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On Losing My Mother
It has been 3 years since my Mother died at 9:41pm on a hot August night. She was 62 and pancreatic cancer had ravaged her body in a short 7 weeks. I was there. I remember the room, the funeral home removing her body and my 45-minute drive home with my Yorkie. It was surreal and I didn’t cry. Reflecting back on her loss and the associated grief, I didn’t start to grieve until 6 months after she passed. Immediately following her death, my siblings and I had a condominium to sell, clothing and household items to pack, and a funeral to plan. I told myself I was too busy to allow the sadness and grief in. During this time,...
Source: World of Psychology - September 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth Grasher, MS, LPC, LMFT Tags: Aging Family Grief and Loss Personal Bereavement death in the family Death Of A Parent grieving honoring memories Shock Trauma Source Type: blogs

What Makes A Hospital The “Best”?
U.S. News & World Report recently published its annual “Best Hospitals” issue, which the magazine claims is the “global authority in hospital rankings.” That may be no exaggeration, given the more than two million Google results that appear with the search term “U.S. News hospital rankings” along with the flurry of self-congratulatory tweets posted and banners hung each year by the hospitals whose names appear at the top of the list. While the top-ranked hospitals were patting themselves on the back, we wondered if the magazine’s ranking system actually measures what matters to patients, or for that matte...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Judith Garber and Shannon Brownlee Tags: Hospitals Quality higher-value care hospital rankings U.S. News & World Report best hospital ranking Source Type: blogs

The latest scoop on the health benefits of coffee
In conclusion… It’s unusual that a food on the “cancer risk list” comes off of it — and it’s even more unusual that such foods then become considered a healthy choice. But, as the millions of people drinking coffee every day will tell you, when it comes to coffee, there’s nothing like it. The post The latest scoop on the health benefits of coffee appeared first on Harvard Health Blog.
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs

This Is Not The Paleo Diet
With all the talk about reverting back to the dietary roots of our species, some may ask: Isn’t this the same as the paleo diet, the popular interpretation of diet prior to agriculture? The Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyle and the popular notion of a Paleolithic diet overlap substantially, but there are differences. So let’s discuss the points of difference. First of all, I am not bashing the ideas promoted by followers of the paleo concepts. The ideas they follow are much better than conventional notions of healthy eating, and wonderful results can indeed be achieved on a paleo diet. Many authors from the paleo co...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 20, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Paleo Diet Undoctored Wheat Belly blood sugar diabetes diy health Dr. Davis grain-free grains low-carb prebiotic resistant starch Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 18th 2017
In this study, researchers put some numbers to the correlation, and improve on previous attempts to rule out wealth and other effects as significant contributing causes. A study finds that a Chinese policy is unintentionally causing people in northern China to live 3.1 years less than people in the south, due to air pollution concentrations that are 46 percent higher. These findings imply that every additional 10 micrograms per cubic meter of particulate matter pollution reduces life expectancy by 0.6 years. The elevated mortality is entirely due to an increase in cardiorespiratory deaths, indicating that air poll...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 17, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Alcoholic Beverages Cause Cancer; Industry Groups Advocate " Responsible " Drinking
Clear patterns have emerged relating alcoholic beverage consumption to the development of head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer (see:Alcohol and Cancer Risk). Hence, when countries experience high consumption of alcoholic beverages, public health officials worry that their populations may experience a surge in the incidence of such lesions in the future. A recent article discussed this possibility in Europe, particularly GI cancers (see:Love Affair With Alcohol Is Driving GI Cancers). Below is an excerpt from the article:Europe could be headed for sharp increases in rat...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 13, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Ethics Medical Research Preventive Medicine Source Type: blogs

Cancer doesn ’t take away from the beauty of life
As an oncologist, I have spent my career learning how to break bad news. I am still not entirely sure how to tell my children about the tumor in my pancreas, why I will be gone from our home next week for a Whipple operation, or my excuse for abstaining from wrestling matches for the foreseeable future. I am blessed with two kids, temperamentally diametric: a careful, sagacious nine-year-old daughter and an impetuous, free-spirited six-year-old son. Tragically he has inherited MEN1 from me, but I suspect this is providential insofar as his demeanor is better suited to a lifetime spent engaging the health care system in tum...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 10, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mark-a-lewis" rel="tag" > Mark A. Lewis, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Gastroenterology Oncology/Hematology Primary Care Source Type: blogs

After 8 years, this doctor is finally treating his pancreatic tumors
I’ve known that I’ve had tumors in my pancreas since 2009. Until now I’ve done nothing about them. This might sound like a counter-intuitive, even foolhardy strategy, especially for an oncologist, who should surely know better than to let his disease gain an advantage through his own inaction. But I don’t have the “usual” type of pancreatic cancer, the kind that claimed the life of Patrick Swayze and has sentenced many other lesser-known patients to a hasty, painful, jaundiced death. Adenocarcinoma of the pancreas is, indeed, a fearsome foe; I certainly haven’t compiled a list of m...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 6, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mark-a-lewis" rel="tag" > Mark A. Lewis, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Gastroenterology Oncology/Hematology Surgery Source Type: blogs

Novel Smartphone App for Bilirubin, Pancreatic Cancer Screening
Pancreatic cancer patients have one of the lowest five-year survival rates, due in large part to the disease going undiagnosed in its early and intermediate stages. There are no overt symptoms during the critical early period, and non-invasive screen...
Source: Medgadget - August 31, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Iris Kulbatski Tags: Diagnostics GI Medicine Net News Source Type: blogs

Ultrasound to Improve Effectiveness of Cancer Drugs: Interview with Focused Ultrasound Foundation ’s Jessica Foley, PhD
Most people think of ultrasound as an imaging modality. Yet, there are many other clinical uses for the high frequency soundwaves. Focused ultrasound waves can promote the opening of the blood-brain barrier, and they can be used to ablate fibroids, a...
Source: Medgadget - August 10, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine News Source Type: blogs

How Soon To Start Treatment?
I never realized how important starting cancer treatment quickly was. I remember my surgeon telling me at one point I had plenty of time to wait before making decisions for my treatment. I guess that wasn ' t true.There is a new study (because we always need new studies) to focus on the TTI (Time to Treatment Initiation) from date of diagnosis. As that increases, the cancer death rates increase as well. How nice. So don ' t wait, start NOW!Research by the Cleveland Clinic showed a increase from 21 to 29 days showed increased mortality." Longer delays between diagnosis and initial treatment were associated with worsened ove...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 24, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer treatment cancer research Source Type: blogs

Vitamin D: Finding a balance
Over the July 4th weekend, my non-physician husband with a history of skin cancer tried to justify not wearing sunscreen in order to get some vitamin D. My husband, of course, has no idea how much vitamin D he needs or why, and I suspect he is not alone. Why do we need vitamin D? The easy answer is for bones. Vitamin D facilitates absorption of calcium and phosphate, which are needed for bone growth. Without sufficient vitamin D, bones become brittle (in children this is called rickets and in adults it is called osteomalacia) and break more easily. Vitamin D is likely beneficial for other parts of the body as well; studies...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily S. Ruiz, MD, MPH Tags: Drugs and Supplements Health Prevention Source Type: blogs

Another Piece of Bad (And Misunderstood) Advice
Who has heard that green tea is good for people with cancer and for preventing cancer? ' Raises hand 'Yes I have heard that. I don ' t really like green tea that much but I do drink it occasionally. I know people who purposely drink green tea because it is ' better ' for them. So here ' sthe bad news:" Green tea and green tea extracts are widely consumed by patients with cancer. Yet overall there is no clinical evidence that green tea or its chemical components slow tumor progression in humans — and importantly, there is some evidence that green tea compounds might interfere with anticancer treatment. "There is some earl...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 30, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: fake news medical information medical research Source Type: blogs

Is sugar aging you?
Americans consume the equivalent of 300 loaves of bread each year (representing enormous exposure to the amylopectin A carbohydrate that behaves like sugar or worse). They also consume 200 pounds of sugar. It is not uncommon for sugar alone to comprise a quarter of all calories taken in over the course of the day—some of it out in the open, some of it hidden. To understand the adverse effects of sugars—sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, and other fructose-rich sweeteners, such as agave, honey, and maple syrup—we need to understand two phenomena: 1. Insulin resistance 2 Glycation. Insulin Resistance When blood sugar ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 27, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Sugar Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle anti-aging blood sugar diabetes grain-free grains health insulin joint pain Weight Loss Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs

Is sugar making you AGE faster?
  Americans consume the equivalent of 300 loaves of bread each year (representing enormous exposure to the amylopectin A carbohydrate that behaves like sugar or worse). They also consume 200 pounds of sugar. It is not uncommon for sugar alone to comprise a quarter of all calories taken in over the course of the day—some of it out in the open, some of it hidden. To understand the adverse effects of sugars—sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, and other fructose-rich sweeteners, such as agave, honey, and maple syrup—we need to understand two phenomena: 1. Insulin resistance 2 Glycation. Insulin Resistance When blood...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 27, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Sugar Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle anti-aging blood sugar diabetes grain-free grains health insulin joint pain Weight Loss Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs