Researchers identifiy mechanism that turns white fat cells to brown. Kathleen Sebelius: The Affordable Care Act has made the U.S. health-care system stronger. One claim is that the Affordable Care Act is driving up Americans’ health-care costs.
The facts tell a different story. In the decade before the law was passed, national health expenditures increased about 7 percent a year. But in the past two years, those increases have dropped to less than 4 percent per year, saving Americans more than $220 billion. And that trend is expected to continue, with health-care costs projected to stay level as a share of gross domestic product from 2009 all the way through 2013. You can see the same trend with premiums. Part 2 - How to live to 101 - BBC Horizon. Nail-biting wait is over: Congress awaits high court health law ruling. Reawakening to Threats of Nuclear Weapons: An Issue for Prevention « American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Are we at the early stages of a re-awakening led by health professionals? Three major developments give me hope. Preparedness experts know that there is no effective response for a nuclear weapons detonation, so we must call for prevention. Most of the world has forgotten about the threat. What are these developments that suggest the greater medical community is waking again to this serious issue? New rule dictates no co-pay for preventive care, but there are loopholes: Health 411. I went for a physical and was asked for a co-pay. I thought preventive care didn't require a co-pay under the new health law. The woman behind the desk at my doctor's office didn't seem like she knew.
What's the answer? Overloaded backpacks causing children serious back injury, study warns. Parents should make a daily check of the how many items their school-age children stuff into their backpacks because the excess weight is causing them permanent damage, according to a Spanish study.
The department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, La Coruna, Spain, looked at 1,403 pupils between the ages of 12 and 17 from 11 schools in one province in northwestern Spain. The study, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, found that significant numbers of teens regularly carry backpacks equal to 10 to 15 per cent of their body weight, resulting in some cases in serious back pain and injury, including scoliosis or curvature of the spine.
“This is unacceptable … young children shouldn’t be experiencing back pain,” Dr. Alberto Ruano Ravina told the Star Thursday. Chicago 'Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer' Billboard Highlights Colon Cancer. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy There's a war going on out there, and it can be found in your grocery store's meat aisle. The latest battle comes in the act of a billboard. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, animal rights and plant-based diets, recently installed a giant Chicago billboard that reads, "Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer. " What they really mean is processed meats have been linked to colorectal cancer, but Susan Levin, nutrition education director at PCRM, said a recent study found that 39 percent of Americans don't even know what the colon (the last part of the digestive tract) is.
Why Is "Preventative" Medicine Disrespected? In the April issue of the GME e-Letter we referenced a March 19 New York Times article on career choices of recent MD graduates in which a medical student said, "The No. 1 thing that is going to save your life is the humdrum preventative stuff like blood pressure and cholesterol. But there is not a lot of respect for doctors who do that because anyone can get into it. " In response, we received the following e-mail from Sharon K. Hull, MD, MPH, Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM).
I would like to point out one issue I have with the comment by the medical student, as referenced in the GME e-Letter. While I realize that this quote appeared in The New York Times, the attitude it represents is based on a fallacious argument. U.S. Preventive Medicine teams up with Qualcomm Life to improve mHealth app ‘Macaw’ By Tim Bredrup U.S. Preventive Medicine recently announced a new strategic development collaboration with Qualcomm Life Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, for functionality enhancements to Macaw, the company’s mobile health & fitness app, as well as for accelerated integration with other wireless devices, monitors and sensors that are part of Qualcomm Life’s 2net Platform and wireless health ecosystem.
Macaw, powered by The Prevention Plan, was launched in December 2011 as a mHealth app combining calorie, nutrition and activity tracking, health assessment, education, and game theory to motivate healthy behaviors. Enabled by Qualcomm Life, Macaw is designed to become a digital health monitor, integrating with wireless devices, monitors and sensors, as well as other health and fitness apps, creating a dashboard of health metrics. press release. Doctors Often Misunderstand the Science Behind Screening Tests - Technorati Lifestyle. Here’s another arrow in the quiver of patients well-armed against deficiencies in (well-meaning but often wrong) preventive medical care. A survey published in the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded that primary care doctors can be as confused as the rest of us when they ponder information about screening tests.
“Most primary care physicians mistakenly interpreted improved survival and increased detection with screening as evidence that screening saves lives,” the authors wrote. “Few correctly recognized that only reduced mortality in a randomized trial constitutes evidence of the benefit of screening.” An accompanying editorial in the same publication claimed that what physicians don’t know can harm their patients, and that screening for things such as breast and prostate cancer are widely overused. Not that we love saying, “We told you so,” but we told you so.
The researchers explained how measuring survival rates can be subject to bias. Continued on the next page. Study: Dutch cancer screening model more cost-effective than U.S. U.S. Preventive Medicine Announces Strategic Development and Marketing Agreement with Dossia. U.S. health reform law two years old and still a heated debate.
