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But this money comes directly out of Pepsi's brand marketing budget, not their philanthropy arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are some really revealing statements in the industry literature from executives at Pepsi saying very explicitly what they were trying to do,\" explained Lori Dorfman, Director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bmsg.org/\">Berkeley Media Studies Group\u003c/a>. \"And one of the things they were trying to do is get the attention of and favorability of millennials,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorfman and her colleagues have been digging into the nitty-gritty of the beverage industry to draw comparisons between the marketing strategies of big tobacco and those of soda companies, who have recently come under attack for the role their sugary product is playing in rising obesity rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXDvzPx8zTc]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003ca href=\"http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001241;jsessionid=080429D0F90AF1047DB6F2732F46A9D0\">The article\u003c/a> that Berkeley Media Studies Group published in \u003ca href=\"http://www.plosmedicine.org/home.action\" target=\"_blank\">PLoS Medicine\u003c/a> is part of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pcol.v07.i17\">broader series\u003c/a> launched by the international public health journal to look at the immense cultural and political power of \"big food.\" They use the term \"big food\" to talk about multinational food and beverage companies and to draw the analogy to big tobacco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Food, unlike tobacco and drugs, is necessary to live and is central to health and disease,\" wrote the journal's editors in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001246;jsessionid=080429D0F90AF1047DB6F2732F46A9D0\">preface to the series\u003c/a>. \"And yet the big multinational food companies control what people everywhere eat, resulting in a stark and sick irony: one billion people on the planet are hungry while two billion are obese or overweight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"They are explicitly going after kids and trying to sell product with corporate social responsibility campaigns.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tobacco companies have been under attack since the 1960s for selling an unhealthy product. Now, food and beverage companies are using tricks tobacco learned, like corporate social responsibility -- but they've added their own twist. \"What we know about what's different about soda companies is that they are explicitly going after kids and trying to sell product with corporate social responsibility campaigns, something that I think they're breaking new ground in that regard,\" said Dorfman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign is simple: people -- especially young people aged 11-31 -- like companies that do good in the world, so \"cause marketing\" engenders loyal customers at the emotional level. Buying Pepsi also gets a consumer more votes for her cause of choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not all. The strategy is designed to thwart damaging policies as well. \"For the tobacco companies it's not just the public and policymakers that they're concerned about, it's future juries that they are concerned about,\" Dorfman explained. \"And with soda companies, I would guess that they are concerned about future voters because people are starting to get concerned about this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Richmond, a few miles north of San Francisco, is poised to become the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/05/16/richmond-voters-will-decide-on-soda-tax/\">first city to tax soda\u003c/a> as an anti-obesity strategy, if voters approve the measure in November. Big efforts are being made in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/06/12/why-is-mayor-bloomberg-a-nanny/\">New York\u003c/a> to limit access to sugary drinks, and everywhere people are talking about rising obesity rates and the attenuating health risks and costs. 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"content": "\u003cp>The debate about the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force giving the \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/jp/quick-read-stop-doing-the-psa-test-now/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/jp/quick-read-stop-doing-the-psa-test-now/\" target=\"_blank\">PSA test a \"D\" rating\u003c/a> was all over the morning talk shows today. But perhaps the most interesting debate happened during a commercial break. While this clip did not air, CBS fortunately recorded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch as\u003ca title=\"http://pressroom.cancer.org/index.php?s=18&item=40\" href=\"http://pressroom.cancer.org/index.php?s=18&item=40\" target=\"_blank\"> Dr. Otis Brawley\u003c/a>, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society, and former basketball coach \u003ca title=\"http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2009/11/17/phelps_digger/\" href=\"http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2009/11/17/phelps_digger/\" target=\"_blank\">Digger Phelps\u003c/a>, who has had surgery for prostate cancer clearly articulate the two opposing poles of the PSA test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject width=\"425\" height=\"279\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"si=254&contentValue=50125119&shareUrl=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7409376n\">\u003cembed width=\"425\" height=\"279\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"si=254&contentValue=50125119&shareUrl=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7409376n\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hat/Tip to \u003ca title=\"http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2012/05/reactions-to-uspstf-prostate-cancer-screening-recommendations/\" href=\"http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2012/05/reactions-to-uspstf-prostate-cancer-screening-recommendations/\" target=\"_blank\">HealthNewsReview \u003c/a>for blogging the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the end, Phelps passionately argues against \"watchful waiting,\" saying the idea of having cancer is too frightening to postpone treatment. Brawley starts to make the case for informed consent, but doesn't have time to finish in this clip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is exactly the paradox of going ahead and doing the test. Brawley estimates \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/21/153234671/all-routine-psa-tests-for-prostate-cancer-should-end-task-force-says?ps=sh_sthdl\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/21/153234671/all-routine-psa-tests-for-prostate-cancer-should-end-task-force-says?ps=sh_sthdl\" target=\"_blank\">a million men\u003c/a> have been needlessly cured of their prostate cancer-- a disease men are significantly more likely to die \u003cem>with\u003c/em> and not \u003cem>from\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what's behind the \u003ca title=\"http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm\" href=\"http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Preventive Services Task Force\u003c/a> recommendation: if you can't live with doing nothing in the face of a prostate cancer diagnosis, then don't have the PSA test in the first place. You are more likely to be harmed by the treatment--the harms range from incontinence, impotence and death.