Category Archives: Patient Wellness

Dear drug companies: Please find a way to stop cancer !

Posted on May 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

I don’t know about you but I believe we need a lot more investment in the war against cancer. The pain of cancer goes beyond the patient with this horrible disease it affects family and friends in ways that are now only beginning to be understood. The stress of a family member diagnosed with cancer is, in my opinion, far worse than any other kind of stress. What we need are drugs that can send this horrible disease into permanent remission, not drugs that give patients hope when there is none. Continue reading →

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Tagged cancer

Obesity and erectile dysfunction (ED) often go hand in hand.

Posted on August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment

If Viagra and Cialis commercials want to “get real” maybe they should show overweight men in their TV ads for ED drugs. A new Australian study, published Friday in the “Journal of Sexual Medicine,” found that losing just 5% to 10% of body weight over a two-month period improved the erectile function — and revved up the sex drives — of obese men with diabetes. The study was very small (it included just 31 men), so the results should be taken with a grain of salt. But the findings are yet another reminder that obesity and erectile dysfunction (ED) often go hand in hand. Continue reading →

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Tagged Australia, Erectile dysfunction, Food and Drug Administration, Health, Obesity, Sildenafil, Tadalafil, Viagra

Can relaxation programming replace some pharmaceuticals ?

Posted on July 6, 2011 | 2 Comments

“Within the boundaries of the healthcare institution, the sounds of illness become the only song that is heard unless the environment is programmed for healing”. Susan Mazer-CEO Healing Healthcare. Can evidence-based relaxation programming for patients reduce anxiety and the need for some pharma products within hospitals ? One company says yes and they have the clinical evidence to back it up. Continue reading →

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Tagged Hospital environment

You’ve entered The Healthcare Zone”

Posted on June 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

You unlock this door with a health problem . Beyond it is another dimension – a dimension of uncertainty, a dimension of wellness questions, a dimension of piece of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Healthcare Zone. Continue reading →

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Tagged Patients & healthcare system

Family caregivers can improve patient outcomes, but lack access to tools that can ease the burden of their work.

Posted on May 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

According to the national study Caregiving in the U.S. 2009, 29% of the U.S. adult population, or 66 million people, are caregivers, including 31% of all households. These caregivers provide an average of 20 hours of care per week. In total, family caregivers “provide an estimated $375 bil- lion worth of uncompensated care to loved ones annually (Naiditch & Weber-Raley, Caregiving in the U.S., 2009). Continue reading →

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I’m a person not a number on a chart

Posted on April 5, 2011 | 2 Comments

How can physicians get patients to be more compliant when it comes to coming back for follow up office visits ? It may all start with the physician-patient relationship. If you take time to really listen to what your patients are saying and respond to them as people you might find that they are more willing to move ahead in a relationship that is mutually beneficial. Continue reading →

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Tagged Patient/Physician relationship

The patient physician relationship: essential for good outcomes

Posted on February 20, 2011 | 2 Comments

Doctors said that forming a long-term relationship with a primary-care physician is the most important thing a patient can do to obtain better medical care, with 76 percent saying it would help “very much.” ”A primary-care doctor should be your partner in overall health, not just someone you go to for minor problems or a referral to specialty care,” said Kevin Grumbach, M.D., professor and chair of the department of family and community medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. Continue reading →

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Forget evidence based medicine solutions. Future of hospital IT is sharing data

Posted on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments

A survey finds the public and physicians overwhelmingly agree on how money allocated to advance health information technology should be spent. The Markle Foundation in January published the results of two surveys it conducted in August 2010 that included more than 1,500 people from the general population and 210 physicians. It found both groups have widespread agreement on how health information technology can improve the health care system. Having buy-in from both is important to advancing health IT, experts say. Continue reading →

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Posted in Cost of healthcare in the U.S., Patient Wellness

Tagged Hospital IT

46 Million patients eligible for wellness physician visits

Posted on January 1, 2011 | 1 Comment

Starting today 46 million Medicare patients become eligible for wellness visits with their doctors. What is a wellness visit ? Well rather than focus on medical tests wellness visits are designed to improve lifestyles and help patients get on the road to better health. It could include patients education on how to reduce cholesterol, hypertension or lose weight. It’s going to be a challenge for physicians but there is a great opportunity here for the drug industry to work with insurers to help physicians for the benefit of their patients. Continue reading →