Nima Sharifi, MD, Recruited to Direct Translational Science at Desai Sethi Urology Institute and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Nima Sharifi, MD, has been named scientific director of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Desai Sethi Urology Institute, a role in which he will collaborate with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to drive translational science focused on prostate and other genitourinary cancers. Currently the director of research on genitourinary cancers and endowed chair for prostate cancer research at Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Sharifi will bring members of his research group with him to Miami and recruit others to build a translational science team of investigators focused on bridging laboratory research on prostate, kidney and bladder cancers to human studies. “The Desai Sethi Urology...
Can chiropractors offer Direct Primary Care agreements to their patients?
With the uncertainties of personal injury protection benefits (“PIP”) lurking, providers who focus their practice on PIP, are thinking of the next plan to stay in business. It is unclear what will come of HB837 and what parts of the bill will be accepted or denied by Gov. Ron DeSantis. What we do know is tort reform is an inevitable thing, and providers, especially Chiropractors must be ready. So as a Chiropractor how do you stay in business if the PIP law changes? Concierge Medicine. On July 1, 2018, the Florida legislature enacted the “Direct Primary Care Agreement” (“DPC”) statute. Prior to this, providers had to jump multiple hoops to provide plans to patients that had insurance...
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Florida Legislators Want to Vastly Expand State Funds for Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers
This article was published in partnership with the Miami Herald. The glass outside the Pregnancy Help Medical Clinics location in North Miami reads: “FREE pregnancy Testing, Walk-Ins Welcome, Ultrasound Verification, Confidential.” Inside, it looks like a medical office: fake plants, a generic painting of an ocean and a TV tuned to a cooking show channel. There is a reception desk with a closed-off window and a sign that reads: “Your donation is greatly appreciated! We are only funded by the community.” But that isn’t entirely true: Heartbeat of Miami, the nonprofit that runs this center, was awarded more than $1.4 million in state funding between 2017 and 2021. Although the Pregnancy Help...
Saliva: The next frontier in cancer detection
Scientists are finding tumor signals in spit that could be key to developing diagnostic tests for various types of cancer In the late 1950s, dentist and US Navy Capt. Kirk C. Hoerman, then a young man in his 30s, attempted to answer a bold question: Might the saliva of prostate cancer patients have different characteristics from that of healthy people? Could it contain traces of a disease that’s so far away from the mouth? Without wasting more of their own saliva on elaborate discussion, Hoerman and his colleagues from the department of dental research at the Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois, got down to work. They analyzed samples from more than 200 patients and healthy...
