Lifestyle Medicine Could Be The Key To Digital Health Adoption
I’ve been wearing several generations and types of smartwatches for a couple of years and I only remove my watch when I shower. I use it to track my sleep and its smart alarm wakes me up at the optimal time every morning. With the pocketable Kardia, I regularly check my ECG at home to detect any anomalies. For an in-depth analysis of what my genetic makeup predisposes me to, I had my whole genome sequenced. And I bring relevant data to my general practitioner during my checkups so that we can decide on preventive measures. In short, I’m trying to live like the patient of the future, using lifestyle medicine to prev...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Medical Education Personalized Medicine sleep stress food scanner sleep apnea Apple Watch Dr. Vernes Baylor ACLM Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 20th 2022
This study showed a negative relationship between the gaps and the number of senescence cells. Moreover, we found a similar reduction in 30-month-old naturally and 7-month-old D-gal-induced aging rats. Given these consistent data from different eukaryotic organisms, it suggests that the Youth-DNA-GAP is a marker of phenotype-related aging degree
Towards Scaffold-Based Regeneration of Dental Pulp
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/06/towards-scaffold-based-regeneration-of-dental-pulp/
Researchers are working towards the ability to regenerate the dental pulp inside teeth. Full regeneration of teeth ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 19, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Engineering Therapeutic Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Overexpress HIF1 α
Reseachers here demonstrate that engineering the mesenchymal stem cells provided in a cell therapy to overexpress HIF1α produces regeneration in a pig model of heart failure. The mechanisms involved are up for debate, as they may or may not involve an extension of survival of the stem cells following transplant, versus a shift in cell signaling. Mesenchymal stem cells do not survive long in most such treatments, and their beneficial effects are the result of signals secreted in the short time they are present in tissues. Given the feasibility of engineering cells in vitro in any number of ways, this is a logical next step...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 17, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Lipid Nanodiscs Unlock the Potential of Cytokine Treatment
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin created a nanocarrier for stem cell factor, a regenerative cytokine. The nanotechnological approach renders the treatment much safer, as previous attempts to use stem cell factor as a pro-angiogenic treatment have been hampered by severe allergic reactions in some recipients. This latest technology helps to unlock the potential of the regenerative treatment. The researchers used a transmembrane form of the protein treatment, which is typically anchored to a cell membrane, and delivered it using lipid nanodiscs. The treatment does not appear to activate the immune system in a...
Source: Medgadget - June 13, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Medicine Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 13th 2022
In conclusion, long-term cumulative BP was associated with subsequent cognitive decline, dementia risk, and all-cause mortality in cognitively healthy adults aged ≥50 years. Efforts are required to control long-term systolic BP and pulse pressure and to maintain adequate diastolic BP.
Longer-Lived Mammals Tend to Have Lower Expression of Inflammation-Related Genes
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/06/longer-lived-mammals-tend-to-have-lower-expression-of-inflammation-related-genes/
Researchers here make a few interesting observations on gene expression data from a range of mammalian species with...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 12, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Why Is Nutrigenomics The Biggest Flop In Digital Health?
If somebody had told me five years ago that I’d sooner review an A.I. guided portable ultrasound device than a nutrigenomics test, I would have laughed so hard. Yet, here we are, this ultrasound test is almost a year old now, and where is a nutrigenomics test I could finally lay my hands on? Not even close.
This is THE digital health technology I have been waiting for the longest and still had no chance to try. At the moment I can’t name a single service, a single direct-to-consumer (DTC) solution focusing on this area while being available and being backed by scientific evidence.
