Choice Of Place Of Death From Cancer.
Doctors who would decide hospice be concerned for themselves if they were dying from cancer are more likely to discuss such care with patients in that situation, a brand-new study finds in Dec 2013. And while the majority of doctors in the study said they would aspire hospice care if they were dying from cancer, less than one-third of those said they would discuss hospice care with terminally ruin cancer patients at an early stage of care. Researchers surveyed nearly 4400 doctors who keeping for cancer patients, including primary care physicians, surgeons, oncologists, emanation oncologists and other specialists. They were asked if they would want hospice care if they were terminally ill with cancer.
They were also asked when they would talk over hospice care with a patient with terminal cancer who had four to six months to alight but had no symptoms: immediately; when symptoms first appear; when there are no more cancer treatment options; when the patient is admitted to hospital; or when the stoical or family asks about hospice care. In terms of seeking hospice heedfulness themselves, 65 percent of doctors were strongly in favor and 21 percent were a bit in favor.
Sunday, 20 April 2014
Friday, 18 April 2014
Sociologists Have Found New Challenges In Cancer Treatment
Sociologists Have Found New Challenges In Cancer Treatment.
Money problems can baulk women from getting recommended bust cancer treatments, a new study suggests Dec 2013. Researchers analyzed details from more than 1300 women in the Seattle-Puget Sound scope who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 2004 and 2011. The purpose was to see if their care met US National Comprehensive Cancer Network therapy guidelines.
Women who had a break in their health insurance coverage were 3,5 times more able than those with uninterrupted coverage to not receive the recommended care, the findings showed. Compared to patients with an annual kindred income of more than $90000, those with an annual family income of less than $50000 were more than twice as odds-on to not receive recommended radiation therapy. In addition, the investigators found that lower-income women were nearly five times more promising to not receive recommended chemotherapy and nearly four times more indubitably to not receive recommended endocrine therapy.
Money problems can baulk women from getting recommended bust cancer treatments, a new study suggests Dec 2013. Researchers analyzed details from more than 1300 women in the Seattle-Puget Sound scope who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 2004 and 2011. The purpose was to see if their care met US National Comprehensive Cancer Network therapy guidelines.
Women who had a break in their health insurance coverage were 3,5 times more able than those with uninterrupted coverage to not receive the recommended care, the findings showed. Compared to patients with an annual kindred income of more than $90000, those with an annual family income of less than $50000 were more than twice as odds-on to not receive recommended radiation therapy. In addition, the investigators found that lower-income women were nearly five times more promising to not receive recommended chemotherapy and nearly four times more indubitably to not receive recommended endocrine therapy.
Monday, 14 April 2014
Doctors Recommend A New Drug For The Prevention Of HIV Infection
Doctors Recommend A New Drug For The Prevention Of HIV Infection.
Should bodies in hazard of contracting HIV because they have risky sex rent a pill to prevent infection, or will the medication encourage them to take even more sexual risks? After years of deliberation on this question, a new international study suggests the medication doesn't lead relatives to stop using condoms or have more sex with more people. The research isn't definitive, and it hasn't changed the intention of every expert. But one of the study's co-authors said the findings support the drug's use as a method to prevent infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
And "People may have more partners or stop using condoms, but as well as we can tell, it's not because of taking the cure-all to prevent HIV infection ," said study co-author Dr Robert Grant, a elder investigator with the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in San Francisco. The medication in dispute is called Truvada, which combines the drugs emtricitabine and tenofovir. It's normally Euphemistic pre-owned to treat people who are infected with HIV, but research - in garish and bisexual men and in straight couples with one infected partner - have shown that it can lower the risk of infection in grass roots who become exposed to the virus through sex.
However, it does not eliminate the risk of infection. The US Food and Drug Administration approved the medicine for prevention purposes in 2012. Few people seem to be taking it for control purposes, however. Its manufacturer, Gilead, has disclosed that about 1700 people are taking the drug for that sense in the United States, Grant said. In the new study, researchers found that expected rates of HIV and syphilis infection decreased in almost 2500 men and transgender women when they took Truvada.
The turn over participants, who all faced lofty risk of HIV infection, were recruited in Peru, Ecuador, South Africa, Brazil, Thailand and the United States. Some of the participants took Truvada while others took an idle placebo. Those who believed they were taking Truvada "were just as right as all else," Grant said, suggesting that they weren't more likely to stop using condoms or be more promiscuous because they believed they had amazingly protection against HIV infection.
Should bodies in hazard of contracting HIV because they have risky sex rent a pill to prevent infection, or will the medication encourage them to take even more sexual risks? After years of deliberation on this question, a new international study suggests the medication doesn't lead relatives to stop using condoms or have more sex with more people. The research isn't definitive, and it hasn't changed the intention of every expert. But one of the study's co-authors said the findings support the drug's use as a method to prevent infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
And "People may have more partners or stop using condoms, but as well as we can tell, it's not because of taking the cure-all to prevent HIV infection ," said study co-author Dr Robert Grant, a elder investigator with the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in San Francisco. The medication in dispute is called Truvada, which combines the drugs emtricitabine and tenofovir. It's normally Euphemistic pre-owned to treat people who are infected with HIV, but research - in garish and bisexual men and in straight couples with one infected partner - have shown that it can lower the risk of infection in grass roots who become exposed to the virus through sex.
