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Colon cancer screening at age 45: Here ’s what a gastroenterologist thinks
The American Cancer Society (ACS) recently released new guidelines regarding colorectal cancer screening for the average-risk individual. The big news is that they now recommend that screening for colorectal cancer begin at age 45 rather than age 50. This reduction in the starting age was in reaction to recent data showing that colon cancer is increasing in younger Americans for unclear reasons. By screening people at a younger age, the hope is that we can detect and prevent colon cancer in more people.
The ACS states that 20 percent of new cases of colorectal cancer occur in the younger-than-55 crowd. Furthermore, despi...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 11, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/frederick-gandolfo" rel="tag" > Frederick Gandolfo, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Gastroenterology Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
The man with the fedora in the ICU
I visit him in the ICU day in and day out. It’s the man with the fedora. I see him every day because he is not going anywhere. The metastatic cancer has ravaged his colon, bones, liver, and lungs. His oncologist is willing to try more chemo — but not now — maybe someday “when he is stronger.” The man has already failed several other regimens. The oncologist hasn’t seen him in a while. He’ll see the patient in clinic when he is discharged. He thanks us for keeping him updated.
Every day as I log on to the electronic health record in the top left corner, I see the man’s picture. Taken at an outpatient vis...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 7, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/daniel-z-uslan" rel="tag" > Daniel Z. Uslan, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Critical Care Hospital-Based Medicine Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Diverse Diseases, Allied Advocates
Listen to part two of the episode recorded live on location at HealtheVoices 2018. (Part one was posted last week, so check it out if you haven’t, already.) In this continuation of the multi-advocate panel discussion, our panelists talk about the most difficult aspect of their advocacy and how they deal with it. They also address misconceptions and ignorance about their diseases, such as the difference between AIDS and HIV or IBD and IBS, the fact that lupus is not contagious, and that men can have breast cancer. To close out the episode, each panelist shares his/her thoughts on what advocates for different conditions ha...
Source: World of Psychology - May 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Interview Mental Health and Wellness The Psych Central Show Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Premarin, whole grains, and why you can ’ t believe headlines
Imagine you have a friend named Justin. He is a schoolteacher. Honest, hardworking, doesn’t smoke, rarely drinks alcohol, sleeps well, doesn’t take drugs, shows up at work every day. He has also chosen to be vegetarian.
Another friend of yours, an auto mechanic named Tommy, eats fast food, loves fried chicken, drinks too much beer on the weekends, likes to drive fast cars, and sometimes gets into legal tangles. He smokes cigarettes, though has limited it to only half-a-pack per day. Late weekends, some weekday nights, sleep cut short to just two or three hours. Tommy is not a vegetarian, but likes his burgers r...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 17, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Finding Strength & Unity in Our Differences
Listen to part one of the first ever LIVE Psych Central Show, recorded on location at HealtheVoices 2018, an annual event that brings together online advocates from across various health conditions for an opportunity to learn, share and connect. In this show, you will meet four advocates who join our hosts on stage for a panel discussion on a variety of advocacy issues, including lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, HIV, and breast cancer. You’ll hear about how being diagnosed affected their lives in ways they didn’t expect, and what made them become advocates. The second half of this show will be posted next week!
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Source: World of Psychology - May 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Interview Mental Health and Wellness The Psych Central Show Advocacy Source Type: blogs
No Microbiome Santa Claus we cannot magically convert correlative studies into causal ones. And scientists dishing out medical advice about vaping based on such bad science is ridiculous.
Conclusions. In summary, we found that tobacco smokingsignificantly alters the bacterial profiles in feces, buccal, and saliva samples.Nooooooooooooooooo. Nooooooo. No.So - you might ask -- why does this matter? This is just a little bit of a word choice issue right? Wrong. The press release and the paper mislead as to what was found here. You might then say "so what - what does it matter?". Well, it does matter because when you make these types of misleading statements they might get picked up by the press or the public. Like in the examples below:Daily Mail:An incentive to switch to e-cigare...
