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Monday, October 29, 2012

Documentary on Broken U.S. Health Care System Features UCSF Health Researchers | www.ucsf.edu

Because of a late diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, you may not be a candidate for expensive drug treatments.  In that case, you will find that your neurologist and other caregivers will have little to offer you.  You are on your own to seek out alternative methods of staying healthy and hoping some treatments come available...and I'm talking about Canada, the Uniited States medical system seems far more onerous in general...

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Documentary on Broken U.S. Health  

Care System Features UCSF Health Researchers

UCSF's Dean Ornish, Elizabeth Blackburn, Peter Carroll Appear in ‘Escape Fire,’ Which Opens Nationwide Friday, Oct. 5

October 4, 2012
 
Americans spent more than $2.6 trillion on health care last year, including $320 billion on pharmaceutical drugs, yet health outcomes are not improving.
Dean Ornish, MD Dean Ornish, MD

A new documentary, “Escape Fire,” tackles this issue and examines a broken U.S. health care system that’s “designed for quick fixes rather than prevention,” according to filmmakers. The film, directed and produced by Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke, also highlights pioneering efforts to transform the system and bring effective, low-cost solutions to the public.

“Escape Fire” features compelling interviews with leaders and experts in health care, including Dean Ornish, MD, UCSF clinical professor of medicine and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute; Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, UCSF professor of biology and physiology; and Peter Carroll, MD, MPH, UCSF professor of urology.

The film highlights the UCSF researchers’ efforts to show that comprehensive lifestyle changes – such as maintaining a healthy diet, exercising regularly and reducing stress – can have a significant impact on disease outcomes. Ornish, Blackburn and Carroll conducted studies showing that those lifestyle changes may slow, stop or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer and severe coronary heart disease by increasing telomerase activity, which lengthens telomeres that control aging in human chromosomes.







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Documentary on Broken U.S. Health Care System Features UCSF Health Researchers | www.ucsf.edu

 http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/10/12902/documentary-broken-us-health-care-system-features-ucsf-health-researchers



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