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Author Archives: Laura Newman
AARP: Stakeholder for Waste and Moneyed Interests?
AARP, you lost whatever presumed credibility you thought you had with one article in the current issue of your magazine. I am talking about the hard copy of “All the President’s Scans: Our Commander in Chief Regularly Gets An Extensive … Continue reading
Posted in AARP
Tagged Executive physicals, misuse, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, overuse, premiums, stakeholders, value, value-based healthcare, waste
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Economic Repercussions Prove Powerful in Stopping Hateful Public Health/Quality of Life Laws
It’s hard to keep up with the regressive state laws that threaten the people’s health and quality of life. Women, LGBT individuals, and people of color are popular targets. There may be a silver lining though. Just this morning, the … Continue reading
Posted in A Declaration of Purpose, legislative initiatives, LGBT healthcare
Tagged boycotts
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Homeless Youth and the Chicago Youth Storage Initiative: This Project Needs Your Support
Homelessness may seem remote to you today as you lounge around a comfortable home celebrating Christmas, with presents and ease. Even if you are not celebrating Christmas, this week and next, many of you are likely to spend time in … Continue reading
Posted in homeless
Tagged Chicago Youth Storage Initiative, lockers
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Blowing the Whistle on Toxic Toys & Why I Am Giving Back
Photo: Toxic toys for sale this holiday season in New York City. Credit: WE ACT for Environmental Justice, New York, NY. It’s 36 hours before I go to a Christmas dinner, where I plan to bring gifts to two lovely … Continue reading
Posted in environmental justice
Tagged affordable equitable transit, clean air, good food in schools, healthy indoor air, nonprofit groups, reducing waste pests and pesticides, sustainable land use, toxic toys, toxic-free products
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DCIS: Overdiagnosis for Some, But Breast Cancer Death Rates in Young and Black Women Troubling
Ductal carcinoma in situ – known more by its abbreviation DCIS – has been a term mired in controversy for decades. Over the years, it’s been termed “stage 0” breast cancer, “precancer”, and skeptics have gone so far as to … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer
Tagged breast cancer mortality, DCIS, SEER
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Vitamin D and Postmenopausal Women:Another Case of Overuse?
If you talk to postmenopausal women, you learn that a large proportion of women are told to take vitamin D to bolster bone health, prevent osteoporosis, and fractures. This was used so widely in New York City that a doctor … Continue reading
Posted in vitamin D
Tagged bone density, falls, fractures, functional status
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On the Skyrocketing CostsOf MS Drugs: A Patient Point of View
Last week, Daniel M. Hartung, PharmD, MPH, and coauthors, published an open-access article in Neurology on astronomical increases in disease-modifying drugs for multiple sclerosis (MS) –many developed decades ago. Notably, they report that first-generation drugs — now cost about $60,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Drug costs
Tagged Copaxone, generic drugs, multiple sclerosis (MS), preauthorization, specialty pharmacy
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Homecare Workers Flood #fightfor15 Rallies, Wait for President Obama to Act
Homecare and direct care workers were out in droves last night in New York’s #fightfor15 rally that stretched from Columbus Circle to Times Square. Initially billed as an event for fast-food and retail workers, the #fightfor15 day expanded to home … Continue reading
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Tagged #fightfor15, home care, long term care
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Are Pediatric Guidelines for Statins Too Aggressive?
If, instead of following the adult guidelines, doctors used pediatric guidelines to identify teens with high LDL-levels, and if universal screening was in place, another 400,000 adolescents would be taking statins. Would that increase be good or bad? Doctors disagree. … Continue reading
Posted in drugs, pediatrics
Tagged guidelines, LDL, statins
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