Southern Indiana Center For Independent Living Receive Tribute Medicine Coupons By Charles Myrick
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Landmark Resort LLC Receive Tribute Free Medicine Help By Charles Myrick
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Nassau University Medical Center Receive Tribute Free Medicine Coupons By Charles Myrick of ACRX
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Eagle #39;s Wings Food Pantry Receive Tribute Free Medicine Help By Charles Myrick
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Clay Co Head Start Receive Tribute Medicine Coupons By Charles Myrick ACRX
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Community Mental Health for Central MI Receive Tribute Free Medicine Help By Charles Myrick
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The Office of Martin Ackerman PC Receive Tribute Free Medicine Help by Charles Myrick of American
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Uwe Diegel keynote at Differential Medicine
When is enough enough. The battle against chronic diseases - Uwe Diegel keynote at Differential Medicine.
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Nashville Sports Medicine | Call (615) 324-1600 | Elite Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center
http://www.eliteorthopaedic.com/ Elite Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center provides comprehensive orthopaedic care and services throughout Tennessee and the southeast region. They specialize ...
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15-Dec-2014
Contact: Megan Hanks mhanks@acponline.org 215-351-2656 American College of Physicians @ACPinternists
1. Earlier detection could close the race gap on colon cancer deaths
Racial disparities in colon cancer survival rates may be explained by overall health at the time of diagnosis rather than differences in treatment received, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Colon cancer is the fourth-most common cancer in the United States. Black patients have higher incidence of colon cancer than white patients and are more likely to die from the disease. Researchers sought to determine the extent to which differences in overall health at diagnosis or differences in treatment could explain this disparity in survival. A total of 7,677 black patients with colon cancer were sequentially matched with three groups of white patients. Patients were matched first by demographic characteristics, then presentation (overall health including tumor size and comorbid conditions), and then treatment. The researchers found that treatment differences accounted for only a very small percentage of the overall racial disparity in 5-year survival. Most of the disparity in survival is explained by poorer health of black patients at diagnosis, with black patients presenting with more advanced disease and more comorbid conditions.
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2. Emphysema on CT an important independent risk factor for death
Emphysema-like lung found on computed tomography (CT) is associated with an increased risk for mortality among people without airflow obstruction or COPD, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Emphysema was originally diagnosed on autopsy but is also a common "incidental" finding on chest CT done for other reasons. Reduced lung function is known to be associated with increased all-cause mortality and persons with COPD and CT-detected emphysema are known to have worse outcomes. However, the prognostic significance of emphysema on CT among patients without COPD is unknown. Researchers followed 2,965 patients who had no COPD on spirometry for six years. They found that emphysema-like lung assessed quantitatively on CT is associated with increased all-cause mortality and, therefore, is a clinically important finding.
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The Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine has named a new president.
Dr. Dixie Tooke-Rawlins, previously dean of the Spartanburg VCOM campus, will take the reins of the college system after the retirement of founding president James Wolf. Tooke-Rawlins was the first dean of the college when it was established in 2001 in collaboration with Virginia Tech.
Tooke-Rawlins has focused most of her career on the promotion of rural health, osteopathic medicine and care for medically underserved populations, according to a written statement from the college. Under her leadership, VCOM has graduated more than 1,300 graduates, with more than 60 percent entering the field of primary care and more than 61 percent practicing in Appalachia.
As president, my focus will move from assuring the academics to assuring the success and consistency of our campuses overall. I plan to focus much of my efforts in the coming year on growth our research programs and research collaborations, and growth of our student scholarships, Tooke-Rawlins said in the statement.
Tooke-Rawlins is a graduate of Truman University and Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is board certified in family medicine and emergency medicine. She serves on the Southwest Virginia Healthcare Authority and the Virginia governor's new task force on prescription drug abuse, and is a member of the Board of Governors for the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine.
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John Brownstein #39;s Putting the Public Back in Public Health
Despite suffering from a cold that affected his voice, John Brownstein, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and on faculty at Boston Children #39;s Hospital, joined Pat Salber (@docweighsin)...
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MSU to raze former GR Press building for medical lab
Michigan State University #39;s board of trustees has authorized the demolition of the former Grand Rapids Press building in downtown Grand Rapids in order to build a new laboratory for its medical...
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By Cherie Fathy December 15 at 11:17 AM
We had just finished our endocrine unit when I noticed a lump in my neck. Perhaps school had made me more vigilant, or perhaps I merely fell into the realm of hypochondriac medical student, but I couldnt ignore this lump.
I set up an appointment with my doctor, fully expecting a diagnosis of whats sometimes called medical student neuroticism. Instead, she agreed that it was a peculiar lump, and though she believed that it would ultimately prove to be nothing, she was ordering some tests just to be conservative and careful. I approached the tests as an educational experience, something that would make for a good story.
And then one day as I was studying in the library, I found I was having a hard time focusing on anything but the lump. I felt an overwhelming need to check the results of the ultrasound that had been done, so I shakily typed in my password to access the test results; I scanned the radiologists note until I landed upon the words biopsy recommended. I guess I hadnt realized just how much I had compartmentalized the experience until I read those words over and over again. With my face red from crying (and embarrassment over my public display of emotion), I quickly gathered my things and ran home. Do I tell my father? Do I tell my friends? It could still be nothing.
