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PHOENIX — The metric currently used to evaluate the impact of kidney allocation policies needs to be addressed to ensure a more equitable distribution of organs, according to a speaker at Cutting Edge of Transplantation: Transplant Summit.“I think we can all agree that we have a major issue between the demand for organs and supply,” Jayme Locke, MD, MPH, FACS, FAST, of the
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Endocrine Today | The underlying etiology of the metabolic syndrome, a cardiometabolic risk factor cluster — central obesity, low HDL cholesterol, impaired glucose tolerance, elevated triglycerides and hypertension — remains the subject of debate. Gerald Reaven, MD, the Stanford University researcher who coined the syndrome’s original name of “syndrome X,” suggested insulin resistance
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The March Point/Counter column asks: Should the term "metabolic syndrome" be changed to "circadian syndrome"? What do you think? #TellHealio @heartindiabetes https://t.co/E51DFGDxme https://t.co/Z0GC0hlp0U
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Mashup Score: 0Survey: COVID-19 has had little impact on nephrology practices - 5 year(s) ago
In a March 10 survey of 85 practicing nephrologists, just one nephrologist was treating a patient diagnosed with COVID-19 and 30% of surveyed nephrologists rated the federal government’s handling of the pandemic as unfavorable.
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#TellHealio about the impact on your practice in the comments below & check our page regularly for continuing updates on #Covid_19 . https://t.co/STx4zdsrCg
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Mashup Score: 0Moral distress common in physicians treating patients with surrogate decision-makers - 5 year(s) ago
Many physicians treating older patients who require surrogate decision-makers experience moral distress, according to research recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. The prospective study surveyed 154 physicians who were treating 362 patients requiring surrogate decision-makers. Physicians rated their moral distress about the care of each patient on a scale of 0 to 10.
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Many physicians treating older patients who require surrogate decision-makers experience moral distress, according to a recent study. Have you experienced moral distress when caring for these patients? #TellHealio https://t.co/Y3bZDZkbia https://t.co/p3ZKkV7My5
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Mashup Score: 0HHS rules give patients ‘unprecedented’ access to health data - 5 year(s) ago
Patients will soon have what HHS called “unprecedented” secure and free access to their health information. Two rules finalized by the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and CMS — meant to carry out the interoperability and patient access provisions under the 21st Century Cures Act — will allow patients to access their health
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Patients will soon have what @HHSGov called “unprecedented” secure & free access to their health information. @calonghurst from @UCSDHealth & @CrisJRoss at @MayoClinic analyze the initiative at: https://t.co/tTB3VnJSVI Do you agree with the government on this topic? #TellHealio https://t.co/l0u2snUJXj
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Institutions are limiting employee travel and medical societies are canceling or postponing their annual medical conferences because of concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Cleveland Clinic spokesperson Andrea Pacetti told Healio Primary Care that the facility there has suspended all “nonessential international business travel” until at least March 31
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Are societies, conferences you are involved with being affected by COVID-19? Have they been cancelled, how has it affected you or your institution? Tell us about it! #TellHealio Institutions limit travel, societies rethink conferences as COVID-19 spreads https://t.co/kL7QpB7H3F
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Mashup Score: 0Speaker details options for allocating scarce organs - 5 year(s) ago
PHOENIX — There are many ways limited resources like kidneys can be allocated, but the key is to find a system that gives everyone, regardless of social or economic status, equal ability to access that resource, a speaker said here.“A scarce resource could be an ICU bed. It could be a ventilator for coronavirus or it could be an organ,” Glen Cohen, JD, said during the Cutting
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LIVE from Phoenix: What is the "fair" or best way to allocate kidneys for transplant? “It’s easy to be a critic; it’s hard actually to make policy.” #TellHealio what you think in the comments. #ceot @AST_info https://t.co/LHkL6DdBIf
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Mashup Score: 0Bone strength persists 1 year after sleeve gastrectomy for teens, young adults with obesity - 5 year(s) ago
Adolescents and young adults with obesity who underwent sleeve gastrectomy experienced a reduction in bone mineral density measures in the year after surgery when compared with nonsurgical controls, but did not experience a decrease in bone strength despite significant weight loss, according to findings published in Bone. “The adolescent and young adult years are a critical time for bone
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ICYMI: "Although DXA measures of bone density decreased over a year... bone strength estimates did not decrease," Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH, told @GoHealio. @Els_ENDO @harvardmed @MassGeneralNews #TellHealio #obesity https://t.co/rwfPTONNNi
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Mashup Score: 0Health care spending rises nearly 20% in 5 years - 5 year(s) ago
Total annual spending per person with employer-sponsored health insurance increased 18.4% to nearly $5,900 between 2014 and 2018, according to a Health Care Cost Institute report. The annual spending increase of about 4% a year is not trivial, according to Niall Brennan, president and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI).
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A recent report from @HealthCostInst showed that health care spending rose nearly 20% in 5 years. How do you control costs for yourself and your patients? Let us know at #TellHealio https://t.co/ZG3eeQkCM2 #medtwitter #primarycare @N_Brennan @FreemanSchool https://t.co/pgXBmvxV5H
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Mashup Score: 1Combined biopsy approach improves prostate cancer detection - 5 year(s) ago
A combined screening approach of systematic and MRI-targeted biopsy improved detection of all prostate cancers among men with MRI-visible lesions, according to results of a prospective study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. MRI-targeted biopsy alone underestimated the histologic grade of some tumors, researchers noted. Following radical prostatectomy, upgrades to the highest
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Breaking News from @NEJM - Combined systematic and MRI-targeted biopsy approach improves prostate cancer detection. Read what @theNCI @NIH researchers Michael Ahdoot, MD @MichaelAhdootMD and Peter A. Pinto, MD #TellHealio about the impact of study results https://t.co/J7KR8QiHTe https://t.co/hZaoeRoKjH
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“Do all of our ESRD patients actually have the opportunity to make it to the waitlist?” Read more on the challenges that come with making equitable kidney allocation policies and #TellHealio your suggestions. https://t.co/5H3Y9iFjOq