Source: The Tree of Life - April 30, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
It ’ s not a white issue — it ’ s a grain issue. There is no such thing as “ healthy whole-grains ”
We’ve been told for decades that whole grains are healthy, healthier than processed white flour products. The flawed logic of replacing bad with less bad has thrown off an entire generation of dietitians, physicians, and government agencies charged with providing nutritional advice who have all embraced the less bad whole grains, going as far as urging all of us to make them the dominant ingredient in diet every day.
The misconception that whole grains are not just better for you, but healthy is simply not true. If we replace something bad–white flour products–with something less bad–whole grains–and there is an ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 10, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly blood sugar cholesterol diabetes Dr. Davis gluten grain grain-free grains healthy whole-grains joint pain Weight Loss Wheat Belly Total Health whole grains Source Type: blogs
There is no such thing as “ healthy whole-grains ”
We’ve been told for decades that whole grains are healthy, healthier than processed white flour products. The flawed logic of replacing bad with less bad has thrown off an entire generation of dietitians, physicians, and government agencies charged with providing nutritional advice who have all embraced the less bad whole grains, going as far as urging all of us to make them the dominant ingredient in diet every day.
The misconception that whole grains are not just better for you, but healthy is simply not true. If we replace something bad–white flour products–with something less bad–whole grains–and there is an ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 10, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly blood sugar cholesterol diabetes Dr. Davis gluten grain grain-free grains healthy whole-grains joint pain Weight Loss Wheat Belly Total Health whole grains Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 9th 2018
This studycounters that notion, and the findings may suggest that many senior citizens remain more cognitively and emotionally intact than commonly believed.
"We found that older people have similar ability to make thousands of hippocampal new neurons from progenitor cells as younger people do. We also found equivalent volumes of the hippocampus (a brain structure used for emotion and cognition) across ages. Nevertheless, older individuals had less vascularization and maybe less ability of new neurons to make connections. It is possible that ongoing hippocampal neurogenesis sustains human-specific cognitive function...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 8, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Marker for Cancer Stem Cells that Might Also Lead to a Cell-Killing Treatment
At least some forms of cancers are generated and supported by a small population of cancer stem cells, a malfunctioning, rapidly growing mirror of the healthy tissue environment in which large number of somatic cells are supported by a small number of stem cells. It is the presence of these cancer stem cells that makes it challenging to permanently clear cancer from a patient - if only a few such cells survive, the cancer will return, and the present generation of cancer treatments cannot reliably remove 100% of the targeted cells. Looking on the bright side, if a method of selectively targeting and destroying cancer stem ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 5, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 2nd 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - April 1, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Hawaii Legalizes Medical Aid in Dying – 8th U.S. Jurisdiction
This week, Compassion & Choices Hawai‘i applauded the State Senate for its 23-to-2 vote to pass HB 2739, the Our Care, Our Choice Act. Gov. Ige is expected to sign the bill, which the House passed 39-12, that would authorize medical aid in dying in Hawai‘i since he already endorsed the legislation.Medical aid in dying is an end-of-life medical practice in which a terminally ill, mentally capable individual who has a prognosis of six months or less may request, obtain and—if his or her suffering becomes unbearable—self-ingest medication that brings about a peaceful death.Today’s result repr...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 31, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
How the VA Colon Cancer Screening Program Fails African-American Males
By BAILEY FITZGERALD, MD
“It’s a terrible way to die” The oncology fellow told me bluntly as we walked to the room. “There is nothing okay about this.”
Knocking on the open door, we entered his room. The blinds were raised to reveal a stunning view of the area surrounding the VA hospital, and light poured in.
Our patient reclined in bed, his eyes closed although he was not asleep. He opened his eyes at the sound of our entrance, and the eyes seemed to bulge, too large for his shrunken face with wasted muscles. A plastic tube, taped to the bridge of his nose, entered his nostril and disappeared. The other end o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