Why is that? I can name fo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Lifestyle medicine Biotechnology Future of Food Genomics Personalized Medicine nutrigenomics nutritients how to eat dna food test dna diet Source Type: blogs
Life-Long KGF Overexpression Produces a Very Much Larger Thymus in Aged Mice
In today's open access paper, researchers map out the various epithelial progenitor cell populations responsible for producing and then maintaining the thymus, finding that these cells are quite diverse, with several types participating at different times during development and adult life. The thymus is of great interest in the context of aging because (a) it is where thymocytes mature into T cells of the adaptive immune system, and (b) it atrophies with age, active tissue replaced by fat, and the supply of new T cells greatly diminished. This is one of the major contributions to the age-related decline of the immune syste...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 6, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 685
Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 685:Raphides, i.e, needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate or calcium carbonate used by several plants such as pineapple, kiwi, and rhubarb as a defense against plant-eating animals. According to Idzi, " The weird feeling you get in your mouth when eating too much pineapple is apparently caused by these crystals. You can find them quite often in stools and they should not be confused with Charcot-Leyden (C-L) crystals! " They can be differentiated from C-L crystals by their long needle-like shape and uniform diameter:As a comparator, Idzi provided 2 nice photographs of C-L cry...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - June 5, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
The immune system
It occurs to me that right now, a great deal of trouble results from public misunderstanding of the immune system. It would actually be impossible for most of the public to understand very much about the immune system because it is extremely complicated. It depends on elaborate correlation of literally dozens of different kinds of cells, along with complicated features of all other human cells and of pathogens. Understanding how all of this works further depends on fairly deep understanding of basic biology, which believe me very few people have.Into this immense gulf of ignorance wade opportunistic charlatans who want to ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 2, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 684
Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 684: Anisakid L3 larvaeThe following is our third and final discussion from our amazing guest author and 3rd year medical student, Hadel Go. I ' m sure you will all agree that her discussions have been among the best we ' ve ever had on this blog. Congratulations on the excellent work, Hadel!_____________________ Worm cases are always my favorite because the comments are either “They are so beautiful!!” (@Parasite_Power on Twitter) or “…That’s a wholelottanope” (Valmik in the comments).This is a nematode in the Anisakidae family, likelyPseudoterranovaorAnisakis spp., ...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - May 30, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
From MARC Student to MacArthur Fellow
Dr. Víctor J. Torres. Credit: Keenan Lacey, Ph.D.
“I study the dance between a bacterium and its host. If we can decode the secrets of that dance—how the pathogen causes disease, and how the host fights back—we might be able to take advantage of vulnerabilities to improve our ability to combat infections,” says Víctor J. Torres, Ph.D., the C. V. Starr Professor of Microbiology at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.
Discovering and Pursuing a Passion for Science
Growing up, Dr. Torres never would have imagined his highly successful scientific career, especially sinc...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 25, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Injury and Illness Bacteria Infectious Diseases Profiles Source Type: blogs
If You Think About It, This Is Really Pretty Fascist Plan From A Supposedly Centre-Left Victorian Government!
This appeared a few days ago: Push to make Victoria ’s consent-free digital health database opt-in Denham Sadler
National Affairs Editor 18 May 2022 The Victorian government’s plan for a centralised health database for all people with no consent has been labelled “bureaucratic imperialism” and “inherently dangerous”, with a last minute push to allow people to opt-out from it.
The state government is attempting to pass legislation facilitating the establishment of a centralised electronic patient health information sharing system for health services to share health information to provide medical care. The bill...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
3 misperceptions and myths about food allergies
Recently, singer and musician Halsey shared her recent allergy testing results on TikTok along with the news of her recent diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and Sjogren ’s Disease. Pictured were the telltale red welts we inflict day in and day out in allergy clinic with our scratch tests and aRead more …3 misperceptions and myths about food allergies originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/kara-wada" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Kara Wada, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs
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Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 682:Schistosoma mansoniegg.The following post is from our first ever guest author, Hadel Go. I think you will all agree that Hadel did an outstanding job writing up the answer to the case of the week, and that this is truly one of the best case answers we have had on this blog.__________________________________Hadel Go, Medical Student, Guest AuthorThis is aSchistosoma mansoniegg in lung tissue as many of you correctly identified in the comments. The large lateral spine is a dead giveaway and creates the “quote bubble” morphology mentioned by Jacob @eternalstudying on Twitte...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - May 17, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 682
Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 682:Schistosoma mansoniegg.The following post is from our first ever guest author, Hadel Go. I think you will all agree that Hadel did an outstanding job writing up the answer to the case of the week, and that this is truly one of the best case answers we have had on this blog.__________________________________Hadel Go, Medical Student, Guest AuthorThis is aSchistosoma mansoniegg in lung tissue as many of you correctly identified in the comments. The large lateral spine is a dead giveaway and creates the “quote bubble” morphology mentioned by Jacob @eternalstudying on Twitte...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - May 17, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs