Future of Healthcare. Healthcare as an industry is changing through technology, medical and research innovations, physician reform and hospital re-organizations. Dr. David Samadi will explore long term issues, debates innovations directly influencing the healthcare industry and what both healthcare professionals and patients need to know.
The future begins in July. A joint clinical study will be conducted by Washington University in St. Louis and Keio University in Japan, involving a bio-chemical that may slow down the aging process in humans.
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Read MoreThe opioid epidemic has a problem with patients who have been prescribed opioid painkillers receiving not only more than they needed but often sharing the medications with others.
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Read MoreA promising new study finds that an experimental therapy based on immune-system antibodies is helping extend the life of people with advanced stomach cancer.
Read MoreThe nausea, vomiting, and other side effects of the drugs designed to either cure or reduce cancer can sometimes seem worse than the cancer itself.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is an infection caused by a type of staph bacteria that's become resistant to many of the antibiotics used to treat ordinary staph infections.
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Read MoreHave you ever thought of your feet as a barometer of your health? Maybe not, but certain foot problems could reveal the condition of the rest of the body.
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Read MoreA team of researchers from Burnaby, British Columbia, have just discovered a means to translate complex brainwaves into objective, practical and deployable brain vital signs.
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Read MoreResearchers have taken what they are calling a “very positive step” towards the creation of a vaccine that would cause the body's immune system to attack cancerous tumors.
Read MoreThere are hundreds of articles published everyday, in everything from scholarly medical journals to teen websites, that aspire to tell you how to live a healthier life. But analyze them closely, break them down into their component bits, and the “secrets” they all feverishly purport to reveal come down to five very basic behaviors that have long been known to reduce the risk of chronic diseases:
These chronic diseases – for example, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease - are perennially among the most common and costly health problems in the United States.
Now, here's the kicker: according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only 6.3 percent of American adults adhered to all five healthy behaviors!
Dr. Yong Lu, of the Division of Population Health at the CDC, led the team who analyzed data from the 2013 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) - a system of telephone surveys that gathers health-related information from residents across all U.S. states. They published their results in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy. The data included almost 400,000 adults aged 21 and older, and the team looked at what proportion of these individuals adhered to five health behaviors known to reduce the risk of death from chronic disease.
How do you stand compared to your fellow Americans? Here's the breakdown:
Of the only 6.3 percent of the adults who engaged in all five behaviors, women, older adults, college graduates, and Asians were the most likely to report doing so. And adults who lived in the Pacific and Rocky Mountain states were more likely to adhere to all five health behaviors.
On the cheerier side, only 1.4 percent of the adults failed to engage in any of the five health behaviors whatsoever.
Based on their results, Dr. Lu and his team believe there needs to be increased focus on strategies that encourage more Americans to engage in all five health behaviors, which may reduce their risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.
