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What if cancer treatment left you completely exhausted?
When I was 38, my life was turned upside down. As a healthy, happy wife and mother of two, I never could have imagined that I would be diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. Post-diagnosis was a whirlwind: I had a double mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy and more surgery.It took a long time to get my health back after treatment, but I discovered that the entire experience took a toll on my metabolism and muscle strength. When I ’d try to exercise, I’d just end up in a pool of tears due to pain and exhaustion.A friend told me aboutLIVESTRONG at the YMCA and it changed my life. Their exercise program fo...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - August 18, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: LIVESTRONG Staff Source Type: blogs

Health Affairs Web First: New ACA Coverage Enrollees Increased Prescription Use And Lowered Spending
This study will also appear in the September issue of Health Affairs.
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 17, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Larner Tags: Costs and Spending Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP chronic conditions Health Affairs journal Web First Source Type: blogs

LGBT Protections In Affordable Care Act Section 1557
On May 13, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) issued a historic new rule that codifies nationwide nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in health facilities, programs, and activities receiving federal funding. This rule confirms that Affordable Care Act Section 1557 prohibits discrimination against LGBT people in health insurance coverage and health care. Key provisions of the final rule that relate specifically to LGBT people include: Interpreting Section 1557’s sex nondiscrimination protections to include explicit p...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 6, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Kellan Baker Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Public Health Quality HHS OCR LGBT issues section 1557 transgender rights Source Type: blogs

A Look at One of the Palo Alto Longevity Prize Competitors
The Palo Alto Longevity Prize launched back in 2014, one of a number of research prizes created over the past decade aimed at encouraging greater progress in the application of aging research. This popular press article takes a look at one of the competitors, but note it is garbling the science in a few places. In particular the line on quadrupling mouse life span is probably a reference to a study on a mouse model of multiple sclerosis or similar work on short-lived lineages where any intervention will greatly extend remaining life span by partially fixing the problem that is killing the mice at a young age. Certainly no-...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 26, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Sexism in Science: Bias Beyond the Lab
CONCLUSION There’s no doubt that we’ve come far in this field and an improved concentration on exploring sex-based biology has resulted in a better understanding of sex differences–but we need to continue to such efforts in order to promote good health for all men and women. Clinical trials need to be designed to ensure not only the inclusion of, but also the recognition of their differences. Working toward inclusivity of medical research will benefit us all by increasing our understanding of what causes various illnesses and how to treat them. RESOURCES Primary  Society for Women’s Health Research: History ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Women's Health Source Type: blogs

TBT: Blind to women’s sexual health
Today’s TBT post ran over two years ago and addressed female dysfunction. Given the FDA’s recent approval of flibanserin, a pill that aims to increase a woman’s desire for sex, we thought it would be helpful to review some of the early conversations on the issue. A recent article published in partnership with The Investigative Fund and Newsweek questioned the existence of “female dysfunction,” as if to say, who cares about women’s sexual health? If you can’t “see” it, apparently it doesn’t exist. This is one-sided, inaccurate and disparaging of women. Why is it that when men are impotent it ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Choice gender Women's Health Flibanserin Food and Drug Administration Sexual desire Sexual dysfunction Source Type: blogs

Treating Menopausal Vaginal Dryness
Sex is supposed to be fun, and it’s definitely not supposed to hurt. But one of the consequences of menopause is vaginal dryness, which for many women means painful sex. With the loss of ovarian estrogen, vaginal walls that were once elastic, expandable, supple and sturdy can, over time, become tightened and fragile. The vaginal walls can become as thin as tissue paper, unable to withstand the manipulation that occurs with sexual activity, and can tear and even bleed with intercourse. “Use it or lose it” When sex becomes painful, the natural response is to begin to avoid intercourse. But without continued sexual acti...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 2, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Menopause painful sex sex hurts vaginal atrophy vaginal dryness Source Type: blogs

You can never be prepared for a diagnosis of breast cancer
November of last year found me living as best I could with several health issues, the most debilitating of which stems from never having recovered from a serious viral infection in 2001. I’ve been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little understood and much-misunderstood illness. It keeps me virtually housebound. For the most part, I’ve made peace with feeling sick all the time. In fact, recently I’d been thinking that I could be OK with the prospect of spending the rest of my life with flu-like symptoms as my constant companions. Then, totally unexpectedly, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was discov...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 6, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Patient Cancer Source Type: blogs

