Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Colorado is still the least-obese state in the country. But it might not be for much longer

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Colorado is still the least-obese state in the country. But it might not be for much longer. The obesity rate jumped 10 percent in one yea...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

"...increasing weight loss and, to a lesser extent, decreasing BMI, led to substantially worse outcomes for non-small cell lung cancer patients independent of other variables."

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J Cachexia  Sarcopenia  Muscle.  2017 Dec 4. doi: 10.1002/jcsm.12253. [Epub ahead of print] Post-diagnosis weight loss as a prognostic fa...
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"Overall, science understanding is associated with vaccine and genetic modification food acceptance, but not climate change acceptance."

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Pers Soc Psychol Bull.  2017 Nov 1:146167217741314. doi: 10.1177/0146167217741314. [Epub ahead of print] Not All Skepticism Is Equal: Exp...

On Becoming a Global Citizen: Transformative Learning Through Global Health Experiences

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Ann Glob Health.  2017 May - Aug;83(3-4):596-604. doi: 10.1016/j.aogh.2017.07.005. Epub 2017 Aug 15. On Becoming a Global Citizen: Transf...

How do you define patient engagement? My take.

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Becker's Health IT + Clinical Leadership 2018 Speaker Series: 3 questions with University of Texas Medical Branch Director of Anatomic ...

America’s healthiest and least healthy states

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America’s healthiest and least healthy states "Massachusetts, Hawaii, Vermont, Utah and Connecticut rank as the five healthiest st...
Monday, December 11, 2017

The extra cost of comorbidity: multiple illnesses and the economic burden of non-communicable diseases

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BMC Med.  2017 Dec 8;15(1):216. doi: 10.1186/s12916-017-0978-2. The extra cost of comorbidity: multiple illnesses and the economic burden...

Fat child taken into care by after their parents let them eat too much

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Fat child taken into care by after their parents let them eat too much Social workers stepped in over fears for the safety of the obese ...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

The Who. Eminence Front

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The Who.  Eminence Front Classic.

Is there really such a thing as 'fault-free obesity'? New science says maybe

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Is there really such a thing as 'fault-free obesity'? New science says maybe Million of us have the right genes for obesity, r...

The day of an Academic Pathologist. Finally revealed.

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The day of an Academic Pathologist.  Finally revealed. From the University of South Alabama Department of Pathology
Friday, December 8, 2017

"...because of continuing endemic prejudice in United States society and its healthcare system and the distrust this engenders..."

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Camb Q Healthc Ethics.  2018 Jan;27(1):36-51. doi: 10.1017/S096318011700038X. Compulsory Organ Retrieval: Morally, But Not Socially, Just...

"...six out of every 10 Bahamians have not one, not two, but three risk factors that can lead to a non-communicable disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke or cancer."

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Nutrition Policy To Stop People 'Dropping Like Flies' "The latest national data shows that six out of every 10 Bahamian...

#ReadyPlayerOne - Playing Super Mario 64 increases hippocampal grey matter in older adults

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PLoS One.  2017 Dec 6;12(12):e0187779. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187779. eCollection 2017. Playing Super Mario 64 increases hippocampal ...

Newborn Screening: Beyond the Spot

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Adv Exp Med Biol.  2017;1031:323-346. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67144-4_19. Newborn Screening: Beyond the Spot. Urv TK 1 ,  Parisi MA 2 . ...

Is obesity going to be the new normal?

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Is obesity going to be the new normal? "They found that at any age, kids who are obese are more likely than their non-obese peers...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

How about just not mixing up patient's specimens?

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A Bill to 'Eliminate Prostate Cancer Misdiagnosis' "As a remedy for these mix-ups, Dr Bucshon is sponsoring the Prostate Can...
Friday, December 1, 2017

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams supports studying medical marijuana

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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams supports studying medical marijuana "Under medical marijuana, I believe it should be like any ot...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

The Tragedy of Liberalism

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The Tragedy of Liberalism Patrick J. Deneen The ship of liberalism is in dangerous waters not because it hasn’t yet realized its poten...

"Researchers at Harvard say that if current trends in child obesity continue, nearly six out of 10 of today’s children will have obesity when they are 35."

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Nearly 6 out of 10 of today’s children will be obese at 35, researchers say "Researchers at Harvard say that if current trends in...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Thom Lambert: Pai’s Right on Net Neutrality and Title II

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Pai’s Right on Net Neutrality and Title II As I explain in my new book,  How to Regulate , sound regulation requires thinking like a d...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Direct to consumer genetic testing and the libertarian right to test

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J Med Ethics.  2017 Aug 20. pii: medethics-2016-103778. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103778. [Epub ahead of print] Direct  to  consumer   ...

"Domestication, it turns out, was a decidedly mixed blessing for humans."

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Great Scott George Scialabba Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James Scott Yale University Press, 312 pp., ...

China's Obesity Problem Linked To Single Child Policy

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China's Obesity Problem Linked To Single Child Policy "What they found was that only-sons had significantly greater BMI and wer...

Why Ajit Pai is right

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PRO-NEUTRALITY, ANTI-TITLE II "Any regulatory decision — indeed, any decision period — is about tradeoffs. To choose one course o...

Morality and soap in engineers and social scientists: the Macbeth effect interacts with professions

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Psychol Res.  2017 Nov 7. doi: 10.1007/s00426-017-0937-8. [Epub ahead of print] Morality  and soap in engineers and social scientists: th...

PTPR-γ

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Liver Link between Obesity and Diabetes Highlights New Therapeutic Target "In summary, our results indicate that the increased hep...
Monday, November 27, 2017

"If it can be shown that some people with serious mental illness can be rational with regard to suicide..."

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Int J Law Psychiatry.  2013 Sep-Dec;36(5-6):358-65. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.06.006. Epub 2013 Jul 7. Why are people with mental illness ...

"People bereaved by suicide are especially vulnerable to developing complicated grief."

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PLoS One.  2017 Jun 23;12(6):e0179496. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179496. eCollection 2017. Grief interventions for people bereaved by  s...