Mayo Clinic Proceedings Dr. Yawn Shingles Interview September 2009

Dr. Barbara Yawn, Director of Research at Olmsted Medical Center, provides an overview of her study (http://tinyurl.com/mbnww3) on Health Care Utilization and the Cost Burden of Herpes Zoster, published in the September 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

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[CityzenJane]

Is there a way for me to volunteer for the information/tracking?

[mayoclinic]

@CityzenJane I'm checking on it.

[CityzenJane]

I live in a rural community - and I seriously don't get the sense that there was much urgency in assessing and getting the anti-virals in a timely manner. We live three hours from a major city. I don't know if there is a packet of info we could get to the clinic staff...to sort of give them a goose on processing this faster. We live in a place with lots of poorer elderly folks....

I also am so curious why there (if there) is a large uptick in younger people getting herpes zoster...

[CityzenJane]

I live in a rural community - and I seriously don't get the sense that there was much urgency in assessing and getting the anti-virals in a timely manner. We live three hours from a major city. I don't know if there is a packet of info we could get to the clinic staff...to sort of give them a goose on processing this faster. We live in a place with lots of poorer elderly folks....

[CityzenJane]

Thank you for that information...it's quite scary to be DXed and not given much info - except that what you find online - even in reliable medical sites. IF at all possible get the word out at the higher levels that it's critical to update web info on something so painful and common. It's scary enough as it is!