The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Life Partners Holdings Inc. and three top executives, alleging a years-long disclosure and accounting fraud that involved misleading financial statements and backdated documents shown to auditors.
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MedPage Today Blogs – Health News Watchdog
We’re going to see a lot of these “what to do in the New Year” health tips columns. We hope more of them are more evidence-based than this one was. And we hope that journalists don’t act on these news tips without doing their own homework on the state of the evidence.
via Cleveland Clinic’s “Top Tests for 2012” Clash With Many Guidelines – MedPage Today Blogs – 30297.
Check your facts.
Cat Allergy Depends on When You Get the Cat
With apologies to all cat lovers out there
Acquiring a cat as an adult can lead to allergies to cat dander; the risk is lower if one had a cat as a child but higher if allergies were already present.
Bottom Line:
If you have allergies, asthma, or never had a cat as a child, don’t get a cat.
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Mortality
Conclusion: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease was not associated with an increased risk of death from all causes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, or liver disease.
via Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and mortality among US adults: prospective cohort study | BMJ.
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Richard Lehman’s Journal Review – December 2011
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 28 December 2011.
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 19 December 2011.
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 12 December 2011.
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 5 December 2011.
Case Report: Gastric Band Migration
Serious respiratory problems, including lung damage, can result from malfunction of adjustable gastric bands implanted in obese patients, said British doctors in a case report.
via Medical News: Case Report: Gastric Band Migrates – in Primary Care, Obesity from MedPage Today.
Oops.
Richard Lehman’s Journal Review – November 2011
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 7 November 2011.
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 14 November 2011.
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 21 November 2011.
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 28 November 2011.
BBC News – Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan’s ‘wake-up call’
He began drinking heavily because he thought it would help to prevent his panic attacks – which he had suffered from since he was a teenager. At his worst, he says he was drinking “a gallon of vodka a day”, and then 10 bottles of wine a day “when I was trying to taper down”.
via BBC News – Hardtalk – Guns N’ Roses’ bassist Duff McKagan’s ‘wake-up call’.
For the next time someone asks you why entertainers are underwritten cautiously and carefully.
Antidepressant Use Soaring – MayoClinic.com
One in 10 people over age 12 in the United States is taking an antidepressant, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is conducted by the Center for Disease Control. Women between the ages of 40 and 59 are the most likely group to take antidepressants. In this age range, 23 percent of U.S. women are taking one.
via Antidepressant use soaring among Americans 12 and over – MayoClinic.com.
Declining GFR Linked to Mortality Risk After MI
Patients with chronic kidney disease had a significantly increased risk of death after myocardial infarction, and the risk increased as glomerular filtration rate (GFR) declined, a review of 103,000 myocardial infarction patients showed.
The excess mortality risk ranged from 17% to as much as 500% as the severity of chronic kidney disease (CKD) increased. CKD predicted heightened mortality regardless of the presence or absence of ST-segment elevation.
Watch that GFR.
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