Spending End of Life & Serious Illness Long-term Services and Supports Payment Policy Quality advance care planning Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Winners of the Kaggle Data Science Bowl Create Algorithms to Detect Lung Cancer in Low-Dose CT Scans
A group of researchers from Tsinghua University in China were recently named first-place winners of a Kaggle ’s Data Science Bowl for successfully developing algorithms that accurately detect signs of lung cancer in low-dose CT scans.The winners of the $500,000 prize had a twofold strategy: first identify nodules and then diagnose cancer. Their approach also involved a neural network and an additional data set. “We think that explicitly dividing this problem into two stages is critical, which seems also to be what human experts would do,” Zhe Li, a member of the winning group,told the MIT Technology Review.Contestant...
Source: radRounds - May 19, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

Negotiated Rates: What No One Talks About in Health Care Legislation
Last week, the House of Representatives passed legislation for the American Health Care Act, the first step in repealing the Affordable Care Act, or as some would call it, Trumpcare versus Obamacare.  The American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association (and many other medical societies) oppose the new legislation.  An enormous concern is that the new legislation won't require insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions, or require coverage for mental health treatment or prenatal/maternity care.  Over the coming years, the new legislation is predicted to leave 24 million more Ame...
Source: Shrink Rap - May 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 1st 2017
In this study we demonstrate the use of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based epigenome editing to alter cell response to inflammatory environments by repressing inflammatory cytokine cell receptors, specifically TNFR1 and IL1R1. This has applications for many inflammatory-driven diseases. It could be applied for arthritis or to therapeutic cells that are being delivered to inflammatory environments that need to be protected from inflammation." In chronic back pain, for example, slipped or herniated discs are a result of damaged tissue when inflammation causes cells to create molec...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 30, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

A Mechanism to Link Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease
Air pollution is associated with increased mortality and risk of a variety of age-related diseases, but as is often the case in human epidemiological data it isn't all that clear as how much of this is due to direct versus indirect effects. Lesser degrees of air pollution are associated with wealthier regions of the world, for example, and wealth in turn correlates with lower mortality and less age-related disease. That said, there are range of direct mechanisms for air pollution to impact long-term health, some with better accompanying evidence than others, such as the one explored here: Tiny particles in air pol...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 26, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Words Matter: The Way Physicians Deliver “Bad News” Can Result in Detrimental Consequences
Delivering medical diagnosis is a sensitive practice that requires deliberate and thought out action. Of course, this isn ’t always the case, and sometimes patients receive bad news in a way that might feel cold and apathetic. The American Journal of Roentgenology recently published areportdocumenting two cases in which patients committed suicide after receiving letters from their physicians detailing “bad news”. The report ultimately determined that doctors should take precautions when delivering an unwanted diagnosis, and that “bad news” is best expressed in person.In the first case, an Israeli man who suffered...
Source: radRounds - April 22, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

Thanks for listening
When we walked into the room, you could sense the anger and frustration on the patient’s face, as well as two other relatives in the room.  We knew that the patient had had lung cancer for several months and had failed radiation and chemotherapy.  He had labored breathing and looked miserable. I went to his bed and asked if I could sit down on his bed.  I took his wrist and began checking his pulse.  Then I asked him to tell his story. The 50-something patient had many pack years of cigarettes.  He understood his diagnosis and wanted to pursue further treatment options.  His breathing had worsened, partly due t...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - April 16, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs

10 Things Every Alzheimer's Caregiver Needs to Know and Discuss with Their Doctor
TheAmerican Geriatrics Society has published a list of ten things doctors and their patients should consider, know and understand.I think it is important forevery caregiver of a person living with Alzheimer's, or a related dementia, todiscuss these 10 issues with the doctor. Doing this in advance might be one of the most important caregiverdecisions you can make.It might also be a good idea toshare this article in support groups, and bookmark (save) it so you can find it when you need it.What is Alzheimer's Disease?By Carole Larkinhttp://www.alzheimersreadingroom.comI think this is an important list of things that nee...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 13, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: rtdemarco at gmail.com Tags: alzheimer care care of dementia patients dementia help for caregivers elderly dementia care geriatrics health help alzheimer's help with dementia help with dementia care life news memory care facility Source Type: blogs