California Voters Will Have Their Say on Drug Prices

(MedPage Today) -- Measure would require state to bargain harder with drug companies

Before Talking About Autism, Listen to Families

(MedPage Today) -- Terminology is critical, as patients themselves will tell you

Too Few Older Adults Tell Doctors About Memory Loss: Study

Title: Too Few Older Adults Tell Doctors About Memory Loss: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/29/2016 12:00:00 AM

Zika: The Unexpected Pandemic

(MedPage Today) -- World remains unprepared as novel pathogens just keep coming

PA Home Visits Save $$ After Cardiac Surgery

(MedPage Today) -- Physician assistant house calls cut unnecessary post-op readmissions

Morning Break: Vote on Drug Prices; Concussion Fallout; Fatal 'Dewshine'

(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff

Planned Parenthood Medical Chief: 'Silver Linings' in Controversy

(MedPage Today) -- It hasn't been all bad news for organization, says Raegan McDonald-Mosley, MD

Brain Protein Might Offer New Clues to Alzheimer's Treatment

Title: Brain Protein Might Offer New Clues to Alzheimer's Treatment
Category: Health News
Created: 1/27/2016 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/28/2016 12:00:00 AM

Senate Chronic Care Report Elicits Strong Reactions

(MedPage Today) -- Advocates weigh in on management payment codes, other options

Friday Feedback: Preparing for a Zika Virus Pandemic?

(MedPage Today) -- Steps U.S. and other countries should take to contain the outbreak

Five Strategies to Enhance Teamwork and Reduce Burnout

(MedPage Today) -- Must-reads about the latest news and trends in healthcare careers

How Close Is an Uber for Healthcare?

(MedPage Today) -- Closer than you think, says Davis Liu, MD

Q&A With Detroit's New Director of Public Health

(MedPage Today) -- Abdul El Sayed, MD, is optimistic about reinventing a collapsed system

How to Handle Negative Online Reviews: Physicians Practice

(MedPage Today) -- Also, the 411 on physician burnout

CardioBrief: NEJM Editor Now Supports Data Sharing

(MedPage Today) -- Flip flops follow social media firestorm

Opdivo Plus Yervoy Gets FDA OK for Melanoma

(MedPage Today) -- Nivolumab-ipilimumab quadruples PFS versus ipilimumab alone

D.C. Week: SCOTUS Says No to Obamacare Challenge

(MedPage Today) -- Supreme Court turned away a challenge to the Affordable Care Act

tacrine, (Cognex - discontinued in the U.S.)

Title: tacrine, (Cognex - discontinued in the U.S.)
Category: Medications
Created: 10/19/2003 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM

How To Cope With the Emotional Weight of Medicine

(MedPage Today) -- Must reads about the latest news and trends in healthcare careers

FDA Mulls Parameters for Allergy Therapies

(MedPage Today) -- Researching allergy treatments tough in young children and infants

CardioBrief: Editors Deliver Major Victory to Open Data Movement

(MedPage Today) -- Major journals propose individual patient data sharing as condition of publication

Patient-Ordered Treatment Might Not Be Such a Good Idea

(MedPage Today) -- Letting patients participate in treatment decisions can sometimes go too far

Pelzman's Picks: Dramatic Shifts in Health Care

(MedPage Today) -- From digitization to diagnostics, everything in health care is changing

Stillbirth Rates Can Be Cut: Report (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Preventable stillbirth not just a Third World problem

NeuroBreak: Drug Trial Death; ADCS Head Replaced

(MedPage Today) -- News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

High-Deductible Plans Don't Make Patients Smart Shoppers (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Hardly anyone chooses providers based on costs, survey finds

Morning Break: Bird Flu; Killer Views; Eating Trash

(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff

Bringing the Healthcare Quality Message to the Masses

(MedPage Today) -- John Eisenberg died in 2002, but his filmmaker son wants to carry on his work

Home Instead Senior Care Addresses: "How To Deal with Family Conflict Caused by Alzheimer's"

How to Deal with Family Conflict Caused by Alzheimer’s

Only when families work together as a team can their loved ones with Alzheimer's receive the best love and care possible.

Shortly after her father passed away, Valerie's mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

“When it became apparent that there was something wrong with my mother, my brother told me, ‘I’m sorry, but I’m done with her.’

I don’t know what happened between them, but he was true to his word. He was really scarce with his visits. I guess since I am her caregiver, I’m out too. He has no contact with me. I am really alone in this endeavor to take care of Mom. Alzheimer’s has broken up my family.”

