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A High Level View of the State of SENS Rejuvenation Research
The Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) volunteers caught up with Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Research Foundation at the recent International Longevity and Cryopreservation Summit held in Spain, and hence the publication of the high level view of current progress in SENS rejuvenation research that I'll point out today. The conference was an opportunity for members the overlapping European communities focused on longevity science, cryonics, and transhumanism to present their work, build their networks, and plan future initiatives. When it comes to longevity, the SENS research program looms large: its focus on repair of...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 1, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Evidence-Based Policy Making? - Dumb Things Politicians Say About Health Care Policy
There have been multiple legislative attempts at major health care reform in the US. Typically, such attempts feature considerable public debate, including speechs, congressional committee hearings, sometimes progressing to debates by the House and Senate. (For example, see thisFrontline chronology of the proceedings up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, aka " Obamacare, " in 2009.) Usually the discussion includes some real experts on health care policy, and some real health care professionals, and at least appears to reference some data about medicine, health care, and health economics. Whether p...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: health care reform postmodernism Source Type: blogs
Big Data and the Social Good: The Value for Healthcare Organizations
The following is a guest blog post by Mike Serrano from NETSCOUT.
It’s a well-known fact that Facebook, Google, and our phone companies collect a lot of information about each of us. This has been the case for a long time, and more often than not it’s to improve the user experience of the services we rely on. If data is shared outside the organization, it’s anonymized to prevent the usage of any one individual from being identified. But it’s understandable while this practice has still sparked a passionate and longstanding debate about privacy and ‘big brother’-style snooping.
What is often forgotten, however,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 22, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Healthcare HealthCare IT Population Health Management Mike Serrano NETSCOUT Public Health Subscriber Information Source Type: blogs
Why Health Reform is a Risky Business for Politicians: Even Winning Can Cost You at the Polls!
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
In August 1989, Chicago Congressman Daniel Rostenkowski, then Chairman of the “powerful” House Ways and Means Committee, narrowly escaped an angry mob of seniors in his own district who attacked his car with umbrellas. His crime: eliminating the gaping patient financial exposure built into the Medicare program in 1965 by raising taxes on the “high income” elderly. In November, 1989 Congress rescinded the so-called Catastrophic Coverage Act, a bipartisan reform signed into law by Ronald Reagan just sixteen months earlier.
In the spring of 1994, Bill and Hillary Clinton abandoned their famously ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The time is now: Addressing health inequities in rural minority populations
In 1966 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech to the Medical Committee for Human Rights and said “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” In 2017 inequality in healthcare still exists and the consequences are striking.
Health inequities or disparities in urban communities are well known and in some cases more resources may be available to address them than in a rural community. In rural previously homogenous communities these issues are even more significant as the minority community begins to grow but the healthcare systems have not changed or are not moving fast ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Medicaid: What Happens Now?
With public attention completely focused on the wild effort to reach closure on the private health insurance provisions of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) (H.R. 1628), it was easy to overlook (at least for a moment) the extraordinary nature of its Medicaid changes. Were these provisions to become law, the AHCA would represent the most sweeping federal policy shift since the program’s 1965 enactment.
How The AHCA Would Affect Medicaid
The AHCA would end the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced funding for the adult expansion population. More profoundly, however—and completely disconnected from the AHCA’s “repeal...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Sara Rosenbaum Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Quality ACA repeal and replace AHCA EPSDT Medicaid block grants Medicaid expansion Medicaid per capita cap medicaid work requirement Source Type: blogs
The Louisiana Purchase
By ROBERT PEARL, MD
“Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered,” the saying goes. And so may it prove to be true for the pharmaceutical industry.
Three articles, all published recently, illustrate the greed and egregious pricing by certain drug companies that are gaining public recognition and scrutiny.
Marathon Pharmaceuticals LLC serves as a case in point. Over the last 15 years, its chairman and CEO Jeffrey Aronin generated a billion-dollar valuation for the company. As reported in a Wall Street Journal article, “Drug Price Revolt Prods a Pioneer to Cash Out,” he achieved this milestone not by inventing ne...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
New Checks and Balances For Big Pharma
By ROBERT PEARL, MD
“Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered,” the saying goes. And so may it prove to be true for the pharmaceutical industry.
Three articles, all published recently, illustrate the greed and egregious pricing by certain drug companies that are gaining public recognition and scrutiny.
