C M G Buttery

Press Release from “Health Affairs” Bethesda, MD — The obesity epidemic is adding billions of dollars to the U.S. health care tab by increasing the prevalence of treated disease: Between 1987 and 2002, the share of private health spending attributable to obesity soared more than tenfold, from $3.6 billion to $36.5 billion, according to a [...]

From the Kaiser Famity Foundation The two timelines, Medicare: A Timeline of Key Developments and Medicaid: A Timeline of Key Developments, feature one highlight from every five-year period in the history of each program — with a click you can access the full summary of developments from that five-year period. Within the summaries you will [...]

Earlier this week the RTD had a story on first contact care using nurse practitioners with offices in supermarkets. A practice not allowed in Virginia at this time. Now from the Sunday Telegraph in the UK comes this story about use of paramedics to divert patients from ERs. A new breed of “super paramedics” will [...]

There are very few records of survival from rabies. The following extract from the NEJM of June 16,Vol 352:2508-2514 (read in TMK) reported: “survival of a 15-year-old girl in whom clinical rabies developed one month after she was bitten by a bat. Treatment included induction of coma while a native immune response matured; rabies vaccine [...]

In this weeks MMWR, Amother and unusual foodborne outbreak. Every year in the General Assembly the Health Department has to fight against attemts to allow animal owners to sell the unpastuerised product to the public! Human Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium bovis — New York City, 2001–2004 In March 2004, a U.S.-born boy aged 15 months [...]

This season’s first human case of West Nile virus reminds us of the importance of taking precautions to avoid becoming ill, said Dr. Lyle Petersen, director of CDC’s Division of Vector- borne Infectious Diseases. "It’s impossible to predict what this year’s season will hold. So everyone who spends time outdoors should take steps to protect [...]

Special Issue of Newsweek June 20 2005, – The Future of Medicine New treatments, new science, new technologies – and what it all means for you and your family. Order now. Highlights: The Future of Medicine • The Future of Medicine • Cancer Treatments with Fewer Side Effects • Inflammation: The Root of All Illness? [...]

This article from June 16 JAMA is one of a number of editorials from various medical journals pointing out the need to reduce adolescent obesity. The problem is everybiody keeps talking about it, but the evidence for success is limited. We need to start earlier in life, and develop netter motivation for parents to keep [...]