Kitty Tales

In other news that is not @ all related to how much weight I've gained in the last few weeks, I'm getting a kitty. I know I know old news. Most of y'all know Maggie. But Maggie has 2 big...

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Rural Appalachians and food insecurity subject of
new study

Filed under: Type 2

The results of a new study cast some light on how past experience with food and attitudes towards food are linked to obesity and Type 2 diabetes. A researcher, David Holben, who is based at Ohio University, studied rural Appalachian households and the peoples' relationships with food. He found that those who lack access to food or experience hunger are more likely to be obese and to have diabetes. There's a term to describe this phenomenon: food insecurity. Residents of food insecure households, says Holben, are more likely to have diabetes (37.9 %) and to be overweight (48.1 %) than the food secure population.

Now, what to do about the problem. According to Holben, medical professionals need to be aware that access to food and medicine is limited for some of their patients, and that these "food insecure" individuals are likely to need more assistance managing their meds and treatment plans. He also recommends better food education, so that the "food insecure" can learn how to make healthy nutritional choices.

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Rural Appalachians and "food insecurity" subject
of new study

Filed under: Type 2

The results of a new study cast some light on how past experience with food and attitudes towards food are linked to obesity and Type 2 diabetes. A researcher, David Holben, who is based at Ohio University, studied rural Appalachian households and the peoples' relationships with food. He found that those who lack access to food or experience hunger are more likely to be obese and to have diabetes. There's a term to describe this phenomenon: food insecurity. Residents of food insecure households, says Holben, are more likely to have diabetes (37.9 %) and to be overweight (48.1 %) than the food secure population.

Now, what to do about the problem. According to Holben, medical professionals need to be aware that access to food and medicine is limited for some of their patients, and that these "food insecure" individuals are likely to need more assistance managing their meds and treatment plans. He also recommends better food education, so that the "food insecure" can learn how to make healthy nutritional choices.

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Happy hearts: higher dose of cholesterol-lowering
drug appears to benefit diabetics

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Hot off the press: some new information about the sometimes murky and confusing subject of cholesterol. According to a new study, lowering LDL, the so-called "bad" cholesterol, even lower than currently recommended levels could reduce the likelihood of stroke or heart attack for diabetics and people with heart disease. The method: up the dose for greater effectiveness.

A while back, research indicated that people with stable coronary disease would benefit from a higher than normal dose of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor. The researchers have since taken a close-up look at how similarly high doses would benefit diabetics. The result: a twenty-five percent reduction in death, stroke, heart attack and cardiac arrest in study participants who were taking the higher dose.

Details are being published in the latest issue of Diabetes Care (June 2006).

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Senator Clinton Champions Electronic Medical
Records

At a healthcare symposium yesterday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton told the audience that making all medical records paperless would be one way to fix the healthcare system by reducing inefficiency, redundancy and medical mistakes.

The Democratic senator from New York was the keynote speaker and the moderator of the symposium sponsored by HSBC Bank and held at a country club on Long Island, NY.
 
Clinton said that Long Islanders, with their higher cost of living, pay higher health care costs than the national average. The average Long Island individual pays 11 percent more in premiums than others nationally, and families pay about 6 percent more, said Clinton.

The senator's prescription called for taking advantage of information technology and putting all medical records on computer systems that protect privacy and, at the same time, can be accessed by healthcare providers.

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Bill Would Require Online Access to NIH Research

Thanks to a measure passed in last week's House Appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services, research funded by public tax dollars will soon be available to the public.

Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health will soon be required to submit copies of their peer-reviewed journal manuscripts to NIH's online archive, PubMed Central. Those manuscripts would be available to the public for free on the Web site within a year of publication. The NIH already has a 'public access' policy in effect that asks NIH-funded scientists to submit their manuscripts on a voluntary basis.

Some people think that the one-year 'embargo' on the release of the manuscripts is too long, delaying citizens' access to important medical information; they are lobbying for a six-month timeframe.

The fiscal 2007 Labor, HHS, Education appropriations bill still has yet to be considered by the full House. The Senate is expected to vote on its Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations bill later this summer.

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