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Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors Need Long-Term Follow-Up for CVD | Medpage Today

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Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) survivors experience increased risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD) for as long as 40 years after initial HL treatment, according to a Dutch study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine on April 27, 2015.

Furthermore, compared with the general population, HL patients run four- to almost seven-fold increased risks of coronary heart disease (CHD) or cardiomyopathy/congestive heart failure (HF) 35 years or more after treatment, resulting in 857 excess CV events per 10,000 person-years. More than half of patients with a CVD will experience multiple CV events over time.

via Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors Need Long-Term Follow-Up for CVD | Medpage Today.

Diet and Colon Cancer Risk – CBS News

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Two-week diet swap shows impact on colon cancer risk – CBS News.

They found that only two weeks of diet exchange was enough change the makeup of the intestinal microbiota and affect a number of biomarkers associated with colon cancer risk. The rate of cell turnover in the intestinal lining, levels of fiber fermentation, bacterial metabolic activity, and inflammation all reflected the change in eating patterns.

Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.D. Drugs – NYTimes.com

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A 2013 report by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that emergency room visits related to nonmedical use of prescription stimulants among adults 18 to 34 tripled from 2005 to 2011, to almost 23,000.

via Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.D. Drugs – NYTimes.com.

“It is necessary — necessary for survival of the best and the smartest and highest-achieving people.”

Poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics — New York State, 2003–2012

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Comparison of opioid analgesic-related mortality between those enrolled or not enrolled in Medicaid shows considerably higher death rates and a more rapid increase in mortality among Medicaid enrollees. The consistently higher age-adjusted death rates for poisonings involving opioid analgesics among Medicaid enrollees (after stratifying data by sex) suggest that differences in age and sex distributions do not underlie these Medicaid/non-Medicaid differences. Other factors, such as the greater prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse in the Medicaid population (6), might contribute to the observed differences.

via Poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics — New York State, 2003–2012.

Maybe the title should be Socioeconomic Status and Death.

FDA Approves Bupropion/Naltrexone Contrave for Obesity

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FDA Approves Bupropion/Naltrexone Contrave for Obesity.

If I’m understanding this correctly we now have an anti-depressant combined with a drug originally approved for treating opioid, then alcohol addiction, approved by the FDA to treat obesity.

This will be interesting.

UPDATE

Obesity drugs have side effects. The reason it’s taken three years for the FDA to approve NB32/Contrave is that obesity drugs have serious side effects. So serious, in fact, that several major diet drugs have been yanked from the market, making doctors, regulators and yes, investors shy away. Cardiovascular disease and mood problems are just two of the potentially serious side effects associated with Qsymia and Belviq. Older drugs Xenical  and Alli carry a risk of permanent liver and kidney damage.  And those weight loss supplements you buy over the counter? Some are deadly.

via Contrave: Is This The Weight Loss Drug We’ve Been Waiting For?.

Like I said, this will be interesting.

Senior Life Insurance Underwriter – Job Positions Available – Elite Sales Processing INC

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Senior Life Insurance Underwriter

 Elite Sales Processing, Inc. (ESP) a highly recognized National Insurance Services TPA provider located in Omaha, Nebraska has an immediate need for Full Time Senior Life Insurance Underwriters. Home Office or Remote positions are available.

These positions are available immediately.

 Requirements:

  •  10 years senior life insurance underwriting experience.
  • Current approval limits $2,000,000 plus and up to Table 16
  • Brokerage – Sub-Standard Experience required.
  • Financial underwriting experience.
  • Strong Human relations and communication skills.
  • FLMI or FALU preferred but not required.
  • Ability to work quickly and efficiently with an automated work flow system.
  • Strong knowledge of MIB, Privacy laws and Insurance Compliance regulations.

Please send resume to Tom Gracey, Chairman/Chief Underwriting Officer, tgracey@espsvcs.com and/or call direct @ 888-545-5490.