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The mystery of tinnitus : The New Yorker
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a treatment plan called tinnitus retraining therapy. It combines counselling, to reduce the anxiety caused by the phantom sounds, with sound therapy, using a neutral background noise.
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a treatment plan called tinnitus retraining therapy. It combines counselling, to reduce the anxiety caused by the phantom sounds, with sound therapy, using a neutral background noise.
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Phys Ed: Can Touching Your Toes Test Your Arteries? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
I guess I'll keep doing Tai Chi.
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Sit on the floor with your legs stretched straight out in front of you, toes pointing up. Reach forward from the hips. Are you flexible enough to touch your toes? If so, then your cardiac arteries probably are also flexible.
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What the researchers found was a clear correlation between inflexible bodies and inflexible arteries in subjects older than 40.
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Months to Live - Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death - Series - NYTimes.com
If the choice is a long painful death, or sedation ... give me sedation.
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The Wrong Side of History - Op-Ed NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF - NYTimes.com
We've been down this road before.
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These days, the critics of Medicare have come around because it manifestly works. Life expectancy for people who have reached the age of 65 has risen significantly. America is no longer shamed by elderly Americans suffering for lack of medical care.
Yet although America’s elderly are now cared for, our children are not.
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Indeed, these same arguments we hear today against health reform were used even earlier, to attack President Franklin Roosevelt’s call for Social Security. It was denounced as a socialist program that would compete with private insurers and add to Americans’ tax burden so as to kill jobs.
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What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body - Yahoo! Health
drink tea instead!
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Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health.
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one study discovered that drinking one or more soft drinks a day — and it didn’t matter whether it was diet or regular — led to a 30% greater chance of weight gain around the belly.
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Until Medical Bills Do Us Part - NYTimes.com
The costs of the current system, especially for the families of those with dementia.
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The existing system doesn’t just break up families, it also costs lives. A 2004 study by the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, found that lack of health insurance causes 18,000 unnecessary deaths a year. That’s one person slipping through the cracks and dying every half an hour.
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Long-term care constitutes a difficult and expensive challenge in any health system. But the American patchwork, full of cracks through which people fall, has a special problem with medical expenses of all kinds bankrupting couples.
A study reported in The American Journal of Medicine this month found that 62 percent of American bankruptcies are linked to medical bills. These medical bankruptcies had increased nearly 50 percent in just six years. Astonishingly, 78 percent of these people actually had health insurance, but the gaps and inadequacies left them unprotected when they were hit by devastating bills.
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Moderate Drinking Over 60 May Lower Dementia Risk - NYTimes.com
Good advice.
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moderate alcohol consumption can increase HDL, or “good cholesterol,” improve blood flow to the brain and decrease blood coagulation. All three factors may reduce the risk for dementia.
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Health Care Fit for Animals - Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof - NYTimes.com
A former health insurance exec repents his evil ways.
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Mr. Potter argues that much tougher regulation is essential. He also believes that a robust public option is an essential part of any health reform, to compete with for-profit insurers and keep them honest.
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All this is monstrous, and it negates the entire point of insurance, which is to spread risk.
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This Is Reform? - Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com
If you can't make it better, then don't bother trying.
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The hope of a government-run insurance option is all but gone. So there will be no effective alternative for consumers in the market for health coverage, which means no competitive pressure for private insurers to rein in premiums and other charges.
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Think of it: The government is planning to require most uninsured Americans to buy health coverage. Millions of young and healthy individuals will be herded into the industry’s welcoming arms. This is the population the insurers drool over.
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End-of-Life Issues Need to Be Addressed - Jane E. Brody - NYTimes.com
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the report’s summary says, “too many Americans still receive poor care at life’s end and are dying ‘bad’ deaths without adequate palliative care or dignity.”
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Most measures taken when patients are terminally ill, including the use of feeding tubes, ventilators and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, do nothing to prolong meaningful life. Rather, as Dr. Jeff Gordon put it in the title of his new book, they represent “A Death Prolonged.”
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Op-Ed Contributor - Health Care’s Generation Gap - NYTimes.com
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With so much evidence of wasteful and even harmful treatment, shouldn’t we instantly cut some of the money spent on exorbitant intensive-care medicine for dying, elderly people and redirect it to pediatricians and obstetricians offering preventive care for children and mothers?
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One thing’s for sure: Our health care system has failed. Generational spending wars loom on the horizon. Rationing of health care is imminent. But given the political inertia, we could soon find ourselves in a triage situation in which there is no time or money to create medical-review boards to ponder cost-containment issues or rationing schemes. We’ll be forced to implement quick-and-dirty rules based on something simple, sensible and easily verifiable. Like age. As in: No federal funds to be spent on intensive-care medicine for anyone over 85.
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The Swiss Menace - Columnist Paul Krugman -NYTimes.com
Paul K. explains it all.
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the plans on the table would, roughly speaking, turn America into Switzerland
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our own Veterans Health Administration, which is run somewhat like the British health service, also manages to combine quality care with low costs.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Hard to Believe! - NYTimes.com
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a good news story about health care.
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All types of patients are served at the center, from the well off to the impoverished. There is a sliding scale of fees for patients without insurance. They are charged what they can afford. No one is turned away
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Thousands Line Up for Promise of Free Health Care - NYTimes.com
Why we need health care reform.
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The enormous response to the free care was a stark corollary to the hundreds of Americans who have filled town-hall-style meetings throughout the country, angrily expressing their fear of the Obama administration’s proposed changes to the nation’s health care system. The bleachers of patients also reflected the state’s high unemployment, recent reduction in its Medicaid services for the poor and high deductibles and co-payments that have come to define many employer-sponsored insurance programs.
Many of those here said they lacked insurance, but many others said they had coverage but not enough to meet all their needs — or that they could afford. Some said they were well aware of the larger national health care debate, and were eager for changes.
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Begun in 1985 as a mobile health clinic serving undeveloped countries and later rural America, Remote Area Medical provides various medical services through units to people who are largely unable to gain access to health care. Officials from the organization said they believed that this week’s event in Los Angeles constituted the largest free health care event in the country, with the arena and all supplies and services provided free to the group. Other expenses were covered by the group’s fund-raising.
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Harry and Louise must die | Salon Life
Amen!
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40 percent of Medicare dollars are spent in the last 30 days of life.
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Don't blame hospitals or physicians. We check in, we ask to be saved. Doctors provide care; they're not supposed to cut off or limit care. Besides, they might get sued.
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End-of-Life Decisions: Medicare Is Already in the Room
A better way to approach death.
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The bigger irony, one that encapsulates our national innocence of death, is the assumption behind the Medicare rumor -- that people can indeed decide how they wish to die
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But the reality is that our last rite of passage is shaped by relinquishing control, over decision-making among other things.
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Health Care Realities - Op-Ed / Paul Krugman - NYTimes.com
The antidote to lies.
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getting the government involved in health care wouldn’t be a radical step: the government is already deeply involved, even in private insurance
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private markets for health insurance, left to their own devices, work very badly: insurers deny as many claims as possible, and they also try to avoid covering people who are likely to need care.
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