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I'll keep you posted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrhythmia is when a heart unpredictably beats in an irregular rhythm. For Campos it’s a symptom of an inherited heart condition. If the arrhythmia goes untreated his heart could stop beating, putting him at risk of sudden cardiac arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many patients, the best treatment for arrhythmia includes an implantable cardioverter defibrillator or ICD. The ICD monitors the heartbeat and can jolt the heart back into a normal rhythm if necessary. Campos got his ICD in 2007 and his device is part pacemaker, part gentler pulses of electricity. The response of the device depends on the type of arrhythmia he experiences. In either case, the day of our cancelled interview, the ICD may well have saved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“You go from feeling fine to thinking you’re going to die.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The arrhythmia episodes, or “events,” are sporadic and frustratingly unpredictable. When this event came the 46-year-old Oakland resident was working in his home office. The first thing he did -- before he called 9-1-1 was tweet his followers. Then he kept tweeting. Dave deBronkart \u003ca title=\"http://storify.com/ePatientDave/hugooc-s-er-challenge-may-9-2012\" href=\"http://storify.com/ePatientDave/hugooc-s-er-challenge-may-9-2012\" target=\"_blank\">Storified\u003c/a> Campos' dramatic and frustrating E.R visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You go from feeling fine to thinking you’re going to die,” Campos said after the crisis passed. “It’s emotionally exhausting and traumatic.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some doctors convey an attitude of “you can’t really have control over it anyway, why stress yourself out trying to figure out what causes these arrhythmias?” Campos says. But he embraces the “e-patient\" approach -- the \"e\" in this case is for patients who are engaged and empowered -- and uses technology and social media to help him manage his heart condition. “Doctors come and go; I have to be on top of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's one big barrier to Campos keeping on top of his heart condition -- he cannot directly access the complex data the ICD sends out about this own heart. It's sent to his doctor first. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You go from feeling fine to thinking you’re going to die,” Campos said after the crisis passed. “It’s emotionally exhausting and traumatic.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some doctors convey an attitude of “you can’t really have control over it anyway, why stress yourself out trying to figure out what causes these arrhythmias?” Campos says. But he embraces the “e-patient\" approach -- the \"e\" in this case is for patients who are engaged and empowered -- and uses technology and social media to help him manage his heart condition. “Doctors come and go; I have to be on top of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's one big barrier to Campos keeping on top of his heart condition -- he cannot directly access the complex data the ICD sends out about this own heart. It's sent to his doctor first. In fact, when Campos went to the E.R. he had to wait for rep from the manufacturer, Medtronic, to \"interrogate\" his own device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While respectful of his treating physicians, Campos has been outspoken in \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oro19-l5M8k\">his quest\u003c/a> for timely access to the information from his device. “The point is to identify if there are triggers,” he said, and try to reduce the arrhythmia events by avoiding those triggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos uses state-of-the-art gadgets to measure his sleep, activity level, blood pressure and other aspects of health. Through his own sleuthing, he determined that caffeine and Scotch whisky could throw his heart into arrhythmia. He has sworn off both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ensures that every impulse of his ICD is continuously collected, recorded and tracked by the device manufacturer. Although reports are immediately available to treating physicians via iPhone, Campos waits, sometimes for months, to learn how his heart is performing. Even then there is no guarantee he will get the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Saxon called the movement to provide patients access to their health data “one of the more important civil rights issues of our era.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>An estimated \u003ca title=\"100,000 Americans\" href=\"http://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271%2810%2900706-X/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">100,000 Americans\u003c/a> each year receive an ICD. Dr. Leslie Saxon is the founder of the \u003ca title=\"Center for Body Computing\" href=\"http://www.uscbodycomputing.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Body Computing\u003c/a> at the University of Southern California, an innovation incubation center that commercializes wireless health products. 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She talked with her husband and sister, because “that’s the nature of my family, we talk about stuff like that.” Now 16 months post-op, she is confident she made the right choice in the right way. “I’m engaged in every other decision in my life, why not with my body?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best-selling author\u003ca title=\"http://www.jeromegroopman.com/\" href=\"http://www.jeromegroopman.com/\" target=\"_blank\"> Dr. Jerome Groopman \u003c/a>told \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/09/21/140438982/becoming-mindful-of-medical-decision-making\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/09/21/140438982/becoming-mindful-of-medical-decision-making\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Air’s Terry Gross\u003c/a>, “It's very important for people to understand how the (medical) information applies to them as individuals and then to understand ... their own personal approach to making choices ... so that they're confident that what they chose is right for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groopman and co-author Dr. Pamela Hartzband explain in their book “\u003cem>\u003ca title=\"http://yourmedicalmind.com/index.html\" href=\"http://yourmedicalmind.