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African American and white men who receive comparable treatments for prostate cancer have similar survival
Last year, we reported on two studies showing that African American men respond at least as well as white men to prostate cancer treatments given in clinical trials. Nationally, African Americans with prostate cancer are more than twice as likely to die of the disease as their white counterparts, and that has fueled speculation that genetic or biological factors put them at greater risk. But according to this new research, the survival difference disappears when men of either race get the same cutting-edge treatments. Now scientists are reporting that African American and white men with prostate cancer live equally as long...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Health Living With Prostate Cancer Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs

A Letter to Ms. Judy Faulkner & Mr. Tommy Thompson
By GRACE CORDOVANO PhD, BCPA Being a patient or a carepartner can be a lonely, powerless place. There’s no high powered legal or lobbying team to help support you in your or your loved one’s health care journey. There’s no PR team at your beck and call. There’s no advisory board, no executive committee, no assistants, no chatbots or AI-powered technology coming to the rescue. There’s no funding or a company sponsoring your efforts. There’s no course in how to be a professional patient or carepartner. There’s no one there in the stillness and dark of the night, when you are in the quiet of your tho...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Patients caregivers carepartner Grace Cordovano Judy Faulkner patient advocacy Patient advocates Tommy Thompson Source Type: blogs

Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Behind the 8-Ball
On June 8, 2019, an article was published in the New York Times that clearly stated something I ' ve been thinking about for quite some time. The article was titled, "The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses" , and the subtitle was "One resource seems infinite and free: the professionalism of caregivers" . It was written by Dr. Danielle Ofri, a physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.The article outlines the ways in which healthcare providers are exploited for their compassion and dedication to patients in terms of being asked to see more patients and do more work than is humanly possibl...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 30, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: burnout doctors family nurse practitioners hospitals medical care medical ethics nurses nursing Source Type: blogs

Podcast: Medicaid ’ s Dark Secret
For many participants, Medicaid — the program that provides health care to millions of low-income Americans — isn’t free. It’s a loan. And the government expects to be repaid. Are you surprised to hear that? So was today’s guest. Rachel Corbett recently wrote an article explaining in what circumstances you could be at risk. Join us to find out if this could happen to you, how you can protect yourself and what is next for the healthcare program. SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Guest information for ‘Rachel Corbett Medicaid’ Podcast Episode Rachel Corbett is the author of You Must Change Your Life: The Story...
Source: World of Psychology - December 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Aging General Health-related Interview Mental Health and Wellness Podcast Policy and Advocacy The Psych Central Show Treatment Source Type: blogs

Mandated Queries of the Florida Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: A Three-Month Experience from a Cancer Center-Based Outpatient Palliative Medicine Clinic
This article represents the findings from the queries over the first three months ’ queries and brings further clarity to our initial findings.Methods This quality improvement (QI) project was reviewed and approved by the Orlando Health/UFHealth Cancer Center Joint Oncology Committee for 2018-19. We began recording results of all E-FORSCE queries occurring after the law ’s implementation of July 1, 2018 through September 30, 2018. We informed each patient that the PDMP query had become mandatory in Florida, and we discussed the results of each query with each patient. Each query examined the last 12 months of the patie...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 18, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: kollas opioid pain quality improvement statte Source Type: blogs

Why Medicare for All Will Not Cure What Ails the Hahnemann
By ASEEM R. SHUKLA, MD The impending closure of Hahnemann University Hospital is a local tragedy.  Eliminating a 170-year old institution is certain to exaggerate the daily travails of the economically disadvantaged inner-city population that Hahnemann serves as a safety-net hospital.  The closure is also a national tragedy. Hospitals are the towering, visible monuments of our healthcare system, and closings imply that something insidious ails that very system—that all is not well.   Hospitals are complex entities with varied financial drivers, and the solution is never simple.  And the mo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Hospitals Medicare Aseem Shukla Hahnemann University Hospital Medicare For All Source Type: blogs

How a Value Focus Could Change Health Care
By BRIAN KLEPPER, PhD How will the drive to health care value affect health care’s structure? We tend to assume that the health care structure we’re become accustomed to is the one we’ll always have, but that’s probably far from the truth. If we pull levers that incentivize the right care at the right time, it’s likely that many of the problems we think we’re stuck with, like overtreatment and a lack of accountability, will disappear. A large part of getting the right results is making sure that health care vendors have the right incentives. All forms of reimbursement carry incentives, so it’s important...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Value-Based Care Brian Klepper Health Care Reform Validation Institute Source Type: blogs

