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PROP ’s Disproportionate Influence on U.S. Opioid Policy: The Harms of Intended Consequences
ConclusionDespite being turned back from an effort to bluntly reduce opioid prescribing by the FDA in 2013 based on a lack of scientific evidence for its position (17,18), PROP has had a disproportionate effect on opioid policy in the Untied States for almost a decade. PROP found a willing federal regulatory partner in the CDC, and while PROP may not have “secretly written” the 2016 CDC Pain Guidelines (75), they certainly enjoyed disproportionate representation on CDC’s review panels and Core Expert Group (23-25) in a process that lacked transparency (22, 23, 26, 27). When the CDC admitted that its Pain Guideline had been...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - May 3, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC health policy kollas opioids pain prop Source Type: blogs
PROP ’s Disproportionate Influence on U.S. Opioid Policy: The Harms of Intended Consequences
ConclusionDespite being turned back from an effort to bluntly reduce opioid prescribing by the FDA in 2013 based on a lack of scientific evidence for its position (17,18), PROP has had a disproportionate effect on opioid policy in the Untied States for almost a decade. PROP found a willing federal regulatory partner in the CDC, and while PROP may not have “secretly written” the 2016 CDC Pain Guidelines (75), they certainly enjoyed disproportionate representation on CDC’s review panels and Core Expert Group (23-25) in a process that lacked transparency (22, 23, 26, 27). When the CDC admitted that its Pain Guideline ha...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - May 3, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC health policy kollas opioids pain prop Source Type: blogs
On Med Mal Reform, Democrats Are More Libertarian than Republicans
Michael F. CannonIn a  recentpost, I  announced the release of and provided excerpts from Cato’s latest health policy book,Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works, Why Tort Reform Hasn ’t Helped, by Bernard S. Black,David A. Hyman, Myungho S. Paik, William M. Sage, andCharles Silver (foreword by former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle).Medical Malpractice Litigationcompiles original research from states that capped damages in “med mal” cases to show that such reforms do not have the effects that physicians and other supporters claim. If anything, damage caps benefit physicians and insurance companies at th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 3, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
5 Insights About The Future Of Health Insurance In The Digital Health Age
The global health insurance market has been experiencing a declining growth rate in recent years; from 9% in 2014-2015 to 6-7% in subsequent years. The 2019 Forbes report that pointed this out also attributes this decline partly to the low adoption of digital solutions in this sector. But those very same solutions can transform the market.
Already with futuristic technologies like clinical grade personal health sensors, at-home genome sequencing kits and artificial intelligence, healthcare is receiving a much-needed overhaul that democratises access to quality care. The health insurance industry could also ride on those sa...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 22, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Health Insurance Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Telemedicine & Smartphones amazon bioprinting data patient gc4 Fitbit genome seque Source Type: blogs
Our Healthcare System Needs More Than Policy Overhaul: It ’s Time for Private Sector Innovation to Kick into High Gear for Our Health’s Sake
By SACH JAIN
Last year I was heading to a meeting on a Fortune 500 business campus and stumbled upon a bake sale. It was odd to see someone selling cupcakes and breads on the grounds of a major corporation, so I inquired. As it turns out, Judy, an employee, was selling baked goods to finance her insurance deductible for spinal fusion surgery.
“Is this what our system has come to?” I asked myself, “Fundraisers for fusions?” If so, our health system is broken.
No matter how you slice it, Americans spend more on healthcare than any other advanced economy, with households responsible for 28% of that spen...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Carrum Centers of Excellence Sach Jain Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 5th 2021
In this study, the research team designed a way to identify small molecules that improve the function of ABCA1 in the body while avoiding unwanted effects to the liver. The researchers honed in on a specific small molecule, CL2-57, due to its ability to stimulate ABCA1 activity with positive effects on liver and plasma triglycerides. The use of this compound showed improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, as well as reduced weight gain, among other beneficial effects.
Age-Related Upregulation of Autophagy as a Possible Contribution to Bat Longevity
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/04/age-rela...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 4, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
James Peyer of Cambrian Biopharma on Defining Aging as a Disease
James Peyer was involved in the aging-focused fund Apollo Ventures before he moved on to the more recent venture industry initiative that evolved into Cambrian Biopharma. Cambrian is arguably even more focused on creating new biotech startups to treat aging, rather than investing in existing companies, than is the case for Apollo. Many venture capitalists are coming to the conclusion that the pace at which new biotech companies in this space are arising is too slow to provide sufficient opportunities for the capital that could be harnessed to produced progress. That pace must thus be accelerated.
Peyer is a regular ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 30, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
TOP 10 Dangers Of Digital Health
Thanks to the advent of digital health, the future of medicine is truly exciting. With technological advancements that democratise access to care, better treatments are accessible to people than ever before. Breakthrough research and medical developments have eradicated deadly diseases and turned others into manageable conditions. But the very developments that propel healthcare to the 21st century bring their own share of hazards to the field.
