Archive for March, 2016

Why doctors discharge patients too soon or too late?

There was this patient who went through a surgery, after which, her sister-in-law left her at the hospital right away that she has no one around and she could not eat for several days. After the other patients were discharged, she wasn’t discharged yet until she felt prepared to go home both physically and mentally.  She knew that during the time her step dad went through an operation for a triple heart bypass, he was able to recover 5 days after the surgery, but the hospital didn’t discharge him right away.

The aim of the federal government in healthcare

The federal government has just proclaimed a $157M project to be of help to the hospitals and to doctors associated with the Medicare as well as Medicaid patients who are in need of social services that oftentimes encounter a bigger influence on the health more than the medical interferences. The public health experts were famous for years to the point that even amidst medical care they can be easily available. The patients are usually restricted in their capacity to get good or be able to keep their health if they lack steady housing and even access to healthy and nutritious foods or the capacity to get to and from the medical schedules.

The primary health care system

Family doctors can tell the stories to describe why the primary care is very essential in a health care system. Good thing there is a 3 year Health Primary Campaign that the Family Medicine for America’s Health has launched in 2015, the other parts of the country is hearing a lot of instances. The message of the campaign is meant for the patients, politicians, taxpayers and buyers. It is made around the stories of doctors who have found fresh ways of assisting the patients by using alternative health care as well as payment systems, victorious support system and considerate partnerships. Important in these stories are inventions that the doctors can apply in their practices, extending from the concepts to improve the small group visits to some local political techniques that may help in lessening the rates of smoking.

DASH diet and its essence

For 6 consecutive years, health experts have tagged the heart advantage DASH diet as one of the best eating plans, according to the World Report of 2016. This type of diet was made to keep the blood pressure low and the cholesterol levels at its normal level by restricting the fats, the sugar and change it to healthy grains, nut and others. The ranks place the numbers in place thinking that no other diet is best for everyone; however, the best nourishment strategies are suited.

Cancer treatment to increase the risk of heart disease?

Kids who were able to survive the cancer treatment might be facing a higher risk of developing heart disease when they grow up according to a research. The staying effects of the treatments that actually saved their lives as kids might boost the development of the abnormalities of the heart and that may not show any signs at all according to a research. The researchers have discovered that the heart disease shows some signs of affecting nearly 3% as well as 24% of the pediatric cancer survivors when they reached their 30 years of life. These numbers went up to around 10% as well as 37% for patients ages 40 and above, according to a study.

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What Uriel Loman has to say about HIV?

There was this guy named Uriel Loman, he was 23 years of age and during those times when a doctor diagnosed him of having HIV, it became a turning point that changes his entire life. He still clearly recalled the day the doctor said he was HIV positive to this day. Loman is actually gay and he is honest about it.  However, during the times when he was still experimenting with his sexuality, he became involved in some dangerous acts before he was diagnosed with HIV.  He may have been a primary candidate for the HIV prevention drug treatment called PrEP, however, he said to the CBS news that during those times, he doesn’t have any idea about it.

The variety of foods for school kids

There is a dramatic change in the assortment of foods and in the food variety as well that includes fruits and veggies according to researches. However, more than selecting meat, the kids are picking healthier foods during lunch time and this is all because of the program according to a research. They have added that they have discovered that the new meal standard program has been implemented and it was actually linked to the improvement of the nutritional quality meals chosen by the kids. This was according to a study by an author from the University of Washington.

Why disable kids are being maltreated?

According to a report conducted by Reuters, whenever a kid’s security service gets a report about child abandonment knowing that the child has a disability, though the report is still unconfirmed, that child will be more likely to suffer from maltreatment later on in life, this is according to the new research conducted. Kids with disabilities are said to be child protective services or CPS than those who are normal according to a research. They have discovered that the high risk unit of kids with disabilities suffers from maltreatment later on in life than other normal kids. This is according to the author of the Pedia department of a hospital in Boston.

The study about fraternal and identical twins

There was a new study of twins who gave light to the roles of the shared genes and the situation in discovering the risk of cancer. There was an identical twin that was identified by the risk of cancer of any form. This is according to the research made by the principal researcher of the Harvard School in Boston. This recommends that some of the families transmit a shared amplified danger of developing any kind of cancer; this is based on the genes she added. Some types of cancers might portion an inborn vulnerability based on the genetic factors, Mucci added. This is a part that they are just learning. For instance, the testicular cancer, prostate cancer and skin cancer have shown how the genes strongly influenced their development, on the other hand the lung cancer, rectal cancer and colon cancer showed how the environment affect their development.