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Your Medical Mind\u003c/a>\u003c/em>” how our varied personalities affect our decision making. 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African Americans suffering arthritis pain have knee replacement surgery significantly less often than Caucasians. This treatment disparity has been linked to a difference in knowledge and expectations of the surgery. Many more African Americans say they expect pain and decreased mobility to continue after recovery from the operation. In the UCLA study, researchers leveled the playing field by showing an educational video during small group meetings. Afterward, expectation of a poor outcome fell among African Americans. All attendees showed the same understanding about the risk and benefit of knee replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving patients toward greater responsibility overall for their health will take time. May said “There are cultural issues we need to solve -- that’s what we all aspire to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Eve Harris is a Bay Area health writer. 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She sways back and forth rhythmically as she shakes small ceremonial bells over a young pregnant woman. The woman sits quietly, with a rope lightly tied around her stomach. Her rope connects to another rope -- wrapped around the belly of a newly slaughtered pig that lays on a sheet of plastic on the living room floor. For the next two hours, the shaman chants prayers to the spirit world, offering the slaughtered pig as a sacrifice in exchange for a healthy birth. Throughout the ceremony, the shaman's husband burns pieces of paper money as offerings to the spirits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, the pregnant woman and her family \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/04/20/after-a-hmong-healing-ceremony-a-feast/\">prepare for a feast\u003c/a>. May Yang, the shaman, explains that this ceremony is the Hmong version of prenatal care. \"This ceremony was to help the mother and baby,\" Yang said through a translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"The shaman they can see spirits, whereas the doctor use CT, x-ray, and microscope to see disease or illness.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>More specifically, to help their souls separate. Yang explained that the slaughtered pig was an offering to the spirits so that they would assist in the birthing process. It's part of their customs. Traditionally, in Laos, the Hmong were always more likely to visit a shaman than a doctor when they were sick or needed prenatal care. So when Hmong refugees began resettling to the Central Valley after the CIA's \u003ca title=\"https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art7.html\" href=\"https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Secret War\u003c/a> in Laos, they didn't go to the doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hmong traditionally believe that if the body is sick, the soul is sick. So to heal the body, you must first heal the soul. Additionally, many Hmong were distrustful of western practices when they first arrived to the U.S., so they refused to get treated in hospitals, unless it was a crisis. That led to the Hmong filling up emergency rooms at local hospitals -- and it left doctors struggling to understand how to treat them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_5204\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-5204\" title=\"A Hmong shamans chants and rattles ceremonial bells at a healing ceremony.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"A Hmong shamans chants and rattles ceremonial bells at a healing ceremony.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hmong shamans chants and rattles ceremonial bells at a healing ceremony. (Photo: Shuka Kalantari)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that's been changing ever since a non-profit called \u003ca href=\"http://healthyhousemerced.org/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy House Merced\u003c/a> started a program that teaches shamans the basics of western medicine. Now shamans like May Yang visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercymercedcares.org/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Mercy Medical Center\u003c/a> to learn things like what x-rays are, what heart monitors do, and when to call for an ambulance. \"I learn about the disease,\" said Yang about the program. \"I learn about diseases like Hepatitis B. And I learn about strokes, how it happen to human's body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shaman training program, \u003ca href=\"http://healthyhousemerced.org/Trainings.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Partners in Healing\u003c/a>, is now in its twelfth year and has trained over 100 shamans throughout the Central Valley. The program also teaches shamans when to refer their patients to a doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s pretty much the shaman that do the referral,\" said Yang. \"Because if patient call me ... more of the time I would tell them, 'You have disease, you have virus, or you have infection. You need to go to the doctor right away.' And the patient will listen and say, 'OK, if you say so. I’ll go see my doctor right away.' If the doctor cannot find anything then they will come to me and I will do the ceremony for them.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/author/johndoe/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\nChangvang Her\u003c/a> is an interpreter with Healthy House who interprets for shamans and the hospital’s Hmong patients. He also acts as a cultural broker between the shamans and medical staff. Her says the key is to explain things like CAT Scans in a way that’s sensitive to how shamans see the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In order to make the shamans understand about the image here, I explain, 'The shaman they can see spirits, whereas the doctor use CT, x-ray, and microscope to see disease or illness.' So we make that comparison so they understand about the equipment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_5211\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/04/changvang-ctscan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-5211\" title=\"Changvang Her demonstrates how a CAT Scan machine at Mercy Medical Center plays an automated recording of his voice giving directions in Hmong -- for when he's not around to translate.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/04/changvang-ctscan-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Changvang Her demonstrates how a CAT Scan machine at Mercy Medical Center plays an automated recording of his voice giving directions in Hmong -- for when he's not around to translate.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Changvang Her demonstrates how a CAT Scan machine at Mercy Medical Center plays an automated recording of his voice giving directions in Hmong -- for when he's not around to translate. 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