Click Here to Read More … New research illustrates that some patients with transformed lymphoma showed “remarkable” response to lenalidomide, an oral drug with few side effects.
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Click Here to Read More … While men and women of all ages and ethnicities can develop osteoporosis, some of the risk factors for osteoporosis include those who are female, White/Caucasian, post-menopausal women, older adults, small in body size, eating a diet low in calcium, and physically inactive. Learn more!
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Click Here to Read More … Knowing how the normal brain ages — and how those changes affect your memory — can make the occasional senior moment less worrisome. Here’s a timetable of normal brain aging by decade, starting in your twenties.
Johns Hopkins Special Reports
Click Here to Read More … Aggressive treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma has dramatically increased survival in the small group of patients who chose to undergo it, say physicians at Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Clinic Research News and Discovery’s Edge
Click Here to Read More … Approximately 50% of all men experience symptoms of enlarged prostate, BPH, by age 75. If you’re one of them, you’ll want to take this easy, self-scoring questionnaire to calculate the severity of your symptoms.
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NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., leads the NIH’s 27 Institutes and Centers, with more than 18,000 employees and a 2006 budget of $28.6 billion. A well-respected leader in the field of radiology and medicine, he has spent his career providing clinical, scientific, and administrative leadership. Recently, Dr. Zerhouni sat down with magazine coordinator Christopher Klose to discuss some of Dr. Zerhouni’s own experiences and hopes for the future of medicine. Klose: What motivated you to become a doctor? Dr. Zerhouni: I just like people; the interaction and sense of being relevant. At first, I wanted to be a mathematician or a physicist. I was more interested in rocketry and some of the careers typical of the 1950s. Years later when I was in university, I volunteered in the poor areas. I saw what was going on with the poor and that touched me. That was when I realized that it’s great to send rockets to the moon, but perhaps the most important thing is people. That’s why I went into medicine. Klose: Why did you decide to specialize in radiology? Read the rest of this entry »
by Gilles Frydman on April 2, 2010, from http://e-patients.net
Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners.
This new definition devised by the board of the Society of Participatory Medicine provides clarity for the movement. It is a paradigmatic shift and frames a view of medicine currently embraced only by a minority of patients and physicians. The mission of the SPM will focus entirely on advocacy, information, and tools to lead and accelerate change in the culture of health care to this participatory model.
We are essentially patient centric and all of our ideas are designed to optimize the care received by the patient at any time. Since a majority of care is done through self-help, participatory medicine is deeply involved in understanding, cataloging, and scientifically assessing the parameters of self-help and its impact on the medical system.
Drug Abuse and the Elderly
May 28
Click Here to Read More … Prescription drug abuse is not just something that happens in the young. People over age 65 also are at risk for drug abuse — and perhaps even more so. That’s because Americans age 65 and older make up 13% of the population but consume about one third of all prescription drugs. Older individuals also take more potentially addictive medications than any other age group.
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Concierge Medicine
May 28
America’s complex health care system has transformed the very personal doctor – patient relationship of patient care into an assembly line of medical care delivery. Thus, in 2002, a new and different alternative to the current health care system was born. Concierge or retainer – based medicine programs seek to restore the doctor – patient relationship based on trust, quality, access, time and education.
Your personal physician from Personalized Care will carry a smaller patient practice. Patients are treated by their own physician, who will have the time to develop the necessary doctor – patient relationship in our new world of patient – centered care. This environment will help to promote better health and wellness guidelines, while eliminating rushed and fragmented care, thus helping to eliminate medical care oversights and errors.
This new health care delivery atmosphere will provide a dedicated and experienced medical professional, who will have the time and compassion to treat their patients without the limitations of patient referrals, prior authorizations, pre-certifications… Read the rest of this entry »
