August 9, 2011, 4:15 pm
When people enter the adult phase of their life, they will be faced with new roles and responsibilities that will result in both satisfactory experiences and challenges. One of these new roles may be that of caretaker for an elderly parent or grandparent. When you begin your own family this task is one that simply can seem devastating and confusing. Choosing whether to transfer your parent in a nursing home or providing live in carers is a very important decision based on time, circumstances and available expenses. Read more…
January 24, 2012, 11:03 am
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — UC Davis Health System dermatologists, using videoconferencing technology known as telemedicine, have determined that live interactive consultations can improve clinical outcomes for patients because they usually involve beneficial changes in medical diagnosis and disease management that otherwise might not occur.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, which was published this week.
April Armstrong, the study’s senior author and a UC Davis assistant professor of dermatology, said she and her team wanted to investigate the efficacy of live video consultations to provide patient care from a distance.
“Telemedicine for dermatology patients is a great tool in dermatology because skin conditions can be readily examined in digital still or video images,” said Armstrong, who also serves as director of the health system’s teledermatology program. “W
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January 23, 2012, 4:09 pm
Quality of life in younger patients treated for breast cancer is seriously compromised and these women suffer from severe psychological distress, infertility, premature menopause, a decrease in physical activity and weight gain, according to a study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that the mental issues faced by younger breast cancer survivors were more serious than the physical impacts compared to a general age-matched population of women who didn’t have cancer and those more than 50 years old who did.
The study points to the need for oncologists to let these younger patients know from the beginning of their therapy what may happen to them after it’s finished, said study lead author Dr.
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January 18, 2012, 11:18 pm
It’s not the first time highly resistant cases like this have been seen. Since 2003, patients have been documented in Italy and Iran. It has mostly been limited to impoverished areas, and has not spread widely. But experts believe there could be many undocumented cases.
No one expects the Indian TB strains to rapidly spread elsewhere. The airborne disease is mainly transmitted through close personal contact and isn’t nearly as contagious as the flu. Indeed, most of the cases of this kind of TB were not from person-to-person infection but were mutations that occurred in poorly treated patients.
What’s more, there’s a debate within the public health community about whether to even label TB infections as totally drug resistant. The Wor
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January 17, 2012, 12:33 am
The international arm of Johns Hopkins Medicine has signed an agreement to help four public hospitals in Kuwait improve their standards and provide better treatment to patients.
The five-year agreement signed on Christmas Day with the Ministry of Health of Kuwait calls for Hopkins to provide the hospitals training and advice on patient safety, preventive medicine, nursing and health care policy. Focus areas will be trauma, orthopedics, rehabilitation, diabetes and obstetrics, pediatrics and telemedicine.
The hospitals they will work with are Amiri, Farwaniya, Jahra and Adan. Th
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January 13, 2012, 5:07 am
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Marisa Marinelli recalls the days when she couldnt get out of bed, the pain in her body so severe and her already thin frame rapidly deteriorating, as a distant memory. Since discovering a macrobiotic diet and yoga several years back, the former West Brighton resident believes in a way, shes cured herself of an incurable disease.
The 28-year-old has ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease that causes abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss and blood in the stool. Read more…