Sadly, an ill loved one is the number one trigger for family conflict, according to a study conducted by the Home Instead Senior Care^® network. Coping with the reality of a loved one’s Alzheimer’s not only has its emotional difficulties, but logistical ones as well, especially in terms of decision-making and bearing the responsibility of caregiving. Despite these challenges, the following tips may help you unite your family around your loved one with Alzheimer’s when that person needs family support the most.

· Communicate Regularly. Don’t allow weeks to turn into months and years of not communicating with family members you feel should take a vested interest in your parents’ condition and care. If you’ve fallen out of touch with a member of your family, reach out through a phone call, email, card or letter.

· Empathize. Difficult situations affect everyone differently, so try to understand your sibling’s point of view before getting angry or upset. Approaching the issue this way will help you suggest an appropriate solution. Maybe your brother can’t emotionally deal with Mom “losing her mind.” If that’s the case, maybe he can help you by contributing financially to her care instead. Empathy was one main factor that helped keep the Hamilton sisters united. The stress of their mother’s illness affected every person in the family differently, but as you’ll learn from their family’s story, they persevered through the challenges to provide the loving care they felt their mother deserved.

· Ask for Help. If you feel over-burdened by the responsibility of caregiving, inform the rest of your family (without complaining or blaming others). Your sibling(s) may assume you’re doing just fine handling everything on your own unless you tell them what challenges you’re facing and specific ways they can help. As the maxim goes, “a burden shared is a burden halved.”

· Make Decisions Together. Even if you serve as the primary caregiver of your parents, involve your sibling(s) when you need to make a major care decision. Maybe you feel Dad’s Alzheimer’s has progressed to a point where he needs additional assistance, and you’re looking into hiring a professional in-home caregiver for him. Talk through the pros, cons, financial considerations and possible alternatives with your siblings before you make a decision. Taking their thoughts and opinions into account will help to eliminate any hard feelings, grudges or resentments.

· Leave Childhood Rivalries Behind. Easier said than done, of course, but try to approach the issue as the adult you are now, not as the younger person your siblings may still see you as. Stepping back and realizing how unresolved issues from long ago influence your present relationships may put a helpful new perspective on your current situation.

· Enlist the Help of a Mediator. Sometimes family issues become too complicated or emotionally charged to solve on your own. A third-party resource, particularly a professional such as a counselor, mediator or even a doctor or geriatric care manager, can provide an impartial voice of reason.

Only when families work together as a team can their loved ones with Alzheimer’s receive the best love and care possible. Remember that regardless of your past history or current situation, all relationships are a work-in-progress. Envisioning how efforts to make amends will ultimately benefit everyone and can help steer you and your family members on a path toward reconciliation.

For additional support managing family relationships and resolving family conflict, explore the resources in our 50-50 Rule® program.

Visit us online @ http://www.caregiverstress.com/dementia-alzheimers-disease/elder-care/family-conflict-caused-by-alzheimers/

Zika and Microcephaly: Report from Brazil

(MedPage Today) -- A Brazilian physician-journalist describes the situation

D.C. Week: War on Cancer Redux

(MedPage Today) -- Also, Califf wins unanimous support of Senate panel as FDA commissioner

What Qualities Make a Physician Leader?

(MedPage Today) -- Must reads about the latest news and trends in healthcare careers

Should We Celebrate the Death of Meaningful Use?

(MedPage Today) -- Not necessarily, says Margalit Gur-Arie

Docs on Board With CDC Opioid Guidance

(MedPage Today) -- SERMO survey finds 87% said they will use the controversial guidelines

The Challenge of Continuity

(MedPage Today) -- Will one new scheduling rule improve a practice's continuity index?

OncoBreak: High-Tar Hookah; Dying to Be Famous; Cool Tumor Tool

(MedPage Today) -- News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues

Morning Break: Ebola's Over; DMD Drug Rejection; Bionic Penis

(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff

The Methods Man: What's 'Normal' for a Lab Value?

(MedPage Today) -- Hint: it's not necessarily what your EHR system says

MedPAC Recommends Cuts to 340B Drug Program

(MedPage Today) -- Medicare advisors vote to shrink drug payments to safety-net hospitals

Network to Make More Regional Health Data Available

(MedPage Today) -- NRHI seeking to standardize public reporting of physician, hospital performance

Making the Most of Military Medics' Field Experience

(MedPage Today) -- Military veterans recruited for new physician assistant program

Cath Labs Get First Guidelines for Cancer Patient Tx

(MedPage Today) -- Recommendations bolster emerging cardio-oncology field

State AGs Join Probe of Health Insurer Mergers

(MedPage Today) -- Anthem-Cigna, Aetna-Humana merger plans prompt concern

Meaningful Use Program Is Ending, CMS Chief Says

(MedPage Today) -- Slavitt also outlines plans for better ACOs, Medicaid IT investments

