PursueCare Completes Series B Fundraising Round and Acquires Digital Therapeutics Developed by Pear Therapeutics, Inc.
The Fundraising and Acquisition of Digital Therapeutics for SUD Strengthens PursueCare’s Ability to Provide Care for Individuals with Addiction PursueCare, a digital addiction treatment provider, today announced the completion of a Series B fundraising round totaling $20 million. The Series B round was led by T.Rx Capital and Yamaha Motor Ventures, with participation from Seyen Capital and OCA Ventures. The proceeds from the financing will support PursueCare’s ongoing collaborative care initiatives with health systems across 11 states, as well as expansion into value-based care with Medicaid managed care and other heal...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Corey McCann Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Nicholas Mercadante OCA Ventures Pear Therapeutics PursueCare reSET reSET-O Seyen Capital T.Rx Capital Yamaha Motor Ventures Source Type: blogs

Twin Health Secures $50M to Expand its Groundbreaking Whole Body Digital Twin Technology and Service to Reverse Chronic Metabolic Disease
Investment Fuels Twin Health’s Mission to Revolutionize Chronic Metabolic Disease Prevention and Reversal with Cutting-Edge Science, Precision Guidance, and Licensed Clinical Care Team Twin Health, creators of the Whole Body Digital Twin service for reversing, improving, and preventing chronic metabolic diseases, announced securing $50 million in funding to continue expanding its groundbreaking technology and clinical service solutions for more members across the United States. Twin Health introduced the Whole Body Digital Twin, a dynamic model of each individual’s unique metabolism, powered by artificial int...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Helena ICONIQ Growth Jahangir Mohammed Kevin Johnson Peak XV Sofina Temasek Twin Health Source Type: blogs

Health Equity – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations 2024 Health IT Predictions 86Borders Ali Modaressi Alice Wei Barnes & Thornburg Blue Shield of California BluePath Health Chris Bove CleanSla Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 1st 2024
Discussion of What is Need to Speed the Pace at which Drugs to Treat Aging Arrive in the Clinic Cellular Senescence in the Aging Brain, a Contributing Cause of Cognitive Decline Reviewing What is Known of the Mechanisms of Taurine Supplementation Relevant to Aging and Metabolism Blunt Thoughts on Calculating the Revealed Value of Human Life A Look Back at 2023: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition Towards Adjustment of the Gut Microbiome to Slow Aging Gene Therapy Enhances Object Recognition Memory in Young and Old Mice Benefits of Sem...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

A Look Back at 2023: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
The market has been in the doldrums and it has been a tough year for fundraising, both for non-profits and biotech startups. The conferences have exhibited more of an academic focus as companies tightened belts and postponed investment rounds, while investors stayed home. Not that this halts the flow of hype for some projects, and nor has it slowed media commentary on the longevity industry as it presently stands. A few of the articles in that commmentary are even interesting to read! The field has grown and is more mature now than has ever been the case. Biotech of all forms is a challenging field with a high failure rate...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs

Red Wine Headaches Explained: This Flavonoid Could Be To Blame
The flavonoid interferes with the metabolism of alcohol. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Alcohol Nutrition Source Type: blogs

Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize cognition and life, delaying cognitive problems even dementia
This article was originally published on The Conversation. News in Context: Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle Is the Key to Self-Empowered Aging What are cognitive abilities and how to boost them? The post Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize cognition and life, delaying cognitive problems even dementia appeared first on SharpBrains. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - December 14, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alzheimer’s biological Brain-Fitness cognition cognitive engagement cognitive-abilities cognitive-reserve dementia depression exercise inflammation lifestyle neuroplasticity optimize cognition Stress Source Type: blogs

