The News Review:
- Medical bankruptcies rise
- Is It Evidence? Is it Medicine?
- Fatty Foods — Not Empty Stomach — Fire Up Hunger Hormone
Medical bankruptcies rise
Boston Globe
ut-of-pocket medical costs averaged almost $18000 for medically bankrupt families ranging from about $6500 for those with military or veterans coverage to about $26000 for uninsured patients. Hospital bills accounted for the biggest expenses followed by prescription drugs doctors’ bills and insurance. The study’s results which appear online in. Their own five-state survey in 2001 tied illness or medical bills to just under half of all bankruptcies. Because the latest survey ended before the current recession began last fall the authors expect the climb to continue.
Is It Evidence? Is it Medicine?
Atlantic nline
Part ofthe problem is that in the specific case of lower back pain it’s anotoriously difficult condition to understand or treat and a lot ofthe art is simply to find a nice and professional-sounding way ofsaying “live with it there’s nothing we can do” that doesn’t make thepatient give up hope and suffer even more. But another part of theproblem is that the overall assessment of what “the evidence” was wasmade by a committee that had.
Fatty Foods — Not Empty Stomach — Fire Up Hunger Hormone
Science Daily (press release)
The laboratory study led by Matthias Tschöp MD UC associate professor of psychiatry and internal medicine is published online ahead of print on June 5 2009 in the journal Nature Medicine. Ghrelin is a hormone that was believed to accumulate during periods of fasting and is found in the body in high concentrations just before meals. It is dubbed the "hunger hormone" because it has been shown that administration of pharmacological doses acts in the brain to stimulate hunger and increase food intake in animal models and humans. The ghrelin hormone is unique in that it requires acylation (the addition of a fatty acid) by a specific enzyme (ghrelin -acyl transferase or GAT) for activation. riginally it was assumed that the fatty acids attached to ghrelin by GAT were produced by the body during fasting.
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