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American Thoracic Society Lies to Public, Claiming that Smoking is No More Hazardous than Vaping
One of the following is blatantly lying to the American public by telling us that smoking is no more hazardous than vaping, which involves no use of tobacco and no combustion process and has been found to dramatically improve the health of smokers who switch to these products. Guess which one.A. The tobacco industry; orB. The American Thoracic Society.If you guessed A, you are wrong. The correct answer is B. In a whopping ironic twist, it is the American Thoracic Society, and not Big Tobacco, that is lying to the public and downplaying the severe health consequences of smoking.In a press release issued last Friday, the Ame...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - April 18, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 18th 2016
This study confirms that having an apple-shaped body - or a high waist circumference - can lead to heart disease, and that reducing your waist size can reduce your risks." The results of the new research expands on the results of a previously published study called FaCTor-64, which showed that the greater a person's body mass index, the greater their risk of heart disease. FaCTor-64 enrolled patients with diabetes who were considered to be at high risk for heart attacks, strokes, or death but had no evidence of heart disease as of yet. Study participants completed randomized screening for coronary artery disease by ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 17, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Rejuvenation Biotechnology Update for April 2016
This study provides a clear and important piece of evidence to support the idea that senescent cells shorten lifespan, and conversely, that their elimination extends it. With this study, it became clear that, yes, eliminating senescent cells in otherwise healthy aged mice is a net benefit without any apparent downsides. Getting rid of senescent cells is one of the seven key rejuvenation biotechnologies of SENS. Lanosterol reverses protein aggregation in cataracts. Cataracts develop due to changes in the lens of the eye, which must be transparent and maintain its optical properties within narrow parameters fo...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 15, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs

To Fight Antimicrobial Resistance, Allow FDA To Approve New Drugs For Limited Populations
Over the past several months, microbiologists and public health experts around the world have been alarmed by the discovery of a gene conferring resistance to colistin, a so-called “last resort” antibiotic. The gene, MCR-1, was discovered in China last year, and thereafter quickly identified in E. coli samples from six continents. Because this type of gene is highly transferable, it will, in all likelihood, spread to other hard-to-treat bacteria. What global health leaders have been warning of for years has now become reality. Now, more than ever, there is an urgent need for action to spur the innovation of antibiotics...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 5, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Allan Coukell Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Global Health Population Health Public Health Quality 21st Century Cures Act Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotics Congress FDA limited-population antibacterial drug MCR-1 PATH Act Research Source Type: blogs

Behavior Change Driving Digital Health is Bubbling Up from the Bottom
This week marks one month since ePharma Summit 2016 opened and closed. It’s a good time to reflect on a final takeaway from the conference and close my notebook.Clearly, there is more grand thinking about the future and emphasis on the promise of digital health at this point than in the celebration of successes. But that isn’t to say there aren’t a few current successes and some projects underway that will start to bear fruit even as I write this.The most important aspect of digital health that I learned at the ePharma Summit was that patients are truly at the center of any advances in the use of healthcare technolog...
Source: ePharma Summit - April 3, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: #ePharma16 cancer patients Digital Health Digital Pharma Marketing ePharma Summit ePharma Summit 2016 Healthcare technology Matthew Zachary patient centricity Pharma Content Marketing Stupid Cancer Source Type: blogs

Everything you need to know about iodine
  What if your diet is perfect–no wheat, no junk carbohydrates like that from corn or sugars, you are physically active–yet you fail to lose weight? Or you hit a plateau after an initial loss? Think iodine. Iodine is an essential nutrient. It is no more optional than, say, celebrating your wedding anniversary or obtaining vitamin C. If you forget to do something nice for your wife on your wedding anniversary, I would fear for your life. If you develop open sores all over your body and your joints fall apart, you could undergo extensive plastic surgery reconstruction and joint replacement . . . or you could just tr...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 31, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten grains iodine minerals nutrients supplements Thyroid Weight Loss Source Type: blogs

Public Health Malpractice? Nursing Journal Article Recommends Scolding Smokers Who Quit Using E-Cigarettes
Cited Guidelines by AACR and ASCO Demand Conflict of Interest Disclosures, But Fail to Disclose their Own ConflictsIn a review article published online ahead of print Monday in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, a University of Pennsylvania Nursing School professor makes a number of clinical recommendations regarding communications that nurses should have with patients about tobacco and nicotine use. One of those recommendations is that practitioners should not commend smokers who have successfully quit smoking by switching completely to electronic cigarettes.The author writes:"Currently, it is...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - March 23, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

Learn or Die!
This post originally appeared on The Timmerman Report and then ran on Venture Valkyrie. I have a new favorite TV show: Join or Die with Craig Ferguson. Ferguson is a irreverent, sometimes raunchy Scottish comedian who used to host the Late Late Show alongside his skeleton puppet sidekick Geoff.   Join or Die airs Thursdays at 11 pm on the History Channel, which is your first clue that this isn’t your run of the mill late night talk show. The premise of Join or Die, named after Ferguson’s tattoo, is that four people, a random assortment of comedians, actors, historians and scientists plus Ferguson, debate a historic q...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Quality Source Type: blogs

