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Exercise is good for us - no matter what our age

The red double-decker buses that are symbolic of the city of London have an altogether different significance if you study heart disease. Sixty years ago, these iconic buses helped a Scottish medical doctor named Jerry Morris discover the link between physical activity and heart attacks.

15 May 2013

UAB genetics and breast cancer experts respond to Angelina Jolie's preventive mastectomy

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who has one of the genes linked to breast cancer, revealed that she underwent a double mastectomy earlier this year to prevent following in the footsteps of her mother and succumbing to breast cancer.

15 May 2013

Roundup: Ore. Health Co-Ops to compete with big insurers; Texas lawmakers find money for mental health, women's care

Armed with hefty federal loans, two startup health insurers are jumping into a crowded and confusing Oregon market just as the biggest changes to U.S. health care in generations roll out this fall.

15 May 2013

Researcher studies nurses' end-of-life care choices for patients

Nurses will use extreme measures to save their patients and parents; but if they were dying, they prefer less aggressive ones for themselves, according to results from an international survey on nurses' end-of-life preferences.

15 May 2013

Health law could require some American Indians to buy insurance or pay penalties

The Associated Press reports that the overhaul's definition of "American Indian" only includes those tribes that are recognized by the federal government, though more than 100 tribes are recognized by state governments but not that U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Other outlets report on insurance rates under the ACA, doctor-owned hospitals and the much lamented "doc fix" in Congress.

15 May 2013

Lifting weights, doing cardio can also keep the doctors away, say researchers

Forget apples - lifting weights and doing cardio can also keep the doctors away, according a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.

15 May 2013

First Edition: May 14, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about an Obama administration plan to delay Medicaid DSH payment reductions.

14 May 2013

States officials wrestle with Medicaid expansion and related issues

Sometimes, someone veers from the script. That seemed to be the case last week when [Mississippi] Gov. Phil Bryant said he would try to run Medicaid even if the Legislature failed to pass bills reauthorizing or funding the program (5/12).

14 May 2013

Medicare lags in detecting hazardous prescribing patterns

An analysis by ProPublica and The Washington Post has found that Medicare does little to track doctor prescription patterns when they're prescribing potentially hazardous drugs.

14 May 2013

Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation honors Beaumont cardiologist for improving health care in Michigan

Kavitha Chinnaiyan, M.D., director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging Education at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, has received the Frank J. McDevitt, D.O., Award for Excellence in Health Policy Research for Physicians.

14 May 2013

Roundup: NYC examines solitary confinement alternatives for mentally ill inmates; Texas lawmakers push to modernize medical practices; N.C. cancer parity bill passes House

New York City will soon change the way mentally ill inmates are disciplined after breaking rules while in jail, creating alternatives to the more traditional approach of solitary confinement used for most inmates (Yee, 5/12).

14 May 2013

More studies needed to determine how decision aids help guide choices for cancer screening

When it comes to a cancer diagnosis, timing can be everything - the sooner it's found, the more treatable it is. But when and how often should someone get screened?

13 May 2013

COPD patients with allergic phenotype have increased risk of lower respiratory symptoms, exacerbations

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who also have allergic disease have higher levels of respiratory symptoms and are at higher risk for COPD exacerbations, according to a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

10 May 2013

New book proposes ways to help people see better with macular degeneration, low vision

Dr. Randolph C. Kinkade , a Connecticut optometrist and founding member of the International Academy of Low Vision Specialists, has written the Guide for Macular Degeneration Eyeglasses: Low Vision Treatment.

10 May 2013

Cantor schedules (yet another) health law repeal vote

The vote, which is likely to take place next week, will be the first one in 2013. There have been more than 30 votes to repeal all or parts of the health overhaul since its passage in 2010.

10 May 2013

Longer looks: A wife's Alzheimer's, Obamacare and workers' hours, doctors and drug companies

When his wife got Alzheimer's disease, lawyer Ken Chiate invested all his hopes in an unorthodox treatment. Nothing, it seems, could make him give up on it. ... Jeannette's difficulties seemed to emerge out of nowhere. She couldn't grasp the rules of a dice game. She kept asking questions her husband had just answered. ... in 2001, at age 58, she was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment. As months and years passed, she fell into an angry haze that was determined to be Alzheimer's disease.

10 May 2013

Physician's choice of words play important role in determining critical end-of-life decisions

A physician's choice of words when talking with family members about whether or not to try cardiopulmonary resuscitation if a critically ill patient's heart stops may influence the decision, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh researchers in the June edition of Critical Care Medicine and now available online.

10 May 2013

The challenge young people pose to the health law

HealthyCal reports on the importance of enrolling the so-called "young invincibles" in health care plans. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports on a new court case against the health law based on arguments the plaintiff says were not part of the Supreme Court's review last summer.

9 May 2013

Vast majority of U.S. doctors actively use EMR, Accenture survey reveals

The vast majority of U.S. doctors (93 percent) reported actively using electronic medical records in an annual survey by Accenture of 3,700 physicians in eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States.

9 May 2013

Precision Therapeutics to present clinical data of ChemoFx chemoresponse assay at WAGO meeting

Precision Therapeutics, Inc., a life science company that develops personalized medicine products for individualizing cancer care, today announced that a clinical study which demonstrates the feasibility of the ChemoFx chemoresponse assay to identify patients unlikely to respond to first-line therapy has been accepted for presentation at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Western Association of Gynecologic Oncologists.

9 May 2013

Doctor News and Research

Exercise is good for us - no matter what our age

UAB genetics and breast cancer experts respond to Angelina Jolie's preventive mastectomy

Roundup: Ore. Health Co-Ops to compete with big insurers; Texas lawmakers find money for mental health, women's care

Researcher studies nurses' end-of-life care choices for patients

Health law could require some American Indians to buy insurance or pay penalties

Lifting weights, doing cardio can also keep the doctors away, say researchers

First Edition: May 14, 2013

States officials wrestle with Medicaid expansion and related issues

Medicare lags in detecting hazardous prescribing patterns

Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation honors Beaumont cardiologist for improving health care in Michigan

Roundup: NYC examines solitary confinement alternatives for mentally ill inmates; Texas lawmakers push to modernize medical practices; N.C. cancer parity bill passes House

More studies needed to determine how decision aids help guide choices for cancer screening

COPD patients with allergic phenotype have increased risk of lower respiratory symptoms, exacerbations

New book proposes ways to help people see better with macular degeneration, low vision

Cantor schedules (yet another) health law repeal vote

Longer looks: A wife's Alzheimer's, Obamacare and workers' hours, doctors and drug companies

Physician's choice of words play important role in determining critical end-of-life decisions

The challenge young people pose to the health law

Vast majority of U.S. doctors actively use EMR, Accenture survey reveals

Precision Therapeutics to present clinical data of ChemoFx chemoresponse assay at WAGO meeting

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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