I just wanted it to be nothing.
A patients worst nightmare
The first two years of medical school, the preclinical years, teach students about disease in the abstract, as testable material. We detach ourselves from reality as we memorize a constellation of symptoms and treatments presented from a podium or a textbook. I have been guilty of occasionally forgetting that what I am studying may be a patients worst nightmare.
As students on the wards, we see mere snapshots of our patients illnesses. We are there as patients receive a diagnosis in the clinic or a treatment in the hospital. What we dont see is a patient at home deciding whether that lump is even worth checking on or a mother dreading when to tell her children what she has, or how to even begin telling them.
A full two months after my initial doctors visit, time that was filled with scans and biopsies, I received a phone call that confirmed my worst fear. I had thyroid cancer. The news shattered my sense of invincibility that, as a 20-something, I had taken for granted.
Almost 63,000 people will be diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2014, according to the National Cancer Institute. As a student, I had seen its gross pathology, studied its microscopic appearance and even constructed mnemonics to commit the signs of the disease to memory. I quickly learned that the 10-minute lecture we had on thyroid cancer left out quite a bit of detail, and now those details were personal.
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16-Dec-2014
Contact: David Orenstein david_orenstein@brown.edu 401-863-1862 Brown University @brownuniversity
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- To advance public understanding, a new website produced by nine students at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University translates into everyday language the medical jargon in more than 60 pages of evidence considered by the grand jury that declined to indict former Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.
Rian Yalamanchili, a leader of "The Ferguson Decoded Project," said the team became inspired to demystify the terminology in Michael Brown's autopsy and Wilson's medical examination after seeing the raw evidence laid out in an NPR blog post Nov. 25, 2014.
"We felt like this was a place where we could use what we've learned so far to assist society in this very important debate across the nation," Yalamanchili said. "A lot of the terminology used in the documents is very complex. It felt rather unjust that even though this was made publicly accessible, it was still clouded in all this jargon and terminology."
The team worked through Thanksgiving and the first two weekends of December to produce the site, including an internal peer-review and advising by Brown University faculty members with knowledge of medical forensics, human pathology, and structural disparities in healthcare.
Two examples
Original (from Wilson's physical exam): "Right mid mandible and mid maxillary region with mild palpable pain; no swelling, deformity or crepitus, mild ecchymosis developing to area, no palpable pain to bilateral TMJ and full ROM to TMJ."
Translation: "Right jaw: Mild pain on the right side of the jaw, specifically around the middle and upper areas. No swelling, abnormality, or crackling/popping noises of the jaw bones. Mild bruising. No pain at the jaw joint. Fully able to move jaw."
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Courtesy of Cherie Fathy
We had just finished our endocrine unit when I noticed a lump in my neck. Perhaps school had made me more vigilant, or perhaps I merely fell into the realm of hypochondriac medical student, but I couldn't ignore this lump.
I set up an appointment with my doctor, fully expecting a diagnosis of what's sometimes called medical student neuroticism. Instead, she agreed that it was a peculiar lump, and though she believed that it would ultimately prove to be nothing, she was ordering some tests just to be conservative and careful. I approached the tests as an educational experience, something that would make for a good story.
And then one day as I was studying in the library, I found I was having a hard time focusing on anything but the lump. I felt an overwhelming need to check the results of the ultrasound that had been done, so I shakily typed in my password to access the test results; I scanned the radiologist's note until I landed upon the words "biopsy recommended". I guess I hadn't realised just how much I had compartmentalised the experience until I read those words over and over again. With my face red from crying (and embarrassment over my public display of emotion), I quickly gathered my things and ran home. Do I tell my father? Do I tell my friends? It could still be nothing.
I just wanted it to be nothing.
The first two years of medical school, the preclinical years, teach students about disease in the abstract, as testable material. We detach ourselves from reality as we memorise a constellation of symptoms and treatments presented from a podium or a textbook. I have been guilty of occasionally forgetting that what I am studying may be a patient's worst nightmare.
As students on the wards, we see mere snapshots of our patients' illnesses. We are there as patients receive a diagnosis in the clinic or a treatment in the hospital. What we don't see is a patient at home deciding whether that lump is even worth checking on or a mother dreading when to tell her children what she has, or how to even begin telling them.
A full two months after my initial doctor's visit, time that was filled with scans and biopsies, I received a phone call that confirmed my worst fear. I had thyroid cancer. The news shattered my sense of invincibility that, as a 20-something, I had taken for granted.
Almost 63,000 people will be diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2014, according to the National Cancer Institute. As a student, I had seen its gross pathology, studied its microscopic appearance and even constructed mnemonics to commit the signs of the disease to memory. I quickly learned that the 10-minute lecture we had on thyroid cancer left out quite a bit of detail, and now those details were personal.
When I sat in front of my surgical oncologist for the first time, I had just experienced one of the most radical shifts in my life. He told me that my treatment would include removing my thyroid gland and any affected lymph nodes, and this would be followed by a radioactive iodine treatment. The radiation was in the form of a pill that directed radiation to my thyroid cells, destroying any that may have spread to other parts of my body. The only stipulation was to stay away from others for at least a week while I was radioactive.
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