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The Tyranny of Short-Term Thinking
Largest Share of Health Spending is on Mental Disorders
Reductions in deaths from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease are likely to drive spending on mental disorders even higher, as more people survive to older ages when mental disorders become more prevalent.
American Medical Association Calls Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-06-14/ama-calls-gun-violence-a-public-health-crisis
The organization is making lobbying for gun control a top priority.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2016/2016-06-14-gun-violence-lobby-congress.page
CardioBrief: FDA Asks Voluntary Sodium Cuts by Food Industry
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/CardioBrief/58258
The FDA wants to lower sodium consumption in the general population by targeting food manufacturers and restaurants. According to the FDA, most of the sodium in the U.S. diet comes from processed and prepared foods. The long-term goal is to gradually lower sodium intake from the average of about 3,400 mg/day to 2,300 mg/day. In the short-term, the FDA aims to reduce sodium intake to 3,000 mg/day.
Pasadena hospital broke the law by not reporting outbreak, health officials say
Pasadena’s Huntington Hospital broke state law by not quickly reporting a suspected deadly outbreak last year, according to a letter by city officials.
The hospital released the letter this week, as well as the results of the city’s investigation into the outbreak caused by dirty scopes, which sickened 16 patients, including 11 who died.
City health officials did not investigate the cause of the patients’ deaths, many of whom were seriously ill. The officials noted in the report that only one patient’s death certificate listed as a cause the dangerous drug-resistant bacteria that contaminated the scopes and sickened the patients.
The End of Antibiotics? Drug-Resistant Superbug Reaches the US
For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could mean “the end of the road” for antibiotics.
The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Defense Department researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. The authors wrote that the discovery “heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria.”
The imposing cost of a single opioid overdose
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20160521/NEWS/160528946
A five- or six-figure bill that doesn’t even include the hospital stay.
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
A Tender Steak Could Be A Little Dangerous
HOW FACTORY FARMS PLAY CHICKEN WITH ANTIBIOTICS
HENRY KOTULA 