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Oda/Staff ) On its second anniversary, the national health reform law faces challenges from 26 states and a major Supreme Court hearing on its constitutionality this week. The state is moving to expand coverage for low-income people, provide added help for those with serious medical conditions and set up a new insurance "marketplace" intended to drive down costs. Although most of the federal changes don't begin until 2014, the Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Barack Obama has already transformed the U.S. health system in numerous ways.
New Study Offers Hope for Early Detection of Autism. John Packham: A healthier America begins today. This week, the American Public Health Association is encouraging all Americans to work together to make small changes to their lives to help prevent chronic and communicable diseases to create a healthier America.
Through Sunday, APHA and the Nevada Public Health Association recognize National Public Health Week, an opportunity to empower our families, friends, neighbors and, perhaps most importantly, ourselves to live healthier lives. Each year, chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes are responsible for millions of premature deaths. Chronic disease causes Americans to miss 2.5 billion days of work, resulting in lost productivity totaling more than $1 trillion.
Alison Redford promises 140 family care clinics for Alberta. The Tories turned their election focus to health Monday, promising a major change in health-care delivery and funding.
And there were also hints as the second week of the provincial election campaign began that the issue of public versus private health care may come to life in the tight race. Kitchen cures doctors swear by. Oats pack phytochemicals with anti-inflammatory properties that soothe itchy and inflamed skin.
A review of research found that honey is helpful in healing minor to moderate burnsThe oil found in the peppermint leaf and its stems calms the muscles of the digestive tractMeat tenderizer contains papain, which can break down toxins from bug bites (Health.com) -- Whether you have a head cold, an upset stomach, or an itchy rash, fast (cheap!) Relief may be sitting on your kitchen shelf. True, some home remedies are simply old wives' tales, but others have stuck around for generations because they actually work, says Philip Hagen, M.D., preventive medicine specialist at the Mayo Clinic. Higher-spending hospitals have fewer deaths for emergency patients. Higher-spending hospitals do have better outcomes for their emergency patients, including fewer deaths, according to a Vanderbilt study released as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Vanderbilt's John Graves, Ph.D., assistant professor of Preventive Medicine, along with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University, examined Medicare ambulance and hospital data from 2002-2008, finding that higher-cost hospitals have significantly lower one-year mortality rates compared to lower-cost hospitals. "At least for emergency, acute patients in our study, overall mortality was reduced 20 to 30 percent in higher spending hospitals," Graves said. About My Book Simple Chinese Medicine. Dr. Aihan Kuhn About My Book "Simple Chinese Medicine" Aihan Kuhn, Doctor of Natural Medicine Master of Tai Chi and Qi Gong How I started to write this book. After living in the United States for many years, I realized that the focus of medicine in this country is mainly on repair, and not on prevention.
Holder: DOJ to respond ‘appropriately’ to judges’ questions about health care law. Washington (CNN) – The Justice Department is scrambling to meet a federal court's Thursday deadline to answer fundamental constitutional questions dealing with the health care law championed by President Barack Obama, an escalating political battle that has embroiled all three branches of government. Administration officials said Wednesday they were deciding how to respond to an order from a three-judge appeals panel hearing a separate challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
5 Health Problems Linked to Height. Height has been linked to a range of health problems, from Alzheimer's and heart disease to multiple cancers. How stature stacks the odds of getting sick is unclear, but experts say the link between height and health offers new hope for understanding puzzling diseases. Here are five common conditions linked to height. Bioethics Forum blog - What is an Ounce of Prevention Really Worth?
Understanding the Value of Preventative Medicine New Jersey - Medical Doctor MD. Defining Preventative Medicine. American Journal of Preventive Medicine « Just Stop Eating So Much! My Health Checklist 2012 app contains evidence based preventative health advice for patients. Sixteen die from hand-foot-mouth disease this year - Social Issues. In-flight births highlight risks of flying while pregnant. States / Tamil Nadu : Vaccines to be procured for checking A (H1N1) Costs of many preventive medical exams vary as much as 700% WASHINGTON – A new report shows costs vary as much as 700% for some preventive examinations, and as the federal health care law increases demand for those procedures, it can mean an increase in premiums if employees don't pay attention to those costs.
Over the past year, health plans and self-insured employers began paying for wellness exams — diabetes screening, mammographies, Pap smears and colonoscopies — as required by the law, without charging consumers a deductible or co-payment. Preventive medicine Bills. Surgery wait times increasing nationwide. Message from Senator Leno on California Single-Payer Setback. Insurance firms seeking to sow doubt about single-payer in Vermont. New Coalition to Advocate for Universal Health Care in Oregon. ObamaCare. Katie Halper: Health Care Reform: Deep Twitter Thoughts on The Health Care Vote.
Denying mandate support won’t work. Thanksgiving Countdown. New adaptive yoga class helping to heal bodies and minds. Yoga can cost practitioner $10,779 per year. GOP candidate wins Anthony Weiner's vacated seat in New York.