Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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High Breast Cancer Risk?
The local news tonight had a story on breast cancer. As a man, I don’t put as much thought into breast cancer as I should. The story asked, what is the biggest breast cancer risk factor? I was all set to bring in the three usual suspects, smoking, genetics, and obesity. It’s almost always one [...]
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A Shared Medical Database With an Eye to Privacy Protection
Imagine if there was one database that had all your medical history in one place. Wouldn’t this be a great tool in the case of an emergency. A doctor could quickly get a hold of all the information that he or she needs to properly diagnose any condition you might have. You wouldn’t have people [...]
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Health Care Spending in 2016
According to a WebMD article Health Care Spending will reach 20% of all spending in 2016. This is an amazing number to me, but it’s really not that surprising. As baby boomers get older it makes sense that more money would go towards health care. Medical advances should continue at an exponential rate. Of course [...]
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Should I let GlaxoSmithKline be my Alli?
The first government approved diet pill was announced on Wednesday. The drug Alli (pronounced like ally) is being sold by GlaxoSmithKline. It works by reducing the amount of fat absorbed into your system. In some ways it reminds me of Olestra in the way that it could have gastrointestinal side effects. I like the idea [...]
