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Health policy

Calorie counts in health reform is significant for patients

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Counting calories as part of health care reform—who knew? But apparently it’s there on page 455 of the health-care reform act, according to Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition at NYU, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine. There will…

Counting calories as part of health care reform—who knew? But apparently it’s there on page 455 of the health-care reform act, according to Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition at NYU, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine. There will now be a national effort at posting calorie counts in chain restaurants.

There are many ways to improve the overall health of Americans, but tackling obesity is surely one of the …

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Calorie counts in health reform is significant for patients

Conditions and diseases

Bret Michaels has a subarachnoid hemorrhage, and what that means

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Bret Michaels is in critical condition from a subarachnoid hemorrhage. I've been watching Celebrity Apprentice recently, and he comes across as a genuine person who, of course, has been raising awareness for Type 1 diabetes. As most people know, he…

Bret Michaels is in critical condition from a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

bret michaelsI’ve been watching Celebrity Apprentice recently, and he comes across as a genuine person who, of course, has been raising awareness for Type 1 diabetes. As most people know, he has battled various diabetic complications on the show, and recently underwent an emergency appendectomy.

What’s his prognosis like?

Not good, I’m …

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Bret Michaels has a subarachnoid hemorrhage, and what that means

Drugs and prescribing

Why rosiglitazone would not have been approved today

Avandia continues to dominate cardiovascular-related news this week. Recently, the AHA and the ACC issued a highly detailed, thoughtful, though perhaps slightly over-diplomatic science advisory on TZDs and CV risk. Taking a completely opposite tack, GSK, in no mood to…

Avandia continues to dominate cardiovascular-related news this week. Recently, the AHA and the ACC issued a highly detailed, thoughtful, though perhaps slightly over-diplomatic science advisory on TZDs and CV risk. Taking a completely opposite tack, GSK, in no mood to take prisoners, and apparently about to nominate itself for a Nobel Prize, issued a 30 page White Paper in response to the Senate report published on Saturday.

At the core …

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Why rosiglitazone would not have been approved today

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Your metformin may smell like dead fish

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Originally published in MedPage Today An immediate-release form of the antidiabetic agent metformin has a dead fish odor that may cause patients to stop taking the drug, clinicians warned. Metformin is known to cause adverse gastrointestinal effects such as diarrhea,…

Originally published in MedPage Today

An immediate-release form of the antidiabetic agent metformin has a dead fish odor that may cause patients to stop taking the drug, clinicians warned.

MedPage Today Metformin is known to cause adverse gastrointestinal effects such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, flatulence, distention, and abdominal pain. Those side effects “often necessitate discontinuing the drug,” a group of physicians and pharmacists …

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Your metformin may smell like dead fish

Conditions and diseases

Leg and buttock pain can be signs of peripheral arterial disease, especially in patients with diabetes

by Michael Jaff, MD Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), a condition commonly correlated with diabetes, also known as a “silent killer,” affects at least one in every three diabetics over the age of 50 and approximately eight million Americans in total…

by Michael Jaff, MD

Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), a condition commonly correlated with diabetes, also known as a “silent killer,” affects at least one in every three diabetics over the age of 50 and approximately eight million Americans in total over the age of 40. Although PAD is prolific among diabetic and senior populations, current data show that public and physician knowledge of the disease is startlingly low, with only 25 …

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Leg and buttock pain can be signs of peripheral arterial disease, especially in patients with diabetes

Conditions and diseases

How to prevent diabetes with diet and exercise

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By all accounts, Frances Vasquez ought to be a diabetic. Raised on a diet of fried steak, fried pork chops and lots of rice, her father, mother, and two sisters suffered from the disease. At age 47, Frances was overweight…

By all accounts, Frances Vasquez ought to be a diabetic. Raised on a diet of fried steak, fried pork chops and lots of rice, her father, mother, and two sisters suffered from the disease. At age 47, Frances was overweight and already experiencing high blood sugar.

But over the past 11 years, Frances has been able to avoid diabetes, and her sugars are now normal. By participating in a ground-breaking, government-funded …

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How to prevent diabetes with diet and exercise

Conditions and diseases

Low pay for diabetes care harms patients

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Originally posted in MedPage Today by John Gever, MedPage Today Senior Editor Almost one-third of doctors in an industry-sponsored survey said they didn't spend enough time with their diabetic patients and blamed low reimbursement rates for diabetes care, researchers said.…

Originally posted in MedPage Today

by John Gever, MedPage Today Senior Editor

Almost one-third of doctors in an industry-sponsored survey said they didn’t spend enough time with their diabetic patients and blamed low reimbursement rates for diabetes care, researchers said.

