Archives of Internal Medicine: Racial Disparities In The Outcomes Of Communication On Medical Care Received Near Death – “Black patients receive more life-prolonging measures and less comfort-directed care at the end of life (EOL) than white patients,” such as “increased rates of resuscitation, intensive care unit hospitalization, and feeding tube use at the EOL,” write the authors of this study that examined whether differences in patient-physician communication contribute to these differences. <
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More: college football Barack Obama 2010 election Fall TV iPad Should you feed a cold and starve a fever to recover faster? Does it really work this way? To make things even more confusing, some people even say it the other way around (starve a cold, feed a fever). Which is it? Once you get it right, is it right? Should you really feed a cold and starve a fever? Does it help you get better faster?
Which is It?
The saying actually is feed a cold, starve a fever. Researchers in Amsterdam felt they had proved the old saying true in 2002. Read more
Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, takes a toll on the lives of patients and families and affects every system of the body. There are cures for the disease on the horizon, but to date the only treatment is to manage the disease with frequent insulin injections and lifestyle interventions. The American Diabetes Association is devoted to prevention and finding a cure for type 1 diabetes. A leader in trying to find a cure for type 1 diabetes is the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in Australia.
President and CEO, Alan Lewis PhD joined the JDRF in 2009. He has been focused on stem cell research to cure type 1 diabetes.
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The Washington Post reports on the growing field of government health IT jobs.
“Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin is set to play a key role in expanding a national health information network, giving the company a potential head start in what is expected to be a booming health information technology industry. As more opportunities become available in the coming months, the market for this type of health IT work is expected to become increasingly crowded, according to both companies and analysts. Lockheed Martin received contracts worth $9 million from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to help expand the Nationwide Health Information Network… The sector could be tremendously large, analysts say. I Read more
Reuters: More physicians are using health IT. “U.S. doctors increasingly are ditching pen and paper and sending prescriptions to pharmacies electronically, lured by up to $27 billion in government funds aimed at speeding the switch to electronic medical records. There are now 200,000 doctors who use e-prescribing, or roughly one in three office-based doctors.” E-prescribing is only one piece of the health IT puzzle doctors must solve to get their share of the funds (Steenhuysen, 9/21).
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Even as many doctors prepare to take the leap, “change never comes easily.”
“Only a handful of U.S.
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