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Annals of Medicine: The Way We Age Now | Atul Gawande, MD
Medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier? The job of any doctor, Bludau later told me, is to support quality of life, by which he meant two things: as much freedom from the ravages of disease as possible, and the retention of enough function for active engagement in the world. Most doctors treat disease, and figure that the rest will take care of itself. And if it doesn’t—if a patient is becoming infirm and heading toward a nursing home—well, that isn’t really a medical problem, is it?
How Should Obama Reform Health Care? || Atul Gawande, MD
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. The Canadians had stories like the 1946 Toronto Globe and Mail report of a woman in labor who was refused help by three successive physicians, apparently because of her inability to pay. In Australia, a 1954 letter published in the Sydney Morning Herald sought help for a young woman who had lung disease. She couldn't afford to refill her oxygen tank, and had been forced to ration her intake "to a point where she is on the borderline of death." In Britain, George Bernard Shaw was at a London hospital visiting an eminent physician when an assistant came in to report that a sick man had arrived requesting treatment. "Is he worth it?" the physician asked. It was the normality of the question that shocked Shaw and prompted his scathing and influential 1906 play, "The Doctor's Dilemma." The British health system, he charged, was "a conspiracy to exploit popular credulity and human suffering."
Atul Gawande | The Cost Conundrum: What McAllen, Texas Can Teach Us About Healthcare Costs
McAllen TX is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country. Only Miami-which has much higher labor and living costs-spends more per person on health care. In 2006, Medicare spent fifteen thousand dollars per enrollee here, almost twice the national average. The income per capita is twelve thousand dollars. In other words, Medicare spends three thousand dollars more per person here than the average person earns.
Muscles and Mortality | Studies Showing Correlation Between Muscle Mass and Mortality
"Skeletal Muscle Strength as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in Healthy Men," "Strength, but not Muscle Mass, Is Associated With Mortality in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study Cohort," "Decreased Muscle and Increased Central Adiposity are Independently Related to Mortality in Older Men," etc.
Food Choices and Coronary Heart Disease: A Population Based Cohort Study of Rural Swedish Men with 12 Years of Follow-up | PDF Full Text
Daily intake of fruit and vegetables was associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease when combined with a high dairy fat consumption...but not when combined with a low dairy fat consumption. Sara Holmberg, Anders Thelin and Eva-Lena Stiernström. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2009, 6, 2626-2638.
ScienceRoll || Medicine 2.0, Personalized Genetics, Medical Students
A medical student's journey inside genetics and medicine through Web 2.0.
Vitamin D: Alternative Hypothesis || Paul J. Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College
We hope to show that although vitamin D is currently viewed in a
beneficial light, explanations for how it provides a benefit are
simplistic and imprecise.!We will address liabilities of the disease/
deficiency model for vitamin D and summarize an alternative theory
that, if valid, would necessitate rethinking systematic
supplementation with vitamin D. Co-author: Amy D. Proal, Georgetown University
Neurogenesis in the adult brain: The association with stress and depression || Bio-Medicine
Professor Fuchs from the Clinical Neurobiology Laboratory, German Primate Center in Goettingen, will present the latest findings on how brain cells can be adversely affected by stress and depression. He will explain how the adult brain is generating new cells and which impact these findings will have on the development of novel antidepressant drugs. Contact: Sonja Mak.
s.mak@update.europe.at.
43-140-55734.
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Source:Eurekalert (2008)
Cytokines in Atherosclerosis: Pathogenic and Regulatory Pathways | Full Text | Physiological Reviews
Vitamin D Testing Errors Continue |»| The Vitamin D Cure Blog
"A recent article in the New York Times highlighted an ongoing problem with the accuracy of vitamin D testing at the largest commercial clinical laboratory, Quest Diagnostics. It has become clear from shared experience among vitamin D experts, including myself, that Quest Diagnostics has a problem with seemingly random over-estimation of vitamin D levels."
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