Weighing the Risks of Hormone Therapy
The post below originally ran on Huffington Post’s Healthy Living blog on February 19. To see the original post click here. For over a decade, hormone therapy (HT) has been a hot topic in medicine. Unfortunately, women are still confused and concerned about using HT after two federally-funded studies linked HT to potentially serious health risks. Even decades after these studies, information on HT is seriously muddied, and not much is still fully known or understood about the treatment. It’s time to clear up the confusion and debunk the false reports surrounding its risks. HT is used to primarily treat menopaus...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Women's Health Source Type: blogs

The Single Senior STD Epidemic
If you think your retired parents who have settled into a low-key retirement home or senior living community are spending their time playing checkers and watching soaps, think again! They may be running around having sex just like college kids let loose in a dorm for the first time. Senior citizens, contrary to popular belief, are often still sexually active. And they are spreading sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). According to the Center for Disease Control, since 2007, the incidence of syphilis among seniors, those 65 and over, is up by 52 percent, and the number of chlamydia cases has risen 32 percent. The rapid inc...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs

Top stories in health and medicine, March 10, 2015
From MedPage Today: Kid’s Asthma Not Linked to Maternal SSRIs in Pregnancy. Children whose depressed mothers took newer antidepressants while pregnant were not at increased risk of childhood asthma. Menopausal HT Not Tied to Greater Death Risk. Hormone therapy in postmenopausal women was not linked to a significant effect on all-cause mortality, cardiovascular death, or breast cancer death. In Cancer Wars, It’s Doctors vs. Hospitals. Colliding federal policies are fomenting a nasty money war that’s pitting community oncologists trying to treat patients in less expensive clinic settings against hospitals...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 10, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: News Cancer OB/GYN Pulmonology Rheumatology Source Type: blogs

Confused and Upset by a Second Opinion, but Ready to Fight for My Life
I am a huge advocate for second opinions.  It was a no-brainer that I would seek one out after this diagnosis of breast cancer metastasis. In the past it generally confirmed the treatment my first doctor recommended or provided options, as in reconstructive surgery. This time it just confused and upset me. I sought a second opinion in my case not because I didn’t trust my oncologist. I not only love Dr. Khan, he is esteemed as one of the top oncologists in my state.  In fact, his office prepared all the medical records that needed to be sent to the health system where I planned to go. I chose to meet with the cancer c...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - May 15, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer BRCA chemotherapy hormonal therapy PARP breast cancer Second Opinion Source Type: blogs

Top stories in health and medicine, March 24, 2014
From MedPage Today: Water Labor OK, Water Birth Risky, Groups Say. Immersion in water during the early stages of labor might benefit mothers-to-be by decreasing pain and shortening delivery times, but giving birth in water has no proven benefits and poses potentially serious risks to the baby, according to a statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Some Breast Cancers Require Longer Tx. Breast cancers with high-level estrogen sensitivity had a significantly greater risk of late recurrence, possibly indicating a need for more than 5 years o...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 24, 2014 Category: Family Physicians Tags: News Cancer Neurology OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

Thoughts on mammograms and false positives
There has been a lot of controversy in recent years about the benefits of mammography and false positives. I read Dr Susan Love's take on how "Mammography is like the TSA" and the comments left by women. It made me think.I started having annual mammograms at age 22 because of a benign fibroadenoma so I am sort of out of the discussion. My breast cancer was discovered 23 annual mammograms later at age 45. I went to all those mammograms without any concern until the one in 2007 (and if you are trying to figure out how old I am, currently I am 37) which turned into an ultrasound, a lot of denial on my part, followed by two su...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 4, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: breast cancer cancer screening controversy mammogram Source Type: blogs

Weight gain is a side effect of cancer.
Weight gain is the side effect of everything these days - even breathing. I am on too many medications which have a side effect of weight gain.... So here I sit in my slightly tight clothes two sizes larger than I used to wear in dire need of a drastic deflabbification project."People with certain cancers – such as breast, prostate and colon cancer – are more likely to gain weight during treatment due to the therapies used to combat their disease. Hormone therapy, some chemotherapy regimens and medications such as steroids  all can cause weight gain, as well as water retention."THEY  DIDN'T TELL ME THIS ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 20, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer diagnosis side effects weight Source Type: blogs