Podcast: How Money Impacts Mental Illness
In this episode, our hosts discuss how the amount of money and resources a person has influences their mental health care. Listen now to hear how Gabe and Michelle tackle this difficult social discussion — and have a couple laughs along the way.  SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW “It’s so hard to get help with mental illness if you have no money, and that’s not ok.” – Michelle Hammer Highlights from ‘Money and Mental Illness’ Episode [1:00] How does money impact people with mental illness? [3:00] Michelle’s epiphany on the subway. [5:30] The difference between mental health and physical health. [9:3...
Source: World of Psychology - August 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Personal Policy and Advocacy Source Type: blogs

A Proposal to Improve Healthcare and Make It More Affordable
By STEVE ZECOLA Americans spend about $3 trillion per year on healthcare, or about $10,000 per person per year. Despite these expenditures, Americans are worse off than their international counterparts with respect to infant mortality, life expectancy and the prevalence of chronic conditions. In policy debates, Republicans mostly prefer to let the marketplace devise the appropriate outcomes, but this approach ignores the market failures that plague the industry. On the other hand, Democrats propose a variety of solutions such as “Medicare for All” which nationalizes all healthcare insurance or, as a variant, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare For All Source Type: blogs

Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 2
By BOB HERTZ We Need Legal Assaults On The Greediest Providers! When a patient is hospitalized, or diagnosed with a deadly disease, they often have no choice about the cost of their treatment. They are legally helpless, and vulnerable to price gouging. We need more legal protection of patients. In some cases we need price controls. Next in this three-part series, I discuss how we could challenge Big Pharma by lessening regulation of generic drugs, having the government take over production and establishing price review boards. Assault Phase Three – Challenge Big Pharma Step One – Less Regulation of...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Reducing Churn to Increase Value in Health Care: Solutions for Payers, Providers, and Policymakers
Conclusion Churn has vexed insurance executives for decades and is considered by many at this point an inevitable challenge. But now that the value-based movement has led to a refocusing on social determinants of health, incentives are aligned to address this issue. This solution may be a key step towards a healthcare system focused on investing in health rather than in treating illness. Niko has a background in research and consulting and enjoys writing about and solving problems facing the US health care industry. Saeed has more than 25 years of health information technology experience, with a track record of ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics The Business of Health Care Uncategorized Churn health innovation Health policy health20 niko lehman-white saeed aminzadeh Source Type: blogs

But Maybe Autism Parents Can Let Go?
What’s the other side of the “I can never die?” plaint of the autism parent? I’ve done a lot of writing about the need for more protections of our vulnerable guys who do not live with us. Even so, for many of us that is not a sustainable solution. And we are not the center of the issue, even though we love our children and want to protect them. No, they themselves are. And it is their right as human beings to claim their independence if that is what they wish. So — perhaps we parents can take a lesson from — of all things — the story of Abraham and Isaac. Not the sacrifice part ...
Source: Susan's Blog - May 13, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

For American Indians, Health is a Human and Legal Right
Sam Aptekar Phuoc Le By PHUOC LE, MD and SAM APTEKAR Most will be surprised to learn that American Indians and Alaska Natives represent the only populations in the United States with a legal birthright to health care.[1] Even though Article 25 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including…medical care and necessary social services,” U.S. federal policy only guarantees this human right to enrolled tribal members. The source of this juridical entitlement ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health disparities Health Policy American Indians Phuoc Le Sam Aptekar Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 25th 2019
This study defines a new clinically relevant concept of T-cell senescence-mediated inflammatory responses in the pathophysiology of abnormal glucose homeostasis. We also found that T-cell senescence is associated with systemic inflammation and alters hepatic glucose homeostasis. The rational modulation of T-cell senescence would be a promising avenue for the treatment or prevention of diabetes. Intron Retention via Alternative Splicing as a Signature of Aging https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/03/intron-retention-via-alternative-splicing-as-a-signature-of-aging/ In recent years researchers have inv...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 24, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Health Care Price Tags Won ’t Find You the Best Doctor
This article originally appeared on STAT here. 
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Technology Hospitals Physicians health care pricing Michael Millenson Quality of care transparent pricing Source Type: blogs