The Best Technologies Against Food Allergies
Food has a significant role in our lives, yet, we practically have no idea what we eat. With the advent of industrial farming and the food processing industry, consumer control over food has been lost – and we lost track of substances. Food labels are far from providing enough information about what is actually in the package. Although labelling of allergens is mandatory in most countries, factual data is often hidden behind mysterious E-s and numbers. Various tech devices promise a solution.
And a solution is indeed needed. About 7.5% of the global population is allergic to certain foods. Over 200,000 people require ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Biotechnology Digital Health Research Future of Food Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics digital technology food allergy Nima food sensor digital health techno Source Type: blogs
A Popular Science View of the State of Research into Young Blood versus Old Blood
Research spawned by heterochronic parabiosis studies, in which an old and a young animal have their circulatory systems linked, continues to provide surprises. There is considerable debate over whether helpful factors in young blood versus a dilution of harmful factors in old blood provide the majority of the benefits to the older animal, with the evidence favoring the latter at the present time. Dilution of blood plasma has been shown to produce benefits in animal studies, but that involves adding albumin to avoid diluting that essential protein. Researchers recently showed that adding recombinant albumin, and skipping th...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What We Learnt After Looking Back At The Digital Health Tech We Reviewed
Throughout the years, we’ve reviewed several exciting digital health devices at The Medical Futurist. Some like Nima’s handheld food sensors sound as if they have come straight out of a Star Trek episode; and others like the CliniCloud ingeniously address real physician needs.
However, while many of the devices impressed us during our tests and indicated a promising solution for patients and doctors to adopt going forward, not all of them fared so well in subsequent years. For this reason, we decided to look back at those exciting digital health devices that we tested in the past but didn’t deliver on the promise ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones fda pebble GymWatch health technology fitness trackers Nima food sensor CliniCloud Andrew Lin Lumo text Source Type: blogs
When celebrities attack children with food allergies
Recently, I came across two high-profile Twitter accounts sharing a meme insinuating that parents who have children with nut allergies are hesitant to give the coronavirus vaccine to their children. The author of the tweet, Bette Midler, so eloquently says,“Vaccinate, or I’m bringing the Jiffy.” To date, this tweet is still standing and hasRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lianne-mandelbaum" rel="tag" > Lianne Mandelbaum < /a > < /span > Tags: Patient Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs
Digital Health Technologies That Are Too Futuristic To Be In Practice Now (If Ever)
An oncologist administering nanorobots that swim through a patient’s bloodstream to deliver drugs in a highly targeted way. A person on a specific diet scanning their meal with a single device to reveal all of its major nutritional elements. A clinic’s transplant department 3D-printing whole organs. These are scenarios that sound like snippets extracted from a science-fiction novel. But these are digital health technologies that we will have to get used to in the future.
Nanorobots, food scanners, and bioprinting are all existing digital health technologies that we’ve reported on The Medical Futurist. However, t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 4, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Biotechnology Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Food Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Nanotechnology Robotics Science Fiction 3d printing bioprinting blood test device fda theranos Nima nanorobot Ni Source Type: blogs
Are We Answering Student Questions? | Science Updates | TAPP 92
Episode 92 is all about how we canuse customer-service concepts in education. Tune in and hear Kevin Patton discuss the importance of being agood listener andempathetic responder. You ’ll also hear about new research that showsnot all plaques are bad actors when it comes to Alzheimer disease. And finally, find out how to get freealmost-daily updates on life science, teaching, and learning!00:00 | Introduction00:53 | New Discovery about Plaque08:33 | Sponsored by AAA09:51 | New TAPP Science& Education Updates15:23 | Sponsored by HAPI16:45 | Are We Answering Student Questions?30:52| Sponsored by HAPS31:40 | P...
Source: The A and P Professor - May 3, 2021 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
The Market Forces Behind Vaccine Passports
By SAURABH JHA
Unlike medical meetings, rendering Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony isn’t easy on Zoom, so the local orchestra has been furloughed and their members work for Uber. The opera house wants to reopen, preferably before we reach the elusive herd immunity threshold. They mandate vaccinations for their artists, not least because the performers can keep their masks off. Should they extend this requirement to their patrons?
