Colon Cancer Testing Levels Off: 23 Million Americans Unscreened For Second Deadliest Cancer
“About 90 percent of people live five or more years when their colorectal cancer is found early through testing.” So begins a report released just yeste “About 90 percent of people…
Genes May Reduce Guesswork for ADHD, Depression Treatments
First published on MedCityNews.com. Celexa. Zoloft. Prozac. Lexapro. Cymbalta. The list of FDA-approved drugs to treat depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders goes on and on. First published on MedCityNews.com. Celexa. Zoloft. Prozac.…
Aging in the Empire State: A Look at New York City’s Senior Population
New York may be the city that never sleeps and the nation’s economic business center, but it’s also home to a diverse and rapidly growing aging population. New York may…
Doctors Can Persuade Vaccine-Resistant Parents with Straight Talk
Two recent studies published in the current issue of Pediatrics focus on how parents come to a decision on vaccinating a child. The way a doctor broaches the subject with parents may…
How to Participate in Crowdsourced Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease Research
First published on MedCityNews.com. Thanks to technology and the changing culture of medicine, those of us who don’t have thousands of dollars to donate to medical research have have easier…
Do Veterans Have Timely Access to Mental Health Care?
A front page USA Today article declares Many veterans face frustrating delays for mental health care, and reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs “failed to meet its 14-day goal…
Health Care Social Media Review No. 40: Good and Plenty Edition
Welcome to the 40th Edition of Health Care Social Media Review. Jack Benny never made it past 39, but we did. Welcome to the 40th Edition of Health Care Social…
Making Health Addictive: Make It About Life
I have been thinking a lot about this concept of addictive health lately. I really believe it has legs. In my last post and in a recent talk, I remarked…
When High Hopes for New Cancer Drugs Are In Limbo
There was tremendous excitement last year at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting about promising new leukemia drugs. There was tremendous excitement last year at the American Society of…
Time to Move Beyond “Quantified Self” and Toward a “Wantified Self” Philosophy?
First published on MedCityNews.com. “It’s not what you think I should want that matters, it’s what I want that matters,” writes Dr. Pritpal S. First published on MedCityNews.com. “It’s not what you think I…