We Have Granular Data on Patients and Doctors to Move the Needle on Outcomes Today
ePharma Summit 2016 is already two weeks in the rearview mirror but the takeaways have staying power.I keep returning to the fact that the future isn’t in front of us, but it is now. The snail’s pace of progress in the physical realm is a reflection of the snail’s pace of progress in the healthcare mindset. But that is changing. As Millennials (read: digital natives) take over the reins, this horse is going to start galloping. Knowledge and technology are advancing exponentially. What were plans and dreams just a few years ago are now our reality. The charge is for regulatory and traditional processes to keep pace or...
Source: ePharma Summit - March 14, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: #ePharma16 Doximity ePharma Summit ePharma Summit 2016 Matthew Zachary Stupid Cancer Source Type: blogs

Talking Past Each Other: Patient Engagement is More than a Slogan
The future is here. We just need to recognize it and start using it for the good of patients. The technology available today allows the healthcare industry to stop talking at patients, or talking past patients, and engage them in meaningful conversations.It is at the intersection of patients, the providers who care for them and the payers who have to manage the finances to pay for it all where technology will integrate these powerful forces. There was a fundamental frustration you could feel from the futurists at ePharma Summit 2016 that they are dragging a reluctant healthcare sector along to make this future that is now,...
Source: ePharma Summit - March 5, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs

New Health Care Symposium: High Prices And Payment Reform—Let’s Get Practical
Editor’s note: This post is part of a Health Affairs Blog symposium stemming from “The New Health Care Industry: Integration, Consolidation, Competition in the Wake of the Affordable Care Act,” a conference held recently at Yale Law School’s Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy. Links to all posts in the symposium will be added to Abbe Gluck’s introductory post as they appear, and you can access a full list of symposium pieces here or by clicking on the “Yale Health Care Industry Symposium” tag at the bottom of any symposium post. High and highly variable provider prices in health care market...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Robert Berenson Tags: Costs and Spending Hospitals Medicare Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Population Health ACOs health insurance mergers market consolidation value-based payment Yale Health Care Industry Symposium Source Type: blogs

Senate Hearing on Opioid Epidemic Focuses on Limiting Multiple Access Points
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing focused on the opioid abuse epidemic and its effect on the Medicare system. Senators Pat Toomey and Rob Portman have introduced a bipartisan bill Stopping Medication Abuse and Protecting Seniors Act with help from Senators Bob Casey and Sherrod Brown, that would allow Medicare Part D prescription drug plans to work with at-risk beneficiaries to identify one physician to prescribe opioids and one pharmacy to fill all the opioid prescriptions. The Senators believe that having opioids prescribed by only one physician (instead of multiple doctors) may result in better patient c...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 25, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

CMS Releases Form And Rate Filing Instructions For Five States, Quality Rating System Guidance
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides that if a state lacks the authority or is otherwise substantially unable to enforce the ACA’s health insurance reform provisions, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shall itself enforce those provisions directly. Currently CMS directly enforces the ACA’s insurance market reform provisions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming. On February 5, 2016, CMS released 2017 form and rate filing instructions for insurers in those five states. Insurers providing individual or group health insurance products (other than excepted benefits and grandfathered produc...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 9, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Quality Alabama Essential Health Benefits Health Insurance Oversight System Missouri Oklahoma QHPs qualified health plans Texas Wyoming Source Type: blogs

Stealth Public Relations and Health Advocacy, Special Pleadings and the Opposition to Guidelines Discouraging Overuse of Narcotics
As I have written before as a physician who saw too many dire results of intravenous drug abuse, I was amazed how narcotics were pushed as the treatment of choice for chronic pain in the 1990s, with the result that the US was once again engulfed in an epidemic of narcotic abuse and its effects.  In mid-December, 2015, as reported in the Washington Post,The nation continues to suffer through a widespread epidemic to prescription opioids and their illegal cousin, heroin. The CDC estimated that 20 percent of patients who complain about acute or chronic pain that is not from cancer are prescribed opioids. Health-care prov...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: CDC Cephalon conflicts of interest deception Endo Health Solutions Johnson and Johnson narcotics public relations Purdue Pharma stealth health policy advocacy Source Type: blogs

This is why a computer algorithm cannot ever fully replace a doctor’s judgment
The past year had been a tremendously exciting time to be an oncologist, and to be a lung cancer oncologist in particular. It seems we hardly have time to get used to one newly approved agent before another one becomes available. In 2015, we have seen gefitinib (don’t I know you from somewhere?), afatinib, nivolumab (twice), pembrolizumab, necitumumab, and osimertinib all become approved or have approvals broadened to new populations of patients with lung cancer, which has to be a record for one disease in one year. It is possible we aren’t even done yet, with several additional drugs under FDA priority review. While t...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 15, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Cancer Medications Source Type: blogs