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Cash for Docs Startup Goes National
Health In Reach is going national. Image: Health In Reach
We get bombarded by press releases each day announcing the birth of a startup, the launch of an app, the appointment of an exec, the creation of the most important thing ever. Here’s one that caught our eye today.
What’s happening: Health In Reach has bought PriceDoc Inc. for an undisclosed amount, the company announced today. Together, the two firms offer consumers who pay cash for health care access to reviews and tools for making appointments with available doctors and dentists through a website. T
FDA review favors first drug for HIV prevention
WASHINGTON A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS.
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that Gilead Sciences’ Truvada appears to be safe and effective for HIV prevention. It concluded that taking the pill daily could spare patients “infection with a serious and lifethreatening illness that requires lifelong treatment.”
On Thursday a panel of FDA advisers will consider the review when it votes on whether Truvada should be approved as a preventative treatment for people who are at high risk of contracting HIV through sexual intercourse.
Top doctor decries political ‘finger pointing’ over drug shortage
Politicians failed Canadians during the recent drug shortage by engaging in a blame game rather than finding real solutions to a life-threatening situation, the head of the Canadian Medical Association says.
John Haggie told the Commons health committee Thursday that the 76,000 doctors represented by his association and the Canadians they serve want to remind members of Parliament that they are the country’s leaders.
“At a time like this, when Canadians are facing what is nothing less than a national crisis, they look to you and your peers in legislatures across the country to exercise that leadership and live up to the trust that has been placed in you,” Dr. Haggi
Breast cancer risk may be higher with just one drink a day
Consuming as little as one drink a day or less may raise a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study published this week.
European researchers analyzed data from more than 100 studies that looked at the relationship between alcohol consumption and breast cancer and found that having up to one drink per day raised women’s risk for the disease by 4 percent. Three or more drinks per day increased risk by 40 to 50 percent.
“Women should not exceed one drink [per] day, and women at elevated risk for breast cancer should avoid alcohol or consume alcohol occasionally only,” concluded the authors, led by Helmut K.
Take care of your health
In your 30s, you are often busy with family life and it is difficult to find the time to exercise and eat healthy food. However, how you take care of your body can show as early as 40. One 40-year-old person can be overweight, stressed and carrying around their medication while another 40-year-old is healthy, happy and carrying around supplements. Health is not something you can take for granted; it is something that you have to nurture. If you neglect your health, some diseases can creep up on you and suddenly at 50, you have type II diabetes and high blood pressure.
We have two ages: Our chronological age and our biological age.