Vaccine passports, proof of immunity against SARS-CoV-2, to work, dine, fly or watch shows, are controversial. Opponents say they blithely disregard decency, are operationally one...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Saurabh Jha vaccine passports Source Type: blogs
How to Avoid Allergies This Spring
Spring comes every year, and every year people across the world are bombarded with runny noses, red eyes, and uncontrollable sneezing. Spring allergies are more than just an inconvenience—they can completely derail your day and keep you from leaving your home.
But you don’t have to hide indoors all spring to avoid all the pollen in the air. Here are six ways to keep your allergies at bay this year so you can enjoy the warming weather.
Avoid Wearing ‘Outside Clothes’ Inside
Every time you go outside, your clothes pick up microscopic pollutants, dirt, and pollen. When you get home after work, after a hike,...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emma Davis Tags: featured health and fitness allergies Spring Source Type: blogs
Powerful prescription relief for ocular itch from allergic conjunctivitis
This article is sponsored by Eyevance Pharmaceuticals, developing innovative and impactful ophthalmic therapies for the ocular surface and anterior segment. Allergic conjunctivitis (AC) is a common ocular condition. Worldwide, 15% to 20% of the population is affected by some form of allergic disease with ocular symptoms present in about 40% to 60% percent of those […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/cynthia-matossian-and-edward-j-meier" rel="tag" > Cynthia Matossian, MD and Edward J. Meier, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Sponsored Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Medical facilities: Please keep your immune-deficient patients safe
“Go have a seat,” the receptionist at the imaging center told me, gesturing to the waiting room. It was a close, poorly ventilated space, and several of the chairs were already occupied. I turned back to the receptionist. ”I have a primary immune deficiency,” I patiently explained. “I spo ke to the scheduler about this. She said […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/denise-reich" rel="tag" > Denise Reich < /a > < /span > Tags: Patient Allergies & Immunology Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 19th 2021
In conclusion, airway pressure treatment and adherence are independently associated with lower odds of incident AD diagnoses in older adults. Results suggest that treatment of OSA may reduce risk of subsequent dementia. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - April 18, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Model to Demonstrate the Excessive T Cell Expansion and Differentiation of an Aged Immune System Produces Chronic Inflammation in Tissues
Researchers here use a novel model to demonstrate that T cells made to exhibiting the greater replication and differentiation characteristic of an aged immune system, leading to cellular senescence, cause chronic inflammation in heart tissue in young animals. The age-related decline of the adaptive immune system is thus sufficient to cause this sort of issue in and of itself, independently of other contributing causes, leading to tissue dysfunction. Clearing out harmful immune cells via senolytic drugs or other targeted approaches is one option, but a source of replacement T cells is also needed. A large part of the dysfun...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 12, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Doxepin, a Little Known Super Drug in My Personal Black Bag of Tricks
By HANS DUVEFELT
A while back I was able to completely stop my mastocytosis patient’s chronic hives, which the allergist had been unable to control.
I did it with a drug that has been on the market since 1969 and is taken once a day at a cost of 40 cents per capsule at Walmart pharmacies.
Hives are usually treated with antihistamines like diphenhydramine (Benadryl). My super drug has a 24 hour duration of effect and is about 800 times more potent than diphenhydramine, which has to be taken every fours hours around the clock.
Histamine is involved in allergic reactions, but it also plays a role ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs
What ’s new in the updated asthma guidelines?
In 2007, The Sopranos was a hit TV show, patterned jeggings were a fashion trend, and the National Institutes of Health–sponsored National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) published the second edition of the Asthma Management Guidelines.
A lot has changed since 2007, including in the area of asthma. The NAEPP recently published the third edition of the Asthma Management Guidelines to address these changes. This update reflects recent advances in our understanding of the disease mechanisms causing asthma, and the current best practices to manage asthma symptoms. As such, the updated guidelines are an import...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kathleen Haley, MD Tags: Asthma Drugs and Supplements Source Type: blogs
