Here are some miscellaneous health care stories from the past several days that seem worthy of notice.
I never knew that breast-feeding your baby helps you shed extra weight you gain during the pregnancy.
Breast-Feed the Baby, Love the Calorie Burn
Dr Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist who spent 20 years counseling college students is on a tear to challenge the "sex ed oligarchy" What's missing in sex education.
She specifically wants to smash the ideas that "sex trumps everything" in life, and "promiscuity, experimentation and fringe behaviors" are healthy.
In Britain with recent changes to assisted suicide rules, a group of leading lawyers, peers and former judges warn Elderly and disabled could be forced to commit suicide under changes to rules
“The current law acts as a powerful deterrent against abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people and has been firmly upheld by Parliament. Removing these safeguards could lead to increase in vulnerable and disabled people being pressured into ending their lives.”
Elder medical care is not one of the six core areas that are the focus of medical school training. The American Geriatric Society calls out to all medical schools to prepare all medical students to treat the elderly. There are just not enough geriatricians to go around (only 1 geriatrician for 2546 elderly today and in 20 years only 1 for 5000 elderly)
There are drugs that work to prevent prostate cancer and breast cancer. So why aren't people at risk taking them?
Gina Kolata tries to figure out why Medicines to Deter Some Cancers Are Not Taken
Much of what Americans do in the name of warding off cancer has not been shown to matter, and some things are actually harmful. Yet the few medicines proved to deter cancer are widely ignored.
"Rumbles through the medical community" as a third study questions the effectiveness of the popular cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin.
A widely prescribed and expensive cholesterol drug is not as effective as niacin, a cheap vitamin, in helping to unclog coronary arteries in people already taking statins, the standard medicines used to lower cholesterol, according to a new study.