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Taking Off the White Coat: Struggling With Dual Roles in China’s Hospitals

By Guest PostApril 10, 2011Healthcollaborative effort, community healthcare, goldman sachs, gynecology and obstetrics, journal of human resources, management training, organizational dynamics

In the past few years, Dr. Baowen Feng, with 22 years of clinical experience in gynecology and obstetrics, has rarely had the chance to practice medicine.

Occasionally, when Beijing’s Tongzhou District Women’s and Children’s Hospital is particularly swamped, she will don her white coat for half a day or so. But even without it on, she is a highly respected figure in the hospital. As vice president of community healthcare, she oversees community healthcare management for the entire Tongzhou District. (more…)

Working More Than 11 Hours Increases Chances For Heart Attack By 2/3

By PravdaApril 5, 2011Healthexperience of stress, heart attack, long working days, working hours, working long hours

Those who spend more than 11 hours at work increase their chance of having a heart attack by two thirds, according to a new study. (more…)

Fighting Twin Epidemics in Tanzania: Heroin and HIV

By Guest PostApril 4, 2011Healthepidemiological reports, first cohort, flashblood, hiv and heroin addiction, organizational expertise, replacement drug, sub-saharan africa, synthetic opioid, twin epidemics, yale school of medicine

Sub-Saharan Africa is struggling with twin epidemics — HIV and heroin addiction — and Tanzania, in eastern Africa, is one of the hardest-hit regions.

But now, with funding from the U.S. government and organizational expertise from Yale, an effort is underway there to get heroin addiction and the viruses spawned by the sharing of contaminated needles — HIV, Hepatitis B and C — under control. (more…)

Older Lesbians, Gays Have Higher Rates of Chronic Disease, Mental Distress, Isolation

By Guest PostMarch 30, 2011Healthaids, bisexual, california, california lesbians, chronic conditions, chronic health conditions, cycles of data, diabetes, epidemiology, gay, good health, heterosexual population, heterosexual women, hiv, hypertension, lesbian, lgb, life threatening health conditions, physical disability, poor mental health, steven wallace, susan cochran, ucla

*California’s aging LGB population is set to double in next 20 years*

Members of California’s aging lesbian, gay and bisexual population are more likely to suffer from certain chronic conditions, even as they wrestle with the challenges of living alone in far higher numbers than the heterosexual population, according to new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Half of all gay and bisexual adult men in California between the ages of 50 and 70 are living alone, compared with 13.4 percent of heterosexual men in the same age group. And although older California lesbians and bisexual women are more likely to live with a partner or a family member than their male counterparts, more than one in four live alone, compared with one in five heterosexual women. (more…)

Prostate Cancer Spreads to Bones by Overtaking The Home of Blood Stem Cells

By Guest PostMarch 29, 2011Healthbone marrow, cancer recurrence, hematopoietic stem cells, prostate cancer, prostate cancer cells

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Like bad neighbors who decide to go wreck another community, prostate and breast cancer usually recur in the bone, according to a new University of Michigan study. (more…)

Vibration Helps Reduce Pain in Chronic Sufferers, UF Researchers Find

By Guest PostMarch 29, 2011Healthanalgesic effect, chronic pain, chronic pain patients, fibromyalgia patients, high frequency vibration, pain relief, pain relief mechanisms, vibration therapies

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rubbing or massaging is often an instinctive response to pain. Now researchers have found that another kind of touch, vibration, can also help reduce certain types of pain by more than 40 percent. The researchers are encouraged by the prospect that vibration therapies could bring pill-free pain relief to chronic sufferers. (more…)

A Dose of Safflower Oil Each Day Might Help Keep Heart Disease at Bay

By Guest PostMarch 22, 2011Health, Scienceabdominal fat, adiponectin, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diabetes, glycemic control, inflammation, insulin sensitivity, linoleic acid, lipid control, metabolic syndrome, omega-3 pufas, omega-6 pufas, postmenopausal, safflower oil, triglycerides

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A daily dose of safflower oil, a common cooking oil, for 16 weeks can improve such health measures as good cholesterol, blood sugar, insulin sensitivity and inflammation in obese postmenopausal women who have Type 2 diabetes, according to new research.

This finding comes about 18 months after the same researchers discovered that safflower oil reduced abdominal fat and increased muscle tissue in this group of women after 16 weeks of daily supplementation.

This combination of health measures that are improved by the safflower oil is associated with metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms that can increase risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. (more…)

FEELING ANGRY? SAY A PRAYER AND THE WRATH FADES AWAY

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2011Culture, Healthbrad_bushman, divine intervention, dutch university, fatigue, feeling anger, fuming, maureen, negative emotions, ohio_state_university, vigor

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Saying a prayer may help many people feel less angry and behave less aggressively after someone has left them fuming, new research suggests.

A series of studies showed that people who were provoked by insulting comments from a stranger showed less anger and aggression soon afterwards if they prayed for another person in the meantime.

The benefits of prayer identified in this study don’t rely on divine intervention: they probably occur because the act of praying changed the way people think about a negative situation, said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University. (more…)

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