Collagen, wrinkles, and ageing skin
Collagen is a protein that plays a crucial role in maintaining the structure, firmness, and elasticity of the skin. As we age, several changes occur in the collagen of our skin, contributing to the visible signs of ageing, such as the appearance of wrinkles. Here are some key aspects of how collagen changes with age: Decreased Production: The synthesis of collagen decreases with age, leading to a reduction in the overall amount of collagen in the skin. This reduced production is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, such as sun exposure and lifestyle choices, like smoking and alcohol consumption. a balanced...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 12, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Health and Medicine Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 11th 2023
In this study, a single treatment at the peak of disease resulted in the ablation of senescent cells in the lung and attenuation of key fibrotic and inflammatory markers, which ultimately resolved fibrosis. Deciduous Therapeutics has used computational assisted design to synthesise a suite of proprietary therapies that could be used in the clinic to re-activate tissue-resident iNKT cells. To date, the company's lead program has shown single-dose efficacy in resolving both metabolic and fibrotic diseases along with a favorable safety profile at doses significantly higher than the efficacious dose. « Back to ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

5 Simple Habits and Routines to Keep You Away from Depression and Stress
One of the major problems facing today’s generation is depression. Excessive workload, changing lifestyle, loneliness, and financial pressure all lead to stress which results in depression. You feel unhappy, non-productive and withdrawn when you are depressed.  Many experts believe that establishing routines filled with healthy habits is a great way to move more efficiently through your day while expending less mental energy and even willpower in the process. Following simple routines like exercising, eating the right food, taking energy supplements, meditating, and getting sufficient sleep can help to manage str...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: jaya Tags: career confidence depression featured happiness health and fitness meditation motivation productivity tips self-improvement habits routines stress Source Type: blogs

Klotho as a Biomarker of the Influence of Lifestyle Choice on Health
Klotho is a longevity-associated protein that operates both within the cell and also as a circulating signal protein. It is longevity-associated in the sense that upregulation increases life span and downregulation reduces life span in mice, but also in the sense that measured klotho levels correlate with health and life expectancy in human epidemiological studies. Klotho may largely operate by maintaining kidney function into late life, but researchers have found that it may also help brain cells resist the harmful effects of an aged environment. In today's open access paper, the authors make the interesting point ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

My Cancer Story  
By JEFF GOLDSMITH On Christmas Eve 2014, I received a present of some profoundly unwelcome news: a 64 slice CT scan confirming not only the presence of a malignant tumor in my neck, but also a fluid filled mass the size of a man’s finger in my chest cavity outside the lungs. Two days earlier, my ENT surgeon in Charlottesville, Paige Powers, had performed a fine needle aspiration of a suspicious almond-shaped enlarged lymph node, and the lab returned a verdict of “metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with an occult primary tumor”.  I had worked in healthcare for nearly forty years when ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice The Business of Health Care Cancer Jeff Goldsmith Medicare Advantage Patient Experience Source Type: blogs

Patients are Not “Consumers”: My Cancer Story 
By JEFF GOLDSMITH On Christmas Eve 2014, I received a present of some profoundly unwelcome news: a 64 slice CT scan confirming not only the presence of a malignant tumor in my neck, but also a fluid filled mass the size of a man’s finger in my chest cavity outside the lungs. Two days earlier, my ENT surgeon in Charlottesville, Paige Powers, had performed a fine needle aspiration of a suspicious almond-shaped enlarged lymph node, and the lab returned a verdict of “metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with an occult primary tumor”.  I had worked in healthcare for nearly forty years when ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice The Business of Health Care Cancer Jeff Goldsmith Medicare Advantage Patient Experience Source Type: blogs

OMI in a pediatric patient? Teenagers do get acute coronary occlusion, so don't automatically dismiss the idea.
 Acute coronary syndrome in a pediatric patient?Written by Kirsten Morrissey, MD with edits by Bracey, Grauer, Meyers, and Smith An older teen was transferred from an outside hospital with elevated serum troponin and and ECG demonstrating ST elevations.  The patient was obese and had a medical history of only recurrent tonsillitis status post tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy but was otherwise healthy and fully vaccinated. He reported 1.5 days of chest pain that started as substernal and crushing in nature awakening him from sleep and occasionally traveling to right side of neck.  The pain ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Bracey Source Type: blogs