Health news headlines this week

Heres a quick roundup from the news headlines in the health pages this week.

Baldness cure on the cards? The Telegraph reports that a treatment could be available within a couple of years. This will no doubt arouse a great amount of interest - well follow the story as it happens.

Rise in diabetes. Its being reported this week that Scotlands diabetes rates continue to increase, with nearly quarter of a million people suffering from the condition - or 4.7% of the population.

The effect of sickness absence from work has also been making the news, with a recent survey indicating that only just over half of employers believing theyre "well equipped" to deal with the problem. Being well equipped isnt defined in this context but presumably the better equipped employers will have a health and wellbeing strategy, provide group medical insurance, EAPs and so on.

The Guardian posits an interesting theory today regarding Obamacare - namely that the Presidents affordable care act will mean the US being short of doctors - tens of thousands of them. This is because so many currently uninsured Americans will have access to healthcare. So the possibility, according to the story, is that the US shortfall could be made up in part by UK doctors leaving for jobs across the pond. Which could then cause a shortage here.

And thats all from us just now. If you have any comments on the above stories, then please leave us a comment - wes love to hear from you!

The Medical Home News Question The DMCB Answers Other

The Disease Management Care Blog is happy to serve on the National Advisory Board of Medical Home News.  MHN has important insights and updates on the implementation of Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH).  It also regularly poises a "Thought Leaders Corner"question and prints answers from the PCMH community.

The December 12 issue question was:

What is the single most important issue to overcome in terms of widespread implementation of the medical home model?
A growing shortage of PCPs?
Lack of payer commitment to reimburse care coordination?
Lack of incentives to adopt/implement EHRs?
Lack of sufficient team culture being taught?
Other?

The Disease Management Care Blog naturally answered "other...."

"While I used to think the most important issue was finding generalizable approach to care (template) and an accompanying business model that has consistently been shown to reduce health care costs in a clinically and statistically significant manner, I’m changing my mind. 

The most important issue is the emerging link between accountable care organizations and the medical home to the exclusion of all other approaches to care.  The medical home has had its victories, but much of the published high quality research is from highly integrated settings and even then, it’s unclear if the avoided claims expense is greater than all the indirect and direct costs. We still don’t know if the medical home can succeed in the other kinds of networks being established by ACOs. 

As a result, if ACOs stumble and prove to be an unsuccessful reprise of the 1990s style physician-hospital initiatives, the medical home could be taken down before we know if it can work in non-academic, non-Medicaid community settings. 

This promising baby could be thrown out with the bathwater."

If, despite the DMCBs participation, youre interested in subscribing to MHN, getting your boss to pay for it or giving a years worth of issues as a fitting holiday present, more information can be found here.

health news stress levels rising

Stress is probably something that many of us have encountered at some point during our lives. The symptoms of stress can be fairly unpleasant – disturbed sleep, upset stomach, anxiety and so on. And so, too can the health risks – while stress isn’t – according to the British Heart Foundation – a ‘direct risk factor’ for cardiovascular disease, some of the ways we deal with it may be risky. Examples of this are things like smoking to deal with stress, and also eating too much or drinking too much alcohol.

Managing stress is a definite health plus – and if you’re looking at ways to manage stress you might find that it also helps you approach stressful situations in a different way. Recognising stress triggers and understanding what causes you to become stressed means that you’ll be able to look at situations with objectivity and manage stress accordingly.

Some of the recommended ways of managing stress will also have benefits in other areas of your life – for instance getting exercise and staying active are well known ways to fight stress. And they will, of course, also help to keep your weight in check, and your fitness levels up.  

This week in the health pages there was an interesting statistic making the headlines – a 7 percent rise in English hospital admissions due to stress. The reason for the rise could be down to a combination of factors but leading mental health organisation The Mental health Foundation believe it could be a result of the recession . It could also be that people in work feel they have to stay later and get more done during the working day in a recession.

Montly Important Health News in World Health Medicine

World Health Medicine begin to make nay health posting that posted in kkkmedicine blog monthly. So, any body can look more about some news that have been planted on the root of the blog.

Below are 5 Interesting post of the month

1. 5 Vital Nutrition to Children
Here are tell you about nutrient that are so important that consume by children, you can see and give your attention to this post to get more about nutrient that needed by children.

2. The Characteristics of a Healthy Breast
Beautiful breast shape is important, but far more important if breast is also healthy. Healthy breasts that means must be free of disease, especially breast cancer and functioning correctly. this news took from womanhealth website, this post is directed to women, in order they can guard their health rightly.

3. Avoid Child from Obesity
Really afraid, obesity is one of the danger disease, cause can form the other crucial disease. this post is important to know for all of us. we must know how to get away from obesity disease. So, i recommend you for read this one.

4. 9 side effect of drugs
Many of us may be consume drug without attention side effect. Eating while sleeping is one of the side effect of wrong in drug intake.So, this post is recommend you to be careful to drug that we intake and consume everyday.

5. Eating Fish Important to woman.
Cause this is can prevent them from heart disease, this statement based on the following quoted.

The researchers found that women of childbearing age who never ate fish had a 50 percent higher risk of cardiovascular problems affected than women who frequently eat fish.

OK, these 5 important posting of the month on this kkkmedicine will be make us more remember to our health. Hope keep more for read my next new Post about health. Thank :)