Rick Bowmer / AP Ora Botwinick examines Dahlia Arbella, 5, at the North Portland Health Center in Portland, Ore., on June 18, 2012 Among all the criticisms of President Obamas health care reform law, the most salient may be that the Affordable Care Actfocuses on access to insurance at the expense of cost and quality care. A new set of results from a study on Oregons Medicaid program supports this critique and offers a window into the broader shortcomings of the U.S Continue reading
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The Reason Health Care Is So Expensive: Insurance Companies
As Congressional budget battles heat upor roll along, depending on your time perspectivethe cost of health care in America receives a lot of attention. Unfortunately most of the discussion is largely off the mark about where the preventable, unnecessary costs really are. Continue reading
Study: Southerners delay health care treatment because of cost
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Yale doctors: ‘Bystander effect’ in medicine hinders patient care
By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff The patient in intensive care had kidney, liver, and lung failure, plus a rash. Nine specialty groups were called in to consult. During 11 days on the unit, at least 40 doctors were part of the mans care Continue reading
What can we expect from the next 100 years of medicine?
Plenty has been written this year about the history of medicine through the lens of the New England Journal of Medicine, which celebrated its 200th anniversary. In an article published today on the journal’s website, two top editors join Dr. Isaac Kohane of Boston Children’s Hospital in looking forward, at what medicine may look like in the next 100 years. Continue reading
IVF, Infertility Sepcialist Dr. Peter McGovern Discusses His Approach to Infertility Care – Video
IVF, Infertility Sepcialist Dr. Peter McGovern Discusses His Approach to Infertility Care Peter McGovern MD is the medical director of University Reproductive Associates (URA) as well as an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Womens Health and Division Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School Continue reading
IVF NJ Dr. Peter McGovern Discusses How URA Works with Referring Physicians – Video
IVF NJ Dr. Peter McGovern Discusses How URA Works with Referring Physicians Peter McGovern MD is the medical director of University Reproductive Associates (URA) as well as an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Womens Health and Division Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Continue reading
The Reality of Race – Jared Taylor – Video
The Reality of Race – Jared Taylor www.amren.com Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, explains the biological basis of race. Sources: Weiss, Rick, and Justin Gillis. “Teams Finish Mapping Human DNA.” Washington Post 27 June 2000: A1 Continue reading
New Genetic Testing Reveals More Prenatal Abnormalities
A new genetic test has resulted in remarkably more applicable information than the current routine of prenatal testing, suggests a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The test uses microarray analysis to more effectively examine a fetus's DNA than is currently possible with the karyotyping method, a visual examination of the fetus's chromosomes. Continue reading
Genetic Test Reveals More About Potential Birth Defects Than Conventional Methods
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Two new papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) show that genetic testing in early pregnancy reveals far more about potential birth defects and stillbirth risk than current prenatal testing does, based on a multi-center clinical trial using both methods. The clinical trials showed that 6 percent of certain fetuses … Continue reading
Mary McNaughton-Collins Discusses Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis – Video
Mary McNaughton-Collins Discusses Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis Mary McNaughton-Collins, medical director at the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, provides her take on a recent New England Journal of Medicine paper titled “Effect of Three Decades of Screening Mammography on Breast-Cancer Incidence.” The authors of this paper came to the startling conclusion that roughly 1.3 million women in the last three decades have been overdiagnosed with breast cancer.From:FIMDMViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:46More inNonprofits Activism Continue reading
Which Protein Shake is Best for Weight Loss | Best Protein Shakes to Lose Weight – Video
Which Protein Shake is Best for Weight Loss | Best Protein Shakes to Lose Weight www.gethereguide.com — or www.healtydiettips.com A glass of soy shake a day will keep us from belly fat and can remove some of the fat that accumulates in the abdomen. Soy is a healthy alternative to animal protein as a dietary source of complete protein Soy protein shakes, which are low in calories and saturated fat and cholesterol-free, have long been popular among the health-conscious population Continue reading
To Treat Emotional Toll of Medical School, Physician Prescribes Shakespeare
Students may begin their medical school careers riding on a cloud of altruism and goodwill, but its not long before the grueling schedule, avalanche of new vocabulary and stubborn patients can take a toll. To return the student brain to a state of balance, David Watts, MD, UCSF professor of clinical medicine, argues that a healthy dose of literature poems and stories, specifically be a core part of the student experience. It may seem counter-intuitive: Adding more work to an already-loaded academic schedule seems like a recipe for disaster Continue reading
Diet, Diabetes, and Doubt: Is Preventive Medicine Lost in Space?
A large federal trial, looking at lifestyle–diet and exercise–for the treatment of diabetes was just terminated because, after 11 years, it wasn’t working as intended. The Look AHEAD study was stopped early because it was not reducing the rate of heart attack and stroke in the intervention group relative to the control. Continue reading
Dr. Murray Feingold: Animal genetics help scientists understand diseases
Not only have great strides been made in human genetics but also in animal genetics. This is important because such genetic information is not only helpful to the animal, but it frequently can also be applied to humans. Continue reading
Feingold: Animal genetics help scientists understand diseases
Not only have great strides been made in human genetics but also in animal genetics. This is important because such genetic information is not only helpful to the animal, but it frequently can also be applied to humans. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine discussed how genetic research from one type of animal, the dog, has been helpful in better understanding the genetics of certain inherited disorders that are present in both dogs and humans Continue reading
Bay State is a template for health care reform again
WASHINGTON Some of President Barack Obama’s former advisers are proposing major changes aimed at controlling health care costs as political uncertainty hovers over his health law. Call it Health Care Overhaul, Version 2.0. Their biggest idea is a first-ever budget for the nation’s $2.8-trillion health care system, through negotiated limits on public and private spending in each state Continue reading
Health cost controls follow Mass. lead
WASHINGTON Some of President Barack Obamas former advisers are proposing major changes aimed at controlling health care costs as political uncertainty hovers over his health law. Call it Health Care Overhaul, Version 2.0. Continue reading
New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Results From Phase 3 AFFIRM Trial of Enzalutamide
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and TOKYO–(Marketwire -08/15/12)- Medivation, Inc. (MDVN) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (Tokyo:4503) today announced the publication in the New England Journal of Medicine of the results from the Phase 3 AFFIRM trial, an international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study of enzalutamide (formerly MDV3100) in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have been previously treated with docetaxel-based chemotherapy Continue reading
Health Care Cost Slowdowns Continue, Predated 2007 Recession
ANN ARBOR An article just published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that a downward bend in the health care cost curve is not simply the result of the recession which began in December 2007, and the subsequent weak recovery. The study came from Ann Arbors Altarum Institute, which also announced that national health expenditures in June 2012 grew by 3.9 percent relative to June 2011, down from the 4.2 percent growth rate observed in May, after incorporating the effects of major government updates Continue reading