MedPage Today In a survey of 200 primary care physicians and 100 endocrinologists, 32% reported an inability to provide comprehensive diabetes care, Alyssa Pozniak, …

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Low pay for diabetes care harms patients

Drugs and prescribing

Is the newest, long-lasting insulin necessarily the best?

Originally published in HCPLive.com by Anita Ramsetty, MD We are very fortunate to have a number of newer insulins available for our patients. For years we had animal insulins only. NPH and Regular, then we had Ultralente. The development of…

Originally published in HCPLive.com

by Anita Ramsetty, MD

We are very fortunate to have a number of newer insulins available for our patients.

For years we had animal insulins only. NPH and Regular, then we had Ultralente. The development of analog insulins marked the upswing in technology that we would sustain for a period of time. The most recent big blip in the …

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Is the newest, long-lasting insulin necessarily the best?

Conditions and diseases

How to protect yourself from abdominal aortic aneurysms

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by Mark Adelman, MD While diseases like prostate cancer and heart disease have become household concerns, abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), the 10th leading cause of death in men age 55 and older, have been overshadowed by more prominent diseases for…

by Mark Adelman, MD

While diseases like prostate cancer and heart disease have become household concerns, abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), the 10th leading cause of death in men age 55 and older, have been overshadowed by more prominent diseases for far too long. It’s time we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at this serious disease and how it can be both detected and prevented.

An AAA, which …

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How to protect yourself from abdominal aortic aneurysms

Patient voices

How comfortable are compression stockings for post-surgical thromboprophylaxis?

by Crystal Phend, MedPage Today “Every 10 years a doctor should be the patient,” said my doctor, squeezing me into pair of compression stockings that would make a sausage casing seem spacious by comparison. “Seems like a good idea,” I…

by Crystal Phend, MedPage Today

“Every 10 years a doctor should be the patient,” said my doctor, squeezing me into pair of compression stockings that would make a sausage casing seem spacious by comparison.

medpage-today “Seems like a good idea,” I thought, as I lay there on the table feeling optimistic about the opportunity for first-hand experience.

It was my first minor …

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How comfortable are compression stockings for post-surgical thromboprophylaxis?

Health policy

My reaction to President Obama’s speech to the AMA

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I was seeing patients during the actual speech, so I had to rely on the transcript. The points that interested me the most were any language pertaining to malpractice, addressing the AMA's recent concerns about the public plan option, and…

I was seeing patients during the actual speech, so I had to rely on the transcript.

The points that interested me the most were any language pertaining to malpractice, addressing the AMA’s recent concerns about the public plan option, and reforming the physician payment system.

I think he did pretty well.

Regarding the physician payment system, he again addressed McAllen, Texas, which is fast becoming the symbol of what’s wrong with American …

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My reaction to President Obama’s speech to the AMA

Drugs and prescribing

6 top medical comments, May 3rd, 2009

Here are some of the more interesting comments readers have left recently.1. Carla Kakutani on the lack of primary care access in Massachusetts:So we have a chicken and egg problem. Do we wait health care reform until we have revived…

Here are some of the more interesting comments readers have left recently.

1. Carla Kakutani on the lack of primary care access in Massachusetts:
So we have a chicken and egg problem. Do we wait health care reform until we have revived US primary care, or is that even possible without health care reform to create the disruption needed to change our entrenched fee-for-service, procedure-happy payment …

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6 top medical comments, May 3rd, 2009

6 top medical comments, April 19th 2009

Here are some of the more interesting comments readers have left recently.1. Manalive on quality measures:It is almost always a leap of faith to apply evidence-based guidelines to the frail elderly, to patients with many medical problems, to alcoholics, to…

Here are some of the more interesting comments readers have left recently.

1. Manalive on quality measures:
It is almost always a leap of faith to apply evidence-based guidelines to the frail elderly, to patients with many medical problems, to alcoholics, to the poorly insured — in short, to a large percentage of my practice. Accordingly, I have been on the wrong end of too many …

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6 top medical comments, April 19th 2009

Health policy

Op-ed: Shortage of primary care threatens health care system

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The following op-ed was published on March 13th, 2008 in the USA Today. Crippling health care bills, long emergency room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face…

The following op-ed was published on March 13th, 2008 in the USA Today.

Crippling health care bills, long emergency room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily.

Surveys suggest that health care is a top domestic priority in the presidential election, and there is no lack of ideas on how to fix our system. …

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Op-ed: Shortage of primary care threatens health care system

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