Health News- FDA Probes Deaths Linked to Long-Acting Zyprexa June 18, 2013(MedPage Today) -- SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Two patients died 3-4 days after injections with the long-acting antipsychotic drug olanzapine pamoate (Zyprexa Relprevv), prompting an FDA investigation. […]
- Obesity Not a Disease, AMA Council Says June 17, 2013CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Obesity is hard to define and diagnose, and partly because of that is not a disease, an American Medical Association council said in a report issued here Monday. […]
- Berwick Enters Mass. Governor's Race June 17, 2013(MedPage Today) -- Former acting Medicare chief Donald Berwick, MD, has announced that he is running for governor of Massachusetts. […]
- Undocumented Immigrants' Share of Health Bill Relatively Small June 17, 2013(MedPage Today) -- Healthcare for unauthorized immigrants accounted for less than 2% of all healthcare spending in the U.S., according to an analysis of data covering a 10-year period. […]
- Outlier Hospitals May Choose Less Risky PCI Patients (CME/CE) June 17, 2013(MedPage Today) -- Public reporting of mortality after percutaneous coronary interventions might have led operators at outlier hospitals to shy away from high-risk patients, investigators concluded after reviewing more than 100,000 cases. […]
- Students, Docs in Training Boost AMA Rolls June 17, 2013CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- The American Medical Association's membership rolls grew by nearly 7,000 in 2012, and almost two-thirds of the new members were either students or residents, reports revealed. […]
- N.Y. to Gay Pride Visitors: Get Meningitis Shot (CME/CE) June 17, 2013(MedPage Today) -- Men planning to attend Gay Pride events in New York later this month and in early July should get vaccinated against meningitis, public health experts are urging. […]
- Cardio Notes: Arrhythmia May Trigger SIDS June 17, 2013(MedPage Today) -- Unique ECGs signal ventricular fibrillation in infants that may predict sudden death. Also in the news, Philadelphia is ready to lose weight and depression in older women is a risk for diabetes. […]
- Age Alone No Barrier to ICD (CME/CE) June 17, 2013(MedPage Today) -- The decision to forgo implanting a defibrillator (ICD) in the elderly should not be based on age alone, but should include other risk factors for death, a large registry study found. […]
- New Risk Model Puts MI, Shock at Top of PCI Mortality Risks (CME/CE) June 17, 2013(MedPage Today) -- A new scoring system for estimating mortality risk following percutaneous coronary intervention allows clinicians to predict 30-day as well as in-hospital mortality, researchers said. […]
- FDA Probes Deaths Linked to Long-Acting Zyprexa June 18, 2013
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Managing Your Own Care…
I had previously written about my mother being diagnosed with cancer. Well, we just had the surgery for the tumor removal. Surgery went well. Recovery was a different story.   Let me start by saying the team of doctors is, has … Continue reading
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Heart Healthy Snacks for the Quintuple Bypass Patient
I guess the older you get, the more you have to learn… voluntarily or otherwise!! A friend of mine just underwent a “Quintuple” Bypass Surgery. I’d heard of a triple before… never heard about the quadruple and definitely never a … Continue reading
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Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma – ever heard of it?
I wish I’d never heard of it, either! I can honestly say 4 months ago I would never have imagined this to be one of the articles I would be writing about. It’s one of those “rare†cancers, but now that … Continue reading
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Green Smoothies: Introduce Greens into your Diet!
My sister and I, coincidentally enough, both have two toddlers.  So, we’ve had a lot of loud, tiring play dates. But once the babies got a little older, we had more time to actually talk… to each other. About adult things.  We’d talk … Continue reading
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Finally – some good news for Melanoma!
For all the Floridians (and all sun lovers), it’s been reported that we have some good news on the Melanoma front! For those that don’t know, Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer.  Melanoma defined is a malignant tumor of melanocytes. … Continue reading
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Florida Moms: Losing the Baby Weight
Looking for a few tips? I’m a work in progress, so I can only tell you what I’m doing and I don’t hold myself out as an expert!   But, after having babies (and the added benefit of two c-sections) I’m coming to … Continue reading
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Juicing… once you start you won’t want to stop!
My sister is what you call a “consumer”… a very healthy, organic one at that! Fortunately she has the means that enable her to research the new “trends”, buy all the necessary equipment to experiment with them and subsequently donate … Continue reading
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Seeing Clearly
The ability to see clearly is extremely important. Obviously, it is important metaphorically and physically. In this article, we are just going to discuss the physical importance of seeing clearly. One of our big topics is preventative medicine. We firmly believe … Continue reading
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Gator Bait
I have been thinking a lot about backyard chickens and how they might fare in Florida. Has anyone out there tried it yet? If so, please shoot me a email and let me know the pros and cons as you … Continue reading
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Good Vision
There are few things that maintain quaility of life like good vision. We get about eighty percent of our information from our vision. Our other senses combined make up the other twenty percent of information we collect maintain general awareness of our … Continue reading