From the elimination of privacy through hacked medical devices to bioterrorism, there are signs of alarming trends that few take seriously. Nevertheless, we must generate discussion...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 30, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Biotechnology Digital Health Research Healthcare Policy Nanotechnology Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones algorithm ecg google smartwatch wearables GC1 wannacry ransomw Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Hazards Of Technology In Digital Health
Thanks to the advent of digital health, the future of medicine is truly exciting. With technological advancements that democratise access to care, better treatments are accessible to people than ever before. Breakthrough research and medical developments have eradicated deadly diseases and turned others into manageable conditions. But the very developments that propel healthcare to the 21st century bring their own share of hazards to the field.
From the elimination of privacy through hacked medical devices to bioterrorism, there are signs of alarming trends that few take seriously. Nevertheless, we must generate discussion...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 30, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Biotechnology Digital Health Research Healthcare Policy Nanotechnology Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones algorithm ecg google smartwatch wearables GC1 wannacry ransomw Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 22nd 2021
This article expresses sentiments regarding medical technology and human longevity that we'd all like to see more of in the mainstream media. At some point, it will come to be seen by the average person as basically sensible to work towards minimizing the tide of suffering and death caused aging and age-related disease. It has been, in hindsight, a strange thing to live in a world in which most people were reflexively opposed to that goal.
Death and aging constitute a mystery. Some of us die more quickly. We often ask about it as children, deny it in youth, and reluctantly come to accept it as adults. Aging is uni...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 21, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Thoughts on Medical Progress and Living Longer
This article expresses sentiments regarding medical technology and human longevity that we'd all like to see more of in the mainstream media. At some point, it will come to be seen by the average person as basically sensible to work towards minimizing the tide of suffering and death caused aging and age-related disease. It has been, in hindsight, a strange thing to live in a world in which most people were reflexively opposed to that goal.
Death and aging constitute a mystery. Some of us die more quickly. We often ask about it as children, deny it in youth, and reluctantly come to accept it as adults. Aging is un...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 18, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A North Carolina Pediatric Hospitalist Tells Her Pandemic Story to Senator Richard Burr: Thirteen Months (And Counting) In Medical Whistle-blower Hell - Courtesy Of Private Equity/For-Profit Healthcare And Cruelly-Indifferent/Morally-Bankrupt State & Federal Oversight
Author ' s Note: I cannot " sound-bite " the last year - and perhaps it ' s time to write the book. Scroll about half-way down to read the letter to Senator Burr. The bottom line is that for thethird time in 23 years, as a Pediatrician staffing a community hospital, I was fired " with-out cause " immediately after intervening in a neonatal ( " bad baby " ) case, rescuing the situation/ " saving " the baby, and reporting it INTERNALLY to Peer Review. NO discussion. NO recourse. NO review. A total cover-up. And EVERY SINGLE TIME I ' ve asked the state/Federal government to enfor...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - February 28, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ACA Apollo Global Management ApolloMD Ballad Heath Central Carolina Hospital CMS Duke Lifepoint ETSU Medicaid Medical Whistleblower NCDHHS Pandemic Quality Assruance Randolph Health Richard Burr Trump Source Type: blogs
Why Won ’t the Doctor Do More Tests on Older Parent?
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Dear Carol: My mom is 78 and she’s thrilled because her doctor told her that since she’s over 75, she’s done with taking colonoscopies and “a bunch of other tests.” I was alarmed, but she said that there’s not a lot of good to be gotten from the tests at her age, and there are risks in having them. Mom is healthy and I want to keep her that way. What if she develops colon cancer? Granted, she has no sign of any problem with her test last year, but the possibility still worries me. Is this policy just to save the health insurance companies money or is this ageism because older people ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 17, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Quality in Healthcare: Cultural Competence, Diagnostic Accuracy or Patronizing Insensitivity?
By HANS DUVEFELT
I sometimes tell patients “I work for the government”, but sometimes I say the opposite, “I work for you”.
Herein lies a dichotomy that is eating away at primary care in this country, like a slow growing cancer. I suspect everybody is aware of it, but it seems nobody has the inclination to deal with it.
2020 exposed how differently Americans view and prioritize things like personal freedom and public safety. We have also seen how vastly different perceptions of reality suddenly exist about what constitutes medical facts. Alternative facts and fake news are suddenly household concepts.
F...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Getting a second opinion can save lives. It is time we make Miranda rights for patients.
The Lebanese-born former American oncologist Farid Fata committed one of the most malicious acts of greed by a medical professional in recorded history. Fata spent six years telling otherwise healthy people that they had cancer and needed immediate chemotherapy. He then fraudulently billed over $34 million in charges to Medicare and private insurance companies. Fata […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 27, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/robert-trent" rel="tag" > Robert Trent < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
