New certified ABOM Diplomate

New certified ABOM Diplomate

WARREN

The American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM) has certified Dr. Zachary Veres D.O. of Vayda Medical Weight Loss an ABOM Diplomate, which are specialists in obesity medicine who undergo rigorous training and an extensive examination process to achieve this designation. This designation represents the highest level of achievement in the medical specialty of obesity medicine.

The ABOM serves the public and the field of obesity medicine by establishing a credentialing protocol and maintaining standards of assessment and certification of candidate physicians. The ABOM collaborates with the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) to administer the annual credentialing exam.

For information about Vayda Medical Weight Loss visit www.vaydamedicalweightloss.comor http://abom.org.

Manuals now available in Spanish

KENILWORTH, N.J.

Merck Manuals announced its 116-year-old medical resource is now available in Spanish on MerckManuals.com in the United States, which is the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, behind only Mexico.

Despite this growth, the proportion of Spanish-speaking doctors has declined steadily over the last 30 years, and professionally translated medical information for Spanish speakers remains limited creating a barrier to accessing reliable medical information, according to Merck.

Merck Manual’s, which contain more than 10,000 medical resources, including articles, educational quizzes, how-to videos and medical calculators, were translated into Spanish by highly qualified native Spanish-speaking doctors and medical linguists.

The manuals then hired independent, native Spanish-speaking physician reviewers to examine select pieces of content to ensure the quality of the translation.

Breast cancer in men

PHILADELPHIA

Men, most of whom have never contemplated getting breast cancer, represent 1 percent of breast cancer cases in the United States. For those men who do get the disease, resources and support options are scant, but now Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) teamed up with partners to create a guide to fill the void.

A national nonprofit information and support organization, LBBC is addressing this need through the release of “Breast Cancer in Men,” a new publication in its “Breast Cancer inFocus” series.

This year, approximately 230,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. What is talked about far less is that around 2,300 men will also be diagnosed with the disease. Dealing with any cancer diagnosis is difficult but being a man diagnosed with what is perceived as a ‘woman’s disease’ can be more isolating, and finding support, challenging, said LBBC Chief Executive Officer Jean A. Sachs, MSS, MLSP,

“With our guide, we’ve made sure that medical information is balanced with stories and pictures shared by men impacted by the disease. Men who have a lot of breast cancer in their family should speak to their physicians about genetic risk,” Sachs says.

In addition, men need to know that they have the same risk as women in inheriting the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations, which can be passed on to their children and lead to increased risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancers even if they don’t develop the disease themselves.

For a free copy of the guide, call 855-807-6386 or visit lbbc.org/infocusmen.