Morning Break: Nursing Home Fraud; Cough Syrup Recall; Doctor Strike Threat

(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff

Does Cancer Screening Focus on Wrong Outcome? (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Experts argue for overall mortality as the benchmark

War on Cancer Redux: Biden Leading Troops

(MedPage Today) -- State of the Union offers platform to reopen War on Cancer

Renal Denervation: This Is Why Device Trials Need Sham Controls

(MedPage Today) -- Subtle biases are unavoidable in open-label studies, study suggests

Pelzman's Picks: Fed Up Docs Unionize

(MedPage Today) -- It's time to modernize the pager system and care continuity, and more

What's in Store for Legislative Advocacy?

(MedPage Today) -- 2016 marks a new beginning, says ACP's Bob Doherty

AMA Launches Company in Silicon Valley

(MedPage Today) -- Hopes $15 million investment will help get products to the market faster

NeuroBreak: Costly Mind Games; Chocolate Milk for Concussion?

(MedPage Today) -- News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

FDA: Califf Wins Unanimous Support of Senate Committee

(MedPage Today) -- Smooth sailing for FDA nominee

Morning Break: Addyi's Market Flop; U.K. Docs on Strike; Tom Brady's Diet

(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff

21 Health Organizations Join Next Gen of ACOs

(MedPage Today) -- New ACO model allows for up to 100% financial risk

Concierge Medicine: Better Patient Access, But ...

(MedPage Today) -- Effects on care quality less certain

D.C. Week: Obama Vetoes ACA Repeal

(MedPage Today) -- FDA issues "high risk" warning for transvaginal mesh

Primary Care Practice: Bonus Days Are Over

(MedPage Today) -- 10% pay cut marks new year

'Vilsack Should Be Sacked': Experts React to Dietary Guidelines

(MedPage Today) -- But plenty of praise for focus on dietary patterns

Turning to Medicaid to Insure Lowest-Paid Employees

(MedPage Today) -- Critics say companies are shifting their costs to the government

Obama Vetoes ACA Repeal Bill

(MedPage Today) -- Fulfills vow to reject GOP-led repeal effort

Will Delay Weaken CDC Opioid Guidance?

(MedPage Today) -- Recommendations to limit supply and dosing under fire

Physician Audit, Feedback Curbs Inappropriate Cardiac Imaging (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Excessive scans reduced by more than half

Morning Break: Fitbit Sued; Test-Tube Testicles; Adult Coloring Book

(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff

CardioBrief: Zombie Lab Reneges on Promises to Patients

(MedPage Today) -- "Free" tests now bring threatening bill collection letters

Health Tip: Coping With Alzheimer's Disease

Title: Health Tip: Coping With Alzheimer's Disease
Category: Health News
Created: 1/8/2016 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/8/2016 12:00:00 AM

Ethics Allegations Rise Again for CHAMPION PHOENIX

(MedPage Today) -- Watchdog group calls for investigation of antiplatelet preloading in PCI

Op-Ed: Media 'Hijacking' the Science on Cholesterol Recs

(MedPage Today) -- Forget the headlines -- updated federal diet guidelines got it right

12 Tips for the New Year

(MedPage Today) -- Must reads about the latest news and trends in healthcare careers

Round Two at FDA for Buprenorphine Implant

(MedPage Today) -- Reviewers cite problems with responder rate in new Probuphine study

Spike in Drug Shortages Worries ER Docs (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Emergency departments pinched by rising drug shortages

Poor Circulation in Brain Linked to Psychosis in Alzheimer's Patients

Title: Poor Circulation in Brain Linked to Psychosis in Alzheimer's Patients
Category: Health News
Created: 1/5/2016 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/5/2016 12:00:00 AM

Mexico's 10% Sugary Drink Tax Tied to Less Consumption (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Reduction was greatest in least affluent households

Cleveland Pressures Hospitals to Keep EDs Open to All Ambulances

(MedPage Today) -- Diversion a problem in emergency departments nationwide

Mergers Don't Enhance Quality, FTC says: HealthLeaders Media

(MedPage Today) -- Also, time to get serious about antimicrobial stewardship

Improve Patients' Experience in One Sentence

(MedPage Today) -- The importance of making a personal connection with a patient

Update: New, if Belated, Gov't Interest in CFS Encourages Patients

(MedPage Today) -- New center in NINDS to focus on chronic fatigue