Marathon Pharmaceuticals LLC serves as a case in point. Over the last 15 years, its chairman and CEO Jeffrey Aronin generated a billion-dollar valuation for the company. As reported in a Wall Street Journal article, “Drug Price Revolt Prods a Pioneer to Cash Out,” he achieved this milestone not by inventing ne...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Little Louisiana Purchase
By ROBERT PEARL, MD
“Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered,” the saying goes. And so may it prove to be true for the pharmaceutical industry.
Three articles, all published recently, illustrate the greed and egregious pricing by certain drug companies that are gaining public recognition and scrutiny.
Marathon Pharmaceuticals LLC serves as a case in point. Over the last 15 years, its chairman and CEO Jeffrey Aronin generated a billion-dollar valuation for the company. As reported in a Wall Street Journal article, “Drug Price Revolt Prods a Pioneer to Cash Out,” he achieved this milestone not by inventing ne...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Financial And Political News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General.
May 4, 2017 Edition.Well we have survived the first 100 days of the Trump Presidency (that means 1361 to go I am told.)We have all sorts of domestic as well as international challenges right at the moment. Think everything from North Korea to Energy Exports.When you read this we will be less than a week until we hear about the May 9 Budget. Will be interesting to see what we get this year!-----Here are a few other things I have noticed.-----National Budget Issues.http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/04/24/budget-have-another-go-dole-bludgers24 Apr 2017 - 3:30pmBudget to have another go at dole bludgers The Turnbull gove...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 4, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Scott Gottlieb And The Goldilocks Theory Of Bringing Change To The FDA
With the nomination of Dr. Scott Gottlieb to head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headed to the Senate floor, we can expect another Goldilocks debate. Like the heroine of the classic tale who famously tested the three bowls of porridge to find one too hot, one too cold, and one “just right,” participants will debate whether today’s FDA is too lenient, too tough, or just right in reviewing new prescription drugs.
That Dr. Gottlieb is qualified for the role he has been nominated for appears beyond question. What critics take issue with is whether his extensive experience ties him too closely to the entities...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Ian Spatz Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Health Professionals Public Health 21st Century Cures Act Big Pharma FDA off-label drugs off-label promotion Source Type: blogs
Rethinking The United States ’ Military Health System
During Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (2001 – 2014), the United States’ military health system completely transformed its approach to casualty care, achieving the highest rate of survival from battlefield wounds in the history of warfare. It is one of the most remarkable accomplishments in the history of US medicine.
Ironically, the same health care system that worked miracles “down range” in Iraq and Afghanistan faces mounting criticism at home. How can this be? In part, it is because the military health system has two distinctive missions: support combat and humanitarian assistance missions ove...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Arthur Kellermann Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Organization and Delivery Population Health Quality American College of Surgeons Department of Veterans Affairs Jonathan Letterman military health care National Defense Authorization Act TRICARE Source Type: blogs
The Return of the Angry Granny State
By CHARLES SILVER
Texas should call itself The Granny State. That’s because it’s a nanny state in which the public officials who run the place have the values of a tea-totaling, Bible-thumping biddy who knows how God wants everyone to live and can’t resist telling them. No buying liquor on Sundays when people are supposed to be at church. No gambling ever. No whacky-weed for medicinal uses or recreation, even in the privacy of one’s home. No gay marriage, preferably no gays, and no transgender folk deciding which restrooms to use. And, of course, no sex, sex education, birth control, or abortions. Women should hav...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Charles Silver Malpractice Texas Trump Source Type: blogs
Health Policy ’s Gordian Knot: Rethinking Cost Control
Medical spending has resumed its long-term rise. After several years of deceptive stability in the last, deep recession’s wake, health spending rose by 3.7 percentage points more than general inflation in 2014, then by 5.8 percentage points more in 2015, to a 17.8 percent share of the US economy.
Not only does this spending rise threaten the United States’ fiscal stability and capacity to address other needs; it is undermining the promise of health care for all. To manage rising costs, insurers are hiking premiums, narrowing their networks, and raising deductibles and copayments, making purchase of coverage less appeal...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Gregg Bloche, Neel Sukhatme and John L. Marshall Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Health IT Insurance and Coverage Payment Policy intellectual property patents Research and Development value-based payment Source Type: blogs
Show Your Appreciation for the Fundraising Work of Lifespan.io
The Lifespan.io and Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) volunteers have over the past few years put together and maintained a crowdfunding infrastructure used to successfully raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for rejuvenation research projects. They have carried the message that aging can be effectively treated as a medical condition out to new audiences, expanded our community of supporters, and helped to connect researchers and entrepreneurs to new patrons. The LEAF volunteers are presently running a small fundraiser in search of monthly donors to help expand their present advocacy for the cause of rejuvenatio...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 20, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
