1 in 7 Americans Lack Health Insurance
One in seven Americans — one in six Americans under age 65 — do not have any kind of health insurance, the CDC reports. Lack of health insurance is greatest in the Southwest and lowest in the Northeast, with huge variation — by about 20% — among the states. “Overall, 43.1 million Americans lacked health […]
New AHA Obesity Statement Urges Clinicians to Think Beyond Clinical Treatment and Prevention
Think bigger: that’s the thrust of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) new scientific statement on obesity prevention [1]. To have any meaningful impact on the obesity epidemic, clinicians need to go beyond clinical prevention and treatments for obesity and use influence and advocacy to effect social and environmental change, authors of the statement say. “The […]
Association Between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality
Association Between Critical Care Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the Intensive Care UnitLevy MM, Rapoport J, Lemeshow S, et alAnn Intern Med. 2008;148:801-809 Critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are thought to benefit from more intensive healthcare delivery from nurses, physicians, and other providers (eg, critical care pharmacists).[1-15] The authors […]
RM Global Health has reached an agreement with the Vitafarma
RM Global Health Inc.,has announced that it has reached an agreement with the Russian Company Vitafarma to acquire all list of pharmaceutical production, including newly and highly efficient vaccine against virus Herpes simplex Dr. Lada Mordvintseva, director of Vitafarma said, “Vitafarma already has a leading position in the segment of Russia’s […]
High-Intensity Ultrasound Destroys Esophageal Tumors
Intraluminal high-intensity ultrasound appears to be an effective treatment for esophageal tumors, which are usually not amenable to curative resection, and can even achieve complete tumor necrosis, according to French researchers who are the first to use this approach in a small pilot study. Their findings are published online on June 5 by the Journal […]
Increasing Global Surgery Volume Mandates Improved Safety, Availability
Surgery now occurs at a tremendous volume worldwide, resulting in a great need for public health efforts to improve the safety and availability of surgical services, according to the results of a study reported in The Lancet, published online June 25. “Little is known about the amount and availability of surgical care globally,” write Thomas […]
Outreach and Patient-Navigation Programs Improve Cancer Care
A new study shows that community-education and outreach initiatives can improve the stage at diagnosis in otherwise underserved patient populations. “This is exciting news,” lead investigator Sheryl Gabram, MD, from Emory University and director of the Avon Comprehensive Breast Center at the Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady, in Atlanta, told Medscape Oncology. “Our […]
Poverty Boosts Mortality Risk After Cancer Diagnosis, Study Shows
Patients with low socioeconomic status have a higher death rate after a cancer diagnosis, report researchers. Could poverty be a risk factor for all-cause mortality? In a study published online June 23 in Cancer, investigators suggest that it is, and they attribute the higher death rate to later disease stage at diagnosis and less aggressive […]
New Bariatric Technique Using Gastric Tube Retains Duodenal Function, Avoids Dumping
A new surgical procedure for the treatment of morbid obesity produces better results than sleeve gastrectomy alone, and resolves many comorbidities. The new technique, called sleeve gastrectomy with enteral bypass (SGEBP), was described here at the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery 25th Annual Meeting. A prospective single-center trial enrolled 106 patients, aged 17 […]
Survey Assesses Bariatric Surgeons’ Expectations and Risk Tolerance for Endoluminal Procedures
Bariatric surgeons might be willing to accept less weight loss and more risk in revisional than in primary endoluminal procedures, according to a survey distributed here at the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 25th Annual Meeting. The results indicate the levels of weight loss and risk considered acceptable for currently developing bariatric […]