National Women’s Health Week – Own Your Health As a woman, and the mother of 3 little women-in-training, I am delighted to share my experience during National Women’s Health Week. I spend what sometimes feels like an inordinate amount of time juggling my children’s health and wellness – a task that can be difficult even if […]
Digital Health
U.S. Healthcare Ranks Poorly – Here’s A Way To Improve It Depending on your perspective, you can argue that the U.S. either has the best healthcare system in the world or one of the worst. However, according to the Bloomberg Health-Care Efficiency Index which assessed 55 countries, the U.S. ranks 50th – almost dead last. […]
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Family Medical History Is More Informative than Genome Mapping While there is understandable excitement about genome mapping, there is still much discovery and testing to be done to determine its efficacy in healthcare today. At-home DNA kits may be entertaining and perhaps revealing, but time and energy are better spent gathering and recording thorough […]
Caregivers
It’s that time of year again when you find yourself at a meal with extended family, a party, a potluck or if you’re popular, maybe several of each! As much fun as these gatherings can be, they can be equally stressful when you or your children deal with dietary issues. As a Type 1 diabetic, I […]
Allergies
Two examples of summer safety conversations with my husband — Before kids: “Oh! I need to wipe this tanning oil off my hands before I grab my drink… it could get too slippery and poke my eye out with the mini-umbrella!” [Takes sip out of a coconut] “Phew that was a close one!” [Reclines chair […]
Allergies
Some would say the American healthcare system is rigged or broken. One of them is Dr. Linda Girgis, a board-certified family physician in South River, New Jersey. In a recent blog of hers — titled Navigating the Complexities of the Healthcare System – she maintains it’s not enough to know what a patient needs. Doctors […]
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A study in the Netherlands shows that more collaboration around prescribing medications can help elderly nursing home patients deprescribe from certain drugs, reducing potentially inappropriate and duplicative prescriptions. After only one round of Multidisciplinary Multistep intervention i.e. collaboration, the study shows that 39.1% of the population successfully discontinued use of at least 1 inappropriate drug. […]
Elderly Care
Healthcare today has become a “product”…or rather an assortment of products and services that like any other have to compete for customers. That means not only having to attract customers, but also earn their trust, repeat business and, hopefully, referrals, all of which require what’s called a “consumer-centric” focus. The challenge in healthcare, according to Oliver […]
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Your Personal Health = Risky Family BusinessI read an interesting book review the other day of cancer epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat’s “Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks.” In it he explains that when it comes to our health, we confront two broad types of risks:“Voluntary risks” – stem from our own […]
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Key to medication adherence: family I recently wrote about revisiting your medication needs with your doctors from time to time to make sure you still need them in the same dosages and frequency. I also wrote on you should may sure that your meds don’t interact negatively with food. Taking the right medications, though, is only part of […]
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