www.bogotafreeplanet.com Bogota Free Planet Medical Pages en Bogota Free Planet Copyright 2010 2010-03-11T21:50:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5812 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5812#When:11:44:21 Doctors were able to surgically remove the so-called Botax from the Senate’s health-care overhaul bill and replace it with a 10% tax on tanning services. Surgery 2009-12-22T16:39:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5793 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5793#When:14:23:26 Most Americans believe proposed health-care-reform legislation is focused on improving the cost and delivery of health care. Not true! Improvement of the health-care delivery system is only an illusion. I suggest to you that this legislation is a clear case of camouflage and concealment. One only needs to examine the three most costly components of our current health-care system to shed light on the subject. Medical Notes 2009-12-18T19:16:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5744 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5744#When:10:10:13 Never before have women been more confused about breast mammography. A U.S panel of experts now reports that women under 40 years of age do not need mammograms, and those over 50 require them only every two years. So here are eight points women should know about mammography. Cancer 2009-12-14T15:06:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5723 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5723#When:14:40:19 Contact: Karen Kreeger karen.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu 215-349-5658 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine PHILADELPHIA Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have developed a new model of skin cancer based on the knowledge that a common cancer-related molecule called Src kinase is activated in human skin-cancer samples. Cancer 2009-12-11T19:21:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5693 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5693#When:15:19:06 Sometimes it pays just to walk around the Capitol building during the day, because you run into people who give you the latest scoop, simply by accident. That happened to me yesterday when I was down at one of the vending machines in the basement. Medical News 2009-12-10T20:15:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5681 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5681#When:12:29:02 Over the next several weeks, members of Congress will be confronted with one scary story after another about what will happen if they try to cut health care costs. Medical Notes 2009-12-10T17:24:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5675 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5675#When:19:44:52 Dec. 9 (Bloomberg)—The effectiveness of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu in treating flu complications in healthy adults can’t be determined because the Swiss drugmaker wouldn’t supply data from eight studies, an independent research group said.  Medical News 2009-12-10T00:42:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5661 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5661#When:18:01:02 A year after receiving the go-ahead from state voters, University of Michigan officials said Tuesday that they have established procedures to accept donated human embryos that will be used in stem cell research and expect to begin developing new lines of stem cells by mid-2010. Medical News 2009-12-09T22:58:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5616 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5616#When:20:14:55 The squabbling generated by recently revised mammography screening guidelines showed that in the great American health care reform debate, physicians like myself are not always above the fray. In fact, we can sometimes be the fray. Medicine 2009-12-05T01:10:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5602 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5602#When:12:51:23 We at the American College of Preventive Medicine support the updated United States Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on breast cancer screening. On Nov. 17, the task force released recommendations that women age 50 and older should have screening mammography every two years, and women in their 40s should decide whether to have screening mammography on an individual basis after talking with their doctors.  Medical News 2009-12-04T17:46:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5558 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5558#When:21:29:59 Today, Sen. Roberts said the huge cuts to Medicare in the partisan health care reform bill would be devastating to seniors. On the Senate floor today, Senator Roberts spoke in favor of an effort by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to eliminate the devastating Medicare cuts in the bill that would put seniors at risk.  Medical Notes 2009-12-03T02:14:40-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5529 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5529#When:15:09:44 Health report updates over the past few weeks may have left a large number of women in a state of confusion. Last week, the United States Preventive Services Task Force released a statement recommending that women begin screenings for breast cancer at the age of 50, not at 40 as had been previously suggested by both health care professionals and the American Cancer Society. Cancer 2009-12-02T20:04:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5523 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5523#When:21:43:34 For young women who have a high risk of breast cancer because of genetic mutations or family history, the radiation from yearly mammograms may make the risk even higher, researchers reported at a radiology conference on Monday.  Cancer 2009-12-02T04:01:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5513 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5513#When:20:37:06 Soothing classical music plays in the background as the surgeon snips thin threads hanging from the corners of the patient’s eyes. Finished with the scissors, Dr. Daniel Teet tells her that everything went well in the hour-long procedure, adding that she should expect little discomfort during the six days until he removes her stitches. The Chicago woman, who asked that her name be withheld, appears relaxed and insists to observers in the operating room that she feels fine after the surgery that lifted and tightened her upper eyelids. Surgery 2009-11-28T04:01:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5407 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5407#When:23:14:21 Victorian HIV bodies want to clarify protocols which exist between the Health Department and Victoria Police when criminal law is used to deal with people putting others at risk of HIV. Medical News 2009-11-20T04:11:01-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5368 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5368#When:21:33:25 A federal task force’s conclusion that most women in their 40s do not need routine mammograms is not likely to impact whether Michigan health insurers cover the exam. State law requires all state-regulated insurers to pay for annual breast cancer screenings for women in this age group, regardless of outside recommendations, said Paula Lantz, department chairwoman of health management and policy at University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.  Medical News 2009-11-19T04:01:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5369 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5369#When:21:40:10 On November 19, 2009, the Beaufort County Health Department, in conjunction with the American Cancer Society, will recognize the 34th annual Great American Smokeout. This date is used to encourage smokers to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking that day. By doing so, smokers will be taking an important step towards a healthier life.  Cancer 2009-11-19T04:01:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5372 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5372#When:22:02:11 Redding doctors were extremely wary of speaking to a reporter about state data that reveal strikingly high rates of hysterectomies and spinal fusions in Shasta County. Will they talk to each other about the disparity in patient care? They’d better. The health of the community demands no less. Surgery 2009-11-19T04:01:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5373 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5373#When:22:04:35 WASHINGTON — - It is a central idea in the push to improve American medical care and control its cost: experts studying the effectiveness of treatments and procedures to determine which work best. Medical News 2009-11-19T04:01:00-05:00 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5336 http://www.bogotafreeplanet.com/index.php/articles-health/5336#When:23:14:32 Physician shortages are much more on hospital leaders’ minds these days than shortages of nurses or allied health professionals, a new AMN Healthcare survey of 285 hospital chief executive officers shows. The CEOs doubt there are enough clinicians available to cope with the sharply increased demand for services that healthcare reform is expected to generate. Medical Notes 2009-11-18T04:11:00-05:00