However, it does not eliminate the risk of infection. The US Food and Drug Administration approved the medicine for prevention purposes in 2012. Few people seem to be taking it for control purposes, however. Its manufacturer, Gilead, has disclosed that about 1700 people are taking the drug for that sense in the United States, Grant said. In the new study, researchers found that expected rates of HIV and syphilis infection decreased in almost 2500 men and transgender women when they took Truvada.
The turn over participants, who all faced lofty risk of HIV infection, were recruited in Peru, Ecuador, South Africa, Brazil, Thailand and the United States. Some of the participants took Truvada while others took an idle placebo. Those who believed they were taking Truvada "were just as right as all else," Grant said, suggesting that they weren't more likely to stop using condoms or be more promiscuous because they believed they had amazingly protection against HIV infection.
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Nutritionists Provide Recommendations About Food
Nutritionists Provide Recommendations About Food.
Healthier eating, losing ballast and getting more bring to bear are among the most common New Year's resolutions, and it's important to make a chart and be patient to achieve these goals, an expert says Dec 2013. If you decide to beginning eating healthier, it can be difficult to decide where to start. It's best to focus on specific changes to pressurize your goal more attainable, said Kelly Hogan, a clinical dietitian at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Here are some examples: Replace fried chicken or fish with baked or broiled versions two or three times a week; snack four or five servings of vegetables every weekday; and cook dinner at residency three nights a week a substitute of ordering carry-out food. Instead of stern out all your nightly desserts, plan to have one small dessert one or two nights per week.
Healthier eating, losing ballast and getting more bring to bear are among the most common New Year's resolutions, and it's important to make a chart and be patient to achieve these goals, an expert says Dec 2013. If you decide to beginning eating healthier, it can be difficult to decide where to start. It's best to focus on specific changes to pressurize your goal more attainable, said Kelly Hogan, a clinical dietitian at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Here are some examples: Replace fried chicken or fish with baked or broiled versions two or three times a week; snack four or five servings of vegetables every weekday; and cook dinner at residency three nights a week a substitute of ordering carry-out food. Instead of stern out all your nightly desserts, plan to have one small dessert one or two nights per week.
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Skin Color Affects The Rate Of Weight Loss
Skin Color Affects The Rate Of Weight Loss.
Black women will dissipate less moment than white women even if they follow the exact same exercise and diet regimen, researchers report. The rationality behind this finding is that black women's metabolisms run more slowly, which decreases their commonplace energy burn, said study author James DeLany, an associate professor in the dividing of endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "African-American women have a further energy expenditure. They're going to have to eat fewer calories than they would if they were Caucasian, and/or prolong their physical activity more," said DeLany.
His report is published in the Dec 20, 2013 end of the International Journal of Obesity. DeLany and his colleagues reached this conclusion during a weight-loss look involving severely obese white and black women. Previous studies have shown that black women spend less weight, and the researchers set out to verify those findings. The research included 66 snow-white and 69 black women, who were placed on the same calorie-restricted diet of an average of 1800 calories a epoch for six months.
They also were assigned the same exercise schedule. The black women lost about 8 pounds less, on average, than the cadaverous women, the researchers found. The explanation can't be that baleful women didn't adhere to the diet and exercise plan. The researchers closely tracked the calories each maid ate and the calories they burned through exercise, and found that black and white women stuck to the program equally. "We found the African-American women and the Caucasian women were both eating nearly comparable amounts of calories.
They were as adherent in real activity as well". That leaves variations in biology and metabolism to spell out the difference in weight-loss success, the study authors said. "The African-American women are equally as adherent to the behavioral intervention. It's just that the weight-loss instruction is wrong because it's based on the assumption that the requirements are the same".
Black women will dissipate less moment than white women even if they follow the exact same exercise and diet regimen, researchers report. The rationality behind this finding is that black women's metabolisms run more slowly, which decreases their commonplace energy burn, said study author James DeLany, an associate professor in the dividing of endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "African-American women have a further energy expenditure. They're going to have to eat fewer calories than they would if they were Caucasian, and/or prolong their physical activity more," said DeLany.
His report is published in the Dec 20, 2013 end of the International Journal of Obesity. DeLany and his colleagues reached this conclusion during a weight-loss look involving severely obese white and black women. Previous studies have shown that black women spend less weight, and the researchers set out to verify those findings. The research included 66 snow-white and 69 black women, who were placed on the same calorie-restricted diet of an average of 1800 calories a epoch for six months.
They also were assigned the same exercise schedule. The black women lost about 8 pounds less, on average, than the cadaverous women, the researchers found. The explanation can't be that baleful women didn't adhere to the diet and exercise plan. The researchers closely tracked the calories each maid ate and the calories they burned through exercise, and found that black and white women stuck to the program equally. "We found the African-American women and the Caucasian women were both eating nearly comparable amounts of calories.
They were as adherent in real activity as well". That leaves variations in biology and metabolism to spell out the difference in weight-loss success, the study authors said. "The African-American women are equally as adherent to the behavioral intervention. It's just that the weight-loss instruction is wrong because it's based on the assumption that the requirements are the same".
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